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Well so far the 3 day rest thing isn't working out well

Bad start, 9 pitches and an IF hit. Blah

Are you trying to test the Cubs?

Yup

I admit to heavily campaigning for JD Drew, Jason Schmidt and (last resort) Barry Zito to be signed to the 2007 Cubs. Instead of JD Drew the Cubs signed Cliff Floyd. Neither have been very effective, but at least Cliffy is only signed for potentially another year. Instead of Jason Schmidt or Barry Zito, the Cubs signed Ted Lilly and Jason Marquis. Ted Lilly has been a pretty good addition and while I still hate Jason Marquis contract a lot, its better then getting absolutely nothing from Jason Schmidt and a mediocre season from Zito, who were both signed for longer and at more money. However, in 2005, I did campaign to sign Magglio Ordonez. We got Jeromy Burnitz instead.

Well time to help your worries Chris Young Splits: Home - 4-2 1.47 ERA 0.95 WHIP in 12 starts Away - 5-5 4.11 ERA 1.17 WHIP in 15 starts ERAs by month: April - 4.33 May - 1.13 June - 1.52 July - 0.41 August - 5.48 September - 6.19 Dave Bush has been terrible lately. After struggling in July and August, the Brewers rotation save Bush has been great. Sheets has been good post-injury besides his last start, Gallardo had a period of ineffectiveness after teams got a book on him, but hes figured it out and has 21 straight scoreless innings currently. Suppan has stepped up and become a reliable middle of the rotation pitcher finally. And replacing Vargas with Villenueva has really helped stabilize the rotation.

I don't know if this info is accurate, but this is what I found after a brief google search: http://www.petcoparkinsider.com/2007-mlb-postseason-schedule-nl-playoffs The Cubs will not have homefield advantage unless one of the teams really swoons, so potential game 3's according to this would be on Saturday Oct 6th. Game 4's would be Sunday Oct 7th.

He was BA's number 7 prospect (just below Hunter Pence) for the Astros in 2005

Oh gosh, I am getting nervous now....gotta get my plan in motion http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports_hardball/2007/09/cubs-playoff-ti.html Thank God for the VWR, I am pretty confident I will get tickets to at least 1 game. I am going to be greedy and go for game 1.

This will be Paulino's first major league start as his other innings have come out of the pen.

I think we are at a disadvantage today with Z going on 3 days rest (ask Jake Peavy a couple weeks back how that goes) against Harrang today. I also think we are neutral with Z vs. Gorzelanney (tough lefty).

Thanks, I edited it to reflect that. Kinda sucks that Z is almost neutralized in his last 3 starts by Harrang (twice) and Gorzelanney. Looking at the pitching matchups, I think the best case scenario is going 8-3 and the worst case is going 5-6

I know there have been some threads similar to this topic, but I want to make one thread to put official matchups the rest of the year. Everything until Monday is listed on ESPN's pitching probables page. Everything after is my speculation. If you learn of an update, please reply and I'll change it. Note that I am about 90% sure that the Cubs and Brewers rotations are correct, the opponents might have some changes. CUBS Thursday off Friday Jason Marquis vs. Paul Maholm Saturday Rich Hill vs. Zach Duke Sunday Carlos Zambrano vs. Tom Gorzelanney Monday off Tuesday Ted Lilly vs. Doug Barone FROM HERE ON IS SPECULATION Wednesday Jason Marquis vs. Dontrelle Willis Thursday TBD (Marshall/Trachsel/Hart?) vs. Scott Olsen Friday Carlos Zambrano vs. Aaron Harrang Saturday Rich Hill vs. Tom Shearn Sunday Ted Lilly vs. Matt Belisle Potential one-game playoff vs. Brewers (Monday) Jason Marquis vs. TBD (Gallardo on 3 days or Villenueva) BREWERS Thursday Jeff Suppan vs. Jeff Bennett Friday Carlos Villanueva vs. Tim Hudson Saturday Yovani Gallardo vs. John Smoltz Sunday TBD (Claudio Vargas/Ben Sheets/Chris Capuano) vs. Jo-Jo Reyes Monday Dave Bush vs. Todd Wellemeyer Tuesday Jeff Suppan vs. Adam Wainwright (according to ESPN) FROM HERE ON IS SPECULATION Wednesday Carlos Villanueva vs. Braden Looper Thursday Yovani Gallardo vs. Jack Cassel Friday TBD (Claudio Vargas/Ben Sheets/Chris Capuano) vs. Greg Maddux Saturday Dave Bush vs. Chris Young Sunday Jeff Suppan vs. Jake Peavy (Brett Tomko will likely pitch if a playoff spot has been clinched)

