GlassCow

Z with a milestone strikeout. Let's stay positive folks.

Hooray mediocrity!! I'm surprised by the reaction to my comments. Why are we even Cubs fans, guys? Why even follow a team if you can't get caught up in the (positive) excitement of a pennant chase? I got your back Blue, and I'm the type of person that sees every season that doesn't result in a world championship as an utter failure. For those keeping score, I have experienced 20 utter failures in my life and counting ... If someone had told me at the beginning of the season that this team would be a game back on August 8th, I would have wanted to kiss them and punch them at the same time. Thanks cow-made-of-glass, us Nebraskans gotta stick together ;) Earlier I wanted people to imagine hearing our current situation during last season... But imagine hearing about it in June 2 this year. That's the better case for being happy with where we are :) I didn't even notice until now that you were from Lincoln sir. I hope our Huskers have a break-out season this year. Callahan needs to put up a winner to keep his job IMHO. Anyway, back to the Cubs. Yes jersey, they are lousy year in and year out. I keep telling myself that this will not always be the case. The 2003 team was certainly not great, but they came within 5 outs of reaching a world series. Maybe this team that is riddled with holes can man up and be great for a post-season we all hope is coming. Will we be lamenting the fact that the team looked awful for a reasonable portion of the season, or celebrating the fact that they looked awesome when they needed to? Few championship teams are great from bell to bell. There are examples of flawed teams winning championships in every professional and collegiate sport.

Hooray mediocrity!! I'm surprised by the reaction to my comments. Why are we even Cubs fans, guys? Why even follow a team if you can't get caught up in the (positive) excitement of a pennant chase? I got your back Blue, and I'm the type of person that sees every season that doesn't result in a world championship as an utter failure. For those keeping score, I have experienced 20 utter failures in my life and counting ... If someone had told me at the beginning of the season that this team would be a game back on August 8th, I would have wanted to kiss them and punch them at the same time.

Call me a fool, but I'm still optomistic about this team. There is a long way to go, and the Cubs are going to sack up and put at least one more big winning streak on the books.

I think it's coming pretty close to time you can remove the question mark from doable for 90 wins. I disagree. The Cubs will go into a lull that keeps them from reaching it. Right now they're riding a prolonged hot streak that is keeping their stripes from being seen. That's possible, but I'm not saying they'll definitely win 90 anyway. I'm saying I don't think there's any question that it's doable, but that term refers to whether it can be done, not whether it will be done. And I don't think there's any question that the Cubs reasonably can win 90; the question is whether they will. It's possible that we're just debating semantics here. Not to be a jerk NC, but if all we are talking about is whether it is possible to get to 90 wins, we would just need to see if there are at least 37 games left on the schedule. Technically, it is possible that we will reach 116 wins this year, just extremely unlikely. The chances are about as good as me sitting with Jennifer Anniston, Jessica Biel and Jessica Alba in a luxury suite at Wrigley Field (and almost as nice to think about.) Meanwhile, the likelihood of 90 wins is about as good as me sitting in the bleachers during my next visit to Wrigley, i.e. pretty likely. I probably wasn't clear enough, but I meant reasonably possible as opposed to mathematically possible by going undefeated. My point was that there's a difference between a realistic chance vs. definitely happening. I knew what you meant NC, just really wanted to use my analogy. :) Getting ready for school to get started back up again sir?

I think it's coming pretty close to time you can remove the question mark from doable for 90 wins. I disagree. The Cubs will go into a lull that keeps them from reaching it. Right now they're riding a prolonged hot streak that is keeping their stripes from being seen. That's possible, but I'm not saying they'll definitely win 90 anyway. I'm saying I don't think there's any question that it's doable, but that term refers to whether it can be done, not whether it will be done. And I don't think there's any question that the Cubs reasonably can win 90; the question is whether they will. It's possible that we're just debating semantics here. Not to be a jerk NC, but if all we are talking about is whether it is possible to get to 90 wins, we would just need to see if there are at least 37 games left on the schedule. Technically, it is possible that we will reach 116 wins this year, just extremely unlikely. The chances are about as good as me sitting with Jennifer Anniston, Jessica Biel and Jessica Alba in a luxury suite at Wrigley Field (and almost as nice to think about.) Meanwhile, the likelihood of 90 wins is about as good as me sitting in the bleachers during my next visit to Wrigley, i.e. pretty likely.

I love how winning brings back all the posters... next thing you know JC is going to be starting threads. I've been busy with work and school, but I appreciate being labeled a bandwagoner after following this team for 2 decades. I'll stand with you GC. I think it's pretty funny for anyone to call you a bandwagoner, GC, given that you were one of the first 10-20 posters on the site, and were a regular on cubs.com before that. I appreciate it Brinoch. Thanks for the support sir.

I love how winning brings back all the posters... next thing you know JC is going to be starting threads. I've been busy with work and school, but I appreciate being labeled a bandwagoner after following this team for 2 decades.

I told you we had this one in the bag boys and girls. Nobody ever takes The Cow seriously.

That's one of the few times I'm happy to see the offense go quickly and quietly. Smith was getting on my nerves. Sounded like Dusty Baker on speed.

Lee Smith is impossible to comprehend.

God I love Mike Fontenot.

Marquis ... come on man.

I hate that Pepsi commercial. That damn music makes my ears bleed.

Ah yeah!

Well, that sucked.

:( Fontenot had a nice jump.

Let's start a Riot here. Need the Cajun Connection to get things going against Webb.

More first-pitch swinging. :( I'm not happy.

Pretty good at-bat by Pagan. Out by half a step, but I liked his approach.

Ha! Error on that bastard Steven Drew.

We're really working the count today ...

That ruled.

I hate every member of the Drew family.

Theroit actually lined out to Webb. Fontenot took care of the groundout to end the inning.