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Tim@Cubby Blue
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Dad, Illustrator, Art Director/Creative Director, Cub Fan
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It's close enough to start worrying about where to watch the Cubs.
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Hi Bud.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Cubs baseball coming Monday.
Well, number one, how freaking amazing is it that after 4 Covid Years (a month = a year in Covid Times) we'll actually see Cubs baseball ACTION. Okay spring but still. Such joy just around the corner - I know because I read it in every other tweet. Does anybody still read the paper? I do. A...
Been awhile since we've seen these Cubs.
Posted 4 days ago at Cubby-Blue
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Cubs baseball coming Monday.
Posted 5 days ago at Cubby-Blue
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Rich your shoveling technique is BRILLIANT! And WAY better than Bud, who apparently has not suggestion ;). The entire Cubs watching thing is less than ideal right now. The prices for everything are insane, including beer at Wrigley. And, Bud, including the players. I keep hearing that every signing like Tatis' is "good for baseball". I can draw a dollar, but my god trying to manage that CBA? I also can't tell you how not happy I am that the 2 best baseball teams for the immediate future are such a couple nemesis's (now and '80s).
It's the birth of a new Cubs Season!
I took a class called "Biology for Art Majors" in college. Kinda specialized. Lots of picture books and films - you had to really try to do badly. So it is with a certain expertise that I present this microscopic view of the 2021 baseball season on the day the pitchers and catchers represen...
It's the birth of a new Cubs Season!
Posted Feb 17, 2021 at Cubby-Blue
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Bud! Rich! Hi guys. I think the sort of bullshit excuse-me Arrieta description in the paper ("a steady presence in the rotation and a strong influence in the clubhouse") does have a little merit. And who knows, maybe this return is just what he needs. I'm choosing to be excited about it. But Bud I also think... yeah get a good look at those guys because more change will happen. I can't imagine being Bryant or Willson and... life is exponentially lacking in knowing what tomorrow will bring. Gotta be a billion times weirder for them.
A Winter Smile: Jake Arrieta is Back.
It's been a long winter lacking in smiles, hasn't it? All we've been doing is waiting for the number of players from the World Series Championship team to continue to dwindle. This Jake Arrieta rumor had been around a pretty long time, so long that I figured it was over. Then, I didn't get an al...
A Winter Smile: Jake Arrieta is Back.
Posted Feb 13, 2021 at Cubby-Blue
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Not that it won't change, but right now the only new name in the lineup is Pederson.
Something like Happ/Bryant/Rizzo/Baez/Contreras/Pederson/Hoerner (Bote)/pitcher (until dh becomes official, but I doubt this year).
But the starting five is minus 4.
Hendricks/Davies/Mills/Alzolay/Tyson Miller.
Also, Almlora is a Met.
Joc Pederson a Cub? Some random odds, ends.
Yesterday the Cubs signed Kohl Stewart, who was originally picked 4th (just two behind Kris Bryant) in the 2013 draft, but has a career (okay, 62 innings) ERA of 4.79. Semi-yawn. I mean, the Cubs have sort of beat my Cub Fan Brain with a baseball bat lately, so I'm not expecting much at all....
I know, Bud.
And there's still time before next year to make more trades.
I don't think "spoiled" is the right word, but keeping a core group of players together for as long as the Cubs did is pretty rare, and I guess we got used to them. Which makes right now as unpleasant as we figured it would be.
I saw a tweet that said basically, with the Dodgers amassing such an impossible team, why would anyone else even try to spend big now? Wait a couple years for Dodger contracts to run out and try for it then. And as sad as that sounds, it's probably true to a certain extent. Not saying that's what the Cubs are doing, just... a sign of the times. It's depressing.
Joc Pederson a Cub? Some random odds, ends.
Yesterday the Cubs signed Kohl Stewart, who was originally picked 4th (just two behind Kris Bryant) in the 2013 draft, but has a career (okay, 62 innings) ERA of 4.79. Semi-yawn. I mean, the Cubs have sort of beat my Cub Fan Brain with a baseball bat lately, so I'm not expecting much at all....
