Roast

Yeah, doesn't help that he's not getting the corners of the plate at all, though.

BRADLEY

Well, at least he tried to go the other way...

Raamiiirrezzz

Jesus that was murdered. Sure glad we gave up that out now.

Wwwwooooowwww

Theriot has been one of our better hitters. We've got one on and nobody out. Jurrjens is having problems hitting his spots. And we give him an out?

Well, thats because on CSN they don't use a green screen. There are actually advertisements scrolling in that box. However, when ESPN comes in they just put a big piece of plywood with that bright green paint on it (or that's what it looks like it is) so they can do their greenscreen stuff. EDIT: CSN, not espn.

FUK!!!

Oh come on, that pitch was a ball for wells.

I really want to see Ramirez get a few hits today. Hopefully hit the ball with some authority. We need that.

If wells isn't going to get strieks on the corners this game might suck. and YAY RAMIREZ

wow, how is this not blacked out on ESPN. Awesome. Also - already some derek jeter verbal fellating.

No, what would be ideal would be a real shortstop and move Theriot to short or make him into a Chone Figgins type utility player. Except there's no way in hell theriot could play third. He's not even good at short. And his arm in the outfield would be Jacque Jones-esque.

and second.

I was researching some sports blogs for my internship and saw this on one of them. Holy hell. The blog I found it on called it a double murder, but...it's not an official news source so IDK how trustworthy it is.

Looking at the 60613 area code (i was looking at the loop's forecast before) it seems like the window is from noon-2 and rain is expected from 2-6ish. But that's from accuweather and they've been wrong a lot this year. So go figure.

I hate the Cubs they are doing everything they can to draw me back in. This better be for real this time... Oh, and on a game-related note - the forecast looks nasty. I'm down for about a 10 hour game though, considering today is a holiday and i'll be making upwards of 15 bucks an hour. Gotta love time and a half. But yeah, I'm not sure we get this one in. Forecast says rain is likely from noon - 2. Then the chance drops to 50% from 2-4. Then apparently at 4 it looks like it's going to rain again. We might have a small window but just from the forecast it does not look promising.

So there's absolutely no chance we sign this Chapman guy, right?

Because these are the cubs.

to add, I can't count how many times I've seen someone in the outfield (usually johnson) Make a nice play and it usually takes milton all of 3 or 4 seconds to get over there and slap him on the rear or give him five. There's a lot of things you can say about milton, but saying he doesnt care is just insane.

More... Both of these are by Joe Dugan on Babe Ruth: "Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree" "To understand him you had to understand this: He wasn't human." And some more for fun: "I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me...but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch." --Ty Cobb "I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor" -- Cobb, again. "I sometimes have to file my nails between innings" --Joe Niekro after being suspended for having said file. "Ruth made a grave mistake when he gave up pitching. Working once a week, he might have lasted a long time and become a great star." - Tris Speaker in 1921 And finally (for now) a few from Casey Stengel: "Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself." --What he allegedly said to his barber. "Been in this game a hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before." -- While managing the Mets "I have no hobbies. Most of my off-season time is taken up with baseball business. If it isn't, I'd quit and get out of the game. Baseball is my very life, my one consuming interest" "Say, I've got a tip on the market for you fellows. Buy Pennsylvania Railroad, because by tomorrow night about a dozen of you bums will be on it, riding in all directions." - To his 1921 Toledo Mud Hens after an extraordinarily shameful defeat when he found them in the clubhouse studying the financial pages. The team apparently had lots of former major leaguers who had invested their money in stock.

Oh, and then there's this speech Dick Durbin gave to the House in 1989: "Mr. Speaker, I rise to condemn the desecration of a great American symbol. No, I am not referring to flag burning, I am referring to the baseball bat. Several experts tell us that the wooden baseball bat is doomed to extinction, that major league baseball players will soon be standing at home plate with aluminum bats in their hands. Baseball fans have been forced to endure countless indignities by those who just cannot leave well enough alone. Designated hitters, plastic grass, uniforms that look like pajamas, chicken clowns dancing on the baselines, and of course the most heinous sacrilege, lights in Wrigley Field. Are we willing to hear the crack of a bat replaced by the dinky ping? Are we ready to see the Louisville Slugger replaced by the aluminum ping dinger? Is nothing sacred? Please do not tell me that wooden bats are too expensive, when players who cannot hit their weight are being paid more money than the president of the United States. Please, do not try to sell me on the notion that these metal clubs will make better hitters. What is next? Teflon baseballs? Radar-enhanced gloves? I ask you. I do not want to hear about saving trees. Any tree in America would gladly give its life for the glory of a day at home plate. I do not know if it will take a constitutional amendment to keep the baseball traditions alive, but if we forsake the great Americana of broken-bat singles and pine tar, we will have certainly lost our way as a nation." -Dick Durbin

"It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport" - Calvin Coolidge "Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior..I have not attended very many big games, but I don't believe you can find a more ardent follower of baseball than myself... as a day seldom passes when I do not read the sporting pages of the newspaper. In this way I keep a close tab on the two major leagues and there was one time when I could name the players of every club in both leagues." -- Thomas Edison Two other real good ones.