Fred Hornkohl

I lived on campus for a while, then in Roseville, Crystal, and Brooklyn Park.

I've used that expression so many times, my sister bought me a T-shirt one Christmas that reads, "What part of Uff Da don't you understand ?"

That's Norwegian for Oy Vay, no? German :wink: I grew up in N Illinois. lots of German and Irish in my 'hood. I'm nearly full blooded considerning my family has been there for over 150 years. I figured you would have known uff da, HORNKOHL!!!!! :) I know it 'cause I lived in the Twin Cities with all of them Norwiegians for 4 years, eh?

I won't break down Guzman here (I think it was mostly location, but I'll leave that to people who watched him closer-I was slightly distracted the first couple innings), but I will tell you the Rockies deserved all their runs. Those weren't bloops and dunks-they hit him all over the yard and hit pretty much every hit very hard until they pulled him. Wasn't a good outing. There was a troubling inconsistency in his velocity (or in the radar gun -- hard to tell). He didn't mix his pitches very well (for whatever reason) and he missed a lot with his location. It's Z + a rookie rotation now. It's going to be really inconsistent -- good, bad and ugly outings. Keep marching him out but keep a careful eye on him. Up until this season, Prior has been an Iron Man compared to Guzman. I didn't see the first 2 innings, only caught them on the radio. According to Pat & Ron, he was throwing nealy all fast balls, and with little or no movement on them. He was getting hit hard.

That's Norwegian for Oy Vay, no?

Murton with a bomb !! Couple more of those, and we're right back in this thing, eh?

I don't think Juan's sex life is proper material for discussion on the board, eh? :wink: Well played !!

He won't be batting 2nd much longer, eh?

Pierre got hosed.

I don't think Ronnie's sex life is proper material for discussion on the board, eh? :wink:

It had originally been my plan to spend this weekend with my sister in Breckenridge and take in this whole series with her and the family. Now, I'm almost glad that stuff came up and I didn't go.

.... and speaking of too little, too late......

CUBS starter getsn pulled on page 2 of the game thread. Now that's what I call apathy !!

