but was last night’s strike zone the WORST of the season so far, or was it just me?

kicking the ass of some thieving douchbag. Good stuff.

Cain was really sharp last night, but the Cubs really had a shot against Wilson and piddled it away and the Cubs really played some awful defense last night. At one point, they left both second base and third base uncovered while a ball dropped in the middle of three fielders. Gotta tighten up the screws and get back on a winning kick tonight.

or did the dude who got thumped look like Fire Marshall Bill for “In Living Color”? “Let me show ya somethin’!”

Thanks for the report Al. Couldn’t watch and mlb reporter made it sound like the Cubs were just terrible in the box. Feel a little better after reading today’s post

I can’t tab through like normal this morning. Anyone else? Don’t want to report a bug if it’s just my computer.

Let’s just hope the “Z” function works this weekend, eh?

about the D last night, which was admittedly less than spectacular. But the truth is that, even with how bad we played, the Giants only pushed two across. Our real issue was our lack of hitting more or less across the board. Dome looked terrible, as did several others. I would attribute at least a portion of that to that odd strike zone that has been mentioned. It did seem nebulous and it did seem to expand as the game went on. Even my wife agreed with my bitching, and she almost never does that.

But even so, we simply couldn’t hit a good pitcher. My hope is that we’re “bottoming out” at the moment, and if this is as bad as it gets, I’ll take it. We’re hurt/short and struggling. Once Sori, ARam, Reed, and Z come back, then we’ll see if the first couple months we were playing over our heads or if that was the real team. We just haven’t looked like the same team for a few weeks now. For the moment, I’m chalking it up to injury and a temporary lull.

With that all said, I’ll admit, this team isn’t helping my drinking at all.

This is to see whether a post will make the keyboard shortcuts work or not.

I’ll appropriate the post’s main title to thank the inventors of that wonder known as the Slingbox.

Yesterday I told Al in a post that I didn’t have WGN-HD in my system and only had the standard signal for WGN. Now, what I didn’t know yesterday morning was that the cheapos at my fly-by-night cable company decided to take WGN off the lineup, effective yesterday. Now I have to watch the WGN broadcasts through the Slingplayer that accesses a Slingbox at my son’s house in Florida. At least I can watch but I’m mad at the cable company.

...makes me feel like showing and discussing it is just promoting this type of behavior. I don’t know how much money is worth (1) being a drunken idiot for and (2) ganging up on one person in a crowd of 6-10 people. Not the way I would have handled it, on either side of the coin.

Dan

he could of moved D-Ward over to 3rd and the sac fly by Jimmy. Thus, score is 2-1 instead of 2-0. 9th inning, D-Lee triple, Soto single, tie game.

Also i didn’t see Rowand “rob” Edmonds, how good of a play was it? Was it going to be a HR?

1) St. Louis managed to lose to the Metropolitans

2) Jason Marquis was tough & kept the bullpen rested. This may pay huge dividends this weekend. I know we’d all prefer a win, but if we had tied it in the 9th and that game had gone to extras (and judging by the hitting last night, that could’ve gone on forever) we would be in a spot come Friday as “Z” is likely to be on a somewhat shorter leash than usual.

Let’s face it. Cain was dealing. Tough to be patient-as-usual when the opposing hurler is painting like Rembrandt.

We can finally have our good lineup out there

wasn’t great, wasn’t horrible, but it was shaky enough that it prevented the Cubs from being patient. Many bad swings at bad pitches. I wanted that win badly.

just traded for a player who is actually the nephew of a Beach Boy, (Kevin Love being Mike Love’s nephew.) At least he went to UCLA.

Reminds me of a Homer Simpson quote: “Alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s troubles”.

Alfie & Z practicing on the field during the broadcast yesterday. Maybe Soriano’s bones DO heal faster than those of an average human!

is it assumed he goes to iowa for rehab? or does it have more to do with the scheduling of which minor league team is where?

Well Deserved in some respects…but even if he does not make throw or the infielders cut the ball of like they should….the very next hitter bounces out to second and the run would have scored anway.

Paul Maholm of the Pirates went to rival Germantown High. Matt Cain went to Houston High, G’town High’s main rival. FYI, I went to White Station High many years earlier and didn’t play baseball. There was a big crowd at Auto Zone Park a few years ago when Matt Cain was pitching for the Fresno Grizzlies against the AAA Redbirds. I was so hoping the Cubs were going to win the game in the 9th. That way, the Cubs would have won the game, and Cain would not have taken the loss. Of course, Cain got the victory, and the Cubs lost the game.

Lets be honest, could we have expected more with last night line up ???

Ward is a PH at best.

Fonty is a good fit for team with low payroll or AAA

I would of rather seen Patterson in there and with ARAM gone and Micah back up.

We have way too many guys that are middle infielders.

Fonty, Theroit, Ronnie, Patterson and DeRo.

With ARAM & Sori out of the line up who is going deep ???

Heart & Soul of this team

Will play anywhere, hit anywhere and always looks happy !!!

How different would that first inning have been if Marquis would have gotten that strike call on Durham? The one where Marquis squatted as if he just shit himself because he couldn’t believe it wasn’t a strike. Think about it. Durham would have been called out for the first out, Wynn’s grounder would have been a routine play for the second out, and Molina’s ground out would have ended the inning.

Finally start looking like they ‘should’ as a team and then MIN kicks their asses around the block, including finishing them off 7-0 just a few min ago.

to win tonight.

TWSS.

Tonight’s game for me will be a MLB package game carried by FSN-Bay Area. Every half inning a “green” commerical and two talking heads who have to be the worse I have ever heard. Monday, they used a telestrater to make fun of people in the crowd. They will try to make me feel bad about the environment if I go outside and pee off my porch while letting my dog out during a 1/2 inning. Yeah…... Proper beer disposal is important.

He must be doing good, I hadn’t heard much about him lately. Here’s the Link.