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“The real key to this is keeping Tony Campana on the field,” Irsay said. “That guy has like four times as much hustle as anybody else. Therefore, it looks like you’re trying hard, but really that’s just one guy blurring all around.”

"The stakes tonight were huge because I knew the league mandates a team is dissolved if the Cubs sweep them," said Ventura. "Just look at the Padres. They lost all three of their games at Wrigley a few weeks ago and no one has heard from them since."

The bi-annual bar fight, that is now known as the BP Crosstown Classic, has shifted to the South Side this week. Historically, fights between the two sides of fans usually originate in the stands, at home plate or between Carlos Zambrano and whomever walks in front of him. This year however, with such hot weather, fights have been breaking out in and around the center field shower at U.S. Cellular Field.

After a tough loss to Red Sox southpaw Franklin Morales, many Cubs hitters expressed their frustration that the league would allow a player to pitch against them using his left hand, a tactic that greatly alters the trajectory of the pitch, and makes it nearly impossible for most Cubs batters to make meaningful contact.

Ryan Dempster showed up to Wrigley Friday morning for his scheduled start against the Red Sox wearing a Dodgers jersey, a move he hopes will help the Cubs get the hint that he'd like to be traded to a contender immediately.

When the Red Sox visited Wrigley Field this weekend, everyone expected Theo Epstein to have mixed emotions when facing his old team, but no one thought he'd react quite the way he did when the Cubs president locked himself in Boston's clubhouse and refused to leave until he was granted out of his five-year contract with Chicago.

A janitor at the Cubs offices reports following a cloaked and seemingly hoofed figure out of the building, where it reportedly “looked a squirrel dead” and disappeared into an alley.