5/2 Cubs (Hill) @ Cardinals (Wainwright) 7:15 PM CDT WGN/720

[santoforhall]

How about you quit throwing Felix under the bus Bob.

 

Felix should have called him off, that's a little league decision.

[Andy]

This is ridiculous. Chalk up another one or more.

[PrimeTime]

Wh yi nthe hell is Weurtz in..He freakin sucks..Put in Lieber or Marshall

[Bruno7481]

This is not Lou's doing. You can't let Hill walk the park like he's done all year. He's been bad since ST.

 

Now call me a Hill basher...

 

there's just no proof that he's been bad. he's walked a lot of guys, but he's been rather good.

 

No I'm sure what he just did was bad

 

no, i'm sure his .671 OPS against says he's been good.

 

18 walks in 19 innings is terrible, regardless of his OPS against.

[weatherdood]

Bad bad bad

[E.J.]

Jesus. This is comedy. Maybe I should go out tonight.

[Derwood]

he struck the first guy out on 3 pitches. what exactly changed after throwing 3 straight over the heart of the plate?

[C.C.]

I've watched enough of crappy baseball tonight. I'm putting in a movie. Later...

[Wilson A2000]

Wh yi nthe hell is Weurtz in..He freakin sucks..Put in Lieber or Marshall

 

He got out of the inning. Everyone is going to be used tonight anyway.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Bob must have a beef with Pie.

[Andy]

Wow it's been some time since I was this sure we were going to lose this early in the game.

[Flames24Rulz]

Screw you Wuertz.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I've seen Fukudome miss multiple cutoff men without mention, but the second Pie does it he gets lectured by Brenly.

[CubInOK]

Do we really have to [expletive] rainbows like this?

[Bruno7481]

Hill wasn't even close, his delivery looked like crap, and he is a headcase. If he can get thing figured out he will be very good, but when he loses confidence they might as well pull him.

Gee I wonder why he's a headcase? (not that actually believe it to be true)

I don't know if he's a headcase but if he is it's because Dusty and Lou have made him one.

 

Thanks for proving my point. Is it ever Hill's fault?

[Magnetic Curses]

This is not Lou's doing. You can't let Hill walk the park like he's done all year. He's been bad since ST.

 

Now call me a Hill basher...

 

there's just no proof that he's been bad. he's walked a lot of guys, but he's been rather good.

 

No I'm sure what he just did was bad

 

no, i'm sure his .671 OPS against says he's been good.

 

18 walks in 19 innings is terrible, regardless of his OPS against.

 

actually, ops against takes into account how many people make outs against him.

[CubsGM]

Take Wuertz out Lou!!!!

[AFCubsFan]

Alright...I'm going to try the optimism thing. It worked the last time I was in the game thread. At least the Cards only scored one in the first. Hmmm....well, I'm out of positive things to say.

 

Lets get some runs!? Maybe the Cubs can get back in it if they take some pitches, get on base, and play the way they did when they were winning. Oh...Pie is starting over Johnson. Nevermind. Let's see if the Cubs can avoid working counts and pop-up as many pitches as possible.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

18 walks in 19 innings is terrible, regardless of his OPS against.

 

And his run total is good, and his HR total is adequate, and his HRs allowed are pretty good. What's your point? It's a small sample.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Well, I no longer feel good about this one.

[C.C.]

he struck the first guy out on 3 pitches. what exactly changed after throwing 3 straight over the heart of the plate?

 

He couldn't find the plate for whatever reason. It just seems once things start to go bad he can't flip the switch.

[hawkeyecub]

Bob must have a beef with Pie.

 

He was right about that throw. It was going to be a tough play and they could have gotten the out at 2nd if he didn't air mail the cutoff man.

[CubinNY]

This is not Lou's doing. You can't let Hill walk the park like he's done all year. He's been bad since ST.

 

Now call me a Hill basher...

Out of context your post make sense. In context it's very stupid.

 

What doens't make sense? When Hill struggles the collective wisdom around here blames Lou for the most part. Hill has not been very good since Spring Training. I don't know why that is, but he can't throw strikes.

 

What is stupid would be leaving him out there. He'll turn things around, but its obvious he's not very good right now.

Stop it with the collective wisdom crap. As you can plainly see if you read there are a variety of opinions here.

 

It doesn't make sense because they just skipped him in the rotation, it's the first inning, and the bottom of the order is coming up. Leave him in. Lou is pissed and acts impulsively. I'm sure it will do wonders for Hill. There's not been a pitcher jerked around more than Hill.

[OleMissCub]

Aerospace Engineer. Goodness.

[CubInOK]

Thank you Tony.