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  1. CubmanPi
    It's looking better, but Houston still has six more games to win before I'm going to start being confident. Here's hoping!
  2. CubmanPi
    The White Sox have this obnoxious habit of scoring three runs or working out of an impossible jam unscathed every time I turn the TV on, so I've been staying away all together. And were I to use the same logic as in the first post, I would definitely be using that mojo against the Sox, not the Cards. Both rivals are a pain, but the Cards have already won 9 rings, so a 10th wouldn't make much difference, but the Sox going from 0 rings in the last 85 years to 1 would have a profound effect on life in Chicago.
  3. CubmanPi
    Irony and divine justice are a couple of terms that go in the general direction (though nowhere near strongly enough) of what it would be if the Sox were to blow a 3-1 LCS lead and not make the series, but I somehow expect this won't happen. That said, as far as the whole concept of separating the team from the fans, I find this impossible with the WSox. If it weren't for the fans, I'd be cheering the Sox on. However, this bastard step-child complex their fans (not to mention their manager, organization, and even commentators) have toward the Cubs, even at this moment of being on the brink of a WS appearance, drives me up a wall. When the Cubs were up 3-1 with Z, Prior, and Wood as the due starters, people weren't sitting around itching to rub it in the Sox's face. We were sitting around wondering how many of our children we would sell on the black market if it would ensure the Cubs finish the job and win it all. I understand I'm not labelling ALL sox fans, but this is most certainly accurate regarding a majority of them. If they win it all, I'll be that much more glad that I'm displaced, so I don't have to share a city with them. I hope they lose. I would cheer on the Yankees, Cardinals, and Astros all over the White Sox. And it's because of their fans.
  4. CubmanPi
    White Sox success will put no added pressure on the Cubs organization. The pressure will then be on Cubs fans and their ability to avoid every single Sox fan until the Cubs can put one together. Imagine trying to go to Wrigley for a Cubs game in '06 if they're hosting the defending World Series champion Whi--(edited for sensitive readers). It's bad enough with the fan jeers in both directions already, but if the Sox finish their run this year, they will have reached epic proportions of intolerable, even for them.
  5. CubmanPi
    Yea, the Bartman comment was what I was thinking before I scrolled down and saw the replies, so now I figure I'd throw it in too. Signs like that don't ever make it on the air, but I at least hope Dusty's prescription (and Hendry's) is strong enough that he read it.
  6. CubmanPi
    Corey's stint of .297 hitting in Iowa, taking walks, and batting .500 over his last 8 or 10 games or whatever, just goes to prove that the problem Corey faces in the major leagues is strictly mental. (news flash, I know) Now that there's pretty strong numeric proof of this, I say that if he doesn't straighten himself out, we either see what we can get for him by next year's deadline or just outright release him. Now that he has had this time in Iowa and was so successful there, the pressure is on even more.
  7. CubmanPi
    You guys are forgetting that Patterson had looked pretty lost in the field before getting sent down. Bad routes to balls and lousy reads were allowing plays to get by him and fly balls to sail over him. The Cubs as a whole were painful to watch during the Atlanta series, but I think if you focused on Patterson for the whole series, it was even more painful (if that's even possible). His funk extended to his entire game, so don't be so convinced that bringing him back would at least show us a good glove. If he hasn't worked out what he needs to work out in the minors, then addition by subtraction is not a viable option in Patterson's case. Leave him there for as long as it takes. He will not patch up any holes on this team otherwise, even considering how bad the options have proven to be.
  8. CubmanPi
    How many wins takes the wild card? I figure it will be at least 5 or 6 more games than the Cubs can muster.
  9. CubmanPi
    I just got home from a remarkably lousy weekend, pulled up Cubs.com, and saw that Z left with back issues. This season plain sucks for the Cubs, but Z going down with an injury is pretty much the last thing in the world I wanna see. He has been the single solid staple of this roster since '03. Any extra info on this anyone?
  10. CubmanPi
    He's a switch hitter now! Let me pile on my congrats and thanks, DJaxx. Great stuff!
  11. CubmanPi
    I just felt the need to chime in here, my thoughts probably aren't consequential with current discussion of the topic. Yea, I'm all about the right to boo and make a [expletive] of yourself at the game, but I think Dempster put it best when he said we need to be cheering for the Cubs for scoring runs instead of jumping on our chance to boo the guy. We should be happy that Hawkins is giving up runs for someone else now. (I'd probably be more inclined to boo if, instead of coming in and serving up a run every time out, he showed up and was super-clutch and completely unhittable in do-or-die situations.) Jumping on the chance to boo a guy on another team is very closely equatable to Sox fans who are even bigger I-hate-the-Cubs fans. Give the guy a break and cheer for the Cubs. If you can't just be happy and leave it at that, then maybe you should re-evaluate why you're going to the game to begin with.
