Saturday, June 28, 2025

Cubs quietly waive Castro, Samardzija, and Rizzo amid ferver surrounding new mascot

"First of all, I hate to see us breaking with tradition to bring a mascot in," said Chicago fan Tom Simmons, who owns and often proudly wears a Castro jersey. "And on top of that, Clark is just so creepy looking, I think it really was a poor choice."

Cubs mascot launch an unparallelled success at taking attention away from another failed offseason

"We were confident in our strategy," Rickets said, "but our initial experience proves that Clark is the single greatest revelation since Moneyball."

Cubs fans already clamoring for less talented, but hard-nosed mascot understudy Vinny to replace...

Soon after the Cubs announced the creation of a new mascot named Clark, fans of the team were begging the organization to replace him with the mascots understudy, Vinny.

Alex Rodriguez to spend 2014 season dressed as Clark the Cub

"It keeps me in the game and I can keep my steroids inside my costume," said Rodriguez. "I mean, the little kids will be happy."

Cubs’ new mascot sure to be offseason’s biggest move

"What, you think we're going to get Tanaka or something?" said team president Theo Epstein. "Nope. Just this ridiculous mascot." Idea suggested on Facebook by Julia Mareske

Peyton Manning’s helmet mark gets its own TV show: ‘Forehead of the Class’

The new series, entitled “Forehead of the Class,” will debut during sweeps week. In the meantime, Manning’s red spot will be seen on NFL Network doing pregame before the 49ers-Panthers game this weekend.

Frank Thomas announces he’ll go into Hall of Fame as a Blue Jay

"Sure, the White Sox were great," said Thomas just a day after getting elected to the Hall, "but the Blue Jays were the best 171 games of my life."