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Rotation: Z Prior Maddux Marshall Marmol I like it. NOTE: This isn't the actual spots in the rotation just the people that should be in the rotation.

Fecal League Standings: Team W L PCT GB Tampa Bay 27 39 .409 - Chicago 26 38 .406 - Florida 25 37 .403 - Pittsburgh 26 40 .394 1 Kansas City 17 47 .266 9

Does anybody have a team runs per game when he starts vs when he doesn't?

Excellent play by John Terry to save that goal. This is turning out to be a very entertaining game.

The coach wouldn't, but as a player, if you have a perception of an opponent, it can play a powerful role in how focused you are on the field. I think the Italians are showing signs of overlooking us. To be so clueless about an opponent 2 days before a game is a very dangerous thing, and if they solely watch tape of the CZR game, or even the CZR game plus the send off series games, they're going to get a misleading, negative impression of us. Is it really misleading? They've been looking pretty damn awful lately. Sure they have the potential to play better, but will they? Yes and no. The send off games weren't great indicators because instead of using lineups he'd be likely to use in the WC, Arena used different combos like he still needed to find guys out. That, IMO, was stupid. Given that our full squad hadn't played together in about a year, he should have had starters out there the whole time. So while we didn't look good, a lot of that was due to weird combos of players who would never see the field in WC play. Also, the fact that he didn't play a starting lineup the whole time impacted the CZR game. It was the first time those guys had been on the field together, starting, in a while, and it's not shocking, for instance, that Lewis and Convey screwed up so badly leading to the first goal. So the question ends up being how quickly can the US gel? It was stupid that Arena didn't play the team together because the three send off games should have been preparation games. By the third game you should have had your team figured out.

You suck Peter Crouch. You have to at least put that one on goal when you're wide open.

That surprises me. Well, now that I think about who the Italian coach is, it doesn't really surprise me. Italy looking so good in its first game surprised me. Maybe it means that Ghana is weaker than we all thought... I hope you're right becuase if Italy is that good, Ghana is decent as well and the US could be looking at an 0-3 WC finish. The US needs to hope that Ghana isn't as good as people thought or just didn't play very well.

Funny, I know of a place in Chicago with walls covered in ivy where he would be treated like royalty. Until he strikes out a couple times.

Ecuador and Germany: the first two teams to officially advance to the knockout stage.

What were the "Your with me, Leather" rumors? And now it reads "incoherently managed by Dusty Baker" Haha. Let's see how long this stays up.

Oh but there is.

Z is going to have to provide the pitching and the offense to win this game.

Thursday schedule: Ecuador v Costa Rica at 6:00 on ESPN 2 England v Trinidad and Tobago at 9:00 on ESPN 2 Sweden v Paraguay at 12:00 on ESPN All times are Pacific Time.

And we still lost two of the three games. Yeah, yeah, yeah...... but how's this for correlation ?? Team record by number of walks allowed CUBS are 1-2 when they allow 0 walks CUBS are 3-1 when they allow 1 walks CUBS are 8-3 when they allow 2 walks CUBS are 2-3 when they allow 3 walks CUBS are 6-8 when they allow 4 walks CUBS are 3-5 when they allow 5 walks CUBS are 1-6 when they allow 6 walks CUBS are 1-5 when they allow 7 walks CUBS are 0-1 when they allow 8 walks CUBS are 0-2 when they allow 9 walks CUBS are 1-1 when they allow 10 walks CUBS are 0-1 when they allow 11 walks Small sample size, I know. I was just making an observation.

And we still lost two of the three games.

But Neifi will start. Of course he will Dusty is free to do whatever he wants. He ruined our team. Ruined it. He took our hero and drove him out of town(Sosa), yet he keeps garbage like Perez around. He pitched Wood and Prior so hard they are shells of what they should be. He sits productive big leaguers like Todd Walker. He cost us the playoffs two years ago by insisting on letting Hawkins blow game after game down the stretch when everone, LaTroy included was calling for someone else to close. He cost us going to the World Series by allowing Mike Lowell to hit instead of Lenny Harris. You know the same Lenny Harris who hit .183 for us including several games at leadoff. I am done with the Cubs until he is fired. He has ruined my passion for baseball. I'm not a Dusty sympathizer - and do think he should be fired - but I don't think that Dusty is completely responsible for this year. Of course injuries are an issue, but is it Dusty's fault that the team wasn't adequately prepared for Prior and Wood to go down? No, that's Hendry's fault. Is it Dusty's fault that it took the team over a month to make a move following the Lee injury? No. Sure Dusty doesn't always make the best on the field moves but management is just as much to blame, if not more, than Dusty is. Dusty also didn't force Sammy out of town. That was ownership and Sammy himself. Sammy needed to realize that he was no longer the star he used to be and he needed to change his philosophies. It was Sammy who refused to move closer to the plate when anybody with an eye could tell that Sammy couldn't touch the outside pitch. Was it Dusty's fault that Sammy corked his bat? Didn't think so. But Sammy isn't solely to blame with this issue either. It was ownerships fault for exposing everything that happened in regards to Sosa walking out. They should have solved everything in house. But that isn't Dusty's fault. Dusty should and will take a lot of blame for this year, but not everything is his fault.

I'm just glad that I slept through most of the game so I didn't have to watch most of it.

Cubs lose, time to watch some hockey.

Mabry pinch hitting. EDIT: Post 3000 also.

Murton, Cedeno, PH coming up in the ninth.

Ugh. Jones strikes out.

Good call badger.

Edmonton and Carolina are now tied 2-2 with 6:30 to go in the first period.

Where's the fun when you can grabbed the early lead? :roll: I am going to steal a quote made by former Raiders coach Bill Callahan, "The Cubs are the DUMBEST team in baseball." The Royals don't care....the Marlins are too young....the Pirates are too cheap....the Cubs are just too DUMB... Oh please, don't start quoting Bill Callahan. I'm a Raiders fan. Doesn't make the statement less true, does it? :lol: It's just as true, I just hate Bill Callahan.

Nice play Maddux.