In the words of Colossus I believe..

by santo for prez on Aug 3, 2006 8:37 PM CDT

...NO HITTER, NO HITTER, NO HITTER!

I don't think that it would really jinx a guy playing for another team anyway.

Our good ole boy Maddog is 4 innings through a no-hitter in Cincy.

I wish Mr. Maddux all the best and I hope that he finishes the season strong. Maybe this is his "Indian Summer" and he will finish the season and retire "on top"! I would like to see him finish the no-no.

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How many innings will it last?

4 inn.

2 votes

5 inn.

0 votes

6 inn.

25 votes

all the way!

5 votes

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"Incidentally, Colossus was right and I was wrong about Maddux being dealt." -Al Yellon

by colossus @ Bleed Cubbie Blue on Aug 3, 2006 8:55 PM CDT reply actions

It only works when I do it....

"Incidentally, Colossus was right and I was wrong about Maddux being dealt." -Al Yellon

by colossus @ Bleed Cubbie Blue on Aug 3, 2006 8:55 PM CDT up reply actions

Well, it worked.

Happy?

by Al Yellon on Aug 3, 2006 9:45 PM CDT up reply actions

Yes, but....

my signature makes me even happier :)

"Incidentally, Colossus was right and I was wrong about Maddux being dealt." -Al Yellon

by colossus @ Bleed Cubbie Blue on Aug 3, 2006 9:47 PM CDT up reply actions

that's right...

Just keep rubbing it in...

by michigancubbie on Aug 3, 2006 10:47 PM CDT up reply actions

honestly

I'm pretty sure around half of everyone on here thought Maddux would be dealt. You are just the one who made the bet. It's really not a big deal dude. It's kind of juvenile to rub it in.

by jag alskar bjornungarna on Aug 4, 2006 12:41 PM CDT up reply actions

It's called

a joke.

"Incidentally, Colossus was right and I was wrong about Maddux being dealt." -Al Yellon

by colossus @ Bleed Cubbie Blue on Aug 4, 2006 12:42 PM CDT up reply actions

But bad jokes

should die quick deaths...

Go Cubbies!

by NC Cubs Fan on Aug 4, 2006 1:19 PM CDT up reply actions

There

I made sure it's not going to happen. I had to do it twice bc he's not on our team anymore.

"Incidentally, Colossus was right and I was wrong about Maddux being dealt." -Al Yellon

by colossus @ Bleed Cubbie Blue on Aug 3, 2006 8:56 PM CDT reply actions

Meanwhile...

Neifi Jr. goes 0 for 6. It would be different if we got a legitimate "prospect package" (to use Hendry's term) in exchange for Maddog. Instead, we have another banjo hitting, no OPS middle infielder for Dusty to trot out there.

Sorry, Phil Rogers, I ain't drinkin the punch on this one...

by perseman on Aug 3, 2006 8:56 PM CDT reply actions

according to Gameday

they're in a rain delay - 6 innings might be a complete game...

by false cognate on Aug 3, 2006 9:02 PM CDT reply actions

If so...

.. that will not be an "official" no-hitter by MLB's official rulings on such things.

by Al Yellon on Aug 3, 2006 9:07 PM CDT up reply actions

This game was delayed

an hour and 20 minutes for a rain delay and it never rained. Never seen it before and Psycho Lyons was upset when the game finally did begin and now is really upset cause this game if started on time would most likely be over and Maddux would've had a realistic chance at a no hitter. Now with the rain delay, which is expected to stay for awhile, Maddux' bid for his first no hitter is almost zero. Even if this game does continue, it likely won't for another hour.

I'm watching the game and he isn't doing anything different as we've seen him. The Reds are just way out in front of everthing and haven't squared anything up. HP Ump, Demuth isn't even giving him the corners or Maddux would be completely dominating.

by ADHD survivor on Aug 3, 2006 9:10 PM CDT up reply actions

He pitches well against the reds...

because that team plays right into his hands. If you try to pull Maddux, you're probably going to wind up with a weak grounder.

by CosmicCharlie911 on Aug 3, 2006 9:16 PM CDT up reply actions

gosh damn

if he gets a no no im gonna flip geez this man couldnt hold a lead here. i guess being in a division race really makes someone focus...to bad we havent seent that for 3 years

by tbizzle83 on Aug 3, 2006 9:11 PM CDT reply actions

I'm in Central Indiana...

and according to radar, Cincy is getting the same rain we just got. It rained for about 30 minutes and cleared up nicely. They'll finish the game...Maddog will be back on the mound if it is less than an hour delay.

by perseman on Aug 3, 2006 9:12 PM CDT reply actions

Maddux is not warming back up....

They are trying to get started back up

by LT on Aug 3, 2006 9:33 PM CDT reply actions

Still a helluva game he threw...

And yet more proof that God unequivocally hates the Cubs.

by theprognosticator on Aug 3, 2006 9:36 PM CDT up reply actions

Zeus is a Cubs fan

by CosmicCharlie911 on Aug 3, 2006 9:39 PM CDT up reply actions

No he's not...

Zeus hates the Cubs.

by theprognosticator on Aug 3, 2006 9:41 PM CDT up reply actions

Joe Bimel in to pitch for Dodgers

by LT on Aug 3, 2006 9:38 PM CDT reply actions

anybody else furious right now?

