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First Pitch Thread: Cubs vs. Reds, Saturday 9/6, 6:10 CT

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light 'em up!!
WINNING RETURNS

TONIGHT!

not so sure I like this line up but who knows
not so sure I like this line up but who knows
you could say that again! :-)

let’s carve ’em up!!

I actually like it a lot
Dan Plesac had

his rally cap on in the pregame show. It is time to turn this losing streak around. Let’s do this Cubs!!!!

Looks like SBN is acting goofy tonight. I’ve noticed several double posts.

yep.

Echoman strikes again

he looked parched

needed some blue kool aid

YESSSSSSSS

Comcast SportsNet is finally captioned!!! I’m hearing impaired and since CSN is a relatively new station, they had not yet captioned it – so I generally preferred WGN…hence my screen name. But today I turned the game on and lo and behold…CAPTIONS! I can now “listen” to Bob and Len. This may seem small to most of you, but it’s huge for me. May more good things follow! Like WINS.

hope they are fairly legible

I’ve noticed captions to be a bit… improvisational

better than nothing :)
true, you can usually

parse out the meaning… after a fashion :D

Aw, I'm happy for you.

It’s about time they did this too.

Thanks!

I actually spoke to someone at the CSN home office at the beginning of this season and they mentioned that they were in the process of finding sponsors for their captioning apparatus – Dodge sponsors WGN captions, for example – and I guess they must have found one. Not sure who it is yet.

I dind't know it wasn't captioned

but yay for equal access. :-) hope they’re accurate.

ALRIGHT!!!

WINNING RETURNS TONIGHT!!!!!

LETS GO CUBS!!

Hoff

Make us proud

KKorey in CF

Let’s tire him out!

straighten out cueto's hat, guys
Lazy pop out for Fonzie
just keep making contact

none of that first inning 3 strikeout crap we saw yesterday. force their defense to make the plays.

Cueto

Is throwing everything up in the zone, lets sit back on a couple of these guys!

we're going to kick these guys'

asses, right?

sweet jeebus

i hope so

I also miss milton

plus go cubs go

I miss my bud too..

:sniff:

I'm here

but ephemerally. There’s soccer on ch.44. Go Cubs!

Theriot

4-3 ground out.

DLEE DOUBLE!!
where did he hit it?

what field?

Left

Past a diving Encarnacion.

well,

I like to see him pulling it.

well, I like to see him pulling it
you can say that again!
bah

stupid Chrome.

how do you like Chrome so far?
I've only found

a few websites that can’t handle it. I wish that I could correlate a tab to a process in task manager.

It does seem to struggle with big BCB threads.

I havent been adventurous enough to try it
really?

haven’t had that problem, thank goodness

pushes CPU usage to max. Of course

my laptop is three years old, so that probably doesn’t help.

quirky SBN tonight...lol
thought maybe you wanted to hear her say it twice LOL
pulled it to left

actually went foul but we got a favorable call

that was going to be my question thanks
it must have been the camera angle

as the ump was right there (but I thought the same thing as you, about the favorable call)

DLee double on his double 3s!
DOUBLE

LEE!

lets go Rami!

d lee doubles

up steps our most important hitter

Lee doubles

Past Encarnaion at third.

"Thats big... wow a pretty good start" Ronnie
C'mon Geo... be a hero
oops ARam

silly me

em has geo on the mind

what a shock

when did you get your quote?
pre-game
I missed pre-game I was on the phone
talking someone off the ledge?
nah... mom doesnt care for baseball
Hold 'em Jason!!
Ramirez K's

On a high outside fastball. To the bottom of the first. Cubs 0 Res coming up.

Keppinger singles past DeRo
Cmon, Jason

don’t nibble.

twss
are you kidding?! nibble, Jason, nibble! lol!
Votto grounds into DP!!!

6-4-3

Finally!

After these last couple of games, I’m actually expecting the opposing team to score in the first inning…:(

Hey how about

trying this……GET SOME RUNS!!!!!

So far so good

Looks like Marquis has decent stuff tonight and is throwing strikes. Just need him to avoid that one bad “Marquis inning” now.

Also...

