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First Pitch Thread: Cubs vs. Astros, Sunday 9/14, 7:05 CT

"Do your best and forget the consequences." -- Walt Alston

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Welcome to Wrigley North!
Go Cubs!!
Neifi you rock......

I got tix for sec 228 tomorrow!

you're welcome.

I’ll be there too. Let’s hope for a good game!

hows the crowd look?
Pat and Ron said atleast 20,000 prolly more
WHO'S ALL HERE AT WRIGLEY NORTH??

Greetings

from upstate NY

where?

I sort of grew up in Waddington and graduated HS from Watertown

Nashville, TN
this sucks i cant watch the game on tv
Bah. I live an hour from Chicago

and yet I’m stuck watching a 20 year old episode of Newhart on WGN. What the bloody Hell are they thinking?!?!?!?!

+1

no joke

get a dish

change service address to something in chicago. bingo.

ouch ouch ouch

sympathies

Let's do this!!!!!
yer a peach for the link AND the new window :D
HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

LETS GO CUBS!!

BASEBALL IS BACK!!

TV

this game is on FSW for anyone in the south.

thanks for the info.

now I get to see the game

For anybody who's wondering about what channel the game is on

It’s on the local WGN channel in chicago, not on the superstation. I don’t think it’s available on mlb.tv. The game is not in HD which sucks, but the cubs look good in standard definition so it’s okay

For those fortunate

to watch how is the crowd looking?

sparse but blue!!

lower deck well populated, sparse beyond that

SORIANO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CUBS LEAD!!!!!!!!!!!
yeah guys were gonna need alot of play-by-play please and thank you
SORI YOU GO !!!!!
no shutout

wolfboy

wooohoooo!

homer!

The crowd sounds

freaking awesome.

crowd is full of cubby blue
I turn on the game

aaaaaand GONE!
Nice way to start

love to lead straight out!
The guy that was bitchin' in the pre-game thread with me about Wolf??

I’d like to talk to him now.

great start to the game.... Sori HR
WOW

this is awsome. I have the regional sports network here in VA. I have FSW but they black every game out. Dish didn’t realize that the game got moved and I get to see it. YES! :)

Tip for MLB.tv users

Go to cubs.com to access the media center. No blackout!!!

blacked out for me??
One of the keys to the game for the Astros was

Don’t be Sori (ano) I guess Wolfe wasn’t listening

I am sick of this blackout crap

people that live 45 mions from the park are able to see the damn game and i am in Indianapolis and i can’t see the thing. Put the freaking thing on CSN!

i hear you man same here
Crowd

Looks completely blue. Cubs blue, that is.

a roar of the crowd

when they see the hometown team

is down 4-0

Bob says 4-0 phils

-

yup

the cubs fans go nuts

Len kissing appropriate ass
At what point do we need to start rooting for the Suds again

to make the makeup game meaningless? Or do we stick with the status quo, hope the Phils sweep and take over the wild card lead?

Magic Number

After it goes down by nine more….

I can live with that
Len says

no time to put together an HD broadcast.

yay for espn and mlb to allow this game to be televised
i would have hated following box scores the whole night
agreed

SD better than NO D

Old School

I have MLB.TV for Saturdays, backup, and on the road. Watching a game on it is the modern equivalent of listening on a transistor radio.

Way better than nothing, though.

only thing i hate about the stuff online is the delay

sometimes i listen or watch the game online and it’s always off by like 15 seconds.

screw that. Until MLB gets their B.S blackout rules

fixed, they will never get a “yay” in my book.

DirecTV doesn't

get WGN HD anyway. I would take anything right now.

I'm lucky

I live in the Fox Sports SW region, so Houston TV for me.

Yes you are lucky
just spent 10 minutes on the phone with them...no options available to get the game
Thanks for trying.

At least I have Pat and Ron to listen to.

thankfully ronnie isnt morose tonight
Theres the reason for no HD

:) Oh well… at least we get a game

DLee waves at a ball low and away...again.

man, I was hoping the time off would help.

can we get some pbp guys please?
+1

Watching V for Vendetta on FX btw pitches

remember remember

the fifth of november, gun powder, treason, and plot. i see no reason, for the gun powder treason…TO EVER BE FORGOT!

Movie good, comic better
Got here in time for Sori's blast

I love when we start with a lead

20 pitches already for Wolf...
Aramis struck out swinging

Cubs 1 Astros Coming up

so what is the magic number when we win and the brewers lose tonight
7
sweet so if everything works our way(which prolly wont happen) we can clinch by wednesday?
No speed gun

but it looks like Z isnt throwing as hard as usual ?

no, wait

looks ok. im high.

the park radar says 98?
Pat says radar gun

said 99 but they think it’s a little high.

myers and rollins 2-out singles account for 4-0 lead
z falls behind bourn 3-0

now 3-2

STRUCK HIM OUT!!
For Those Not Watching

Houston being petulant, wearing road gray pants with the red jerseys.