Maddux was supposed to finish a Cub.

Seeing him pitch in any other uniform hurts.

Now he finds some of that old magic against the Reds.

But all is well because we have Neifi the Younger, right?

My rage knows no bounds right now.

Grrrrrr...

by theprognosticator on Aug 3, 2006 10:14 PM CDT reply actions

Be like me and

don't watch. I'm not sure if I could stomach watching him pitch as a Dodger against the Cubs this season. It might be the only game all season I don't watch on purpose.

"Incidentally, Colossus was right and I was wrong about Maddux being dealt." -Al Yellon

by colossus @ Bleed Cubbie Blue on Aug 3, 2006 10:16 PM CDT up reply actions

I know some of you live in LA...

but it is one of the worst sports towns in the entire country. The LA fans don't deserve Maddux.

by CosmicCharlie911 on Aug 3, 2006 10:27 PM CDT up reply actions

Not furious one bit

I was rooting him on and was hoping for him to pitch a no no and was excited to see him pitch for a contender.

Bottomline here is that there was and is no way Maddux was going to return as a Cub next year. He originally wanted to play for a West Coast team before he signed with the Cubs and he will return there next year.

What difference does it make if he would've pitched a no hitter every game for the Cubs in every 1 of his starts the rest of the year? The Cubs would still finish 15-20 games back and have nothing to show for it.

Move on and root for him and accept the fact that he wasn't going to pitch for the Cubs next year anyway.

by ADHD survivor on Aug 3, 2006 10:30 PM CDT up reply actions

I didn't say I wasn't rooting for him...

...I was.

But more than anything I'm mad at the Cubs who didn't put a good enough of a team around him the last two plus seasons.

And I'm mad he's not finishing in a Cub uniform. The catharsis that was achieved by righting an old wrong and signing him in 2004 is gone, along with all the hope we had going into that season, the year that was supposed to be THE YEAR. This new exit by Maddux heralds the establishment of another dark age in Cubdom.

And I'm mad about it. I'm mad about what might have been, and I'm mad about what lies ahead.

by theprognosticator on Aug 3, 2006 10:48 PM CDT up reply actions

I agree with that

by ADHD survivor on Aug 4, 2006 12:25 PM CDT up reply actions

Maddux is probably happier.

I'm not mad.

Cubbie Blue will always sPaRkLe in my eyes, but please stop losing. PLEASE!

by sparkles721 on Aug 3, 2006 10:25 PM CDT up reply actions

Number 36?

Something else is just not right on that Dodgers jersey. Grrr on Brad Penny....

by 08Cubs on Aug 3, 2006 11:19 PM CDT reply actions

Penny wouldn't give up 31?

What a buttwad.

So much for the law of averages.

by JDay on Aug 4, 2006 12:19 AM CDT reply actions

In today's papers...

... it was noted that Penny attempted to trade with someone else, so he could give #31 to Maddux, but that other player refused.

What ought to happen is that Ned Colletti should sit down with the players involved and TELL them to make a deal so that Maddux can have #31.

Hall of Famers should come first.

by Al Yellon on Aug 4, 2006 8:32 AM CDT up reply actions

Today's LA Times

is indicating that Penny will probably give it up real soon here. appearently he has a couple numbers in mind but are already used but is appearently is in the negotiating process with another player:

"He (Maddux) also hadn't pitched wearing a number other than 31. Brad Penny, the ace of the Dodgers staff and All-Star starter, has that number, so Maddux wore 36 and didn't want to be drawn into a squabble over it.
Penny said he was willing to give Maddux 31, but not until he bartered with another player who wears a number he's OK with. Perhaps Maddux will stay with 36, atl least until he gives up a hit."

by ADHD survivor on Aug 4, 2006 12:31 PM CDT up reply actions

I was there last night.

And after sitting through what seemed like the longest rain delay EVER (during which we were on pins and needles referring to the current circumstances as that the game was "getting interesting"), I returned home soaked to the bone and TICKED OFF!!!

Think of the fans, Greg!!

Not cool, not cool at all.

she

by Sarah Hope on Aug 4, 2006 7:17 AM CDT reply actions

I can appreciate your disappointment...

but geez, if the guy thinks he's done after the rain delay, you've got to respect that.

Obviously, he'd love a shot at a no-hitter. Maybe if it were 7-0 he'd have given it a shot. Sounds like Maddux was thinking of the team:

"After two or three innings, you can sit around for an hour and go back out there," Maddux (10-11) said. "I've done that, but after six innings, I've never done that. In this ballpark, two runs is nothing, and they've got a lot of guys who can hit it out."

by bison on Aug 4, 2006 10:55 AM CDT up reply actions

Maddux has never...

...pitched after a rain delay after the 6th Inning in his career. He felt it would've been selfish to go back out there, not knowing exactly how his body would react to the delay and so late in the game. He also said if it was more than a 2 run lead he might've but not with only a 2 run lead in such a hitters park, with a team in a pennant race, which needed a victory.

He knows his body better than anyone. He also said he had one in Little League so it's no big deal :)

by ADHD survivor on Aug 4, 2006 12:35 PM CDT up reply actions