About days until 2010 Spring Training
On a cold and gray winter day, nothing warms the heart more than thoughts of baseball.
Category: Sports Cartoons
Cubs Choke: Cough up NLDS
The Cubs stretched their post-season losing streak to 9 and coughed up the NLDS to the Dodgers. ?For those of you who haven’t been paying attention to the Cubs for the last 100 years, here’s a run down of their October futility:
1910 L 4-1
1918 L 4-2
1929 L 4-1
1932 L 4-0
1935 L 4-2
1938 L 4-0
1945 L 4-3
1984 L 3-2 (NLCS)
1989 L 4-1 (NLCS)
1998 L 3-0 (NLDS)
2003 W 3-2 (NLDS) L 4-3 (NLCS)
2007 L 3-0 (NLDS)
2008 L 3-0
Oh well Cubs fans, there’s alway next century?
Chinese Olympic Logo
The Games open August 6. No word yet on when the prison doors might open as well.
The Tenth Cartoon of Christmas 2007: The Mitchell Report, Checking it Twice
Our? tenth cartoon of Christmas this year was created for the MLB Rumor Mill over at Your SportsFix.com.
TOONrefugee creates logo for the Rumor Mill
File this under shameless self-promotion. TOONrefugee just completed the logo for a new site devoted to baseball trade rumors (I’ll also be contributing an occasional cartoon and a bit of pithy commentary there as well). With the hot stove league heating up, the site should be a lot of fun for baseball fans. So, please check out the latest MLB trade rumors at the Rumor Mill.
World Series Heats Up(?) in Colorado
More World Series Weather:?2008,?2006
With the temperature in the thirties, the Rockies hope to refind their hot streak and Boston is hoping those Red Sox come with battery powered heaters.
To all you ice-cold Rockies fans, from a warm and cozy Cardinals fan who’s jealous as can be: This Bud Coors is for you.
UPDATE: The Rockies lost 10-5 to fall to behind three games to none. Let’s hope they can build a fire of their own tonight otherwise it’s, “Wait ’til next year.”
UPDATED UPDATE: It’s “Wait ’til next year.”
Say it ain’t so, Joe
Even though Joe managed to pull the Yankees back into the battle and get them into the play-offs, it wasn’t enough, he’s gone. And this cartoon, originally published back in June has proved prescient. After 12 straight playoff appearances and four World Championships, the Torre era in NYC is over.