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Overflow Thread 2: Cubs vs. Astros, Sunday 7/20, 1:05 CT

Since Kerry Wood is apparently "unavailable" again... and Carlos Marmol hasn't pitched since the break... I'm guessing he's closing today.

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Sneaky power with a 2 RBI double!!!!!!
WOW WOW 6-0 FONTY DOES IT AGAIN
The Wonder Hamster puts it out of reach!!

Give the man some PT, Lou.

Wee Babe Ruth!
we are spanking the stros!
Fonty's had a helluva game....
So has the Riot with another RBI.
love the add on runs.

Dempster deserves this one!

We needed a blow out today!!!

GO CUBS!!!

7-0!

BATS! THERE’S BATS EVERWHERE!

WOW!

Just what the doctor ordered for the day!

Riot with another ribbie...3 hits

7-0!!!!

A veritable surfeit of runs
Cajun Connection
is this now d-lee hr time?
or Fukudome hr time
that would be sweet
or anyone in the 2-5 spots

hr time. Lee, Rami, Soto.

Id like to see Fukudome walk and Lee HR.
double good for you?
3-1 SD bottom 7th..

Pujols up runners on the corners

How did Fontenot get to thrid on a ground out to third?
The third baseman

locked up.

So was the wonder hampster running even though the ball was hit in front of him?
Kinda

either real smart or real stupid

Slow grounder, the SS would have had to beat him to 3rd, which he would have

he locked up

to, actually. As did the SS.

in the words of Archie Bell...

...the 3rd baseman “tightened up”....

That a way Dome!!!!
Dome doubles again... he's getting his mojo back!
damn no brewers vs giants

on mlb extra innings

There is the Fukudome I know.
I hope we don't have

a let down in the bottom of the 9th. This place will get lit up like a Christmas tree by the Debbie Downers.

I hope to God not.

It will be a 7 run lead. If we blow that then…

Can't you enjoy the moment without preparing to rip on people?
If you don't like

what I post igonre them.

You mean like you ignore the posters that you don't like?
it's not the same.
Where are those people now?

I don’t understand why they can’t come in here and cheer this team. They only come in here to bash them.

Why are you so obssessed with them?

Ignore them and enjoy the moment-this is supposed to be fun, remember?

It's fun today in here.

The last two nights it wasn’t. I guess we disagree on the bashers.

Is that Buddy Holly pitching for the Stros?
sac fly Pujols.

3-2 SD two outs bottom 7

Wonder how that Astros fan poll is doing right now?

The one that asked if they would sweep us?

Pujols sac fly

3-2

Has Dome been wearing a sleeve on his R elbow all year?

I don’t remember, but didn’t he have surgery on that elbow?

He usually wears

The long sleeve under armor type thing. From what I remember.

Yes to the armor

not sure if it’s the one he had surgery on.

Shouldnt Theriot score on a double there?
Maybe he thought it would be caught
Is it too early to say "save some for tomorrow, boys"?
it works now..

save some for tomorrow boys!!

Stupid pitching changes

You’re down by 7 runs in the 9th inning. Changing pitchers is not going to appreciably improve your chance of winning

9-0!!!! My kind of game!
Pile 'em on boys!
Looks like Demp is done....

Marmol for the 9th….Hell, I’d bring in Marshall

I agree with bringing in Marmol

Got to start building up his confidence. And this is a good place to do it.

after all

lightning isn’t gonna strike twice, is it? :D

I hope he can come in and pitch and finish the game. Another inning where he struggles could be it.

I understand...

.....but it’s another “game is well in hand”, and I’d rather save him. I don’t like him or Wood pitching in games that are well in hand.

Good time for ARam to break out of it now
Well this is a nice way to spend a Sunday
Dempster gets his first road win, regardless of whether he pitches the ninth.
couldn't happen to a nicer guy
Boy, these guys really know

how to clear a stadium….of the opponent’s fans

Thru 7... SD up 3-2
maybe sit ramirez

tomorrow… he flew to ny, then flew to dominican back to houston, give him a rest day

I wouldn't mind

if we sat Ramirez and Soto.

