Bleed Cubbie Blue

Runs lets get!!

Oh lord, I am stuck with the St Louis broadcast tonight...

better than nothing. Go Cubs Go….

Lilly!

Extinguish us down!

Win...just win baby!!!

+87

time to move forward

Yes, I've been

having problems with it today. I’m actually suprized I got it work for this game. I tried watching the brewers reds game with no luck and same for phillies marlins

MerlinDog - September 10, 2008 reply

Classy Cards fans?

Here’s the kind of T-shirts some of these great St. Louis fans are fawning over.

Tasteless!!

They have middle school mentality.

Very classy.

This guy thinks it's hilarious

Chicago Cubs Baseball Is On The Air!

stuck

w/ the cards broadcast of the game and their showing all card comebacks against the cubs. its making me sick to my stomach. the sound must come down.

cubsluver22 - September 10, 2008 reply

I know why the team's been suffering through the losing streak...

and here’s the cliff’s notes version.

You see, he’s the Chairman of his own hedge fund : Capital Underwriters Buying/Selling With Impressive Net – CUBSWIN for short.

Due to continued turmoil in the housing/commodities/stock markets, our very own Milton was forced out of the country for an extended period of time to tend to lucrative investments in his vast network of Honduran Pineapple Plantations. Intended only to be a quick trip, Hurricane activity in the Caribbean really delayed his travel plans as he’s been spending the past 7 days in Jamaica overseeing the reconstruction of his other large land holding – Jamaican Coffee Producers.

It’s my understanding that he’s supposed to be back soon, perhaps even tonite, but as you can see, there’s really nothing to worry about.

Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee

Awsome stuff!

From Milton's Farm to Your Morning!

I’m pretty sure that’s the ad slogan.

Looper...light'em Up!

AAAAAnd they're off.

I like Lou's lineup tonight.

When your offense is struggling, put the best defense possible on the field to do everything you can to stop the other team from scoring.

Good point, man.

um woman

don't forget though - tonight's "opposite night"

Aw crap.

I’ll never be able to remember that.

Yeah, thanks man! :-)

uh oh...

3-1 on Sori.

How 'bout a

Smash?

Fouled away

good AB's tonight

let’s have some fun out there!

where is everyone?

still trying to figure out how to type backards?

?tahW

!!!sbuc og

cubbiefanTN - September 10, 2008 reply

SAFE

Fonzie infield single

Infield hit for Sori!

Soriano with an infield single!!

good hustle

good start

man, it really is opposite night! ;-)

I keeed, I keeed

good start

infield single for sori

way to hustle fonzie

Riot FC

Shoot

Well at least it was only one.

izturis still sux

Meh.

Riot was out, but we got the call.

He looked out

izturis still sux

Look like you got a bad case of...

The SBN Gremlin!!!

Well Lee is up with a runner on first and less than 2 outs...

Let’s see a dinger haha.

when was his last dinger on the road?

d lee

hit like a #3 hitter

Braden Looper is exceptionally happy to be here.

always a smirk on the mound

D-Lee K - 2 out

Lee k's

A-Ram singles! First & THIRD

Yay Aram

Single… Riot to 3rd

GoCubbies34 - September 10, 2008 reply

Ramy singles!

Theriot to third.

Heyyyy

Base hit to left. Theriot to third.

Isn't Josh Phelps an infielder?

I seem to recall him being a 1st baseman.

Cardinal announcers just said

he’s playing in a rather unfamiliar position

8-time gold nmedallist swimme...

Oh, JOSH! Josh…nevermind…

Hmmmmm.....

Ladies,

Who’sbetter looking Michael Phelps or Josh Phelps?

Personally, I think Michael Phelps is rather goofy looking. Not too sure about Josh Phelps, I’ll have to get a good look at him during the game.

300 career games at DH, 82 at 1B, 12 at C, 2 at LF

Thanks!

Come onnn Geo.

Is it just me

Or does Len sound like he really doesn’t wanna be there. He’s showing no enthusiasm.

Nothing to get excited about yet.

Probably tired of watching this crap baseball they've been playing.

Geo, we need a 2 out hit. PUH-LEEEZE

Geo- 6-3 . 3 out on a tapper

sigh

More RISP

It’s not gonna get better until they solve this.

AlaskaFan - September 10, 2008 reply

Go Defense!

sigh

slcathena - September 10, 2008 reply

At least Looper had to work: Pitch count of 21 after one inning.

