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Happy birthday. Bobby Scales! | Photo by Michael DeHoog/Sports Imagery/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday. Bobby Scales. Short but sweet entry in our series. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s … [Read more...] about Baseball history unpacked, October 4

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images A manager comes out of a short retirement. Pete Alonso hits a clutch home run to send the Mets to the NLDS. And other news from the Wild Card round. Part of the problem with doing a links post during the postseason is that some of your links can be out of date by the time you post them. Before we get to the games, there was … [Read more...] about Outside The Confines: Wild, Wild Card

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs fell short of the postsason. How can they fix that? More than two years ago, I posted an article here headlined “The Cubs should fire Jed Hoyer.” Last June, I posted this followup on the topic. That’s just so you know I am no fan of the Cubs President of Baseball Operations. While he has done some good things in that … [Read more...] about A few thoughts about Jed Hoyer, Craig Counsell and Cubs management

Kyle Schwarber and Nick Castellanos | Photo by Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images There aren’t as many as in some past years. I’ve written similar articles to this one in the past and there has generally been a good selection of former Cubs to root for in the MLB postseason. Not this year. The eight clubs remaining as we head to the Division Series round … [Read more...] about Here are all the former Cubs still in the 2024 MLB postseason

Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images The Royals and Tigers can win their Wild Card series today. The Tigers nearly blew a three-run ninth-inning lead but held on when former Cub Jason Heyward hit a line drive directly at Spencer Torkelson with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth. The Royals managed just a single run on a sixth-inning RBI single by Bobby Witt Jr., … [Read more...] about 2024 American League Wild Card Series game thread, Day 2