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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...

The Dugout: Sammy Sosa on Fire

Sammy Sosa believes that the legitimacy of his 609 home runs and the unbelievable realness of High Heat Baseball 2001 should earn him an amount of respect in the annals of baseball history. He wants to have his Chicago Cubs jersey retired alongside Ernie Banks. Unfortunately for him, the Cubs have already given his #21...

The Dugout: Homers

Earlier this month, Jim Thome of the Minnesota Twins hit two home runs in a single game to pass Twins legend Harmon Killebrew on the all-time list. That leaves Thome sitting at tenth on the list, and in the twilight of his career each and every milestone becomes important. Personally, I'd like to see Thome take a few...

The Dugout: Ernie Banks On It

As it turns out, Hall of Famer Ernie Banks is pretty good at whatever he tries to do. His newest hobby is trying to unite the new Cubs management with Sammy Sosa, the Killer Croc-esque former slugger who is constantly amazed by how real something is and who once hit over 60 home runs in a season. Banks is urging Sosa to...

The Dugout: The Ghost of Pigments Past

Welcome to The Dugout Generation 3: FanHouse Back Porch edition. I'm happy to be working with the people in this section now, because it gives the strip a more obviously comedic, less newsbite-oriented environment within to prosper. It also gets me away from psychotic Yankees fans who think that every sentence they read is...