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Didn't think I'd miss him, but wow.

Sirott just did his one inning of PBP, and he's really terrible.

Judd Sirott, the new pregame/postgame/sub PBP guy

oh lord Sirott's in

That's how we do it, Z.

I laughed.

Cajun Connection ftw

Little Babe Ruth

Nice work, Carlos.

Here comes the bloop hit parade.

Nothing I hate more than bloop hits.

MB with the BB.

I know we rag on Lee's declining performance, but he saves this infield more errors in a season than Berkman has Twinkies.

Geovany Soto

Bizaaaaaaaro day

First wasted opportunity of the season.

THASS WHAT I'M TALKIN' BOUT

He often skews towards the traditional on opening day.

Z going non-traditional with the blues instead of the road greys. Red-billed road cap officially gone.

CHICAGO CUBS BASEBALL IS ON THE AIR! =D>

White Sox have already rescheduled their opener for Tuesday.

By the start of the 2010 season, the Cubs will be one of only eight teams (Cubs, Red Sox, Jays, Rays, A's, Dodgers, Marlins, Royals) to not play in a "modern" venue (a baseball-only venue built or renovated extensively after 1990) and of those eight, the Marlins will have a new ballpark within five years, Kauffmann just finished its renovations (though to the best of my knowledge, they don't include upgrades to the clubhouse facilities), Fenway is upgraded a little bit every offseason and the Rogers Centre is still a relatively modern facility, though I obviously can't speak as to the quality of the clubhouse facilities of the last three. The punchline to this is that I think that it's slowly getting to the point where, if Chicago weren't the world-class city that it is, if Wrigley weren't the cathedral/gold mine that it is (beautiful old ballpark in a cozy urban neighborhood surrounded by bars, apartments and restaurants that doubles as a tourist attraction when the Cubs aren't playing or aren't fielding a competitive team) and if the Cubs weren't as legitimately competitive as they've been (or made an effort to be) in the last decade or so, the team might eventually start losing out on potential free agents just on the basis of the difference between the facilities the Cubs can offer as compared to what the Mets, the Yankees, the Phillies or any other similarly-payrolled team with a new facility could offer. This may just be me, but I thought it was worth bringing up anyway.

Probable pitching matchups for the first week, accurate as of today @ Astros 4/6-4/8 (Mon, Tues, Wed) C. Zambrano vs. R. Oswalt R. Dempster vs. W. Rodriguez T. Lilly vs. B. Moehler @ Brewers 4/10-4/12 (Fri, Sat, Sun) R. Harden vs. B. Looper C. Zambrano vs. D. Bush R. Dempster vs. TBA Marshall will be skipped for the first go-round through the rotation and be available out of the pen if necessary; Lilly is scheduled to start the home opener on the 13th.

Everyone ready for the season? Are you ready to dominate? Be dominated? Ready to be on the winning end of a blowout? The losing end? Are you ready for the adrenaline of trailing all game only to come back and win late? The despair of leading all game only to lose it in the 9th? Are you ready to lose games we should have won? Win games we should have lost? Are you ready for the singles, the doubles, the triples, the longballs? The stolen bases, the throws from the outfield, the pickoff throws? The strikeouts, the walks, the balks, the hits? The exhilaration, the disappointment, the screaming, the silence? Are you ready? Let's get it started. http://75.125.185.66/forums/classic_images/smilies/icon_gu_b_slayer.gif

I'd like to go on record as saying Judd Sirott is just terrible. Wow.