Tag archive: theo-epstein

MLB17: Cubs Atop, Everything Old Is New Again, And 19c. Championships, SABR-Snobs

*(CL-FC)Set to defend their first MLB title since 1908, the Chicago Cubs have stepped off cloud nine and back onto terra firma to begin their quest for a 2nd title-in-tandem (1907-08) by ...

MLB17 Chin Music: With Cubs Ascendancy, Baseball’s Spotlight Swings Midwest

Now that the Chicago Cubs have rediscovered their long dormant championship flair, a find expedited by an ownership (Ricketts) that acquired top manager (Theo Epstein & Joe Maddon) and player talent, the ...

MLB16 Chin Music: Cubs Win Is Just More Cloudburst For Rainmaker Theo Epstein

Those Sporting Gods are a funny bunch of deities. Not funny like a “clown,” oh no, but curious, like that monkey on PBS (“George”). At times they seem asleep at the wheel, ...

MLB16 Chin Music: Angels Weep But Gods Still Favor Pujols & Trout

It won’t be the question that keeps Anaheim Angels’ braintrust fidgeting when their 2016 season ends with conclusion of Sunday afternoon’s game against the visiting Astros. More likely it will be the ...

MLB16 Chin Music: What If Cubs Do Hoist?

These are different days in the land of bruins, “big shoulders” and manual scoreboards. If you’d been pulling a Rip Van Winkle and just awoke from your Washington Irving-like slumber you might ...

Chin Music: Bryant Call-up Coming to Roost?

Just to pose the idea would send shockwaves throughout the sport fantasy world and probably elicit more than a few bellows of ‘bonehead’ directed at the poser, had they a megaphone of ...