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Overflow Thread 2: Cubs vs. White Sox, Friday 6/26, 3:05 CT

From Thursday's game.

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Lets Finish it!!
Let's do this Cubs!!!!
The over under on walks is 2.5. Your bet?
c'mon Carlos

Throw strikes and you’ll be fine.

please dont f this up marmol

And Marmol goes to 3-1 while Hawk and Stone talk about how hard it is to see the ball

with the shadows

3-2

fouled back

and he walks the leadoff hitter
Dear Carlos, you have a lead. You don't have to strike everyone out.
dear Lou, you don't have to put Carlos in every game
gah.....I hate when he does that
Walks suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leadoff Walk with a 3 run lead..ouch
thats the 9 hole he just walked
Just ask Kevin Gregg

leadoff walks always come back to bite you in the behind

F8

for Scott Pods

Podsednik Flys out to Dome

1 out

I just don't get it...

When will Lou realize that Marmol will walk someone EVERY inning. I guess though, they don’t really have anybody else to pitch the 8th right now.

lous philosophy is that marmol needs more work

and eventually that will turn into "overwork"
Marmol

needs to get it together. This team cant go anywhere without him

just checked in on the game for 1st time

good lord is Fox hot. we REALLY need to find a place for him to play or deal him to the AL asap

and by ASAP i mean after interleague play is over of course
Jeez. Come on, Carlos. THROW STRIKES.
You have the shadows in your favor, QUIT NIBBLING!
I loves me my Geo

just saying

3-1 on Ramirez

throw strikes marmol ffs

uh oh. marmol please
another WALK..2 on with 1 out
pull him now!!!!
No i need the hold!!!! lol

marshall and heilman in pen

please no heilman

rothschild visit
Now he will groove the fastball...
Need a frigging ground ball
if marmol blows this I shall explode.
"Entire Cubs Nation Suspended Two Games After Collectively Pulling 'A Milton'"
another inept marmol performance

try to get jermaine then put in in marshall

This isn't good at all.
This crap

with Marmol is starting to be comical. It so sad its funny :(

throw

strikes

1-2 on dye

please strike him out or get him to GIDP

fastball@ 86?
im sure this was already mentioned

but nice moron with the goat mask. ugh.

That really really really sucked
.....................................wtf
WHAT THE @##$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#
OMG..HERE WE GO..COME ON WOW
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh my god, no
are you kidding me?
Oh my God.

No way this is happening…

soriano loses one in the sun
Bases juiced for Thome.
Wow Ronnie didn't even scream

Just stunned silence.

He's actually expecting it now
What happened?
Thome doubled off Lee's glove, two in
What was said "Left field is a brutal sun field"

What wasn’t said “Soriano is a brutal left fielder”

he's the best left fielder in the National League

or something equally ridiculous

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUC**********************
This would be hilarious if I wasn't a fan of the Cubs
How about we fucking pull Marmol? Anyone?
the defense is just as responsible
He needs to

get his shit together soon.

5-4 sox

no gatorade cooler is safe right now

sorry 5-4 cubs
High line drive off of Lee's glove, 2 runs in.

hopefully lou will learn not to pull wells too early again

if Lou hasn't learned that yet, he's not going to learn it now
He didn't pull

Wells too earlly. Stuff it.

get bent
You get bent

jackass mf.

flagged
you should be kicked off this site
meant for "not bruce"
You should be kicked

out of the human race, DC.

good one
About as good

as your snappy comeback, DC. Brainiac quality, it was.

Sorry if i'm not

negative naboby enough for you.

you might not be pessimistic

But you bring out as much acrimony as any poster on this site.

Only because

I’m not afraid to call a spade a spade. I’ll plead guilty to that one all day long.

other people call out negativity

Few do it with such anger.

Fight fire

with fire. The negativity here is

as angry as it gets

hit “post” too early, sorry.

whatever, man

the anger isn’t usually directed at other posters. That starts when you chime in.

I'll amend that

you’re not the only one who starts it.

Fight fire with fire?

Does that even make sense?

Fight fire with water. Meaning if the fire is negativity, fight it with its polar opposite… positivity.

If you think you’re gonna solve the jerks by being a jerk, you are sorely mistaken.