  12. CubmanPi
    F! F! F! F! F! F! F! F! F! F !F! F~! F!!@G!@G$%TY BQRGFAFB SRGW# WS ERGHSRF
  13. CubmanPi
    one stupid move makes this whole game seem pointless. im done
  14. CubmanPi
    good thing he's not a half-inch shorter
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    well, it wasn't a DP :roll:
  17. CubmanPi
    Cubs haven't been losing too much lately. Nice to see them take care of business against the bottom feeders. Hopefully the new Wood is a consistent Wood. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/news/2003/08/11/astros_cubs_ap/t1_wood_ap.jpg Wood (3-2, 4.41 ERA) Last start (w, Pit) - 6.0IP, 2H, 1ER, 0BB, 5K vs http://reds.enquirer.com/2004/09/07/harang.jpg Harang (5-8, 3.95 ERA) Last start (w, Col) - 7.0IP. 3H, 1ER, 1BB, 7K
  18. CubmanPi
    nice job to get outta the inning. and good on whoever pointed out that pulling prior was a good call by dusty.
  19. CubmanPi
    Welcome! Who are you a convert from? perhaps i shouldn't share this dreadful secret. . . but. . . the yankees Welcome Might I ask why why the change of heart? two roads diverged in a yellow wood. . .my affinity for the yankees didn't possess a strong enough connection, so when my boyfriend (mr. cubmanpi) let me know it was a conversion of the heart or the highway, i chose the former. and that has made all the difference. . . Firm but fair.
  20. CubmanPi
    Contrary to what my first post in the thread might indicate, I'm with the skeptics who are afraid of old boy and his run-per-inning ERA. We're talking about the Chicago hey-let's-lose-to-Horacio-Ramirez-and-his-98-pitch-3-hit-shutout-effort Cubs. Granted, a couple key changes have been made since that horrible stretch of my life I'd much rather forget, but our offense seems to show up at its worst when 6 shutout innings can bring the opposing pitcher's ERA down more than two and a half points. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Cubs leave 11 men on base through the first six innings (in which they score a total of ZERO runs), then finally squeak out their only run in the seventh on a Lee/ARam sac fly popup that the Great American Smallpark couldn't quite hold, only to have Mark Prior's perfect game ruined by a bullcrap ball 4 call on a full count, followed by the backup catcher (i forget his name, but he's the guy who hit a grand slam and a 3-run shot in consecutive ABs not too long ago against Colorado) knock one halfway to Tennessee for the Reds' only hit in a 2-1 victory. But then Fred's prediction wouldn't surprise me either, so enough speculating for me - let's just wait and see the Cubs playball. And win. For a change.
  21. CubmanPi
    Scoring runs is cool. We should do it more often. From the looks of things, that should be relatively possible again on Tuesday. Hudson is on 12 days rest, with his last start coming on 7 July in a 7-2 loss to the Giants. That either means he was feeling sore and the Reds wanted to capitalize on the ASB to give him the most time off possible, or the 1-4 record and 9.85 ERA should tell us something about him. http://espn.starwave.com/i/magazine/new/mark_prior.jpgPrior (6-3, 3.07 ERA) vs http://www.netitor.com/photos/schools/tenn/sports/m-basebl/MLB/head-lukehudson.jpgHudson (1-4, 9.85 ERA)
  22. CubmanPi
    i'd much rather move Mitre or Rusch then Williams, just my opinion. I'm with you. And I think they've both enjoyed enough success this year to be valuable as well.
  23. CubmanPi
    Okay, Fred, here is a challenging one for ya. What is the Cubs record when the Cubs pitchers get a hit versus when they don't? You can't possibly have that on file, can you? I bet you get an answer before the end of this page.
  24. CubmanPi
    Girls are weird.
  25. CubmanPi
    I wish we could play Pittsburgh forever. Oh well. Jerome Williams (1-3, 3.91 ERA) goes in Cincy against Brandon Claussen (4-6, 3.61 ERA). As long as the reds don't have any rookie/soft-throwing lefties in their rotation, this should be a good series.
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