David

In relative terms, I guess.

And that's as close as Jason Kendall will come to a HR in Joe Robbie.

JACQUE!!!!!!!

I miss Soto. :(

De RO

Meh. He's just getting warmed up.

I have a feeling Aramis is going to single-handedly not allow our offense to suck tonight. Watch.

Is this a joke of some sort?

Jason Kendall is such a winner. He spent all those years with the Yankees. Oh, wait...

What do you mean? I thought it did?

I almost hope that we face the Mets. In that case, Lou's hand would almost be forced to play Soto, because the Mets would run on Kendall all day.

Piniella just on the Score... Z will pitch on Friday in order to be set for Game 1 of the playoffs. Hill will pitch Saturday, and if necessary, Lilly on Sunday. Trachsel will still pitch tomorrow. Oh, and Kendall will probably start the rest of the games. He wants to go with experience, and says the stretch of Soto starting, despite a nice job, was meant to rest Kendall.

Luckily, they just scan them and they won't tear em apart when you use them. When you use them? That is definitely tempting fate. I'll gladly laugh in the face of fate.

Luckily, they just scan them and they won't tear em apart when you use them.

Each team has it's own tickets for it's own home stadiums that it sells to their own fans. If the tickets are going to be specific to Wrigley Field anyway, why wouldn't they say "Cubs" on them?

Don't cable companies require a minimum service agreement with penalty for early termination? I know cell phone companies do, and so does DirecTV; I assume cable companies do too, but I'm not sure. I'd guess that for the big digital packages and all that, you're right. But I would think that for the basic cable package, you could pull something like this off.

Good stuff. I like it.

And 95...and 98... and 03... and 04... Season ticket holders must have a lot of souvenirs.

http://deadspin.com/assets/resources/2007/09/cubsticketsws.jpg Yea... talk about tempting fate. In actuality, all teams in contention have printed these. But it's sure cool to look at.

Again you can say that for all sports. You don't want a QB overthrowing his Rec. Basketball player being too strong on jump shot. Etc... Yes, but in those sports there's a lot more physical exertion involved and a player could actually benefit in many obvious ways from having somewhat enhanced physical ability, per se. There's a lot more to football than throwing passes, and there's a lot more to basketball than shooting. There's constant movement, there's jumping, there's blocking, etc. In baseball, 95% (obviously an arbitrary number that I'm making up, but you get the idea) of the outcome is determined by the individual matchup between the pitcher and the hitter.

Pointless thread. One or two guys are going all sour grapes about the fact that their team has choked up to this point. No need to stoop to their level, all teams get breaks. I'm sure most Brewer fans realize how fortunate they were in the first two months of the season that they were doing that well and the Cubs were underachieving so significantly.

Oh man...I agree. I have such a bad feeling. I pray the Cubs come out with guns blazing tomorrow. It's hard not to have bad feelings with this club. I'm just approaching it from the perspective that we're a marginal playoff club anyway -- it's not like in '04. I will go to my grave believing that was a playoff team, possibly a World Series team, that choked hard. This year I had us at 81-81, we're already beyond what I expected. If they can't take care of business here at the end? We simply didn't deserve it, didn't quite have enough bullets in the gun. Especially considering who we are facing. On the other hand, the NL competition is looking as weak as ever this year, and the Cubs, when healthy (so outside of the 3 weeks sans-Sori) have played like a 100 win team since June. :shock: EDIT - and that's a pretty solid sample of like 80+ games.

Or...you know...the playoffs. I assumed this as well. A short term fix. yes, the plans are to completely resurface the field in the offseason Just Sod, or are they going to tear it down and relevel it like they need to? Probably going to completely tear it up and redo it in the offseason. They still haven't committed to it, though.

Despite how it may seem, a player putting more effort into a swing or a pitch than usual isn't necessarily (or usually, for that matter) a good thing, IMO.

Sarcasm? High strikeouts means alot of pitches. Thus high pitch counts and walks. Take a look at how our pitchers have done in the walk department and then you will see why I am not excited about leading the league in strikeouts. Ken Strikeouts also don't give the batter a chance to get a hit. I don't think you can correlate the strikeouts and the walks. Just because the Cubs have struck out a lot of hitters doesn't mean they're going to walk a lot of hitters also. Maybe they just aren't the best pitchers. Strikeouts and high pitch count? Certainly, because the minimum number of pitches you can throw to strike somebody out is 3. I think you can correlate them pretty well. It seems pretty logical that, because strikeout pitchers have to throw more pitches, they also throw more balls and go deeper into counts. As a result, you'd definitely think they'd walk more hitters as a whole than guys who don't strike so many hitters out. It's pretty similar to how a lot of the high walk hitters are also high strikeout guys. Of course, there are exceptions. Some pitchers, like Prior when he was Prior, strike out a ton of guys, throw lots of pitches, and still don't walk many guys. But I'd guess that, by and large, (the Cubs being no exception), high strikeout pitchers walk more guys than average. Also, I'm not trying to support the argument that the high strikeout totals are undesirable. The Cubs have been one of the better pitching teams for all these years because of it. I'm just saying that I do think the idea that high-K guys will walk more hitters has a good amount of validity to it.