Soul

Sweet Lord Jesus please stop sucking.

LOL. Somehow the Cubs always find their way into the worst possible situation.

He's not pitching around anyone. He just can't throw strikes.

I feel as helpless as a mouse in a hurricane.

Here we go. You know it's coming.

LOL. Walks him without a fight. Ready for the great big blow?

It's all sudden death for the Mets now.

Alright that's it. Where can I put some money on a team blowing a lead during a ballgame? If I have to watch this club blow game after game, I'm gonna make some cash off it dammit.

Right on cue, the bullpen blows it. I need to start making some money on this crap. It's just too predictable.

Come on Rocky.

I struggle with it too. But it's growing.

Here comes the bullpen to blow it. But no additional runs will score, just the ones already on base. Just enough to lose, but not hurt their box score :roll:

I wouldn't be either. There's no way we hold this lead. There will need to be more runs, or we will lose. Wow, that's a great attitude....I think we hold the league with one of the hottest pitchers in baseball on the mound. What do you want? It's not like we've been shutting teams down after getting a lead all year, or anything.

I wouldn't be either. There's no way we hold this lead. There will need to be more runs, or we will lose.

DeRosa's junky.

No!

DeRosa's regressing. Badly.

Do NOT waste this chance.

I didn't until you just said it. What's up with that? We should play 3 more against the Royals dammit! 8-)

Well, not exactly Interleague schedules: Cubs: 3 vs CHW, 3 at CHW, 3 vs SEA, 3 at TEX Brewers: 3 vs MIN, 3 at MIN, 3 at TEX, 3 at DET, 3 vs KC Cardinals: 3 at DET, 3 vs LAA, 3 at KC, 3 vs KC, 3 at OAK Astros: 3 vs TEX, 3 at TEX, 3 at CHW, 3 vs OAK, 3 vs SEA, 3 at LAA Cubs: 9 vs mediocre (CHW, SEA), 3 vs bad (TEX) Brewers: 3 vs very good (DET), 6 vs mediocre (MIN), 6 vs bad (TEX, KC) Cardinals: 3 vs very good (DET), 6 vs good (LAA, OAK), 6 vs bad (KC) Astros: 6 vs good (LAA, OAK), 6 vs mediocre (CHW, SEA), 6 vs bad (TEX) Based on this, the Cardinals actually have the toughest interleague schedule with 9 games against good teams. Their schedule just appears easier because they have 6 against the worst AL team. The Cubs probably have the easiest schedule out of all the teams with no true good teams on their schedule. Note: Even though both are 2 games over .500, I classified the A's as good but the White Sox as mediocre because of each teams RS/RA differential. I don't mind classifying Oakland as good, but I still think the White Sox will finish at least a bit above .500 so I don't classify them as mediocre. The Cubs still have only 3 games against a truly bad AL team, compared with 6 for everyone else in the division. I understand the fascination with these natural rivalries, but I don't agree that KC should be St. Louis' natural rival. There's nothing there; KC hasn't been up to it since the '80s. They should be playing someone else, or rotating until they find an actual worthy rivalry.

It's not a matter of getting upset with Angelo. It's more the Bears, and Angelo, being upset with Snyder for the whole dog and pony show at the meetings. Ahhhh, gotcha.

Why would you trade Alex Brown? I love this move with Hester. From Turner's comments it looks like he wanted Hester on offense all last season and it took till now to convince Devin... I just posted it because of this quote from ESPN Insider: Call me crazy, but I didn't think the Briggs deal falling through was any reason to get upset with Angelo. I thought it was a good deal at the time because I realize someone is going to try and play off Briggs' anger and try to fleece him from us. But they were only offering a swap of picks. It wasn't like they were giving us the moon, or even close to the 2 1st rounders that the franchise tag says we should get. Anyway, on A. Brown -- I get the feeling the Bears are just waiting to be sure they have what they think they have in Mark Anderson, then Brown or Ogun will be traded. But I don't think they'll be sure enough to do it before the season. I could be wrong.

With Hester moving to offense does this mean that Daniel Manning is definitely moving to corner with Mike Brown moving to FS and Archuleta playing SS? Our defense still scares me to death...who is going to lineup next to Harris? Dvorak, Tank? I think if Briggs doesn't play he can be easily replaced because the weakside LB in the Cover 2 is a position made for people to make plays. Nothing confirmed about Danieal Manning moving to CB as of now, still just talk. I think it will happen, though. Our DT depth is certainly going to take a hit with Tank likely to miss at least half the season. The rotation right now is Tommie Harris, Tank Johnson, Dusty Dvoracek, Israel Idonije and former 49er Anthony Adams. I forogt we signed Adams...that helps a lot. It does, and I think one of the big questions out of camp will be if Dusty is ready to play serious downs, or if we will be utilizing Adams alot. Izzy will likely still be deeper on the depth chart.

Yeah, and I just want to point out that we're coming up on the stretch where the Brewers and Cubs play actual major league teams (Twins & White Sox, respectively), while the Cards & Stros get to take their annual tour of the minors (Royals & Rangers). Gotta love how that works out. So the Crew will have a tougher schedule than a few other Central teams. So will we. That could change things a bit.

Between Wolfe, Hester, and Olsen, the Bears got one hell of a lot faster on offense this season. Olsen will blow away most linebackers with his 4.5 speed, Wolfe runs a 4.38, Hester runs in the low 4.3's. This is going to be nothing if not interesting to watch. I can imagine Ron Turner is pretty happy about the possibilities, unlike after last year's draft.