Good optimism

Just got here, regression class over. Who's all here?

!ereH

Here.

I'm here!

DeRoMyHero - September 10, 2008 reply

you wanna piece of me?

that’s so refreshing…my little flower

back in Brentwood

time to move forward…go Cubs!

What is regression class?

Using data to predict what's gonna happen

So...

What’s gonna happen?

Hell if I know.

Lecture #3.

But if SWL gives me his standardized test scores from grade school I can tell you where he’s gonna end up.

Part of Sabermagician school..:)

Present

Here in beautiful Spotsylvania, Virginia, home to numerous Civil War battlefields.

here...waiting for a win

Weeghman Park - September 10, 2008 reply

ici

reverse

en francais!

Weeghman Park - September 10, 2008 reply

sorry, I thought I did do it in reverse;

oh wait, that was someone else

present

and unabashedly optimistic

tneserp

Here !

JB 23 - September 10, 2008 reply

Here!!!

slcathena - September 10, 2008 reply

Here

And expecting a win tonight!

here!

here

Canadian Cubs Fan - September 10, 2008 reply

Don't let Albert beat you...

as far as I’m concerned, you can pitch to the rest of these hacks, and don’t give Pujols ANYTHING to hit!

Oh, I forgot

don’t SUCK tonight Lilly!

Canadian Cubs Fan - September 10, 2008 reply

HERE!

TRL, let's GO buddy! Chuck that pill boy!

Geez Ted. SO much for the no no

Just gets the pressure off of him...

It had to happen sooner or later.

Here we go again

Looks like 3 more hours of missed opportunities and frustration for this board. Here are the ugly Derek Lee stats for his past 25 games —

1 home run
11 RBIs
7 extra base hits and….
27 strikeouts!!!!!!

Get this guy out of the 3 hole! Do what the Mets did with Delgado – slide him down to 6th and take the pressure of him and maybe it will lead to similar spark.

And where are all the posters who told me Felix Pie would never start!!! I relied on your word :) Why would Pinella ever put a bat in his hand?

good call on Pie not having a bat in his hand!

let’s hope he gets more RBIs tonight

Lopez swings at what would have made it a 3-0 count

thanks.

Whats up with these balks all of a sudden?

Ugh!

2 balks in 2 nights

is when you know this team has lost all concentration and focus.

and confidence

Since it is backwards night,

how about you try to be optimistic for one night?

+1

whats up everyone?!

other than the Cubs LOB count, not much

nm

Well,

On that balk, it would have been a stolen base anyways, so I can’t get too down on Ted except that he didn’t keep him close.

Pie showed some good range there.

I hate Izturis, btw.

RIOTSHIRTS.com - September 10, 2008 reply

Aramis better watch out w/ Izturdis on 3rd...might get groped.

Ground out

Run scores. Sigh.

yikes! we have to score 2 runs

to win. That is asking a lot from this offense.

shut up

OK, Cubs 0, Birds 1. Got them right where we want them...

Weeghman Park - September 10, 2008 reply

As my daughter says when I tell her stories about how hard it was growing up in the depression...

“Riiiiight.”

1-nil StL

Help! I'm stuck listening to Al and his boy on FSN Midwest!

It could be worse.

You mean like my house could be reposessed?

I guess you’re right.

St.Louis announcers just said that Cubs only have a .195 average against Looper.

Cards fan here….and no, it couldn’t get worse. my apologies

yes

worse would be being 8 games back still….but welcome

eh….this isn’t our year…i’m happy with 8 back right now

+1 wild card isn't out of the question though

that’s correct….i will admit, i cheer hard against the cubs

that said, milwaukee is completely classless, and frankly, knocking them out of the playoffs would be almost as good as catching you guys

amen

where did these punks come from? 1 1/2 good years and they talk like the big boys

i went up to a cubs-brewers game in milwaukee (among a few other brewers games)….i’m not sure i’ve ever seen so many fair-weather fans

an izturis hit, a balk, a ground out, another ground out = 1 run.

oh, well.

Had to score 1 anyway...

and it’s better than the first inning of Lilly’s last start.

hokie316 - September 10, 2008 reply

it's always darkest before the sunrise

positive thinking tonight people

i meant dawn....am i drunk

Yes

I am trying something new tonight. Drinking a bunch and wearing my “Siren Shirt”, the shirt I wore to my first game at Wrigley where there was tornado warnings.

