Chicago Cubs news and notes — Cease, Rizzo, Williams

We cover the coverage like PCA covers center field.

MLB ‘insiders’ are everywhere, fighting the clickbait for space in the attention economy. It seems like that term refers to anyone who ever watched a major league game from a pressbox.

And these yutzes refer to each other for confirmation and the A. I. articles quote from them.

Arg. By the time I edited out all of the questionable stuff there was nothing left and I had to start again like Billy Idol at a white sale.

Please Cubs, some action? Devin Williams is the latest name in the news. That’d be okay by me.

Hopefully the family dinner wasn’t too awkward.

How about them Bears?

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• Maddie Lee (Chicago Sun-Times* {$}): The starting pitching market is churning — your move, Cubs. “This week, the Red Sox traded for Sonny Gray, and the Blue Jays signed Dylan Cease.”

• Evan Altman (Cubs Insider*): Cease deal could have Cubs turning to trade market for SP. “… if the prices for free agent pitchers truly are inflated across the board, the Cubs might have to seek an addition to the rotation via trade….“

• Marisa Rodriguez (WGN9*): ‘Something good out of something bad’: Cubs legend Anthony Rizzo visits Tony’s Deli in Edison Park following armed robbery. “… the deli is getting support from Rizzo and the Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation.“

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