Go Cubs !!

Hopefully he goes down to AAA and gets the junk out of his system, comes up here and gets white hot the rest of the way.

...onto the field day after day against RHP.

Bad news? Mike Fontenot.

Lou getting Dome acclimated to hitting second in preparation for Sori’s return. This is where those Riot singles will come in handy.

for Fox’s coverage.

http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2008/07/your-mlb-announcing-schedule-for.html

Thank God the game is on the Wisconsin Fox stations.

Let’s do it today!

Why “except for NYC and Boston”? Assuming a rain-out, why wouldn’t those markets see the Cubs/Cards game as well?

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at anything having to do with MLB, Fox, and blackout/coverage restrictions, but it just seems unusually asinine that the NYC and Boston folks would see alternate Fox programming (3 hours of Prison Break?) instead of another game.

...let’s get to him early.

is this live?

Can I see this on MLB.tv?

Please let it rain!!!! (In New York that is)

Good news!

Theriot owns the highest batting average on the team and is second among the regulars in OBP. Yet some in the peanut gallery want to howl and scream that he should be benched in favor of Ronny Cedeno and his three brain cells. Lovely stuff.

stats?

if you use links in your post, can you please try to remember to check the box that says “Open in New Window?” I know it’s an extra step and I wish this were the default so you wouldn’t have to worry about it.

My reasoning: If the link opens up in the same window, when you return back to BCB, you lose your place w.r.t. to all the new (unread) comments). Either they all become read, so you have to scroll through the entire thread to try and find what you’ve missed, or it reverts back to an earlier iteration, so you have to refresh, at which point everything becomes read and you still have to go back through the entire thread.

At least that’s been my experience – is that true for others?

I know I can (and should) right-click on the link and thus control its destiny, but I don’t always remember to do that.

Also, are there reasons why opening in the same window is a good thing?

I would LOVE to watch the game here in NYC. It is gloomy outside and already
rained for an hour around noon. Thunderstorms are bad though as they may well
knock out my dish so I can’t see it ( I could go to the local Red Sox bar as they will
have to show it) so C’mon rain.

This whole notion of “territorial rights” went out with the geocentric theory of the universe. With the interconnectivity of society as brought on by high-speed communication and transportation, regional boundaries and “team markets” are nothing but fallacies.

ALL teams can claim ANY territory to be their sphere of interest, and as such blackout rules should be summarily banished to the scrap heap.

they’re saying it’s a 53% chance of rain in New York for the next three hours. I’m not sure if it’d be enough though—only 5 inches of it.

I’m about 2 miles from Yankee Stadium. It’s cloudy but not raining at the moment. I’ll update if that changes.

How much of a batting average downgrade are people willing to accept to upgrade defensively at SS?

There’s people who don’t put value on the act of getting on first base so batting around 300 with a 390 OBA sucks to them but you need people on base. Lee had 106 RBIS in 2005 because nobody was on base ahead of him,.

I don’t know why FOX doesn’t use FX on days like this. One game on Fox the second game on FX.

When you have Bud Selig and Fox as the major players in something it’s a wonder they can manage to get games on TV period.

They just called Fontenot “little babe ruth”.

said that Soriano only bats lead off once, once the lineup turns over, its nice to have that “pop” there.

Said they need a good game out of Lilly and that they are pleased w/ how Howry is starting to preform.

Talked about how good the pen will be once Marmol gets it back.

Nothing earthshattering, just passing it along.

Fox, Selig and Todd Stroger/Rod Blagoevich/Rich Daley are in a conspiracy to give us one reason to be happy to live in Chicago or Cook County while they tax us to pieces.

For those that don’t live here Cook Countians now pay the highest sales tax in the US. On top of that we have property taxes at one of the highest rates and we pay state income tax. Also gas, cigarettes and liquor tax rates are top tier.

There’s a reason why everyone who lives anywhere near the Cook county border drives a few miles to save tons of money.

have a better game today. Need a great game from Lilly too. Maybe Aramis will hav the hot hand today.

I posted above that it was the same under CBS and NBC control on Saturday. Am I completely correct totally wrong or somewhere in between.

I received good news and bad news…

Bad news: Our Fox station is showing Sox-Yanks (and we’re an NL city!)
Good news: Our Fox Spanish station is showing Cubs-Cards
Good news: Yo hablo espanol.
Bad news: I don’t get the Fox Spanish station in my building.

Looks like Gameday Audio for me… (at least they don’t black that out)

I’ll need some descriptions from those of you who can see the game.

the first pitch thread is now up. (does NOT open in new window!)