BigbadB

Agreed. Since pitcher's are basically every 5th day players, they should get 5 day suspensions for each 1 day an everyday player receives. Might even make a guy think twice about throwing at someone else's head.

I can't believe anyone would be upset with Lee. A guy is messing with his livelihood. He needs to send a message. If you want to get upset with someone, get upset with Soriano. I've said it before and I'll say it again. It's immature and just plain stupid to show up a pitcher after hitting a home run. It was Soriano's actions that caused the intentional beaning of Lee. And this is not the first time benches have cleared over some guy standing there admiring his home run. The thing that torques me about standing there admiring a home run is that anyone in a major league uniform (except maybe Juan Pierre) can actually hit a home run. Home runs are hit in just about every game. Sometimes many home runs are hit per game. Sure, there fun. But, what's the point of standing there admiring it. Should Mike Fontenot stand there and admire his home runs? If not, why should Soriano stand there and watch his (or should I saw trot backwards, which is basically the same thing). Is Soriano's home run that much more special because he makes about 18m a year more than Fontenot? Fact: Standing there watching your home run is about the biggest insult you can hand to the opposing pitcher on the mound. As long as you don't mind the retaliation that comes with insulting the pitcher, then I suppose one should continue showing their ass to the opposing pitcher. But, in this case, Soriano's actions ended up getting Lee a suspension. I hope he thinks it was worth it. Rewind. Soriano hits his home run and runs the bases like a mature and professional baseball player. Fast forward. Derek Lee maybe gets the game winning hit in today's game, and is not at risk of missing future games because of one his own teammates actions.

It was going to be interesting to see what Lou was going to do with the line up if the Cubs managed to score a run in the 9th. I'm guessing Floyd moves to 1b, DeRosa back to 3rd, Theriot to SS and Jones to RF.

What a great day for a ball game. Let's play 2. What's going on? Nevermind. Just kidding.

:shock: I'll let Tim handle this one.

After watching DeRosa at 1st so far, I think I'd like to see Hoffpaur get a call up when Lee actually has to serve his suspension.

I'm going to try to be there.

Well, lets see. Do I want to go to a winning team, or the Titans? Seems pretty easy to me :D It just depends on what you want. TN is his home right now, plus the fact that he could probably become the #1 back for the Titans this year when Lendale White bombs out. Those are tough variables to balance with the pretty good chance to win a SB title with the Bears. To be fair, he can look at the Bears back up running back job as a potential starting role if Benson gets hurt. And we all know that Benson can get hurt.

Wow. A lot of love being shown for CB Bucknor in this thread. Don't worry. Froeming will pass his hatred of everything Cubs down to one of the newbies.

Playoffs? If the Cardinals make the playoffs with a rotation of Thompson, Wells, Looper, Wainwright and I don't remember who their 5th guy is, I might give up baseball forever.

I vote for Jim Hendry

If you think that was funny, you should have seen the battle of the mods for who got the rights to ban CT. While we were all arguing about who should be the lucky one to ban CT, Modzilla quietly snuck in and gobbled up CT's screen name like it was Chocolate Mousse. Ironically, it was all CT's fault.

Miguel Cabrera, yes. Orlando Cabrera, no.

If you think that's bad, Juan Encarnacion was batting clean up the day before.

You mean the first three days of the season?

would he? :D Why yes, yes he did. Give me 3 points for the save, Juan.

17-8 The hits just keep coming

Shouldn't the Cardinals be able to use Isringhausen in a save situation tonight? He'd be saving total embarrassment.

Only when you're not starting him. :D

Trade them all. That'll teach 'em.

Interesting that Adam Wainwright watched Justin Verlander's start on Tuesday and attempted to emulate that start and went 5.2 of no hit ball. He ended up tossing a 1 hitter through 8. Sweet. Back in this race. Fact #237: There is nothing worse than a guy having an ailment and sitting out for 4 or 5 games and calling it day to day, before the team puts him on the DL when you have a replacement ready to go.

Since Saturday, the Cubs bullpen has pitched 21 1/3 innings.

After last night's game, yeah, they probably do need a 13 man staff for the next few days.

I thought of Gallagher as well, but he did pitch last night, 1/3rd of an inning according to the box score. Gallagher came in and cleaned up Ohman's mess.

Piggy isn't on the 40 man, is he? Is Rapada?