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I can now confirm what I subsconsciously knew when I wrote my "useless" predictions about the baseball playoffs only a short few days ago: most prognostications are just a random chance guess.  An entry headline where "Cubs Going Down in Flames" doesn't begin to tell someone how painful it has been to watch the NL's best regular-season team failing to deliver by any measure so far in the postseason.

One may want to blame all of this on a "curse", but the manner in which the Chic... Read More

I preface my writing with the knowledge that my predictions (for sporting picks in general) are correct slightly better than 50% of the time. Given my invested time in watching / analyzing baseball, though, my stats are only slightly better. Last season, I managed to pick four out of the six division winners and one of the wild card teams. For whatever reason, I didn't formally declare preseason picks this season. I can honestly say here's what I probably would have picked (in hindsight) had... Read More

Not since 1972 have the cubs been able to celebrate like this. Sure, the playoff wins are nice. But this was a "win" for the club that will really carry momentum.

It may have been scored a "road" game for the team, but Houston was anything but home with Z tossing this gem. Zambrano tossed the first no-hitter of his career and the first for the Cubs since 1972. 

Milwaukee's Miller park has been dubbed 'Wrigley North' by some fans, and the outing by them prove that. 23... Read More

In a moment of joy and happiness, I was glad to use the word "snowman" in the middle of the summer. Usually when I chat of snowmen in August, it is because of an errant Tee-shot and several trees getting in the way of my little white ball. I can hit the fairway every time...It might not be the fairway designated for that hole, but it is on the fairway.

Just when Jason Marquis was looking for a rock to crawl under and hide due to giving up 4 in the 3rd via a Carlos Lee 3 run dinger, t... Read More