Sammy Sofa

14th no-hitter in Cubs' history. http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/271547322563-0-1/s-l1000.jpg Hmmmmm.

See, that's how I saw it too, but the official scorer didn't... Looking at the replays I still think ball came up; oh well, worked out for the Cubs.

Please start scoring runs again. Thanks.

During his postgame interview, even Arrieta basically implied that he was surprised they did not score that as a hit. I didn't see it live, but after watching the replay, it could have been scored a hit. In fact, had this not been a no-hitter, I wouldn't have been surprised to see that changed to a hit following the game. As for the bunt, in a 2-0 game where a successful bunt hit puts brings the tying run to the plate, it wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world to do. (Someone did this against Arizona I believe when Brenly was managing them, and he flipped the [expletive] out. It was the same situation though, where it was 2-0 with a no-hitter on the line in the 9th.) I'm not saying I would have been cool with them bunting to wreck the no-hitter, but if you're a first place team trying to put more distance between you and the Giants...strategically, it wouldn't have been the worst idea to get the potential tying run to the plate. Kruk says a lot of stupid [expletive], but I'm not sure he was that off the mark on those two comments. Agreed; I was surprised when watching it that it was scored as an error and not a hit; Castro was set to grab it and it took a big bounce and basically fired right at his gut. I doubt anyone else would have been able to do much besides just stop it like he did. And with the bunt he was just posing it as a "what if?" as opposed to saying that they should do it, and like you (and he) said, they were just down 2 and they're fighting for the division. It wasn't likely to happen, but it wouldn't have been the end of the world if they had tried.

Plus if somebody with a better reputation had been manning 2B that error probably would have been scored a hit! Truly, he is the hero of the season.

Good game thread power, gooney.

2008 was pretty damn likable, but these guys may well take the cake just for sheer goofiness. This team has no Theriot. It's no contest.

Man, bring on the 1 game playoff. Arrieta is gonna massacre that [expletive].

christ i had repressed any memory of his existence entirely Didn't he do something ridiculous and win, like, 8 straight? Almost, 6 in a row and 8 of 9 What a big tub of goo.

christ i had repressed any memory of his existence entirely Didn't he do something ridiculous and win, like, 8 straight?

I had zero idea that Scott Feldman had been pretty damn decent for the Astros.

WITH YOUR WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!?!?!?

Excellent.

Nobody asked who your favorite player is.

Holy [expletive]. I was was rooted to the same spot on the recliner desperately needing to piss for a good 20-25 minutes before he got that last out. I haven't been that nervous watching a Cubs game since...well, I can't even remember since I didn't get to see Zambrano's live. Holy [expletive].

This is easily your worst poll yet.

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Let's get super superstitious about this.

Russell, Rizzo and Schwarber all hitting kinda poopy over the last week likely has a lot more impact than Denofria getting a few extra AB's.

He's terrible and is just a guy that does nothing for me as a player. He's also terrible in MLB 15 the Show which is where my hate for him began. Holy [expletive], yes. I'm playing along with the season and in a part-time role the game has had him hit in to 14 DP's. It's insane.

This is all sontensei's fault somehow.

I feel like David hasn't been since this thread. Was it the start of a hilariously nerdy bender?

was going to say this earlier ,but figured i'd just catch [expletive]. i can't stand him You are among friends, Scully is bad. I was forced into listening to him on the radio earlier and it wasn't as bad as TV, but he still started to tell a story of someone from 60 years ago who wouldn't throw to first like Lester. Brutal. You guys have no appreciation for the simple things. They're right. And I've had to listen to a lot of Vin living in LA. He's overrated. He's definitely one of the greats, but it's a chore to listen to now. He just rambles on about nonsense half the time, and he has trouble keeping up with the game if anything actually happens. It's basically listening to an old man slowly die.

He's trying to shutdown the running game because Lester is incapable of throwing a baseball to a bag. That CI was more about that than Montero sucking at catching or something. Maybe, but he doesn't usually catch Lester.

They were rocking the Legend of Zelda theme last night. Pretty great.