Good morning Al. Good morning evereybody. Let’s get ready for a Cubs win today!

which is a first for me LOL

Let’s get these next two. time to put more distance between us and the wannabe’s!

Over/under is 5 days. I’m taking under.

in the Elvis suit?

It’s a felony, now, isn’t it?

(running out on the field, not impersonating the King.)

Looked like fun. Too bad the Cubs lost though

With indecent exposure. Yikes. Button up that top shirt button. No one wants to see that!

Cause that Post-Rain Delay post has over 1,000. (I need a new ‘Z’ key now)

geez 4 days and it will be twenty years!

check out the FanShots section. BCB user Andre Fonseca posted a video from last night inside Wrigley Field, and I posted a couple from my back deck looking out towards Wrigley.

Weird wild eerie stuff…

....JJ Hardy just goes off on Fielder and Braun’s in his face, too (besides the fact that about 7 of his teammates are holding him back). Funny looking at Jason Kendall, calmly just putting his catching gear on nearby, probably thinking “What the hell?”.

It looked pretty obvious that Parra was pissed when he threw his jacket and it grazed Fielder by accident. That Prince thought that Parra did it intentionally says a lot about his maturity. What a freakin loose cannon. His ejection last week against the Cubs when he was going off on the home plate umpire, NOBODY did anything to stop him. Nobody. Talk about inmates running the asylum.

Yost just has no control over this team. His comments that it “was no big deal” is major denial.

A standard 7:05 start the game never gets into the 5th.

I drove up with my brother and dad from Indianapolis. From our seats in section 204, at one point we couldn’t see the right field bleachers it was raining so hard. We then stuck out the rain delay and, after moving up seats (who wouldn’t after that delay), were rudely instructed to move by an usher, despite their being 7500 people there, tops. Got home at 4 am, and now I’m at work. Good times.

...said all they need to do is sit down and discuss it and work it out. Does anyone see Fielder as the kind of person who would do this? LOL. All the while, Ned Yost cowers in his office, avoiding confrontation.

Now, four days short of twenty years later, I think I have.

that people were in the concourse standing in water almost up to thier ankles! I’m no meteorologist, but couldn’t that have been a horrific scene if that was coupled with a lightning bolt?

If that’s true, the renovation to Wrigley cannot come soon enough.

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/thunderstorms.flight.delays.2.787467.html

I was watching Headline News this morning, and it looked like they had video of a lightning strike on the flags on top of the scoreboard. Anybody else see this or get a picture/screengrab of it? It was very cool.

It looks like the lightning bolt that stopped the game for good hit the lightning rod or whatever that pole is, above the CF scoreboard. Amazing shot!

I watched last night live and both Berkman and Soriano looked really scared. In fact, Soriano swung at those pitches like he didn’t want to be on the field too long. And ESPN showed Berkman taking off his metal chain before taking the field.

Left-hander Rich Hill, whose seasonlong struggle with command extended through the end of July at Class A Daytona, has headed back to the minor-league DL after a recurrence of the back spasms that sidelined him earlier this season. After walking 18 in 19 2/3 innings with the Cubs, Hill was a combined 4-7 with a 5.85 ERA, 57 strikeouts and 44 walks in 47 2/3 innings for Iowa, rookie-A Mesa and Daytona.

Here’s an article on Leon Durham from the Indianapolis Star. He has good things to say about Chicago and the fans.

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Al had the good sense to escape early. I went from the bleachers into the main park
to try to catch the #22 bus. I stood right inside the park and watched the storm and it was both crazy and kind of amazing. People sort of oohed and ahed at the lightning strikes.
A few brave souls were dashing out but most of stayed put. There was a mini flood
when a drain clogged so you had to go through a foot or so of water to run out the main
entrance. They also closed the bathroooms in the center at least. Typical CTA service
I waited for about an hour. The first bus was gonna be too full but I got the 2nd by dashing across Clark when it came. Overall there is no question bus service is dramatically worse this year and our Mayor thinks he can pull of the Olympics when he can’t get good bus or subway service.

Well the game itself as I am sure has been mentioned was a lot like Friday thanks
to genius Lou resting 3 starters. Don’t suppose he could maybe SPREAD THAT OUT so
you are not down that many in one game ?

nothing too new….just saying eyre is likely to go with wood coming back, likely suitors would be yankees, phils, ray, red sox