Woah!

Reed Johson’s got a STACHE!

He is a...

cowboy hat away from being a country music singer

or ancient chinese emperor
70's porn star
didn't he do that

already?

I'm bummed about a whole week of late games tho'
Looks like Marmol coming in.

Let’s hope for three up, three down.

Hart homers against Lincecom

Brewers 1-0 in the second

well figures
I Hope

We can save some runs for Arizona

We’ll need them.

they were just making up for the last two days

I’ll bet plenty of gas in their tank

Why?

The Diamondbacks don’t score many runs.

I dont need to remind you of the recent

History the Cubs have had at Chase Field

have the Cubs ever won a series there?
Well they face Randy Johnson

Tomorrow

and they are like 0 – 16 against him

Harden is the guy to fix that!

...and ARam breaks out of his slump

sure, but

while it’s the same name, it’s not the same pitcher anymore. Randy Johnson is a shadow of his former self.

but he's been horrible this year...
0-12 in 13 starts

but he hasn’t faced the 2008 Cubs yet!

let's hope Marmol has a sharp 9th inning

that would be a nice finish to a well played road game…boy, the Cubs need this one to finish smoothly.

Let’s finish it quickly…please.

tomorrow go with:

theriot ss
fukudome rf
lee 1b
soto c
DeRosa 3b
edmonds cf
johnson lf
cedeno 2b

Sit Soto

Henry Blanco is still on the roster, Lou.

I was gonna say Fontenot needs to be in, but its Johnson tomorrow.
Ramy's glove has been great.

Tough to ask DeRo to play 3B after so much time in the OF. Of course, if Harden is on, I could play 3B behind him…

Not bad.

The Cubs put 9 on the board while their cleanup hitter went 0-5.

I'm hungry for some White Castle!
Order up some SLIDERS!
me too... Marmol back, Dome back... maybe maybe
so are we turning marmol into leiber...

bring him in when we are either up by 10 or down by 10..

no..

but up 9-0 isn’t a bad time to get some work since he hasn’t pitched since tuesday

2-0 Brewers thru 1
CUBS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CUBS WIN!!!!!!!
thank god CUBS WIN!!!
GREAT GAME

we win we win we win!!!

cubs win cubs win
Cubs Win!!

Way to snap out of the mini-funk!!

Carlos didn't even work up a sweat!

Not that I wanted him to.

Dempster breaks his road jinx ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Yes!!

Photobucket

here he is.

missed that guy.

Another A+

My weekend is complete now!

I smooch you, Win Man
CUBS WIN!

CUBS WIN CUBS WIN CUBS WIN!!!!

great job, Marmol!!

this team looked very good today. let’s make this a habit!

Solid pitching!

And the offense stepped up. Big win!

Any day the Cubs win

IS A GREAT DAY!

Great game Cubbies!!!!

Great pic!

To think … that little tradition was started by Sori and Pie, and neither of them were in there today.

CUBS WIN CUBS WIN CUBS WIN

SORIANO RETURNS:

4 DAYS

(also my 24th Birthday)

great birthday present :D
Go SF and SD
Gotta go run some errands. See you all Tuesday night.

Go Friars and Extremely Large Men (aka Padres and Giants).

Good win....

Let’s go take care of those Dbacks….

Goodbye All! Happy Sunday!
Since nobody put it up yet....Fly it!!!

Wait, the Cubs just won?

I thought this season was spiraling out of control before out very eyes? Hmmm….

hehehe

One would have gotten that impression from last night’s thread.

for those still here..

3-2 SD thru 7.5

In other news,

Jeff Samardzija continues to be the weirdest prospect in minor league history. He pitched 6 innings today, only walked one and struck out nine. He’s pitching like he wants to be called up before September.

i'm liking the fact the weird part is he is pitching..

better after he gets called up rather than getting worse.

I'm liking it too.

He is missing bats like people thought he should. He’s pitching like a top prospect now.

That is good to hear.
well SD

blew it again.

They are god awful

GOD AWFUL!! What the hell happened to Heath Bell? He used to be dominant.

He hung multiple pitches in that AB.

