That team is full of strikeout machines. Harden, and to a lesses extent Z and Demp, would eat up Mark Reynolds, Chris Young, Adam Dunn, Stephen Drew and Chris Snyder are all going to strike out over 100 times, if they haven’t by now already. Young has 133, Reynolds 163 and Dunn 133. Harden might break Woody’s record if he gets a shot against them.
I have about 80 pages left. I’ve learned so much not just about catching but about what life was like for him. I cant imagine playing a whole season and then barnstorming. I do have a lot of questions as I’ve been reading it.
BTW i am really sorry i was so snappy w/ you last night. the whole “dlee needs rest” thing DID have merit, but it was brought up everyday for a while and had driven me nuts.
The Cubs have a chance to have three starters (Lilly, Zambrano and Dempster) win 15 games and have ERAs under 4 (a bit of a stretch for Lilly but not impossible if he continues to pitch well his last six outings of the year). When is the last time the Cubs (or any team, for that matter) could post three starters with 15 wins and under 4 ERAs? A subject for research.
Last Cub team to have three starters with 15 wins or more and under 4 ERAs, was, fittingly, the 1989 division winning squad. Maddux had 19 wins, Bielecki had 18 and Sutcliffe had 16. The worst ERA of the three was Sutcliffe’s at 3.66. Maddux was at a sparkling 2.95.
Probably some other team did it between then and now, but I don’t have time to look.
for doing that research. I should have thought of the 90’s Braves rotation. That 1998 starting five has to rank among the finest in history. Too bad Milwood couldn’t get his ERA down a little to keep it under four -then it would be one for the records!
yeah boys
thinskull - August 25, 2008
1st
Gurbal - August 25, 2008
almost
thinskull - August 25, 2008
How bout Howry
Although if he goes one more inning, he’s gonna give up at least 2 runs
Gurbal - August 25, 2008
anyone else on the thread??
thinskull - August 25, 2008
Guess not
Gurbal - August 25, 2008
They'll be here
Barkman - August 25, 2008
Nope
BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness - August 25, 2008
wow,
but it is against the pirates, at this point though we’ll take any good outing from him
thinskull - August 25, 2008
I just got home, and don't have the game on tv
but from the boxscore it looks like Kosuke may have found “it” again! Any analysis from those with CSN?
thinskull - August 25, 2008
Hes been hittin the ball well to the other field, nice liners and grounders we saw earlier in the year
CubsBall2202 - August 25, 2008
alright alright
thinskull - August 25, 2008
Career high RBI night
Barkman - August 25, 2008
Fukudome
he’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack
Chanman25 - August 25, 2008
Ward is the only player to hit a ball into the Alleghenny
He it it in 2002 as a Pirate..
Only one to this day to land in the water over rt field wall.
mmancubfan - August 25, 2008
great to see Edmonds, Lee, Fukudome, and Soriano have really great nights
and DeRosa and Ramirez helped too!
Chanman25 - August 25, 2008
Woody's gonna throw the 9th left-handed
so we can see exactly how bad the Pirates really are
Barkman - August 25, 2008
They are going to get good soon enough.
Watch
BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness - August 25, 2008
2 out...
MinnesotaFan - August 25, 2008
CUBS WIN!!!
wnielsen - August 25, 2008
CaliCub - August 25, 2008
Gibbon Jockey - August 25, 2008
is that David Hasselhoff's cat?
LAcarl519 - August 25, 2008
CUBS WIN!!!!!!!
Galvan316 - August 25, 2008
CUBS WIN CUBS WIN CUBS WIN CUBS WIN CUBS WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN
MinnesotaFan - August 25, 2008
Sing it!!! Play it!!!
spoiledcubbage - August 25, 2008
Fly it!!!
spoiledcubbage - August 25, 2008
FLY IT!!!
Galvan316 - August 25, 2008
Milton (Slight Return)...
hokie316 - August 25, 2008
That is Awsome!
Bump Bailey - August 25, 2008
17 hits...wow!!!!!
zevkalman - August 25, 2008
let's bring it again tomorrow!!