Greetings one and all from beautiful West Memphis, AR !!! Worthless stats of the day for Friday..... CUBS are 7-11 on Fridays CUBS are 0-0 vs. Colorado CUBS are 6-16 vs. the NLW Division CUBS are 3-10 when they've lost their last 2 game(s) in a row CUBS are 29-37 when they've lost their previous game CUBS are 16-21 in games that start a series CUBS are 26-29 at night CUBS are 23-35 on the road CUBS are 28-18 when CSN broadcasts the game CUBS are 29-44 when the temperature is 70 degrees or above CUBS are 45-13 when they outhit the opponents.... 3-46 when they get outhit.... and 4-6 when the hits are even CUBS are 35-22 when their pitchers average 16 pitches per inning or less..... 13-44 when they don't CUBS are 13-33 when they throw more pitches than the opponent.... 21-13 when they throw fewer pitches than the opponent.... 14-20 when the pitch counts are even. CUBS are 15-16 when they average 3.4 P/PA or fewer.... 33-50 when they don't CUBS are 38-23 when the opponent's starter pitches 6-1/3 inning or less.... 10-44 when he doesn't CUBS are on a pace to win 68 games this year..... compared to 79 last year CUBS are on a pace to score 686 runs this year..... compared to 703 last year CUBS are on a pace to hit 158 home runs this year..... compared to 194 last year CUBS are on a pace to draw 412 walks this year..... compared to 419 last year CUBS are scoring 4.24 runs per game compared to 4.34 last year CUBS are seeing 3.69 pitches per plate appearance compared to 3.61 last year CUBS are drving in 19.5% of their runners on base compared to 18.4% last year CUBS are scoring 0.358 runs per baserunner compared to 0.365 last year CUBS extra base hit ratio is 32.2% compared to 35.8% last year CUBS have 12 GIDP's in their last 21 games.... 21 GIDP's in their last 39 games CUBS have 26 SB in their last 28 games CUBS have 19 sac bunts in their last 26 games...... 25 sac bunts in their last 48 games CUBS have 67 home runs in their last 58 games..... 34 home runs in their last 24 games CUBS have drawn 89 BBs in their last 29 games CUBS have 12 sac flies in their last 49 games CUBS have 6 errors in their last 17 games CUBS have allowed 34 HR in their last 32 games CUBS have hit 25 batters in their last 38 games CUBS have 4 quality starts in theie last 20 games.... 13 quality starts in their last 32 games The CUBS surrendered no extra base hits in Thursday's loss to the Brewers. The last time they did that was on Thur 20 July 2006 in a 4-1 win over Houston, a game which snapped an 8 game losing streak on Thursdays. CUBS are 3-4 when Hill starts Hill is 2 of 7 in quality starts Hill's ERA pitching to Barrett is 6.15 ... pitching to Blanco it's 11.25 CUBS score 4.24 R/G overall.... 3.00 R/G when Hill pitches CUBS hit 0.97 HR/G overall.... 1.14 HR/G when Hill pitches CUBS' offensive support of Hill..... 04/03 - 08/10 AB R H 2b 3b HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS CUBS w/Hill 227 21 57 12 1 8 95 20 10 38 0.251 0.285 0.419 0.703 CUBS overall 3864 483 1032 192 29 111 1615 459 290 616 0.267 0.320 0.418 0.738 Hill's pitching lines (2-4)..... Hill IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA 05/04 vs. Ariz 4.0 6 5 5 2 1 2 67 4.50 2.25 4.50 2.00 11.25 05/09 vs. S.F. 6.0 8 5 5 3 4 1 100 4.50 6.00 1.50 1.83 7.50 05/14 vs. S.D. 5.3 4 3 3 5 4 0 90 8.44 6.75 0.00 1.69 5.06 05/20 vs. CWS 4.0 5 7 7 5 2 2 87 11.25 4.50 4.50 2.50 15.75 07/27 vs. St. L 3.3 6 4 4 3 1 1 83 8.10 2.70 2.70 2.70 10.80 08/01 vs. Ariz 8.0 6 3 3 1 6 1 109 1.13 6.75 1.13 0.88 3.38 08/06 vs. Pitts 7.0 5 1 1 2 9 1 103 2.57 11.57 1.29 1.00 1.29 Home 23.7 21 11 11 11 20 3 385 4.18 7.61 1.14 1.35 4.18 Road 14.0 19 17 17 10 7 5 254 6.43 4.50 3.21 2.07 10.93 Day 16.3 14 11 11 12 15 3 280 6.61 8.27 1.65 1.59 6.06 Nite 21.3 26 17 17 9 12 5 359 3.80 5.06 2.11 1.64 7.17 season totals 37.7 40 28 28 21 27 8 639 5.02 6.45 1.91 1.62 6.69 CUBS bullpen usage for the last weeek Thurs Wed Tue Mon Sun Sat Fri Totals 10 Aug 09 Aug 08 Aug 07 Aug 06 Aug 05 Aug 04 Aug at Milw at Milw at Milw no game vs Pitts vs Pitts vs Pitts pitcher IP Pit IP Pit IP Pit IP Pit IP Pit IP Pit IP Pit IP Pit Dempster 1.0 20 1.0 20 1.0 12 3.0 52 Eyre 0.7 16 5 0.3 4 1.0 25 Howry 1.0 13 1.0 10 1.0 23 1.0 13 4.0 59 Ohman 1.0 17 1.0 6 0.3 5 2.3 28 Novoa 1.3 9 1.0 10 2.3 19 Wuertz 0.3 5 0.3 12 0.7 7 1.3 24 Aardsma 1.0 10 1.0 14 0.3 8 2.0 46 4.3 78 Mateo 2.0 30 2.0 30 Totals 5.0 70 3.3 44 3.7 61 2.0 43 3.3 41 3.0 56 20.3 315 CUBS' season series vs. Colorado (0-0) ....... Gm# Date Opponent Score Starter 115 Fri 08/11 @ Colorado N - Hill 116 Sat 08/12 @ Colorado N - Mateo 117 Sun 08/13 @ Colorado - Marmol 160 Fri 09/29 Colorado - 161 Sat 09/30 Colorado - 162 Sun 10/01 Colorado - CUBS season series vs. Colorado last year (4-2) Gm# Date Opponent Score Starter 46 Fri 05/27 Colorado 10- 3 Prior 47 Sat 05/28 Colorado 5- 1 Rusch 48 Sun 05/29 Colorado 11- 6 Mitre 122 Fri 08/19 @ Colorado 5- 3 Prior 123 Sat 08/20 @ Colorado N 2- 4 Rusch 124 Sun 08/21 @ Colorado 7- 9 Maddux CUBS' hitters during the last 14 games...... 07/27 - 08/10 AB R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS Murton 28 4 11 5 0 2 22 9 4 0 0.393 0.469 0.786 1.254 Theriot 11 3 6 1 0 0 7 1 1 1 0.545 0.583 0.636 1.220 Ramirez 48 11 17 4 1 4 35 13 7 7 0.354 0.448 0.729 1.177 Pagan 33 10 14 2 0 1 19 5 2 3 0.424 0.444 0.576 1.020 Blanco 8 2 2 0 0 1 5 3 1 1 0.250 0.333 0.625 0.958 Barrett 43 6 13 5 0 2 24 6 1 3 0.302 0.362 0.558 0.920 Walker 13 3 3 1 0 1 7 2 2 1 0.231 0.333 0.538 0.872 Cedeno 36 4 12 0 0 2 18 6 0 7 0.333 0.351 0.500 0.851 Pierre 59 8 17 4 2 0 25 6 4 1 0.288 0.344 0.424 0.767 Mabry 28 5 6 1 0 2 13 7 4 6 0.214 0.303 0.464 0.767 Jones 43 3 11 1 0 2 18 6 6 9 0.256 0.347 0.419 0.766 Izturis 29 3 7 1 0 0 8 2 3 3 0.241 0.313 0.276 0.588 Perez 24 3 5 0 0 0 5 1 1 1 0.208 0.240 0.208 0.448 Nevin 27 4 4 0 0 0 4 3 4 14 0.148 0.250 0.148 0.398 14 game totals 453 71 133 27 3 17 217 70 41 66 0.294 0.358 0.479 0.837 season totals 3864 483 1032 187 29 111 1610 449 289 614 0.267 0.321 0.417 0.737 CUBS' pitchers during the last 14 games...... 07/27 - 08/10 IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA Wuertz 7.3 2 1 1 2 10 1 108 2.45 12.27 1.23 0.55 1.23 Howry 7.0 4 1 1 1 6 0 100 1.29 7.71 0.00 0.71 1.29 Maddux 6.0 5 1 1 0 6 0 84 0.00 9.00 0.00 0.83 1.50 Aardsma 5.3 4 1 1 1 6 1 91 1.69 10.13 1.69 0.94 1.69 Dempster 8.0 9 2 2 3 4 0 132 3.38 4.50 0.00 1.50 2.25 Eyre 3.7 4 1 1 2 5 1 65 4.91 12.27 2.45 1.64 2.45 Mateo 7.0 8 5 2 5 3 0 118 6.43 3.86 0.00 1.86 2.57 Novoa 5.7 4 2 2 2 5 0 81 3.18 7.94 0.00 1.06 3.18 Hill 18.3 17 8 8 6 16 3 295 2.95 7.85 1.47 1.25 3.93 Zambrano 16.7 19 13 11 12 15 2 336 6.48 8.10 1.08 1.86 5.94 Marmol 15.7 14 13 12 14 10 3 306 8.04 5.74 1.72 1.79 6.89 Prior 13.7 15 15 13 10 11 4 267 6.59 7.24 2.63 1.83 8.56 Ohman 7.0 8 7 7 6 10 0 142 7.71 12.86 0.00 2.00 9.00 Rusch 2.7 6 4 4 1 2 3 51 3.38 6.75 10.13 2.63 13.50 14 game totals 124.0 119 74 66 65 109 18 2176 4.72 7.91 1.31 1.48 4.79 season totals 1002.3 975 589 539 481 851 150 17114 4.32 7.64 1.35 1.45 4.84 Percentage of baserunners driven in 04/03 - 08/10 BDI LOB RBI% Restovich 1 2 0.333 Blanco 20 51 0.282 Walker 34 105 0.245 Ramirez 49 164 0.230 Barrett 32 113 0.221 Perez 22 78 0.220 Murton 31 112 0.217 Jones 38 146 0.207 Theriot 1 4 0.200 Izturis 2 10 0.167 Mabry 11 57 0.162 Nevin 13 68 0.160 Pagan 6 32 0.158 Lee 10 58 0.147 Pierre 21 124 0.145 Bynum 4 25 0.138 Cedeno 25 159 0.136 Hairston 4 27 0.129 Womack 1 14 0.067 CUBS 338 1440 0.190 Go CUBS !!

