9/9 Cubs (Trachsel) @ Pirates (Morris) 12:35:CSN/WGN

[Little Slide Rooter]

Looks like 2007 is en route to becoming another disspointing chapter in Cubs history.

 

If the Pirates could play all season like they have lately, they wouldnt have to resort to spoiler ball every August and September.

[JimSorgi]

If the Pirates could play all season like they have lately, they wouldnt have to resort to spoiler ball every August and September.

Huh?

[C.C.]

Bring on the Cards! Yay!

[3Dog]

Put me down as someone who now wants the Cubs to lose as many as possible, so that Hendry's ample rear is shown the door by the new owners.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Put me down as someone who now wants the Cubs to lose as many as possible, so that Hendry's ample rear is shown the door by the new owners.

 

Not sue why everyone wants Hendry out of town. Sure, he likes to spend the big bucks, but his main aquisitions have done their jobs as well as they were expected to.

[3Dog]

Put me down as someone who now wants the Cubs to lose as many as possible, so that Hendry's ample rear is shown the door by the new owners.

 

Not sue why everyone wants Hendry out of town. Sure, he likes to spend the big bucks, but his main aquisitions have done their jobs as well as they were expected to.

 

I'll let others get into the specifics, but suffice to say that Hendry has demonstrated an ineptitude towards building a perennially strong pennant contender as well as an indifference towards quantitative measurements of talent.

[Little Slide Rooter]

People can talk about the Cards being the Cubs big competition, but the fact is The Brewers have been playing some great ball, where as the Cards are not only losing players at an alarming pace, but they have no days off left, plus they still have to play the Mets and Phils.

 

The Cubs need to just keep the Crew close, as the Brewers have Atlanta, St Louis, and San Diego the last week and a half of the season, where we have the Pirates, Marlins, and Reds.

 

The Brewers are looking more and more like the major threat, however, the Cubs main obstacle going into the home stretch will be themselves. Can they find one more hot streak? Does Lou need to do a little lineup tweaking? Maybe Soto can give us the same kind of lightening in a bottle that Pagan, Pie, and Fontenot did when they first came up. Has Kerry Wood saved up enough money for his involuntary early retirement?

[Brian]

The Cubs need to just keep the Crew close, as the Brewers have Atlanta, St Louis, and San Diego the last week and a half of the season, where we have the Pirates, Marlins, and Reds.

 

How is that advantage Cubs?

[neely crenshaw]

Put me down as someone who now wants the Cubs to lose as many as possible, so that Hendry's ample rear is shown the door by the new owners.

 

Not sue why everyone wants Hendry out of town. Sure, he likes to spend the big bucks, but his main aquisitions have done their jobs as well as they were expected to.

 

the problem isn't his pickups it what he hasn't done/ also please, please, please kee[ in mind that hendry's vision of this team would be izturis at short, delarosa at 2nd, jones in left,soriano in center and floyd in right, with barrett catching. if lou did not have the power to make this his team we would even know fontenot, theriot and pie would be september call ups..who knows where marmol would be..but the bullpen would be eyre,howry and dempster because that's what he spent money on. and the rotation would include miller...you definitely know that hendry would never have moved barrett for kendall..barret was his guy period. this team has gotten better becuase lou cleaned house.

[Little Slide Rooter]

The Cubs need to just keep the Crew close, as the Brewers have Atlanta, St Louis, and San Diego the last week and a half of the season, where we have the Pirates, Marlins, and Reds.

 

How is that advantage Cubs?

 

Braves and Pads are good teams, where as the Pirates, Marlins, and Reds arent.

[Brian]

The Cubs have losing records against each of those bad teams.

[CubsBears29]

The Cubs have losing records against each of those bad teams.

 

Nobody plays down to the competition like Da Cubbies!

[Omar]

If anyone would do me a favor and post these in tomorrow's game thread:

 

St. Louis Cardinals Vs. Ted Lilly
[code]                    **PA**  AB  H  2B 3B HR RBI  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  
+-----------------+-------+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+
David Eckstein       34    32   4  0  0  0   1   2   4  .125  .176  .125  .301 
Miguel Cairo         19    17   4  1  1  0   1   1   2  .235  .278  .412  .690 
Albert Pujols        12    11   3  0  0  1   1   1   2  .273  .333  .545  .878 
Yadier Molina         9     7   0  0  0  0   0   2   3  .000  .222  .000  .222 
Brendan Ryan          7     6   3  0  0  0   0   1   2  .500  .571  .500 1.071 
Chris Duncan          6     6   2  0  0  0   0   0   0  .333  .333  .333  .666 
Jim Edmonds           6     5   0  0  0  0   1   1   2  .000  .167  .000  .167 
Ryan Ludwick          6     4   0  0  0  0   0   2   3  .000  .333  .000  .333 
So Taguchi            6     5   0  0  0  0   0   1   2  .000  .167  .000  .167 
Rick Ankiel           3     3   1  1  0  0   0   0   0  .333  .333  .667 1.000 
Russell Branyan       3     2   1  0  0  0   0   0   1  .500  .667  .500 1.167 
Braden Looper         2     2   1  0  0  0   0   0   0  .500  .500  .500 1.000 
Joel Pineiro          2     1   0  0  0  0   0   0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 
Skip Schumaker        1     1   0  0  0  0   0   0   0  .000  .000  .000  .000 
Adam Wainwright       1     1   0  0  0  0   0   0   1  .000  .000  .000  .000 

Chicago Cubs Vs. Joel Piniero

 

I won't likely get home until exactly at the first pitch. Just copy & paste stuff inside the "code" part... Including the [tags].