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Chicago Playoff Games On Cable, Not Network

Posted 11.01.2008 | Chicago

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Chicago baseball fans without cable are out of luck. Major League Baseball's $1.05 Billion deal with TBS means that neither the Cubs or White Sox's fi...

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Meeks Scaling Back Cubs Playoff Protest

Posted 11.01.2008 | Chicago

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Hundreds of people will gather around Wrigley Field during Wednesday's playoff game to protest school funding inequities, but they will not ring the s...

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Balls in Our Fields: Chicago Says Let's Play Two

Jon Greenberg | Posted 11.01.2008 | Chicago

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Jon Greenberg

The Cell isn't even the center of Chicago's baseball world this year. I was at that place, Wrigley Field, Tuesday for the Cubs-Dodgers workout, where pre-game interviews consisted of finding a dozen different ways to ask someone how it feels to do something they haven't done yet.

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Cubs Set Playoff Roster

Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 10.31.2008 | Chicago

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Felix Pie earned the final National League Division Series roster spot Tuesday as the Cubs decided to go with a defensive outfielder instead of slugge...

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Daley Bets Local Eats On Cubs

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 10.31.2008 | Chicago

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When the Bears faced the Indianapolis Colts in the Super Bowl, Mayor Daley wagered a Taste of Chicago spread with the mayor of Indianapolis with enoug...

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Wrigley Bar Owners Agree To Seventh Inning Cutoff

Posted 10.30.2008 | Chicago

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UPDATE The alcohol sales ban will only last for one hour and will be lifted if the game goes into extra innings, the Sun-Times reports. [Lakeview A...

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Wrigley Field: FInding Real Fans At The Circus

Posted 10.27.2008 | Chicago

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Sports Illustrated scribe Gary Smith embedded at Wrigley Field for the Cubs Labor Day series against the Phillies for the magazine's current cover sto...

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Cubs Fan Settle Playoff Tickets Lawsuit

Chicago Tribune | Posted 10.27.2008 | Chicago

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UPDATE The lawsuit has been settled. The three men agreed to share their four playoffs tickets by alternating games. It was all but inevitable. ...

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Wrigleyville Going Dry For Playoffs?

Posted 10.24.2008 | Chicago

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UPDATE Mayor Daley spoke out in favor of the seventh-inning booze ban and warned that bars that violate it could lose their liquor licenses. "We do...

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City Series Windfall

Crain's Chicago Business | Steven R. Strahler | Posted 10.23.2008 | Chicago

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A World Series featuring the Chicago Cubs could generate almost $100 million for Chicago's economy, while the Chicago White Sox making the Fall Classi...

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Breaking Down Cubs Playoffs Matchups

Chicago Tribune | Phil Rogers | Posted 10.23.2008 | Chicago

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The Cubs might not know until Sunday, maybe even Monday, whom they'll face in the first round of the playoffs. They are most likely to meet the Mets o...

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Cubs Mum On Clinch Party Plans

Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago

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So, where's the party, dudes? That's the question everyone was asking late Thursday afternoon after the Cubs reduced their magic number to two with a...

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Wrigley Rooftop Bud Sign Stays: Judge

Chicago Sun-Times | Shamus Toomey | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago

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A Cook County judge this afternoon ordered the removal of the brown tarp that is covering the Budweiser billboard on a rooftop behind Wrigley Field's ...

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LISTEN: Eddie Vedder's Cubs Song

Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago

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Pearl Jam frontman-- and lifelong Cubs fan-- Eddie Vedder wrote a song for his beloved ballclub at the request of Cubs legend Ernie Banks. The resul...

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Meeks Taking School Protest To Wrigley

Chicago Sun-Times | Rosalind Rossi | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago

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Six thousand protesters, wearing bright orange T-shirts, could ring Wrigley Field during the first Chicago Cubs playoff game, under a plan by state Se...

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Fighting Words: McCain's Battle Scars a Walk in the Park Compared to Cubbie Blues

Brad Spirrison | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago

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Brad Spirrison

Who has persevered through more adversity, Hanoi Hilton alum John McCain or the legions of Cubs fans that have rooted in vein?

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What Kind of Fall is This Going to Be?

David Murray | Posted 10.06.2008 | Chicago

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David Murray

Wednesday night after Sarah Palin's speech, I went to bed with a pit in my stomach that reminded me not of November, 2004, but rather October, 2003.

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Cub Fans Owe the White Sox a Thank You Card

Joe Aiello | Posted 09.20.2008 | Chicago

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Joe Aiello

As the Cubs continue their series with the Reds, I've decided that it's time to give Kenny Williams and the White Sox a call and say thank you. Before...

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