7/14 CUBS (Lilly) vs. Astros (Oswalt), 2:55 PM CT, FOX

[Banedon]

I love the Alien/DirectTV commercial.

[Fred Hornkohl]

               Houston            CUBS
P/PA              3.54            3.94

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Bowen is not very good at baseball.

 

QFT

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 39-5 when they lead after 7 innings

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[Keener98]

cubs should petition for bowen to be allowed to hit off a tee

 

Truf, please tell me you think Soto can do better than Bowen?

[CDBears1259]

I'll ask again, what happend to Floyd?

[Banedon]

Bowen is not very good at baseball.

 

Good trade that was eh?

[TruffleShuffle]

Didn't we? The only two bench players to play today were Izturis and Bowen. The C position doesn't even really have a clear starter right now either, so it's basically just Izturis that is in the lineup today. It's not like the game last week where Lou gave (or tried in the case of Soriano) several of his starters a day off.

 

Depends on Jones... if he hits like he did last year, he's a passable CF. If he hits like he has this year, there's another black hole in the lineup. I wouldn't feel too comfortable about counting on Floyd the rest of this year either, given his propensity to break down. If he's out, then DeRosa is playing a lot of RF and you're stuck with Fontenot/Theriot at 2B.

[Banedon]

cubs should petition for bowen to be allowed to hit off a tee

 

Truf, please tell me you think Soto can do better than Bowen?

 

How can he not?

[DurbanJer]

I'll ask again, what happend to Floyd?

 

strained shoulder while giving up a triple in the first

[Soul]

Vasgergian doing FOX games now?

 

Yep....he did the Brewers/Cubs game with Grace two weeks ago.

 

Oh, I think I missed that one for some reason.

[98navigator]

NICE CATCH JACQUE

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

That was a nice catch by Jacque.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Biggio, pinch hitting for Borkowski, flied out to center field

[Sosa21MVP]

I'll ask again, what happend to Floyd?

 

He strained his shoulder diving at a ball in the first inning.

[TruffleShuffle]

cubs should petition for bowen to be allowed to hit off a tee

 

Truf, please tell me you think Soto can do better than Bowen?

 

better than bowen has lately? Sure. But you're judging on a very small sample size.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

We got a gift there... :lol:

[98navigator]

LOL, that was trapped. :lol:

[Soul]

OH WOW, THAT WAS NO CATCH.

[Sosa21MVP]

That was a nice catch by Jacque.

 

Nice job of um..........making it look good. 8-)

[inari]

That's a major league effort. Even if he doesn't always get results, he's always hustling.

 

Even if it was a trap.

[Keener98]

cubs should petition for bowen to be allowed to hit off a tee

 

Truf, please tell me you think Soto can do better than Bowen?

 

How can he not?

 

Earlier in the thread the argument was being made that Soto was no better than Bowen.

[CDBears1259]

Got away with one there.

[Warren Brusstar]

cubs should petition for bowen to be allowed to hit off a tee

 

Truf, please tell me you think Soto can do better than Bowen?

 

Keener, please tell me you think Jones can do better than Pie?

[killthegoat06]

Hey all, great day so far. Bummer about Floyd. Cubs.com said he's listed as day-to-day.

 

How about Santo's stretch? That gave me goosebumps.