LAcarl519 - August 25, 2008
drewishdrewid - August 25, 2008
YAY!!!
sue369 - August 26, 2008
He's Back!
BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness - August 25, 2008
yes SIR
cubsonWGN4ever - August 25, 2008
MILTON MANIA
CaliCub - August 25, 2008
theres my guy!!
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
Milton is GALVAN?
Shanghai Badger - August 25, 2008
FAIL!!!!
Galvan316 - August 25, 2008
love this
sue369 - August 26, 2008
81-50 ... pretty amazing..
MinnesotaFan - August 25, 2008
+31
LAcarl519 - August 25, 2008
greg maddux?
Chanman25 - August 25, 2008
Let's go for a Jerome Williams, then a Daryle Ward, and then a Kerry Wood....
NotSure - August 25, 2008
hell why don't we aim for the bob howry?
Chanman25 - August 25, 2008
Sounds good to me!
NotSure - August 25, 2008
that too!!
just cheering our margin over .500 (31 games)
LAcarl519 - August 25, 2008
yeah I know
Chanman25 - August 25, 2008
Fukudome is the Chevy player of the game
Madison Cub Fan - August 25, 2008
Hopefully he will get that BA over .280 by the end of the year
BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness - August 25, 2008
on TV, too
Shanghai Badger - August 25, 2008
does he have to drive one?
LAcarl519 - August 25, 2008
Shanghai Badger - August 25, 2008
i love that :)
Madison Cub Fan - August 25, 2008
Where are the others? Dan was here earlier.
Shanghai Badger - August 25, 2008
not sure
Madison Cub Fan - August 25, 2008
Yes?
NotSure - August 25, 2008
Perfect timing
Game ends just before parents’ time to visit my classroom…have one for me—night all
spoiledcubbage - August 25, 2008
Woo-Hoo!!
The Deputy Mayor of Rush Street - August 25, 2008
Another one bites the dust!
BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness - August 25, 2008
who is likely
next?
drewishdrewid - August 25, 2008
3 teams tied
with 8 being the #
PGH, CIN, ATL
Shanghai Badger - August 25, 2008
Gotta be Pirates or Reds...
NotSure - August 25, 2008
Braves, Reds, Pirates
all 57-74 now.
The Deputy Mayor of Rush Street - August 25, 2008
I am going to love seeing this over the next month :)
Madison Cub Fan - August 25, 2008
Plesac
is wearing a Fukudome headband as a tie.
drewishdrewid - August 25, 2008
Plesac is a nub..
But he’s *our nub.
The Deputy Mayor of Rush Street - August 25, 2008
big blue train, baby!
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
FUKUDOME'S BACK!!!!!!!!!!
Galvan316 - August 25, 2008
Twenty Seven
27 (twenty-seven) is the natural number following 26 and preceding 28. Twenty-seven is the Cubs magic number to clinch the division.
wnielsen - August 25, 2008
Dodgers lose 5-0 to Philly
Despite outhitting them 13-10. LA now under .500 for the year, and since getting Manny.
Shanghai Badger - August 25, 2008
Thirteen hit shutout...
Impressive.
The Deputy Mayor of Rush Street - August 25, 2008
THAT is some serious fail!
NotSure - August 25, 2008
Did someone say fail?
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
nice effort!
did Halliburton make these?
LAcarl519 - August 25, 2008
no idea
i just love “fail” macros. they make me laugh.
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
Because they're such a failure, right? Ha Ha
Goat Whisperer - August 25, 2008
With three walks..
and a wild pitch. You really have to be trying not to score.
The Deputy Mayor of Rush Street - August 25, 2008
maybe
we’ll face the NL East Division champs, let Milwaukee and the DBacks eat each-other to pieces.
drewishdrewid - August 25, 2008
Right now, the Cubs would get the D-backs
Shanghai Badger - August 25, 2008
Some are worried, I want PAYBACK!
STARE BACK!