Stone, you're one of the better posters here

But I disagree on this point. Maybe I won’t solve them. But a taste of their own medicines doesn’t hurt. And it certainly makes me feel better.

at the expense of everyone else here
Not "everyone" else, em

Not even close. Sorry.

Well thanks.

But you aren’t changing my mind. If somebody’s being a jerk, ignore it, or win them over with charm.

I’ve yet to meet a jerk that snapped out of it when introduced to another jerk. Sink to their level, you are no better.

+1

Rec’d

Problem is

The jerks outweight the good guys around here anymore.

And you are willingly swinging it one more in their direction.

What good does that do?

I’ll stop now. You get it or you don’t. You are one of us or one of them.

You're a regular George W. Bush

I’d rather be wtih you, but too much of them can’t go unchecked. I’ll agree to disagree with you on this point.

inappropriate
Comparing me to GW?

Too far, man. Too far.

"You're either with us

or with them." I thought it was entirely appropriate.

You guys are wound a bit too tight. Coming from me, that’s saying something.

Go right ahead

The way this board is anymore, being here isn’t exactly a lot of fun, anyway.

From your lips to Lou's ear LOL
This is so bad...
But really not surprising...

you almost have to laugh

Yep, especially when you walk 2 in the inning.
We gave them two runs

We literally gift wrapped them and served them on a silver platter

The Wells curse
Take him out, Lou!!!

WTF are you doing?!

Soriano is a piece of shit

plain and simple

there really isn't any way to defend him right now
Im Fuc#$% ing HATE HIM

HATE HATE HATE

The worst intincts in baseball……….and the biggest blunder ever in free agency

He is complete trash this year..No arguement
ut oh

AJ coming up to do the dirty work

Walking Konerko to face AJ
I get scared watching Marmol Intentionally walk someone
Wells has got to be pissed at these clowns
If I'm Wells, I'm demanding to go 9 innings every start or get traded
CLOWNS IS THE RIGHT DESCRIPTION!!!
We look like a circus
randy wells complete game anyone???

this is like the mets BP of last year

Oh lets just load the bases and leave marmol in

brilliant idea

wow, i shoulda stayed away

Santo: “This is just unbelievable Pat.”

I just sort of got here too... just in time for the carnage
except it's totally believable this year

I half expected something like this the minute Marmol stepped on the mound

Freel sucked in the top half of the inning, too

What a mess of ineptitude

keystone kops.........wheels coming off --again!!!!!

cubs beat themselves —again!!!!

Um, they're still leading

last time I checked.

I hope I'm wrong, but...

Not for long I bet.

You are right, but this inning should be over......
It is now.
Don't worry, sue

They’ll be calling it over in the ninth, too.

PUT IN A PITCHER WHO WON'T WALK IN A TYING RUN!

now hell walk a run in

Ridiculous

This is so 2009 Cubs.

Marshall coming in to face AJ
Marmol leaving

Marshall in

man it sucks to be wells

i don't know if this is actually happening right now.
Why

is he still pitching?

I don't get why Marmol...

is still put into these situations. We’re just about halfway through. He’s NOT a setup man. Dude’s a mediocre middle reliever at this point. Get your head out of your ass Lou.

lous philosophy is that marmol needs more work

Time to abandon that philosophy...

Marmol is 2nd in the league in IP’s by a reliever. Or he was the other day at least.

Dude sucks this year.

he's only second?
I was as surprised as you are.
And now that I think about it...

it might be pitches thrown by a reliever.

lou is living in last year
Sean Marshall in.

Sean, do your job here. Please.

Thanks, Sean.

At least one of our relievers is reliable.

He has been.
screw you Sori and marmol

worthless this year

Another Piniella disaster

continuing to go to Marmol in critical spots. My lord, he cant throw strikes. HE CANNOT THROW STRIKES!

if soriano isn't benched for tomorrow's game, something is really wrong.
Yep.
So if MB gets benched for a tantrum

and Sori for this, who do you have fielding?

who cares. anybody is better than Soriano.
Ok

if you truly believe that, there’s nothing I can say

not really i just let my emotions get the best of me

watching marmol pitch and soriano field would do that to the best

Yeah

I know the feeling. :-(

When is Krummy12 gonna show up?
Something has been wrong for weeks

Soriano is a joke

One year wonder
=marmol
really? thats what you think? and check his stats from 07
Sure

aside from the fact he’s been nails for more than 2 years.