I think that it’s important that the Cubs score first tonight…I’m sick of them playing from behind.

absolutely

first run seems to win the game… dunno the stats but it’s a momentum setter

it seems of late they've been scored in bunches
OK, Hoff.

Prove to us you deserve to be here. McGeehee sure hasn’t.

WTF

was THAT??? BAD SWING, SON!

Soto grounds out

6-3

Come on Micah!!!
Sounds like Wrigley :)
yep... they've got the Cub's back
good grief

that's exactly

how I looked when I said it

DeRo pops out
So

not missing much, huh?

"if you produce you will play..."

cut to Dome

Trouble is...

No one is producing lately..

I'm pretty sure

Dome will always produce on D.

Hoffpauer with a glove scares me.

::sigh:: I don't

have a lot of patience tonight.

me neither

feeling ansty

Was that a typo

for nasty or antsy?

Antsy

but… if the streak doesn’t end soon I may get nasty.

Omg Great american ballpark opened in 2003

this is the 39th sellout

Any stat on how many were v. the Cubs?
nope just repeating what Pat said
And most of those were the first season...

Of course, it helps to have a winning team.

It doesn't seem to

historically matter for Wrigley Field.

For the most part yeah..

but they never went over 2 million until ’84, and as recently as ’95 were under 2 mil.

this is just their 5th sell out all year
C'mon Jason

you don’t walk the rookie…ESPECIALLY not a dusty rookie!

have no fear patterson is up
its just irritating
Thank goodness for Patterson.
why was he nibbling on a .200 hitter?
I remember the days

of Paul Bako. He was terribly bad.

I remember the days

of Paul Bako. He was terribly bad.

so bad you said it twice?
Sorry

I accidently double posted.

no worries
you didn't double post

it’s the SBN gremlin that did

I don't like this :(
hate the IBB so early...

but marquis should be able to get cueto…

No worries

That will end the inning

IBB to Bako
makes no sense IMHO
pitcher is 1 for 38

now 1 for 39

I see Lou has turned to our savior, Huff-P.

Ugh.

Odd lineup tonight...
Soto needs to be hitting that high in the lineup.

But I won’t be jumping on the Hoffpauir bandwagon.

don't worry

the clown car is already very full. :P

Cueto 1-39
Make that 1-40
.026

ouch!

LOL hbcg...

just noticed your tagline…:)

its true

i miss the guy.

sorry I was off by one
Now, can we score some damn runs?

please?

Since you said please

Sure. Why not?

This may be a first for me.

Can’t get the game on TV here in mid-Michigan but we are just close enough to get WGN-AM on the radio in my van. Sooo, I have the van parked in the garage, Pat & Ron’s voices booming out of the open windows while the connecting door is open to the house where I sit in the kitchen at my computer.

Couldn’t stomache listening to Cincy’s Marty B. on XM again…

SO let’s pull out all the stops! Go Cubs!

do you close neighbors?
You are a dedicated fan.
Nice play by Dickerson

On a Marquis liner.

The windows of the van are open. The windows in the garage and the overhead doos are closed.

But the house next door is empty and has been for sale since last November, so it’s all good. :)

Uh, I mean "doors"
oh ok....

shouldnt have been nosy. sorry

SORIANO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THERE we go.

Soriano!

Hack-attack!!
Soriano!!!!!!!!

Homer!!!!!!! The Cubs have the lead!!!

OMG WE HAVE A LEAD
I was just thinking too, we haven't seen a Soriano HR in awhile
Fonzie!!
After his comment today

it’s appropriate that he gets a homerun.

Details...

I missed it…

It's in Al's

pregame thread. Sori just said it takes one guy to get things going.

Or maybe it was

in last night post game thread.

ok..thx..

glad to see him back it up…

No Cubs were clogging the basepaths for him - he could just breeze around

Dusty approves.

haha
Theriot singles.

Right up the middle.

Scrappy! Single!
I LOVE 2 out home runs

when we’re not pitching. :D

Soriano!!!!!!!!

Homer!!!!!!! The Cubs have the lead!!!

Appropos of nothing...

…Bill James once did a study that said hitters do better on their birthday.

Appropos of nothing was right.
any idea on why?
Not a one.
oh ok.. sorry I misread it
Birthday endorphins (sp?)
theriot follows with one of his patient singles
thanks for a straight one thigh high

for fonzie

make them sweat in milwaukee

Did anyone happen to notice

What the heck that guy behind the backstop was eating?

