NCCubFan

I think whatever was broken has been fixed.

Yeah, he needed more than 9 pitches to strike out the side. Sham!

Guthrie? No thanks. Been there, done that (twice). :D http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/guthrma01.shtml

Says you. :twisted:

Hmm, I wonder who you're talking about. :D If the similarity to the Dbacks includes making the playoffs and advancing feel free to keep making that comparison all year long.

Um, the point was to think of GOOD things.

Milwaukee is a streaky team. Right now they're red hot, but the bottom can fall out without warning, especially with 7 road games coming up vs. Minnesota(the 1 team in baseball thats hotter than they are) and Arizona. The Demon Birds, on the other hand have been playing consistantly good ball since the begining, and show no signs of slowing, and thats with argueably the best player in the league injured and no pitchers anyones ever heard of. Now Phat Alberts coming back Thursday, and they're 4 games into their 6 game road trip in Boston and Detroit, which was supposed to be the beginning of their demise, and the worst they can do now is go 3-3. I don't see how you can draw that big a distinction between the chickadees and the drunks when they sit 1.5 games apart in the standings, and are actually both 2 of the better teams in baseball. They're both pretty darn good baseball clubs. We just happen to have found ourselves in one of the stronger divisions in baseball this year. If we want to win this thing, we're going to have to claw and scratch our way to it just like anyone else would have to. I don't see any 10-game margins in the standings any time soon, as some have predicted. Im just saying the Brewers are less likely to stay as hot. Right now, they're getting great production from guys like Branyan and Torres, who are less than likely to keep it up. Braun and Fielder are the only sure things on that team. Everyone else comes and gos on as they please. If the Cards do end up falling off, it will be due to pitching, not offense. They have a team full of gritty little pests, who surround a few power hitters, and the biggest power hitter of all is coming back in a few days. Dont expect the Royals to repeat last week. Theres really no reason to keep Cedeno on this team. We have 4 middle infielders in DeRosa, Theriot, Fontenot, and now Patterson. If we need another somewhere down the road, we could try Andres Blanco, who cant be any worse. The only reason they wont let him go is becuase he doesnt have an option, and some team will take him on. I say, let them have him. Right now, his only value to us is as a part of a package trade, and that value dwindles every time he does anything. No, that's not the only reason (although it may be a reason). He's the only one of the backup infielders that plays SS.

Zuleta doesn't fit since he was never a star. Hill might.

No one is bickering here so I assume you are talking about a different thread but why does it matter what thread people post in as long as it correlates to the thread title? Also isn't bickering and arguing the point to message boards? I have no idea what's going on so I'm pretty much just asking what is up because I'm lost as to why you posted this. She wasn't talking about bickering in the sense of constructive debate, but rather the personal pissing matches that many, many threads (including this one, before the offending posts were removed) have devolved into. And that most certainly is NOT the purpose of message boards.

The official word: Marshall up, Ward activated, Johnson to the DL, Hoffpauir to Iowa.

Blasphame!

All Cub fans, and I'd say just about all baseball fans period, understand the significance of 1908. However, several other years ending in the number 8 have resulted in significant events in Cubs history. 1918: The Cubs return to the World Series for the first time since 1910, in what back then seemed like an eternity. 1928: ? (Paging Fred for help here :D ) 1938: Gabby Hartnett's famous "Homer in the Gloamin'" and the last World Series appearance of the every-three-years pattern (1929, 1932, 1935, 1938). 1948: First year of WGN televising Cubs games. 1958: First of back-to-back MVP seasons for Ernie Banks. 1968: Cubs put up consecutive winning seasons for first time since 1945--1946 (second of what was eventually 6 consecutive winning seasons, 1967 hrough 1972). 1978: First high-profile free agent for Cubs (Dave Kingman). 1988: 8-8-88--Let there be light! Also, first All-Star bid for Greg Maddux. !998: Kerry Wood's Rookie of the Year season (highlighted by 20-strikeout performance); Sosa-McGwire home run race and MVP for Sosa; Wild Card (when Neifi truly did save the Cubs); on a sad note, the deaths of both Harry Caray and Jack Brickhouse the same year. 2008: 5th anniversary of NSBB (hopefully something much more significant will occur in October).

I'm not sure about Chris. He last posted on June 7 and was last logged in on June 16.

Personally I don't think that's necessary. Even if a majority would be in favor of it I believe even a minority with work issues should be sufficient to prevent it. As others have pointed out, it's no big deal to click on a URL. Embedded videos here are totally unnecessary.

I'm sure that's what will happen. That did happen in 1969 (yes, I actually remember that).

Actually they had one in the mid 70s (Bill Madlock), but they were too stupid to keep him.

It's a one-calorie cola from Pepsi that's sweetened with Splenda rather than NutriSweet.

Cherry Coke.

I don't think that's necessarily far-fetched. I think the Cubs as a whole just needed one year under Piniella and Perry to shake off the Dust, and this year's the payoff.

Especially after this That game was the reason WHY they did it. Exactly. Selig made a stupid call in 2002, so to make up for it he makes an even worse decision to ensure that he won't make any more stupid decisions during the game. Apparently it never occurred to him that there could be other ways of ensuring that there would be a winner in the All-Star Game.

Despite my loss, I'm still in playoff position into the second half of the season. That's the first time I've been in the top three this late in the season.

And don't forget the Cubs got Johnson for free too. He hasn't contributed as much, but he was certainly worth the cost. :D

Nah, you should have waited nine more days and made it exactly one year between posts. :D

To play off that, I forget what it was, but I think either just before the TOR series, in the TOR series, or TB series; the string was snapped, of 20-some straight games that the Cubs had a lead in - or Len kept reminding us (not that I minded being kept in the know of such a stat). :wink: I remember that; I believe it was snapped the same game the 9-game winning streak ended.

The magic number is 82. :D