Lets Go Cubbies!

i heard ya

dip in, drinking a budweiser….if i have to be hung over at work, well that’s the price i gotta pay for a cubs win tonight

Ah Bud...the great Belgian lager.

don't you love their new commercials

american beer this, american beer that….who are they trying to fool?

Budweiser

Me as well. It may be a little tough to do this every night when they win. But, I guess I could take one for the team.

toilet tomorrow, here i come baby

Are you an adrenaline junkie? Check out Grind TV on Yahoo! Sports

yeah, totally

can’t wait until dome and pie come up to bat. Instant offense. If either of them get on base even once tonight Goat Whisperer has promised to streak naked through the Cubs Convention in January.

uh oh..........

nice prediction....

OK, KF, start it off with a walk!

No Bill Murray looper posts?

A caddy, a jock, y'know...

Boo- Yah! Single!

Atta baby, Fook!

we atta light up looper

c’mon baby, everyone hits

uh oh, trouble for goat whisperer

but good news for convention-goers

how so? what did I miss?

Goodness gracious

Ronnie sounds so down. I can’t stand to listen to this man suffer. If nothing else, just win it for this guy.

chilango2 - September 10, 2008 reply

Honestly, I'm tired of Ronnie and hit Btchng and moaning...

Grow a set and give some color commentary, man!

hit = his

You could stop listening?

Thanks for the suggestion... already done...

Interesting web site

apparently DeRosa has hit a lot of cheap HRs – http://www.hittrackeronline.com/

How 'bout one of those cheapies right here!

D-Ro single. 1st & 3rd. No outs!

daddy likes

I hope Pie isn't up next

Doh!

YESSS.

Single and great baserunning by Dome.

ok!

crooked number coming up!

c'mon pie

spark starts a fire

Com'on FELIX! Lugnut POWER!

Come on Felix!

Tie game

Pie! Single. RBI. TIED!

My world is imploding

Pie and Dome with a hit in the same inning

welcome to the beach

leothelip - September 10, 2008 reply

Felix even has an RBI

It’s a world gone crazy!

It'sIt's a cornucopia of hits!

Satan's chomping on a snowcone

Whoo hoo!

Go Felix!

YES!

1 -1

FELIX!!!

Base hit to left! 1-1!!!

Man they should have left Pie in AAA.....right Blue Mike ?

JB 23 - September 10, 2008 reply

WHERE'S BLUE MIKE?

Who was that guy who has an RBI? Is he really a Cub?

Pee-ayyyy!!!

Pee-yay.

Haha.

Suck it...

Blue Mike.

Kansas25 - September 10, 2008 reply

let's keep the line moving Theodore

Cmon Lill

ted, bunt better

than soto

Was Pie the opening day CF?

If I remember right I believe he was.

Indeed.

remember when bob howry was a eye lash from the closer role?

I remember when Howry was lights out

Poor Bob…

pie's always been my fave....

TRL bunts. EVERYONE'S SAFE!

GREAT CALL UMP!!!!!!!

Safe

spark starts a what?

FIRE!!!!!

Now that's a strange call,

first out and then safe. Why did he call him out first?

Cmon Sori

Sori- PLEASE??????????? Gotta have it now man!!!!

Cmon Sori

Correct call

but it’s embarrassing for an ump to make an out/safe call.

MOMENTUM!

Cubs 3-1! YAhoo!

YES!!!!!!!!

3-1!!

We'll take some sloppy defense from the Cards

3-1 cubs…

Love it!

bad throw….2 runs score.

les birdos playing

like us

BLOW THIS THING WIDE FREAKING OPEN !!!!

JB 23 - September 10, 2008 reply

Isn't this lovely?

2nd & 3d. No outs. 2 runs in! GO RIOT. LUGNUT POWER!

SAFE AGAIN!

3 – 1! Crooked numbers! Keep the line moving Riot!

I want major offensive this game

WHERE THE HELL IS BLUE MIKE NOW? PIE, BABY!!

haha

i love to hate that guy

I loved the hit...

…but its one AB, so lets not get out of hand.

MPH73 - September 10, 2008 reply

it's an expectation game

right now he has no where to go but up

Man, this feels SO right.

Charge through this gaping hole and bust it open!

Check:

1. Pie will get at least one hit and will score at least one run. 

DeRoMyHero - September 10, 2008 reply

Hope you bought a lottery ticket!

