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Chicago Cubs Tickets Go On Sale

Celebrate because Chicago Cubs Tickets go on SALE! (photo)
Chicago Cubs Tickets Go On Sale!
It’s time to celebrate Cubs fans!  Chicago Cubs Tickets for 2010 go on sale Friday February 19th!  Starting at 10 AM (Central Time) on Feb 19th you can buy Cubs Tickets to individual games.
Start planning your trip to Wrigley!  2010 Chicago Cubs [...]

Chicago Cubs Spring Training Schedule 2010

Cubs Spring Training is Here! (photo by kpa.sports)
Chicago Cubs Spring Training Schedule 2010
Below is the Chicago Cubs 2010 Spring Training Schedule (See also Chicago Cubs 2010 Regular Season Schedule)
It’s that time of year again. It may not feel like it yet but the long cold winter will be over soon. Even if it’s still cold [...]

Chicago Cubs Offseason Trade and Free Agent Rumors 2009-2010

During the Offseason, Any Idiot Can Be the Cubs General Manager
Chicago Cubs Trade Rumors 2010 Edition
Ah, it’s that time of year again: the offseason, where every arm chair general manager in the world gets to have his day. It’s just like fantasy baseball… no trade is too crazy, no free agent too expensive and [...]

2010 Chicago Cubs Convention Sells Out in Fifteen Minutes

It’s never too early to get your hopes up

Who You Calling Delusional?
Last year at this time I was reporting about how the Chicago Cubs disappointing end to the 2008 season hadn’t stopped the hardcore Cubs faithful from selling out the 2008 Cubs Convention tickets in 24 minutes.
Well history repeats itself and then some: despite a [...]

I’m Patting Myself on the Back to Celebrate Post Number 100

Delusional Cubs Fan, photo by delusionalcubsfan
This My 100th Post and Every Single One of Them Has Been Awesome
Hey Cubs Fans, I encourage you to crack open an ice cold one and celebrate my 100th post at the DelusionalCubsFan.com.  You can bet that’s what I’m doing right now.
Two years ago I had a dream.  I had [...]

Eddie Vedder Chicago Cubs Song “All the Way”

Someday We’ll Go All the Way by Eddie Vedder

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Eddie Vedder, you have forever earned my respect.  To me this is easily the best Chicago Cubs song written since Steve Goodman’s Go Cubs Go in 1984.  That was written 24 years before this one and we still find ourselves “waiting for next year”.
Eddie Vedder’s Chicago Cubs [...]

Chicago Cubs 2009 Predictions from the Experts

photo by  Jeremy Farmer
The 2009 Season is finally here!
So what are the experts (see above photo) predicting about the 2009 Chicago Cubs Season? I’ve gathered some 2009 predictions below from some baseball sports writers.  You’ll be happy that several writers predicted the Cubs will win the World Series in 2009!
Out of the 40 top sports [...]

The Chicago Cubs 2009 Roster

Current Chicago Cubs 2009 Roster

PITCHERS
46 Ryan Dempster
44 Chad Fox *Disabled List
63 Kevin Gregg
37 Angel Guzman
40 Rich Harden
47 Aaron Heilman
30 Ted Lilly
49 Carlos Marmol
45 Sean Marshall
54 David Patton *Disabled List
29 Jeff Samardzija
36 Randy Wells
38 Carlos Zambrano
CATCHERS
55 Koyie Hill
18 Geovany Soto
INFIELDERS
28 Jeff Baker
13 Andres Blanco
17 Mike Fontenot
5 Jake Fox
6 Micah Hoffpauir
25 Derrek Lee
7 Aaron Miles *Disabled List
16 [...]

Baseball Prospectus 2009 Chicago Cubs Predictions

photo by Jonathan Lurie
The respected and influential statisticians at Baseball Prospectus have made their projections for the 2009 won-loss records of all Major League Baseball teams.
And what do they predict for Chicago’s teams?  You’re going to like this:
Baseball Prospectus predicts that the Chicago Cubs will finish the 2009 season with a 93-69 record and place [...]

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 [...]