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Check Out Franchise Ball, The FREE Baseball Simulator

The Cubs' season has concluded, but do you need your next baseball fix over the long winter? Fans that follow the Cubs know the thrill of building a team from the ground up — from scouting promising talent to developing all-stars. But what if you could experience that same excitement firsthand, managing every detail of your own franchise? That’s where Franchise Ball steps up to the plate. It’s a free online baseball simulation game that lets you become the general manager of your own team,
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Show Some Cubbies Pride, Baby Blue Style, with FOCO’s New Cubs Bobblehead Launch

FOCO is a partner with North Side Baseball and support of their products helps support this site; 100% of the funds/materials received from these promotions go directly to our users in the form of prizes and gifts. What a phenomenal start it has been for our Cubbie Blues as they lead the National League Central in which has turned out to be a non-competitive division thus far.  As the Chicago Cubs continue to show off their skills offensively leading all of Major League Baseball in run
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Take Your Favorite Peanuts Character Out to the Ball Game with FOCO’s New Snoopy Cubs Bobblehead

FOCO is a partner with North Side Baseball and support of their products helps support this site; 100% of the funds/materials received from these promotions go directly to our users in the form of prizes and gifts. As opening day is creeping right around the corner, we as baseball fans have been itching to get back into the season since that exciting World Series finish between the Dodgers and Yankees ended back in November.  But let’s focus on what matters most and that’s Chicago Cubs
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It's The Offseason So That Means "You're The Cubs GM!"; The 2025 Payroll Blueprint Tool Has Released

Every offseason, we offer our You’re The GM! tool (formerly the Payroll Blueprint) to build your ideal Cubs roster. This year, we’ve updated and streamlined the tool a bit to improve the experience. The idea behind this feature is to give fans a chance to play the role of General Manager (or CBO or PoBO… you get the idea) for their favorite team, the Chicago Cubs. It’s meant to give fans the opportunity to discuss (and, let’s be honest, argue) how they would approach the long, dark MLB offs
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Introducing The Chicago Cubs Players Project!

North Side Baseball is proud to announce the release of the Chicago Cubs Players Project! This project endeavors to collect as much information about past and present Cubs as possible, giving fans a repository of high-quality data about their favorite players. This isn't meant to replicate the great work done at more staid publications like Wikipedia or Sabr. This project is meant to be by Cubs fans for Cubs fans. Have fun with it! This is a public, community-driven project… which mean
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Bring a Legend of Wrigley to Your Home with FOCO’s Ryne Sandberg Bobblehead

FOCO is a partner with North Side Baseball and support of their products helps support this site; 100% of the funds/materials received from these promotions go directly to our users in the form of prizes and gifts. An all time Chicago Cubs great is now a part of FOCO’s illustrious Chicago Cubs bobblehead collection.  Most will look at this man as one of or the greatest defensive second baseman of his time in the majors as he recorded history securing nine total gold glove awards as well ano
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Travel to Wrigley Cubbie Blues Style With FOCO’s Brand New Cubs Shortalls!

FOCO is a partner with North Side Baseball and support of their products helps support this site; 100% of the funds/materials received from these promotions go directly to our users in the form of prizes and gifts. For Cubs fans looking to shake up their Cubbies game day fits with a blend of relaxation, fashion, and team spirit, the latest big hit product from FOCO hits a moon shot out of the park. The Chicago Cubs Pinstripe Bib Overalls are not just a piece of clothing; they're a statement
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Let’s Play Two With This Cool Ernie Banks Bobblehead

FOCO is a partner with North Side Baseball and support of their products helps support this site; 100% of the funds/materials received from these promotions go directly to our users in the form of prizes and gifts. Every diehard Chicago Cubs fan remember the famous phrase, “Let’s Play Two,” from Ernie Banks that he used jokingly on a 100-degree day at Wrigley field when they were set to play a game in 1969.  The Cubs were so tired from the heat not even hours before the game they had t
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Celebrate Gold Glove Awards with Ian Happ & Dansby Swanson FOCO Bobbleheads

FOCO is a partner with North Side Baseball and support of their products helps support this site; 100% of the funds/materials received from these promotions go directly to our users in the form of prizes and gifts. A disappointing finish to the 2023 season indeed, however, a bright future ahead for the Cubbie Blues.  Finishing second in the National League Central and it was a positive season all in all as they posted their best 162-game regular season record since 2018, but not enough
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How to "Fix" the MLB Postseason, If You Think It Needs Fixing

There's a ton of chatter about the MLB postseason format and while I think it's blowing current issues out of proportion - we have all of two years of data from which to draw - I believe there is some merit to the criticisms. There's a relatively easy fix, though, and it can actually reduce the length of the postseason by a day should MLB wish to take that route. First, there are complaints about the number of teams in the postseason. I rather strongly disagree with this take; as a fan of m
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Three(ish) Months of the New North Side Baseball

A few people have asked about traffic and I wanted to give a quick update on site activity. The site re-launched on March 26th of this year and all data goes through yesterday, June 21st. Some of these numbers might not look that impressive but keep in mind that for 11 days in early May, we lost the NSBB domain. Two of those days had zero traffic and nine more had roughly 50% normal traffic while we fought to regain control of the primary domain from an unresponsive domain registrar. Overal
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Introducing Dark Mode!

This is one of the most-requested features on communities we run and I'm happy to announce that Dark Mode is finally a thing you can use across the site! Dark Mode is a new way to use North Side Baseball, especially at night or in darkened rooms. Instead of the background being black text over white background, it's the inverse: white text over black background. Some people find sites easier to use and read in this inverted scheme and now it's really easy to toggle back and forth as needed.
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Northside Baseball Tips & Tricks: The Stream!

Forgive the images, they're from Twins Daily but how the stream operates is identical. The new feed is pretty awesome and I suspect after reading this, some of you (particularly forum users) may set a custom feed as your North Side Baseball landing page. It's that useful. Instead of having to click through the (kinda insanely large now) NSBB site, you can tailor a feed to show basically whatever you want: select authors, topics you've followed, fellow users, unread content only... the list
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North Side Baseball Tips & Tricks, Part One: Tables!

North Side Baseball Tips & Tricks, Part One: Tables! With this series of blog entries, I'm going to try to cover some of the features of the new site in a few paragraphs. Using the old site, as I'm sure many of you are aware, tables were basically unusable. That has changed! I'll tackle B-Ref tables quickly in this post but you can do similar things with FanGraphs or other sites that use table data (which is how almost all stat sites display their content). First, pop on over to Marcus
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