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This is simply not a very positive development.

We're in some trouble now, dammit.

Honestly, Madison does not have its share of 9s and 10s. It was kind of rare to see them out there. However, it wasn't until I left for Cleveland that I realized what Madison lacked in quality it made up for in solid quantity. There were a ton of 6s and 7s in Madison. Poor Cleveland. Come to think of it, the last time I was in Cleveland the female showing at the ballpark was pretty pathetic. Yesterday at Wrigley, that was more like it :)

He's making some solid contact. Too much for me to feel comfortabl.

I'd rather it not be Helton hitting right here.

That is, until the camera cut to her face? Pretty much, but I don't have very high standards. :D What can I say? Wisconsin had quite the impact on my life. Haha. You just have to know where to go. Stay away from Milwaukee where all the sausages are. The college girls in Madison are much hotter.

I heard there's this Bruce guy in Cincy who is pretty good.

That is, until the camera cut to her face? Pretty much, but I don't have very high standards. :D

Great day today. Weather was perfect. Got the win -- wasn't the prettiest effort, but the Rockies are basically begging to lose ballgames these days and we happily obliged. Had the best seats I've ever had at Wrigley -- right behind home plate. I was tying my shoe in the concourse before the game, looked up, and there was Ronny in his cart heading up to the press box. He shook my hand, signed my hat. So yeah, pretty darn good day at Wrigley today. Soooo glad the weather has warmed up these past couple days. It was beautiful.

Tomorrow sounds like a really good day to make it 6 games in a row.

Oh, I thought I had read that it was a surprisingly accurate predictor (albeit two or three years out)? I remember the same, but only when applied to young arms.

I'm gonna be a total buzzkill with this one, but lost in all this is Lilly's worst start of the year. That's something the Tedster is going to have to rectify. Can't have him blowing up in the early innings like that many more times.

I get so tired of this argument. If he pulls Z after 110 or so pitches and the reliever blew it, very few people on this board (outside of the game thread, where overreaction rules) are going to complain about taking Z out. We have 7 people in the pen, might as well use them. I mean, other than just Marmol and Wood. I wasn't talking about this board. I'm talking about all Cub fans. You know if that happened Lou would be just as criticized for it. Overreaction rules everywhere in sports, not just NSBB game threads. I'm sorry you are tired of the argument. I happen to have seen this sort of thing happen dozens of times. I'm only pointing out that it's possible Lou could be put into a no-win type situation, that's all.

It's posted in the 5/30 post game thread in Cub Discussions. Ronny doesn't really go off like I expected he would. I think by the time they actually took the lead it was too surreal to believe. I liked Bobby Hull's reaction, though. He was laughing like a little kid.

You wouldn't take Sandberg over Derosa? Derosa's good, but he's not Sandberg. I'd take Dernier over Reed Johnson too for CF duties. Mostly, I think the '84 Cubs compare better in terms of starting pitching. And that counts for plenty. I think I would take our offense so far this year over '84 though, I agree with Kyle on that.

I still get plenty of "Stack overflow errors" when loading pages. I know this error isn't my computer or connection, because I experience them on 3 different computers (work, home, travel laptop) and in different cities (so it's not ISP). I also have trouble getting pages to load occasionally. They'll just freeze somewhere in the process. No error message or anything -- I simply have to hit refresh once or twice and it will finally load. I'm not sure this is NSBB's fault though, as I've experienced that sort of thing before and it turned out to be a bad router dropping connections @ my ISP. Needless to say, Charter cable is slow in responding to these types of complaints because they're stupid ("Oh, you can connect? You're fine then!"). No it's not fine you dolts -- your routers are dropping connex get off your butts. Argh. Frustrating :evil:

From the MLB.COM blurb on the game: Hahahah. That's the kicker. Of course Eyre got the win! And in 1/3 inning of relief too. Perfect cherry on the top of this game.

Right. Personally, I'm not frothing for him to spend a ton more cash, because basketball works so differently than baseball. It's harder to just spend like crazy and buy a talented roster. I think I'm just more bothered by the principle of it. The only reason the Bulls have so much cash is because the greatest basketball player of all-time fell into their laps. I don't think it has much to do with Reinsdorf's skills as an owner. I think that may be right. Krause also did a nice job surrounding Michael with parts that made sense, and he was ahead of his time in terms of valuing long, lean, athletic, do-it-all types. But none of that works w/out Jordan, as proven by what happened when Krause tried to rebuild the team. Usually the true great players fall into someone's lap though. Who could say any different about LeBron and Cleveland? I don't see how that means Reinsdorf sucks. You could take any superstar out there. Flip a coin, change the weather on a particular day, and that player winds up somewhere else. There's always an element of chance involved. Agreed, but I never said he sucks. Its not easy to truly assess an owner's worth. At the end of the day, the best they can do is hire smart GM's and VP's to handle the franchise, saty out of their way, and allow them to spend a competitive amount of money on players. In that sense, I hold the Rooney family in high regard, as well as Jerry Buss. I just think people make too big a deal over Jerry getting "lucky" with Jordan. Well, sure he did. And basically so did every other owner out there who won the draft lottery and picked up the superstar that carried them to championships.

I'll still go with the non-competitive years. For all the pain and anguish, I need Cubs playoff baseball in my life every few years. Even if it ends in disaster. Being crappy year after year is a joyless existence.

That '84 club was really, really good; despite what happened in San Diego. I won't argue with you in hopes that you are right.

Hell yeah. Gotta hear those radio calls. There should be more than one gem from today.

Right. Personally, I'm not frothing for him to spend a ton more cash, because basketball works so differently than baseball. It's harder to just spend like crazy and buy a talented roster. I think I'm just more bothered by the principle of it. The only reason the Bulls have so much cash is because the greatest basketball player of all-time fell into their laps. I don't think it has much to do with Reinsdorf's skills as an owner. I think that may be right. Krause also did a nice job surrounding Michael with parts that made sense, and he was ahead of his time in terms of valuing long, lean, athletic, do-it-all types. But none of that works w/out Jordan, as proven by what happened when Krause tried to rebuild the team. Usually the true great players fall into someone's lap though. Who could say any different about LeBron and Cleveland? I don't see how that means Reinsdorf sucks. You could take any superstar out there. Flip a coin, change the weather on a particular day, and that player winds up somewhere else. There's always an element of chance involved.

I'd like to here the first 322 reasons then. Let's just make it the primary reason errors are a stupid stat.

I think the acronym "WTF" is particularly appropriate today. But in a really good way! That, and :shock: smilies

Insanity reigns. Wrigley must have been amazing after DeRo's homer.