Soul

I'll bet my bottom dollar if we're within a game of 1st place that house will be full of Cubbie blue.

Back in the early 80's Wrigley was pretty empty. I remember buying the cheapest seats and moving to box seats. Everything changed after 1984. The CUBS had a lot of crowds in the hundreds back in the early/mid sixties. Gave the fans a chance to get to know the players !! :wink: The Cards are dead. Long live the Cards !!! I remember a few empty houses when I was a kid. Everything did seem to change in 1984. I don't remember anything quite this bad though, and obviously it wasn't like the Cubs were only 4 years removed from a World Championship. Marlins fans just aren't very good. I guess they've got other things to do, but still. I would think just watching the Sept. callups develop would draw more than that to the ballpark. Aren't there any Marlins fans who follow the minors and look for the young players to start developing?

Worst fans in baseball, always have been ever since they came in. The Marlins' article claims 10,000 -- obviously almost all no-shows. It would be cool to go to a game like this though, wouldn't it? You'd probably be able to hear what the players were saying on the field, you could literally sit wherever the hell you wanted. There would probably be an echo when a hitter cracked a line drive. Surreal.

Ankiel gets ahold of one....it's back, back...... ..dies on the warning track, game over. Mwahahahaah.

Ding Dong! The Cards are dead. Which old Cards? The Wicked Cards! Ding Dong! The Wicked Cards are dead. Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed. Wake up, the Wicked Cards are dead. They're gone where the goblins go, Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out. Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low. Let them know The Wicked Cards are dead!

Look at Brad Thompson's picture on Gameday (Cards) and tell me that's not a woman trying to look like man.

They aren't playing 5 games better than both the Cubs and Brewers in a 2 1/2 week span. Christ, die already.

Now here's the challenge-can somebody find that clip for us? Boers & Bernstein used to play it at the end of every show, but I haven't listened to them for a long time.

Greenie & Golic have been playing it over & over, laughing (with Ronnie, not at him). It's cool....but to be honest there are better Santo clips out there.

A split with the Cards would gain them nothing and effectively kill them. They need to take 3/4 from us or it's over. Cards' collective backs are now against the wall.

Fielder in the OF would be sheer and utter hilarity defined. LOL, yeah. Good times. Iso camera on Fielder at all times. Separate pay-per-view Fielder camera. :)

It does sound like a strange provision...

Yes the Cubs have many more problems than Dempser but any aggresssion toward posters who have simply pointed out that Dempster was horrible last year and mediocre (at best) this year is misguided and should be redirected at Hendry for giving Dempster ($5.3 million per) and Eyre big contracts after career years. Just because the game shouldn't have made it to extras doesn't mean Dempster with his 2 - 6 record and 3.88 ERA should be given a free pass. Demp was fantastic the 1st half this year, and there is no denying it. So far this year hes appeared in 57 games and allowed a run in 11. Hes had a rough August and Sept but before that he was pitching as good or better than any closer in baseball. So in the last two years, he's been bad 3/4 of the time and (even if you throw in his career year of 2005) he been bad half the time over the last three years. I expect better for $5.3 million a year. Over the last two years, he's lost 15 games and has an ERA around 4.40 - He's definitely trending downward. IMHO, Dempster is simpy reverting to the mean and 2005 was a fluke. You could be right. I just look up at the scoreboard every night and see the Cubs struggling to hold on to 1 run leads while our rivals cruise with 4, 5 run leads. It pisses me off. Pull away from someone for a damn change. And not just one weird 12-run game, either. Start blasting the damn baseball consistently. What do you mean "could be"? :lol: Holding out some small sliver of hope that he will trend back upwards? I know -- foolish. :wink:

Yeah, that sounds pretty good to me.

Yes the Cubs have many more problems than Dempser but any aggresssion toward posters who have simply pointed out that Dempster was horrible last year and mediocre (at best) this year is misguided and should be redirected at Hendry for giving Dempster ($5.3 million per) and Eyre big contracts after career years. Just because the game shouldn't have made it to extras doesn't mean Dempster with his 2 - 6 record and 3.88 ERA should be given a free pass. Demp was fantastic the 1st half this year, and there is no denying it. So far this year hes appeared in 57 games and allowed a run in 11. Hes had a rough August and Sept but before that he was pitching as good or better than any closer in baseball. So in the last two years, he's been bad 3/4 of the time and (even if you throw in his career year of 2005) he been bad half the time over the last three years. I expect better for $5.3 million a year. Over the last two years, he's lost 15 games and has an ERA around 4.40 - He's definitely trending downward. IMHO, Dempster is simpy reverting to the mean and 2005 was a fluke. You could be right. I just look up at the scoreboard every night and see the Cubs struggling to hold on to 1 run leads while our rivals cruise with 4, 5 run leads. It pisses me off. Pull away from someone for a damn change. And not just one weird 12-run game, either. Start blasting the damn baseball consistently.

Cesar Izturis - 197 AB's That's true. I think leaving Soto to rot in the minors in favor of Hill & Bowen will still go down as a major mistake this season.

Yeah I'm still trying to figure out how I stopped watching this game @ 8pm with the Cubs having 4 runs, and checked back 3 hours later and they still only had 4 damn runs. How many GD ABs do you need to push one more run across to win the damn game? This offense is just quite simply junk and it's been that way for most of the year.

The way Rich has been pitching lately, I think that qualifies as a freudian slip.

I'm at the point where I'm wondering what kind of voodoo LaRussa will have to pull to keep them in it. I'm not sure about the Cubs, but I definitely don't see the Brewers playing 4 games worse than the Cards from here on out. And if it's a tie, the game goes to Miller Park where I'm pretty sure the Crew would pound the Cards into the sand. I'm hoping the Cubs just outpace both of 'em of course.

Making your boss look like a fool is a tough sell. I realize it's for the good of the team but this is a sticky situation imo. I don't see how skipping Trachsel makes Hendry look like a fool. Hendry makes Hendry look like a fool. Trachsel pitching makes Hendry look like a fool. Lou deciding he's seen enough of Mr. Experience makes Hendry look like the guy who hired the right manager. Can't Lou just come out and say something like "Trachsel gave us the innings we were looking for, blah blah blah, he did well in his role, blah blah." You know, totally lie about it and make Hendry look better......then move on and do what's best for the team.

I don't mind it if Lou makes Hendry's move look pointless. Considering that it was pointless, I'm gonna go ahead and say that Jimbo should swallow the ego and admit it and move on.

It's really bad, wow. I love how Tony's just letting him rot out there. Funny stuff.

Ohhhhhh, that would be so nice.

MIKE MAROTH FOR FREAKING CLOSER MAN! 8-)

Kendall's going to drive Mike to drink.