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First Pitch Thread: Cubs vs. Nationals, Sunday 8/24, 1:20 CT

"As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it." -- Leo Durocher

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First!
I'll like to challenge this.
lol!
Until a final ruling is issued,

You may use no claim to being first and must relinquish all brownies.

be careful or

those brownies will be laced!

Magic Brownies!!!!!?
Let's win #80 today
HEY!

You stole my avatar!

A man should never touch another man's avatar!
Go Cubs!

First?

Nationals TV

says the wind is blowing out today

it is... at a decent clip too
I stand corrected

Len says wind blowing in a 10 mph

the anthem singer has a good voice
Bergmann and the Nats

light em up, boys

OT: ive never seen anything funnier

than the roast of bob saget

was that on HBO?
comedy central
I'll have to look it up
go to youtube and

put bob saget roast part 1 part 2, etc

great! thanks!
it is

INSANELY DIRTY though

so's Saget :D

I know what to expect. I always loved the irony of him hosting America’s Funniest Videos

Greg Giraldo was hilarious

Norm McDonald and Jon Lovitz painful to watch

ps. stephanie tanner got hot! lol
Wow!

According to Willie Harris, if you root for the visiting team at Wrigley, you’re going to get into a fight.

Typical comment from a bonehead ex-Sox player!

Just let it go, the Cubs will always be the team in Chicago.

here we go!

LIGHT ’EM UP!

K
Where's the patented Harden K counter?
haven't seen her today
If anyone cares....

HOU3 NYM3 BOT4

Tell me when the Brewers lose

Where's the Harden crown?
I don't have it.

sorry.

AAAARGH!!!!!!!
well, someone go back to his last start, find the pic.
good. one down

26 more to go

Easy roller

2 down

2!

USE THIS!

hooray the king is back!
I've been here the whole time, Emelie

How appropriate is that fail picture for me, lol
Yea..

Respect the crown!

At this rate the game'll be over by 2:30

Go Harden!

Hope not, that means we don't get on base either

but I know what you meant

Okay, Cubs

Let’s go score a TON of runs!

how close do we need to watch Harden?

since this is a “day” game?

it's pretty cool
70 degrees.
gawd I love multi-tasking

watching the cubs, reading the paper, blogging … life doesn’t get better than this

yep,

cubs and reading the DRF…gotta find a winner here! I’d prefer the one at Wrigley!

which paper?
Trib and NYT
dead tree or online?
dead tree

I’m old fashioned.

soneone likes doing the crossword puzzle...
you guessed! lol.
Sudoku FTW
never could get into sudoku
I'm not smart enough for crosswords
I'm not smart enough for numbers
Key word is

old fashioned, lol

pen or pencil?
pen. I don't think own a pencil.
ah.....hard core puzzler.

nice!

That's not all your doing either

Just the other thing can’t be mentioned in public for the rest of these fools to know ;)

morning all!

Harden looks very sharp!!!

Harden Strikeout Total?

I’m feeling double digits.

I'll settle for 8 and 7 strong innings.
what else?

10

Sounds like we need to get our

small ball goin’ on…

Good AB by Theriot so far....
Theriot's seen a lot of pitches this AB

me likey

Both Lee and Ward have good numbers against Bergmann

Ward is playing 1B today, giving Lee a break to rest his back

happy bats I wanna see happy bats
Theriot, STOP THAT!!!!!
let me guess...

he got caught stealing?

No, he stole the base...but it looked to me like it was way too close. He didn't get a good jump.
he made it, but barely
and they talked about how much of a good jump he got, too.

that should tell us something. You’d think it would tell HIM something, but he’s not getting it.

little on the dense side if you ask me

I know… I should just leave it alone…

beat me to it. SHEEESH
Hit d*mn!

Riot swipes one.. small ball, baby.

AROUND THE LEAGUE IN JUST ONE POST…

BOS 4 TOR 3 – BOT 4
HOU 3 NYM 3 – TOP 5
NYY 4 BAL 2 – BOT 2
PIT 0 MIL 0 – BOT 2
TAM 3 CWS 0 – BOT 2
DET 1 KCR 0 – TOP 2
ATL 0 STL 2 – TOP 2

ESPN Gamecast is delightfully

lagged today :(

Y'all here?

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Long Time Lurker

First time poster. Howdy y’all from Texas!

Hi. Where in Texas?
Houston.

Another displaced midwesterner suffering in the heat and humidity.

Ewww, Texas

Glad I got my reprieve from living there a few months back!

"How bout dem Cowboys?"

::sarcasm::

If it's even possible...

I hate the cowboys even more since moving down here. I did get to see the Texans hand the Cowboys a humiliating defeat in the franchise’s first game.

Heya dedfish, welcome..

I’ve found that newcomers are instantly welcome here, jump right in : )

We are here on

WORST MOVIE EVER!

loved the book though.
You obviously have never seen Red Zone Cuba.
either one qualifies as worst

1. Bend it like Beckham

2. From Justin to kelly

Again, someone else who has never seen Red Zone Cuba.
sorry gotta go with what I have seen
I guarantee you.

Red Zone Cuba is quite possibly the worst movie ever made.

I'm going to have to rent it now...

Hopefully it has something in it to laugh at.

If you get the MST3K version there's some chuckles to be had.
wow it does sound like a bad flick

according to Wikipedia

Oh, that's a must see then..lol..
What about the Dragonlance movie cwyers?
The only Dragonlance movie I'm aware of is the cartoon that had Kiefer Sutherland in it.

Am I missing one?

yeah thats it.
Haven't had a chance to watch it yet.
well don't spend a lot of money to get it

maybe no more that 2 bucks, or so.

