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I LOVE GAINING GROUND ON OFF DAYS!!!!!! Bring on the Cards!!!!

I was at the game also and it was a bore. The crowd woud tryiedto get into it, but there was not much to cheer about. They looked tired as a team and we need Dlee back. It's pretty typical with the Dbacks, they always seem to give us trouble. We lost 2/3 but we still gained a game in the WC. Not bad, could've been worse. We have to go in St. Louis and sweep this guys.

Seriously, I hope the Wrigley fans give him a 10 minute standing ovation the first day he takes the mound. Sadly, it will probably be the opposite. I doubt it. Kerry Wood is probably the most universally loved player the Cubs have had since Sandberg He's not that loved, but he is loved.

I will be disappointed if we don't take 2/3.

I was at the game also and it was a bore. The crowd woud try to get into it, but there was not much to cheer about. They looked tired as a team and we need Dlee back. It's pretty typical with the Dbacks. They always seem to give us trouble. We lost 2/3 but we still gained a game in the WC. Not bad, could've been worse. We have to go in St. Louis and sweep this guys.

I'll take that.

My day would get better if Brewers lose...

I'll be there also. I was hoping for a sweep...Oh well...Need to take 2/3.

Cubs are the luckiest team in baseball. Today the luck runs out! Cubs lose this game 12-2...

In 4,3,2,....

It might be one of those things that happened for a reason...

a post that captures why casinos make tons and tons of money Casinos make lots and lots of money because their patrons don't understand regression to the mean. Apparently, other folks don't either. For a board that has so many posters preaching objective analysis, they sure are terribly subjective and biased when it comes to their anointed villains and persona non gratas. Actually, the real reason casinos make money is that the odds of every game are stacked sometimes, more and sometimes less, in their favor. As an individual, you may have a 45-49% chance to "win" in a given game, and you can win with those odds when you play a few times if you get "lucky". However, over hundreds and thousands of plays, the percentages win out, and the casinos have winnings that reflect roughly what their chances of winning the games are. If you believe that over time, there will be regression to the mean, you are correct. If you believe that this fact will favor you in casino games, you are wrong. But none of that has anything to do with this discussion. Guessing baseball player numbers is less like gambling and more like picking stocks. It isn't totally dependent on random chance so you can make some predictions about what will happen. You can say a guy with a .700 career OPS over 7 big league seasons is unlikely to suddenly hit for a .900 OPS. Jones numbers will probably be better in the 2nd half, but how much better is an open question. As for the Pie situation, it's the classic large market team problem with rookies. If they don't produce, they don't stick, because the large market team is usually trying to contend and usually has the resources to go out and get someone better. How many Yankee prospects hit under .250 their first season in the past decade? As one dealer told me "Casino's make money because they have more money then you. "

Steve "Lake" Trout he was one of my favorites Rainbow I thought. Rainbow. Remember when Steve Lake would catch Steve Trout? That was funny....

Where is this message board? EJ's post was a link. That's awesome! Very funny! I can imagine what we look like to outsiders when we lose.

Where is this message board?

Fontenot, 2B 3 3 2 0 1 0 0 .339 Ramirez, 3B 4 2 2 4 0 1 1 .322 Jones, CF 4 0 2 2 0 1 0 .248 Pagan, RF 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 .289 8 hits and 6 runs from the middle of the order, but look at that middle?!?!? I will never doubt this team again...

Keep it buzzing for tomorrow game. Hill deserves better run support.

Right in front of the Brewers. Which is what the standings will look like soon... too bad our fan site allows stupid signatures ? They don't allow pic sigs. Although what they do have seems apart of their post. And they also think the Cubs will cool off, but we think the same exact thing about the Brewers. Ah.

Close, but no cigar for the Padres. Chris Young 9-3 1.85 Jake Peavy 9-4 2.30 Justin Germano 6-3 3.55 David Wells 5-5 4.15 Greg Maddux 7-7 4.17 Good god Chris Young. Amazing...

Right in front of the Brewers. Which is what the standings will look like soon... too bad our fan site allows stupid signatures ?

Gotta 'tip yer cap to Rothschild.

Right in front of the Brewers. Which is what the standings will look like soon...

BTW - Not that this means anything, but we are now number 8 on ESPN Power Rankings... http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/powerranking?season=2007&week=16

Oops...Corrected.

Nope it started with the sweep at the Cell. Right before that we had just dropped 2 of 3 at Texas, and I was wondering if I should even bother following the Cubs-Sox series. Yep. After Sammy's 600th, I figured that would be the last watchable thing about this team for the season. Then the 7 game win streak happened. It really started to roll when we blew a 8-3 lead in the 9th to the Rocks, only to come back and win the game in the bottom of the 9th. That loss would've been devastating! :hammer meet nail: Dead on accurate, IMO... When we look back after winning the World Series this year, that will be THE GAME which for the ages will be known as the turning point.... Yep! We've been coming back from games late ever since...