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Fly ball to center. Bay tagged up and the catcher dropped the ball when Bay ran over him at the plate. Pirates win 8-7. One step closer to fifth place for Pittsburgh.

HAHA. Houston's pitcher just threw a wild pitch on an intentional walk.

Barry Bonds, Matt Williams, Jeff Kent.

At Wrigley today?

So the Cubs can activate him whenever he is ready to pitch then?

The previous short game thread was 30 pages.

At least Marshall pitched fairly well today.

The Cubs are pathetic.

So how many days has he spent on the DL then?

Come on Ronny.

At least he can't GIDP this time.

Marshall, Hill, and Guzman all got chances to start and it's good to see that management realizes Rusch isn't going to cut it and they might as well give Ryu his shot.

Alright Womack.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/probable_pitchers.jsp?c_id=chc Thank goodness Rusch isn't starting and it will be nice to see Ryu finally get a start.

I think I'm going to be sick.

Quick inning for Howry. Let's get some runs!!

This has a chance to be the shortest regular season game thread of the year. Currently, the shortest game thread is 442 posts on May 7.

Most likely.

And what was he dobling in Fred? :D

I love some of the stats you pull out Fred. Pure awesomeness.

At the rate the team is currently going at, your poll doesn't have the right answer.

Haha.

Why do you want them to win? Their chances of making the playoffs are just a little better than 1 in 400 at this point. Cubs management says it's too early to throw in the towel when they should be thinking about how to make this team better next year and the near future. This season is already a lost cause. It's not pessimism. It's realism. Check the simulations: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/ps_odds.php http://www.coolstandings.com/baseball_standings.asp?i=1 http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/ps_oddspec.php Personally, I am rooting for them to lose right now, and I'm not ashamed to say it. We will not win as long as the current management stays in place. If the Cubs start winning some games now, they might finish in fourth or fifth place. If that's good enough for you, then I'm glad you're not the GM. Well then your not a cub fan if you are "rooting" for them to lose. That does not make any sense. Yeah its a tuff time to watch them play, but that being said I will NEVER root for them to lose. It may be different with football, but I'm a Raiders fan and, once I realized the season was lost, I rooted for them to lose because I wanted them to get a higher draft pick. That doesn't mean that I'm not a Raiders fan. People do this all the time. I did that with the Packers this year. It wasn't fun and I don't want to do it again. The situations are different though because in football, your whole franchise can change with the addition of one player in the draft. In baseball, it takes much more than one guy to change around a franchise and the draft in baseball is much more hit or miss than the NFL draft. But in both cases you are still pulling for the team to lose so something good ultimately happens. In football you want that one good draft pick that can change your franchise so you might pull for the team to lose to attain that. With the Cubs this year many people want the team to lose because they feel the organization needs some drastic changes that wouldn't happen if the team finishes with a record like in 2005.

Why do you want them to win? Their chances of making the playoffs are just a little better than 1 in 400 at this point. Cubs management says it's too early to throw in the towel when they should be thinking about how to make this team better next year and the near future. This season is already a lost cause. It's not pessimism. It's realism. Check the simulations: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/ps_odds.php http://www.coolstandings.com/baseball_standings.asp?i=1 http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/ps_oddspec.php Personally, I am rooting for them to lose right now, and I'm not ashamed to say it. We will not win as long as the current management stays in place. If the Cubs start winning some games now, they might finish in fourth or fifth place. If that's good enough for you, then I'm glad you're not the GM. Well then your not a cub fan if you are "rooting" for them to lose. That does not make any sense. Yeah its a tuff time to watch them play, but that being said I will NEVER root for them to lose. It may be different with football, but I'm a Raiders fan and, once I realized the season was lost, I rooted for them to lose because I wanted them to get a higher draft pick. That doesn't mean that I'm not a Raiders fan. People do this all the time.

Why do you want them to win? Their chances of making the playoffs are just a little better than 1 in 400 at this point. Cubs management says it's too early to throw in the towel when they should be thinking about how to make this team better next year and the near future. This season is already a lost cause. It's not pessimism. It's realism. Check the simulations: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/ps_odds.php http://www.coolstandings.com/baseball_standings.asp?i=1 http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/ps_oddspec.php Personally, I am rooting for them to lose right now, and I'm not ashamed to say it. We will not win as long as the current management stays in place. If the Cubs start winning some games now, they might finish in fourth or fifth place. If that's good enough for you, then I'm glad you're not the GM. Nothing gets changed with this team if we have a season like last year. Management will blame the bad start on injuries, say that the team performed much better when everybody came back, and claim that the team would have been even better if the injuries wouldn't have happened. Then they won't change anything. There are numerous problems with this team that need to be addressed and without a horrible season I don't think they will be.