CubbieBum

It's not opening day, it's the home opener.

there are two differences between this and the stadium in tampa: 1) less cowbell 2) bad metal not blaring out at deafening levels of the speakers this is one of the reasons i want to go see a game at wrigley. on tv i don't hear or have seen much prompting on the scoreboards or the speakers for the crowd to get up and make a bunch of noise. tropicana field and great american ballpark reminded me of cardinal stadium on the kentucky fair and expo center (former home of the louisville redbirds nee bats who are now in a much nicer place), which had all the fan features of a high school football field and made lots of noise to get the crowd involved. considering that those were my first ever major league games i was not impressed by the atmosphere they tried to create. i thought the bats did it better, and they were expected to do that because they're minor league. Every park could use more cowbell.

Um, Berg is already up. Whoops, meant to say Gray. If I were you I would just go sit in the corner.

If Hoffman is in it means we are down. I would rather not see him at all when we play.

Davis has a 3.20 ERA in 16 starts against the Cubs with a sub 1.2 WHIP and almost a strikeout per inning. So yeah he owns us.

Have you made any post in the last month that wasn't negative? All you do [expletive]. Sure things aren't great now but I can't stand people who never discuss anything and only post whiny crap.

Kim is intriguing. Phil is being a complete idiot with using driver over and over. Tiger is showing rust. Westwood is not able to do anything but save par. Choi is consistent but may need to hit a big shot to win it.

He has gone into the pines in almost every round and not been hurt much by it.

Because otherwise they would be called home runs.

Hole in One!

CSN just showed Grabow and only Grabow in the pen. Better.

Caridad warming up according to CBSSports. :banghead:

Time to pull Soto for Hill because there may be a play at the plate.

Next scheduled start is Pittsburgh so it may be awhile.

there's really no reason to talk about andy that way If Andy could back then he most definitely would. so you're saying that his current gf is dtf? Actually have no idea. I've never met his gf. He always goes home to South Bend on holidays and that is the only time I make it up to Indiana. Whatever she does it has to be better and more than what he had we were roommates.

there's really no reason to talk about andy that way If Andy could back then he most definitely would.

True. I was meaning more short term. Long term it means we are being patient and we should start hitting better but short term it means we just aren't swinging well (or getting extremely, extremely unlucky).

They got to make up for the lovefest that it normally is with Tiger.

Is it that toothpicky?

The top two things everyone already knew. We are hitting home runs but they are almost all solo shots. However, the third stat is very surprising to me. Basically we are being patient and seeing pitches. This is somewhat alarming to me because it means we are being patient at the plate but not hitting still.

Read his post again. He says he would take a soft tossing lefty against a Dusty managed team i.e. the Reds. He is talking about Gorz going against the Reds, not Leake against the Cubs. Leake is a righty.

Ladies please. I would never get in an argument like this. Jeez.

I agree with you that examples weren't good but in general baseball has resisted technological advances. like what? baseball upgrades technology all the time in the name of better functionality. If this thing is useful, you think a team will drop $15 mil on a first round draft pick but balk at $2,000 or whatever that this costs? It was a stupid thing to say. i hate when people act like they have intimate knowledge of something when they're just spitting things off the top of their heads to appear like an aficionado. Who is the one just spitting things off the top of their heads? You are acting as if this is a lock to be accepted and used widely. I said baseball of all sports tends to stick to the way things have always been done for as long as they can. Doesn't mean this won't take off and be used widely but in general baseball resists technological advances and this may be one that takes a year or two to spread (the original post was 5-10 years which I said I disagreed with). Lasik surgery is the best example I can think of right now. It is still not used by everyone even though it can help tremendously. I don't see the point in someone who has near perfect vision getting it but there are plenty of guys who were contacts and the such in baseball when they could get Lasik and have perfect or better vision. lasik isn't used by everyone because it's a surgery and it's expensive. i'm talking about billion-dollar baseball teams popping out a couple thousand dollars to be proactive toward injuries to their million-dollar pitchers. And Lasik is a couple thousand for millionaire baseball players who need every advantage they can get. But whatever we are basically in agreement on this. You think it will be a very fast adaption to it and I think it would take a year or two. Pretty close in reality.

Some people get bored with sex at home and like the adrenaline from the risk of getting caught in public. Do you speak from experience? No I speak from having a [expletive] roommate who would go out on our shared deck with our neighbors and do it with his girlfriend because they were both sex addicts.

I agree with you that examples weren't good but in general baseball has resisted technological advances. like what? baseball upgrades technology all the time in the name of better functionality. If this thing is useful, you think a team will drop $15 mil on a first round draft pick but balk at $2,000 or whatever that this costs? It was a stupid thing to say. i hate when people act like they have intimate knowledge of something when they're just spitting things off the top of their heads to appear like an aficionado. Who is the one just spitting things off the top of their heads? You are acting as if this is a lock to be accepted and used widely. I said baseball of all sports tends to stick to the way things have always been done for as long as they can. Doesn't mean this won't take off and be used widely but in general baseball resists technological advances and this may be one that takes a year or two to spread (the original post was 5-10 years which I said I disagreed with). Lasik surgery is the best example I can think of right now. It is still not used by everyone even though it can help tremendously. I don't see the point in someone who has near perfect vision getting it but there are plenty of guys who were contacts and the such in baseball when they could get Lasik and have perfect or better vision.