08/02 Milwaukee (Gallardo) @ CUBS (Wells) 7:05 CDT, WCIU TV

[Fred Hornkohl]

Cincinnati     3  7
Pittsburgh     0

Houston        2
St. Louis      2  4

NY Mets        1
Atlanta        3  6

[Little Slide Rooter]

I think we can close the book on this one. With Z a non factor, Lilly gone, and everyone else back to earth, our rotation is officially worse than the Brewers, so I think its time to start focusing on battling the Astros for 4th.

 

No way.

 

Randy Wolf, Manny Parra, Chris Narveson and Dave Bush would like to disagree with that.

 

Yeah, they suck, but when up against: Dempster, whose a #3 starter, as your default "ace", then Wells and Gorzalanny who would probably be solid #4 guys on a decent team as 2-3 and then theres Diamond and Coleman who have never thrown a pitch in the big leagues, I think Id take my chances with the Brewers rotation, not that Id want either.

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS have given up double digit hits in 9 of their last 13 games

 

 

Go CUBS !!!

[Little Slide Rooter]

What are we trying to do? Secure a top 5 pick?

 

With the Orioles, D Backs, Royals, Indians, Pirates, Mariners, and newly deconstructed Astros ahead of us, it will be tough, but I think that 6th ot 7th should be no problem. were in some bad, bad company.

 

Two games puts us in 5th place. Piece o'cake !!

 

Fecal League Standings

 

Team             W       L       Pct      GB
Baltimore       32      73     0.305     ---
Pittsburgh      36      68     0.346     4.5
Seattle         39      67     0.368     6.5
Arizona         39      66     0.371     7.0
Cleveland       44      61     0.419    12.0
Kansas City     45      60     0.429    13.0
Houston         45      59     0.433    13.5
Washington      46      59     0.438    14.0
CUBS            46      59     0.438    14.0
Milwaukee       48      58     0.453    15.5
Detroit         52      52     0.500    20.5
Oakland         52      52     0.500    20.5

 

take out Carlos Lee and a few over paid Mariners, and the teams ahead of us payroll combined is probaby around Fukudome and Zambrano.

[Schwarber Fan]

hilarious

 

what an awful team.

[Sammy Sofa]

Badass play by Castro.

[Careless]

this is where I start asking position players if they want to pitch. You're a lame duck manager on a bad team, Lou, have some fun

[chuckywang]

Boy you said it Bob: "This is just atrocious"

[Fred Hornkohl]

TOP OF THE FIFTH INNING

 

Fielder singled to left field

McGehee singled to center field , Fielder to second

Berg in to pitch for the CUBS

Edmonds walked , Fielder to third, McGehee to second

Escobar singled to left field , Fielder scored, McGehee to third, Edmonds to second

Lucroy lined out to second base

Gallardo grounded into a FC, safe at first on a fielding error, E5, McGehee scored, Edmonds to third, Escobar to second

Weeks grounded into a FC, 6-4, Gallardo out at second, Edmonds scored, Escobar to third

Hart singled to center field , Escobar scored, Weeks to second

Braun singled to center field , Weeks scored, Hart to second

Fielder grounded out to second, 4-3

 

5 runs 5 hits 1 errors 2 men left on base

 

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9              R  H  E
Milwaukee       0 0 0 5 5                     10 13  0
CUBS            0 0 0 1                        1  1  1

 

Home runs:

Milwaukee: McGehee (15)

CUBS: none

 

Milwaukee      IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Gallardo      4.0  1  1  1  1  7  0  64

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Wells         4.0 10  7  6  0  5  1  70
Berg          1.0  1  3  3  1  0  0  24

[TruffleShuffle]

justin berg is not a major league pitcher. at all. in fact we've had a number of guys (berg, schlitter, atkins, samardzija) pitch for us who have no business pitching for a big league club.

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE FIFTH INNING

 

Soriano grounded out to short, 6-3

Soto struck out swinging

DeWitt struck out swinging

 

0 runs 0 hits 0 errors 0 men left on base

 

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9              R  H  E
Milwaukee       0 0 0 5 5                     10 13  0
CUBS            0 0 0 1 0                      1  1  1

 

Home runs:

Milwaukee: McGehee (15)

CUBS: none

 

Milwaukee      IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Gallardo      5.0  1  1  1  1  9  0  77

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Wells         4.0 10  7  6  0  5  1  70
Berg          1.0  1  3  3  1  0  0  24

[Ballgame64]

I don't get WCIU so I thought I take a break from working in my basement and would get online to check the game. Wow another struggling offense pounds cubs pitching. Will Larry survive another managerial change?

 

I would like to thank the Cubs for helping my marriage. Since they suck so bad, I have time to accomplish things on the "honey do" list thus making a more peaceful household. Time to go back to the basement.

 

Thanks guys.

[Fred Hornkohl]

         Milwaukee        CUBS
P/PA          3.03        4.53
RBI%          0.33        0.25
R/BR          0.67        0.50
BA           0.448       0.063
OBP          0.484       0.118
SLG          0.621       0.125
OPS          1.105       0.243
ERA           1.80       16.20
BB/9          1.80        1.80
K/9          16.20        9.00

[Fred Hornkohl]

Cincinnati     4  9
Pittsburgh     0

Houston        2  6
St. Louis      3

NY Mets        1  8
Atlanta        4

Washington     0  1
Arizona        0

[Ballgame64]

3 up, 3 down on 11 pitches after you give up 5 runs. Classic.

