NLDS Game 2: Dodgers (Billingsley) @ Cubs (Z!) TBS, 8:30 CST

[Moises a loo]

as a big time fantasy baseball player

hee hee

[B]

Why is Fukudome in there?

[Derwood]

strike 2 was ball 1

[Outshined_One]

There is no God.

[TMan92]

Fukodome = Todd Hundley in Japanese.

[BigSlick]

Gotta say, even if Kosuke Fukudome hits a homer here we're still not winning the game

 

Now THATS depressing

[Little Slide Rooter]

We drop the atom bomb on them.

 

They send us Fukudome.

 

I think were even.

[Flames24Rulz]

That Kosuke contract is really going to look terrible next year and in 2010.

[splintersag]

Aah, no, Fukudome should've been PHed for.

[Old Style]

Jesus Christ. "Strike 2" was nowhere close to the plate.

[ChiCubsFan]

Honestly, emotions aside, do you guys really think it's impossible that we come back in this series? Maybe being on the road will let the team relax and they'll start hitting. You know you'll get a solid game from Harden Saturday and hopefully the defense shows up. I know it's not likely, but it is only winning 3 games. I don't expect it to happen, but you never know.

[rocket]

i think the fukudome love affair is officially over with cubs fans

[Exile on Waveland]

I don't expect Zambrano to have a sub 4 ERA again in his career either. His career is following the Livan Hernandez path, too many pitches at a young age with a rapidly falling K rate that catches up to him at a relatively young age even though his BB rate improves. Maybe the strong Cub defense proves me wrong but as a big time fantasy baseball player I cannot imagine drafting him next year at anywhere near his going rate.

 

PS. I still expect this game to go 5 games even though I still predict the Dodgers win it.

 

Bye troll.

 

:banned:

 

I thought the trolling was pretty obvious when he said the Cubs might have finished in fifth in the AL East.

[rocket]

Honestly, emotions aside, do you guys really think it's impossible that we come back in this series? Maybe being on the road will let the team relax and they'll start hitting. You know you'll get a solid game from Harden Saturday and hopefully the defense shows up. I know it's not likely, but it is only winning 3 games. I don't expect it to happen, but you never know.

 

why should we assume harden will be solid? nothing would surprise me.

[17 Seconds]

kosuke is trying to make me a racist

[TMan92]

Honestly, emotions aside, do you guys really think it's impossible that we come back in this series? Maybe being on the road will let the team relax and they'll start hitting. You know you'll get a solid game from Harden Saturday and hopefully the defense shows up. I know it's not likely, but it is only winning 3 games. I don't expect it to happen, but you never know.

 

:oldbluekoolaid:

[Prior4CyYoung]

oh i forgot to add that we need to trade cedeno for chase utley and move derosa to rf and trade Fukudome to the padres for Mark Prior.

[Irrelevant Dude]

Honestly, emotions aside, do you guys really think it's impossible that we come back in this series?

No. I think Harden should win game 3 and Lilly gives us a chance in game 4... but I also thought we would win games 1 and 2, so at this point I'm not very confident.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Honestly, emotions aside, do you guys really think it's impossible that we come back in this series? Maybe being on the road will let the team relax and they'll start hitting. You know you'll get a solid game from Harden Saturday and hopefully the defense shows up. I know it's not likely, but it is only winning 3 games. I don't expect it to happen, but you never know.

 

why should we assume harden will be solid? nothing would surprise me.

 

Impossible? No.

Unlikely? Yes.

[IowaCubsFan]

I honestly think the players don't buy into the whole curse and choking as a whole. The problem is every offseason they get the fans and the media brining up 100 years worth of shortcomings and it just wears on them. The fans just go comatose waiting for the worst to happen and even in home games suck the life out of the team.

 

Actually, I'm drunk and just looking for a reason for optimism.

 

There is a "curse". It is called 100X more pressure than any other team in the postseason.

 

Yeah, cause there was no pressure on the Red Sox to win in 2004.

[ChiCubsFan]

Honestly, emotions aside, do you guys really think it's impossible that we come back in this series? Maybe being on the road will let the team relax and they'll start hitting. You know you'll get a solid game from Harden Saturday and hopefully the defense shows up. I know it's not likely, but it is only winning 3 games. I don't expect it to happen, but you never know.

 

why should we assume harden will be solid? nothing would surprise me.

 

True. I gotta get off the drugs.

[rickrolled]

man, it's gonna be a ridiculous comeback

[Illini Iceman]

Honestly, emotions aside, do you guys really think it's impossible that we come back in this series? Maybe being on the road will let the team relax and they'll start hitting. You know you'll get a solid game from Harden Saturday and hopefully the defense shows up. I know it's not likely, but it is only winning 3 games. I don't expect it to happen, but you never know.

 

Not likely, but anyone that thought the Cubs would sweep the Dodgers should also think they have a chance to come back and win 3 in a row. Game 4 is going to be the toughest one to get.

[UMFan83]

If the 2008 Cubs were the Titanic, Lou and Fukudome would be the band that refuses to stop playing as the ship is sinking them into their eventual doom.

[TMan92]

Honestly, emotions aside, do you guys really think it's impossible that we come back in this series? Maybe being on the road will let the team relax and they'll start hitting. You know you'll get a solid game from Harden Saturday and hopefully the defense shows up. I know it's not likely, but it is only winning 3 games. I don't expect it to happen, but you never know.

 

why should we assume harden will be solid? nothing would surprise me.

 

It will be 0-0 in the 8th and a ball will hit a bird and cost us the game.