Bill Murray will not appear in the Groundhog Day remake; instead, Cody Bellinger and the Chicago Cubs will play key roles.
This is due to insiders repeatedly linking the two parties during the entire offseason.
Nothing has come of it because, according baseball rumours, the Cubs front office is unwilling to pay Bellinger the amount he is seeking.
There is a stalemate.
However, this doesn’t stop the insiders from claiming again and time again that a reunion looks certain.
Once more, Jon Morosi said that based on what he’s heard, Bellinger is most likely to arrive in Chicago.
This happened soon after the Toronto Blue Jays, who were thought to be a possible team interested in signing the slugger, agreed to terms with Justin Turner.
Additionally, Bellinger’s agent, Scott Boras, is probably going to hold out until his client gets anything close to the compensation they were hoping for at the start of his free agency, thus Morosi noted there’s no sign that Bellinger is close to determining who his next team will be.
Bellinger and the Cubs will eventually need to make a choice.
Pitchers and catchers will soon report as February approaches, with Spring Training quickly approaching.
Chicago would prefer to have their former slugger’s power bat in the lineup and is still searching the open market for stars, but like anything else, money is a factor.
Reuniting with the Cubs for Bellinger makes sense.
After two disastrous seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, which forced him to move, he enjoyed a breakout year.
However, there are still doubts about the 2019 National League MVP’s ability to maintain that level in the future.
So, barring a decision from Bellinger over where he will play baseball this coming season, anticipate the Chicago and Bellinger links to be quite active over the next few weeks.
All right, this is fascinating. First of all, the sign unquestionably appears to be close to 80 years old. This is mentioned in the auction description:
Excessive deterioration of the sign, including multiple patches of missing wood and rust on the chain hanging mechanism attached at the top.
In addition, Mears Auctions’ president and CEO, Troy Kinunen, who I spoke with, expressed confidence that the sign is indeed as old as the date suggests. Though its history is unknown, he claims that it came from a collector who focused on stadium artefacts and that it was acquired no more than ten years ago.
All right, this is fascinating. First of all, the sign unquestionably appears to be close to 80 years old. This is mentioned in the auction description:
Excessive deterioration of the sign, including multiple patches of missing wood and rust on the chain hanging mechanism attached at the top.
In addition, Mears Auctions’ president and CEO, Troy Kinunen, who I spoke with, expressed confidence that the sign is indeed as old as the date suggests. Though its history is unknown, he claims that it came from a collector who focused on stadium artefacts and that it was acquired no more than ten years ago.
Second, we can state with certainty that the Cubs did not play any night games at Wrigley Field in 1945. In fact, as far as we are aware, lights did not “turn night into day” at Wrigley until 1988. As many of you are aware, the Cubs placed an order for steel for light towers in late 1941; however, club owner P.K. Wrigley donated the steel to the war effort with the outbreak of World War II. That was something I wrote about back in 2013.
However, as I explain in this essay I published here in 2020, the Cubs did try to play some night games in 1942 and 1943. This Chicagology page provides more information about these and subsequent attempts, and it includes the following excerpt from the Chicago Tribune dated May 9, 1944:
