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First Pitch Thread: Cubs vs. Cardinals, Sunday 9/21, 1:20 CT

"What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season — and a season is a long time." -- Chuck Tanner

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Am I first?
first in our hearts :-)
Thanks, Em!

I’m just not used to being first….

That's YOU, Em!
awww, sanantone

I bet you say that to all the girls

Why would I do that?
What happened to the post I just typed????
uh oh... SBN-itis... it's a nasty disease
Thanks, Em!

I’m just not used to being first….

We all thought you were...

Since you are usually first with a time of about :20. ;)

somewhere between first and last!
Messmers' doing a good job there
I like the Wife-Husband combo...

… and I love the Wrigley Field Sunday day game.

Do I watch the Cubs' third-stringers...

…or the Bears’ first-stringers? Tough choice.

Easy for me:

Da Bears on AFN TV. Da Cubbies on WGN Slingbox TV.

Cubbies get the audio though
Slingbox rules

I let my brother in law in Korea watch mine

I love Korea

and what food!

Last Cubs home game of the season. No contest, my friend.
Continuing the "last yankee game"

From the last thread…

…this doesn’t bother me, becuase it signifies that the YANKEES ARE MISSING THE POSTSEASON!!!!! Way to close out the house that ruth built, George! May the house that George built be a home of mediocrity for the next few decades!

Change in Cubs lineup

Depster is pitching instead of Dempster.

Who's this Hill guy catching?
Hank Hill

He won the ‘Be a Cubs Catcher for a Day’ contest sponsored by Alamo Beer ;-)

SBN and I are not getting along right now...
There goes the shutout
Demp sure can grow a beard fast
he's Canadian, after all
Everyone, it's time for a

Who’s the true Cubs fans in here when they should be recovering from hangovers?

i'm recovering in here.
I'm here, and will be posting as SBN permits.
I think there's only 6 of us here... including me
Well, you account for 4 posters all by yourself :)
got that right!
Here!

:D

hi slc!
Yo. :)

Watching and posting today!!! YAY for cable and WGN :P

I'm on the hangover roster

I live two blocks from the park. The entire neighborhood is hungover today.

Here

hangover gone

here offf and on...

doing laundry, cleaning house….you know, the stuff my ex wife used to do..:)

dang come over to my house!
Promise to make some of your delicious coleslaw and broccoli cornbread...

then that would be tempting…Oh, and one of those lap dances you promised Jimmy Ballgame would be nice too…:D

you do windows?
Sorry...only if the bathroom mirror counts..

Have to draw the line somewhere..

Emelie

Everyone is being pretty rude demanding food from you. I’ll one-up them. Come over to my house. I’ll cook to your hearts delight! All I ask is for you to finish cleaning.

Don't be fooled Em. It's a trick!

All he can cook is Zatarains jambalaya.

Haven't made that in awhile

Besides, emelie deserves 5-star cuisine.

That is good stuff tho..

Make it at least once a week since you recomended it on one of the threads. I know a grocery store that makes it’s own spicy cajun sausage. Add some chicken, wash it down with a nice cold beer and I’m a happy man.

Wanna mail me some of that spicy cajun sausage?
None by you?

London should have some good butcher shops, no?

But with cajun seasoning?
lol! food I don't need. cleaning, however...
Well, I also need cleaning

How about you just come over and watch Cubs baseball?

Same here, except that I don't have an ex that used to do it.
Here!

I don’t imbibe, except for maybe Pepsi

and yes, I know...the Reply link is my friend (headdesk)
"Double Pepsi points when you buy Lemon Pepsi!"

Translation: We can’t give this stuff away

there's lemon pepsi?

who knew?

ha ha ha ha.

So true.

Dome gets a double!!!!!
Well, I think the Cubs have found their leadoff hitter

finally.

FOO KOO DOUGH MAY!!!!!!!

I miss those chants.

That's the Dome I know and love!
Don't show green hat guy!

Show the hottie he’s kissing!

I didn't see her. Was she wearing a low-cut blouse?
We couldn't tell!!!!!!!!!11

That was the crime.

Interesting things to watch in the next week

1) The play of Fontenot and Fukudome. They’re essentially competing for a starting job.

2) Shark (can’t spell his name with my throbbing head). My guess is he will pitch a lot, so Lou can make sure he deserves a playoff roster spot.

3) Pie vs. Hoffpauir for the final roster spot. My money’s on Pie.

4) Z’s final start.

sounds about right

it’ll be interesting, methinks

did I miss anything?

n/t

I think Shark is in.

I agree with the rest.

He's been shaky so I'm sure Lou'll want to check him out some more
If his control returns, he'll be there.

Otherwise, I’m sure they look hard at Hart, Guzman or Wells if one of them catches lightning in a bottle.

how does that work

in terms of the Sept. 1 deadline? Cwyers, anybody?

Would Shark have to go on the DL for one of those guys to get a spot?

cwyers abandoned us for the Bears
I think watching Orton

for a series will cure that need.

I can't find the remote...

…and so I can’t go any higher than channel 25. So I’m stuck with the Bears.

do you have a cat too? lol!
More the offensive line's fault today...

