August 5, 1908: Cubs rained out while a legendary jerk gets married.

Rain ended the Cubs afternoon after only a half inning of play. The Cubs and Phillies will play a doubleheader tomorrow. Also, a legendary jerk gets married.

The Cubs and Phillies managed to get a half inning of play in before the skies opened up for some strong summer time thunderstorms that forced the cancellation of the game. It should be noted that it has been freakin' hot in the United States the past two weeks in 1908, much like the "heat dome" that has been happening in this country in 2016. Is it a sign of history repeating itself for the Cubs in 2016? Let's hope so!

Side note: We all agree that this term "heat dome" is totally fabricated by The Weather Channel in an effort to brand every weather phenomenon with a sexy new name to get more viewers, right? I've never in my life heard the term "heat dome" until this summer. So put it in the pile with other "new" fake weather names like the Polar Vortex, derecho, and the haboob, to name a few.

Haboob!

The Cubs and Phillies will play a doubleheader tomorrow. Orval Overall and Jack Pfiester will take the hill for the Cubs, who were likely still reeling from yesterday's tough loss. Every other NL game got rained out as well, so there was no change in the standings.

In other baseball news, legendary jerk Ty Cobb got married. Hooray?

This is one of times where you think to yourself "OK ... this woman can't possibly think he's a good guy, she's just marrying him because he's rich, right?"

Now I'm willing to give Ty Cobb credit that not ALL of the horrible stories about him were true, but I'm pretty sure enough of them were to make the Georgia Peach an all around d-bag to say the least.

But to his credit, he was without a doubt a badass baseball player. He may have been mean as all hell, but in 1908 Cobb led the league in hits, doubles, triples, RBI, average, slugging percentage, and total bases. Not too shabby at all. (And that was only his third year in the league.)

And I guess one woman's trash is another man's treasure, because Charlotte Marion Lombard saw enough good (or money) in Ty Cobb to say yes to his wedding proposal. Here they are later in life, and they at least LOOK happy, don't they? (Editor's note: Charlotte did file for divorce in 1947 so ... you know ... jerk and all.)

Daddy's mean!

Back to baseball tomorrow. Let's play two!