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How To Be The Reluctant Guy At The Strip Club
So you're bound for a strip club against your will, because you've got to go to your brother's bachelor party with all his college friends, or your girlfriend is dragging you to check one out, or your boss thinks that's the best way to unwind during a business trip. You feel like a vegetarian at a s...

Cool 1930s Home Video Shows A Day Out At Wrigley Field
This is a pretty cool home video of a bunch of guys sitting around in fedoras and smoking cigars while watching a Cubs game at Wrigley Field, shot in either 1937 or 1938. The video belongs to the Chicago Film Archive and has been up on their website since 2012, but was only put on YouTube this wee...

"Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks Is Dead
Ernie Banks, who starred in the Negro Leagues and in the U.S. military before joining the Chicago Cubs and slugging his way to a Hall of Fame career, died tonight at the age of 83....
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Starlin Castro Arrested In DR After Nightclub Shooting [UPDATE]
Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro has been arrested after a nightclub shooting that left six people injured, according to a report from Dominican newspaper El Caribe. Castro's arrest comes three weeks after his agent said he had been cleared of involvement in a previous Dominican nightclub shooting....

The Red Sox's Lowball Offer Last Winter Probably Cost Them Jon Lester
Last winter, Jon Lester said he "absolutely" would offer a hometown discount to stay in Boston. In the end, the reason the lefty ace signed with the Cubs appears as simple as the Red Sox overestimating just how big a discount they could get away with proposing without pissing Lester off....

Cubs Sign Jon Lester, Are Really Going For It
Late last night, Yahoo's Jeff Passan reported that the Chicago Cubs signed Jon Lester to a six-year, $155 million deal. According to Passan, the Cubs managed to snag Lester by outbidding the Red Sox, who most everyone thought was the favorite to land Lester, by $20 million. The Cubs, it appears, are...

Joe Maddon Ordered A Round Of Drinks At His Cubs Press Conference
In a press conference held at a bar across the street from Wrigley Field, the Cubs introduced their new manager, Will Ferrell as Harry Caray Joe Maddon. It ended with Maddon ordering a round of boilermakers for everyone....

Cubs Fire Rick Renteria After One Season, Admit He Got Fucked
After Joe Maddon unexpectedly left the Tampa Bay Rays, the Cubs worked quickly to cut a deal and bring him on. Current skipper Rick Renteria, a baseball lifer in his first-ever major league managing gig, got the shaft, and president Theo Epstein admitted as much in today's press release....

Report: Joe Maddon To Manage The Cubs
Well, that happened pretty quickly. It's been less than a week since Joe Maddon left the Tampa Bay Rays in the dust, and he's already found himself a new job managing the Chicago Cubs, according to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports....

Cubs Fans, Look Away Now
Yeah, that's real. It's a Cubs cap with a 2003 World Series patch, and it was placed in players' lockers late in Game 6 of the NLCS, anticipating a almost-certain Chicago victory....

Baseball's Best Fans
The Cubs topped St. Louis tonight on a walk-off, leaving at least one Cards fan to tarnish some otherwise friendly confines....

The Pirates Pulled Off A Nifty Triple Play
Josh Harrison, Neil Walker, and Andrew Lambo turned the Pirates' first triple play since 2009. Quite pretty....

Is Javier Baez's Rocket-Powered Swing Built To Last?
Without knowing it, Chicago Cubs rookie slugger Javier Baez pays homage to Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion with each swing. He takes big giant cuts and hits big giant homers. The problem is, the equal and opposite reactions to the mechanics that generate all that power render the other parts of...

Jorge Soler Is Here, And You Should Pay Attention To The Cubs This Month
So, the Cubs suck. They are in last place in the NL Central, are 12 games under .500, and traded away their ace back in July. But! I am here to tell you that over these last few weeks of the season, you should consider watching a few Cubs games, because you might see some cool shit....

Manny Ramirez Was A Huge Success As A Player-Coach
The grand Manny Ramirez experiment has come to an end. After three months as player-instructor for the triple-A Iowa Cubs, Ramirez's season ended on Friday with a knee injury. The 42-year-old was rarely healthy and can't really hit anymore, but Ramirez's minor-league stint went a long way toward sho...

"Assume I drink so much coffee that sometimes I pretend that it's gas and I'm a little diesel truck that needs to get all the way across the country with my … with my load." Hey everybody, go read this bananas Grub Street Diet post by poet, author, and all-around hilarious genius Patricia Lockwood. ...

Report: Tarp Failure Due To Cubs Not Wanting To Pay For Obamacare
The Chicago Cubs are, from the sound of it, very stingy bosses. ...