UMFan83
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I think for the fourth year in a row, this game has proven that these two teams are equally mediocre and frustrating. Michigan was a lot less than mediocre those first 2 season. I'm ok with a mediocre season if it turns out that way, I guess. Way too much to look forward to in the coming seasons to be down on UM football.
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Ugh that was a killer. Michigan had plenty of chances to win this.
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You do realize we have 6 games left against the other 2 terrible teams in the NL right? Win 4 of those, and we don't even have to worry about tomorrow or the Diamondbacks series. Oh yeah and we still have 3 outs to score at least one run today. I'm just not expecting much out of the road trip Sweep the Astros next weekend and we only need to win 1 out of 6 games on the road trip. -
You do realize we have 6 games left against the other 2 terrible teams in the NL right? Win 4 of those, and we don't even have to worry about tomorrow or the Diamondbacks series. Oh yeah and we still have 3 outs to score at least one run today.
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I feel like every time I look DeJesus is getting a big hit or having a good game at the plate but he's only hitting .266 with an OPS in the .750s and I think a 1.2 WAR. Not that those numbers are terrible but it feels like his numbers should be better than that.
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Anthony Rizzo's last 20 games: .333/.393/.593/.986, 6 2B, 5 HR, 17 RBI, 6 BB, 12 K in 93 PA Really nice to see him pick it back up after a pretty poor August. Him and Castro have been raking this month.
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Yep. Though it's also a bit annoying with fantasy football. I'm so lucky. I wasn't paying attention this week and about 10 minutes before last nights game started, I checked and realized that Nicks and Bradshaw were both out (and both in my starting lineup). So I replaced Bradshaw with Brown (waiver pickup earlier in the week) and upon scouring the FA pool for a last minute WR, I saw Ramses Barden and said 'what the hell, Giants are down 2 WR maybe I'll get lucky'. Earned myself 46 points by remembering to check my lineup.
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I did not realize that this is Carpenter's first appearance all year. Seems like he's always coming back from injuries against the Cubs. Maybe he'll be rusty and we can eek out a W despite Volstad pitching.
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Damn you're right, 5-7. That's probably not going to happen. lowest paid attendance of the year for the Cubs, 25,891
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100 losses is looking a lot more likely after losing the last 4 games. Cubs now need to go 5-8 or better to avoid 100 losses.
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Was he even in the MILB Names Bracket? Answering my own question: he wasn't ugh...to their credit there are a crap load of awesome names in that bracket http://www.milb.com/milb/fans/moniker_madness/y2012/index.jsp
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Was he even in the MILB Names Bracket?
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Of course we're going to lose because our RF overruns a fly ball in the wind
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They're just so irrelevant that I don't even think about them outside of when I'm waiting for talk radio to be done talking about them (sort of like with hockey). I'm not sure if you were living in the city in 2005, but it was awful. Even stupid things like 'Support your White Sox by wearing Sox gear to work on Friday' memos just pissed me off. Walking through downtown and seeing everyone and their mom wearing Sox gear and seeing signs and flags up everywhere. Having idiot Sox fans come up to me at the Cubby Bear of all places and making fun of me for wearing a Cubs hat during a Sox World Series game. Watching Sox fans decide to celebrate their world championship by gathering right in front of Wrigley Field and chanting 'CUBS SUCK' and '1908!'. My friend was at a bar in Wrigleyville the night the Sox won it wearing a Cubs hat, and on his way back to Rogers Park some drunk idiot Sox fan approached him while waiting for the Red Line and got in his face and yelled "HAHAHA CUBS SUCK!! GO WHITE SOX!!!". When my friend responded by saying 'go [expletive] yourself', the Sox fan jumped him and started pounding on him right there on the platform. So yeah, I'd prefer to avoid all that [expletive] again.
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I started reading your post and about halfway through it I looked at your info to confirm my guess that you do not live in Chicago. I didn't care about the White Sox when I lived on the East Coast. Unfortunately, I moved back to Chicago in time for the 2005 baseball season, and it was hell on Earth. I live in fear that I will have to one day live in a world where idiot White Sox fans are celebrating another World Series title and taking every opportunity to belittle Cubs fans. It's just really annoying and their fans are idiots, so it does bring a healthy amount of hate to the table.
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wtf was that Castillo? He knows he doesn't need a home run right?
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This. Fine. Assuming the Os and As actually meet for the wild card game, we cheer on the winner.
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There was nothing wrong with the questions they asked him. The only thing I take issue with is the national media taking snippets out of context to push their agenda. I didn't think they were necessarily wrong questions per se, but I was annoyed at how many different ways they were asking the same questions. I don't feel bad for Cutler or anything because I'm sure he probably knew going in he was going to get grilled, but it got to the point where Cutler wasn't going to have anything else interesting to say about the incident and they were still finding ways to dig into him for more. I guess my annoyance comes from the fact that I cant stand how big of a deal this incident has been, and I don't think we needed to spend 40 minutes of an hour long show on the topic, especially when it sounds like Cutler specifically chose this forum to interact better with the fans, and he actually does have a lot of insightful things to say. It just felt wasted spending so much time discussing something like that.
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The whole situation is so insanely idiotic. It makes me so mad that this is still being discussed. I couldn't believe the questions Waddle and Silvy were asking Jay yesterday. It was almost insulting the way they asked the same question in a million different ways and are almost begging Cutler to say something quote worthy. Cutler should be given the Nobel Peace Prize for not decking Silvy on stage for some of those questions. Why is this such a big deal? And I don't even think the meatheads Bears fans even care about this. I havent heard one person talk about the Webb/Cutler incident other then on the radio, tv and newspaper. Because its not a freaking big deal. But I have heard someone on one of the national ESPN shows the other day criticizing Chicago fans for being so hard on Cutler. Just because the media has a hardon for something doesnt mean the majority of Bears fans even give two shits.
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Ugh. Reds magic number for clinching the Central is 4. I believe that they can clinch at Wrigley with wins the next 2 days and Cardinal losses. While tomorrow's (Thursday's) game is a day game, apparently Cardinals/Astros is as well, and it actually starts 35 minutes before the Cubs 1:20 start.
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Given that, my first thought would be that he's there in case of emergency, like another extra inning game where they need more arms. But then again, its September, so there should be no shortage of arms on the roster. Also, since there has been a lot of Orioles chatter on NSBB lately, I think we should adopt the Orioles as our team for the playoffs.
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Yeah I know, Mike and Mike were going off on him a few minutes ago. They were saying 'I dont care who you are, part of this job is to deal with the media, and you have to do it'. Yes no [expletive], maybe he should start a weekly radio show where he can discuss whats going on with him and the team and address any criticisms from the media/fans. Oh wait that's exactly what he did. So he goes on this show, gets grilled with somewhat tough questions, over and over, keeps his poise and answers them all, only to have 10 second snippets pulled out and overanalyzed mostly out of context the next morning.
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Chad Ochocinco homered to right center
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thanks for reminding me. they will put this on podcast later today. I have listened to his first 2 shows and have found him to be very entertaining. Jay owns Silvy the whole show. He does, but he also gets some knocks on Waddle when discussing his WR abilities...but to be fair, Tom is just as eager to make fun of himself as well. Silvy is just an easy target.
