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PITCHERS: 14
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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A Cub Fans Guide to Blackhawks Hockey

Submitted by Cubnut on

A funny thing happened on the way to the NHL Winter Classic:

The Blackhawks got good. Very good.

As a result, the spectacle that John McDonough begged his league to bring to Wrigley to help him reanimate a recently dead franchise has turned into something else:

A signficant matchup between the Detroit Red Wings, the defending Stanley Cup champions, and the Blackhawks, the Wings' closest divisional pursuers, one of the league's youngest, highest scoring, and most dynamic clubs.

In case you have been too busy following the Cubs' off-season exploits to pay attention to the Blackhawks--or, more likely, if you have never paid attention to the Hawks--here is a Cubs baseball/Blackhawks hockey translator just for you.

 

CUBS
      BLACKHAWKS
 100 years (longest in MLB)
 =

Championship drought

=
 47 years (longest in NHL)
 Banks, Williams, Jenkins =

Beloved former stars
and Hall of Famers

 = Hull, Mikita, Esposito
 St. Louis Cardinals  =

Hated rival whose most
hateful quality is their
relative success 

 =  Detroit Red Wings
 Lou Piniella
  =

Grizzled leader with
lots of battle scars and
a long resume

=
  Joel Quenneville
Alfonso Soriano
 =

Flashy veteran who parlays
great talent into
good performances

 =  Martin Havlat
 Ryan Dempster
  =

Vet who seemed to be
on his way out
then got a new lease
on life

 =  Nikolai Khabibulin
 Geovany Soto
  =

Emerging young star
with a Rookie of the Year
trophy on his mantel

 =  Patrick Kane
 "Hey, Hey, Holy Mackarel!"*
  =

A team song from
back when they knew
how to write team songs

=
 "Here Come The Hawks"
B- and C-list celebs singing
"Take Me Out to the Ballgame"
 =
 Tired intermission distraction
 = Random hot woman in
tight jeans shooting from
center ice to win a prize
between 2nd & 3rd periods

 

*I know that "Go Cubs, Go" is the current de facto team song, but that would have ruined my '60s team song parallelism. Also, I'm sorry but "Hey, Chicago, whaddya say?" is just no match for "They got the hustle, they got the muscle."

Tags
Wrigley Field
NHL Winter Classic

Comments

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:24 am

what if you stopped following the Hawks when they traded Chris Chelios to the fucking Red Wings in 1999?

can I hop back in now?

and no, that wasn't the only reason I stopped paying attention, but it started somewhere around then.

Submitted by Old and Blue on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:32 am

I'm watching tomorrow's game. I'll never forget being at a Blackhawks game and being one of those dudes family guys hate. I screamed obscenities all night and the guy in front of me wanted to take me down. But I was bigger and stronger than he was so he backed down. I'm hoping Milton Bradley is mellowing out, too.

Submitted by dB on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:33 am

Havlat really hasn't even had any "good performances" in a Hawks uniform and he can't stay on the ice. He's actually been demoted to the third line. I'm with you Rokfish, I was a total Chelios mark as a kid and I would love to take a run at him on or off the ice. If people did quit watching the Hawks after Chelios was traded he's hated now. A lot. He gets raspberries hurled at him every time he touches the puck in Chicago. Said he would never resign with the Wings after being traded and he has about 4 or 5 times now and he's even more hated now after putting 6 successive crosschecks on Kane last season in the UC. If you watched the Tues night game Ben Eager took a run at Chelios and in the typical Red Wing fashion, Chelios did nothing because he's a fraud. They slash and take cheap hits behind the action and then will never drop the gloves or face anyone head on. He'll get booed out of Wrigley tomorrow. Brett Lebda, Chicagoland native and Cubs fan is a jerkoff too. Osgood and Lidstrom are the only likable/respectable players on the Wings. Ex Hawk Daniel Cleary put a cheap hit on Kane on Tuesday night and nearly took his knee out, then Lebda took another shot at Kaner on the boards a period later. Kane is 5'10 and 170lbs. He's this era's Paul Kariya. Someone from the Hawks better step up tomorrow and crush Cleary or Datsyuk. I'm generally not a hockey fight fan, I like big open ice clean shoulder checks but Burish or Walker or someone better knock out Cleary or one of the skilled Wings forwards tomorrow.

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:49 am

as with the Cubs I was an 80's child...the Savard, Larmer, Olcyzk days, which moved into the Roenick, Chelios, Belfour, Mike Keenan days...

plus NHL '93 on Sega was aweseome...

"I'm going to make Gretzky's head bleed..."