Like I said, the Padres are awful.

For the scoreboard watchers,

Glaus just gave STL the lead. 5-3 Cards.

The Padres are by far the worst team in baseball.

Thank God then the Cubs won

That 2 game cushion is kept :)

Yeah I'm not worried.

We have yet to play our best baseball. We will put some distance between them soon. Hopefully.

just maintain

till Sori comes back, and Rami figures out how to hit again.

on bright side

Don’t cards and Brewers have a series next week? That has to hurt one of their teams I would think…

I have to say it. With a base open, 2 outs, IZTURDIS on deck, maybe you think about walking Glaus
LOL

The Padres can fuck themselves blowing 3 games in a row.

That's what bad teams do.

And to the Cards credit, that’s what good teams do when you face bad teams like the Padres.

I Say This With All Due Respect

because I don’t say this to pushovers and weak competition….

ST. LOUIS SUCKS

Games not over in STL.

Padres get one back. 5-4 Cards.

1st and 3rd.

One out. Top of 9th.

Izzy sucks as much as the Padres.

They are bringing in Franklin. I think.
Lincecum is either having a horrible day or......

FLS are still around. But that is a topic for a different thread.

Tied up in STL.

Runners at 2nd and 3rd 1 out.

yes! tie game in St. L!
unbelieveable.

Pads had bases loaded, 1 out and didn’t score a single run.

Oh well.

I’m just glad we won today.

5-5 to bottom of 9th

Friars waste bases loaded and one out.

hard liner to Poo-holes ends the inning…too bad.

SD prob just threw the game away, runner on 3rd 1 out for cards
LOL

Nice job Padres

Did I mention the Padres are really, really bad?
wat happened
Pujols walked

then Thompson (the pitcher) was going to bunt Pujols to second. The bunt failed and Pujols was off of 1st so the catcher tried to throw Pujols out, and instead—the ball was thrown away from the first baseman and all the way to right field. Pujols advanced to third.

In other words.

The play was very Cub 2006ish.

Aaron Miles

Here comes the squeeze

Pads

just intentionally walked the bases loaded so there’s a force at every base.

And Aaron hack miles hits a walk off grand slam

Hasn’t this guy always been terrible throughout his career

"Oh my heavens"

says the SD announcer. Aaron Miles hits a grand slam walk off home run.

He had 2 HR all freaking year. Aaron freaking Miles.

Man, the Padres make me wanna throw up in my mouth.

holy crap.

grand slam homerun.

amazing.

Luckiest team in baseball
You don't have to be lucky

When everyone on the team is on HGH and/or throwing scuffed/greased balls.

You do have to be lucky when you’re drunk driving.

Oh lord.

The Cardinals are not lucky—they are playing good baseball. Good things happen when you do that. Enough of the HGH talk and all of that .. it makes it look like you are intimated by them.

You must wear blinders

Ankiel was a juicer. McGwire was a juicer. Tons of other Oakland players for LaRussa were juicers. Don’t tell bald 20-something Pujols isn’t on something and that LaRussa and his staff didn’t/don’t know what’s going on with him, Ankiel and anyone else.

Julian Tavarez couldn’t have been the only person scuffing up balls or greasing them up in that bullpen, either. It’s kind of funny how players who suck ass for years come to St. Lou and suddenly find their mojo, ain’t it?

Aaron Miles fits that last description
geez, I hope people don't think Soto is on HGH

because he was mediocre in the minors from 2001-2006.

I like to think he found his groove at 24.

un-freakin-real

That team is so bad, I feel for Adrian Gonzalez and Brian Giles. That is a pitiful team.

I Drather

root for a clean team like the Cubs than a bunch of juicers like a certain team that wears red and plays in a city on the banks of Old Man River.

there must be guys on SD begging to get out of there by 7/31

they really are b-a-d, bad.

Especially Maddux.
the SD announcer just called the Padres "the AAA Portland Beavers."

ouch.

Thats an insult to the Beavers
I was thinking the same thing

Even the Cubs don’t look this bad when we look “bad” on the road. They really give a team 4-5 outs an inning all the time and run the bases like a bunch of guys with ankle weights on.

