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Shocker: Cubs are pre-season favourite By Bruce Penton What were you doing in 1908? Unless you’re more than 108 years old, you certainly weren’t watching the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series, which is the last time the Cubbies wore the crown of ‘world champions’. That’s why it’s such an oddity that this year, 2016, the Cubs are being pegged by a plethora of experts to win the National League title for the first time since 1945 and, perhaps — gasp! — the World Series. The wait might finally be over for the gang known for “Wait till next year,” the Loveable Losers’ lament since before the start of the First World War. The venerable sports publication, Sports Illustrated, recently ranked the 30 Major League Baseball teams and had the Cubs at No. 1. No, this wasn’t an early April Fools Day publication. The Cubbies were a good young, playoff team last year and SI surmised that since their young stars — Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo, Addison Russell and Kyle Schwarber — were one year older and more comfortable in their big-league surroundings; since they acquired one of the best free agents on the market, Jason Heyward, and another decent one, infielder Ben Zobrist); and since they added to their already strong pitching staff the arm of John Lackey (from divisional rival St. Louis, of all teams), that there would be no stopping the Cubs this year. But if spring training is any indication, some of the bandwagon jumpers may be jumping off. Spring training means little, of course, but the Cubs hobbled along at well below .500 during the tuneup time, and both Heyward and slugging Jorge Soler, another youngster (24) with a big bat, struggled to get their batting averages above .200. But spring is for preparation only, and Cubs’ fans expect the bats of those two to come alive when they start playing for real April 4. Cy Young award winner Jake Arietta, 22-6 with a 1.77 ERA last year, leads the pitching staff and is joined by Lackey, Jon Lester and Jason Hammel to form a formidable foursome. And with managing guru Joe Maddon calling the shots from the dugout, can the Cubs possibly fail to win the Series again — for the 108th consecutive year? It seems odd to be writing about the Cubs being a World Series favourite, but maybe 2016 will be the year the long wait will
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end. Cubs’ fans worldwide will finally be satisfied. • From sportspickle.com: “Banner towed behind an airplane over L.A. on the heels of UCLA’s 15-17 basketball season: “March Madness is not firing (Steve) Alford.” Ted Keith of SI.com, on the Reds coming off their first last-place finish in 32 years: “It won’t take that long for them to finish there again.” Late-night funnyman Conan O’Brien: “President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro watched a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban national baseball team. The Rays won, so the Cuban team was sent to prison.” Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “The NFL is still considering the Oakland Raiders’ request to move to Las Vegas. An NFL team in a town with 24-hour gambling, drinking and strippers. Even the Cleveland Browns think this is a bad idea.” TC in BC: “For newbies following March Madness, Texas A&M is not named for ‘Americans and Mexicans’. Notre Dame is not named after a hunchback and Gonzaga is not the brother of Godzilla.” Jack Finarelli, who you can find at the sportscurmudgdon.com, notes that “Eagles quarterback Chase Daniels’ name is a complete sentence. Not too many other backup QBs can make that claim.” Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have proposed a plan to pay people not to commit crimes. ‘Good luck with that,’ said 32 NFL owners in unison.” Brad Dickson of the Omaha World-Herald: “The Anaheim Angels are going to try to set record for the most people using selfie sticks, and the minor league Kalamazoo Growlers are holding an emoji-themed night. This competition for Most Hated Baseball Promotion of 2016 is already fierce.” RJ Currie of sportsdeke.com: “Maria Sharapova’s failed drug test led to the loss of several sponsors: 3. TAG Heuer called time out; 2. Porsche put on the brakes; 1. Nike chose to just not do it.” Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com: “Today was the 15th anniversary of the day Randy Johnson pulverized a bird with a pitch. Poor bird, if he had only been hit by Barry Zito, he’d have been telling the story to his grandchicks.” Another one from Hough: “A-Rod told ESPN. com today that ‘I won’t play after next year.’ Later he told the NY Daily News that after his contract ends in 2017, ‘we’ll see what happens.’ ‘Atta boy,’ said Brett Favre.” Care to comment? Email brucepenton2003@ yahoo.ca
Field Robots are coming By Calvin Daniels It appears the time of the field robot may finally be dawning. Autonomous Tractor Corp. is ready to sell a driverless system that will allow tractors to perform all normal field sans an operator sitting in the seat. That this has finally happened cannot be a surprise to anyone. Industry people were crystal-balling automaton tractors years ago, and we have seen steps in that direction for more than a decade. The increased accuracy of global positioning systems, and of course the added capacity and speed of computer processing systems have finally made the complete move to driverless a possible reality. In this respect tractors are not unique. Guangzhou-based Ehang Inc., a Chinese company, recently unveiled a drone capable of carrying a human passenger; the Ehang 184 at the Las Vegas convention center during the CES gadget show. It looks like a small helicopter but with four propellers spinning parallel to the ground in a similar configuration to other drones, detailed a story at www.theguardian.com “The electric-powered drone can be fully charged in two hours, carry up to 100kg (220lb) and fly for 23 minutes at sea level, according to Ehang. The cabin fits one person and a small backpack and is fitted with air conditioning and a reading light. It is designed to fit, with propellers folded, in a single parking spot.
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