Right now it's like night and day

[dalgreen]

Yet another unbelievable Cardinal performance and win. I still think the Cubs will make the playoffs, and I won't give up on the division unless we're 10 games out on July 31. Anyway, another example of the difference between the Cubs and Cards; ninth inning score tied at 1 and Molina gets a double to lead off. Cards play baseball the right way and Nunez lays down a beautiful sacrifice bunt. Molina goes to third. Eckstein then converts a suicide squeeze for the winning run. Now, fellow Cub fans, can you think of two position players that we have that are capable of laying down good bunts? Our guys would've fouled two off then struck out or bounced out to third leaving the guy at second. How many fundamentally sound guys do we have on the 25 man roster? I count maybe three. Anyway, Carpenter gives up only one run on a solo homer. We need our starters to step up for at least one turn in the rotation where they go 7-8 innings giving up no runs or one run. The bogus three run 6 inning starts aren't going to cut it with this offense.

 

I hate the Cardinals, but I like how they play baseball.

[Kay]

With the bottom of the ninth, game tied at one.. I can only think of 2 recent games where we came close to a rally in the ninth. As much as it hurts to say, it always seems like we just give up if we don't have the lead in the 8th. =\

 

& if we do rally, the Cubs on base always manage to die there.

 

Not only the Cards, but the white sox too- They seem to consistantly get the leadoff man on. It's mind boggling sometimes to a cubs fan..