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  1. CubmanPi
    I never look forward to the crosstown series. I enjoy the other 156 games where I get to pretend there's only one team in town.
  2. CubmanPi
    I don't remember specifics, I just remember really hating the guy. My irrational hatred for the Marlins will probably never go away because of him.
  3. CubmanPi
    Fukudome RF Castro SS DeWitt 2B Ramirez 3B Peña 1B Soriano LF Campana CF Hill C Davis P This is the lineup that will sweep the Yankees.
  4. CubmanPi
    Pittsburgh just swept the Astros after taking 2 of 3 from the Mets. They're now 2 games over .500 and 3 games out of first, but still in fourth place.
  5. CubmanPi
    Odds of this series being as awesome as the last series the Yankees played at Wrigley?
  6. CubmanPi
    If the Cubs can score runs and win games with that lineup against the Brewers, anything is possible this season.
  7. CubmanPi
    It's much more fun to watch when the Cubs are playing competitive baseball. It's been a good several days.
  8. CubmanPi
    I like our chances for this game better than I've liked them for the last two weeks. Also, I'm taller than midgets.
  9. CubmanPi
    It's easy to just start piling on when the team is losing the vast majority of their games. By definition, every day that goes by is closer to the day Ricketts makes a change. Nobody has provided any meaningful information about what is going to happen. Ricketts has talked several times about trying to emulate the Red Sox. So it's a no brainer for a Boston beat writer to just throw some crap against the wall about Ricketts being inspired by the Boston series to make a move. If/when something happens, he's going to look good. Also, ESPN is piling on because it's ESPN and said beat writer(s) works in either Boston or New York. I'd be more surprised if ESPN didn't throw logs on the fire.
  10. CubmanPi
    Exactly. His source is his own suspicion that Ricketts was embarrassed, and that the team seemed disinterested when they were in Boston. Then he realized that there are ex-Sox execs out there who know what it takes to turn a cursed team into a winner, and with the Billy Goat and the black cat and Bartman and all, this team is cursed, therefore he knows the winning formula, so here's a 5-page article about it, and everyone should listen, because Boston is so great, and then Boston could get credit for breaking another curse, and Boston is so great, and we have commercials about mom-and-pop sandwich shops that name sandwiches after all the great Sox that play in this great city for this great team. Somebody publish me.
  11. CubmanPi
    Then, within that link, it links to this story, which states the following in the first two pages (tl;dnr the rest): So there are all these quotes saying there are some signs from Ricketts indicating he may be feeling one way or another, but never does anyone discuss what those signs actually are. Instead, they just use it as the basis for this huge hypothetical circle jerk about how being more like Boston can even solve the Cubs' problems, and that it took the Cubs going to historic Boston and playing on that stage for the light to suddenly pop on in Ricketts's head. Blowhard beat writers exist in every city. No exceptions here. Complete non-story. Any NSBB member who has ever tried to construct a hypothetical trade did so with the same amount of information these guys used.
  12. CubmanPi
    Cubs 8 Brewers 1 You heard it here first.
  13. CubmanPi
    I thought this was going to be a PBA thread.
  14. CubmanPi
    FLS: Team W L Pct GB Houston 24 41 0.369 --- Minnesota 25 39 0.391 1.5 Cobs 25 38 0.397 2.0 Oakland 28 38 0.424 3.5 Kansas City 28 37 0.431 4.0 Washington 29 36 0.446 5.0 San Diego 29 37 0.439 5.5 LA Dodgers 30 36 0.455 5.5 LA Angels 31 35 0.470 6.5 white sox 32 35 0.478 7.0 Baltimore 30 32 0.484 7.5 NY Mets 31 33 0.484 7.5 Colorado 31 33 0.484 7.5 Pittsburgh 31 32 0.492 8.0 Toronto 32 33 0.492 8.0 The only change in rankings after yesterday is that Pittsburgh dropped down four spots, but after having a commanding lead a couple weeks ago, the Twins are threatening to drop down one more spot.
  15. CubmanPi
    Fox doesn't have the Yankees or the Red Sox today. But they've got the Cubs. Insert weekly Fox sucks tirade here.
  16. CubmanPi
    If Mark Grace is still his favorite Cub, then he's been a closet Cardinals fan for years. Ignorance. If that's true, then he never tried very hard to dislike the Cardinals. Again, closet fan.
  17. CubmanPi
    FLS: Team W L Pct GB Houston 24 40 0.375 --- Minnesota 24 39 0.381 0.5 Cobs 25 37 0.403 2.0 Oakland 28 37 0.431 3.5 Kansas City 28 36 0.438 4.0 Washington 28 36 0.438 4.0 San Diego 29 36 0.446 4.5 LA Dodgers 29 36 0.446 4.5 LA Angels 30 35 0.462 5.5 white sox 31 35 0.470 6.0 Pittsburgh 30 32 0.484 7.0 Baltimore 30 31 0.492 7.5 NY Mets 31 32 0.492 7.5 Colorado 31 32 0.492 7.5 ETA - ninja'd by fred.
  18. CubmanPi
    It was stupid to keep Z in that game as long as he was in there, but it felt nice to see that the complete lack of seven innings of offense really was due to facing one of the best pitchers in baseball and not offensive incompetence. I'm glad I didn't shut the game off after the grand slam. Also, WTF Castro swinging at that ball in the 9th. That was pretty awful.
  19. CubmanPi
    Call it what you want, other than rooting for the Cubs to lose.
  20. CubmanPi
    The [expletive] I am. Don't lump us all in with those Fecal League hacks. I said most, lol. Great. You guys think fecal league tracking is stupid, good for you. The only thing dumber is deciding that those of us who do it are rooting for the Cubs to lose. Get over yourselves.
  21. CubmanPi
    I was asking myself that while he was serving up one of Pujols's walkoffs. Is it just me or are the Cubs seeing about half as many pitches as the phils?
  22. CubmanPi
    Fukudome RF Barney 2b Castro SS Pena 1B Ramirez 3b DeWitt LF Soto C Colvin CF Wells P
  23. CubmanPi
    If Reed Johnson or Jeff Baker have enough PAs to qualify, it's one of them. Otherwise I'll say Kosuke.
  24. CubmanPi
    All those guys sitting around the edges of the field during game play and running out to the foul lines between innings is a complete eye sore. Snipers on the roof FTW.
  25. CubmanPi
    +1 Absolutely. Agreed. Vince McMahon agrees too. sports Once upon a time, it at least made an effort to resemble legitimate sports competition. Properly exploiting the value of having scripted villains made that effort unnecessary. I'm sure real sports has room for profit from this type of douchebaggery.
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