Andy

YESSS! Backe is clutch!

Wonder if this is Backe's last batter...

It's amazingly ironic that the Sox fans' least favorite player coming into September was Joe Crede...and ever since he has been absolutely unstoppable.

True, but as CUBS fans, we are quite used to this sort of thing, no? Amen. These stupid bar shots make me sick.

*expletives deleted*

Come on Jason Lane...

Morgan Ensberg may disagree.

Talk about stepping up. Brandon Backe has been electric. Wish his offense would pick him up.

That's what this game has brought us to. Talking about how good old Latin pitchers look...Someone hit one about 800 feet, please.

It took till Game 4 but we finally got the low-scoring, pitching-dominated series that everyone talked about.

Seconded. The most annoying part about this is that my "They Gone Since 1917" shirt that I just bought in June is already going to be out of date. :cry:

What do you mean this game is boring? Jermaine Dye is only a triple and a home run away from the cycle! :wink:

Yeah people on this site never get down on Cubs management. It's all excuse making and White Sox hating. You're being sarcastic, right? We've been dissing Dusty Baker since the 2005 season began, and Jim Hendry and company haven't exactly escaped punishment either.

Yep. Ewww, you guys killed my high school team (Penn) in football this year. But you're sending two of your best players to Notre Dame so I guess we're even. :wink:

I believe Sosa is 6th behind Aaron, Ruth, Bonds, Mays and Robinson.

Agreed. And Tony Perez deserves some consideration as well. I agree that Perez should have been at first. Also, there HAS to be a better starting pitcher than Fernando. Carlos Zambrano. :wink:

How do the Sox get away with batting AJ Pierzynski FIFTH? Typical. Knowing the Sox, Pierzynski will get several key hits tonight. Ozzie should just try batting Konerko leadoff, because anything he has done this season, no matter how stupid, has worked in spades.

When was the last time in his career that Edgar actually played third base, I wonder?

Yeah, right after I posted this I realized he wouldn't even play if he was traded for. What does UK have against him? He hates cheap effective hitters. So what position does he have in the Cubs organization? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I was just thinking that before I read your post.

I'll watch this game, but I'm turning it off before it ends so I don't have to watch the celebration. Too depressing.

Andruw wins NL award Papi wins AL award Did DLee get robbed?

I agree. I think we're all overrating DLee's tradeability right now. There are plenty of teams right now looking at him and saying "What a tremendous year, but he better keep it up for us to have any interest." Regardless, I don't think there's anyone we could get for DLee that would be better than him without giving up something else substantial.

Matt "Leprechaun" Murton should unconditionally be the starter in LF. In fact can we please get Hendry to say to Dusty that he will fire him if Baker does not play Murton at least 100 games this year, barring injury or complete failure to keep up his production? Murton was routinely benched at the end of the year last year although he had already earned his place. He should be, without question, the starting LF and the number 2 hitter next year. Really enjoyed the interview. This kid is quickly becoming one of my favorite Cubs for the way he takes care of business on the field and conducts himself extremely well off of it.

Oh trust me, it won't. I've already been told that the Cubs "better not win it for at least 20 years" because the Sox "need their time to shine". The White Sox's stupid little unloved child complex is beginning to truly annoy me. Ozzie Guillen had already said he hates Wrigley Field and bashed Dusty Baker about not supporting the Sox this postseason (because we all know Ozzie would be all dressed in blue if the roles were reversed). Even in the playoffs, the Sox and their fans can't stop whining about the Cubs.

AJP was not a good signing. He's a clubhouse cancer (it takes a lot to be a bigger jerk than Barry in SF and AJ pulled it off), and if he wasn't buddies with Hawk Harrelson he would never have been sniffing a Sox uniform anyway. Iguchi I can give Williams credit for, he was pretty good for them, although it's worth noting that he struck out 114 times this season and was nothing special in the field (14 errors). The fact remains, though, that he unloaded a 35-home run hitter for a mediocre leadoff hitter in Podsednik (.313 OBP in 2004) and then plugged in Dye to fill the outfield spot, who hadn't had a good season this millennium and somehow ripped off a .274/31/86 for them. Calling Williams a "clown" is probably overstating the case, but his moves this off-season really weren't that good. He was made to look smart because all those moves came through in spades with Dye having his best year since 2000 and Podsednik having the best of his three seasons in the majors. This Sox team really had marginally better talent than the 2004 version but had the advantage of about 10 players having their best years ever. How do you know that AJP is a clubhouse cancer? SF was the only place he's played where he wasn't loved by his teammates. He is still well liked by guys he played with in Minnesota, and is loved in Chicago. He isn't a cancer, maybe more of a edgy guy, something the team needed. And if you think AJ is a cancer, look at your "35 homer guy" Carlos Lee. He has no hustle on the basepaths, in the field, and he walks about as much as Tony Womack. How do I know? AJP was literally run out of San Francisco. He kneed a Giants trainer in the balls during his one-year tenure. The Sox teammates like him because he's like most of the rest of them and the SF teammates were not. The man almost approaches the personality of Barry Bonds, except that he doesn't put up ludicrous steroid-influenced numbers in the process. His smartass comment about not feeling lucky about the Game 2 ALCS win was a pretty good indicator.