How was that a strike?
It's weird, but Lee's power has regressed even more this year
Geez!!

Louisiana Tech just got another third down conversion.

marquis:

17 strikes, 17 balls. thats not good!

get it together jason!!

He is, in fact, Jason Marquis.
Marquis is a better pitcher than Lilly

at least this year…

Lilly's been fine against everyone not called 'reds"
Uh, going into tonight's game their ERAs had all of a .03 difference.

How do you figure?

Is it the fact that Lilly has pitched 30 more innings than Marquis?
Or the fact that Lilly has almost twice as many strikeouts?

Or the fact that in 30 more innings he only has five more walks allowed?

Hell, Lilly even has more wins if you care about that sort of thing.

I officially have no idea what you’re talking about here.

Maybe he meant better "lately"?

Marquis last 3 starts…2.95 ERA.

I might buy that if he hadn't said this year.
And the Reds' best hitter

Just worked a 3-0 count to full before grounding out.

HEY!

SORIANO SLID TO MAKE A GREAT CATCH!

Guess slide grab fielder!

no bunny hop on that sliding catch.

he’ll have to work on that

THAT would have been cool
3 out!
And the Cubs are still in the lead?
This must be the

best weather Pat has ever experienced. He has mentioned at least 4 times how great the weather is.

Maybe he just wants something positive to say
When you've watched the team lose 4 straight, you look for silver linings
true even moreso when you've watched lose 6 in row
Duh. I must be in mental denial. I meant 6.
Yeah, I guess so.

I always wondered how broadcasters can stand broadcasting for a terrible team. I know it’s a nice life and all, but it’s gotta be horrible to watch bad baseball everyday.

Look at the groundball pitcher

getting ground ball outs!!

Its tough

switching between the Cubs and kansas’ football game.

blah

college sports

Aramis Ramirez

Cleared for take off….. Destination LF Seats

Time of launch?
Imminent

we’re hoping…

More Cub runs

would tickle me pink.

or "shiver" me timbers...
or a liner up the middle

good :)

Soto Double!
2nd & 3rd, no outs!
LETS GO!!

GEO DOUBLE!

GEO..........
he's a stud
spot on
we just havent had enough opportunity to say that of late
Did you and MCF

call each other to make sure you both use the same word?

6-3 for Hof. A-Ram scores
Soto @ 2nd. 2 outs.
Keppinger showcasing all of his range at shortstop.
Reed HBP. 1st & 2nd
lets go reed
um.

oops. hope you’re okay, buddy!

55 pitches for Cueto so far. Poor kid :-)
So he's got another 90 in his arm!
Sayeth Dusty
actually the dust man sayeth

he’s going to limit him to 100 tonight… according to pat earlier.

Ned Yost says he's good for another 100...
and the he can relieve on tuesday
Marquis F8 on a deep flyball to C-Patt. 3 outs

Cubs 2-0

Marquis with warning track power.
But how does he field his position?
He hits well and fields well.

Two out of three ain’t bad, right?

Pat was initially "excited". Sounds like it died at the last minute
wow

Marquis gave that one a ride….

PAT!

Don’t do that to me.

closer

than most pitchers get.

+1

I always fall for it too…lol..

at some point

someone’s gonna go out there and jam Johnny Cueto’s hat on his head properly, right?

is it crooked?
it's only half on his head.
call his mom

that cannot be allowed to continue!

God bless halter tops

IN HD!

My radio is HD but I still get a lousy picture...
I think you'da liked the ahem..."view"
twhs
yeah

pretty much :)

There are a couple of comments

that could be a reply to. Or are you being purposefully vague? LOL

sure that sounds better then I forgot to hit reply
End 4

Mil still leads 1-0

Sounds like Scrappy saved the day!
crappy catch

i mean scrappy

Theriot's gifted at catching fly balls.

That said… he’s a shortstop.

TheRiot covered a hell of a lot of ground on that one!
Once a Lugnut, always a Lugnut! Go Riot!
nicely done riot!
Jason just did the impossible: walked KKorey
is 1 for 41 too much to hope for?
We needa

double play

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