with the way this team is playing. Especially with Dempster, I’ve been saying all year that his off-season prep work is producing spectacular results.

to carry a light-to-no-hitting Dome, which is a nice position to be in, so if he is taking walks and not striking out the lineup is in fine shape. Don’t know if he is tiring or if his weaknesses are being exploited by NL pitchers, but some rest might just do him some good. This road trip should be a good barometer for the last 1-1/2 months of the season…

The unamed announcers made one good point in the last decade, when Cedeno hit the two run double, they the point good teams take advantage of mistakes ( kenendys error).
Even though Edmonds and Ronny got thrown out I like the hustle, Edmonds had no chance I agree, but Ronny on replay I thought Glaus never got him with the glove.
Dome does need to hit, 30 for his last 138, I believe was posted. He doesn’t even hit the ball hard anymore.
Lets get a 4-2 week.

I’m looking at 12-7 at home and 13-12 on the road the rest of the way. That would put the Cubs at 96-66. I don’t think the Brewers or Cardinals will finish with that good of a record.

Peter Gammon’s (is that right?) little speech about new ownership making the Cubs a national brand like the Yankees and Red Sox, and would the Cubs still be “lovable” if they win a World Series?

Adam Kennedy should not be a baseball player.

The bleachers were certaintly filled to capacity. Many of the Cards fans that don’t know they have to be there at the crack of dawn to get a seat were the ones left standing. And it was very chilly. Ofcourse, much more manageable when the Cubs are winning.

Loved to see the Cubs execute when TLR pulled the infield in on DLee. The defense was just awesome the whole game with the exception of the hot smash that just got by Rammy to let a run score. Another solid combo of Wood and Marmol to shut the door was great.

I saw a few BCB shirts which was pretty cool. Speaking of shirts, A shirt vendor (wearing a Sux hat) was selling red tshirts saying “Friends dont let friends be Cubs fans”. Glad to see I didnt see him sell a single shirt while I waited in line for the bleachers for a little over an hour. I did see many Cards fans with Championship tshirts, but they have the right to wear those, and it’s a lot classier than the one’s this guy was selling.

Was on his game last night!

anyone catch the 7th inning comment when the Cubs were winning 6-0, and Joe was talking about the Cardinals hitting a grand slam – you know because grand slams are such a common occurance.

Idiot.

I was living in San Diego, and the bandwagon for the Padres was enormous—radios were mentioning it every half second, and my middle school teachers were always bringing up the team. But still, I don’t think it was anything close to this hype with the Cubs this year. I’m in Pennsylvania, a full 8 hours of driving away from the City, and I feel like I’m right there.

I remember when they won their 93rd game of the year, and I was at Qualcomm Stadium with my parents. They had the news on the jumbo tron that it was the most wins by any Padre team in history. I remember thinking “Where the hell is everybody? Why isn’t this stadium packed?” I always thought it was weird that the whole city was making a big buzz out of the team, but there was less than a quarter actually filling up the Q.

But I digress, Go Cubs

on ESPN Miller started off the interview with Tony La Russa saying something about a former player (Jim Edmonds) just robbed his team of a base hit that would have scored runs, and Tony didn’t even acknowlege Edmonds made a good play, he just said the hitter “deserved better than that.” Too funny. Clearly there is bad blood between La Russa and Edmonds.

and those are the best kind. I hope to see many more of them.

Just wish someone had told Miller that the view from right field was from Sheffield—not Waveland. He said Waveland at least three times last night as the ESPN camera showed us the views from a Sheffield rooftop.

That is one of the first time all seasons I can say that.

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Did anyone catch when Morgan was talking about how many pitches Dempster had thrown early? He said something about how Dempster did have two strikeouts which would have been at least 3 pitches each time…..

thanks to the weekend hangover so I swung over to the redbirds recap. Some interesting discussion on the series, their future, Carpenters injury, Edmonds and Izturis (haha).

of Reds, Gnats and Friars. If we can hold our lead to 4-5 games or more while playing a hot Astros, then Cards and then lowly Braves, I think that will deflate them as I am sure they looked at the schedule and were expecting to make up ground on us during this stretch (or thought they would be ahead of us, that is, before the series in Milwaukee was played—too bad).

We both have a tough weekend (they have Dodgers while we play the hated Fish), but I am sure that the Suds expected to make up ground on us as they are beating up these last place teams.

Let’s have a good week on the road as time is on our side. Just keep winning series and put pressure on the teams behind us.

GO NATS!!

they cut reed to make room for this guy. Thanks jays! Reed is a fan favorite here.

The Calender says its and off day but the Cubs will still play….

Cubs vs the “27 New York Yankees only on BleedCubbieBlue.com

Tonight at 7:05 pm