ToupeeOnFire

Well, it was a crappy game. But I predict if that if they continue to get 16 base runners a game, they will start winning. G'night all.

Second walk of the evening for Pierre. :shock:

That was the most predictable strike out ever. Please retire, Mabry.

lol, nice. But dont forget the Raffy rule....no other players wives. Unless her name is Cindy Sandberg.

I predict that the Cubs will tease us with a few baserunners in the 9th.

http://espn.go.com/i/mlb/profiles/players/65x90/6612.jpg Will Ohman's Gameday photo is the portrait of a man with the buoyant self-satisfaction of being on a high fiber diet. Forgive me, but this game is eating at my soul.

Scott Williamson's Gameday picture has him looking like he just got done scrounging for food in a dumpster. http://espn.go.com/i/mlb/profiles/players/65x90/6174.jpg

It's the Baseball Godz coming back to haunt them for their torrid clutch hitting early in the season. It was inevitable.

Let's see, the master of the double switch refuses to switch out Neifi. How utterly predictable.

Not to step on Fred's territory, but for those of you who like stats, the Cubs are currently 4th in the NL in Neifi Points (a statistic of my own creation calculated by adding sac hits with GIDP)... Colorado 43 San Francisco 41 Pittsburgh 40 CUBS 38

I'm glad I'm not watching this.

Hopefully they'll be able to do a better job of it than Skip Bayless, who once wrote that OPS - on-base plus slugging (and yes, he literally used the words "on-base plus slugging") - is figured by adding runs and RBI while subtracting home runs. No lie.

It's the job of the broadcaster to call a spade a spade. It his not his job to be calling people out. I don't really take a side on the Stone/Mercker/Alou fiasco (I suspect the truth lies somewhere in the middle), but somehow people have become convinced that Stone quit over an issue of "speaking truth to power" when that wasn't it at all. There's a sort of revisionist history going on here. Somehow the Stone of yore has been reinvented into some kind of loose cannon who was always "telling it like it is", calling out Cub players, management and ownership, telling uncomfortable truths and generally being a thorn in the side of the Tribune Company. People confuse the new opinionated - and somewhat caustic - Steve Stone, with the old color analyst who did games with Harry and Chip. Steve never really called out anyone, instead he made snarky comments in his own kind of passive-aggresive manner. Justified or not, it came off as unprofessional.

Stone's predictions were the most annoying thing about him. People always seem to remember the times he was right (his percentage was better than most other analysts' would be I suspect), but forget the countless times he was wrong. But just the fact that he was always making all of these predictions really became grating. And it just seemed to get more and more frequent in his later years, most noticably after he came back and replaced the excruciating Joe Carter. It was as if he started reading (and believing) his own press clippings on how brilliant he was and felt obligated to prove it over and over again. That said, I still miss him and prefer him over Brenly. Nothing against Bob*, who generally seems amiable enough and has a good sense of humor, but I think Len and Steve would have made a fantastic team. I find Len far superior to Chip, who I never really cared for. Sure Chip had excitement, but he would get carried away, creaming his pants over a moderately deep fly ball. And the number of dumb things he'd say during a game made you want to hurl the remote. Steve may be a bit full of himself, but he's still a top flight analyst and I think a Len/Steve combination would have been dynamite. As is, I'm fine with announce team as currently constituted. * The idiots in the Chicago media and elsewhere who repeatedly bashed Bob even before he stepped into the broadcast booth just because he wasn't Steve Stone made me sick.

Barkley is a pud. Always has been.

That might of been the quickest bottom of the 7th inning I've ever seen. Doug Bruno barely had time to work out his phlegm.

Ah, the dulcet tones of Doug Bruno. Is he playing Vegas any time soon?

Wiffle. Stick. Kick. Kitten. Tee. Soft. Dodge.

That throw by Jock was a thing of beauty.

If this game hasn't been bad enough...how about some comically inept defense!

Dusty is the master of the double switch. Bow down to the master!

It's a travesty that Jock Strap is starting against left-handed pitchers.

I'm not ready to give up on him yet. Since there is nobody demonstrably better in AAA, might as well let him get some major league experience. I like what I've seen from him more than I do Rich Hill.

You obviously never saw Santo run the bases !!! Or Ron Cey. What is it about Cub thirdbasemen?

This team needs less Pierre Flair and more Ric Flair. Wooooo!