9/5 Cubs (Prior) @ Cardinals (Suppan) 1:15pm WGN

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

take a seat Maybeline.

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE FIRST INNING

 

Eckstein popped out (foul) to the catcher

Nunez grounded out to second, 4-3

Pujols singled to center field

Edmonds struck out swinging

 

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors, 1 men left on base

 

           1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9    R H E
CUBS       0                    0 0 0 
St. Louis  0                    0 1 0 

 

pitcher     IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Prior      1.0  1  0  0  0  1  0  17 

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

I agree we should be taking a look at both Patterson and Murton to see what we want to do with them next year.

 

Absolutely. If we were in the race I'd say sit Patterson but since we're not there's no reason not to play him. Murton should of course play instead of Burnitz. Burnitz's presence has became a cancer.

 

how so? :?

[frostwyrm]

I agree we should be taking a look at both Patterson and Murton to see what we want to do with them next year.

 

Absolutely. If we were in the race I'd say sit Patterson but since we're not there's no reason not to play him. Murton should of course play instead of Burnitz. Burnitz's presence has became a cancer.

 

how so? :?

 

It's not Burnitz's fault, but our dumbass manager is wasting valuable at bats on him every day.

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

suppan stinks. just sit on it, guys.

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

I agree we should be taking a look at both Patterson and Murton to see what we want to do with them next year.

 

Absolutely. If we were in the race I'd say sit Patterson but since we're not there's no reason not to play him. Murton should of course play instead of Burnitz. Burnitz's presence has became a cancer.

 

how so? :?

 

It's not Burnitz's fault, but our dumbass manager is wasting valuable at bats on him every day.

 

oh, you mean his playing time considering that he probably won't be back next year. :wink:

[Fred Hornkohl]

TOP OF THE SECOND INNING

 

Burnitz grounded out to second, 4-3

Garciaparra doubled to the wall in left center field

Walker flied out to center field

Blanco flied out to right center field

 

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors, 1 men left on base

 

           1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9    R H E
CUBS       0 0                  0 1 0 
St. Louis  0                    0 1 0 

[TrueBlueCubFan]

Hairston to CF & Murton to LF, please!

 

Why?

B/C CPatt's a major liability offensively. He is clearly not big league material. An absolute joke @ the plate.

 

The games don't matter anymore. Wouldn't it make sense to have Corey try and improve his trade value(or earn a spot on next year's team, however you look at it)? We pretty much know what we've got with Hairston. Besides, with the defensive differential, Hairston's only marginally better than Patterson on the whole.

 

 

I agree we should be taking a look at both Patterson and Murton to see what we want to do with them next year.

 

Hasn't the CPatt experiment already been run into the ground? Time for the Cubs to cut their losses & get rid of this head case!

 

PLAY MURTON BENCH K PATTERSON!!!

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

argh, the two out walk. what's going on with Prior this year. he's still solid, but not '03 Priorish away from Wrigley. :?

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE SECOND INNING

 

Walker grounded out to first, 3-1

Grudzielanek popped out (foul) to the catcher

Rodriguez walked

Diaz struck out swinging, 2-3

 

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 men left on base

 

           1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9    R H E
CUBS       0 0                  0 1 0 
St. Louis  0 0                  0 1 0 

 

pitcher     IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Prior      2.0  1  0  0  1  2  0  37 

[Fred Hornkohl]

TOP OF THE THIRD INNING

 

Patterson struck out swinging

Prior grounded out to short, 6-3

Hairston 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
CUBS       0 0 0                0 1 0 
St. Louis  0 0                  0 1 0 

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

wow, we made Suppan look like Cy Young out there that inning. :oops:

[Soul]

Patterson struck out swinging

 

Seriously, can we please cut Corey now? Cut him, release him, designate him for assignment----anything to end his career as a Cub.

 

There's no question he would rather not take another at bat as a Cub. And frankly I don't care to see him take another at bat as a Cub. End it already. It's over.

[CardsFanInChiTown]

I can't believe eck has 7 home runs

[wekse]

i can't believe i'm even bothering to watch....if i weren't stuck at work i probably wouldn't be

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

hahaha, beautiful K by Prior on Nunez.

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE THIRD INNING

 

Suppan flied out to right field

Eckstein doubled down the right field line

Nunez struck out swinging

Pujols flied out to shallow right field

 

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors, 1 men left on base

 

           1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9    R H E
CUBS       0 0 0                0 1 0 
St. Louis  0 0 0                0 2 0 

 

pitcher     IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Prior      3.0  2  0  0  1  3  0  53 

[TrueBlueCubFan]

Patterson struck out swinging

 

Seriously, can we please cut Corey now? Cut him, release him, designate him for assignment----anything to end his career as a Cub.

 

There's no question he would rather not take another at bat as a Cub. And frankly I don't care to see him take another at bat as a Cub. End it already. It's over.

 

Amen to that!

I doubt he would even crack anyone's big league roster!

[Fred Hornkohl]

It's about time to score some runs !!

 

CUBS have outscored their opponents 93-67 in the 4th inning.

 

Go CUBS !!

[cjbucks]

Santo just talking about how Baker thinks Ronny can be an everday player next year :shock:

[jjgman21]

hahaha, beautiful K by Prior on Nunez.

 

no offense, but I'm to the point now where I think no strike out by Mark Prior is beautiful. he will never return to the dominant pitcher we saw two years ago if he doesn't start pitching to some contact and stop pitching the count full after getting ahead early. his infatuation with striking guys out is absurd. on pace to yet again not make it into the seventh.

[Fred Hornkohl]

TOP OF THE FOURTH INNING

 

Cedeno flied out to right field

Lee singled to center field

Burnitz grounded into a FC, 4-6, Lee out at second

Garciaparra flied out to left field

 

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors, 1 men left on base

 

           1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9    R H E
CUBS       0 0 0 0              0 2 0 
St. Louis  0 0 0                0 2 0 

[Fred Hornkohl]

hahaha, beautiful K by Prior on Nunez.

 

no offense, but I'm to the point now where I think no strike out by Mark Prior is beautiful. he will never return to the dominant pitcher we saw two years ago if he doesn't start pitching to some contact and stop pitching the count full after getting ahead early. his infatuation with striking guys out is absurd. on pace to yet again not make it into the seventh.

 

CUBS are 44-38 when the opponents strikeout 8 or less times, 21-32 when they K more than 8 times.

[CardsFanInChiTown]

hahaha, beautiful K by Prior on Nunez.

 

no offense, but I'm to the point now where I think no strike out by Mark Prior is beautiful. he will never return to the dominant pitcher we saw two years ago if he doesn't start pitching to some contact and stop pitching the count full after getting ahead early. his infatuation with striking guys out is absurd. on pace to yet again not make it into the seventh.

 

CUBS are 44-38 when the opponents strikeout 8 or less times, 21-32 when they K more than 8 times.

 

Interesting, do you think that stat means something or is it just plain freaky?

[Fred Hornkohl]

hahaha, beautiful K by Prior on Nunez.

 

no offense, but I'm to the point now where I think no strike out by Mark Prior is beautiful. he will never return to the dominant pitcher we saw two years ago if he doesn't start pitching to some contact and stop pitching the count full after getting ahead early. his infatuation with striking guys out is absurd. on pace to yet again not make it into the seventh.

 

CUBS are 44-38 when the opponents strikeout 8 or less times, 21-32 when they K more than 8 times.

 

Interesting, do you think that stat means something or is it just plain freaky?

 

When you graph oppenents strikeouts vs. CUBS winning pct... it doesn't appear to be a stron correlation..... so, I guess I'd vote for freaky.