Jose Vidro

While Paul Sullivan takes a week off to loaf, here are your responses to his request on how the Cubs can reach the World Series (insert joke here). Oh yeah, no Mike Lowell trades allowed per Mr. Sullivan's rules. Next week, we're back to the regular Q&A,...

2006 record: 71-91, 5th Manager: Manny Acta (1st season) Home games: Space Coast Stadium (8,100), 5800 Stadium Parkway, Viera/Melbourne. Directions: I-95 to exit 73 (Wickham Road); west to Lake Andrew Drive; follow to stadium. Tickets: $8, $10, $15, $18,...

The 2003 salaries for the 827 major league baseball players on opening day rosters and disabled lists. Figures were obtained by The Associated Press from management and player sources and include salaries and pro-rated shares of signing bonuses and...

EXPOS 8, CUBS 4 Delino DeShields looked distressed after Tuesday night's game. As he sat behind a table in the Cubs' gloomy clubhouse, he clutched his newly shaven head in his hands. By the time he was ready to speak, DeShields had put the Expos' 8-4...

Welcome everyone to the play-by-play commentary of the Cubs home opener against the Montreal Expos. Bonjour to all the Expos fans. It's flat out brutal out, more suitable for the Iditarod than baseball with the wind blowing in from left-center and the...

Dusty Baker was giving a brief assessment of Shawn Estes on Thursday morning, shortly before the left-hander would make his Wrigley Field debut in a Cubs uniform. "The main thing is to get off to a good start and hopefully get out of the early innings,"...

The White Sox's bullpen was gassed, and manager Ozzie Guillen was hoping starter Jon Garland could go deep into Sunday's game against the Montreal Expos. Garland was perfect for 5 1/3 innings, but he wound up allowing a two-run homer to Orlando Cabrera...

Sammy Sosa didn't merely agree with manager Bruce Kimm's passionate plea after Sunday's loss to the Cardinals. Sosa is so disgusted with the Cubs, he's looking for more than just better effort from his teammates. He wants some of them gone before next...