…they’re giving NO protection for him.

The Cubs will have a few roster spots open because of guys who were on the DL

that’s how they could sneak Pie or anyone else in there if need be

You can only designate players to the playoff roster...

…who are either on the 25-man roster or the DL as of Aug. 31st.

However – once you’ve designated a player on the DL to the roster, if he’s still on the DL, you can replace him with any player on the 40-man as of Aug. 31st. Cubs have 4 players on the 60 day DL, I think – I know Rich Hill and Chad Fox are on there.

there you are!
He doesn't have to go on the DL.

Anyone who is eligilble (i.e., anyone who was on the roster or DL on Aug. 31, plus 4 “free” moves from the 40 man roster for the four DL guys) can be on the playoff roster. Also, the roster can be changed every round — Pie could be on the roster for the first round, then be replaced by Hoff for the second round.

Maybe Guzman...

No way for Hart or Wells.

Plus we should be talking about Howry’s replacement, not Shark’s. LOL.

What about Wuertz?
Possibly...

He’ll need to have a good week

I will do a jig when Howry leaves the team
Lap dance for Edmonds, now a jig for Howry....

lol

Was it WGN TV or radio

That said “First in service first in sports”…………………..old school

Question:

If Lou needs a PHer, which hung-over regular has to do it? Or does he just use Z and Jason?

I think all the guys who wore swim goggles should be fine...
I like how Reed Johnson refused to get goggles

because he wanted to experience the sting of champagne in the eyes for the first time.

It was a good kind of sting
The best kind in my opinion
Are jason larue and jason kendall

distant relatives of the human race?

Cromagnan, I believe.
Geico commercials are in their future
I think they're both boycotting Geico
"I QUIT, But I Get it"
Colin,

There used to be a stat called “runs created”. I think it was: R + RBI – HR = RC.

If RBIs are a product of opportunity, is this a valid stat? What would it mean?

That's runs produced.

It works. I mean, there are better stats out there. But you can work with runs produced.

Would a high RP be a good power hitter, or just a good all-around player?

Would there be any correlation with OPS, since both might signify OBP and power?

RP and OPS should correlate reasonably well.

Essentially you end up with a poor man’s linear weights.

OK, I'm just a little bit baffled at how to rate DeRo's season.

His OPS is only .843, but he has scored 100 runs (15th in MLB), despite not batting at the top of the order. He has only 83 RBIs despite batting mostly 5-7.

I tend to think of him as best when batting #1 or #2 (table-setter), but obviously Lou doesn’t. It’s a really good (career) season for him, but is it a really good season in MLB?

He's having a very good offensive season...

…but not one on the level of, say, A-Ram.

Colin, just out curiousity

how does his season stack up to the rest of the league’s 6 or 7 hitters?

I would think you could make the argument he’s the best 6 or 7-hole hitter in the NL.

Does the fact that he has scored more runs than he has driven in

despite hitting in an RBI slot signify that he is better as a table-setter, or is it just the opportunities (or lack thereof) that he had batting behind a slumping Dome?

It could mean a lot of things.

I really don’t care whether a guy scores runs or drives them in, just so long as he contributes.

Besides, I don’t think he really has played much in an RBI spot. He’s “leading off for the bottom of the order.”

Jason Larue:

Hey Peter! Check out channel 11!

look like the foul ball hit the camera
Well, this is the Bears team

I expected to see. They suck.

Fortunately, I can't see them.
Oh, me neither.

I’m watching the GameCenter @ nfl.com

Good Defense...

…NO offense. But, what else is new.

Nate Vasher

with the Bears second INT, though. Stopped a fairly long TB drive.

Great

But he didn’t score.

Ass on cell phone waving at camera
That's grounds to be thrown out

Without refund, IMHO

But almost a requisite

for watching a game at a California stadium

So is leaving during the 7th inning
Been to several different parks throughout CA

and that’s true in every one of them

There's nothing greater than a sunny california ballpark

and 4 innings of baseball

rofl!

I do love me some Friar Franks, though

I've actually never been to a cali baseball game

But my brother lives in So. Cal and he’s been to games in LA. He said that nobody really paid attention to the game where he was sitting and they all left in the 7th. Is there a signal that the park gives to get people to leave early?

Congrats, Casey, on the first Major League hit
McGheeheeheeheehee with a dribbler
How hard will that ball have been hit in 20 years?
that's what Brenly said.

In 20 years, it will be a smash Glaus couldn’t handle.

Casey Mcgehehehehe with 1st major league hit
May McGee's first hit

Be just the first of 1,000 in Cubbie Pinstripes!

It's "A visit to the booth every inning" Day on WGN
heh... but it's fun to hear from them
No doubt....

I think the equipment manager will be up there in the 8th…lol

rflo!
that's dyslexic for rofl
I was going to ask...lol

roll, floor, laughing on?

Lou didn't exactly give Len and Bob a lineup on the field

worth talking about…

Looks like Orton woke up.
Actually

It was his OLine. This drive was the first time they actually formed a pocket for Orton

I love pockets.
these?

