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Chicago Cubs News
Report: Owners Holding Conference Call to Discuss Whether to Reopen Talks with Players on Restarting Season
When Major League Baseball’s owners rejected a proposal from the players that included full prorated salaries over 114 games, they…
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Cubs News, Rumors & Analysis
The Rundown: Players Refuse to Back Down, Profiling Cubs Draft Possibilities, 1985 First Year Player Draft League’s Best Ever
MLB players have said publicly that they want to play and are ready to get going, but they won’t take…
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MLBPA Chastises League’s Threat to Drastically Shorten Season, Says Players ‘Ready to Report’
It’s not going to be easy for the players to counter the spin work being put in by Major League…
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Cubs News, Rumors & Analysis
MLB Restart Wrinkles May Include Universal DH, 30-Man Rosters, 20-Man Taxi Squads, Expanded Postseason
Though none of the potential wrinkles in MLB’s proposal to restart the 2020 season will matter if the league and…
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Cubs News, Rumors & Analysis
The Rundown: Still ‘Nothing Concrete’ on Plan to Reboot Season, Michael Jordan’s Big Day at Wrigley Field, Happy 4/20 Day!
I’m certainly not here to burst anybody’s bubble, but I believe that short of the development of a COVID-19 vaccine,…
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Cubs News, Rumors & Analysis
The Rundown: Lack of Moves Shouldn’t Leave Cubs Up Schitt’s Creek, Lester Rips Manfred, Maddon Claps Back at Organization
A lot of people have been on Tom Ricketts during the past two winters because the Cubs have not been…
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Cubs News, Rumors & Analysis
The Rundown: Cubs Entering 2020 as Underdogs, Báez Admits Team Was Under-Prepared, Harper Doesn’t Want Phillies to Pursue Bryant
Did the Cubs become just another ordinary team by winning the World Series in 2016? I mean, if you had…
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The Rundown: Manfred Interested in Expanding Playoffs, Large Contingent of Early Arrivals at Cubs Camp, Morrow Expects to Make Team
“Man may be fairly styled an animal of the class ‘gullible.’ From the hour of his birth till the day…
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Chicago Cubs News
Are Cubs at Risk if Search for Practitioners of ‘Electronic Dark Arts’ Expands?
In the interest of full disclosure, I was going to use “witch hunt” in the title before thinking better of…
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Growing Cubs
Growing Cubs E17: 40-Man Roster Additions, New MiLB Coaches, Proposed Cuts to Minor League Baseball
Acknowledging the new decade in Cubs baseball, Greg and Jimmy discuss the additions to and exclusions from the 40-man roster.…
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