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The Dugout: Chicago Cubs Spring Training 2011

The St. Louis Cardinals officially failed to reach an agreement with Albert Pujols and his weird, arbitrary middle-of-Wednesday deadline, and that means the door is wide open for the Cubs or the Angels or whoever to swoop in with $300 million and add a mythical, baseball-destroying beast to their lineup. If the Angels get...

Lou Piniella Accomplishes Little for a Floundering Franchise

CHICAGO - And there goes another one. Another year, another manager, another era. And the Cubs are still losers. Lou Piniella announced Tuesday that he was quitting as Cubs manager at the end of the year, but the truth is, the Cubs had already beaten the life out of him nearly two years ago. Piniella arrived known for...

The Dugout: Chicagoan Fairy Tales

Baseball news has been pretty slow lately, so unless you want a multi-part special about how important backup relievers are to your roto-league or whatever we're going to have to bring in material and ideas from outside sources. Thankfully there is our European sister-site Det Dugout, the Norwegian satire column...

The Marlins Got Lou Piniella's Goat

At this point we're all more than familiar with the "curse" of the Chicago Cubs. More specifically, the Billy Goat curse. It's one of those stories that are never going to die until the Cubs finally win a World Series, and one that people will always pull out to have a bit of fun at the Cubs expense.The Marlins did this...

Dead Goat Found Hanging From Harry Caray Statue Outside Wrigley Field

The Chicago Cubs will be having their home opener at Wrigley Field on Monday afternoon, or at least they're hoping to. You see, the weather in Chicago right now includes a lot of rain in the area all day, so there's a pretty good chance that the game may be rained out. If this does happen, you can be sure that there will...

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Harry Caray statue at Wrigley Field vandalized

The statue outside Chicago's Wrigley Field of legendary Chicago Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray was vandalized yet again.

Background on BIlly Goat Curse

The curse of the Billy Goat was supposedly placed on the Chicago Cubs in 1945 when Billy Goat Tavern owner Billy Sianis was asked to leave a World Series game against the Detroit Tigers at the Cubs' home ground of Wrigley Field because his pet goat's odor was bothering other fans.

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