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Look at Blanco taking pitches!

It'd be nice if we made Looper throw more than 10 pitches this inning.

72 pitches for Lilly through 5. Hopefully he can make it through at least 2 more.

<3 Lilly.

Whew, nice job Floyd.

Nice play Aramis!

Lots and lots of pitches...

45 for Looper through 4. He's thrown 19 pitches in the last 2 innings.

His stuff is that good. Thanks. Man if Z could get going, we would have 3 pretty nice pitchers. I can't believe how good Rich Hill looks. Marquis has looked better than I thought as well. The 5 spot, well that's another story. Don't worry. May = The Beginning of Angel.

DeRosa is not good.

Way to take it that way Aramis!

57 pitches for Lilly through 4.

Nice job Lilly.

Yeah that looked like a strike. there's been several. I don't know why you are beefing with my complaints. it's been pretty obvious to most of us which way the borderline calls have gone today. I'm not beefing with you, but I don't think it's that big of a discrepancy. It's not like the Cubs are taking enough pitches to notice that big of a difference.

haha yeah, that was a bad call.

Great pitch Lilly.

Yeah that looked like a strike.

Not really, what is his pitch count? 35

I don't like the guy, but he just took a pitch four inches off the plate and it was called a strike. the pitcher threw it there again. you have a choice, 0-2, or try to slap it by the thirdbasemen. it's easy to fault the Cubs for their offensive woes so far this year, but just look at that inning. the ump cost them one baserunner in Jacque's walk, a lined scorcher that will go down in the books as 0-1, and an ump taking away any chance a slapper like Izturis has to get on base. such is the life of a Cubs fan. The ump seems pretty consistent to me, so I don't think there is anything to complain about yet. so you think the pitch to Izturis was a strike, but the pitches to Rolen weren't? how about the outside corner pitch to Lee v. the two pitches called strikes on Jones? same can be said about a couple high strikes/balls today. go ahead and argue that I'm crazy that the corner calls all seem to go against the Cubs, but to argue the consistency of the zone today is absurd. i think you're just trying to find something to nitpick at. it's not that bad. such also is the life of a Cubs fan. a strikezone that is not that bad is acceptable. I guess when you compare to the Williams and Lohse games it isn't that bad, but that doesn't make it good, or what should be acceptable. you're right, but umps are so bad/inconsistent nowadays, as long as they are relatively the same for both teams (which i believe is the case today), it's not a big deal. it's frustrating, but not that big of a deal.

Well that's a pretty awful inning.

I don't like the guy, but he just took a pitch four inches off the plate and it was called a strike. the pitcher threw it there again. you have a choice, 0-2, or try to slap it by the thirdbasemen. it's easy to fault the Cubs for their offensive woes so far this year, but just look at that inning. the ump cost them one baserunner in Jacque's walk, a lined scorcher that will go down in the books as 0-1, and an ump taking away any chance a slapper like Izturis has to get on base. such is the life of a Cubs fan. The ump seems pretty consistent to me, so I don't think there is anything to complain about yet. so you think the pitch to Izturis was a strike, but the pitches to Rolen weren't? how about the outside corner pitch to Lee v. the two pitches called strikes on Jones? same can be said about a couple high strikes/balls today. go ahead and argue that I'm crazy that the corner calls all seem to go against the Cubs, but to argue the consistency of the zone today is absurd. i think you're just trying to find something to nitpick at. it's not that bad.

youve got to be kidding

Take some pitches guys. Looper is only at 27.

Nice play DLee.

Way to run that down JJ!