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First Pitch Thread: Cubs vs. Nationals, Saturday 8/23, 12:05 CT

"If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are." -- Casey Stengel

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Let's do this!!!!
It's great day for a ballgame

Let’s score some runs.

wow call me stupid, but

i didnt realize that demp was going for win #15 today…he could get 20 wins this year!!

I hope he does.

I’ve always liked Demp.

me too...

imagine his contract #’s if he does thogh

I hope they

try and keep him.

i think both sides will

try to stay…he loves us, we love him.

one big group hug

I hope he stays too. Hope we don’t have to sing Kumbaya, though

Ryan deserves it.

I can’t think of a better teammate. He has done everything the Cubs have asked during his time in Chicago.

yep
great teammate

the guy IS team chemistry!

Kosuke

in the 8 hole.

Dempster has his back
FIFTH! haha

crap... sorry

Didnt mean for that to be so big

for a fifth

i’d’ve guessed bourbon

that would have been more creative now wouldnt it have
What a specimen!
you were sixth too, lol
thanks for the reminder

need to head to the liquor store! :-)

I think today is going to be a BIG game for the Cubs... my predictions.....

Dempster 8 1/3 innings 6 K’s, 4 hits, 2 walks
Ramirez 1 HR, 3 RBI’s
Kosuke 3-4 as a wake up call with a double and an RBI

Cubs win 6-0

that leadoff guy needs a

pun for his name

I love his name

what was it? Emilio Bonafacio or something? For some reason I immediately thought of Donny Bonnaduci or however you spell it

Will Farrell saw his once

and was seen calling, “Emilio! Emilio!!!!”

demp fearing harris' power
Was that an UIBB?
Goodness gracious!

Has Willie Harris morphed into Babe Ruth?

lets go GB!!!
groundball...not green bay...eww
thank you...

i just had a whole convo bymyself

DP!

weeeee!

not dp lee

this time

Let's get a bunch of runs!!!!!
Whew DP

anyone else have muffled sound from CSN?

Maybe there's invisible fog at Wrigley?
we beat him last series
their sound has been so miserable,

i leave off the volume

Mine doesn't

seem too bad.

hmm...

I’ve got volume cranked but it’s hell when commercials come on…have to quickly get it back down… then up for the game… sigh

Hmmm,

that is strange.

maybe it's my set

the pictures dark now too

Have you had problems

like this before?

other channels OK

it’s craptastic CSN…thank goodness (in a way) cuz I can’t afford any more technology melt down/losses.

I am listening to Pat Hughes and Eeyore
single to left

2 on 1 out

ledges getting crowded

til scrappyness starts a twin-gnat-killing

their left fielder doesn't hop

on routine flyballs.

someone should show fonzie that

Sigh...

I hope Fonzie hops 20 times today…means a good game for the Cubs.

As long as it doesn't make him

miss the fly balls, why do you care?

+1
+2

can’t we wait 3 innings before we start fighting with one another.

(Per Rodney King)

He's not going

to change the way he plays. It’s not hurting anything.

the riot almost

wipes out the benadryl at second

Lee tries to give them a DP ball

but they only got the riot @ 2nd.

yep im sure he tried
i was just being silly.
Washigton Nationals Defense...

Feel the excitment!

making the routine exciting

for about 4 years now

You know, they kind of remind me of the 2006 Cubs.
That's probably a low blow...

…to the Nats. That 2006 Cubs team was a fistful of terrible.

Out of my 21-hour coma, ready for action!

DLee woulda had that throw…

O, irony.

welcome back, Mr. DM
XM Radio is still in the commercial break

What is going on here?

Must be having technical difficulties.

Maybe they’ll switch to the away audio feed.

Rami keeps the inning ali.. li.. li.. li..

stayin’ alive…

ronnie belliard doesn't

miss many meals

I was thinking the same thing.
Working for the weekend

Sucks.

Oh yeah

Hey all!

going to work myself ,in abit
Anyone doing a

ROLL CALL?

Did someone say ROLL CALL!?
BTW, i'm here in Thrapston

Watching CSN live in england.

love English town names... Thrapston... lol!

BTW: here.

Close towns:

Kettering, Peterborough, Alconbury, Huntingdon, Wellingborough, Northampton…. :)

now I know why New England is called New England

just kidding… but half those towns are also in Massachusetts and NH, lol!

