just noticed that.

soriano will carry the team for a sweep this weekend.

I thought it was time to flip 6 and 7 in the lineup

Soriano
Dome
Lee
Ramirez
Soto
DeRo
Riot
Pie
Lilly

Too many player acronyms these days.

Dan

Why do so many of these photos look horrible? Isn’t there anyone from the team or media outlet saying, “this looks like crap, lets shoot another one”?

I like Gallagher. They should send Fox down.

I have realized that it’s not gonna happen unless Reed really starts to slip which I hope doesn’t happen. I just wish they would have given him 6 weeks from the start of the season.

Forgot to change it. (I keep a template for these.) I’ll fix it.

...as my sig says!

That way the Cardinals start to slip, but the Brewers don’t win TOO many games.

And it was kind of a one-shot deal because it was a Simpsons movie promotion, so I don’t think they’re even out there any more.

... with guys like Billy Petrick.

Where’s Hoffpauir going to play? He’s a first baseman, who could sort of play RF or LF if he had to, if you didn’t mind miserable defense.

Still, I have hard time seeing where Micah Hoffpauier plays. Or how he possibly gets enough at bats to stay sharp. Remember this is a 28 year old journeyman. It’s a very tall order to all of a sudden ask him to be a Daryl Ward type at this level.

...if Micah Hoffpaiur is the answer, then you’re asking the wrong question.

Normally I don’t care much for his podcasts. But that one was quite interesting. Fit well with the theme recently on here.

...though, as I’ve mentioned before, Lilly looks enough like a young Bill Murray that you probably could’ve left the original image as is.

ha

These games are going to need to be played using “small-ball.” Sacrificing runners over, hit and runs, and solid defense. I think our pitchers match up well for this series. Keeping errors out of the boxscore will also be a big key to victory.

For 20 bucks I’ll call the guy a chicken-F…..

with 2 out in the 9th last year.

MDBNIU is the anti-Al. And I’m betting that it annoys Al to have a guy like MDBNIU posting repetitive, insulting negative thoughts about the ballclub.

I remember seeing him grab his glove with both hands and begin to slam it as the camera panned towards Young as he ran the bases. I remember it so clearly because I was pretty shocked to see Lilly do that. He seems like such a reserved and quiet guy.

in case anyone was going to guess that.

...a`pretty rare event on the Northside.

And Chad Fox still has a job!

Send him down, have him start more, bring him back up as an SP.

I’m not a Sean Marshall fan (he is Neal Cotts redux). Regardless, this is a very surprising move. I would have thought for sure Chad Fox would be sent down. Or if not Fox then Sean Gallagher so he can resume his development as a promising starting pitcher in Iowa.

Well, it is what it is.

Eyre’s minor league ERA was not pretty.

Lilly’s walk rate sucks, but he’s got more of a chance of hitting for extra bases than Johnson does.

MDBNIU is neither a Cub nor a Cubs fan—-discuss

...”Cubs got lucky by missing Webb”...(especially the buffoons on the Score/Mariotti)

If they go 1 for 3 in the series, you’ll here that Cubs aren’t any good.

No way to satiate the media unless there is a sweep

still early. Especially considering the market.

It’s not uncommon for veterans to say that after a relatively short DL stint. Obviously Soriano could have used some time in the minors. I’m only saying this to show that Soriano isn’t any different than a lot of players.

Ned Yost is on the cusp of being fired, so it might not matter whether Sweet Lou remembers his name. Yost is the Scott Skiles of major league baseball. The personality of formica who inevitably grates on his players so badly they commit a mutiny (hey, sounds a little bit like my presence here !!).

Ive done that too. Thats good stuff

I do that all the time.

...and I’m constantly hitting ‘z” when I try to scroll through comments.

the wife says “STOP TAPPING THE KEYBOARD LIKE THAT!!!”

Marshall wasn’t doing so hot in the big leagues. Might as well send him down so he can get regular starts, instead of arbitrary appearances from the ‘pen.

Becoming the new Cubbie catch phrase for pitchers who can’t get the job done and have been sent down….Kevin Hart, Rich Hill, Sean Marshall. I wonder when they send Felix Pie if they’ll accidentally say the same thing…

Fernando Valenzuela and Burt Hooten have been the only pitchers of recent vintage who have had success throwing the pitch AND haven’t screwed up their arm in the process. Real, real dumb idea for Kerry Wood to me messin’ around with the screwgie.

n/t

I heard the same thing but he throws it more like a slurve. The screwball is such an unnatural motion it be career suicide for Wood to be throwing it. I read a story of a screwballer who threw it so much, his hand was turned palm out if he rested his arm to his side. Not sure who it was.

But it’s not really a screwball anyway, as you’ve read.

And what have you done with MDBNIU?

Agreed