https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/?d=7News: North Side Baseball Site Newsenhttps://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/north-side-baseballs-community-awards-2025-2026-offseason-r2589/Hello again, Cubs fans! Twice a year, we sit down and find the most popular posts and blogs on North Side Baseball, and their creators receive prizes for their contributions to this community. The Cubs had a wild offseason. In an attempt to win the National League Central, they signed Alex Bregm...2589Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:12:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/north-side-baseballs-community-awards-2025-mlb-season-r2275/Hello again, Cubs fans! Twice a year, I sit down and find the most popular posts and blogs on North Side Baseball, and their creators receive prizes for their contributions to the sprawling behemoth that is this site. While the 2025 Cubs season ended in disappointment, there were many great time...2275Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:55:36 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/how-much-have-you-ever-lost-on-a-coin-toss-cubs-fate-was-sealed-in-game-5s-6th-inning-r2260/"How much have you ever lost on a coin toss?" is a line delivered masterfully by Javier Bardem's titular character, Anton Chigurh, in the movie "No Country for Old Men". It's sneered in the direction of an unsuspecting, aging, gas station clerk, as Anton flips a coin and asks the man to call it:...2260Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:31:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/one-battle-after-another-to-advance-to-nlcs-cubs-must-solve-the-perplexing-jacob-misiorowski-r2253/Game 4 of the NLDS, in Chicago, was cathartic for the Cubs from the get-go for many reasons—be it Matthew Boyd's playoff redemption; the crowd's sing-song chorus of "Freddy ... Freddy ... Freddy" as the pitcher struggled to find the zone; or Ian Happ putting the Cubs up yet again in the first in...2253Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:12:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/freddy-peraltas-barely-exploitable-weakness-is-the-cubs-biggest-game-4-hope-r2249/Freddy Peralta's long shadow lingers over the remaining two games of the NLDS. Confirmed to start Game 4 in Wrigley, he will need to be vanquished by the Chicago Cubs to advance to the National League Championship Series (or, at least, get to Game 5 in this series). He is the unquestioned best p...2249Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:00:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/with-sinkerballer-quinn-priester-looming-how-can-cubs-stack-the-deck-in-their-favor-in-game-2-r2231/Game 1 of the NLDS was the kind of contest that could easily eat your soul from the inside, if you let it. The Cubs started the game with a momentum-shifting home run on the second pitch, only to watch the contest quickly devolve into a 9-1 beat down behind (ostensibly) the Cubs' most reliable s...2231Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:08:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/the-unsung-art-of-the-loss-how-colin-rea-and-taylor-rogers-lost-with-purpose-vs-padres-r2225/Whenever the 2025 Chicago Cubs season comes to an end, be it to the hands of the Milwaukee Brewers this upcoming week, or someone else further down the road (or perhaps lifting the Commissioner's Trophy), one of the high-water-marks will undoubtedly be their Wild Card Round victory over the San...2225Sat, 04 Oct 2025 20:10:01 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/moises-ballesteros-is-rocking-right-now-but-improvement-under-hood-remains-possible-r2189/The story of the 2025 Chicago Cubs has yet to be fully written, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a more fun singular moment than Moisés Ballesteros' first major-league home run. In the second inning on a beautiful September day at Wrigley Field, the Cubs rookie laced a 103-mph line drive into t...2189Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:10:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/anatomy-of-an-at-bat-pete-crow-armstrong-defies-logic-and-bunts-with-two-strikes-r2120/I have a confession to make: I can be a fairly judgmental person at times. This shows itself in all of the things I dislike, and I have a tendency to dislike a lot of things. For starters, I think bananas, both texturally and flavor wise are fairly disgusting—I think we're better off without the...2120Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:10:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/matt-shaw-is-proof-of-the-importance-of-pulling-the-baseball-r2105/Hitting a baseball is really hard. The amount of things that have to go correctly in the moment for you to not only make contact with a pitch, but make solid contact, is almost mind-boggling. You have just a split second to not only diagnose what pitch is being thrown (maybe you can read the sea...2105Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:53:02 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/cubs-rookie-matt-shaws-defensive-glow-up-and-how-experience-at-a-new-position-matters-r2101/Watching Matt Shaw grow up in front of our eyes this year has been a bit of a pleasure. I've dived headfirst multiple times this season to highlight all of the swing changes that he has undergone. Right now, it's pretty undeniable what the changes offensively have brought for the diminutive thir...2101Wed, 27 Aug 2025 17:13:00 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/north-side-baseball/justin-turner-hasnt-lost-the-fight-with-father-time-quite-yet-r2081/Justin Turner's time in a Cub uniform has been met with a good amount of ire from fans in online circles. Groans and moans are abound regardless of what platform you chose to frequent every time his name pops up in a lineup. A large contingency of Cubs fans had become so fed-up they'd rather hav...2081Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:52:01 +0000