Pitching Matchup vs. Milwaukee Next Week
As I'm attending the Cubs-Brewers game at Miller Park on Monday night next week, I thought I would look ahead at the pitching matchup that night and for the rest of the series. Assuming the pattern holds and no one is skipped, the matchups look like this. (Looks like I'll see Sabathia Monday night.)
MONDAY: Lilly vs. Sabathia
TUESDAY: Zambrano vs. Sheets
WEDNESDAY: Dempster vs. Parra
THURSDAY: Harden vs. McClung
Should be some good matchups, the current 1-4 pitchers on both teams.
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What's the point?
Seriously. That’s 6 games away. At the rate of posted fanpost’s around here, this will be off the main page in 45 minutes. Let’s discuss what the ACTUAL pitching matchups will be Sunday or Monday. Speculating on the projected matchups for a series a week away seems very silly to me.
My .02
I'm hunting down the next douchebag to respond to a post with +1.
by High_Tight_Fastball on Jul 21, 2008 3:27 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Atleast starting a fanpost about the projected matchups...
......seems silly to me.
I'm hunting down the next douchebag to respond to a post with +1.
by High_Tight_Fastball on Jul 21, 2008 3:28 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
My apologies
Forgive me for looking ahead at a series next week against our toughest rival (screw St. Louis) and the one that fought us to the wire for last year’s division title and will probably do the same this year. Clearly as a fan I’m not afforded the luxury of looking ahead and I should follow the player’s lead and take “one game at a time”. Of course it was “silly” of me to project that far ahead, maybe I should’ve followed proper BCB etiquette as defined by High_Tight_Fastball and simply bitch and moan about other people’s posts.
by Great Odin's Raven on Jul 21, 2008 3:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
argh
go read something else then.
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by joeschmitt on Jul 21, 2008 3:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
No need to be an ass about it.
Carlos Zambrano and Rich Harden. Now that's a pair of Aces.
by sue369 on Jul 21, 2008 4:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Call it constructive criticism.
and call me a concerned reader about the fate of BCB. The clutter of the fanpost section is sending BCB down the road to a future Cubs.com message board, which is very, very bad.
I'm hunting down the next douchebag to respond to a post with +1.
by High_Tight_Fastball on Jul 21, 2008 4:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
LOL
Thanks for your imput. What a joke.
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by Hammer on Jul 21, 2008 4:57 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
TWSS
As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.
by santoswoodenlegs on Jul 21, 2008 4:58 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
input (still a joke)
"Hey.....Cubs win!!!" ---Harry
"Swung on belted!!!"---Chip
by Hammer on Jul 21, 2008 4:58 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Quick...leave now before it get worse!
As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.
by santoswoodenlegs on Jul 21, 2008 4:57 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
You're an idiot
Demp and Rich: proof that people that live in igloos and say "eh" can contibute!
by Canadian Cubs Fan on Jul 21, 2008 5:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Um.
than don’t read the fan post section.
pretty simple fix, huh?
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by halfblindcubbiegirl on Jul 22, 2008 12:50 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nothing wrong with this fanpost
Speculating about the pitching matchups is what fans do. I share some of High_Tight_Fastball’s concerns about the overall tone of this site, but this fanpost has nothing to do with that.
by Not Bruce Froemming on Jul 22, 2008 1:59 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like the fanpost
I am all about projections… looks like four great matchups.. kinda was hoping we would miss sabathia this first time around… have fun at the game!
isnt this a place to talk cubs? why so much hate?
by cubs2410 on Jul 21, 2008 3:42 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
it is good forward thinking and part of the "game strategy"
You don’t think Piniella & Co. did not look ahead and set up their rotation to put their best four up against what Milwaukee did as well.
The thing is the Cards and Brewers have a four game set on the road …hope there is a split…..Ha….then they have play those pesky Astros before us….maybe they might be licking their wounds and be thinking ahead and lose focus on a couple of games.
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by Ivy Walls on Jul 21, 2008 3:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Piniella did not have to do a thing to set this up
It was a four game series starting with the first starter ( there are no days off) other than keeping
Marquis the 5th starter which is not exactly brain surgery ( and yes I actually LIKE Marquis) it was done.
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by Doggie Stalker on Jul 21, 2008 4:02 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'll put a personal lifetime ban from BCB
If this “projected” rotation by the obviously bored author, is 100% correct.
