Aramis Ramirez News

After the 2011 season, the Chicago Cubs will have to make a choice: keep third baseman Aramis Ramirez and purchase his club option for $16 million, or let him hit the market and buy the remainder of the contract for $2 million.

What? It's a pirate. It's a story about pirates, and this is a picture of a pirate.

The winners of the 2009 Sharp presents Hank Aaron Award will be announced on Sunday night before the Yankees play the Phillies in Game 4 of the World Series at Citizens Bank Park.

Glendon Rusch calmed some nerves Sunday with a strong performance against Pittsburgh, keeping him in the Cubs' rotation at least for the time being.

It's understandable for consumers to be happy about and test out their new purchases: Porsche drivers would want to take a spin in a new ride, new homeowners have dinner parties, and kids with new toys play with them until their parents snap.

Time for the World Series edition of Who Would You Rather Have? CBS Sportsline recently completed a 5x5 mixed league mock draft, and Chase Utley was selected 4th overall before Ryan Braun, Joe Mauer and Alex Rodriguez to name a few.

This is the worst news I have heard in a long time as a Cubs fan.A Yes, worse then Aramis Ramirez out with an injury or when D-Lee got hurt a couple years ago.A Milton Bradley could be back as a Cub in 2010.

Will Magglio Ordonez be a Cub in 2010? Browse more photos>> With a day off before game six of the ALCS -- and this series has the chance to go down in history as one of the better league championship series, having already produced at least three "instant classics", let's spend today looking toward next year.

Some days you lose, and then there are days like the Cubs had Tuesday at Wrigley Field.

Sometimes Cub fans embarrass me. Actually this is pretty typical -- if you are a Cub fan, no matter how idiotic you may act, sooner or later you'll encounter some other Cub fan who makes your face burn an embarrassing shade of red, leaving you to apologize to the non-Cub-fans around you.

Phil Rogers of the Chicago Tribune , who seldom has a lucid baseball thought, has openly lobbied for longtime Texas Rangers hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo to come to town.

Todd Walker's parting gift as a Cub was expounding on his theory that the tradition of day baseball is partly to blame for the team's lack of success over the decades.

There are a lot of reasons to hate big-market teams. The copious amount of money teams such as the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers and Cubs spend to sign top performers is a little disheartening .

's gone, and the Cubs only can hope he'll be forgotten by next spring. But how much impact did one guy really have on this season gone wrong? And as the Cubs contemplate a 2010 run with very little personnel change expected, can the absence of that one guy really make that much difference? While conventional wisdom suggests otherwise, the ...

Ryan Dempster reached his goal of 200 innings and Sam Fuld finally got an RBI, but it wasn't enough to salvage a win for the Cubs.

Cubs pitcher Randy Wells was one of the few pleasant surprises for the Cubs in 2009.

The 50th anniversary of the production of the last Edsel arrives in November, just in time for the beginning of the Milton Bradley sell-off. Bradley turned out to be the Cubs ' version of the Edsel, a concept that may have looked OK on paper but ultimately turned into a critical and commercial flop.

Paul Beaty, AP / D-backs catcher Miguel Montero tags out Sam Fuld in a rundown between third and home in the third inning.

Late-season lineups for also-ran teams usually resemble spring training intersquads, with September call-ups scattered among a handful of veterans.

The bleachers during Thursday night's rain delay, about 9:15 pm. View full size photo uploaded October 2, 2009 We have, at times this season, debated whether the Cubs should have traded Mark DeRosa and whether he would have helped the club through its various injuries and lack of production.