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They bailed out Eyre. He can't just sit every game if he's on the roster. Ecspecially with a 5 man bullpen (which includes a LOOGY). Stop blaming Lou for the top of the 9th. He didn't want to pitch Marmol, Ohman, Howry for the 3rd or 4th straight day. This is on Hendry/Eyre/Howry. I don't mind spreading out the blame because all those guys listed there deserve some of it too but Lou also deserves a lot of it as well. Yeah, it's just too much to put Eyre out there for 3 innings. 2 was pushing it. He wound up using Howry anyway -- and probably more than he would have if he would have used him from the beginning of the inning. I mean, I think everyone understands what Lou was trying to do, but Eyre for 3 innings just won't work there's no way. -
Now *THAT* is the life of a Cub fan!
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Now that MUST lead off BBTN. 8-)
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Wow, just. Wow. Soriano bails out the bullpen, and Lou.
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That was luck. Bases jammed, but 2 out. Soriano up.
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$115 million payroll, and we get Hill hitting in the most critical situation. Oh yeah, this is the year.
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Oh, man, this one's gonna sting for a good long time. Losing streak likely coming up.
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Pie picked off in 3.....2......1...
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oh my that might be worse than the mets game LMAO, I love these charts, they're freaking hilarious. The only time anyone posts them is when they show the Cubs just falling off a cliff like a suicide jumper :lol:
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Blame this one on Lou. Eyre lucked his way through two innings. There was no reason to send him out for the ninth. If Lou lets Howry start his own inning, this game has a different result. I suppose. Howry's been pitching pretty much every day though. I can't stand seeing Eyre on the mound, ever, so yeah Lou should have known he was playing Russian Roulette and he had already gone through 5 empty chambers :cry: I still say if Eyre can't get anyone out, he should simply be DFA'd, forget about the contract money, we're essentially paying him to lose games for us. DFA makes more sense than that.
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Who said we aren't signing Tillman? Where are you getting that?
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Wow, the Bears news coming hot & heavy today!! Nobody can say we didn't try with Tank, but keeping him around after this would have turned the Bears into pushovers. You get one second chance, as they say. Good deal on Vash: Gotta love that.
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Have we discussed the inevitability of the Commissioner's
Soul replied to Warren Brusstar's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
C'mon the Cubs are 7.5 games out of first. It's not like we are battling back and forth for first place. I am assuming the Brewers aren't even looking to this weekend as a 'big series' Not unless we sweep them. From what I've been hearing on local radio, they consider the Cubs to be the only team that could possibly stop them, and they definitely consider this weeked to be a big chance to put the dagger to us. Please no. Not the dagger. Haha, sorry 8-) -
You're starting to sound like Hawk Harrelson. Cut it out! :D I know, I can't stop! I've got Hawk disease. Dad-GUM IT!
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Have we discussed the inevitability of the Commissioner's
Soul replied to Warren Brusstar's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
C'mon the Cubs are 7.5 games out of first. It's not like we are battling back and forth for first place. I am assuming the Brewers aren't even looking to this weekend as a 'big series' Not unless we sweep them. From what I've been hearing on local radio, they consider the Cubs to be the only team that could possibly stop them, and they definitely consider this weeked to be a big chance to put the dagger to us. -
Would be real nice to get the *good* Guzman back to buttress that staff. I have no idea what's going on with him though. Woody -- I'm not going to allow myself to get my hopes up about him, probably ever again. It's too much of a yo-yo for me.
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Yeah, that's what gets me. The guy goes silent for entire freaking innings sometimes. I've heard games where it's essentially DJ alone doing play-by-play and color for 3 innings. And DJ's no top baseball announcer. So, it's incredibly bad. But Hawk is so entrenched, he's not leaving. No skin off my back -- I rather enjoy knowing the South Side has the worst booth in baseball.
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Anyone else now unable to stop saying "DADGUM RIGHT!!!"? I can't help myself :twisted:
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Anyone here trust Selig to pimp the right guy on us? I sure as hell don't. Who the heck is this guy anyway? I've never heard of him until now. Canning? Who? Selig's trying to push a lame duck on us to keep us down, dadgum it!
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I don't know. The Bears are mum on the subject for now.
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After they realized what had been called Hawk was complaing that Rapuano didnt make the 'dead ball' call immediately. So he began to refocus his ire on him for an inning. "There gonna sit down and talk to Rapuano about this one". The production of CSN was a load of crap to WGN (i watched the CSN on mlb.tv later, while watching the game live on WGN). In the bottom of the 8th inning the best CSN had of the video was from a first base dugout came where you can see Pagan slammin into Uribe. It was a very poor shot, they had one of those 'spotlights' on Pagan and the thing was all over the place. It was high school audio/visualesque. Thats BS! :D DADGUM RIGHT! :lol:
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At some point, it would seem to make sense that Prince will head over to the A.L. and be a DH. Might be a few years, though.
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I'd still give Jocketty the keys to the Cubs offices if the opportunity arose, despite agreeing that he has gotten lucky on some players. Luck happens to many GM's, and not always the good ones. I'd give Jocketty a shot because he seems to have a pretty good handle on what it means to build a contending ballclub while maintaining salary sanity. That's something we could use, IMO.
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Well, in all fairness (I try to be fair, many times unsuccessfully :)), for the White Sox this isn't a frustrating game in isolation. What we saw yesterday was probably more a culmination of the frustration that has been going on for the past 4 months, really. The corks really blew off the bottle on that play, but it's probably been coming for awhile.
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Unless the CSN crew somehow didn't have a 3rd base or a home plate camera, their failure to put up a replay inside of 15 or 20 seconds is inexcusible. The fact that they never showed the obstruction at all* is enough to make one wonder if they knew what had happened but decided to sit back and enjoy the carnage. Maybe they hate Hawk and DJ as much as we do. *I've only seen the youtube video, so if they showed it in the bottom of the 8th, or the 9th, I wouldn't know about it Wouldn't the two broadcast teams be sharing the same cameras for the game? They should have had the same view Bob and Len had--only they know how to call a game instead of fuming like two drunk whining fans. They must have had a separate control truck or something, because I'm pretty sure I remember the WGN broadcast re-showing the obstruction several times, but then going back and looking at the Comcast broadcast it didn't look like it was ever shown until a later inning (if at all). The more I think about this the more I wonder if the Comcast producers just let it continue to watch Hawk nearly have a heart attack :)
