Lou Piniella announced he would retire at the end of the season, wanting to end any speculation about his future with the team with his contract expiring.  He took everyone off the hook- except maybe his players.  Perhaps they will take a moment to realize they aren’t going to get another manager like Lou anytime [...]

Carlos Zambrano has created a bad situation in Chicago, no doubt.  On Friday, after giving up 4 runs, he came into the dugout spewing hateful words, that in his mind according to Kevin Millar who he spoke to over the weekend, was supposed to pump the team up and get them into playing hard.  Its [...]

It certainly seems as if Zambrano is headed down the same road as Milton Bradley with his histrionics par for the course.  Of course, if you are at the top of your game, some of that can be tolerated, but when you are blaming others for your own shortcomings it gets old fast.
Interesting that the [...]

With both the Mets and the Yankees doing fairly well this season- in the case of the Mets, doing much better than expected even- the land of controversy seems to have moved to the Midwest.  Both the North and South-siders in Chicago are having an interesting summer.  Some of that is simply the play happening [...]

I know this is an ESPN piece I am linking to, but it does really hit on something really really interesting that could be a game changer for the way baseball is watched. 
Apparently, in yesterday’s Chicago Cubs game there was a moment when Casey Blake started getting into an arguement at first base with the [...]

Contributed by Ryan Campbell
Events
1901 – The first American League game is played at the Chicago Cricket Club, with the Chicago White Sox defeating the Cleveland Blues 8-2.
1917- Lefthander George Mogridge no-hits the Red Sox at Fenway park, becoming the first Yankee pitcher to throw a no-no and win the game.
1957 – Three Cubs pitchers combine [...]