I was wondering why

both teams were in road unis.

welll

I don’t know about you, but I don’t believe that pitch was at 98.

HA

Brewers gun is clocking his fastballs at 98 and 99

According to Pat

Crowd at Miller 95% Cubs fans.

astros had their chance to find a better neutral site

that’s their punishment for being so stubborn and wanting to risk taking on hurricane IKE

whose the other 5%
Drunk Wisconsin college students
more apt to be Marquette students :)
i'm assuming brewers fans
Who should probably be rooting for Cubs tonight.

Or would they rather cut off thier nose to spite their face?

I just read at the other BCB

that they would almost prefer to miss the playoffs so ensure that Yost gets fired. I think this is a stupid thought process, but if you wanna suck balls on purpose to get your manager fired, so be it, Brewers!

you know that actually as bad of a manager as he is...........

that won’t be the worst thought in the world if I were a brewer fan

98 mph heat according to my sources
fly out...1-2-3 inning by big Z
Let's get some more runs!!!!
This sucks not being able to watch the game

Following along on the computer and switching between the Phils/Brewers and Browns/Stillers.

You think it sucks 2nite....

wait until Wed when the game is only shown on the public access channel—- WCIU. That is the Cubs-Brewers game and only people inside the freaking loop will see it!

I thought ESPN has that game

If they don’t I should get the FSN Wisconsin feed on Extra Innings

It's an ESPN game isnt it

I had planned on watching it at my parents

Man i hope

My DirecTv guide says TBA….and the Cub site will say ESN if they are covering it. Otherwise its a trip to BW3’s.

Z's looked good early

Nice to see. I hope that means he’s back to 100% (or close)

big roar from crowd when Z got to 2 strikes there
13 pitches...good start
Lets get like 12 runs here

just to make things interesting

Hey

Drayton’s there.

In his imagination, he is watching serenely at Minute Maid Park, in a fully powered, undamaged city.

Minute Maid, Miller Beer... not much difference there, except one has pulp
I think this game thread should be at the other BCB since of course we took over Miller Park

:)

Hot damn, that is a brilliant idea.
watching game on computer

myp2p

that's how I watched the bears game today.
Anyone

See the benches clearing at the St.Louis/Pirates game?

nope..what did TLR do this time?
Fell asleep with the phone in his hand...

…and no one would get up in the Cardinals bullpen until he gave the word, thus the game was delay due to Tony being “asleep”, and the Pirates got mad, so they said “Screw it, our season’s over, let’s start a fight”.

If you lost 5 games in the WC race in about a Week or so

you’d want to punch people in the face too…

Tempers flared in the bottom of the eighth after the last out of the inning. Doug Mientkiewicz and Aaron Miles began exchanging heated words at second base moments after Mientkiewicz swatted the ball from Miles’ hands on a potential double play. Soon after, both benches and bullpens poured onto the field.

it appeared no punches were thrown, but three Cardinals had to hold back pitcher Ron Villone, who was ejected, from coming after Mientkiewicz.

I found a way to watch the game

on my computer. Had to dig around a little bit, but I’m watching it right now

how
he took the red pill and shrunk himself down, then jumped into the WGN game feed datastream...
cool

shoot me one

Search around the net and try to find

the website that broadcasts games online. There are websites out there that have this game broadcast

lemme guess - you're a lawyer? ;-)
no lawyer jokes from me

the friend taking off work tomorrow to go with me is one.

Nope

but most of my family are lawyers.

I’m getting the Houston feed and their announcers are moaning about unfair this is

Might be fun for me to switch from Len and Bob to the Astros announcers

just to share in their suffering :-)

yeah how
If you have mlb.tv

use the mediacenter link at cubs.com

I'll be damn

mine worked that way too. But I was blacked out if I went in from mlb.com… Weird!

brenly comments on Z's arm angle

says it’s very good today

Strike 1 to Hunter Pence
your a bit behind me then
Middle 4 In Philly

Brewers are down 4-0 after losing this afternoon.

And their park is full of Cubs fans….

Pence K's looking

end of 2, Cubs-1-0.

bump welcome
hey maddy!

going to the game tomorrow huh?

I am so excited!!!!!!

A friend of mine after he thought about it awhile decided he can rearrange his schedule for the week… so we are going.