 

Lou, do yourself a favor and stay in Tampa there really is no point on coming back.

[TruffleShuffle]

oh good casey coleman in to throw batting practice

[Little Slide Rooter]

justin berg is not a major league pitcher. at all. in fact we've had a number of guys (berg, schlitter, atkins, samardzija) pitch for us who have no business pitching for a big league club.

 

I guess at this point in the season, Id rather have a bunch of AAAers who have no business pitching in the majors than overpaying for a bunch of vets who have no business pitching in the majors, and lets face if Hendry doesnt offer run of the mill middle relievers market value, he prefers the multi year/multi million dollar approach.

[TruffleShuffle]

justin berg is not a major league pitcher. at all. in fact we've had a number of guys (berg, schlitter, atkins, samardzija) pitch for us who have no business pitching for a big league club.

 

I guess at this point in the season, Id rather have a bunch of AAAers who have no business pitching in the majors than overpaying for a bunch of vets who have no business pitching in the majors, and lets face if Hendry doesnt offer run of the mill middle relievers market value, he prefers the multi year/multi million dollar approach.

 

well yeah that was kind of my point. it's not like the cubs have a bunch of guys who are good but slumping - these guys are just bad. it's pretty clear that the organization misjudged how lousy their in-house options were... well that or maybe they just didn't care or had maxed out salary before the year.

[XZero771679666304]

justin berg is not a major league pitcher. at all. in fact we've had a number of guys (berg, schlitter, atkins, samardzija) pitch for us who have no business pitching for a big league club.

 

I guess at this point in the season, Id rather have a bunch of AAAers who have no business pitching in the majors than overpaying for a bunch of vets who have no business pitching in the majors, and lets face if Hendry doesnt offer run of the mill middle relievers market value, he prefers the multi year/multi million dollar approach.

 

I'd rather have a few relievers from our system who actually have some potential getting these innings so they can contribute in the near future.

[Fred Hornkohl]

TOP OF THE SIXTH INNING

 

Coleman in to pitch for the CUBS

McGehee walked

Edmonds singled to center field , McGehee to second

Gomez in to pinch run for Edmonds

Escobar singled to left field , McGehee scored, Gomez to second

Lucroy grounded into a DP, 6-4-3, Escobar out at second, Gomez to third

Gallardo struck out swinging

 

1 runs 2 hits 0 errors 1 men left on base

 

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9              R  H  E
Milwaukee       0 0 0 5 5 1                   11 15  0
CUBS            0 0 0 1 0                      1  1  1

 

Home runs:

Milwaukee: McGehee (15)

CUBS: none

 

Milwaukee      IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Gallardo      5.0  1  1  1  1  9  0  77

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Wells         4.0 10  7  6  0  5  1  70
Berg          1.0  3  3  0  1  0  0  24
Coleman       1.0  2  1  1  1  1  0  18

[Fred Hornkohl]

         Milwaukee        CUBS
P/PA          3.11        4.53
RBI%          0.30        0.25
R/BR          0.61        0.50
BA           0.455       0.063
OBP          0.500       0.118
SLG          0.606       0.125
OPS          1.106       0.243
ERA           1.80       10.50
BB/9          1.80        3.00
K/9          16.20        9.00

[Little Slide Rooter]

justin berg is not a major league pitcher. at all. in fact we've had a number of guys (berg, schlitter, atkins, samardzija) pitch for us who have no business pitching for a big league club.

 

I guess at this point in the season, Id rather have a bunch of AAAers who have no business pitching in the majors than overpaying for a bunch of vets who have no business pitching in the majors, and lets face if Hendry doesnt offer run of the mill middle relievers market value, he prefers the multi year/multi million dollar approach.

 

well yeah that was kind of my point. it's not like the cubs have a bunch of guys who are good but slumping - these guys are just bad. it's pretty clear that the organization misjudged how lousy their in-house options were... well that or maybe they just didn't care or had maxed out salary before the year.

 

Guz going down really threw things off. Had Guz been around, hed be the 8th inning guy and Marmol 9th. Marshall would hsve been a great 7th inning guy. We all knew Grabow was well overpaid, but didnt expect him to be quite so bad when he was active. So if we had all 4 of those guys going, we could have sprinkled 3 home growns in the mix. Even Caridad could have been usefull inthe middle somewhere, but was forced into a set up role he had no business in. I guess the worst thing about the situation is that it forced their hand to backtrack Andrew Cashners progress.

Edited August 3, 2010 by Little Slide Rooter

[Fred Hornkohl]

Cincinnati     4
Pittsburgh     0  F

Houston        2
St. Louis      3  6

NY Mets        1
Atlanta        4  8

Washington     1
Arizona        0  1

[TruffleShuffle]

I'd rather have a few relievers from our system who actually have some potential getting these innings so they can contribute in the near future.

 

the problem is, most of the guys i thought had potential to be decent big-league relievers (gaub, stevens, parker) have all been lousy this year, and most of the guys who have been good in iowa have crappy stuff. david cales is the only guy at iowa who seems like a decent relief option right now.

[rawaction]

The Cubs can really tank a season huh?