sethuel1

Actually they were really lucky to get 1 there. it was a great play by Boone.

You think on the White Sox flights Hawk tries to get all buddy-buddy with the Sox players and they just ignore him?

DP please

Im still waiting for DJ's first intelligent comment of the season Wait all you want, it's not coming. It's like going to wait for the great pumpkin. I'm telling you guys. brick Tamland. I love lamp.

I don't know if you've noticied this because he's not quite as obnoxious and loud as Hawk, but DJ could possibly be in Brick Tamland IQ territory.

Gotta love hearing Hawk crying in the booth. Seriously. After hearing Ron Santo's "gosh" and "jeez" parade all year.....

Ooo they got lucky there. That could've really easily been a wild pitch.

Rowand never really reacted to that ball. If he would've turned and ran instead of backing up, he would've been ok. But he really half-assed it.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Did someone hit Jenks with the rosin bag?

Ok, I'm gonna start the topic for the Wednesday's game Prior (11-6, 3.70) http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/images/gameday/mugshots/407578.jpg vs. Ohka (11-8, 3.97) http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/images/gameday/mugshots/219594.jpg Wheeeeeeeee

What a throw.

can you hear Ronnie Woo Woo on the FSN North broadcast again? Anyone else remember that game in Milwaukee last year or the year before where Ronnie "Woo'd" for about half the game?

I don't have a DVD burner, and I don't know of any other way to get digital content off my DVR. Replay it while sticking your laptop's mic up to the TV speaker.

Steelers fan and Jew here. You know which one I voted for.

[obligatory] Depends if he's still juicing like he was earlier in the year [/obligatory]

Eh, I do that with the Cubs and Bears all the time. I'd only punch the guy in the face if he's been on your case for being a Cubs fan and has been going off about how the White Sox are going to win it all and become the next big thing and blah blah blah... You're being wayyyy too kind. he should definitely go punch that guy in the face.

Or maybe he is just being accurate. I hate to introduce empirical evidence in a thread like this one, but, in two and a half pages of posts, shouldn't someone have asked what Murton thinks? I couldn't agree with you more. I want him gone, too. But I can't bring myself to make the leap to using words like idiot when describing Dusty Baker. Not only do I think it is needlessly disrespectful, its simply inaccurate. Comments like "he's an idiot" say more about the person that wrote them than they do about the subject, in my opinion. Wait, you're expecting Murton to say something else there? How can he make any answer besides one that flagellates his manager without fear of repercussion? And it took all of 5 minutes to get the standard response. Why is it that whenever a player says something good about Dusty Baker that some fans immediately write it off as that he was somehow forced to say it? Does anyone have any evidence that suggests Baker runs his clubhouse with an iron fist, and that if anyone says anything less than the highest possible praise about Dusty that they'll sit the rest of the year? Come on, sethuel1, Murton could have said 100 different things. He could have ended the session and said, "I've got to go". He could have said, "It may have made a difference. Who knows? I just came to play." He could've said, "Well, Dusty's the manager. He makes the decisions on who plays and who doesn't. That's not my job." Any of those would have been fine. But he didn't say them, did he? Because it's really standard to end interviews while leaving the last question hanging.

There is absolutely no way Murton can hit the tough righties.

Or maybe he is just being accurate. I hate to introduce empirical evidence in a thread like this one, but, in two and a half pages of posts, shouldn't someone have asked what Murton thinks? I couldn't agree with you more. I want him gone, too. But I can't bring myself to make the leap to using words like idiot when describing Dusty Baker. Not only do I think it is needlessly disrespectful, its simply inaccurate. Comments like "he's an idiot" say more about the person that wrote them than they do about the subject, in my opinion. Wait, you're expecting Murton to say something else there? How can he make any answer besides one that flagellates his manager without fear of repercussion?

You forgot the "LaTroy over Dempter for closer" debacle, the Macias-as-first-option-off-the-bench-all-year debacle, and the "use a couple of your relievers until they fall apart, one of them literally" debacle.

Well, batting accounts for slightly less than half of win shares: http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/2004-win-shares-have-arrived

i'd maybe give him a .270/.335/.400, but, yeah, i think a lot of people are expecting a little much out of him. I would like to know why so many of you are expecting him to do so much worse next year. because, as Dusty says, teams will eventually "get the book" on him. And Dusty is rarely wrong.

Amen. I thought sanity might reign when Dusty came for the hook in the 9th - but, then he let Zambrano get the glory and top the 120 pitch mark, again. Unconscionable. What's even worse is that when he came out the crowd booed him because they thought he was taking Carlos out, and then when he left him in the crowd went nuts. I hate Cubs fans sometimes. Also, Cubs fans have definitely fallen into the "pay no attention unless Derrek Lee is batting" routine, just like they used to do with Sammy.

Yeah. You might not have the right audio codec, I suppose. EPatt with a single to left. Let's see if he can take 2nd here. or get thrown out