There's also a town called York an hour away by train

I think there’s a “new” one of those on that side of the pond ;)

I cycled through Fulking today,

They have to be careful with the road signs. There us a ricver Uck nearby and the sign is cut so there is no space at all to the left of the U.

Here

in my office in good ol’ South Bend, avoiding all the Domers going back to school.

sheesh Theriot
Now how can that be scored a hit?

It looked like an error to me.

Grist For Drew's and Cwyers' Mill
yea...im sure we'll hear about that one
belliard was running to first

like they were closing the buffet line

My kingdom

For a 5.5 game division lead after tonight

Belly-lard in field single?
How did Prince Fielder

get into this conversation?

Fat Men and Braids Don't Go Together
nor do cecil's kids

and southpaws named manny

Cecil's Kids

would be a great name to a foundation for ending childhood obesity…wait…

haven't seen pink hat guy in a while
i spotted him yesterday
a sharper eye than mine, my friend
he didn't have a cat

drivin’ him nuts

rofl true dat
2 last name guy
Austin kEARns

I’m sorta interested in him as an waiver wire addition, that could spell Dome in RF. Call me crazy…..

Let's get some runs!!!!!
way to remember spring training guys
28 pitches thru 2 4 demp
Hola, amigos y amigas
Hola

Como esta usted hoy?

Fine, you?

I’m afraid that the above used up most of my Spanish :) (I speak Dutch though) (and live closeby in Hanover)

Ich bin fein, danke!

Nederlandse, geen Duits :)

Ja hoor!

Ik ben wel ook. Hup Cubbies!

Oh, sorry, I don't speak Dutch.
buenos dias

vamos Cubbies!

Anybody else think it's funny,

that the Nats got the Met’s catcher of the future (Flores) in the rule 5 draft and then traded the Nats for their catcher Brian Schneider.

i'm wondering if the cubs will make any

rule 5 waves in december

GEO with a base hit
our hero :D
indeed
He sure makes that uniform

look nice….

why yes...yes he does :D
and all is right in the world

of sue

em

hbcg

and a few others

Up next on Outside the Lines: Why do the girls always swoon over catchers?

Is it the mask adding a touch of mystery? We’ll explore…

OK, Dome, Let's Get Off The Schneid!
Does the walk count?
depends on what it's followed by
Works For Me :-)
nothing to hit
Hey Len's giving Sanantone a shoutout!
I heard that too.
Heard it

Didnt put two & two together

Damnit, I wasn't paying attention!!!!!
He thanked you for your service
Does that thanks come with free tickets?
no harm in asking ;-)
Will I be too picky if I ask specifically for all playoff tix?
it's the least we can do for our country's heros, doncha think?
Well, *I* think so!!!!!

I’m not biased or anything though.

BTW, I’m not the hero – the heroes are the ones that are downrange right now.

did he really?

that’s too cool!

The personal shoutout would of come in the form of...

Pointing out the fact that the game is being aired around the world for troops stationed overseas on AFN… yada yada.

Not by personal name for me :(

ok...

still nice tho…

might as well

bunt

load those bases, fools!
All Right, Sori, Base Hit Eh?
they don't respect

scrappyness

he needs to make them PAY!!!!
They must learn fear
walking Sori
his defense yesterday was his best all season
And Al didn't talk about it all that much in his recap

It’s a conspiracy!

Hey all...

Let’s do this…Go Cubs!

No Cubs in Vegas today :(
C'mon Theriot

awww crap

Nats' 2B Sucks
That was a (s)crappy out
Dammit, Riot ripped that one!

At least he was right on that one. I see good things coming…..

5 LOB after 2 innings...

my guess is we will put a crooked number on this guy soon.

timely hits with RISP have not been happening much lately. we are WAY overdue.

frustratingly so
Just got in

and it appears we’re having some (temporary) issues scoring on Odalis Perez, eh?

Hopefully, only semi-temporary
I think we're going to light up Perez by the 5th.

Just a hunch.

Seeing as how MLB has decided I cannot watch this game on TV, I’m left with Gaecast. Sigh.

Yahoo gamecast?

