Jazz

crap kendall your killing us.

nice last name camera operator :P

Soriano is 6-34 when not hitting leadoff, good for a .176 avg =\

Vizquel with a rare flop.

RODANNNN!!!!

14% of cubs fans are clinically [expletive].

zito's curve is looking exceptional.

hasn't seen action since july 6th

heres hoping he can make it through 6

...and the sucky eye of the home ump. If he calls that a strike (which it was, at least according to Gameday), the inning would've been over. well crappy calls are going to happen. You had another oppurtunity there to get out of the inning tied, but kendall denied us that.

yes, i was completely outraged by the call.

crap..... could thing molinacan run worth a crap our it would be 3-1

CMON BLUE

handcuffed kendall? that was a perfect throw.

ugh thats a kick in the nuts. kendall :(

1 out, dp plz

YES 1-0 CUBS!!

cmon marshall

we got this. excited to see if kendall is worth a damn.

Scheurholz Beane Ryan Shapiro Epstein Dombrowski Jocketty Melvin Stoneman Jocketty

as much of a clown as this guy might be, its not unfathomable that the cardinals could turn it on and win the wild card. Did anyone, let alone us expect us to have a fighting chance after that series loss to texas? Theres still way to much baseball to be played to make assumptions.

+1 for meph

i love ryan braun, the jew bastard. He's going to be one of the highlights from that amazing 2005 draft for a while. Upton Gordon Zimmerman Braun Tulowitzki Maybin Bruce Ellsbury Sterling bunch of position players.

I'm coming to the conclusion Barrett was our biggest problem the past 2 years. Notice our record since Barrett departed and notice the Padres record when Barrett starts. It's not good for the Padres. my goodness, this is driving me nuts here lately. since barrett left the era has been the same. the catchers have obviously hit worse. how in the holy hell do you figure that barrett's mere presence alone was the difference between a team that was five games under .500 and a team that's playing like .700 ball? you have got to be freaking kidding me to even believe for one second such an idiotic notion. i mean, really, the fact that the cubs have improved so much has nothing to do with zambrano having like a 1 era over the last two months or marmol pitching like mariano rivera or soriano hitting like 15 homers in the past six weeks or theriot and fontenot taking turns being impossible outs or rameriz jacking game winning hits left and right or lee having like a .800 babip or bob howry deciding to stop pitching like total crap or ted lilly pitching awesome or kaz matsui bobbling that grounder or angel pagan playing out of his rear. no...it's all because the devil curse of michael barrett has been magically lifted by the swoop of harry potter's wizard wand and presto suddenly the team is better. he was such a terrible influence on the team that if he had been on the team yesterday instead of hitting a 3 run homer derrek lee would have been like, "you know what...i could hit a homer here, but michael barrett has been really mean to me lately, so i'm going to pop out instead." and just tonight, i heard ramirez say that koyie hill brought him a cup of chicken noodle soup when he had a tummy ache, so he felt strong enough to pelt one off the wall (barrett, of course, was known to kick ramirez in the face whenever he got tummy aches). the fact that there has been such a dramatic improvement goes even further to disprove such a stupid idea. i mean, seriously, is he such a destructive force that the day he left the team immediately improved from a .450 team to a .700 team? can you even wrap your head around how completely ridiculous that is? you'd have a better argument if they improved two games. as if the catcher's era crap we had to endure wasn't stupid enough, now we get catcher's winning percentage? best post since saorsa's "down with stats or whatever his name is.

way to go Karl Ravech espn blows