I would

have rather seen Patton in the 8th up 3 runs… he wouldnt walk anyone

Ok, Marshall, buckle down here.
dump Marmols ass too

walks walks walks…….how many times do we have to watch this shit??????

Dump marmol?

like, seriously???

When the going gets tough,

a lot of Cubs fans get going, evidently.

its so unoriginal around here

i wish i could take everyone’s microscopes away from them

he's been horrible this year
he's been 'inconsistent' the first 3 months of the season

but yeah, we should just forget about last year, or the year before…..send him to someone else….he’ll never be right a again

come on marshall

Oh thanks jesus
Hell yeah
DOUBLE PLAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!
HUGE DP there...

Great job Marshall and Lee!

Double Play!!!
YES!

Sean Marshall deserves a ton of credit

Meant to kept typing

guy is a professional. Gets thrown from starter to reliever every year and just does his job. Not flashy. The opposite of a few guys we have on this team

Thank you Mr. Jesus.
6 lbs 8 ounces baby jesus, watching ur baby einstein videos
Fill in the blank

“I’m Randy Wells. I just got lifted. But hey, my team has a _ run lead, so I know I’ll get a W”

question

how many pitches was Wells up to? Why didn’t he pitch the 8th?

It's Marmol's inning, come hell or high water
Just under 100
dusty woulda

left him in…

:P

need some geico with gregg warming up

Don't worry, we still have Gregg in the 9th
SEAN MARSHALL COMES TO PLAY!

THANKS AJ!!!!

phew

Good job, Sean!

worthy of a gold glove, baby!!!

DLEE starts and finishes the DP

I didnt know routine ground balls qualify as gold glove
nothing is routine in that spot

nor w/ this team…DLee is the only sure thing out there wearing a glove

A sure thing would of caught the line drive off down the line that hit his glove
Leave it for marmol and soriano

to ruin the game for Wells and Fox. Pieces of crap

Well, thats not nice.
i'm fed up with this garbage they put on the field.
Last time I checked,

the Cubs were leading 5-4.

So what was ruined?

correct...nobody hurt...

just gotten get ’em in the 9th…glass.half.full

I didn't see it :(

I was too afraid to watch

booyyahhhh!!!!

Ron: “YEESSSS – ohh my god”

sean is our best reliever

with Angel on the DL

He threw one pitch, hanging curveball
he got two outs
I think Geo needs to share some of his weed...

with Marmol.

and wells

...and Bradley
and industrial strength for Fonzi
Yeah, maybe it would calm him down.
Or maybe it would kill the brain cell that...

keeps telling him to throw sliders and only sliders.

Is he just shaking off Soto or what?
It looks like Marmol is trying to guide his slider and is falling off to first base

more than when he throws a fastball.

strikes work when you pitch
marshall

throws ONE pitch and fixes everything that marmol screwed up

Marmol AND Soriano screwed up
Got out of the meeting in time just to here Ronnie just abotu have a heart attack...

… on the 3-2-3 double play. Nice.

What have i missed?

fox and geo homered

marmol walked 2 guys then soriano/blanco misplay a pop then dlee hits a liner going foul

hit it with his glove i mean

Marmol walking two batters, Soriano letting an easy flyout drop, and Thome ripping a two run double
That doesn't explain our five runs!

There must have been SOMETHING else worth note.

Marshall throws one pitch

and goes to the showers

thank god for lee and geo

at least we have a couple of competent fielers

Solution to Cubs woes

Give the contents of Soto’s locker to Marmol, Sori and MB, and send them to the South Pacific for a month.

Send Marmol Down

Whether he is hurt or not, his daily implosions are hurting this ball club. Let him work it out in Iowa, bring him back when he gets it together.

If Gregg comes on in the ninth

I might finally jump off the ledge.

better get ready because he is coming in
you know it's gonna happen
Gregg gets it done

today …you heard it here 1st

but...

Soriano is still extremely bad and playing baseball

we don't have any one else to play left
Ummmmmmmmmmm

Fox?

Hoff?

you mean today??????
what happened with Bradley?

Hawk was hinting at shit but wouldn’t say … i kinda expected that

Bradly had a tantrum, Abused a gatorade container, Lou pulled him
Hawk is the biggest biased f*** there is in baseball!
I didn't know

that Steve Stone was the color guy for the Sox. He must’ve need the money…

threw a temper tantrum in the dugout

thanks guys

he needs to start stepping up for this team and stop acting like a little baby

don't hold your breath
I was wrong about Milton

and all his doubters were right.

Uh oh

sounds like another fanpost in the works

I don't usually post things like this, but

SUCK IT, AJ!

Now how about some Cubs runs.

So great, yet so unbelievably bad.
Fontenot is so bad.
He needs to go to Iowa for a while too...

Send him down, get him back together, bring him back.

Fontenot and Soriano both should not be in the lineup

how the hell was that strike 3?!

Been totally off BCB

and I can’t go through all the posts but can just say Marmol is NOT reliable.
Back to not watching.

what paper are you reading??
I am home so I channel surf

Newspapers are for the games.

Well cool

Cubs won in case you still have your eyes closed

Uh, by the way, how did Soriano'
Soriano's gaffe not get ruled an error?
No
It was off Blanco's glove. Soriano just got in the way and ran into him
it's at the cell, what did u really expect?
Should have been.
Sam Fuld

Your late inning defensive replacement.

nobody touched it before it hit the ground

technicality

gregg warming up
excellent, this game is over
Gregg will

got 1-2-3 in the bottom of the ninth on less than 10 pitches

Don't kid yourself
Well, after he walks the leadoff batter maybe
A little early for the hard stuff, eh?
It's five oclock somewhere

like the central time zone

Just check

back here when I’m right :) i got a feeling….. and a lot of tequilla

they are walking guess hittin hack?

good!

blanco almost hit a homer

Just missed his first career homer.
Double for Blanco.
fox's ab against Thorton really showed me that he can hit
Nice hit there by Blanco. Got that one good.
andy white

GR 2b

what a rinky-dink band box of a ballpark
IBB for Soriano
As a Cubs fan I can honestly say

this makes no sense.

why are the intentionally walking soriano?

lefty lefty match up
Clutch situation for Soriano..
Look Sori's OBP is a solid .290!
This is sleepy Saturday morning....

How’s it going?

nothing much

just a boring 5-4 Cubs lead

hey dragon

‘nother nail biter 1 run game…same crap diff’rent day

bradley left the park
man

who said that?
Brenly's comments:

“Unfortunately, we shouldn’t be surprised at this. He’s had a history of this type of behavior.” So true

i guess hendry didnt know

……..

That's one of the

reasons I like Bob. Tells it like it is.

Yea, same here.
wow

MB has already left the park

Milton Bradley was sent home..wow must of been bad
I don't think he was sent

sounds like he pulled a Sosa

I think we can say he won't be playing tomorrow then
GREETINGS from Her Majesties Kingdom

Nice to see the score!!!! Anyone want to give me a 20 second recap?

20 secs?

maybe 20 paragraphs

We could have been her majesties kingdom too

But you just HAD TO TAX THE TEA!!! :-p

I would like to point out

That I am in Her Majesties Kingdom as a Visiting Forces Member representing the Republic which had the tea taxed ;)

well thank you for your service!
Cubs hit ball long way, Marmol

Cubs hit two bombs.
Milton had a fit, went all “Michael Jackson” on the gatorade cooler, was sent home by Uncle Lou.
Soriano’s outstanding defense costs the Cubs at least one and maybe two runs but is still the best LF in the NL
Marmol imploded again.
And you are up to date.

you forgot Soto's HR! Forfend!
I said they hit two bombs. It is accurate.
ah but Geo is not "Cubs" Geo is Da Man
Thanks, Emelie

I’ll feed you some irish truffles now. Though the girlfriend might not like that. (For the record, she’s a NYY fan who I’m converting to wearing cubbie blue… and is going to 6 july game at wrigley)

BTW – even though I have mlb.tv premium, I love how I can finally get the game on my ipod with the new at bat update fixing the location problems.

I'm going to make truffles this weekend!
except MB

apparently stormed out of the park on his own per Len

Fox and Soto

homered Bradley left the building after throwing a hissy fit.

great

bradley has left the park

...that was the only way he was leaving the park today

come on fukudome

Sounds like Bradley

left the park. Wow.

Did you all just hear

about Bradley? He’s left the ballpark, supposedly, after getting into it with Lou?

