because of Joe Buck’s previous ties to the Cardinals, and the long-standing rivalry between the Cubs and the Cards.

Readers can watch the game through MLB.TV’s Mediacenter if they do not live in the 50 United States, Washington D.C., Guam, the U.S.V.I., Canada, South Korea or Japan.

In another related matter, I’m glad that MLB.TV eliminated the blackout for those games starting around 1:00 P.M. They need to do the same on EI.

Wrist xrays are not conclusive. Too many small bones in the wrist that fractures are hard to pick up. If Rami goes on the DL, does that leave DeRosa as our 3rd baseman?

Who here thinks that, if Ramirez sits, Cedeno plays? Who thinks Fontenot plays?

IIRC, this week’s This Week in Baseball is going to a have feature on the Cubs. So tune into your local FOX coverage at 2pm Central if you want to check out. TWIB goes for a half hour.

Then at 2:30, make a beer/pizza run, take out the garbage, play with the kids, call your mother, clean the dust out from behind the refrigerator, trim your toenails, start today’s Sudoku puzzle in the paper, walk the dog, throw a load of laundry in, change the kitty litter, catch the eye of your significant other and raise your eyebrows while nodding in the general direction of the bedroom, curse today’s Sudoku puzzle in the paper, sort your recyclables… in short, DO ANYTHING but watch FOX TV for the next 15 minutes – save your eyes and ears from the onslaught of Jeanne Zelasko baseball babble…

Then come back at 2:45 and settle in your comfy chair where you can either watch the start of the game if the 2:45 posted time is right, or worst case – listen to Buck McCarver for ten more minutes until a 2:55 game start time.

Polish Constituion Day Parade has now started…..

For those who have that channel on their cable or satellite package. The video feed is the same from the Fox network, but with in-studio Spanish-language play-by-play announcers.

Lilly needs to pitch good again and reclaim his past glory of last year and strike fear in the OPPOSITION!!!

what is your fetish with Fontenot. I know Cedeno isn’t Derek Jeter, but he is alot better than Fontenot… and I could care less about a damn left handed bat, Cedeno is a better option right now.

Linueps
Soriano
Theriot
Lee
Fukudome
DeRosa
Fontenot
Soto
Johnson
Lilly

Mike Fontenot is too big a liability at 2nd base. He can’t turn the double play and doesn’t go to his right. Why not use this as an opportunity to play Ronny Cedeno? Yet another strange move by Sweet Lou. He’s having a bad week.

if he thought about the fact that Felix Pie hits right-handed pitchers better than Reed Johnson.