I'm hunting down the next douchebag to respond to a post with +1.
by High_Tight_Fastball on Jul 21, 2008 4:03 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
You're on
It’s a win-win for me… either way I don’t have to read your ludicrous whining.
by Great Odin's Raven on Jul 21, 2008 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
until he comes back under a different name
I think it’s a great post. I am looking forward to Tuesdays game!!!!!!!!
"We have a pretty strong belief that we are going to win those types of games. It's our confidence. "--Cubs pitcher Ted Lilly
by Madison Cub Fan on Jul 21, 2008 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I can already tell you that the projection is wrong
McClung pitches road games while Bush pitches home games. It’s a home game for the Brewers so Bush will replace McClung in the rotation.
by brewfan2 on Jul 21, 2008 5:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
do you
promise?
"We expect to win. We go out to win. So we're just living up to our own expectations." Derrek Lee, 5/29/08
by drewishdrewid on Jul 21, 2008 4:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I agree, thanks for the fanpost..
..I am planning on going up either Tuesday or Wednesday and this helps make the decsion, looks like Tuesday is the day to go!
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by JB 23 on Jul 21, 2008 4:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I heard Neddy say he was so excited to fill out his rotation
after they signed CC. All the way down to the Cubs series. God I hope we drill him.
by Mapmaker on Jul 21, 2008 3:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I've got to say
our top 4 looks better than their top 4, but their top 2 look slightly better than our top 2. They’re going complete games almost every start. It’s pretty much a toss up. They should be good games, I’d be happy with a split.
Go ahead, Z me.
by tony412 on Jul 21, 2008 3:48 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I +1 all of Shanghai Badgers +1's on this post.
I haz blurg: hotbeans.wordpress.com
by digitalbenjamin on Jul 21, 2008 4:35 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like to look ahead
In fact I already posted this in response to a direct question in a totally unrelated thread
( the one about the Yankees game) along with the info about missing Haden and Haren on
Saturday. heck I posted that to Al last Friday. I am rotation obsessed. I have already told my
nephew he gets to see Dempster on Friday ( going with my tickets) and that I won’t be able to see Harden throw Saturday because the game WILL BE NOT BE SHOWN in NYC. Rotation plotting is fun.
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by Doggie Stalker on Jul 21, 2008 3:59 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
It was appreciated for the record :)
"We have a pretty strong belief that we are going to win those types of games. It's our confidence. "--Cubs pitcher Ted Lilly
by Madison Cub Fan on Jul 21, 2008 4:31 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
McClung/Bush Tag Team (As MIL's 5th starter, not the Republican Prez Ticket)
Was reading Rob Neyer earlier and he linked to an article stating that Yost will alternate McClung and Bush as his 5th starter.
Here is the link to the original article. So we may be looking at Dave Bush instead of McClung in the series finale.
That said, I am rooting for Raven in the wager above.
by jbau on Jul 21, 2008 4:13 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
The only objection I have to this fanpost...
...is it’s getting me stressed out about this series sooner rather than later. Man, every game against the Brewers is going to feel like the playoffs from here on out. I’m not sure I can take it. (OK, I can definitely take it, but I’m going to be climbing the walls up until game time.)
Nanika Ga Okoru!
by dat cubfan daver on Jul 21, 2008 4:16 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I'll be there for Monday's game
and I plan on giving CC (no periods, please) a wedgie before the game so that he pitches poorly.
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by SouthsideCub on Jul 21, 2008 4:51 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
How does one give CC a wedgie
without being smothered ?
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by Doggie Stalker on Jul 21, 2008 5:01 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I've got tickets to all four games
I. Cannot. Wait. It should be great.
by Not Bruce Froemming on Jul 21, 2008 5:18 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Ok now we can blame YOU
If anything goes wrong.
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by Doggie Stalker on Jul 21, 2008 5:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Are you using CC's old periods in your post NBF?
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by JB 23 on Jul 21, 2008 5:51 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
gross
As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.
by santoswoodenlegs on Jul 21, 2008 5:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think he means periods
like these … at least I hope so.
Here’s hoping nothing goes wrong and a ton of Cubs fans invade Miller Park, both inside and outside the stadium.
by Not Bruce Froemming on Jul 21, 2008 6:54 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
1 and 2
Are good math ups.
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by wrigleyrocker12 on Jul 21, 2008 6:38 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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