There's a word for him: Poison
Oh, Dome is at bat

Come on Dome…… Zzzzzz……

Anyone else hear bradley got send home????????? OMG
sent*
I thought they said he left on his own..
OMGZ no! pinella kicked him out!!!!!
oh great...this is going to end well
End well...

This will not.

This guy is a joke
We need to get one back!

please be lights out gregg

here we go

don’t screw it up Kevin!

Dome really knocked the crap out of that one.
Considering Thornton's splits

Lou clearly should have used RJ

Lefties vs Thornton

.095 ave, .150 OBP, .150 SLG

Cmon

Except that RJ is on the DL
Gee im so glad

we didnt get Dunn and got Bradley…. :-P

Let's face it

Dunn would be hitting .230 too if he was a Cub. It’s our curse.

but he would have like 20 HRS and 50 RBIS
plus he would be hitting in Wrigley

where he crushes the ball

Untrue.

Bradley’s downside was well-known,
it was another Hendry blue-light special.

Ibanez could hit .400 the next three years – Hendry will still feel he was too old to sign.
Dunn will still be seen as too expensive.

Hendry fell for the usual "lightning in a bottle " con with Milton – he’s younger, and the Cubs can fix what’s wrong. With a good environment and the respect of a big paycheck, he’ll be the steal of the offseason!

We seriously need to avoid any more “Hendry guy” acquisition via Free Agency.

Kevin, you and your weird googles will get the job done!
Please Gregg Please
Can Soriano go Look for Bradley to make sure he's ok?
back to sleep.....

…..zzzzzz…….

What time is it for you?
726 am in tokyo
Don't leave now, Dragon. It's just getting good.
send Z looking for Bradley, and have him pull a Barrett on him
76% chance the Cubs win according to gamecast

it must know Gregg is our closer.

so what prompted the Bradley thing
K
he struck out and lou got mad at him?
No, he went into the dugout and threw his helmet and threw a fit
was there an actual face to face confrontation between them
2 Ks, and a tardy swing on a fastball
chemical imbalance
lol and... yeah
it was a day that ended in d-a-y
It is confirmed

Milton Bradley is Sammy Sosa.

But Sosa doesn't know English, remember?
ROIDZZZ?????????
without the numbeers

we could live with Sosa when he hit 60 hrs

Bradley has 16 RBIs, Fox has 11

that puts it in perspective, doesn't it?
Maybe Bradley

needs to borrow Sammy’s cork

sosa produced for us

better than detroit already

2 more...
good math!!!!!!!!!~!~1~!~!
Guess lou likes Font at third more than Fox..
Why on earth are we moving our SS to 2b?

Gah.

I don’t understand!!!

Yup

bottom says Milton Bradley leaves stadium after confrontation with Lou Piniella. Find out more on postgame show.

Lou: "Well uh, y'know...

we just have to execute and uh, we’re not. Bradley is having some problems and uh, I had a talk with him, and we just have to execute. What do you want me to do?"

ROFL... perfect!
The "what do you want me to do"

really makes it complete.

Please no walks
Jinx! You owe me a soda.
Mmmmm....

beer

Twittermeyer says

Bradley is said to have left ballpark after confrontation with Pinella

Chugga Chugga Chugga

2 outs!

Whew!!

2 down!

DLee, diving stop, bang-bang out at first
Thank you very much, DLee
Derrek Lee

saves another one.

God love that guy.

Me too Allie
Derrick Lee

MVP

Lee with a great play
Ok, since we all point out miscues!

Kudos to Gregg for getting over to the bag to make the out

he's 6'5"

he should run so much faster than that.

:-P

come on gregginator

Here comes a K
DLee

your gold glove is ready

uh oh another no namer pinch hitter

lets go GREGG!!!!
I vote Marshall for player of the game - fox second
"Let's get a win boys!"

you owe me a new computer

i just barfed on my laptop

*tool*cough*hugetool*
that makes me

uncomfortable

disturbing
You made Gregg walk fields

This is your fault.

Just one more goggles
3-2..please no walks

3-2 come on gregginator

Tying run aboard
do it for PR gregg
Full count

shocking.

c’mon gregg. you’re killin’ me holmes.

Can anyone in this BP throw strikes?
oh come ON Cubs!!
my god whatever you do don't walk him
Gamecast had the last two balls better than the two strikes
they were close, but I think balls
this game is bad for blood pressure
This season is bad for blood pressure
this franchise is bad for blood pressure
true dat ...
bad for mental health
He HAS to walk to somebody.

