This is hilarious!

This has guaranteed me hours of fun this evening.

BTW, TWIB will show Cubs special next week here in Japan on NHK with Japanese subtitles. Worth to watch?

he gets roasted for taking Z out of a crucial game last year, and he gets roasted for leaving Marmol in today in another crucial game.

hate saying “Tommy John surgery”? Does he hate the guy or does he just want to sound smart?

How strong is Soto? He waited on the breaking ball and still hit the piss out of it to straight away center.

How does someone who is 5 foot 7 have so much power? Good game by Fontenot today (maybe Lou is smarter than we think sometimes:).)

The homeplate umpire had a weird strike zone tonight. It seemed to expand quite a bit on the hitter’s counts.

Finally, player of the game is Ted Lilly. He looked like the Lilly from last year today and did what we needed him to do the most, eat up some innings today!! Way to go Lilly!

when Al isn’t traveling or actually at the game. He’s a part time HTML comedian.

Nice work if you can get it. And very entertaining. Now I have to explain to my family downstairs why I was laughing so hard.

good game today, lets win the close ones and we would be pulling away from the pack right now.

...1,000 internets.

Dan

Very funny indeed!

Thanks for putting a smile on my face after sanding 19 kitchen cabinet doors (at least I got to listen to Pat and Ron!)

if Marquis pitches tomorrow like Lilly did today.

Kind of like ‘Cub’s Mad Libs.’

This is twice this week you said you were lazy. everything ok?

This is interesting article about Dome in the point of view of St. Louis.

Fukudome is Cubs’ virtue

“He’s one of those guys, one of those rare guys (who) take the pitcher’s pitch and foul it off,” DeRosa said. “They consistently foul pitches off until they get a pitch they feel they can drive. If there’s a conviction for me to swing, I swing. I almost feel like Kosuke waits until the last second and says, ‘No, that’s not good enough but it’s probably going to be a strike, boom, let me foul it off.’

“It’s very impressive watching him from the on-deck circle.”

Now all you folks know the reason why I call Dome as a mistake hitter before the season….

“He’s really a (No.) 2 hitter,” Piniella said. “We’ve got to protect our 3, 4 hitters and in our scheme this young man does that as well or better than anybody else. In a perfect world, I’d hit him second to set up our lineup that way.”

He never hit 2nd in Japan due to the difference of baseball style between Japan and US (we put more faster and technician guy to #2 spot), but it looks like better for him if perfect world, right?

this took more work then a typical post…. jk I LOVE IT!

and Timmy McCarver —- “In my opinion, if a ball lands fair, its a hit”.......
sorry, thats my tim mccarver rant

that one pitch BEFORE Fotenot’s 3 run homer, that the FOX score graphic in the upper part of the screen went from 3-0 to 6-0, clearing the runners from the “diamond” baserunner tracker and then quickly reverted to the current (at that moment) status of runners at 2nd and third with MF batting and the Cubs up 3-0.

What the heck? I saw that 6-0 score go up and thought “gee, maybe FOX knows something I don’t here. Maybe MF is going to lace one into the bullpen.”

And darn if he didn’t on the next pitch.

I know there are significant satellite delays on feeds, but I assumed that they were putting the score graphics up on the screen on location at the ballpark. Was FOX putting the graphics at a central network location and was this a case of an overeager font operator getting ahead of themselves?

Just curious…

...on tonight (Saturday) sporting news show….

“I don’t care where I hit in the lineup, and I didn’t change anything what I do at the plate.”

BTW, “clean-up” means #3-5 hitters in Japan, not just #4….

Made 2 outs in the 4th inning. The only other out was a sac bunt by Ted Lily.

On another sports news show…

(SI article show up his high school days’ photo)
“That photo is too old – wonder SI digged out that old archive…!?”

(The interviewer said Dome looks so young in that photo…)
“I’m still young!!!”

BTW, it showed up the scene Dome was eating steak at this restaurant – it should be famous place for Cubs fans, right ?

lieber is back in the rotation? i like that

What are the Cardinals broadcasters doing doing a Cubs/Cardinals game? I know they are the national broadcast team and the worst in history but shouldn’t they borrow Len or Bob for the game to balance it?

There have been rumors that Fukudome goes to a restaurant in Park Ridge and people have seen him there. It’s called Maki Sushi and it is very popular among the Japanese people in the northwest suburbs. I go there sometimes but have not seen him there.

(Excellent food if you’re ever in the area. Not too hard on the wallet either. What’s nice is if you aren’t fond of sushi they hae a lot of other things. I love sushi but my best friend doesn’t. If we go there she finds plenty to order from).

...and the possibility of retaliation for hitting A-Ram and then Ainkel? Any chance dummy La Russa tries to get somethin done or Lou wants a bit of payback?

Dan

Soriano, Theriot, Lee scheduled in the top of the 1st.

Soriano strikes out on 3 pitches, the last one 96mph.

bats as Jon and Joe demonstrate that the are glittering jewels of colossal ignorance.

Soriano and Lee are 1, 2 in MLB in percentage of homers with empty bases.

Theriot walks. scrappily

reaches 1st on what is probably E6.

When the page is scrolled down, everything looks the same!