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Norman Rockwell The Dugout Chicago Cubs Painting

The Dugout by Norman Rockwell featuring the Chicago Cubs

Norman Rockwell’s The Dugout
“The Dugout” by Norman Rockwell was painted as a commision for the Saturday Evening Post and appeared on it’s cover in September of 1948.  This famous Norman Rockwell Chicago Cubs painting has become one of his most famous images, and is both revered and [...]

Randy Wells First Win Watch: 0-3

Randy Wells Can Always Dream
Randy Wells Awaits His First Major League Win
In an earlier post (Welcome to the Chicago Cubs Randy Wells) I talked about how Randy Wells should have had his first major league win by now if not for the Cubs continually blowing his leads.  Instead of being 4-1 and being talked about [...]

2009 Cubs Convention Tickets Sell Out in 24 Minutes

That’s right my friends, Tickets to the 2009 Cubs Convention have sold out.  On the first day.  In 24 Minutes.
Whoa!  Really?  If you were wondering whether a lot of Cubs fans would be jumping ship after the sorry end to the 2008 season, you of course were wrong.  But you know that wouldn’t happen, because [...]

Requiem for A Dream: The Chicago Cubs 2008 Season Ends with a Whimper

Why Cubs, Why?
This is not the way we expected this to end.  We Believed.  It was Gonna Happen.  This was the Year!  The 100 year anniversary would be the end of the drought, the curse, the goat, the waiting.  Instead it’s once again: Wait Till Next Year.
For me it’s taken three days to get to [...]

Moises Alou Declares He Would Have Caught That Ball if Not for Bartman

Moises Alou photo by Jared Kelly
Only a few months ago, Moises Alou proclaimed Bartman innocent, saying he never would have caught that foul ball in 2003 any way. It sent waves of shock across the Cubosphere. We wondered, had Cubdom overreacted in blaming Bartman for conspiring with an evil goat to curse the [...]