Careless

Maddux does not enjoy throwing 20 pitch innings

I was amused when the wild pitch against lily broke it last night, it thought that it was the third out and cleared it

This is going to be a 90 minute game, assuming someone scores

Maddux scoffs at 9 pitch innings

Yes. 2 well hit outs and a single.

And we have a bunch of shirtless "E-d-m-o-n-d-s" guys in the bleachers. boo.

what happened? They had a whole bunch of kids say the pledge of allegiance before the anthem Better than hearing "god bless America" though

Well that was weird

Well, we know that Edmonds is hitting 6th today

Playing Pie was a low-risk move with a potentially high reward. this is a medium risk (by hurting player development) move with a low potential reward. Probably the best answer to the OP yet.

He has? For the last month, he's been playing as his career numbers indicate...decent against lefties, horrible against righties. except he's been hitting really badly against lefties, too. his l/r OPS are .001 apart. (much higher obp for lefties, slg for righties)

Lofton's line before the cubs traded for him: .277 /.333/437 Edmonds line before the cubs signed him:.178 /.265 /.233

Pie is still young, and there is no reason to believe his career is over or mismanaged to minutia. What surprises me is so that so many people around here are surprised by this move. Hendry and Piniella have repeatedly stated a desire to find a left-handed HR potential to plug in the 5-spot. Pie, even is if he excels in his limited role so far, doesn't fit the bill for this season (emphasis on this season). It is debatable, obviously, whether or not Edmonds fits the bill, but clearly management feels he has a better shot this year than Pie at satisfying the need. I don't see this as being about approval or disapproval of Pie's production. It's about the 2008 lineup puzzle that Piniella and Hendry obsess over. They want that lefty HR potential in the middle. Switching gears: should Edmonds get in the lineup and produce at all, it's likely Fukudome finally moves up to 2-spot and Theriot down to the 8-spot, which means we might see Lee and Ramirez hitting in the first inning with Fukudome on about 40% of the time all season long. I like that quite a bit. So to get a #5 hitter with hr power, they signed an old guy with 1 hr in 90 ABs this season and 12 in 365 last season. That's a miserable failure at procuring the desired player type. He went from 1 hr every 11 abs in 2004 to 1 every 17 to 18 to 30 to 90 (ok, last data point is weak, but I'm keeping it). This is a guy who would be lucky to hit 15 hr if he played a whole season.

has anyone done a study about whether or not this cub-killer effect from ex-cubs, white sox, and cardinals effect exists?

praise jebus!

No, there is no one up in the Cubs bullpen

If we lose this, I'm probably not the only person taking a week or more off

Strike 1 was a really nice pitch

Don't have a problem with this. Only pitched once or twice in the past week, I think, it makes sense And really, anything but marmol here

And wood will be pitching the 9th

I kind of hope that Piniella is in a coma that ends right after our season is over Or, say, aliens abduct him and take hiim to see amazing things for the next 5 months, then return him unharmed

I knew it already because of the communist thing, but you're not nearly as cynical as you should be Of course he was going to take Marmol for 2 when he put him in in the 7th

I expect marmol would still pitch the 8th if there was a HR here and then an out

yes

I despise you, Piniella