Guys don't worry about the protest, earlier this year an umpire added a run to a Indians-Orioles game 3 innings after the run had been scored. That protest had a lot of backing and it wasn't overturned. There is no way this will be overturned.

You can thank me for suggesting this starting now.

CUBS' remaining schedule (12).... Gm# Date Opponent Score Starter Opp Starter 151 Mon 09/17 Cincinnati N - Hill Arroyo 152 Tue 09/18 Cincinnati N - Zambrano Harang 153 Wed 09/19 Cincinnati N - Lilly Shearn 154 Fri 09/21 Pittsburgh - Marshall Maholm 155 Sat 09/22 Pittsburgh - Marquis Van Benschoten 156 Sun 09/23 Pittsburgh - Hill Gorzelanny 157 Tue 09/25 @ Florida N - Zambrano Willis 158 Wed 09/26 @ Florida N - Lilly Mitre 159 Thu 09/27 @ Florida - Marshall Olsen 160 Fri 09/28 @ Cincinnati N - Marquis Arroyo 161 Sat 09/29 @ Cincinnati N - Hill Harang 162 Sun 09/30 @ Cincinnati - Zambrano Shern dangit, we play every teams ace. Between Willis, Harang, Harang, Gorzelanny, the pitching roation could not have come out worse. On the toerh hand, we might not face too many no-name lefties. It really upsets me that Milwaukee gets to miss Oswalt (whose wife is having a baby this week, otherwise he would pitch) and Peavy in their series coming up. Not fair.

Those of us who work for a living are glad for the night games :)

Earlier in the day I found 14 seats in a row together.

That is by far the best choice. Brand the sucker and send it to the HOF. When Bonds eventually goes into the HOF and takes his tour around the place, he will see that branded baseball and see what he did to the game.

Just letting everyone know that wants to goto a Cubs game but doesn't think they can get tickets. I just pulled up 14 tickets in one section, as well as pulling up 8 bleacher seats for tonights game. I am guessing with school back, yet the Cubs contending, there will be a big walkup crowd to this game, so get your tickets now!

How are the splits broken up? I don't know, but completely guessing I would assume that they were very good in April and May, ok in June, bad in July and August, and improving in September.

Our offense would probably be more effective against the Chiefs than the Bears was.

He is so boring on the radio. He has no excitement. I swear I listen to Brewers games occasionally on 620 AM when I'm driving (in Chicago, you can get great reception during the day, so-so at night) and I swear you cannot tell anything about the game based on his voice. A game winning home run will sound like a popout the way he calls it. Sometimes when I'm doing something and miss the start of a Cubs game and I turn on Pat and Ron, I can tell immediately whether the Cubs are doing good or bad based on their tone of voice. Would never ever guess with Uecker

I think a lot of the negative reaction from fans is from that fact that every time he has a bad start, fans start to expect his season to go downhill and his numbers to look like last years. No one liked this signing, and everyone was/is waiting for him to fail. When this season is over, people will look at his numbers and realize that he had a pretty good season for a 4th/5th starter and even though he is overpaid no matter what, he showed that he can be effective and help the Cubs win.

Except Burnitz was a corner OF with below average defense, while Theriot is a SS with above average defense.