4/12 Cubs (Lilly) @ Phillies (Hamels) 6:05 CT WGN

[Little Slide Rooter]

Its all up to Geo.

[Roast]

Sweet Jesus that change is wicked.

[Andy]

Good adjustment, Aramis.

 

Damn it.

[Garage Party]

Why was Ramirez barking at the ump? You swung!

[CubsGM]

Good hit

[Sosa21MVP]

Soto batting 5th? Yay!

[Roast]

Gah. Crap.

 

58 pitches for hamels, for those interested.

[Butterscup1679666578]

wow why the hell are you swinging 3-0. stupid.

[Lockes Eye Scar]

Why was Ramirez barking at the ump? You swung!

 

He was probably just asking him if the pitch was a strike.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Well, that may have been our only opportunity. If so, hopefully we get vintage pre-July Jason Marquis tommorow.

[Roast]

Why was Ramirez barking at the ump? You swung!

I wouldn't exactly call that barking. He most likely just asked him if the pitch he swung at was a strike.

[Garage Party]

How exactly do you "head for the mountains of Busch" when you live in the flat-as-a-board sprawl of Chicagoland? I guess you have to get pretty loaded for Northbrook to even feel hilly, let alone mountainous.

[illiniguy]

Well, that may have been our only opportunity. If so, hopefully we get vintage pre-July Jason Marquis tommorow.

Please, we are down one run with a team full of guys who can hit homers in this launching pad. We will have plenty of chances to score.

[Roast]

Nice catch.

[Sosa21MVP]

Go Reed Johnson go

[Roast]

Well, that may have been our only opportunity. If so, hopefully we get vintage pre-July Jason Marquis tommorow.

Please, we are down one run with a team full of guys who can hit homers in this launching pad. We will have plenty of chances to score.

ORLY?

[Little Slide Rooter]

Well, that may have been our only opportunity. If so, hopefully we get vintage pre-July Jason Marquis tommorow.

Please, we are down one run with a team full of guys who can hit homers in this launching pad. We will have plenty of chances to score.

 

We're down 2 runs with a team full of guys who are baffled by a great but not unhittable pitcher, not to mention our own pitcher whose likely not done giving up runs.

[Roast]

Okay - runs plz.

[Sosa21MVP]

The offense needs to get untracked here.

[illiniguy]

Well, that may have been our only opportunity. If so, hopefully we get vintage pre-July Jason Marquis tommorow.

Please, we are down one run with a team full of guys who can hit homers in this launching pad. We will have plenty of chances to score.

 

We're down 2 runs with a team full of guys who are baffled by a great but not unhittable pitcher, not to mention our own pitcher whose likely not done giving up runs.

If Hamels isn't great, I wonder who you would say is? Oh and Lilly has settled in pretty nicely.

[Outshined_One]

The offense needs to get untracked here.

 

Meaning you want the offense to go flying off the rails and crash horrifically?

 

I think they've already accomplished that. :D

[Roast]

Well, that may have been our only opportunity. If so, hopefully we get vintage pre-July Jason Marquis tommorow.

Please, we are down one run with a team full of guys who can hit homers in this launching pad. We will have plenty of chances to score.

 

We're down 2 runs with a team full of guys who are baffled by a great but not unhittable pitcher, not to mention our own pitcher whose likely not done giving up runs.

If Hamels isn't great, I wonder who you would say is? Oh and Lilly has settled in pretty nicely.

 

Pretty sure he said he IS great.

 

Just not unhittable.

[Magnetic Curses]

how many times does hamels have to shut down a lineup full of righties before lou realizes that his changeup might be fooling them just a bit? it bottles my mind just how old timey and caught up in tradition you have to be to put a lineup like this out there against a lefty changeup artist.

[Roast]

Hamels having problems finding hte zone the last couple innings.

[Andy]

Of course it's caught.