I’ve got the same problem … MLB Gameday doesn’t work for me on this computer here

ESPN Gamecast
eww
Ehh. it works for me in my office at work, and i'm stuck at work today nd tomorrow :( during boith Cubs games
i understand, I work 2nd shift, so I'm stuck with the computer for most games

I just prefer mlb gameday

You probably still have it better than me

No DirecTV, so no WGN Cubs games.

How many guys have we left on

in the last week? We have to start bringing them home

OT: I got

my Bears gnome today. He looks cute standing next to my Cubs gnome (Geosoto). I haven’t named my new one yet.

congrats! Propogating quickly.
devin Gnomster??

lol ill fail myself

Would DevinHester be your new gnome's name?
Not sure. I'm

a fan of Robbie Gould so maybe some variation on that.

anyone surprised sue would name her latest

after geo?

not me

Cool..

Gonna get a Bulls gnome too?

Probably not.
so football's your favorite sport?
I like them

all but football a little more than the others.

gotcha. just baseball and girly sports for me
Hey Sue...

Did you see these ?

Playing to the level of their competition
Bring On The '27 Yankees! LOL
we beat them last week
the riot almost tackled by

the shark

Give Theriot chops for the catch

uh oh…. here comes cat

hang in there

kiddo

Stevens?
heh. Yusuf Islam
Someone's been sneaking Viagra to your cat!
you betcha

fortunately he was just crawling over me to get to a comfy napping spot on the couch (whew)

He's been.."fixed"?
yep. if he's like this now, can you imagine?

I shudder to think.

Nice graB Riot!

Charlie Hustle in left wanted no part of that one!

Actually it looks like

Sori was close enough to have made the catch, if Riot hadn’t been there and called him off.

Agreed but he was tippy-toeing his way over there.

He just never looks that confident out there.

Take THAT Willie Harris

Having a bit more trouble creaming the ball off Ryan Dempster, eh?

Demp is not the bullpen
Hopefully,

neither is Howry :)

I cringe at the mention

Hopefully he pitches the 8th as mop-up

nooooooooooooooo

…with a 12 run lead?

noooooooooooooooooo

he is creative in the ways he can blow a lead, any lead, pick a lead

Only if we're up by more than six.
wait him out d
My kingdom for a "hey hey" moment....
leadoff walk also works
"but even a triple's okay"
Aramis is going to go yard!

I can feel it!

It's been over a week

He’s due

DLee ob board for an ARam bomb? Who's with me?

We’ll cheer, snd boo, and raise a hullabaloo

that play shoulda been made
Hey!!!!

Finally moved and back! Although I’m not sad I missed ysterday’s game. Yuck.

GO CUBS!!!

Welcome back!!!

Maybe you’ll be their good luck charm today.

God I hope so.

Yesterday looked downright AWFUL. :(

Yeah it was.

But those games happen once in a while.

welcome back, slcathena! it's been a while
I know, I had to move across the country.

Anyone else in Boston? I seem to remember at least one other person in the area but I’m blanking on who…

what part of Boston? My old stomping ground
I'm working in Lexington

but live in Wakefield. :)

pretty towns both
So gorgeous.

I fell in love with both pretty much immediately.

And dude, that lake in the center of Wakefield with the old style main street and the great churches?! Crazy awesome.

wait till the fall with the trees every color ... gorgeous

New England rocks

Awesome.

Where did you live? Where are you now?

I'm in Chicago now. Lived here for 14 years and counting

love it.

DeRo!

Base hit!

BTW, the mlb.com feed

is about 8-10 seconds behind when you are seeing things on CSN. very slow.

nice rope dero
Bases clogged and one out

Bring them home!!!!!

Johnson on second, right?

Just checking, b/c Yahoo is showing me two on…with Lee on second and DeRo on first.

Go figure!

Bags clogged with Cubs!

Time for a big hit!!

we keep getting RISP...

time to produce!!!

Things are not going well today
santo has to be having a canniption fit
Do not want to see 8 LOB

after 3 innings unless we score a buncha runs first.

ugh

hey all….can we get some runs already?

Geo's pissed off!
Poor my Geo. :(

and when Geo’s pissed off, so is Sue :)

No just

makes me want to comfort him.

c'mon Dome

Take another walk

dammit!
How many are we going to leave on

Hits with RISP have been overdue for us for a while.

Really?

Seems like they’ve been doing a pretty good job of driving them in. They did score five runs yesterday.

