I'm crossing my fingers that with the AS break and hopefully tomorrow, Marmol will get enough rest to regain some form, but I'm not holding my breath. The performance today can't be good for his psyche even if his arm does get right.
Check out ESPN's schedule page. They show FOX hosting a double headers worth of games. Maybe the change happened too late for my local cable company to get it into their schedule? And yeah, once again, MLB EI won't be showing any games today until late. The game was originally going to be on FOX when it was a 3:05 game or whatever it was. It's on CSN and definitely won't be on FOX today.
Remember how awesome/enjoyable it was to watch pitching when Prior and Wood were dealing in 03 and we would count up K's and crap? We get to do that again today. Sweet.
A strong case can be made that when actually on the mound pitching, Harden is better than Z. Not saying it's necessarily the truth, just saying it could be argued. Z's durability obviously breaks up the near-tie by a mile, though.
Also, the CubsFX report on Harden. Don't know if anybody has posted this yet. http://www.cubsfx.com/2008/07/new-guy-fx-rich-harden.html Also, looks like Jon got a question in there for us. Maybe we'll find out after all about the PitchFX reading ambiguity with the slider/changeup.