Joc Pederson a Cub? Some random odds, ends.
Posted Jan 29, 2021 at Cubby-Blue
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Rich, It's really astounding the impact he made in the time he was here. Like, homer in the gloamin' kinda stuff as far as legends go. Think about 20 years from now, you'll be able to buy books about Cubs history, and he'll have a chapter.
And now, yeah... waiting for the other shoe(s) to drop.
Kyle Schwarber is now a Nat.
Kyle Schwarber signed with the Washington Nationals for 10 mil/one year. Had he stayed with the Cubs and gone through arbitration, the projected numbers were "somewhere between $7.01MM and $9.3MM." From MLB Rumors: "The fact that Schwarber surpassed even the highest arb projection in landing ...
Kyle Schwarber is now a Nat.
Posted Jan 9, 2021 at Cubby-Blue
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Hi Rich,
I missed this, sorry.
Your Chapman and Yu comp is both sad and funny.
This process sure does grind me down. It's overall a slow winter and no real prospects of the Cubs doing anything exciting. I mean, I really liked what Theo tried to do, with keeping a core of players for us all to get to know. But it didn't work.
The constant churning will probably be more the norm, I just overall am finding the pro game itself to be less exciting than it used to be. That's probably more about analytics and everybody figuring out the same stuff at the same time.
Whatever. In a couple months we'll be getting excited again, so there's that.
Change came: Yu Darvish is a Padre. And I still detest Steve Garvey.
This was supposed to be a funny New Years post. I did this painting of Garvey because I was thinking about how much 2020 has sucked. The headline was going to be: IF 2020 WERE A BASEBALL PLAYER, IT WOULD BE STEVE GARVEY. Instead, I accidentally looked at Twitter and saw this: And this: ...
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Change came: Yu Darvish is a Padre. And I still detest Steve Garvey.
This was supposed to be a funny New Years post. I did this painting of Garvey because I was thinking about how much 2020 has sucked. The headline was going to be: IF 2020 WERE A BASEBALL PLAYER, IT WOULD BE STEVE GARVEY. Instead, I accidentally looked at Twitter and saw this: And this: ...
Change came: Yu Darvish is a Padre. And I still detest Steve Garvey.
Posted Dec 28, 2020 at Cubby-Blue
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Ex-Cub Sam Fuld named Phillies GM.
Posted Dec 22, 2020 at Cubby-Blue
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Len Kasper's leaving isn't about the Cubs. At all.
Posted Dec 5, 2020 at Cubby-Blue
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Len Kasper is leaving to do White Sox radio.
Posted Dec 4, 2020 at Cubby-Blue
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Chicago Cubs: Winter just got way colder.
Posted Dec 3, 2020 at Cubby-Blue
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Hi Rich!
I'm jealous of people who can say there're not superstitious.
I can't. But...
I'm really looking forward to whatever's next, too.
The role of Cubs' luck during Theo Epstein's tenure.
This has nothing to do with Theo Epstein leaving the Cubs, just a random thought about what happened in my head during his tenure. As the Cubs got better and better, I began to stop believing in superstition. Well, as much as I can, I suppose. Dissolve back to 2003... Bottom of the 7th, gam...
The role of Cubs' luck during Theo Epstein's tenure.
Posted Nov 22, 2020 at Cubby-Blue
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RICH!
So many people are so sad, but this is actually a great time for this to happen - rather than when we'd all be expecting it and each day would be a death watch.
Also, I agree they need different.
Now, can you send that message to Virginia McCaskey, please?
Theo Epstein, the guy who changed our world, is leaving the Cubs.
Theo Epstein is leaving. Wow. I mean, we all knew that was coming, but... damn. Still feels kinda out of the blue, but I guess it makes sense. Jed Hoyer, as expected, will step into Theo's role as President of Baseball Operations. Wow. Theo says he'll take the next year off, but you're alread...
Theo Epstein, the guy who changed our world, is leaving the Cubs.
Posted Nov 17, 2020 at Cubby-Blue
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Kim Ng. Baseball just did a progressively cool thing.
Posted Nov 13, 2020 at Cubby-Blue
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