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I would prefer the cards lose by 34 runs, but losing by one run in a game they struggled to score despite having guys on base all day is awesomely frustrating to TBFIB.

[expletive] off Lidge

[expletive] off Lidge

I don't know what year he pitched for the Cubs, but God was he ever terrible. Just complete batting practice when he was on the mound.

THANK YOU BEN FRANCISCO

The original big Z, EDDIE ZAMBRANO. Also, Gary Scott (now that I look at his minor league numbers, it seems that he was never really a good prospect but the cubs just tried to pawn him off as one)

Really warmed my heart to see Mr Clutch, The Captain strike out with a runner in scoring position to end the game.

i can fit verlander or halladay, since the only two guys i'm keeping with points that count against my cap are marcum (850 points total), but i'm not going to be trading for anyone until they've stopped playing. i do have a boatload of good prospects and exempt players, plus 7 picks in the first 4 rounds, so i think i'd make a pretty good trade partner.

i'm sure they're going with four, because why wouldn't you when your fourth is roy oswalt? even if the phillies lose game 3, i doubt they move up halladay, because you need to win two games, and it's better to have a normal-rest oswalt and normal-rest halladay. even if halladay is kind of a robot.

all he throws is fastballs, someone hit a fastball.

i want the phillies to scratch across one run, which would be problematic for the cards since they've already used about 19 pitchers in this game.

larussa's boner for L/L and R/R matchups certainly does pay off when ryan howard is one of the LH batters.

i was shocked last year when i heard that he was the jets' backup... i just assumed that he retired like 3 years ago.

kudos to mark sanchez on singlehandedly losing tonight's game for the jets.

fuckin ryan theriot... [expletive]

i want to see the cards get no-hit and lose 37 to 0. i hope that arizona announcer who flipped out and said something like "ARE YOU WATCHING THIS MILWAUKEE????" when they had a big comeback earlier this week is terribly embarrassed right now.

eagles defense is underachieving pretty badly this year... it's almost like they should have a defensive coordinator instead of an offensive line coach who's trying to run the defense.

It should be interesting, or defense is not that good this year (which is rare) and the offense is the strength. Obviously Penn St's defense is their strength. could be another 6-4 barnburner!

yeah because psu has just been giving up truckloads of points this year.

yeah my dad made me be a cubs fan (if he hadn't, i'd be a phillies and have one world series, three pennants and lots of division titles to celebrate already), so if i ever have kids i'm bringing them down the sad dark path of cubdom too.

I understand, but I think a 2 game suspension for a 1st time offender in a play that was clearly not intentional would teach well. I think a better solution in this case would be to teach Ben Smith to make a play with his head up. did you even watch the play? his head was up. watch it from 0:30 to 0:50 when it's in slow motion; his head is up pretty much the whole time, except possibly a split second before contact is made as he's making a move. http://blogs.suntimes.com/blackhawks/2011/09/brendan_smith_suspended_five_r.html i'll take brendan smith's word for it that he wasn't intentionally targeting the head, but given that there's an epidemic of concussions in hockey, something has to be done to get players to take this seriously. the issue wasn't skating with his head down, it's making a cut in a supposedly dangerous area of the ice. but the onus has to be on the checking player, not the offensive player. when ben smith cut, brendan smith had options, those being to cut as well and make a full body check, or just whiff and give him a scoring chance. the bottom line is that you can't just continue on your same path and drill a guy right in the head. smith will lose something like $25k because of the suspension. james wisniewski (obvious dirty hit on clutterbuck) is losing something like half a million. so in addition to hurting their team by not being able to play for several games, they're also losing a big chunk of change. hopefully this gets the message through and the frequency of head shots starts going down.

yeah wisconsin will probably go back to being boring after wilson leaves, but at least for this year they're pretty dynamic.

man what happened to minnesota, they weren't good the last couple of years but they're turning into what washington state has been recently.

great call by maddon... power pitching has a proven track record in the playoffs, and it's also harder for the rangers to face a guy they haven't seen and probably have scouted very little. of course, one has to question the rays' wisdom in letting moore embarrass minor league hitters for 5 months and only calling him up in september. if not for the red sox completely falling apart, they'd have missed the playoffs by a small margin, with the late callups of moore and jennings possibly the difference.

the rules are different now. players have to learn to cut out the [expletive]. you can't hit people in the head; if you do you'll get a suspension and probably a pretty long one.