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WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then cold-brewed overnight for maximum flavor. No artificial intelligences were deployed, employed, entranced, or embalmed in the commission of this missive (apparently I might be training some though). Cub Tracks eagerly awaits the advent of robotic umpires and has already amended the three laws. The going is weird. Cub Tracks turned pro a long time ago.
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Sven would no doubt approve. I give it eight rubber chickens out of ten.
So much Dollar Store A. I. — Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News especially should be shamed endlessly for their attempts to present sport in this manner. They suffuse Google and Bing and every other thing results like East Coast bias suffuses ESPN and its pale imitators. Abominable, Dr. Phibes.
Just say no. I have to put on my waders and gaiters in order to fashion this report, and decontaminate when I’m done. Lots of spurious trade talk out there — Cody Bellinger in a five-player deal is one I saw while scrolling, another had Marcus Stroman returning. Stop the press!
One suspects there will be a great deal more of that coming. Cheap is cheap, and it always rises again.
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- Marquee Sports Network*: Cubs Weekly Podcast: 2024-25 offseason targets and other mailbag questions.
- Jake Misener (Cubbies Crib*): Forgotten former Cubs reliever keeps hanging around, signs deal with the Red Sox. “It’s been more than five years since Justin Wilson pitched for the Cubs – and he’s more connected to this year’s team than you may remember.”
- Jason Ross (North Side Baseball*): Cubs trade candidate breakdown: Nico Hoerner “Over the last two seasons, Hoerner has been the fourth-best second baseman in baseball according to fWAR, checking in with 8.6 wins above replacement.”
- Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory — Ryne Sandberg talks. “He spoke about his time with the Cubs: the World Series he fell short of winning as a player and the World Series he ultimately got a ring for in 2016, serving as an ambassador to the team.”
Food for Thought:
Can’t… or won’t?
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Lucille Ball at bat, Julie Andrews catches, and Joe E. Brown plays umpire at the opening game of the Broadway baseball league in Central Park in 1961.
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