Those are good too. Orton prefers the football type, I guarantee it.
After 2.5 innings, Cards 1 Iowa 0
Dome looking like a man on a mission...

2-2!

God I would love him to be back.

It would be so excellent.

I've been saying all along

It’s got to be the pressure he was feeling. Yesterday seeing him smiling and spraying champagne, something was different. I wouldn’t be surprised if he pulls off an awesome week.

I was very impressed with his wife too.

So, he has that going for him.

hahahah

I actually watched the game at my parents house, and my dad kept talking about how pretty his wife was.

The pressure must be off of Dome
Umm, Kosuke

where was this since June?

Swinging at the first pitch - now that's American.
Kosuke 2-2

Okay, who are you, and whatever you did to Fook, keep him there

Go go Dome! Welcome back!
Patriotic Ryder Cup update

USA 10, Europe 7

Wow who knew missing Tiger would help us!
Yeah, things are looking pretty good right now
Well-done hit-and-run there
He's baaaaaack!

(insert sound effects!)

Way to move that runner, Hoff!

 1-1

C'mon, Draw...knock 'em in
awww.... the crowd's back to chanting fu-ku-dome
Beating the Cards

With nothing on the line as we’ve clinched the Division and they are eliminated from PS play?

Priceless.

+1
How embarassing would it be

To lose to the Cubs bench?

I forgot the Rockies did it in that one game when theey were winning 9-0
Bob and Len are going to be fun this week of meaningless games....

Should be some interesting topics of discussion. LOL.

dang! sorry Ronny.
Wow. He was out by a mile.
DAMNIT!!!!!!!

I just got kicked off slingbox, as the channel changed to nicktoons. :(

nicktoons! lol!
...and it's a hard ground ball to Squidward...
My friend has it hooked up to the tv

In his kids play room, which is the least used. So I can typically have the TV to whatever I want. But the channel got changed from WGN to nicktoons all of a sudden. :)

I guess that means I should just watch football :)

Cedeno a little too hungry
Did he run on his own, or did he get sent around?
According to Len and Bob

Quade sent him.

Quade on the send?
Actually,

As Al says, the number to avoid the make up Stros game is 4, I would like to avoid that game being played.

Baltimore keeps Roberts and ends up 25 out in the east

another great move by Andy Mc

It would have looked like a better move if Roberts

could have managed to have a higher OPS than DeRo…

I forgot about Brian Roberts

Kinda glad we kept DeRosa

If we had traded for Roberts

we probably wouldn’t have had enough to trade for Harden.

I'm sure that no one is rooting harder for him than DeRo...
How did this end up here?

SBN and I are NOT on speaking terms…

it's messing with me too

there must be a lot of people posting today… that’s what Al said last time we were infected with SBN-itis

It would have looked like a better move if Roberts

could have managed to have a higher OPS than DeRo…

Lopez batting cleanup...

Ladies and Gentleman, the 2008 St Louis Cardinals.

And he came from the Nats

no place to go but low A

Ted Lilly

would have knocked LaRue squarely on his hind parts

I don't know about you guys

But I am totally not stressed out watching this game. It feels good.

Follow me.

Follow me to freedom (a la Charlie Steiner). Overflow thread

Favorite Wrigley Moment of the Year?

Toss up: DeRo’s homer vs Rockies or Soto’s homer vs. Brewers.

I like Lee and Ramirez going back-to-back to tie up the first Sox game, too
That 9 run rally vs. the Rockies made me believe.
Gotta go with

the comeback against the Rockies. Love all the choices, though.

Jim Edmonds catching the last out of the clincher
ok that was cheap

I admit.

woah.

Nice speed.

No way I thought he'd make it that easy
Me either.

That was seriously impressive.

Good for you, Felix!
wow..

Felix can flat out fly around the bases!

Yeah.

That was an “in your face” to Cedeno.

What the heck!

I looked away from the TV for 30 seconds and Pie is on 3rd.

Pie has jet rockets in his shoes!
Wow...Pie gets under the tag!

I think we might have gotten a break there

Hahahah bowled over teh caveman.
Okay, I knew Felix was fast.

But that would be MONEY in a pinch running situation in October. Wow.

Pie bowls over Jason Varitek

To score the winning run in game 7 of the World Series.

ha ha ha.

That would mean Game 7 was less than 20 minutes from me.

I’m down.

Or maybe

Pie bowls over AJ Perizynski to win game 7.

That would mean the game was really far away.

But I have to admit, I’d love it.

Cubs rally on Daley Plaza... fun!
TOUCHDOWN!!!!

Bears 24
Bucs 14

The Offense just exploded in the second half...

…once they stretched the TB defense with a long pass.

I need the Bears D to put the pressure on.

I have them in 2 fantasy leagues!!!

FOOK WITH THE CANNON!!!
Dome great throw! A man with something to prove I like that!
He's been great this game. He needs to keep it up.
Okay, odds of koyie on the playoff roster?

With Soto and Blanco I’m thinking slim to nil…

Y'all know we're in an overflow thread, right?

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