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Cubs celebrate 1st half as San Diego reminds of painful past (Yahoo Sports)
 Goose Gossage keeps a bottle of Weibel Vineyards champagne with ''Cubs'' on the label perched on a shelf in his pantry, a reminder of when Chicago arrived in San Diego needing one win to reach the 1984 World Series and wound up crushed yet again. ''Everyone crowned us the World Series champion in December, which is unfair to the whole organization,'' first baseman Anthony Rizzo said Monday. When Chris Sale of the South Side's White Sox throws the first pitch to the Cubs' Ben Zobrist on Tuesday night, the All-Star Game will be back in San Diego for the first time since 1992 at Jack Murphy Stadium, where Ken Griffey Jr. batted seventh for the AL between another pair of juniors - Cal Ripken and Sandy Alomar. More...
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