One of the long-time and most prolific members of the Cubs Blog Army has decided to stop publishing.

The Chicago Tribune Live program on Comcast Sports Chicago has scheduled these folks for upcoming programs this week:

A webpage where we can post questions for the guests is available at:

http://chicago.comcastsportsnet.com/CTL.asp

Start typing away now!

Diana

When I was at the Cubs/Cards game last week, I heard that there would be a "Wrigley Field Garage Sale" during the last two series at Wrigley.

Since we're in that time frame now, has anyone attended the "Wrigley Field Garage Sale"?

What kind of items were they offering?

Was it possible for those without a ticket to attend, or was it just for those who paid admission to the game?

Thanks!

Cubs fans wishlist

Cubs fans TV listings

Ryne Sandberg Day

A music video parody of Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T's starring Lou Piniella and the Chicago cubs. Created by Tellum Productions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KMuC-JUl...

USA Today has a nice Q&A with Bleed Cubbie Blue publisher Al Yellon, in an ongoing series of Q&As with sports bloggers.

Show them this picture:

Here is the television schedule for the Chicago Cubs / St. Louis Cardinal series this weekend at Wrigley Field...

August 17 - Cubs vs. Cardinals 1:20pm WGN

wgnsuperstation.trb.com/sports/

August 18 - Cubs vs. Cardinals 2:55pm WFLD / Fox

www.myfoxchicago.com

August 19 - Cubs vs. Cardinals 7pm ESPN

sports.espn.go.com/espntv/espnGuide

www.4fanssake.com
Have you seen this site yet? It's been in the Sun Times, WGN, NBC, it has even been up in times square. The focus of this movement is to bring the Cubs to a fan based ownership. What Cub fan would not like to own a piece of one of the greatest franchises in baseball. check it out at www.4fanssake.com.

Now that the Chicago Tribune's Paul Sullivan is blogging at ChicagoSports.com's new Hardball blog (his first post, by the way, is a good one), will he be more respectful of bloggers?

The Cub Reporter, one of the Cubs Blog Army's prominent blogs, has redesigned and relocated to be more fully incorporated into the Most Valuable Network. Here is the new location. There was a recent discussion at the Baseball Primer Newsblog regarding changes to All-Baseball / MVN.

There are teams mentioned in this story that I didn't know existed!

Always room for more?

Is there a saturation point for the Chicago area sports market?

December 14, 2006
By KAREN SHOFFNER
Staff Writer Evanston-Review

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/evanston/bus...

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CAN YOU NAME THEM ALL?

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Photos from Ryne Sandberg Day at Wrigley Field

Did anyone watch the WGN news Friday night? I think they offered a mention that the Cardinals won the World Series...and that was about it.

I was hoping that was all I would hear about it. Yeah, I was wrong about that.

On Saturday, those Cardinal shirts were seen all over my Illinois city.
The local Walmart is featuring them - perhaps that's why.

I have seen some folks wearing Cubs shirts and hats this weekend, and I do tell those folks "yea Cubs!". I love seeing the little kids wearing Cubs logo stuff after the Cards won the World Series.

On Sunday the first person to greet me reminded me of the Cardinals victory. After the first service, the fellow who sits in front of me mentioned it too. (Those two have been trying to get me to convert to Cardinalism. I tell them its not in my Cub fan nature...)

This MLB.com article writes commenting on sources in Florida:
Girardi has "zero" chance of returning for a second season.
I'm a Dusty fan, but I say goodbye to Baker and hello to Girardi.

A good number of members of the Cubs Blog Army were quoted in today's Chicago Tribune, in an article by David Haugh. (Hat tip: Al Yellon at Bleed Cubbie Blue.) Though contrary to Al's thinking, it doesn't appear that Haugh contacted the bloggers; it instead appears he just viewed the blogs and quoted from them. (We wouldn't, of course, expect such an article from Paul Sullivan.)

The article is nice to see, even if it is mostly a cheap way for the Tribune to get some content for today's paper. Many of the opinions quoted are just as well thought out as what you'd find from the paid columnists.

With this post, I am renewing my blog here on CubsNet. In a way, it seems that nothing has changed here during my absence. When I first started here in April of last year, there were hardly any other bloggers here other than the author of the cubsnet blog. Now, in May 2006, he seems to be the only really active blogger.

This is strange since CubsNet offers those of us who are interested in the Cubs a chance to blog with a regular audience right from the get go. Its pretty difficult to gain an audience in a decent time period if you are starting a new weblog on something like say Blogger.com or its imitators. This is especially true if you are not able to post everyday. Some time ago, the Washington Post ran an article that said that in order to attract a decent audience, a blogger needs to post at least 3 times a day. Needless to say, that's a pretty tall order for most folks, especially if you put in a lot of thought and do rewrites before you finally post something.

One of the great features of the content management software that runs CubsNet.com--Drupal--is the ability to compile feeds of blogs and news sites. You may come to CubsNet.com for the news, commentary, and discussion, but CubsNet.com is also a portal to excellent discussion throughout baseball blogging world. Just click the "news feeds" link at the top of the page or the "news aggregator" link in the left column (they take you to the same place). Once there, you'll see all of the compiled feeds, sorted chronologically, starting with the most recent content.