Is that when I left my office to go to a meeting, the Cubs were up 5-0. I can’t believe you guys blew the lead in my absence. You all should run laps.

it sucked. Worst loss of the year. Not much more to add than to win the series.

It only counts as one loss, but what a way to blow it bullpen, let’s get them on the weekend for our 8th consecutive series win…Go Cubs Go!

if it weren’t for my game thread pals I’d be in an even worse mood (thanks, guys!). One giant UGH. Can’t wait for our next win to wash the dirt and stink away.

Time to burn through some netflix. And I think I really will take a bath before bed tonight.

Oh, and… Go Cubs!

One game doesn’t make a season. I think by the end of the year we’ll all look back at this one and shake our heads.

Washington came in slumping, while our bullpen was solid. Something had to give, as they say.

Win the next two, take the series, and we’ll all be happy. With Dempster and Harden starting the next two, I’ll take my chances.

all crapped on the same day instead of taking turns and now have it out of their systems. They’ll rebound tomorrow.

we the fans all getting waxed tonight like our team did and tune in for a “real game” tomorrow. go cubbies

This team has been in a funk for all four games at home. We have been lucky to be playing mediocre teams and be able to split 2-2. Now let’s hope the Cubs can finish the home stand strong and move to 30 games over .500!!

The Cubs have a target on their back and these weak teams want to beat up on them. Time for the Cubs to dig deep and stay focused. No one is going to hand it to them.

they were in town for the day, traveling to St. Louis tomorrow, and my Mom said two things to me during the ninth inning that summed it up nicely:

1) “Let’s just stay for this ninth inning. I’d hate to miss the greatest comeback ever.” (a true optimist)
2) (said after the last out) “Well, the good news is, the Nationals are still awful, and the Cubs are still great.”

Thanks, Mom. :)

This line-up has some punch. The Padres are fielding the worst line-up in baseball — next to the Reds.

over confident, little to much strut, maybe. This happens in 162 games, few games out of the year come into the game out of focus and get your hat handed to you.
 I’ll take my chances with Demp throwing tomorrow.

Go Cubs.

going on hour 6… sheesh! He’s one aggressive mofo. Not that I don’t love the love but… dang! The love bucket’s overflowing, category 5…

FWIW, he’s a new cat… just hit year 1 and still very much in kitten mode…

Got my Mitchell and Ness 1969 Ernie Banks Road jersey today that I won on Ebay for….

40 Bucks!!! It’s rocks the party that rocks the party. Has the old Cubs logo on one sleeve and the “100 year anniversary” of MLB patch on the other. I might wear it to bed.

but I’m not. Someone cadillac’d a ball they thought was gone today. It didn’t cost the Cubs the game, but it ran them out of an inning. Of course, it wasn’t Soriano, or Ramirez, so there’s no mention of it in the recap. This is exactly what I was talking about last week, until my argument got sidetrack with milquetoast claims about semantics and logic. But here’s the point: certain players get a pass, no matter what they do. Case in point: Mark Derosa, who, somehow, on a ball of the wall, to damn near dead CF, gets thrown out at second base. Unsurprisingly, there’s no mention in the recap. Once again, before all the strawman artists take their shots, I DO NOT THINK THIS COST THE CUBS THE GAME. I just think it’s no surprise that Derosa’s not called out for his actions, while Soriano was. Mark Derosa tanked it, and he gets a pass and that’s complete and utter bullshit. If you’re going to call out one player for it, you should call out every player that does it, but you don’t, and that’s wrong.

Didn’t want to waste a fan post on this but does anyone know if when sitting in the bleacher box seats in right field if you’re stuck there like regular bleacher seats or can you walk around the inside? Also do you have to enter in the same place as the bleachers seats or can you enter at any gate? Thanks.

n/t

DeRosa’s and Lee’s homers averaged 399 feet.

Lee’s checked in at 358 ft. so you can do the math for DeRosa’s blast… it was majestic, if I do say so myself. Went over my head by about 10 feet.

just the most unexpected (esp. after a 4-0 lead). The worst loss for me was the Kerry Wood blown game in St. Louis (I hate losing to them) Anyway, all is well as long as we bounce back tomorrow. We aren’t the only team to lose bad to a bad team. St. Louis does it once a week and bounces back. This is the best team in the National League and to prove it we will jump their shit tomorrow (i hope)

but everyt time I look on the board he lets in 4+ in the first three innings. I know he has done an admirable job the last few outings, but for some reason I think he pitches pissed off at averyone around him.

I know Al is a fan of Marquis, and that’s ok, but I shudder to think that Jason is lined up in a tight horserace for the division – cause I’ll spot the opposing team 3 thru 4 most of the time when I see his name in the paper. I like the kid’s grit, but he just seems resigned to being 90% into the game.

That said, Gaudin throwing up all over this boxscore was a shock today.

…following major league baseball today. After enduring today’s horrible Cubs loss to the Nats, I just tuned in to the Brewers-Pirates game going on right now via mlb.tv – just in time to see the Brew Crew put up SIX runs in the seventh to make the score 10-3. Mike Cameron just hit a two-run homer OFF THE FRICKIN’ RIGHT FIELD FOUL POLL. It seems like the Baseball Gods are telling me to turn it off and go watch a movie or something. Why won’t I listen?

Wow.

As some of you may know, I also have season tickets for the Nats. I have sat through 50-odd games of mostly horrible baseball all year in Washington. So, I come out to Wrigley, the playoff invoice arrives this morning, and I’m feeling pretty good heading out to the park.

Then the game happened.

I’m convinced today was merely the payoff of an elaborate and intricate practical joke that Stan Kasten has been pulling on me all year.

Anyway, Marquis is done. On to tomorrow.

In My Opinion was the Four Pitch Bottom of the 5th. Two of the three outs were screamers that were hit right at people. If those drop, then I think the fifth shaped up to to be a potentially big inning offensively. Plus, it probably chased their starter, who is their best pitcher btw. Instead, we saw 4 pitches and Marquis had about 5 minutes to rest.

Still…He needs to throw strikes with that lead…

….after 1000 miles of travel for my first trip to Wrigley in 18 years.

It was still good to be there, though, and I don’t think I’d ever seen a steal of home in person before, so that was cool.

But damn, I really wanted to sing “Go Cubs Go”!

Onward…..and many thanks to the BCB community for making so many contributions to this trip!

Cubs didn’t lose this game on account of Jason Marquis. Cubs lost this game because of the troubling and growing dilemma in manufacturing runs (e.g., 5th inning…Soto and DeRosa walk….and nothing) and the back end of the bullpen being dubious. Neal Cotts doesn’t instill a lot of confidence. Bob Howry is now officially human batting practice. Chad Gaudin simply had an awful game. Gaudin has been very big for the Cubs, but today was not his day. It happens.

“bah”. Marquis totally lost it that inning, and just fell apart. He bears a great deal of responsibility for today’s game — finally, he had the run-support he needed, and he couldn’t get the job done.

There. Done.

I’ll be at the game tomorrow! Go Cubs!

I work in the DC area and everybody knows I’m a Cub fan. That first series in DC in April was brutal and I got a good ole fashioned ribbing from friends and co-workers. If we lose the season series to the Nuts, i’ll probably have to quit my job. I don’t want to quit so Cubs, please win this series so we can split the season series and I can have some ammunition. Thank you.