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WOAH. What the hell just happened to my broadcast.

That's an..interesting..lineup.

Oh, and just for kicks and giggles, here are the first few games of his gamelog in 2006 CarGm TmG Date Opp DR GmReslt Pitcher Result IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA BF Pit Str StC StS StL GB FB LD ?? GmSc IR IS SB CS Pk AB 2B 3B IW HB SH SF RE DP WPA LevI +-----+---+---------+----+--+-------+--------------+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+------+--+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+--+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+ 107 5 Apr 9 STL - W 8-4 5-5 0.2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 4 22 13 9 2 2 3 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -7% 3.05 108 6 Apr 11 CIN 1 L 2-9 6-7 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0.00 7 28 18 8 7 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0% 0.01 109 9 Apr 14 @PIT 2 W 11-6 6-6 0 3 2 2 0 0 2 6.75 3 15 8 4 0 4 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -24% 1.17 110 44 May 22 @FLA 37 L 1-9 4-5 1 3 2 2 2 1 0 9.82 8 46 27 17 7 3 4 0 1 0 2 2 2 0 0 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3% 0.15 111 97 Jul 23 @WSN 61 L 1-7 6-7 2 1 2 0 1 3 0 6.35 9 31 21 6 6 9 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1% 0.14 As you can see, he pitched on april 9, 11, and 14th and then was not heard from again until mid May. Then he went right back down to the minors before coming back up and sticking with the team on July 23rd. Actually, this illustrates the short leash they've had with him pretty well. He had two good games to start the year, then after ONE bad outing on april 14th he was sent back to the minors. He came up in mid may, was poor in his only outing, and then was not seen or heard from again until June.

Year Ag Tm Lg W L G GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER HR BB SO HBP WP BFP IBB BK ERA *lgERA *ERA+ WHIP +--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+---+-----+---+---+-----+-----+----+-----+ 2005 26 CHC NL 6 2 75 0 0 0 12 0 75.7 60 36 32 6 40 89 0 7 319 7 0 3.81 4.40 116 1.322 2006 27 CHC NL 3 1 41 0 0 0 4 0 40.7 35 14 12 5 16 42 1 1 175 2 0 2.66 4.63 174 1.254 As you can see, after pitching in 75 games in 2005 and putting up respectable numbers, his appearances were cut nearly in half the following year. Here's a better look. Wuertz appeared in all of FOUR games the first half of the season: I Split G GS GF W L S CG SHO IP ERA H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP +-+------------+---+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+-----+------+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+ 1st Half 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.2 9.82 8 4 4 2 3 0 4 0 2nd Half 37 0 4 3 1 0 0 0 37 1.95 27 10 8 3 13 2 38 1 Oh, and here are his numbers from AAA that season: Pos Player Age W L W-L% G GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER HR BB SO HBP WP BFP IBB BK ERA WHIP +---+--------------------+----+---+---+-----+----+---+---+---+---+---+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+---+-----+---+---+------+-----+ RP Michael Wuertz 27 30 0 0 0 24 10 42 30 10 8 2 9 67 1 3 168 0 1.71 0.93 So he pitched in 30 games in the minors that year compared to 41 in the majors. So yeah, he was stashed in the minors for a good portion of the year.

So that would be why Kosuke was hanging around the family room before the game. Interesting. Also, Rob, sober up and start the game thread

so, you're gonna have fun working the bleachers for the cubs-sox series? i don't envy you for that weekend. Yeah, I'm not looking forward to it one bit. Just please, god, don't make the weather as crappy as yesterday. Heat + alcohol leads to lots of trips to first aid and, yesterday, it led to some guy bleeding all over me.

Yeah, while that was funny I still can't stand the whole cubs/sox rivalry. It turns everyone into raging idiots over something that...really doesn't matter.

That was and AWESOME call by len.

Glad you all had fun. Today was miserable in the bleachers. The Uni's were cool as hell though.

Booooo. [-X Okay actually that was pretty good.

There was a girl I went to highschool with whose last name was Robinson and first name started with a B. She was very easy. Thus, We began calling any type of STD "BRob's" That is all I have to add to this.

What's your thinking for that? The Phillies can hammer the ball, but they pretty much have one starter. And so do we. Z is a stud, but outside of that Hill has been shaky, Dempster is pitching way above his head, gallagher is doing decent but nobody is expecting him to be a top notch starter his first year and then there's marquis...

That and there's no way in hell the Cubs win the division by 25+ games, which they would have to do in order to clinch by September. Well, there's always that.

And Lou will say it is to save Sori's legs as not to hurt his fragile feelings. Hooray for random bashing.

I saw that fantasy sign ups are open on Yahoo now so I figured we might as well get the preliminary stages of this rolling, too. Are we still going with 3 keepers? If so, these are my keepers. The Football Team 1. Maurice Jones Drew 2. Reggie Wayne 3. TJ Houshmanalphabet.

It's amazing what one good year can do for you. I've came in 7th, 8th, and 2nd and i've still got the 3rd best record.

Our magic number is currently 96...just in case anyone wondered. 8-)

Great article. I didnt realize the HOF game was an exhibition. That's stupid. Do they allow both teams to expand their rosters for the game? I would hope so.

Our schedule is so jacked up this year. We were done with 1/3 of our home games before the end of may.

From that awesome thread:

Oh my god, that's disgusting.

SHAMMITY SHAMMITY SHAM THE CUBS SHAM THEMSELVES INTO A VICTORY KERRY SHAMS A SAVE I LOVE YOU SHAM KERRY SHAM WOOD!

Sweet god that pitch is nasty.

DERREK LEE CARLOS MARMOL ORGASM

DeRosa > your teams 2nd baseman.