Also I hear the Clone Wars movie is pretty bad as well. Man we could start a thread on just this topic.

Or Dune..

Maybe not bad bad…but totally boring.

present and accounted for, sir!
Wishing I were there
Cinnamon...to win!
are you at the races?!
nope

just wanted to be poetic today (roll of choice)

pardon the interruption…

That at bat and steal shows why Theriot sucks and should be DFAed now

because His AB was not a HR and he didn’t manage make it to second base before the pitchers throw made it to home plate.

DeRo makes the catch

Girl Cubs fans across America swoon.

Nasty nasty Harden
hey I didn't post that as a reply? BCB messing with my posting phht.
What if DeRo were to throw out a runner tagging at 3rd?
from Right Field?

I’d want to know if he got a bionic arm over the ASG.

lol
I was thinking some DeRo-Geo action

for the ladies…

FULL OF FAIL!!!

Missing something!!!!!!!!

I fixed it. chill out. :D
is is just me...

or does belliard look like the kind of guy thar would sell weed out of a ice cream truck…to kids!!!

take that K withya

I can't disrespect Belliard

he always seems to kill us

That kid, Harden, I think he's got a future in this game

googily moogily

harden is what we call strong

Harden is unstoppable!
Blue Mike

is that you?

DERO DERO DERO DERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
DeRo is hot

(Not that way!)

Yes, he IS in fact hot that way.

Ask the ladies.

that's a yep.
Mark DeRosa

just hit another home run.

Four games… four home runs. 7 HRs in 16 games.

4 in a row for DeRo
DeRo!!

He’s Soriano-level hot right now!

dero homeruns all day

Cubs lead 1-0

(Was DeRo the best signing by Jim Hendry in 2007?)

he's one of the tops but there's so many to choose from
Nope

but a good one

DeRo is hotter than a kitchen stove in August

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HOLY MACKERAL!!!!!

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BIg Inning, fellas, let's Do this

leeeeeeeeeeeroy jeeeeeeeeeeeeeenkins!

C'mon Geo, show yer stuff!
BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Soto was jealous

2-0

I mean 3-0
SOTO SMASH!!!!

3-1

3-0
get it right the first time
damn

 that sounded crushed!!!

Now there's some DeRo-Geo action

that even *I think is hot!

So close to back 2 back jacks

cmon LBR

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HOLY MACKERAL!!!!!

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Ma6ybe LBR has a HR in him today
Here's to Harden going 0-5 today (unless he lays down a few sacrifices)

that will mean the bats are alive.

5 plate appearances by your starting pitcher

is NEVER a bad thing.

Harden looks so akward at the plate
Good time to be joining back up with the chat
Remember Harden's first AB with the Cubs?

they told him to bunt and he kept looking in the dugout as if to say, “OOOOKayyyyy…. you really want me to try this?!” It was funny,

Chris Farley voice...

“that was awsome”.

Soriano with a batting eye?
This week he's been playing well both offense AND defense. Hope he keeps it up.
Selfish walk for Sori!

:)

he has to stop clogging up the bases.

a bug must have landed in his eye
looks like this kid's meltin' down
Stop clogging the bases!
Man, Gamecast is so far behind
clapclapclap

nice inning

well, that was a good inning.

I love those bottom of the order guys!

Who knew I could be so ....drawn....

to erin esurance

uh oh. HR gnats
Boooooooooooo

3-1

shot of Al in his BCB shirt
it wasn't foul

hooked it inside the fair pole.

shucks.

the hard left to right wind probably helped to keep it fair :-(
all of a sudden

they’re hitting Harden a ton. Whats up with that?

maybe he cooled off to much with the long inning. he is getting it back...
coupla hard hit balls
Bergmann 0-37!! ROFL

I know you were just discussing upthread… I’m a bit slow today, but how funny is that?

I can't believe he didn't strike out
You ever hear of Bob Buhl?
now I have

1288 strikeouts. holy moly.

I have that card!
and...

Buhl failed to record a single hit in 70 at-bats in 1962, the worst single-season batting performance in major league history — specifically, the record for most at-bats in a hitless season. (Sporting News Baseball Record Book, 2007, p.19)

nice play

by Ward. three outs.

get that run back!
Suds blew a bases-loaded, 0 out threat

with Braun whiffing, and Fat bouncing into a 6-4-3.

No score, with Charlie Cheeseburger pitching.

I just got an image of

Grimace and Mayor McCheese in Brewers unis in my head.

I feel...

2 more runs being put up on the board by the Cubs in this inning.

The Bucs have a guy on 2nd

No one out.

Make that 1 out
and a dp
Wow

How’d that happen?

catch and a throe over to get the runner
damn gnats are fielding today that stinks
Wind must be swirlin'
or

milledge isn’t a good cf

the wind is cockblocking our homeruns

That's one way to put it
uplifting commercial
They look a little old to have young kids
you know what would be a great Acu-View givaway?

contact lenses with cubs logos on them. You wouldn’t see it when wearing them, because they’d be too close, but everyone looking at you would see CUBS!

rofl... imagine how that would drive White Sox fans crazy
That's the kind of great idea

you get after visiting Ronnie Belliard’s ice cream truck.

WOOHOO!!

I just solved the 5-* sudoku puzzle at usatoday.com

i just finished my 3rd beer...
As usual, Kearns is the one who bites us

after looking crappy against us all series

another K swinging
Harden Schmokin'
we in the new thread yet?
Note to self, Do not pitch to Edmonds
Note to NY teams:

God Bless America goes BEFORE the game. Not during the stretch.

Stupid Mets. Fucking Yankees.

Time for

everone to JUMP

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