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:00 pm

anyone else having HD problems? some pre-game thing popped on at 9:30, looks like local NBC in Chicago, but it isn't in HD.... DirecTV says the game starts at 10, so I'm hoping it's just a weird glitch or something.

Submitted by Tom_C on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:16 pm

First of all, way to go Cubnut - posting, what, 19 minutes b4 the new year? Dedication, my friend. Second, I second Andrew - I REALLY wish we had that tired intermission distraction...

Submitted by CA-Phil on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:23 pm

I know today is a day for College Football (and Hockey) and maybe even College Hoops, but it is also marks in a matter of moments the debut of the MLB Network (DirecTV 213). Probably will be laughable, but a 24/7 baseball fix can't be all bad...

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:35 pm

Sean Lowe sneezing at Mets 3/36 offer? http://www.nypost.com/seven/01012009/sports/mets/righty_is_sneezing_at_… An industry source said Boras indeed has told the Mets there's a mystery team in the mix to sign Lowe. --------- Seasonal Allergies? With Boras there's always a mystery team. Usually it's just one team that Boras gets to bid against itself. In this case it's also the Mets, once Bernard Madoff acquires the team from the Wilpons. ========= Jeff Wilpon admits he and his father, Mets owner Fred Wilpon, were "completely blindsided" in losing hundreds of millions of dollars in the $50 billion securities fraud scandal allegedly perpetrated by longtime family friend and business associate Bernard Madoff.

Submitted by dB on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:06 pm

another typical Blackhawk vs elite team performance. 0-8 vs the Wings, Sharks and Bruins. Taking stupid penalties against the top PP scoring teams. You would think that they would have learned their lesson after Tuesday night but nope, more idiotic penalties by Buf, Campbell and Wiz lead to 3 PP goals and the difference in the game. Why Q feels the need to play Campbell and Barker on the same line is beyond me too. Two offensive D against the Wings is not a good plan. Bufuglien is 250-260 lbs and what, 1 hit? Weak. One bright spot with Seabrook & Ladd though.

Submitted by Dmac on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:11 pm

They're a very young team, they're still learning how to play the Wings - give them some time, they'll get the idea eventually. Putting Cleary over the boards was a good first step in that direction. "...as with the Cubs I was an 80's child..." I started listening to their games on the radio back in the late 60's, with the greatest Chicago sports team that never won a championship (Mikita, Hull, Martin, Esposito, Pappin, Magnuson, etc.) with the greatest Chicago sports announcer ever, IMHO. I went downtown to watch the teams with the RPM line (Rutkowski, Preston and Mulvey), then later on with Savard and Chelios. Wurtz Sr. became my most hated owner after he left the franchise go to seed over the ensuing decades, and took every advantage of loyal fans who were taken for granted every which way. Glad to see his progeny starting to restore the integrity of the team - but it will never be the same as during the days of "The Madhouse on Madison."

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Submitted by dB on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:23 pm

but the Hawks beat the Wings 5 out of 8 games last season with an inferior team and supposedly an inexperienced head coach so youth isn't a good excuse. The Hawks also outplayed the Wings in the first two matchups but choked away 2 goal leads in the 3rd period because of these stupid penalties. Campbell and Wiz are vets, not really that young to excuse those penalties and really Buf has been around for 3-4 years too. I can let guys like Kane and Versteeg slide with high sticking penalties because they're 20 and undersized and have to defend themselves that way. No excuse for the others.

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:20 pm

is on the air...

studio chat about Manny Ramirez with Al Leiter, Harold Reynolds and Barry Larkin...

nice GeoSoto baseball card thing as part of the set decoration...I assume it's something they can switch out whenever, looks like LCD screens behind them.

fancy graphics...hopefully Rob Dibble or Joe Morgan never show up on the channel.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:34 pm

progamming note...Friday nights, "World Series Highlights"

in other words, "Go catch a movie night for Cubs fans"

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:06 pm

mlb network...christmas came late this year for me. i SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hope they broadcast winter league games eventually...aka...next season.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:05 pm

jackie robinson...peewee reese...mickey mantle patrolling the 1,800ft. oldschool yankee stadium CF... good game to launch with. never seen this game in my life...only clips.

Submitted by Sweet Lou on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 01:38 pm

I likes me some MLB Network...That was really cool watching the Don Larsen perfect game. Anything involving Bob Costas and baseball is a good watch by me. My wife is already bemoaning the fact that I have found a reason to watch TV again.

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  • crunch (view)

    luke little rejoins the MLB party...

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  • crunch (view)

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    The player is NOT paid at the MLB split rate and does NOT accrue MLB Service Time while he is on the Taxi Squad. Also, it is not considered to be an official recall / option back if he is not added to the 26-man roster. 

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