Soul

I sense an 8-game bender.... Without Wood, Prior, and Lee this team is really a bottom feeder.

Time to go mow the lawn.

Wait til he goes to another team. Then you'll see the real Eckstein. I swear just putting on a Cardinals jersey boosts your OBP 70 points.

Nope. He certainly doesn't.

PEANUT BRITTLE! :evil:

Come on Glendon-----keep it going.

Is it his soulful but squinty eyes, his impish smile, or his ample belly? :shock: :? :o :lol: 8) I fully expect you to change your name to ManCrushOnGlendon. 8) If he pitches like he has so far over the course of the season, I'll start a fanclub :)

Is it his soulful but squinty eyes, his impish smile, or his ample belly? :shock: :? :o :lol: 8)

I think we should bring Prior back in a couple weeks. Enough babying with these guys. He can throw. So throw.

He's finally starting to become what we thought we were getting. Very true. I am impressed as well.

Glendon is looking rather good today. Of course, now I just jinxed him.

It's difficult to even describe the pain I feel having to watch Mabry come to bat instead of Derek Lee.

and the LaRussa payoffs continue

Replay clearly shows Ramirez was safe.

Rolen K's. Walker ran us out of an inning. Not good, but I understand what he was trying to do.

Hendry: "nobody's going to give us their good players in April" He's right. But I think it's safe to say there will be no trade to replace Lee.

By the same token, when Walker, Ramirez and/or Mabry get on (and after Jones inevitably strikes out) we have Murt to drive them in. But Murton should definitely be batting fifth in this lineup. You'd think matchup-loving Dusty would at least put Murt sixth to split up the lefties. :? Totally. Dusty must be in a daze with Lee out. Then again, is he ever not in a daze?

So when Murton gets on base we have Blanco and Rusch to drive him in. That's encouraging. :roll:

Worst game of the season, because I was hoping the team would rally in the face of the Lee catastrophe and it didn't happen.

I think Murton and/or Cedeno need to be ahead of Jones. Dusty probably won't do though. Murton and Cedeno have been getting on base only to watch the pitcher come up. That's poor.

Agreed. There just aren't a whole lot of attractive options right now. Any lineup sans Neifi is probably decent considering our situation.

That would be my fix as well, but I doubt Dusty sees it that way. Wouldn't mind Neifi in late-inning duty, but I think Hairston is the odd man out with the Dusty dice. not so far. lets hope he continues to make good decisions. I think it was only because a lefty was on the hill yesterday. I'd rather not see Neifi, but knowing Dusty...

Honestly, if you want to be an uber-pessimist, that's fine. But you don't have to preach it like the gospel. We can all see what is going on, and don't need people exacerbating our existing frustration. If you want to vent, that's fine. But the "I told you so" BS is really annoying. Sorry to have annoyed you. I will cut the "I told you so" B.S. immediately. It *definitely* seems like some people on this board won't accept any criticism of the Cubs whatsoever no matter what happens. Not singling anyone out----just seems that way. And that's fine too. But there needs to be some balance to the discussion when catastrophies like Wood & Prior or Lee happen. These are crushing blows. CRUSHING. Some like to ignore them and move on. I don't. And I don't see how either view should be attacked. Seems like people who try to say "things are not good" around here get attacked and labeled. I think that's completely unfair, especially in our current situation. It's a shame that Wood is going to join the long list of pitchers who had their careers cut short by being delayed a week with tightness below the armpit. I was more referring to Lee, and Wood & Prior being unable to be healthy in general. But it does bring up a good point that I find myslef wondering about. Is Wood really unable to continue his training regimen? Or are the Cubs just treating him with too much sensitivity? If he's really that fragile that he can't get through a simple ramp-up to regular season strength, then maybe his career is just about over. But I wonder if they are just being too careful. Everyone has aches and pains. At some point don't you have to play through them? If I decided to skip work every time I woke up feeling less than my best, I'd use up my sick days in no time. I hope the Cubs aren't denying Wood a chance at getting his career back on track just because they can't distinguish between a normal body ache and something more serious.

Honestly, if you want to be an uber-pessimist, that's fine. But you don't have to preach it like the gospel. We can all see what is going on, and don't need people exacerbating our existing frustration. If you want to vent, that's fine. But the "I told you so" BS is really annoying. Sorry to have annoyed you. I will cut the "I told you so" B.S. immediately. It *definitely* seems like some people on this board won't accept any criticism of the Cubs whatsoever no matter what happens. Not singling anyone out----just seems that way. And that's fine too. But there needs to be some balance to the discussion when catastrophies like Wood & Prior or Lee happen. These are crushing blows. CRUSHING. Some like to ignore them and move on. I don't. And I don't see how either view should be attacked. Seems like people who try to say "things are not good" around here get attacked and labeled. I think that's completely unfair, especially in our current situation.

Yeah, I really don't see how people doing stupid dances on top of taxis makes you want to drink Pepsi. LOL.