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I was equally excited all day waiting for this series to start. I was anxiously waiting for the Cubs to show dominance against every other team in the playoffs. I suppose that's why I was SOOOOOO let down by yesterday's performance. I think there's a difference between fighting the good fight and being on the losing end and not fighting a good fight while fans of other teams point at the tv and laugh at your performance. I'm not giving up. Today is a new day. It's not completely out of my system, but I do feel better today. We all invest a lot of time on this team, and it's really hard to absorb bad baseball. The fans cannot turn things around, however. That's up to the guys in the starting line up.

Haha. Where have you been? Tailgaiting for Padres games went out the window when they moved to Petco Park. You can still tailgate at Charger games. I'm Always late to Petco cause they have been weekday games so I have no idea. Best place to Tailgate at Qualcomm is under the metrolink track. Tons of space and a lot fo friendly RV'ers The best places to tailgate at Qualcomm are anywhere they don't force you to move all of your stuff to within a single car parking space as the game gets closer to kickoff. I'm amazed by all the crafty new devices people are coming up with for tailgaiting. My favorite is the family sized gas grill that attaches to the hitch on a truck.

I think I could sing a different tune here today if we played a well fought battle, but came up on the losing end. Last night was an embarrassment, and I can't find a better way to put it. I almost always keep up hope and watch the game until the end. When Dempster walked the bases loaded, I had to leave the room because I knew something bad was about to happen. I saw how much fear everyone else in the room had towards my anger, so I thought it was best to be alone when the home run left the park. I didn't even react when the home run was hit. Everyone except my wife immediately left the house before I came back down, for fear of seeing me behave in an extremely embarrassing way. But, there was no reaction. Nothing. I sat in a state of disbelief until the top of the 9th inning, where I decided I'd seen enough and went somewhere where I could be alone and drink. I refused to talk about the game all night and after a few drinks, I was able to have a little fun talking about things that were not Cub related. I'm sitting here telling all of you that I didn't even bother watching the whole game. It's the freaking playoffs, and I basically turned off the game. That's how embarrassing last night's game was. I know that occasionally a hitter lets a good pitch go by, but Derrek and Geo both had balls that they could hit 600 feet just laid in there for them to crush, but they watched them go into the catcher's glove with a great count. Geo's came with a 2-0 count, and then he proceeded to strike out on the next two pitches. I won't even bring up the walk thing, or Fukudome spinning himself like a top at the plate. I'm finally at the point that I can talk about last night's game. I trust that they got the embarrassing stuff out of their system last night and can now focus on winning baseball games. A loss tonight would not be a good thing. And if the Cubs want the crowd to get into the game, I might suggest they do something that makes the fans want to get into the game. Walking the bases loaded just doesn't do it for me.

I don't expect to actually see any rain, unfortunately.

I actually like Fukudome in the 2 hole today. Lou is showing some confidence in him, now we just need Kosuke to show confidence in himself and make things happen with the bat.

I only had to wait until 3:30pm for this game to start. I wish I was in Hawaii.

I'm excited. Let's get this game going already.

Also fitting the profile is that he is from the East Coast. Youngsville, NC. Not sure if that fits the vicinity, but it's all flowing together pretty well at this point.

I ruled out Caverretta pretty early since he was only 19 years old in 1936 (the last year for those uni's. The guy in that photo is most certainly older than that. I'm liking the Jakie May likeness.

You keep ignoring the obvious.

I grew up in Central Illinois and was always a Cubs fan. I think WGN had a major impact on increased Cubfanship, but I would imagine the bigger population of non Illinois ties to Cub fans would be retired folk who just didn't like watching day time soaps and took comfort in day baseball games on WGN. I would also imagine that some fanship could be handed down through generations because that's who granddad liked. But, I don't really understand why a younger generation nowadays would latch onto the Cubs, since there really aren't nearly as many day games broadcast on WGN.

The uniform is definitely from '27-'36 era. I'm horrible at looking for photos, so that's the best I have to offer at this time. OMC can probably use his resources to pinpoint the actual player.

Doesn't really look like Grimm. Dude in the picture looks old enough to be a manager though, which Grimm did in the mid '30's. I can't tell. Maybe it's Babe Herman.

That style of uniform was used from 1927-1936. Maybe it's Charlie Grimm?

A great lefty from that generation would be Hippo Vaughn. I'll have to look for some photos of Vaughn.

That uniform looks more 20's-30's to me

Think lefty!

You would be wrong. Look at the glove hand.

Fielder=Fantastic???????? How many times did you curse his hefty behind in the game threads this year?

Source It looked to me like he got hurt breaking the huddle. He seemed to get up fine after the play, but didn't go down until after they went into the huddle for the next play. I was watching without sound. I just figured it was cramps. I guess I figured wrong.

Okay, my guys blew staying under the cap, so Vernon Wells will become a casualty of Fuzzy Logistics roster crunch. It looks like I'm going to go with this: C- Geovany Soto (exempt) 1b- 2b- Alexei Ramirez (exempt) 3b- Alex Gordon (exempt) SS- Stephen Drew (exempt) OF- Jacoby Ellsbury (exempt) OF- Matt Holliday OF- U- Ian Stewart (exempt) SP- Brandon Webb SP- James Shields (exempt) SP- Roy Oswalt For those interested, I have these fantastic players available for draft picks, minor leaguers, etc..... BJ Upton Carlos Pena Vernon Wells Johnny Cueto (exempt) Ubaldo Jimenez (exempt) Carlos Marmol (exempt) Randy Johnson Javier Vasquez Matt Capps Milton Bradley I would also consider trading two of my exempt players in my keeper list above (that are not named James Shields or Geovany Soto) for 1 exempt player.

Before you go making a bunch of changes, make sure Juan fills you in on the newer rules. Cap is 2000 this year. Players with a minimal amount of at bats may not burn an exemption year. Forgot what the pitcher numbers are, but a batter with less than 50 at bats (or is it plate appearances) in a given season doesn't count as an exemption. Rosters don't need to be pared down until Valentine's Day.

1750? Ok, I'll take 2000. :oops: You have failed miserably at Negotiation 101.

Cool. More pushovers, please!