Svengoolie time, working later than usual because reasons. Jonathon Lucroy, now an Angel, off the checklist. Happy day after Theo Epstein’s birthday. Most of the beat writers and bloggers are still hibernating, it seems. We have pictures instead of words.
Here’s today’s Cubs News and Notes, such as they are. As always * means autoplay on, or annoying ads, or both (directions to remove for Firefox and Chrome).
Cubs history:
- 1907 - The Mills Commission on the origins of baseball reports that the game was invented by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.