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I don't mind too much that he was called out. Umps give the catcher the benefit of the doubt a lot in those situations.

Cmon a K is better than a DP but please

See we don't need Murton. Fukudome more than makes up for the "weakly hit perfectly hit grounder for a basehit quotient"

What a complete moron. He's officially a liability on the basepaths.

Fat guy trys to run on Fukudome and our linebacker/catcher

They both were. They called it at almost the same time.

Kosuke is offically a Cub now.

oh man, lost in translation? What a subpar defensive day for the Cubs.

This could be his "Mark Prior running into Marcus Giles moment"

I really hope he is not hurt..

Hey El Caballo Ronny Cedeno is better than your shortstop. HAHA okay dude. I didnt come here to argue so I will just leave it at that. Horrible argument to make because one of the players has made an all star team and then showed that he didn't deserve it afterwards, and the other has only shown the ability to be competent for one month.

If DeRosa gets on, every positional player on the Cubs will have 2 PAs.

Cardinals are 18-11 now. This isn't funny anymore.

Ronny better be in the lineup tonight. If he hit that well against Suppan when he was Rnny Ceen, imagine what the new reformed Cedeno can do to him.

Yeah he stayed in the game. Probably just got the wind knocked out of him.

I would think Brewers fans are saying the same thing about Dempster. They're too busy mozzerella sticking their way to an early grave. Strangely enough, outside of Milwaukee and Green Bay, I have found the people of the state of Wisconsin to be in exceptionally good shape in spite of all the beer drinking and cheese eating. They're just outside doing stuff a lot. This still surprises me even after going to college in Wisconsin for 4 years. I agree for the most part, but off the beaten path it's a very different story I went to UW Oshkosh, and before that a small liberal arts college outside of Sheboygan, and while for the most part, the college people were in pretty decent shape, your average townie looked like they could drop dead at any moment. Wisconsin ranks much better than Illinois for overall life expectancy. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/sep2006/db20060913_099763.htm That's what happens when you carry a humongous city who has a visible percentage of its residents at or below the poverty line and whose population dominates the state proportionally.

Guys, after shivering through last nights brutal game, I've decided a night in my warm house alternating between GTA and watching the cubs game is much more appealing. I am hoping to rid myself of tonight's bleacher seats (2 of them). Ideally, I'd like to sell them for face ($40) but I am willing to listen to best offers, as my desire to get rid of these is pretty great. PM me an offer. I live in Wrigelyville and will be able to meet anytime after 5:30.

Thoughts about this game: -Marquis is horrible. Has he had a start all year where he didn't give up liners all over the place? Maybe his second start, I can't remember. You can't put someone in your rotation who goes 2-0 to EVERY hitter if you want to be a very good team. -Sad to say, I don't think Hart is a major league pitcher right now. I don't blame Lou for putting him in the situation he did, although I couldn't believe no one was warming up in the 5th when the first 2 came on. In fact I don't think anyone started warming up until after the bases were loaded. It's a one run game Lou. -The Brewers look awesome. I know this has been said a million times, but they managed to stay within 2 games of us despite everyone on their team hitting below their potential, without Cameron, and with Sheets or Gallardo not in the rotation at the same time. Meanwhile, the Cubs pitching has been mediocre, but their bats have been awesome and this is where we are at. If the Brewers stay healthy, I expect them to win the division by at least 5 games, assuming no moves are made at the deadline (and you know there will be, possibly by both sides. I expect the Brewers to make a big trade in July, Cubs better respond) -That said, the Cubs will be alright. It's amazing they were able to walk what 8 times despite not getting very much solid contact on Sheets all night. If they can walk consistently, this is about as worse of a slump as you can get with this team. The key is, they are going to need to make a move for a #2/#3 starter if they want to keep up with the Brewers. I think the Brewers are a 95 win team, the Cubs a 90 win team right now.

I would think Brewers fans are saying the same thing about Dempster.

Obviously being showcased for the Greene trade ;)

You'd have to pay me to go to this one. Its going to be miserable out there. Those of us who bought their 9 game plan back in January thought this was going to be a great time for a game. Alas, with the weather pathetic and GTA IV being picked up after work, I have no idea why I am going. I have tickets to tomorrows game as well... At least with the cold weather, the Brewers bats might be cold, making Jason Marquis more effective. At least that's the way I drew it up in my head.

Look at his home/away splits: http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/bsplit.cgi?n1=greenkh01&year=00#locat-hmvis Get him away from those cavernous ballparks in the NL west and he tends to rake. You mean like those cavernous places where offense goes to die like Arizona and Coors? The splits would be more informative if the OPS+ number was adjusted for the league, not the team also. The split is obviously hinged more on Petco than anywhere else. It's a pretty startling difference, especially in regard to his power numbers. It's not a stretch at all to think that his home numbers would drastically improve hitting in a place like Wrigley as his home park instead of Petco. Didn't people here do an analysis and determine that Greene could have hit 10 more HRs last year if he played somewhere other than Petco?

Soriano, LF Johnson, CF Lee, 1B Ramirez, 3B Fukudome, RF Soto, C Greene, SS DeRosa, 2B please

From RealGM: Exact passage in the Union-Tribune article:

If you are going to use that green text thing, can you guys agree to use one that doesn't blind me with brightness? How about this one?