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“(The Minnesota Twins are) going to be a wild card with some of the additions they had,” Sox pitcher Dallas Keuchel said during spring training, “but Detroit may take the next step, I’ve always liked Kansas City even though they really haven’t performed and Cleveland is Cleveland — they always figure out a way to win and hang in there.
“Most of our fans, when we release our schedule in late June or early July, they have no idea what they’re going to be doing in October or November, so that’s where they fit in,” Spencer said. “They want to control the game. Maybe you want to see Connor McDavid when he comes in town or you want to go to Pride Night.”
We’ve seen Cubs teams come from nowhere to contend, as they memorably did during playoff seasons in 1984, 1989, 1998 and 2003. For this edition to pull off a surprise, it needs veterans Kyle Hendricks, Jason Heyward and Ian Happ to have rebound seasons after poor showings in 2021; Stroman and Suzuki to be the game-changers the Cubs are betting on; Frank Schwindel and Patrick Wisdom to pick up where they left off; and young players such as Justin Steele, Keegan Thompson, Nick Madrigal, Clint Frazier and Nico Hoerner to take big steps forward.
Through a land trust, the Collitons paid $1.63 million in 2019 for the 11-room house in Lakeview, which was built in 2008. Located on a cul-de-sac, the house has 4-1/2 bathrooms, three gas fireplaces, hardwood floors, a third-floor office and media room, a playroom on the lower level, and an attached and heated, two-car garage. Outside are three decks with new composite decking, and snow melt for both the new front steps and the driveway.
“All of this is entirely unacceptable and potentially unlawful,” the attorneys general wrote in a letter, which was obtained by The Times, adding that they would use “the full weight of our authority to investigate and prosecute allegations of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation by employers throughout our states, including the National Football League.” The league headquarters are in Manhattan, and Letitia James, the New York attorney general, was among the signers.
The hope of bringing Ball back for a late-season boost often bolstered the Bulls throughout a skid after the All-Star break. Ball averaged 13 points, 5.1 assists and 1.8 steals this season, but his biggest impact came from the intangibles — swarming opponents in perimeter defense and sparking the Bulls offense with a keen court vision.
As you’d expect, those with box seats get a slightly more ambitious menu offerings from Levy Restaurants. Fans catching the game in a suite will be able to score beer cheese burger sliders, where a tiny burger is drenched in an IPA beer cheese, and topped with sautéed onions and pickles. At the recently renamed Vizzy View Bar, look out for Blue Moon brats, simmered in Blue Moon beer and served with a burnt orange mustard and caramelized onions.
The Cubs’ Shawon Dunston examines his bat after popping up to the catcher in the ninth inning against the Florida Marlins on Tuesday, April 8, 1997, in Chicago. The Marlins won 5-3, leaving the Cubs with a 0-7 record for the season. (MICHAEL S. GREEN / Associated Press)
In a move that befits a team more interested in selling tickets than going for broke, the Cardinals signed 42-year-old slugger Albert Pujols to go with the battery of Adam Wainwright, 40, and Yadier Molina, 39. If they were starting a baseball museum, it would make perfect sense. Otherwise it’s a head-scratcher for a team with plenty of young talent.
“Obviously I absolutely love Chicago, I love this organization, everything they’ve given me, they’ve done for me, the opportunity. I mean, this is my home, I would love to be here. I’d love to be a part of anything. And I see what we have coming. I see these young guys, I see the process and what’s happening.”