That's awsome.

You should make a BCB sign, and we’ll be looking for you.

are you going?

or did you mean on tv?

Is this radar gun correct?!?!

98mph on the heater from Z?!?!

pat and ron said they doubt it
gameday hit 98 too
I feel like he is throwing hard...

I believe some of those fastballs maybe mid-90s but 98 mph? can every starter get the same shot Z had?

"Sucker was movin', wasn't?"

“If it hits ya, it’ll leave a two foot hole comin’ out!”

DirecTV

I have DirecTV and am getting the game in HD on channel 676

it's not in hd...

you probably just have the sd picture stretched

probably

says HD…but looks a little choppy. still pretty cool living in Fort Wayne and getting Fox SW!

Holy shit!!!!

Thank you. I have it on now.

Thank you, that channel was not on my favorites list but when I manually entered it .....Cubs baseball; great.
5 - 0 Philly

Pat Burrell Solo Homer

What's wrong with the Brewers?

good lord

they remembered

who their manager is

Appropriate

The rolling signboard along the first base line right now reads “Hold Your Event at Miller Park!” with the phone number to call….

If MLB had known this sooner, maybe we wouldn't have had such a wait, hmm?
any idea

how many are in attendance?

A few more than showed up for the other Chicago team - lol

I swear there must have been no more than 50 people at The Cell when that first game started today.

Someone earlier said 20,000

pretty amazing since tix only went on sale at 9 last night.

the houston feed

was saying that they have both decks filled with cubs fans

thats what pat estimated start of the game
Z singles

Hopefully this will start the merry go round

How did sori get out?

Gameday like skipped him

man on first and second....lee at bat with two outs
The pessimist in me says

End of inning

How about now?
lol...glad the pessimist was wrong
not this time!

double to RF!

2 ribbies

This time, I'll gladly be wrong!
Gotta score at least one here

Keep the momentum

Len says the Brewers will be in Chicago tomorrow watching

the Cubs play in Milwaukee.

…bizzarro baseball

Wow thats where two crushable pitches

Come on Lee!

Going on a limb

Lee will get a hit

Nice call!!!
If only

my stock calls were that good!

DOUBLE LEE!!!!!!!!

3 – 0!

man he just flipped his bat at it

hit that a long way

DLee!!!!!!!! 3-0
wow did that really just happen???? :)
YES!!!! Go the other way Derrek!

The path to redemption is to right field babay!

nicely done dlee- two run double
sounded great off the bat too....

Nice and fresh

Maybe D-Lee is breaking out of his slump now?

I hope so, we really need him back.

HEEEE'S BAAAAAAAAACK

for now

Way to go D Lee!!

…He hasnt driven the ball like that in weeks, I love it!

Love to see DLee

go the other was with power

What kind of double was it?

In the air or line drive or what?

rope to RCF wall....
deep, in the air, off the wall
line drive

one hopped the wall

i can't believe DLee got a clutch hit!!
now maybe if he does a few people will not have to say that

There arent many others whose glove I would rather have @ 1st base. He makes Theriot look a lot better on some throws

lol it is called a slump people
thank you adam 316

for the link to barcaly sports! no game in EI for me (cable, not directv)

astros announcers really crying about it being a home game for the cubs.

what is that link?
go to google.com and type in barcaly sports...it's the first link
i wonder if all the money from the ticket sales would go straight to the brewers?
no

directly to the office of the commissioner of baseball

just a guess

i thought it was going to the astros
That a boy Derrek!!!
phillies have

them loaded

RAMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
***I'm in Champaign, but WGN here isn't carrying the game!***

Anyone in champaign know what channel it’s on??

doubt that its on
champaign carries the wgn superstation channel...different from wgn-9 local channel
but it still carries the other cub games

poop

Pile it on

Step on their throts dammit

That a baby Rami!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Brewers.........

Once upon a time they were falling in Love, but now they’re only Falling Apart….

Total eclipse of the (Corey) Hart?
This is the Randy Wolf we all know and love...
And nothing like the one we saw at Wrigley

and I couldn’t be happier

This is fun to watch
even to not watch
go to the link above

i’m watching it now

This game is fun!
Dare I say...

We’re back?!?

can you believe the game in cleveland (football)

rain and 50 mph wind, crazy weather everywhere

give the ball to Fast Willie!
pass it to ward
it's the winds from hurricane ike...they're weakened but are passing through the midwest
Line drives for everybody!

5-0 Cubs

Yes...doubles parade

(sort of)

Welcome backk!!!!

Welcome back, Welcome back, Guess whose back?!?!