He and Marmol have the same pitching problem.

marmol seems to have it worse
True, but Gregg tends to walk too much too.
Santo's totally cracking me up..
Muttering under his breath.

“I just can’t deal with this”..

Come on Goggles!!!!!!!!
they do nah-sing!
2-2
Strike 3 looking, for those who didn't know
Cubs Win!!!!!!!!!!

a big middle finger to all the White Sox and their fans!

put it on the board and up ur ass Hawk!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey chicago what do ya say???

can we sing at the cell?

CUBS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PPPPPPHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW
oh thank god
Is That Dr. Crawdad In The Goat Mask?
Now, to hear Lou's post-game. Should be equally entertaining
beautiful

Cubs Win!

wow that was a ball
I agree.

Oh well. Got the W!!

That had a nasty break
Cubs win. Sux lose. Bradley leaves the yard.

Summer is here!!

Phew... way to go
screw you hawk
Yeah, Hawk and Stoney cryong over the call

Hey, now you know what if feels like to be a Cubs fan! LOL

It was a ball, though

Not that I’m complaining

Amazing

For once, we didn’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Now, lets make this a trend.

sure tried to give it away though
Sometimes the opposing team just doesn't want to take it

Good for us!

OMG SUH-WEEEEET!!

Cubs Win!

Gregg redemption day!

"Hell yea! Big Win"

“I’ve looked into his eyes. He’s pure evil.” ~Jerry Seinfeld
dood

wtf with the random pictures of ugly men?

Who are you to judge?
no one

but why?

i mean at least everything else people post has some connection with the cubs.

and i see none here.. other than a random ass picture of an old man

Maybe you should learn a thing or two about baseball if you don't know who these guys are.
That's uncalled for
It's true.
putting pictures up of FOX's broadcasting team doesn't qualify knowing about baseball in my book

Plus Allie could own you

You're missing the point

You may know more about baseball than someone else. Congrats for you, here’s a cookie. Don’t go expecting everyone else to know as much, and then talk down to them if they don’t.

I agree.
Loosen up, Sue.
Stop being an ass

and maybe I will. What you said to Allie was totally uncalled for.

Annnnd

thank you for reminding me why I stopped doing game threads.

wtf is your problem?
It's a game thread, you guys are so sensitive.

I have the right to post what I want here. Grow up.

and i have the right to call your posts dumb
Then be prepared to be

called out when you post stupid stuff.

I think you and Soto need to get together one of these days.

Maybe you can learn to relax.

Way to fit in, n00b

Pictures in game threads = annoying.

Pictures with no connection to the Cubs/current game/inside joke = double annoying.

I'm just fine.

Maybe you can not be so rude to others on here.

Fireworks during Lou's postgame interview should be interesting.
You are my hero baby!

Yeah, find this guy an everyday spot.
Why? It's not Geo.

Oh, my mistake. I thought you said “find this guy an everyday POT”. Sorry.

That should shut up those neck sox fans

you gotta love their little cheer when the pitcher has to come out. Cubs beat the Sox! Yes!

People need to stick around and fill me in on post-game

I’m at work and pretty interested in MB news

Agreed.

Missed it all in a meeting, i’m walking home now and will be back on here in 5… i’ve gotta know what happened!

damn good frame by geo

good job buddy… we’ll take it.

Geo's doing some toking with Gayle Fisher

I mean — “talking” with Gayle Fisher. Sorry.

Had to have a heartattack to do it, but we got the job done.
soto looks stoned on tv!
oh for God's sake.
I laughed

when soto hit that homer. They said he really smoked that one :)

What a poor choice of words.

I would have laughed too though.

and right before

they said he had already smoked 2 of them.

Funny, but not real classy for a broadcast team… not that I really care.

Well well well

Gail Fisher has quite the nice profile. I did not know that.

Great win.

I’m outta here guys. See you tomorrow/

let's hope

we don’t fall below .500 again for a while

Wells gets a W
That's a real

plus for today.

Per the trib blog:

Piniella will give his side of the story in his postgame interview session, which will be broadcast live on Comcast Sports Net following Ozzie Guillen’s press conference.

I looked into the future

and Lou’s response, word for word, is up above :)

Please post Lou's comments for us folks not in Chicago

interesting article
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AmvZgTBRgQFRceqwZcDFTvcV0bYF?slug=txcubspiniella&prov=st&type=lgns

lou avoids questions about returning to chicago next year

Interesting indeed.
I need an EMT!!!!!!!!! DEFIBRILLATOR, PLEASE!!!
Maybe your son can buy you one in Australia

What did he get you for Fathers Day ?

"Lets go out and get em' tomorrow!"

enough with pix already

it wastes bandwith

Bandwith? you must be kidding me.
He means it

slows down the thread

Are you new or stupid?

The owner of this site asked a while back if people would quit doing exactly what you’re doing during game threads.

new
Then please stop, seriously.
you sure know how to make an entrance
I'll take that as "both"
"nice"
You aren't gonna last long around here with that 'tude, good sir.
You clearly don't know as much about baseball as TimG58

How dare you make such a request :)

honestly what our options with MB

I guess we could suspend him, but what good would that do for us or for him.

Boot him for violation of contract guidelines...

Just kidding. Couldn’t happen

he has done absolutely nothing this year

but sitting him…. idk

Lou said he

will pencil him into the lineup tomorrow. I dunno.

Hawk still whining about calls
r u being serious?
That's odd...
wow Hawk and Stoney are breaking down the last at bat now

seriously what a bunch of babies

Figures the ump would call strike three

just when they were about to hit a two-run homer. Dadgum it!

LOL, so the Sox post game show...

is basically Hawk and Stoney bitching about the ump? Good Lord, could that organization get any more pathetic?

Yep. That's pretty much what it is lol.
Hawk is ......what he is

stoney tells it like it is but hawk has definitely rubbed off on him

Yes, they feed off each other when things don't go right
I'm coming around on Ozzie
Which way ?

Pro or Con ?

I hope it's pro

I think Ozzie’s great. I know a lot of Sox fans don’t care for him, but he knows what he’s doing.

kinda funny

that might be the nicest thing i have seen you post, and it’s about the sox mgr… :)

You don't read

enough of my posts … :)

great

another thing on my to-do list

Well,

I don’t think I’d put this one too high on the list … just below “scratch my head,” perhaps …

pro

I like the fact that he’s so candid.

I always loved him for that

but sadly it is outweighed by his nasty side. I just can’t ever forgive him for destroying a rookie pitcher on national TV by screaming at him till he cried because he was unable to HIT a batter as Ozzie had asked him to. However I do really enjoy him and baseball could use some more honest guys like him.

Here is the classic Onion article on Ozzie

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51526

agreed

He is too full of himself and comes off as a jerk

When you can understand hi,
I like him

he’s always entertaining.

Never a dull moment

with him. But he also knows his stuff. It’s a nice combination.

That's funny...

I was just talkin to my dad, and he just said the same thing.

FWIW I really really really really dislike Ozzie
ditto
really?

i like him… usually.

unless he’s on the news while i’m babysitting my nephew. then there are too many things i have to explain

And here comes Lou!
oooooh goody goody goody goody

Play by play please :)

Lou:

I told hit to take his uniform off and go home.

here we go ...

Bet he’ll decline to comment on Milton.

Bet he does too

and he should so it can stay within the clubhouse. That way, if it blows up, it’s all on Bradley

so much for that

lou told milton to take his uniform off and threw the cooler and told him to go home

and hes not putting up with his BS

and hell be in tomorrow

lou threw it or milton?
twittermyer said

milton took his frustrations out on the gatorade jug

buster bradley

ok i worded that the uniform thing way wrong…

He told him to go home
WGN doesn't show the press conference

they need to get another 11 year old America’s Funniest Home Videos on

they don't usually show the pressers

its on CSN.

It also might be on the radio.

not on radio due to technical error -- drat
That is bs. The technical error is they don't want to broadcast the drama.
False.

scroll down

He is on WGN TV

right now

I'm gonna put his name in the lineup tomorrow
Unbelievable...

Really. Lou says he’s not into discipline… then who the hell will do it?

I think that was a misplaced comment

He did send him home — that’s discipline.

True...

I’m just saying I’d like to see him lay the law down more often.

frankly, I think this is a smart move by Lou

He sends Milton a message but couches it by saying he’s tired of the team’s histrionics.

