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.............................. Chicago Cubs
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The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs are members and currently champions of the Central Division of Major League Baseball’s National League. The team plays their home games at the historic Wrigley Field, located in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. The Chicago Cubs have been playing baseball at this site since April 20th 1916. The Cubs are one of two Major League clubs in Chicago, the other being the Chicago White Sox of the American League.
The Cubs are often referred to by the media and fans as "The Cubbies," and also "The Northsiders," in contrast to the White Sox, who play on the city's South Side. The Cubs are one of the only two remaining charter members left in the National League (the other being the Atlanta Braves), and the only charter team in its original city.
The Cubs are managed by Lou Piniella. The team's president is John McDonough, and their general manager is Jim Hendry. Businessman Samuel Zell recently acquired the Tribune Company, the current owners of the Cubs. The company is planning on selling the team in the coming months.
Between 1990 and 1997, the Cubs fell back into the doldrums of mediocrity, but in 1998 made some major changes. Shawon Dunston was traded and Sandberg retired, but Rod Beck and Kevin Tapani were signed to bolster the pitching staff. The team also acquired Jeff Blauser to replace Dunston and signed left fielder Henry Rodriguez, fresh off a 40-HR season with the Expos, to complement Grace and slugger Sammy Sosa in the lineup. The Cubs found themselves involved in an intense Wild Card race with the Giants and Mets, and were paced by Sosa's amazing 66 HR, MVP season and Kerry Wood's dominating Rookie of the Year pitching, which included an MLB record-tying 20 strikeout game versus the Houston Astros. On the last day of the season, the Cubs fell 4-3 to Houston, but the team's playoff hopes were saved when Colorado's Neifi Perez hit a walk-off home run to beat San Francisco later that night, and the Giants and Cubs finished tied for the Wild Card. The teams met in a one-game playoff in Chicago, in which Gary Gaetti, claimed off waivers near the end of the season, hit a game-winning home run. Next up was Atlanta, but the North Siders played poorly, scoring only four runs as they were swept in 3 games. Many credit the Sosa-McGwire home run chase with "saving baseball," by both bringing in new, younger fans and bringing back old fans soured by the 1994 Major League Baseball strike. After the season, GM Ed Lynch and manager Jim Riggleman opted to keep many of the same players who had career years in '98 for the '99 season. That team was 9 games over .500 in June when they were swept by the crosstown rival White Sox in Comiskey Park, which was the genesis of an epic tailspin, resulting in the club finishing in last place, 30 games out of first. Riggleman was fired after the '99 campaign, his fifth in Chicago, and a few months later Team President Andy MacPhail cut ties with Lynch as well, taking the reins as general manager and making Jim Hendry assistant GM, vowing to lead the team to success in the new century.
McPhail sent Hendry to work quickly, and his first move was trading reliever Terry Adams to Los Angeles for Eric Young and Ismael Valdez, and hiring Don Baylor to succeed Riggleman as the Chicago skipper. During a forgettable 2000 season, Hendry also sent pitcher Scott Downs to Montreal and acquired Rondell White. This laid the groundwork for the 2001 season, which saw the North Siders make another drive for the playoffs. They made a mid-June trade to acquire All-Star 1B Fred McGriff, though McGriff took over a month debating whether or not to approve the deal and leave his hometown Tampa Bay Devil Rays, ultimately waiving his no-trade clause and allow himself to be dealt to Chicago on July 27. The Crime Dog hit a respectable .282 with 12 homers in 49 games with the Cubs, hitting cleanup behind Sammy Sosa, who had perhaps his best season, hitting 64 homers with career highs in batting average (.328) and RBI (160) for Don Baylor's club. Jon Lieber had a 20 win season, and along with Tapani and Wood made up a solid rotation. The Cubs led the eventual Wild Card winning Cardinals by 2.5 games in early September, but the run ran out when Preston Wilson's game winning home run off of closer Tom "Flash" Gordon killed the team's momentum, and they failed to make another serious charge. The Cubs did manage to finish 88-74, finishing only 5 games behind both St. Louis and Houston, who tied for first, but followed this up with a disastrous 2002 campaign, after which Baylor was fired and replaced by yet another new manager, Dusty Baker.
The Tribune gave Baker one last chance to turn things around, and Jim Hendry retooled the lineup for the 2006 campaign. During the off-season, the Cubs revamped the outfield, acquiring speedy center fielder Juan Pierre from the Marlins and inked free agent Jacque Jones to fill the hole in right. Former blue-chip prospect Corey Patterson, who had shown flashes of brilliance but never the ability to play consistently at a high level, was traded. Additionally, veteran relief pitchers Bob Howry and Scott Eyre were brought in to shore up the bullpen. The North Siders came out of the gate hot in 2006, sweeping St. Louis en route to a 14-9 start, but an injury to Lee sent the team into another tailspin. In early May, the team set a franchise record for offensive futility by scoring only 13 runs in 11 games and finished the season 66-96. MacPhail resigned his position as team President following the season, as rumors of the club's sale dominated the horizon, and Baker, the former "messiah," was let go.
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