and let’s take care of the Cardinals. I can’t wait for this series! These late games are killing me though, don’t know how you get up for work Al!

But when you score 6 runs in the first, there is no need for our starting pitcher to walk 5. It just isnt right, but again i think we are picking at the edges way too much when we dont need to. That is what got Howry in trouble with the HR, he fell behind and everyone in the park new what was coming.

But on a lighter note, someone correct me if i am wrong, but EVERY position player on the team had a hit except for 2 (Blanco and Pie). Pretty impressive!

Was that the Cubs were still being patient late in the game yesterday with that huge lead. They loaded the bases and Cedeno knocked in 3 more runs. So many times you see players just hacking away to get the game over with; this can lead to bad habits that spill over into the next game (today).

Come find me….GO CUBS.

... according to this neat little search tool at baseball-reference.com, last night’s game was only the 12th in MLB history (since 1901) with the score of 19-5 (and the first since 1989).

You can come back in. Yes, the Cubs lost 2 of 3 to the Nationals and the first game of the Brewers but the season isn’t over yet. Enjoy it.

Derrick Turnbow and Eric Gagne are actually the same person. Yes, that’s right, the Brewers never acquired Gagne; he’s actually pitching in a Mexican semi-pro league after disgracing himself in Boston.

Following the Cordero debacle, Ned Yost, in his infinite wisdom, thought he could get an edge on the rest of the National League by appearing to have Gagne as the Brewers closer. Never happened—that’s really Turnbow in a fake beard and “goggles.”

This partially explains why Turnbow was so laughably horrible last night. The poor guy is just plain worn out from having to be two of the 4,208 relief pitchers in the Brew Crew’s pen. I humbly submit this for your collective approval.

In the lower left corner of that first pic of Soto’s HR ball. They don’t look to happy : ( I like the way that pic captured the frenzy and jubilance of the Cubs fans opposing the indiference and burried sorrow of the Milwaukee fans.

I too agreed with the post above about the Cubs patience even with a big lead.

I must say I did start to feel a little sorry for Turnbow. Its not that much fun watching a guy struggle so much with no end in sight.

That catch the fan made on Soto’s first homerun was pretty impressive. He didn’t even know he caught it at first.

And what the hell was Fielder doing in that picture? I didn’t see that play for some reason. Anybody know?

when he landed back on it

I really have adapted a different perspective early on in the season thanks to many posters on BCB, all I want is the Cubs to find ways to win games/series right now and I will worry later about how they are winning.

Soto hits the ball hard
Howry will turn it around
Patience at the plate that late in a blow out is rare
Murton is probably gone for now

Let’s win today to even up the season series.

Buzz Bissinger, have fun playing “Waltzing Matilda” as the sinking ship that is your medium flames into the sea. I like your books, your work at Vanity Fair is compelling, and the fact that you’ve performed well as both an investigative reporter and sports journalist is impressive, but your sniveling, high-minded, arrogance of last night is beneath you and was a disservice to your career and your craft. Your consuming vanity and insufferable elitism is an example, in microcosm, of why your medium is dying, because it is in flexible, unwilling to adapt and has arrogated itself the supreme arbiter of what is and isn’t journalism and what people should and shouldn’t read, which, for a group people who are constantly bleating about First Amendment rights is a startlingly contradictory position.

with the big lead was a great sign….I loved Soto’s comeback from the K streak. I don’t get to see any interviews, but he seems to be wise beyond his years. It is a great feeling to see him succeed. Did he get a standing O after his strikeout? Looked like it from here in NM…..

Without a doubt? Obviously he’ll be first in the order.

Those homers put Soto in the lead for home runs hit by a catcher.

Glue on or grow your own! :D

Al on tv they showed that there is some green on the wall, maybe time to change the logo on the site? After Tuesday nights game I didn’t feel like summer was even close but the shots last night gave me hope.

I was worried about Soto I wasn’t worried that he wouldn’t bounce back. My worry was that he would let himself get down mentally but that obviously didn’t happen. Great game for him. Great team game. Hope they saved some rund for today.

I’m surprised no one has commented on Cuban at that game last night. It wasn’t that he was sitting in the bleachers—any attention whore can do that. He was sitting in the owner’s seats with Tribune executives. On a game televised on ESPN.

That was a clear message to someone. The Tribune was parading him around like the next owner of the team. The question is what that message was and who it was aimed at. One possible message was a shot at MLB saying that the Tribune considers Cuban to be the most likely purchaser and they’re trying to make this a fait accompli. The other possible message was to the other potential bidders, telling them that if they don’t get off their butts, Cuban is getting the team.

Interesting. But after last night, I think Mark Cuban’s chances of being the next Cub owner probably tripled, depending on how likely you thought it was in the first place.