Cubs fall to the Nationals in 12 innings

The first place Cubs look to take two of three from there rivals, the Washington Nationals. The Nats came into yesterday's game 11-3.  The hot players right  now on their roster are, Danny Espinosa, Daniel Murphy, and of course the captain of their team Bryce Harper. Harper has been hot ever since he got to the bigs. Harper has already hit over 100 homer, over 500 RBI's. And the kid has only been in the bigs since 2010 and he's only 22 years old!!! Now for the cubs, how about that kid. Albert Almora jr. Almora hit over .300 in triple A. And due to the injury of Jorge Soler. It was time for Almora's MLB debut. Almora had a pinch hit single against the Braves with an RBI and yesterday came in clutch with an RBI double. Now the question is, what will the cubs do when soler comes off the DL? We shall find out.

Bears OL Manny Ramirez retires from the NFL at the age of 33

Chicago Bears OL Manny Ramirez had a very dreadful season last year after being out for the whole season with a crack bone in his back. Ramirez was a star college player for Texas Tech University. Ramirez was a fourth round pick in the 2009 draft by the Detroit Lions. He did not have a good two years with Detroit. So then he decided to take his talents to Denver. Ramirez played two seasons for the Broncos and had an amazing two years over there. But then In the offseason Ramirez took a huge 110 million dollar deal. But the only bad thing is that Ramirez was charged with domestic violence and the Broncos terminated his contract after 2013. After Manny was released he returned to Detroit were he had an amazing season but it only lasted one year. Ramirez had 45 tackles and one forced fumble in his second skid with the Lions. So Ramirez signed a 3 year 45 million dollar contract with the Bears but then said he was dealing with some family issue's and the bears understood and suggested that he'd retire. And so he did after 10 seasons in the NFL.

 

Cubs OF Jason Heyward in a huge slump??

Chicago Cubs OF Jason Heyward is in one of the biggest slumps ever!! Heyward is batting around .220 with 1 home run and 18 RBI's. Heyward will be earning an estimate 26.4 million dollars this year and is expected to opt out of his contract by the end of the 2020 season. One of the main concerns for Heyward was the horrific injury in San Fransisco. Heyward previously played for the Atlanta Braves and the St. Louis Cardinals. Matter a fact, Heyward hit his first home run off of former Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano. Now the question is what will the Cubs do at the trade deadline? Will they trade Heyward or for pitching? or no? The Cubs are looking to get a bullpen relief pitcher that is a lefty. What will they do? The Cubs take on the Dodgers tonight for the series finally this afternoon at 1:05pm. 

Cubs on a winning streak/Sox on losing streak

                                                                             

Chicago Cubs started off the month of may at 4-8, right at the 500. winning percentage mark. The Cubs started their winning streak by winning 2/3 against the Cardinals and sweeping the Phillies in 3 game series at home. The Cubs defeated the Dodgers yesterday by a score of 2-0. The Cubs used 4 pitchers due to the injury of Jason Hammel in in top of the third inning. The Dodgers will be in town until thursday as they continue there four game series. Now the Chicago White Sox. A team that is in a huge!!!! slump. The Sox have lost 7 games in a row!! dropping them from first to third place in the american central division. The Sox last win came on May, 23, 2016 vs the Cleveland Indians. I don't believe that it is Robin Ventura's fault that they are losing a lot of games, I think it's just all the players that are in slumps. Saturday the White Sox blew a 7-1 lead in Kansas City against the Royals in the ninth inning as the royals went on to defeat the sox's by a score of 8-7. After that, sunday they blew a 4-1 lead in the 7th inning again to the Royals and lost 5-4. And yesterday's game vs the Mets, were facing a struggling pitcher Matt Harvey, the sox left 14 men on base and took the loss by a score of 1-0. They take on the Mets tonight at 6:10pm.

Cubs vs Dodgers/ Wrigley Field 7:10pm
Starting Pitchers:
Cubs: Jake Arrieta                                                                                     Dodgers: Scott Kazmir


White Sox vs Mets/ Citi Field 6:10pm
Starting Pitchers
White Sox: Matt Latos                                                                               Mets: Steven Matz

Former Chicago Bears QB Caleb Hanie involved in fatal car accident

Former Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Hanie was involved in a fatal car accident last night, Haine does appear to be injured but it is non-life threatening. Haine started 10 games for the bears in 2010 including the NFC wild card game against the packers in 2010. Haine played for the Bears, Ravens, Cowboys, and Browns. Currently, Haine is a free agent but is getting some interest from the Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, and again the Dallas Cowboys. Haine played college football all four years at Colorado State University and was signed as a undrafted free-agent by the Chicago Bears in 2008. According to sources Haine has injuries to the head, leg and lower stomach but will be ready if he is singed by a team. 