They are playing like an AAA team.

I bet the Iowa Cubs would take 2 of 3 from them.

Since Iowa is in first, I assume they do (aren't they both in the PCL?)
Good.

They have at least 4 automatic outs on that team.

To be honest I'd rather have the cardinals make the playoffs than the Brewers

We are head over heels better than the cardinals in terms of talent and would easily beat that team head to head. The Brewers are a team we always struggle with

was just thinking along those lines
OK something more important.

We get very lucky. We dont face Webb or Haren this week. The D-Backs series, in my opinion, is huge. We have our golden boy pitching for only the 2nd time, we get R. Johnson who has been horrible lately. We face Owings, a cub killer in the past, but struggling this year, and we face Doug Davis, another cub killer in the past, but very hittable.

The Cards and Brew will be beating up on one another, we need to get some distance from one or both of them. Harden, Marquis, and Lilly. They need to be big for us.

Memo to Lilly: First pitch fastball, up and in to Chris Young. NOT A GOOD IDEA.

Memo to Lilly: First pitch fastball, up and in to Chris Young. NOT A GOOD IDEA.

Unless it’s a lot more up and a lot more in…and results in a trip to the oromaxiofacial surgeon.

Wow...just wow.
Random comment

Y’all ever watch Baseball Tonight and wonder why they always lead off with the Mets and/or Yankees, even if the game is only in the first inning?

Than about 20-40 minutes later they “catch up with the Major League’s best team, the Chicago Cubs”.

What the f*ck? I don’t care how East Coast biased you are, shouldn’t you lead with the best team in the whole damn league?

E$PN

For fair coverage on the Cubs, stick with Bruce Miles and BCB.

$?

See, that’s the confusing part. Chicago’s not a small market. The Cubs are team that a lot of people who DON’T live in Chicago like—it makes no sense to bury them behind Marlins highlights [in front of their customary 10K fans]. Even when the stupid Tampa Rays were winning a lot they were high up in the show’s set list. I was sick of hearing about what a great story it was. Gee, fellas, has it been a HUNDRED FCKING YEARS SINCE THE D-BAG, ER, D-RAYS WON A TITLE?

I’d also rather not sit through a story on the fcking Mets latest soap opera or Giambi’s mustache before I find out if the best damn team in the league won their game that was over 2 hours ago, you know?

why do you watch them?

I dont like the way Fox news covers things. So it’s a channel I never watch, b/c I expect that they will say things that will annoy me.

ESPN is the same way…. when they do actually cover the Cubs it annoys me.

I watch because

I’m way out west and all we have is Fox Sports Mariners or ESPN. When I’m feeding my 2 year-old, there isn’t much on besides a shitty Mariners game or maybe, maybe SportsCenter, if you’re lucky.

Since you brought it up, I don’t mind Fox News. CNN, pMSNBC, PBS, BBC, etc. are all pansy-assed left-wing surrender shills and they can fuck off.

I was just using it as an example

cubs did win today….

smile be happy

JMOMLS,

You da man!!! :)...or, the chick, whatever the case may be.

+1

On Fox News….you should rent the dvd called “Outfoxed” sometime. Really spills the beans on what a sleazy outfit Fox is.

No, thanks.

I filled my quota of obvious liberal propaganda when I was forced to sit through “Bowling for Columbine” a few years back.

All I know is that Fox News didn’t try to push some phoney TANG memos as realistic 1973 documents-when they were obviously whipped up in Microsoft Word-in a blatant attempt to impact a Presidential election…or suck up to Saddam Hussein in a pre-war Interview…or blatantly try to declare the Vietnam War “lost” [CBS].

Nor did they cozy up to Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War simply to be the only open bureau in town [CNN].

Nor do they employ disgusting hacks like Keith Olbermann or Chris Matthews, who are either busy getting thrills up their legs for Obama or comparing everything and everyone to Hitler [MSNBC].

You Would Like KFI-AM Out Here

http://www.kfi640.com/ – and they stream over the Internet.

don't you mean the Los Angeles Angels?

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