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			    <title>Alfonso Soriano | National League | Chicago Cubs | MLB | Juiced Sports News</title> 
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			<title>Bless Their Hearts, The Chicago Cubs Are Somewhat Optimistic About This Year</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[At 61-101, the Chicago Cubs amazingly weren’t the worst team in Major League Baseball last season. That honor went to the 55-107 Houston Astros, but since they are already on pace to finish this season 162-0, the With Leather Worst Team Watch is focused solely on the Cubbies for the time being. Wait, that’s not fair. Let’s throw the Miami Marlins, Colorado Rockies and Minnesota Twins in there, too, just so we have a little balance and wiggle room.But team president Theo Epstein doesn’t want us counting the North Siders out just yet. And maybe, this blogger writes with a partially serious face, we should take the Cubs just a little more seriously this year. After all, people thought the ’67 Cubs would suck just like the 59-103 ’66 team did, and we all remember what happened with them right? Of course not, so remind us, Chicago Tribune.Those ’67 Cubs led the National League with 702 runs, finishing 87-74 and breathing new life into the organization.“That ’66 season was a transition year,” left fielder Billy Williams recalled. “After that, the young players all had another year under our belt, and we started to jell by ’67. Then, boom — there we go.”Is it so far-fetched to believe that the Cubs could give the NL Central favorite Cincinnati Reds, the pesky comeback kid St. Louis Cardinals, the up-and-coming Pittsburgh Pirates or the usually-decent-enough Milwaukee Brewers a run for their money this year? Yes. But that’s not stopping Epstein from talking fans down from the ledge before the first mark is etched into the L column.“We have a chance to be good this year,” he said. “There are some talented players here. We’re going to be better down the road than we are now. That’s just the bottom line.”Keep your heads up, Cubs fans. And as always, remember your battle cry: “Maybe we’ll trade Alfonso Soriano this year.”The post Bless Their Hearts, The Chicago Cubs Are Somewhat Optimistic About This Year appeared first on With Leather.
    
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:00:08 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Soriano open to return to Yankees?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Former New York Yankee and current Chicago Cubs outfielder Alfonso
Soriano told the New York Daily News he would consider approving a
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:30:05 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Soriano open to return to Yanks?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Chicago Cubs outfielder Alfonso Soriano open to reunion with New
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:00:05 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Cubs Trainer Mark O&#039;Neal Suffers Mid-Game Middle Finger Sprain [Video]</title>
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				 The Cubs ended an eight-game losing streak last night by dispatching the Reds, but it seems not everybody in the organization was happy. Here&#039;s trainer Mark O&#039;Neal telling slugger Alfonso Soriano exactly what he thinks about Soriano&#039;s fouling a pitch off right in O&#039;Neal&#039;s direction. (Soriano later homered to deliver Chicago the win.)				More »
				
    
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>How Dare The Chicago Cubs Dress Up As Super Heroes After Losing</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Despite being absolutely mauled in a three-game sweep at the hands of their villainous arch-rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals – this is how I assume every article in the Midwest began last night and this morning, by the way – the Chicago Cubs left Busch Stadium with their heads high and a positive attitude. In fact, the whole team decided to dress up in zany costumes, as has been a “hilarious” trend throughout the league this season and seasons past.As you can see above, some of the Cubbies honored their favorite super heroes, while others dressed as video game and movie characters. And even after the 23-1 ass-stompery, which included a 7th inning for the ages in Game 2 on Saturday, the Cubs stood by their promise to dress up and have some fun.“I have to do it,’’ Alfonso Soriano said of the commitment to put on his costume after a 7-0 loss. “I don’t want to do it now, but everybody else is doing it, so I think I have to do it.’’Though some other staff and players also seemed reluctant, nearly everyone complied with the event, which had been planned, and once postponed, since spring training, including Ryan “Captain America” Dempster, Anthony “Buzz Lightyear” Rizzo, Carlos “Zorro” Marmol and manager Dale “Hellboy” Sveum. (Via the Chicago Sun-Times)Of course, their fun couldn’t be dampened solely by the fact that they lost 3 straight games, instead some of the Cubs also had to be reminded that they were dressing up as Batman characters only a few days after the Aurora, CO shooting. If that wasn’t completely bad enough – and short of a reporter running over Ryan Dempster’s dog – the Sun-Times also reminded everyone that this weekend was a celebration of Ron Santo’s life for Cubs fans, and he absolutely loathed costume days.All in all, I’d say the Cubs probably feel like complete crap today. But at least they’re having fun.(Images via Matt Sebek and Larry Brown Sports.) 
    
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:30:03 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Jeff Garlin Struggles Through &quot;Take Me Out To The Ballgame&quot; Before Telling Tigers Fans They Suck [Video]</title>
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				 Actor, comedian, and Cubs fan Jeff Garlin took issue with Tigers fans at Wrigley today for being &quot;irritating&quot; or, more accurately, existing. &quot;There are just so many of them too,&quot; he told Len Kasper and Bob Brenly in the Cubs broadcast box. He decided to hang out for a while after the rough performance above. Shortly after, although Kasper and Brenly were already visibly uncomfortable, Garlin decided to complain about Alfonso Soriano, saying that he &quot;hopes we trade him soon!&quot; No word on whether Soriano called him a fat fuck after the game. [CSN, h/t Joel]				More »
				
    
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:00:08 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Damn, This Is Kind Of Mean</title>
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Well, we started the day with some fun Chicago Cubs news and my semi-feigned disappointment that Nick “Ron Swanson” Offerman is a lifelong Cubs fan, so why not pile on with some more North Side news? Because this one might sting a little.
Sony released a new commercial for MLB 12: The Show today, and while the theme is admittedly clever and surprisingly beautiful, I just can’t help but think that it’s like pushing a burn victim into a sand pit. The video – that you can view after the jump in case you’re impatient and don’t feel like reading one of my patented build-ups – sets the scene of the Cubs winning a World Series for the first time in a bazillion, jillion, zillion 104 years, and I’d be lying if I said that it didn’t make this Cardinals fan a little misty just thinking about what could be.
Then I felt warm so I tapped Alfonso Soriano on the shoulder and he started swinging his bat to cool me off. Hooray for baseball season!


Not a single flaming police car? That’s clearly fiction.

    
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:30:01 EST</pubDate>
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