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I hope Ramirez pokes another one through the hole on the right.

Is Marquis okay?? The last thing we need is someone who can retire three Brewers in a row leaving the game as early as the guys who couldn't.

I think we need at least three more invitations. chat/flashchat.php Join us in Flashchat. I'm with Fred... Engrave it.

I think we need at least three more invitations.

agreed QFT +1

Kerry Wood will be in the bullpen and healthy and producing by the end of the year, so I think that's the solid arm we're looking for right there. hahahahahaha, okay sorry, I couldn't keep a straight face all the way through that post.

/high lob... "Your mom?" /couldn't resist

Where can I find that link to the go cubs go song? It's totally stuck in my head and I want to hear it before the game starts.

I don't know if ildge ever got that bad... he's been pretty brutal.

It'll be a stretch of my imagination, but I'll step out on a limb and believe that you got wasted. Now believe me, I'm on my way out to do the same. WOOOO FREAKIN HOOOO!!!! Wow that waws a terrible setnece. I'm still drunk and all but wow, my apologies. I'm Yeti v2. no hram done! i went out and had a few mysefl. Tip a few back from the cubs. And I agree with tomy, if anyone can get an online version of the sprotecnter montage, you would totally be my hero.

It'll be a stretch of my imagination, but I'll step out on a limb and believe that you got wasted. Now believe me, I'm on my way out to do the same. WOOOO FREAKIN HOOOO!!!!

Are we seriously having a debate over the value of the '1' in Sori's 1 for 6 the other night?? "Walkoff" ... "Game over" ... "Cubs win" ... "after the blowpen gives up the 5-run lead" Sori was the only Cub with six plate appearances that night, and seeing as how he won the game on the 6th one, leadoff seemed to have worked out alright. Wasn't one of the big problems last year with Pierre that, when the bottom of the order was playing over their heads, the black hole at the top of the order kept wasting RBI opportunities? It goes both ways enough times that I think we can safely conclude that a higher OPS appearing more often in the game will ultimately prove to be a good thing.

Not necessarily. Maybe Wuertz and Petrick won't be available tomorrow unless it's really bad, but Marmol and Howry each went just one. Eyre and Ohman weren't used at all. The longer it stays this way, the better, no?

Nah, I agree. The 2nd and 3rd weren't pretty, but he didn't allow any more runs and still ended up striking out 5. He kept the team in the game for the next two innings. I like Hill, but when a starter only goes three innings, there's nothing positive about that. I'm not going to go off on a Rich Hill sucks tangent, because that's ridiculous, nor will I question his desire or any overreaction like that. But, to try to put any positive spin on his start today is pretty silly. He was bad. Did he confine the damage to one inning? Yes. But he still pitched so poorly that he left trailing by a huge amount and forced the bullpen to be perfect. Had he given up five and then held the Brewers scoreless into the fifth or sixth, then more props could be given. But he got lit up, had another bad inning, and had to be lifted after only three innings. In no metric, no book, no where is that a good outing. Will he rebound? I surely hope so. But just because many of us like Hill, I think it's a bit ludicrous to try to say anything positive about this start. If Marquis lasted three innings while allowing five runs, I doubt anyone here would try to give him credit for throwing two scoreless innings after giving up five in the first. The simple truth: Hill sucked today. It happens to a lot of pitchers. Hopefully, Hill gets his act together over the next four days. I know he can do it, but he definitely wasn't a good pitcher today. Well put.

Looks like the free trial of mlb.tv just ended. That sucks too, because I was just about to get to the Cliff Floyd Parrot HR in Pittsburgh back on the first of may :(

Where'd you find Len and Bob's? Archived on MLB.TV. Here is the main page. You shouldn't need a subscription to view it now. That is pretty sweet. I went back and watched the 9th inning of that Colorado game from Monday too. Are those archived games always free? It doesn't sound like it. I was wrong, you can watch any archived game it looks like. I just went back and watched the walkoff from Monday. :D Where do I click to get to pick from the archive? When I click on mlb.tv, it sends me to a page telling me to sign up.

No problems at all with Sori leading off. Yes, there are defficiencies elsewhere in the lineup, but fix that with better personnel, not by shuffling the lineup even more than it has been this year. With the way Jones and Izturis have been getting benched the way we've all been craving for so long, you can bet Hendry's going to try to do SOMETHING to improve the roster. Since we all agree that addition by subtraction is the case with both of those two, anything at all of any value is a step up. Until they leave, they sit on the bench, and the Cubs win. Soriano batting leadoff is justifiably WAY down on the list of concerns for this team.

Somehow, I have a feeling that Marquis and his 3/21 contract are going to be about as easy as Jocque's contract to move out of town, especially if eating all but the league minimum isn't really an option.

More like he pitched very well but got absolutely no run support. Dude. The wins column for a pitcher is the single most important stat there is. All the other numbers are good to have, but if you don't win they don't matter. wins=good pitching lack of wins=complete failure at life True but lack of run support is not a pitchers fault. It's not his job to produce runs it's eight other guys, his job is to limit other teams. I agree with you completely. It's a pretty long-running joke around here to make fun of pretty much all national media and anyone else who fails to realize that Big Z winning 14 (or whatever) games for a 67-win team with a 3.15-ish ERA had a better season than a 20-game winner in the AL east who had a near-5 ERA for an offensive juggernaut.

Of course, the most shocking and ridiculous part of the whole thing is that Pierre was on base twice in the first three innings :shock:

I definitely think Pat's was the one to listen to. Len's calls are definitely growing on me, especially that whole voice-cracking thing, but Pat and Ron are what made this one for me.

They were actually below .500 (51-52) as late as July 26. Didn't they fall to 51-53 before turning it around? I always have that in the back of my head about the 2003 team. Their fortunes also turned around when Hendry landed Simon/Ramirez/Lofton from the Pirates. Obviously, this team didn't need any major roster move like that in order to put together a few wins, but I can't imagine this level of baseball will be sustained with those two roster spots being wasted coughizturisjonescough, especially considering that our best chance of the catcher's spot not being a black hole right now lies in Soto being called up, which doesn't seem terribly likely at this point. Big time runs can come out of nowhere, the 03 team just happened to get hot in September and carry it into October. This year's team has finally proven they can step it up a level for more than just a game or two at a time, and they did it before any major move was made, so it's a definite plus right now.

Even when he didn't have his best stuff, Rich Hill still ate up some innings and gave his offense a chance to come back and win the game. Or maybe he stunk today. I don't know, I'm still euphoric right now, so I could be a little off here.

Colorado takes an 8-7 lead into the ninth, gets the first two outs, walks Carlos Lee, and serves up a tater to Mark Freaking Loretta, Stros win 9-8. I'm starting to really feel bad for Colorado. (Of course not for games 4-6 of their losing streak, but still...) 4 of their 8 losses in this streak have been of the walk-off variety. 3 blown saves and the extra-inning affair last night. They're 8 games through a ten game roadtrip to Toronto, Chicago, and Houston, immediately after sweeping the Yankees to win 20 of 27, and they're now 0-8 on what surely projected to be a successful roadtrip.

root for the padres cuz the cubs dont play them anymore and lost the season series...at least they got three more against the dodgers at wrigley BTW...THE BREWERS LOST TODAY :lol: :lol: I think there was some mention of this in one of the other threads in the game thread forum, but I could be wrong. With the Cubs' luck, the day the Brewers finally lose, the Cubs will turn around and lose too, just watch.