Are the Cubs and White Sox in a slump?/ Will Jake Arrieta not re-sign with the cubs?

After being the best two teams in baseball, both of the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox have lost two games in a row. White Sox lost two in a row to the Rangers and the Cubs lost two in a doubleheader to the San Diego Padres. Now the question is if the Cubs and White Sox go in slumps, will that ruin their chance to make a playoff run? Honestly in my own opinion I don't think it will ruin the Cubs chance but I think it will ruin the White Sox because they don't have as much talent as the Cubs. With the injury to OF/C Kyle Shwarber, the cubs have a lot of players on the bench to cover his position. Another big trending news story is about Cubs ace, Jake Arrieta. Jake states "He is worth more than Stephen Strasburg." Strasburg is currently the second starter in the rotation for the Washington Nationals. Strasburg signed a 7-year 175 million dollar deal with Washington monday night and Arrieta believes that he is worth more. According to ESPN Arrieta is looking from 200-215 million for 8-9 years. We will see what happens at the end of the 2016 season but anyways go CUBS!!!

Bulls, buying or selling during the offseason?

Will the Chicago Bulls be a buying team or will they be a selling team in the off season? Well from what it looks like now, the bulls will be 50/50. And what I mean by that is they will be selling and buying in the offseason. Right now according to ESPN and the NBA the Bulls are looking for a high quality player that can take over for Pau Gasol. There options are, Dwight Powell who is an Athletic all around power forward. There second option is to be aggressive at signing Atlanta Hawks center Al Hortford. If the Bulls want to be a better team next year they have to be way more aggressive next year than they did next year. Especially Fred Hoiberg. Fred needs to step up his ISO and defensive formation plays. When the bulls signed Hoiberg last offseason he specifically said "I am a defensive specialist." Honestly it didn't look like the bulls defense was good this year. They need to step it up.

Cubs and White Sox = Best teams in MLB

The Chicago Cubs were the best team in baseball yesterday but the game was cancelled due to rain. No make-up date is scheduled yet. The Cubs have a record of 15-5, with 2 losses from their starer Kyle Hendricks. And 3 losses from the bullpen. Now the question is will the Cubs make a package trade involving Kyle Hendricks and Jorge Soler? The Cubs will take on the Brewers this afternoon at 1:20pm on comcast sports net. Today's starters are Jake Arrieta for the Cubs and Tyler Jugmann for the Brewers tonight. I'm not a White Sox fan but I do have to give them credit, they are doing well this season. But I know the reason why. The white Sox have been facing horrible teams like the twins and the rangers and they're facing a team who is struggling very badly. The Toronto Blue Jays. The real test will be when they face teams like the Orioles and the Yankees.

Cubs OF/C Kyle Shwarber tears ACL, out for the rest of the 2016 season

Chicago Cubs lose utility player Kyle Schwarber for the rest of the 2016 season including playoffs due to a torn ACL and torn LCL. Shwarber ran into OF Dexter Fowler on trying to attempt to at a fly ball. Shwarber was drafted in the 2013 12th overall. He spent a full year down in triple A but he was just too good down their. Shwarber hit 301. with 25 homers and led all rookie's in RBI's. This is going to be a big lose for the cubs but the season must continue. This is a good chance for OF Jorge Soler to show off what he's got. Soler hit a dissapointing 192. with 11 homers but he did hit a go ahead homer to defeat the Cardinals in the NLCS. According to Kyle Shwarber, he will come back better, stronger, and faster. I hope it's true because he has he potential to be the best player in MLB. Cubs host the Reds tonight at home at 7:05pm.

Blackhawks Slump/ Duncan Keith's suspension

The Chicago Blackhawks have been on a very big slump losing 6 of there last 9 games. Last night the blackhawks fell the the Minnesota Wild by a score of 4-1. Also on top of that, blackhawks top defenseman Duncan Keith was penalized and ejected and suspended for slashing the Wild's left winger Charlie Coyle in the face. The NHL has suspended Keith for a minimum of 1 game without pay. The Blackhawks will be playing the Winnipeg Jets tonight in Winnipeg. The Jets have lost only 3 games out of 7 and lost last night to the Ottawa Senators 2-1. The Blackhawks are also dealing with the injury of Goalie Corey Crawford. Crawford has a head injury which doctors are relating to a head contusion. Scott Darling will be in the net for the hawks tonight and for Winnipeg will have their star goalie Ondrej Pavelec. Getting back to Keith's suspension he will be fined at least $15,000 according to NHL's president Gary Bettman. Hopefully the hawks can get a W and get on a winning streak!