NotSure - August 25, 2008
That's a team I don't want to see
Arizona scares me the most out of anyone…. we suck against them.
astroview - August 25, 2008
nah. just their park
the way standings are now the series would start at Wrigley.
And we’ve beaten Haren.
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
Yeah, that sweep at home earlier in the year was a fluke...
NotSure - August 25, 2008
how is it determined?
drewishdrewid - August 25, 2008
Dan Uggla gets to decide.
hokie316 - August 25, 2008
best record gets wildcard unless they're in same division
otherwise its the lowest record among playoff teams…
I think.
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
Correct
Shanghai Badger - August 25, 2008
You'd better start rooting
for a DBack win streak then.. they entered tonight 3½ behind the Mets.
The Deputy Mayor of Rush Street - August 25, 2008
Lets let the entire league worry about playing the CUBS
Employee22 - August 25, 2008
+infinity....
NotSure - August 25, 2008
Buster Olney on ESPN
keeps saying that Arizona is going to have more problems pitching to our line up than our pitchers will for theirs.
I think thats interesting to think about.
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
Agreed.
That team is full of strikeout machines. Harden, and to a lesses extent Z and Demp, would eat up Mark Reynolds, Chris Young, Adam Dunn, Stephen Drew and Chris Snyder are all going to strike out over 100 times, if they haven’t by now already. Young has 133, Reynolds 163 and Dunn 133. Harden might break Woody’s record if he gets a shot against them.
dakoose - August 25, 2008
Ned Coletti has crapped the bed
and he made the bed
Employee22 - August 25, 2008
Oops, I crapped my pants!
NotSure - August 25, 2008
thats alot of dung!
hoffer - August 25, 2008
tonight's victory
felt VERY inevitable.
drewishdrewid - August 25, 2008
are you saying this because of the way the Pirates lost yesterday?
LAcarl519 - August 25, 2008
no
because of the way we won yesterday.
drewishdrewid - August 25, 2008
although the way they lost
definitely helped that feeling… plus when we knocked Karstens out in the 3rd.
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
I called it yesterday...PAYBACK for Karstens...
..I guess Lou got an updated scouting report.
NotSure - August 25, 2008
I hate that poll!
hoffer - August 25, 2008
poll was really stupid
bad karma.
hypothetical injuries? who thinks up this stuff? Someone’s kid as summer intern, no doubt.
LAcarl519 - August 25, 2008
and now he's got the hat on too
drewishdrewid - August 25, 2008
pleasac?
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
yeah
right before they cut out.
drewishdrewid - August 25, 2008
Hey lets talk about injuries!!
hoffer - August 25, 2008
what are you going on about??
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
they had a stupid poll about who we could least afford to lose
to injury
hoffer - August 25, 2008
oohh geez
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
And groundskeepers who call in sick!
Employee22 - August 25, 2008
Cub highlights on
BBTN
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
Alrighty, then....I'm out...
Sorry, folks, park’s closed…moose outside shoulda told ya!
NotSure - August 25, 2008
Someone asked for this?
Bump Bailey - August 25, 2008
blank space?
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
Or this?
Bump Bailey - August 25, 2008
violated?
what are you trying to post??
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
there are others, you know
the rest of the group shouldn’t feel left out. :D
drewishdrewid - August 25, 2008
Thats not a new one
hoffer - August 25, 2008
Shit....how about this?
Bump Bailey - August 25, 2008
haha!!
hoffer - August 25, 2008
hoffer - August 25, 2008
I have no idea why this was kicked off of Photobucket...
I see more nudity on the soap operas for cryin out loud..
Bump Bailey - August 25, 2008
you watch soap operas?
Madison Cub Fan - August 25, 2008
Not really...
maybe a peek during a commercial of a Cubs game…:)
Bump Bailey - August 25, 2008
Finish the Campy book?
Bump Bailey - August 25, 2008
Being home last week I didnt do any reading
I have about 80 pages left. I’ve learned so much not just about catching but about what life was like for him. I cant imagine playing a whole season and then barnstorming. I do have a lot of questions as I’ve been reading it.
