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Is Busch always this quiet when they play non-Cubs teams?

HANK WHITE!!!!

Adrian Gonzalez and Albert Pujols are good. They have both RBI's and it's 1-1 in the 4th.

It was nice to see the Cards waste a lead off double, while failing on a squeeze play in the same inning. Hopefully the Padres can do something against Lohse.

If Cutler blows out his knee tonight, what's your suicide method of choice?

Think he'll actually respond to anything in here or will he continue to make up an imaginary person with thoughts that have never been expressed here and claim to be smarter than him?

Are you talking about the entire Pirates line up?

PS, there have also been some really mediocre teams to win/make it to the World Series and there have been some really, really good teams who didn't even make it. Some mediocre teams are the 2006 Cards, 1987 Twins, the 1973 Mets, the 2003 Florida Marlins was pretty crapshoot-esque as well. Also some of the really good teams to not even make it are the 2001 Mariners and the 2008 Cubs and a couple that come to mind but I know there are more than that.

In all honesty if you don't understand that baseball is a crapshoot when it comes to any shorts series, playoffs or regular season, you haven't followed this sport for very long. In a 162 games season, even the crappy teams pull off a hot streak, and they do it against good teams sometimes too. What's to stop a mediocre to slightly above mediocre team from hitting a hot streak and beat teams who are better than them for a 15, 16 game streach? Any major league pitcher is capable of shutting down a team, especially one that is on a playoff team, if two or three pitchers get in a groove than a mediocre team turns into a pretty good one, at least for a short period of time. On the flip side any great team is going to have a cold stretch and it's very easy for that to happen in a 3 or 4 game span considering it happens many times through out the season. What turns this into a crapshoot is this; do these hot/cold streaks happen at the same time, which involves a fair share of randomness and luck, or not. The odds are they won't if the difference between a good team or bad team are high, but it's not like they are improbable odds because in ML baseball, the difference between the best and the worst isn't that much in a 2-3-4-5 game scenario. PS I'm not proofreading this so I hope it makes sense and isn't just incoherent rambling.

Let's continue marching on forward with the power of anti-suck.

they're not presenting it as competition with the nfl, they're presenting it as a minor league for the nfl. if i understand it correctly, any player can be signed by an nfl team off the roster of a ufl team. i don't think this is a bad idea. people are into football in the late summer/fall and watch a lot of college/nfl. all the leagues held in football's "offseason" have failed so why not do one concurrent with the nfl season? to me, it's smarter to have a league that runs september to november than one that runs in the spring during march madness, nhl/nba playoffs and the start of major league baseball. who gives a crap about football at that point? I agree that the league playing at the same time as the NFL might be a good idea. I love to watch any kind of baseball in the summer, but I don't really care that much about watching any fall or winter league when other sports are on.

I don't think it would necessarily be too hard to trade Miles in the offseason given that he only has 1 year left. There was inexplicably interest in him from multiple teams before he was signed. He was also coming off of an ok year last year though wasn't he?

I like playing AA teams.

It's not as if the beer-throwing wouldn't have gotten national airtime ad nauseum if the game weren't on ESPN tonight. I don't know. TV networks seem to avoid putting poor fan behavior on shows. Either way, the idiot cub fan stereotype lives on. We can always revel in the fact that our fans never tried to beat up an old man first base coach or an umpire.

I don't think so. Right after he threw it, Victorino threw the ball in looked up and he was pointing at him, they definitely got the right guy. What a tool you're wrong. i've watched it three times on my dvr. the guy they grabbed was just being a loudmouth. a douchebag with the sweatbands on his forearms threw the beer. I'm not so sure being thrown out of this game is punishment anyways.

I hate our fans sometimes.

Seriously, if our offense can come through and get a 5 or 6 run inning with this we could have a shot.

But is it win-win-win? only if it causes Aaron Miles to opt out. If Hendry is gone after this season (or during) i don't see any reason why the whoever takes over would keep Aaron Miles. He's going to follow Hendry out the door. The only reason to keep him would be because we'd have to pay him to not play baseball. Of course that's a much better option than paying him to play baseball.

The comeback is officially on.

But is it win-win-win?

Are you sure Sam Fuld can't play all three outfield positions? Maybe its time for Lou to complete his voyage to toon town and put Grabow, Marmol, and Wells in the outfield. He should replace all position players with pitchers.

Are you sure Sam Fuld can't play all three outfield positions?

After being a Cub fan for sooo long.. I don't want to be optimistic anymore. It's heartbreaking and nothing good comes from it, especially being a fan of this team. Meh, I have to do something until football starts.

Even if we do leave a trail of carnage between the Reds, Nationals, Brewers, Astros, and Pirates, if it is enough to make it to the post season, wed run right into these guys or the Dodgers, and than this will happen. If it were any other sport but baseball I'd agree, this Cubs team would have no shot in the playoffs. But if we were to get there, I've seen the inferior teams make a run so many times in this sport that I would at least have a lot of hope. Plus, I think we'd have a strong chance if our pitchers were healthy (I don't mean to utter this scary phrase from 5 years ago but it's true).

In all honesty I still have a bit of hope. The last few games we've been throwing some crap pitchers out there on the mound and it was against two of the best teams in the NL. Hopefully Z and Lilly come back and pitch well and we can beat the bad teams. We're only two back in the loss column (unless the Reds comeback) so it's far, far from over. We're going to have to play well though because the Cards aren't going to slump that often I don't think.