Yes, MB was the scapegoat. Like that was a hard one.
wasn't the hard one

Because he’s the one who needs to change his ways.

To be fair, a couple of Cubs are getting a wee bit randy with the water cooler after poor performance
Marmol smashed the cooler...

In the 8th after the Bradley incident without repercussion. What leads me to believe there was more too it than just that.

Who knows what happened...

That was Lou’s explanation, we don’t know what triggered it and why it escalated to what it did.

Pretty much lou is saying that hes done with guys throwing tantrums in the dugout

He made an example of Milton

… lou still has confidence in marmol….

Well, there's one...
Piniella bringing it!

“It’s been an ongoing thing, and I’ve looked the other way, but I’m done with it!”

i was wrong about bradley

what a joke so far

I hope Lou said that
So, essentially, we get..

“You’re a piece of crap, and a poor execuse for a ball player…



Is it ok if you bat 4th tomorrow?”

He prolly didn't ask..

“I’m not putting up with you today. BTW, you’re batting 3rd tomorrow.”

That's precisely the crux of the problem
Good for Lou

Maybe those who say he “has no fire” can get off his back now.

Lou looks...

Exhausted. Drenched with sweat and tired.

BOGUS!!

On WGN “Due to a technical issue, we will not hear from the Cubs manager”. Hmmmm. I smell bullshit.

no they had a problem on CSN's video feed

someone in the back said they had a technical problem

I'm referring to the radio and the online feed.
i know

on CSN’s video feed, you could hear the WGN guys having the technical issue. there was a loud pop, lou even asked about it

That was Soto sparking a fresh victory doobie!
Hollandsworth looks like hes been hanging with Geo
Lou on WGN now
I love Jake Fox (no homo)! What a keeper!
was that reakky necessary?
No need to put the parenthetical matter in there

Not that there’s anything wrong with that ….

As Homer Simpson said referring to a job application

“I’m not gay…but willing to learn.”

I never heard him say the he would put MB in the lineup tomorrow

did he really say that?

Hawk just asked

about those who questioned Lou’s fire.

That would be me

Took a while for him to wake up , hopefully he will keep it up.

Lou says he still has confidence in Marmol...
He also still think Theriot is a SS
i still have confidence in marmol
Someone needs to photoshop a Marmol "HOPE" poster

like the Obama ones. I have the skills to do so…maybe I should.

There's a website for that
http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/
I have more fun in doing it myself

Now, using the David Carusso/CSI comic strip and involving Marmol in that, I would definitely use that website for that.

They certainly resemble each other

That would be funny.

I do..

He’ll figure it out if he’s healthy

I think he's healthy

but his mechanics are screwed up.

Good point..

Mechanics can get unscrewed up. His pitches are flying all over the place..

He's not landing in the same spot IMO
But his mechanics have never been great

Going to be really hard to train those muscles properly now that he’s had success being a mechanical mess.

I agree, but lately you can see him falling off the mound all over the place
I think he'll get it back

but I don’t want to see him in the 8th inning for a while.

I hope you're right.

I’m really worried about him.

He'll be OK

I saw him in Detroit the other night and he was solid in the eighth. He can’t spot his fastball very well right now, that’s the problem.

Yep. He can't get his slider to start to the right hand batter's box anymore or at least catch some of the plate
the kid is a stud

he will be fine…speed-bump

Jeez

How many batters does Marmol have to walk for Lou to stop putting him in the 8th ? What I really don’t get is that Lou has ALWAYS hated pitchers who walk guys but he apparently has too much invested in Marmol to face reality.

Security blanket
hes just struggling

its part of baseball

so did the Cubs all drive to the game or take a bus

if it was the latter could you imagine MB out there trying to hail a cab? That would be a funny picture

he was in the players parking so he drove

I would think they all drove or carpooled in some fashion
Tandem bikes
LOL.
Red Line, maybe?
He'll be sitting next to the crazy guy standing

singing ODB’s Shimmy Shimmy Ya for the whole train ride.

I say this as if I speak from experience...
i can Theriot and Fonty on a tamdem
maybe Lou uses Patton as the team driver
Lilly flies them

on his cape.

CUBS WIN!

….. little late

Cubs win!
Yeah, that got

kind of overlooked in all this, didn’t it?

Jake Fox has

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