UMFan83

I'm not touching this becuase I was against it from the start.

you're going to judge him on one night? every pitcher has a bad night. does webb suck because the padres scored 5 off of him last night? he must not be the diamondback's best pitcher by your logic. Zambrano hasn't been the best pitcher on the Cubs this season. Hill and Lilly have been better. who do you start game 1 in the playoffs (assuming they're all equally rested)? don't know about you...but i start big Z. Honestly, I wouldn't. I think he would be too jacked up for game 1 and be all over the place. Although, he might be jacked up any game of a playoff series that he starts. Kinda like 2003 when we gave him a 3-0 lead in game 1 of the NLCS and he preceded to give up 3 HRs in a span of 4 batters when he only gave up 9 HR all year. i was at that game in atlanta. he was what...21 yrs old then? not sure its still relevant to today. First of all I'm talking about the game in Chicago. Game 1 NLCS. And also, I wasn't using that to make a point. I probably shouldn't have added that because it sounds like I'm using that to support my argument. I am however having a hard time remembering any big game where Zambrano has pitched well. Here are instances of him not pitching well in big games: -2003 playoffs (save a pretty good Game 5 NLCS performance) -2004 last ditch effort to catch up to the Cards in the last meeting of the year, he pitches poorly and goes headcase and beans Edmonds intentionally. -2005 gets ejected on Opening day after 4 2/3 with a huge lead -2006 goes 4 2/3 on Opening day after getting a 5 run cushion to work with in the bottom of the first; starts April and May terribly as the Cubs fall behind and win 66 games -2007 Pitches poorly and loses on Opening day; pitches terribly in April and May again as the Cubs start out slowly; 8.59 ERA in 4 straight August starts as the Cubs are in a pennant race

you're going to judge him on one night? every pitcher has a bad night. does webb suck because the padres scored 5 off of him last night? he must not be the diamondback's best pitcher by your logic. Zambrano hasn't been the best pitcher on the Cubs this season. Hill and Lilly have been better. who do you start game 1 in the playoffs (assuming they're all equally rested)? don't know about you...but i start big Z. I'd start Hill. I'd start Lilly. I'd go Lilly, Zambrano, Hill, Marquis (I'm 99% positive that Lou would start Marquis over Marshall)

you're going to judge him on one night? every pitcher has a bad night. does webb suck because the padres scored 5 off of him last night? he must not be the diamondback's best pitcher by your logic. Zambrano hasn't been the best pitcher on the Cubs this season. Hill and Lilly have been better. who do you start game 1 in the playoffs (assuming they're all equally rested)? don't know about you...but i start big Z. Honestly, I wouldn't. I think he would be too jacked up for game 1 and be all over the place. Although, he might be jacked up any game of a playoff series that he starts. Kinda like 2003 when we gave him a 3-0 lead in game 1 of the NLCS and he preceded to give up 3 HRs in a span of 4 batters when he only gave up 9 HR all year.

Zambrano will be 14-11 with a 4+ ERA after this game. Maybe next year he will not proclaim Cy Young awards and just shut up and pitch.

3 innings through. Today through 3 he was looking pretty good too.

This year has just been awful save his 6 amazing weeks. The other 14 weeks of thte season he has been unbelievably bad.

8.59 if you take out his decent start against the Mets. What is it if you take out his worst start? 6.46 I think the point he was trying to make is he has a 8.59 in his last 4 starts. A couple more like this and the Cubs should consider Mike Musinna'ing him

He's 0-2 since the signing, 0-4 in August

We all know how that turns out. Do we have the pitching advantage? Lilly has struggled in August, and hes a lefty which the Brewers murder. On the other hand, we are facing a rookie lefty, who we can't hit. Brewers will win the game and the series tomorrow.

Z's ERA in August is officially 7.36 in 29.1 IP (5 starts)

Our Ace's ERA is 6.75 in August in 29.1 IP. His ERA actually went down today depending on the number of inherited runners that score.

YAY CARLOS ZAMBRANO! OUR BIG $91 MILLION ACE!!!!!

Great performance today ACE!

I predict that the bullpen comes in, the Cubs lick their chops and come out super agressive and make a bunch of quick outs.

If anything, the Brewers team is inspired by his great performance tonight

Remember when he had like 6 HRs in April?

Gateway Redbirds has a thread up about it. Here is the link to the speculation: http://www.stltoday.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=479632 Sorry I would have put this in rivalries, but with the pennant race heating up, I figure it would be better to place it here with more traffic. Also sorry if this was posted already. I looked briefly.

Kendall's AB with DeRosa on third is looming large right now.

Inning ending DP just like last nights 6th inning ended

Not allowed to have a 20 HR hitter on the team

Is it just me or does it seem like all Ramirez can do with that outside pitch is foul it away? It's not a terribly bad thing, but it's just something I noticed.

Z will come back out for the 7th. Too big of a game. Actually 94 pitches in 6 innings is pretty effecient for Z sadly

How many times is he going to get into trouble with 2 outs and no one on

Yay we got Hart out