Madison Cub Fan - August 25, 2008
Here we go
http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturista_nerd/2386257962/
hoffer - August 25, 2008
Nice...
I have it bookmarked now.
Bump Bailey - August 25, 2008
I can't imagine what she'll do
If they win the World Series
Shanghai Badger - August 25, 2008
I can
she’s gonna need her own site, tho.
drewishdrewid - August 25, 2008
hoffer - August 25, 2008
ahhhh how do you post an image?
hoffer - August 25, 2008
copy the link you want
and click the little green button and paste
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
huh, thats what I did.
Anyway…where did you watch the game tonight cubbiegirl?
hoffer - August 25, 2008
i listened on gameday audio
and folded laundry. life is so exciting. :-P
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
Galvan wasnt here....
I thought maybe you two were watching it together :) LOL
Madison Cub Fan - August 25, 2008
whatever
lol
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
Nice. By the way, i.e. our conversation last night
How rested did DLee look tonight?
hoffer - August 25, 2008
I mean sound tonight..
hoffer - August 25, 2008
I dunno
i was listening… how did his swings look anyone?
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
sorry...they were much fresher, shorter strokes.
hoffer - August 25, 2008
TWSS
Shanghai Badger - August 25, 2008
Hey!
Bump Bailey - August 25, 2008
good to know!
BTW i am really sorry i was so snappy w/ you last night. the whole “dlee needs rest” thing DID have merit, but it was brought up everyday for a while and had driven me nuts.
halfblindcubbiegirl - August 25, 2008
I believe Galvan likes his laundry ironed btw...
:D
Bump Bailey - August 25, 2008
That was fun
I caught the game between dinner with the mother-in-law and looking at wedding photos. good to see Fukudome get going again, and Jed.
It’s nice to be playing the Indianapolis Ind…er, Pittsburgh Pirates, too. Win tomorrow with Z and sweep on Wednesday.
Bill Potter - August 25, 2008
Headline on ChicagoSports.com ...
Cubs Win Sixth Straight, Pound Pirates
The text of the article had, at one point in time, the same as the headline, 6 in a row. The body has since been fixed to say 3 in a row.
Oops.
The Original Dave - August 25, 2008
it happens
in their series preview earlier, they had Marmol down for 17 straight scoreless appearances.
who knew the nationals would win a game?
Bill Potter - August 25, 2008
Is it just me..
or is the MSM gettting more sloppy all the time lately.
Bump Bailey - August 25, 2008
Starting pitching
The Cubs have a chance to have three starters (Lilly, Zambrano and Dempster) win 15 games and have ERAs under 4 (a bit of a stretch for Lilly but not impossible if he continues to pitch well his last six outings of the year). When is the last time the Cubs (or any team, for that matter) could post three starters with 15 wins and under 4 ERAs? A subject for research.
danimal15 - August 25, 2008
I'll answer my own question
Last Cub team to have three starters with 15 wins or more and under 4 ERAs, was, fittingly, the 1989 division winning squad. Maddux had 19 wins, Bielecki had 18 and Sutcliffe had 16. The worst ERA of the three was Sutcliffe’s at 3.66. Maddux was at a sparkling 2.95.
Probably some other team did it between then and now, but I don’t have time to look.
danimal15 - August 25, 2008
Those 90's Atlanta teams
Wow, here’s one for you. The ’93 one was impressive, and I think ’96 too.
1998 Braves Starting Five (apologies for the formatting)
ERA W L
SP Greg Maddux 2.22 18 9
SP *Tom Glavine 2.47 20 6
SP *Denny Neagle 3.55 16 11
SP Kevin Millwood 4.08 17 8
SP John Smoltz 2.90 17 3
dorf - August 25, 2008
Thanks
for doing that research. I should have thought of the 90’s Braves rotation. That 1998 starting five has to rank among the finest in history. Too bad Milwood couldn’t get his ERA down a little to keep it under four -then it would be one for the records!
danimal15 - August 26, 2008
Why not Marshall......
AFAIC……Cotts can go w/ Eyre and Howry to wherever they go…..
kcjones - August 26, 2008
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