Bleed Cubbie Blue

5 days ago | bleedcubbieblue.com | Sara Sanchez

Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images Welcome to your off-day Short Porch, a quick hit on an element of the 2025 Cubs that you can enjoy in just a few minutes. Today, we’re feeling the need for speed and so are your North Siders, who have stolen more bases than any other team in baseball.

5 days ago | bleedcubbieblue.com | Thomas Smith

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images I’m not sure if anyone is ready for a spicy, hot take on their baseball off day. Here goes. I think the Padres might be good. The Cubs have finished their six games with the Padres for the year, splitting them. They probably, without a whole lot of monumental luck, could have won as many as five of the games. And on the other side of that coin, could have lost that many. Such were the games between two strong teams that are playing good ball.

6 days ago | bleedcubbieblue.com | Thomas Smith

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images I’ve never spent any time thinking about who the Murphy fellow was or why he was destined to bring frustration to people for all of time. I decided I’d wait up for the Tuesday night game to end in order to get this written before the quick turnaround day game after night game. So, of course, the game went extra innings. Murphy, right? Murphy visited the Cubs on Tuesday night too.

6 days ago | bleedcubbieblue.com | Ashley MacLennan

Photo by Aaron Gash/MLB Photos via Getty Images Jackie Robinson Day is a big event in baseball. All 30 clubs play, and all players wear the number 42—retired throughout MLB—to honor the late, great Jackie Robinson.

1 week ago | bleedcubbieblue.com | Al Yellon

The first of these moves, Shaw being sent down, was not expected.