I count 7 today with 2 outs

Sorry

Missed most of the game yesterday … I was working.

Turns out I didn't miss that much

I was unable to track it online after the Cubs led 4-0.

count yourself lucky. worst game of the season in every way
Great minds think alike?
In this case, yes

I should make it to more games, though … my lifetime Cubs record in attendance is 5-0.

As it turns out

you didn’t miss much.

God, Dome is becoming a joke at the plate
ohhhhh gawd.... RISP RISP RISP
I'm looking for....

situation hitting, the Cubs seem to have misplaced it.

Weren’t a unch of them going to a concert last night?

yep Vedder's
LOB = blizzard
Odalis Perez

Cy Young to his opponents.

i've got to take off

Please talk them into getting some runs

I Hate Waste

RISP, uneaten food, hose water when the neighbors go back in the house….I HATE IT

Me too.

Mega pet peeve. :(

Where Have You Gone Joe Pepitone?
one of my favorites ever
His sideburns

had their own area code, I think.

To Atlanta for Andre Thornton, I believe :)

Unrealized Potential

Shoulda hit 400+ HRs and multi Gold Gloves but he was too busy partying and fooling around.

very true and he never really grew out of it
and to think

he broke in with mantle

Not To Nitpick But

Pepitone broke in back in 63, and Mantle broke in back in 51.

I saw his first at bat

as a Cub in Cincy and he hit what would have later this season been one of those instant replay boundary calls. they called it a foul ball but it hit the foul pole. He could still probably hit better than DOME.

Starting pitcher

 Do you think it drives Dempster and the other starters crazy when no runs get scored against a low-end team like the Nats?

He’s having to battle every inning himself — a huge energy spend on a humid day

No

They realize it’s all part of the game. Something fans don’t get a lot of times.

Snarling Geo
Yeah, he's not

a happy camper today.

So Emelie...

Where are my brownies??

And where are my lemon bars, Sue?? It’s 7pm and I’m starting to get hungry but don’t know what to make for dinner, so I need a treat to distract my hunger :)

Dude if

I had a way to zap them to you I would. Sorry!

We'll have to work

on inventing that technology :)

I got the apron on but the cat distracted me

I’ll get right on it, soldier.

Airman!

Not soldier!

yikes! bad mistake :D
While you're at it...

make me up a batch of slaw, will ya?

Not until my brownies are done!
LOL..

but she’s and excellent multi-tasker..

Right

But that doesn’t mean she’s able to still make your slaw ;)

calm down, guys... I whip up the slaw while the brownies are baking

anything special you want in the brownies, sanantone?

Where do you live, Sanantone?

England

I taught in London for a few years…

Well, Dempster is doing his part.

Let’s get the man some runs so he can get his 15th win!

Agreed.

I’m always so sad when our pitching is there and we can’t bring the runs in. :(

Nothing more frustrating than out-hitting a team and losing with a quality start. GRRR!

ledges getting crowded
No ledges necessary here.

I’m by no means throwing in the towel, or even pessimistic at the moment—just pointing out something that is (obviously) very frustrating. ;)

Worried The Offense Will Start To Press

Which will prolong the struggles to score runs.

You know, they did score five yesterday

and that’s usually been enough to win.

One game, not even fully complete, does not constitute a struggle.

I'm Talking "Relative To Today"
You get a lot of guys on base

you leave a lot of guys on base. Think this is bad? You should watch a Cardinals game sometime. Seems like every game they leave a ton on base.

Anyway, things are looking up.

I'm In Football Mentality Mode

if you remember our discussion a while back. “Score score score, kill kill kill, smash ’em and destroy ’em!” Been reading my Street and Smith’s NFL Preview a little too much, I guess.

I'm all for going for the jugular

but a 3-2 win is as good as a 10-0 one. Football can wait. :)

sutton doing radio for the gnats

shouldn’t he deserve a pro gig?

Like with the Braves?
Always Liked Sutton

Good dependable pitcher, worked the plate, very consistent.

4-0!
I like your posts

every time you post, we have more runs!

See I Told You All They Wouldn't Struggle!

/ducks for cover

I can hear NBF now

“ye of little faith” LOL

Ye of little faith

Sorry, BigJohn, had to hit that hanging curve. :)

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