One down, five to go...

DeRoMyHero - September 10, 2008 reply

spark starts a fire, spark starts a fire

Can't start a fire

Worrying ’bout your little world falling apart…

the boss?

You know it

!!!SBUC OG

mjk83 - September 10, 2008 reply

Just hit another ground ball

The Cardinals infield will find some way to screw it up, the way they’re playing. ;)

almost

Take note of who has disappeared suddenly from commenting!

I'm a reverse troll

Go Cubs!

Reddevil - September 10, 2008 reply

who?

I'm wondering who too.

sue wondering if you were here or if you started the "other" thread

I'm here

BeltwayCubsFan

Aw, I that's who you meant.

yah he is a tool

Riot 5-3. No advance. Aw, nuts.

Cardinal announcers thought Lilly should have scored on that one.

Did you hear, Quade?

Cmon derrek

D-Lee we SO need you to get hot. PLEASE?

Anyone but Lilly would have made that butcher make a tough play

c'mon dlee, time to make you paycheck baby

LILLY TOOK OUT MOLINA!!!

GoCubbies34 - September 10, 2008 reply

He's a freakin' bulldog

Go for the Jugular...

break the game open

kcjones - September 10, 2008 reply

Liily took him out

Go Teddy!

TRL. out on D-Lee FC.

Wow

Dont see that everyday from a pitcher!

CubsBullsBears - September 10, 2008 reply

WOW!

Way to go Lilly! You don’t see a pitcher taking catchers out too often.

Wow, Lilly just knocked Molina silly

may be a knee injury….

game day isn't catching up quickly.....so ted is out and yadi is "out"?

yes to Ted

and no, Molina was able to stay in.

Since when does Brian Urlacher pitch for the Cubs?

Bulldog Lilly

Hey Bulldog…

RIOTSHIRTS.com - September 10, 2008 reply

exactly

TheTruth11 - September 10, 2008 reply

HOLY CRAP.

THAT. WAS. AWESOME.

If Lilly’s play there doesn’t fire up the team, I don’t know what will.

Agree...

…When you have the pitcher willing to do that, you hope the other guys can feed off of that.

MPH73 - September 10, 2008 reply

Not for the injury... don't like to see that

But Ted rocks!

pathetic Derek

Just pathetic. How about stepping up. You are the #3 hitter and can’t even drive in runs.

Lee is worthless!

He swung at two low and away balls!

Itchy - September 10, 2008 reply

Spell his name right you idiot

Ah Ha!

Mr. Doomsday (BeltwayCubsFan) reappears!

Notice how he didn’t comment on the 3 RUNS the Cubs just scored!

Make that 4 and counting!

I have no idea who this guy is

He’s not even a prolific troll.

The least he could do is be a funny troll.

We could use some amusement.

C'mon Lee...u gotta do better than that

kcjones - September 10, 2008 reply

Man, that guy likes ground balls.

CubsBullsBears - September 10, 2008 reply

Trying to pull that outside pitch

Really pressing....

…with guys on base. He has become a ground ball to short machine.

MPH73 - September 10, 2008 reply

Come on A-Ram. Get mad at them damn eggs!

Lilly rolled up his shirt and kicked some ass.

puckishcubsfan - September 10, 2008 reply

Lilly

Lovie Smith just called the CUbs asking to have Lilly for the O line after the Cubs season is ove.

that was crazy

how often does a pitcher plow a catcher

mjk83 - September 10, 2008 reply

TWHS

malicedoom - September 10, 2008 reply

He can't remember which Molina brother he is anymore.

puckishcubsfan - September 10, 2008 reply

OR

Or maybe he thinks he’s underrated actor Alfred Molina.

he thinks he's the mother

oh and lee

itd be nice if you could occasionally get a hit

mjk83 - September 10, 2008 reply

Dlee is an antonym for timely hitting

Dammm D-Lee...

and Sori still at 2d?

Cubs have GOT to pull their heads out of their arses…

Bad Baserunning again!

Lilly ran when he shouldn’t have and stayed when he should’ve run!

he should not have gone on the riot grounder

TheTruth11 - September 10, 2008 reply

I see this game boiling over

Everyone is stepping out, pitcher stepping off. Pitchers running over catchers, the Cards may be frustrated with the comedy of errors they have going on. I’m just sayin’ I wouldnt be surprised to see some action.