Needs to be called up. :-) He walked nine and struck out one today in six innings.

is the first to lose :(

didn’t Dempster have a CG in June? It was a home game, of course.

Al – I am a lurker on the boards, and read your post-game summaries religiously. I just wanted to give you a sincere thank you for all you do… I enjoy the game summaries (of course), but also really appreciate (and need, frankly, after a loss), your perspective. I enjoy your posts and have given every Cubs fan I know the BleedCubbieBlue address. So let’s all give it up for Al. Whoo-hoo!!

And let’s hope that this is a start of a long winning streak—that road record has got to get better if the Cubs are going to hold off the Brewers and Cardinals.

and have the Brewers and Cardinals beat each other silly over the next few days.

His two hits today were nice to see, but I’m curious, does Perry have any idea how to suggest or make adjustments to his swing?

...and now I can’t wait to see it a third time next weekend @ IMAX. The storyline – as jam-packed it is – benefits from a second viewing; and I was able to savour Heath’s performance more this time around…my first viewing simply found myself drooling in awe of his Joker portrayal.

And be sure to watch for the Joker’s “introduction”...his first “joke” will go down as one of the best.

Dan

Woo hoo!

....aren’t you glad you have 300 editors here, Al? lol

Al, you bring out every highpoint of a game packed with them. Demp at the top of his game, Fonty killing the ball (despite, as someone noted in the game thread, his rather one dimensional presence), Dome’s two DPs—is he, could he be coming off that awful slump?, DeRosa’s great catch. This is the team that’s got our juices boiling.

And, best yet, they put this together while on the road. I’m disappointed that most of the games this week will be late and later, but can’t wait to see what they will do.

On a related note, recently I read somewhere that the team is so tight they spend a lot of time together in their off hours. When they play as tight as they did today it shows.

Great, great group of men, all of them. Even the ones that drive me to distraction. (I know, isn’t that all men?!)

Go Cubs!

I feel that the competition keeps the ballclub sharp.

I remember his being mentioned by some. Thanks heath 7 runs in two innings to
Cards this weekend. I didn’t like him because he blew a few games for Maddux but
he was TERRIBLE this weekend

what is the deal with your insistence on unnecessarily bashing Jason Marquis?
“The Cubs haven’t had a complete game shutout since May 9, 2007, thrown by, of all people, Jason Marquis”... I appreciate the historical reference to the last CG shutout but feel the “of all people” comment is just ridiculous! I’m all for complaining about a bad performace but to be critical of a player when mentioning their success is just wrong.

If they can’t take atleast 2 of 3 from the DBacks while missing both Webb and Haren, than I’ll give up any hope for this team have success on the road anytime this season.

Enough said, when, as the great sage Willy Wonka once said, in life for some things there are no words.

I have more confidence in him right now than I do Zambrano. An ace stops losing streaks, and Dempster not only stopped the losing streak, he was down right dominant doing so.
Nevertheless, the Cubs losing 2 of 3 to the Astros is not gonna cut it. They need at minimum 2 of 3 from the DBacks – 3 straight would put them back where they were before the losing streak IMO. The Cardinals and Brewers are not going away, too much good pitching and hitting. So, those head to head games we have with those two will tell us a lot about who is the class of the Central.

...I’d say that Durham is definitely a bad defensive second baseman, but that Weeks is worse. (Weeks is the worst second baseman in my ZR projections.) I’ve got IDs mapped to the RZR data finally, and I’m going to try to get RZR projections set up soon.

But I really don’t see how this move makes the Brewers better unless he’s taking playing time from Weeks, and I mean a lot of playing time. If you’re just looking for a bat on the bench, the Brewers have a ton of those guys in the minors who can hit, don’t they?

Calling it borderline is quite the stretch. That ball was low (very low) and outside. There is no way that was a strike. No way. I would have been pissed if I were an Astros fan. But with that said, Backe positively went around on the pitch before and should have been out already.

the win today. The Cubs are 7-3 for Sunday games on WGN. The schedule shows they have 9 more Sunday games on WGN but some of those are TBD so that may change.

Demspter pitched a gem today and I’m happy he got a road win finally. He said in his post game press conference that he was happy to have the win if only to finally stop the questions about not having a road win.

Let’s keep winning!!!

I noticed him in the dugout today.

Is he still traveling with the team all the time

But a buddy of mine who’s connected in the sports agency business and the Brewers are close to acquiring Huston Street.

He’s been right before, so take this FWIW..