Andy

I don't see a single way the Cubs can lose. Maybe if Z gets tossed in the 1st inning and Redding outpitches our pen, but even then that seems unlikely.

To add to the names, someone I used to work with claimed to know a couple that named their kid "shet-tod". It was spelled like "poophead". Except the word wasn't "poop". Nice win tonight, fellas. 10 of 11 tomorrow against Tim Redding of the 10.57 ERA in 2005?

anyone who has signed up in the last 6 months are going "who are these moderators....Jon? Cuse? Chris?" Chris types siht ekil.

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I don't remember ever leaving a game early. I've certainly never left a Cubs game early, even though I've been to two complete blowouts (Maddux gets it handed to him against Milwaukee last June and the Hudson grand slam game against Arizona last July).

It's just like Office Space. Make a mistake, and you'll have many people telling you about it. Indeed. It's just that we're putting those on the front of ALL the TPS reports now, BEFORE they go out. So we'll get you another copy of that memo, Fred.

Raw by a nose.

Only 8-5 so far. Raisin should win this one though.

I'll be taping this one again. The Cubs tend to have a good record when I tape.

Reds won't get anywhere without upping payroll, getting a new GM and quitting the practice of changing managers every 18 months or so.

I don't really care either way (in fact it probably gave me an excuse not to watch the worthless game), but there's no way the voting wasn't rigged to get Bonds in. Simply impossible for BB to jump 220,000 votes on Fonz in less than a day no matter how many Calfornians vote.

There's no reason we shouldn't shred Simontacchi. So we'll lose.

Pretty solid as fanvids go. Nice work. :)

Marquis hasn't gotten into the 6th in over a month and our bullpen is absurdly depleted. This won't end well.

Thanks for waiting until your most important start ever to blow chunks, Marshall.

Seriously. This has been the most eventful month in Cubs baseball since September/October 2004. What happened to the Cubs in October 2004?? The Sammy thing for one.

I don't think I can rationally comprehend how awesome a Cubs win today would be. Hey Chicago, whaddya say, the Cubs are gonna WIN today!

Yesterday's thread was up to 7 premium pages before first pitch I think. Maybe the most without an off day in between games - which the Cubs had before today's game? The thread was up the day before, though, it's not like we had a huge amount of extra time.

Seriously. This has been the most eventful month in Cubs baseball since September/October 2004.

True, but it seems that too often the moment has passed when Len gets excited. If the ball is landing at the same time your call reaches it's crescendo, the moment is ruined. The excitement of the call comes during the time between contact but before the moment it becomes obvious to the fan at home that a HR has been hit. Once I can tell the ball has left the park, the call is largely superfluous. But at the same time, I hate it when I get excited over nothing. It's a fine line. Just because we hate Chip doesn't mean he didn't actually have some good points. But if we want to talk about announcers who were premature on homer calls, Harry put his grandson to shame. I love Len Kasper much more than Chip, and his call today was spectacular. Yeah, but when I've left the room to use the john, I'd rather the HR call be a bit late than to get me all excited that I start to try to wrap it up only to find out it was a shallow fly ball to the left fielder. What I hated about Chip was that his HR call was the same for both teams: "SWUNG ON BELTED, DEEP TOWARDS LEFT FIELD, WAY BACK AND GONE" *i run into room* "THAT'S A HOME RUN FOR JEFF BAGWELL" me: :? This is another issue altogether. I love the way Len handles it. I hated how Chip got just as excited for opposition homers, but I hate homeristic babies like Hawk even more. I think you should show preference to your team, but not so much so that it makes you unprofessional. Exactly. Len doesn't get excited for the other team going deep at all, but he still lets you know what happened and how it affects the game. He's probably the best PBP guy in baseball. Maybe if he were on Fox and trying to show the image of neutrality I'd feel differently. But he's ours and I love the guy.

Yesterday's thread was up to 7 premium pages before first pitch I think.

Holy colossal avatar Batman.

Where'd you find Len and Bob's? Archived on MLB.TV. Here is the main page. You shouldn't need a subscription to view it now. That is pretty sweet. I went back and watched the 9th inning of that Colorado game from Monday too. Are those archived games always free? It doesn't sound like it. I was wrong, you can watch any archived game it looks like. I just went back and watched the walkoff from Monday. :D Where do I click to get to pick from the archive? When I click on mlb.tv, it sends me to a page telling me to sign up. Go to 'audio and video', on the silver toolbar near the top, choose the first option (multimedia guide) from the pulldown menu, open up the calendar, pick a date, then click the mlb.tv link to the game and enjoy.

Where'd you find Len and Bob's? Archived on MLB.TV. Here is the main page. You shouldn't need a subscription to view it now. That is pretty sweet. I went back and watched the 9th inning of that Colorado game from Monday too. Are those archived games always free? It doesn't sound like it. I was wrong, you can watch any archived game it looks like. I just went back and watched the walkoff from Monday. :D

They are when you can hit 3-run homeruns. The thing is, the numbers indicate Soriano doesn't do well with runners on. Who's to say he hits those homers if there's someone on base?