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I looked but didn't see it.

Does anyone have a link to a video of this? I saw a couple of clips on WGN before the game. Thanks in advance.

What was Neifi's homerun against the Cards? Was it not a walk-off.

I'd say Rick Wilkins and GA Hill 1 and 1a. But, I'm sure Blanco and a few other catchers that we've had here could really do a number on someone.

Here comes the only man that does a better job earning his pay than Houston Nutt.

What about the possibility of Piniella giving in to Dempster's plead to start, just so that he can implode and then we bring up Marshall to fill the fifth starters role while putting Dempster back into the bullpen or trading him and cutting lose Eyre.

I personally think that Z's got to be hurt and won't tell anyone. That's why he was so willing to sign the contract before the season started. If he tells anyone he's hurt now, the money is gone. I also think that if he isn't hurt, then his ego has finally gotten the best of him, and he's not listening to Rothchild any what so ever. He doesn't look anything like he has in years past whenever he releases the ball.

OK, so is Demp still the closer? Who's the freaking fifth starter? WTF is going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????

I don't understand the logic in this at all. Guzman has been pretty good, Dempster's been good. So now who's the closer?

If STL plays any natural rival, KC is the obvious natural rival. I'm not from Chi-town so I could care less about this natural rival crap. It was cool the first couple of years, but I think that they should dump it now. I might be totally wrong, being that the folks up in the Chicago and New York etc. might love it, but I don't think that it's exactly fair.

Well, it looks like the Brew crew might put us out of the race by the all-star break.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1993/B07050COL1993.htm My first game. Wilkins hit two monster shots and I thought that he was going to be our catcher for the next 10 years. Harkey was great that night two. The main thing I remember was some guy behind me yelling at Willie Wilson to not quit his day job.

With the off days and the use of the Guzman, we should have a starter that hasn't pitched for a few days that we can use. It might have been Marquis though.

Eyre might have a respectable ERA by the time this one ends.

If we don't win this game, we deserved to get swept by the butt-Pirates.

Great discussion. Where would you guys say that the Cubs biggest depth problem is? Catcher is number one-putting Blanco in as the everyday catcher instead of Barrett would be a big loss to the offense (although not so far this season). 1B is another one-although the Cubs have two decent candidates to fill it this year unlike last year, that still is such a huge dropoff. 3B is probably the 3rd position player-the Cubs have Scott Moore in the minors who could come up and do an ok job filling in, but it would be trouble if he had to be in the lineup for a long time. Another SP is also a minor depth concern, although if Sean Marshall continues to pitch the way he has coming back from his injury that concern isn't very strong. offensively, yes, but blanco handles pitching staffs remarkably well and is a top notch defensive player. at 1b, of course there's going to be a dropoff, derrek lee is one of the best hitters in the game. at 3b, derosa would slide over before moore would be utilized, although he may be called up if ramirez goes down. Yeah, I was looking more at serious injuries-I think the team has enough depth that if a guy goes down for 5-10 days it won't be much of a problem no matter who it is. When you talk about depth, it's tough to throw guys like Fielder, Ramirez, or Lee into the conversation. Any team, no matter how much depth is going to take a step back whenever they lose one of their top two or three players. Hell even the Yankees would degress if they lost Jeter or ARod.

When pitching is good, pitching is good. It usually doesn't go up and down. Their hitting may cool a little, but they'll keep pitching well throughout the year. well, our pitching has been just as good and i think our offense will prove to be better. I agree, but I'm saying that we'll have to keep up with them as opposed to them coming back to us.

That would project the Cubs to about 95 wins, if they can do that I think they win the Central without a doubt. As with any team but especially the Brewers, they are one injury to their starting rotation away from being a totally different team, and with Ben Sheets' history I don't think it is a jump to think this could happen. The Brewers do not have the depth to sustain a major injury to their starting rotation. the brewers do have a little depth at starting pitching. they have a kid at triple a, Gallardo, who has been unhittable this year. they also should be calling up Braun to play 3rd base before the all-star break. they have a good ballclub. who knows what will happen, though. there are a TON of games left. Although they've been terrible for MANY years, whomever is running that ballclub has put together a team that could rival the teams of the Braves in the early '90s if they can afford to keep them together for a number of years.

That would project the Cubs to about 95 wins, if they can do that I think they win the Central without a doubt. As with any team but especially the Brewers, they are one injury to their starting rotation away from being a totally different team, and with Ben Sheets' history I don't think it is a jump to think this could happen. The Brewers do not have the depth to sustain a major injury to their starting rotation. The Brewers have two pitchers in this years top 100 prospects, one of them Major League ready already. If they don't have depth with those two, they at least have trade bait.

The thing is, though, it hasn't been Sheets that has been the anchor of the staff so far. His numbers have been mostly pedestrian. Suppan and Capuano have been the "aces" of the staff, and the bullpen has been fantastic. Looking at Sheets' numbers, he may already be injured. Sound familiar??? Zambrano maybe?

That's the key. I think some people were happy with a .500 type team based on the Cardinals success with an 83 win team last year. There was never a guarantee that 83, or even 85 would win this division, and there still isn't. Likewise, there's no guarantee the wild card will come out of the east or west. I came into this season expecting 92-95 wins would win the division, but now I'm not so sure that the the Brewers, Mets, and Braves aren't all capable of winning that much. I also expected the Astros to be a little better than they've shown thus far, but they have a nack for getting better as the year goes on. It might all play out at the trade deadline. I don't really see any trades out there that will make us much better, but the prospect of Wood returning to the bull-pen could be a nice jolt for us (I'm not banking on it).

When pitching is good, pitching is good. It usually doesn't go up and down. Their hitting may cool a little, but they'll keep pitching well throughout the year.

I personally think that we'll be watching the Braves come September as opposed to the Brewers. I think that we'll play well, but the Brewers will still run away with the division and it will come down to us and the Braves for the wild card. What do you guys think?

If anyone would have thought that Hamilton was absolutely ready to get over the shiite he was going through, he would have been the first pick in the draft. Everyone knew he had the talent to be a big league star, but he didn't have the head. It remains to be seen how long he'll stay sober.

I pretty much agree with everything, but I don't like the fact that the Royals don't seem to want to get better. It seems like the Pirates and Brewers at least try. The Royals just seem to be in it solely to make money. I hate the Florida teams because of their fans. Now, retract or relocate... if they could find a good market (like OK City), then I'm all for relocating, but I don't know if they can. The Pirate owners are definitely only in it to make money. The Royals at least put up a front to pretend like they were trying this offseason. The Pirates didn't even do that. They acquired Adam LaRoche, that's pretty good.