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The Chicago Cubs are a National League team in Major League Baseball. The Cubs compete in the NL Central Division against main rivals the St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, and Pittsburgh Pirates. The Cubs play their home games at historic Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, one of the most storied and tenured ballparks in all of MLB. Wrigley has been the Cubs Stadium since 1916, and has a seating capacity of 41,160. Most games at Wrigley are sell-outs. Manager Lou Pinella competed his first season as Cubs skipper in 2007, guiding his team to an 85-77 record and 1^st place in the National League Central at the completion of the 2007 MLB Schedule. It was a "worst to first" turnaround for the Cubs, who finished 17.5 games out of first the previous year. The Cubs were led by star players Derek Lee and Aramis Ramirez at the corners, OF Alfonso Soriano, and P Carlos Zambrano. The Cub's highly successful season was ended by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLDS.

The Cubs franchise was established in 1876, but had its named officially to the Chicago Cubs in 1902. The Cubs had some great success early on, winning the World Series Championship in 1907 and 1908. The last few decades, however, the Cubs have made more publicity for not being able to win the World Series than they have for actually winning it. The Cubs currently have the longest championship drought of any team in American professional sports, but intend to end that streak immediately. The Cubs are owned by Sam Zell, who inherited successful GM Jim Hendry. Hendry has worked for the Cubs since 1995 in various capacities, and has been the clubs GM since 2002. He made a big splash when he brought over Japanese Star Kosuke Fukudome, who has already made a tremendous impact on the roster in 2008. Fukudome hopes to be added to the list of great Cub players who have retired numbers: 10, Ron Santo; 14, Ernie Banks; 23, Ryne Sandberg; and 26, Billy Williams.

In addition to adding the Japanese star, Hendry also added P Jon Leiber and OF Reed Johnson as free agent pick-ups. They traded for multiple pitchers to strengthen up their bullpen, including Jose Ascanio. The Cubs believe they have enough talent offensively and defensively to repeat as NL Central champs, and would love nothing more than to celebrate a World Series title, exactly 100 years after they last won it all.

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