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/images/gameday/mugshots/mlb/448179.jpg Hill (2-4) 6.69 vs. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/images/gameday/mugshots/mlb/346871.jpg Cook (7-10) 3.95 That Cook is a real friendly looking charchter, no? Makes me wonder what the CUBS' record is against ugly starting pitchers ??

Time for me to go. Truck is loaded and I'm headed north. Sorry I can't keep up with the pbp.

TOP OF THE FIFTH INNING Pierre grounded out to second, 4-3 Theriot singled to shortstop Ramirez homered to left field , Theriot scored Nevin lined out to left field Jones walked Pagan grounded into a FC, 6-4, Jones out at second 2 runs 2 hits 0 errors 1 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E CUBS 1 0 0 0 2 3 6 2 Milwaukee 4 0 2 2 8 5 0 Home runs: CUBS: Ramirez (27) Milwaukee: none CUBS IP H R ER BB K HR PIT Prior 3.0 4 6 5 4 1 0 58 Mateo 1.0 1 2 0 2 1 0 21 Milwaukee IP H R ER BB K HR PIT Davis 5.0 6 3 3 3 6 1 81

Jones walked

Nevin lined out to left field

Ramirez homered to left field , Theriot scored

Theriot singled to shortstop

Pierre grounded out to second, 4-3

BOTTOM OF THE FOURTH INNING Mateo in to pitch for the CUBS Clark popped out (foul) to first base Cirillo grounded to shortstop , safe at first on a fielding error, E6 Fielder walked , Cirillo to second Mench walked , Cirillo to third, Fielder to second Gross struck out (called) Graffanino blooped a single to right field Cirillo & Fielder scored, Mench to second Bell flied out to left field 2 runs 1 hits 1 errors 3 men left on base 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E CUBS 1 0 0 0 1 4 2 Milwaukee 4 0 2 2 8 5 0 Home runs: CUBS: none Milwaukee: none CUBS IP H R ER BB K HR PIT Prior 3.0 3 5 4 4 1 0 58 Mateo 1.0 1 2 0 2 1 0 21 Milwaukee IP H R ER BB K HR PIT Davis 4.0 4 1 1 2 6 0 61

Graffanino blooped a single to right field Cirillo & Fielder scored, Mench to second

Gross struck out (called)