Beginning Monday, Brett Taylor (formerly known here as "AceCubbie") will be joining the front-page staff here at BCB.
At least three times a week (Monday, Wednesday & Friday), and possibly more often depending on how much baseball news is around, Brett will be making an "around MLB" linkpost, highlighting the major stories of the day. It'll be posted generally first thing in the morning.
With pitchers and catchers only about a week away from reporting to Cubs camp and other MLB camps, it's time for all of us to start getting excited about baseball 2012. This will be a way for all of you to have a one-stop shop for all of your MLB news.
As you probably already know, Brett runs the Cub-centric site Bleacher Nation and I'm really pleased to be able to partner with him and welcome him to the front-page staff. He'll continue to do the great work he's doing at Bleacher Nation; in the future he might do additional front-page posting here, and of course soon you'll see more here from our minor league editor, Josh Timmers.
Please join me in welcoming Brett; his first post will be on Monday morning.
A few weeks ago, I made this post announcing a contest sponsored by one of SB Nation's advertising partners, for a real paid one-year job doing sports social media work (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
The entry period is closed, but now you have the chance to help decide the winner. Follow me past the jump for details.
One of SB Nation's advertising partners is sponsoring a contest which will give one lucky fan a job as its social media voice at major sports events during 2012.
Yes, a real job -- it includes a full year's salary. After the jump you'll find full details.
Have a wonderful holiday. And may we receive, soon, what we've all been dreaming of -- one of these, with a Cubs logo on it.
Enjoy the day with your family and friends. Image via Free Thanksgiving Clip Art.
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. Only the utterly impossible, the inexpressibly fantastic, can ever be plausible again.
Those words were written by Red Smith, a great sportswriter of the last century, sixty years ago after the Giants beat the Dodgers in Game 3 of their tiebreaker series on Bobby Thomson's three-run walkoff home run.
Those words apply this morning as well. As Cubs fans, virtually all of us are unhappy that the Cardinals won Game 6 of the 2011 World Series. But as a baseball fan, I hope you recognize the greatness you saw Thursday night. If you are too young to remember Game 6 in 1991, or Game 6 in 1986, or Game 6 in 1975, all World Series games that are often held up as models of "greatest postseason game ever", this one was better. Twice, the Rangers were within one strike of being World Series champions, once in the ninth, once in the 10th, and failed both times. That's never happened before.
And I'm no fan of Joe Buck, but his "we'll see you tomorrow night" after David Freese's home run was a touching tribute to his dad's identical call, which happened 20 years and one day ago when Kirby Puckett hit his walkoff for the Twins in that famous Game 6 in 1991. Nicely done, Joe. For one night, you rose above.
Now ... go Rangers. Best World Series since 2001. This is why I love this game so much.
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