Andy

And the ump calls strike 2 on a pitch at Kosuke's shoe tops. Cool.

hahahahahahahahahahaha jeff keppinger

Ump has a gigantic zone, especially low.

Dustyball!!!!

if the cubs are close to winning the world series i'm calling out of work and driving to chicago. i'm not missing that party. I'll meet you there, Truffle.

With Harden and Z both sporting second-half ERAs under 2.75, hopefully. Cubs Fever is reaching an all-time high.

I imagine that won't come as cheap as Harden did

You can't put the Notre Dame joke on a tee like this. It's not fair. I should have clarified the first game, although I supposed I overestimated people to assume that it was implicit that I did not mean they'd play him and THEN suspend him for Notre Dame.

I have gone alone and have no problem doing so. I saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall alone. I like taking my little brother to movies though. He's 15 and fun to hang out with if you can do something that prevents him from talking. :)

Put Dusty Baker's Reds in the http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e67/ndistops/Dumpster.jpg Welcome to Chicago, Rich!!

Between 1:10 and 7:05. Cubs aren't in that window. You'll get the game.

He wore 40 with Oakland, I assume he'd keep it. Yeah, they wouldn't let you use that number, so maybe. What number does Larry go to then?

I have no idea what number Harden will wear, but I wanted a jersey in my sig.

The game is on CSN Saturday afternoon, I don't think it will be blacked out.

Friday/Saturday Please Saturday. I have to watch it later if it's Friday. RICH HARDEN IS A CUB. :D I just love the way that looks. Ever since I heard he might be available, he's who I wanted.

This is the best trade Jim Hendry has ever made. (I know this is speaking the obvious.) I am on cloud 25 right now.

Post of the day and probably an off-color Wrigley t-shirt at work already.

I could see Murton improving with a better coaching staff in Oakland, and Gallagher will be good down the line. I don't know anything about Donaldson. I don't know if EPatt has what it takes.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I can't believe this - this is the robbery of the century

Yikes. It means nothing more to ME that the Cubs have gone 100 than it does that the Tribe have gone 60 or the Giants have gone 54 or whatever other 20+ year drought exists. But it takes away from my enjoyment of the game to have ignorant fans and lazy broadcasters catering to the lowest common denominator and waving 100 years around, no matter how pathetic their own franchise (Baltimore fans at Wrigley, I'm looking at you) has been during my own entire life.

Grady will be suspended for Michigan's usual non-conference patsy and be back for all the games that mean anything.

If Berthiaume says "Fill thine horn with oil" one more time I am going to stab him in the ribs with a rusty steak knife.

Awesome!

I don't buy this personally. Maybe that's how it is for you, but comparing something as irrelevant to your everyday life like a baseball team to your family/heritage is ridiculous. Maybe that's just my personality, I don't know. Don't get me wrong though, it's really cool and really fun and I was overcome with emotion when Wainwright k'd Inge, and it was everything I dreamed and more. I'm just saying the feeling doesn't last and it gives you new perspective on sports afterward. You become more objective and when confronted with getting some and still having the normal odds of winning a World Series or being celibate and being guaranteed to win a World Series, I'd choose the sex. My answer would, I'm sure, have been very different in the summer of 2006 and before. I don't blame you for not buying it, most fans wouldn't. But it's pretty much exactly the same as the Red Sox in 2004. Winning the World Series, if you're a Cubs fan, means no more Joe Buck/Jon Miller/whatever road PBP guy on MLB.TV gleefully gnashing their teeth to discuss Bartman, or the black cat, or Victor Diaz, or whatever. It means no more fans of other teams - especially White Sox fans and the occasional stupid fan of the Cardinals/Brewers/Astros - reverting to "1908" or "a century" whenever you argue with them about baseball. It means we are no longer the definition of failure in professional sports. Winning the World Series for a Cardinals fan under 30 or so meant they finally saw a Series win that they could remember. There was no giant burden, no black cloud of whether they would ever see the Cardinals win, no great ending of torture. It's just different.

I'm not saying Larry is good, because I dislike him and wish we'd get somebody else. But Lilly and Marquis both overperformed in 2007 and Lilly is on the wrong side of 30, and I'm not even remotely surprised that they aren't doing as well this year.