Can the D.Lee haters come out of the woodwork, please?
What is "woodwork" anyway?
"hi fives" dan

total agreement there

Yeah, here I am....

though I am not a hater. I am glad that he is hitting so far in this game. That he took a ball the other way FINALLY is great to see. I hope that it continues. Maybe the time off did him some good. Maybe the hitting coach finally noticed/got it through to him. However, if he suddenly strands five people on base later, I am not going to be a jerk and “Call DLEE lovers out of the woodwork”. Let’s keep the focus on the game and the issues, not starting fights, eh?

He wasn't starting a fight.
Maybe he some your posts from the other night..

and realized he should be going to right field more.

Sssssssssssssssssss(deep breath)ssssssssssssssssoto!!!
everyone wants to hit

tonight, maybe a couple days off helped to relax, that the brewers going in the tank doesn’t hurt

In Philly

Werth bases loaded walk. 6-0, Utley up now.

Miller Park still filled with Cubs fans.

I'm gonna go ahead and guarantee a Dero Bomb
game on internets

http://www.justin.tv/barcalysports

Thanks man...that was really cool of you
slap in the face to the brewers watching their season go down

while we are drawing more fans in their stadium thean they are

Great observation by Len

This does look like the brewers series. I can’t wait to play here again

6-0 Phils

Suppan walks in a run and Yost is out to pull him

damnit...

that was the pitch

Dear Mr. McLane

Thanks for the days off.

Seriously...

Should we thank Drayton McLane for getting our offense back on track??

Seriously who

names their kid Drayton?

Drayton McLane Sr.
then his dad had issues LOL
+1
I wonder if there is Drayton III
there is

and………..a Denton

Who thought this game between Zambrano and Wolf would be close?

Spoiled and Nittany, I believe? I believe this is the career-average Wolf I was discussing in the pre-game thread. And the ace Zambrano. Ahhhhh.

Dan

Yeah...

And Nittany didnt “understand” my comments about Ledge jumpers….

::sigh::

Never said it'd be close

Just said I was concerned about which pitchers we’d see today

Batting around works for me
WELCOME BACK...

Z… Welcome back Offense… Welcome back sanity…

that was a quick oil change!
6-0 Phils

end of 4

barcaly sports guys you can watch the game online if you dont have mlb.tv
Someone else found the link

too

you are sending the wolf? sheeeehheeet negro, that's all you had to say
Well let's not start sucking each others d**ks quite yet...
LOL

One of my fave movies..

Nice Pulp Fiction reference
Now if I could only get the Steelers to cover the 6 points...
throw it to ward

more

http://www.justin.tv/barcalysports

Link for Barcaly Sports

ICE ICE BABY!

lol

Whaddya say Reed!!!

Lets just really pour it on here

damn, I missed watching these men play baseball

it’s been a long and lonely weekend w/o my Cubbies.

but im happy it was a football weekend atleast
batboys look like 30 somthings..
Johnson K's...

5-0 middle of 3rd.

Ahhhh Reed that was Ball 4

Love the 4 run inning though….. More of those for the Cubs side please :)

Nice Inning boys

Time for Z to shut ’em down

is the pen up for yewsten?
College football discussion:

Thoughts from this weekend:

—Michigan sucks, and it gives me warm fuzzies
—Not sure how I feel about the OSU stomping…I’d like them to have a high ranking when Wisco demoralizes them in a few weeks
—KU played a great game (offensively…) agasinst USF, but couldn’t hang on
—Conversely, Wisco played the exact game they needed to – even after getting SCREWED on the worst overturned call in Badger history – to beat a very, very, very good Fresno State team.

That’s all I got for now…other thoughts, BCBers?

cubs have already

outscored auburn, who won

College Football doesn't exist where I come from

well, maybe Rutgers did for a season, but that was it.

USC is the best (as usual)
Pretty easy to be the best

When you’re giving your players free houses, cars, jobs, etc.

As I liked to tell my fellow Trojans: "We have the best college team that money can buy!"
The above was a joke, of course. :-)

We get good high school players from the Midwest because of the sunshine and the pretty women!

yeah...

FSU= ACC Champs

KU-USF game was a good one.

and Iowa got lucky against the Cyclones..:)

Take heart

most recent years the team that loses the Iowa-ISU game gets to a bowl

The Clones have spoiled many a promising Hawkeye season that way

glad the hawkeyes won. Though I am concerned by their offense a bit.
The link posted above

was already sniffed out by the higher-ups…shut down…BOO

6-0 Phils over Brewers

in the 5th.

Sweep ’em, Phils!

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