ZamZilla Strikes Again! No-Hitter!

by TheHawkRules on Sep 14, 2008 9:51 PM CDT

WOW! I cannot believe it. I have been so busy for the last month or so, that I haven't been able to watch any Cubs games. I've seen a few highlights here and there, and always checked BCB to see scores and to keep up with everything... but tonight, I dropped everything I was doing just to watch the game. I didnt even know Z was pitching... I tuned in at the 4th inning and watched it from there. Wow... the Cubs needed this and Z just showed why he is a leader on this team. This IS the season, there is no doubt about it now.

Did anybody get to see this game? What was your thoughts on it?

I do wish I could hear Santo calling the last inning! Is it on the net anywhere?

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santo

was as entertaining as you would think. but it was still good to listen to him. he was really happy.

by Glacier on Sep 14, 2008 9:54 PM CDT 0 recs

If...

…its online somewhere, I want to hear it.

by TheHawkRules on Sep 14, 2008 10:02 PM CDT up 0 recs

The posts will be rolling now!!

We were following the updates on my wife’s iphone. We didn’t get the game here in Virginia and it occurred to me at the last out the game was on XM. But holy cow, what a gift tonight!!

by jaredprebish on Sep 14, 2008 10:02 PM CDT 0 recs

Indeed!

The “Return of Z” is going to be one of those great stories they are going to put on the official MLB DVD of the Cubbies historic season! You know…, after they win THIS YEARS WORLD SERIES! YAHOOOOOO!!!!!

by TheHawkRules on Sep 14, 2008 10:08 PM CDT up 0 recs

yes..

… the santo call must be posted ASAP

by WUSTLCubsFan on Sep 14, 2008 10:06 PM CDT 0 recs

Yeah, Santo and Pat Hughes were in fine form.

I got home from dinner with my family and turned the radio on. When I realized what was going on, I was too superstitious to change anything. I could have turned on the TV, but I didn’t. Left the radio on and Carlos kept rolling. I was huddled in front of the speakers during the ninth, my head down and my hands folded as if in prayer.

When Pat Hughes called the last strike and Ron let out his triumphant, “YEAHHHHH!!!” I finally ran to the family room and turned on the TV to see the celebration on the mound. I feel like this is a dream right now. I really do. Congratulations to Carlos Zambrano. Congratulations to the Chicago Cubs. What a historic day.

"I see the playoff schedule posted in the paper, and that stuff makes me nervous because you can't take anything for granted. We have a great team. We have a really good team. We're playing well, but we haven't won yet." - Jim Edmonds, 8/31/08

by dat cubfan daver on Sep 14, 2008 10:28 PM CDT 0 recs

Is this a historic no-hitter?

Is this the first time a pitcher threw a no-hitter in a ballpark that is not affiliated with either team involved?

by Short4Fanatic on Sep 14, 2008 10:35 PM CDT 0 recs

bet you are right, not for sure though

Al should know

by BelieveinBlue2314 on Sep 14, 2008 10:36 PM CDT up 0 recs

just found....

First No-hitter at neutral site since 1900…amazing simply amazing

by BelieveinBlue2314 on Sep 14, 2008 10:39 PM CDT up 0 recs

Damn, that IS freakin' amazing.

by dat cubfan daver on Sep 14, 2008 10:45 PM CDT up 0 recs

first since 1900

first by a player thats last name starts with a Z.
1st in Miller Park.

"I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying" - Michael Jordan, the one and only...

by LPLancer23 on Sep 14, 2008 10:36 PM CDT 0 recs

re: first since 1900

LPLancer23 said:

"1st in Miller Park’’

A fact which will no doubt bring joy to the hearts of Brewers fans everywhere.

BIALIS!!!

by Modern Relic on Sep 14, 2008 11:08 PM CDT up 0 recs

Ned Yost is going to file a protest that the HBP should have been ruled a hit by Freddie Prince Fielder thus nullifying the no hitter and achieving the first recorded instance in the moder era where a player gets a hit in a game he's not at for team he...

does not play for. You’ll read about it in the morning along with the Houston fans complaining that the games should have been moved to a neutral site days ago, like Puerto Rico or Monterrey but only the selfishness of the Cubs not wanting to fly into a CAT 3 hurricane to play a sporting event that might have been impossilbe to get to with the work force you need to pull somethign like that off; I don’t know how many home games Houston has lf=eft but thry might not play a one there. Go figure;.

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been . . . baseball. It rules over America like an army of steamrollers." Terrance Mann
Tommie Agee was out.

by Weeghman Park on Sep 14, 2008 11:23 PM CDT up 0 recs

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longest reply title ever.

by bikemonkey on Sep 14, 2008 11:58 PM CDT up 0 recs

Right

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been . . . baseball. It rules over America like an army of steamrollers." Terrance Mann
Tommie Agee was out.

by Weeghman Park on Sep 15, 2008 12:54 AM CDT up 0 recs

OH MY GOD!

That’s amazing!

I don’t know what to say.

Well other than Congratulations to Big Z and the Cubs!

Oh, and thanks WGN for not showing it where I live.

by Snake Plisskin on Sep 14, 2008 10:44 PM CDT 0 recs

Also

Let’s worry about winning our next game. I had to say it.

by Snake Plisskin on Sep 14, 2008 10:46 PM CDT up 0 recs

Blame ESPN

not WGN. The MLB and ESPN sunday game forbids national broadcast to compete with the ESPN broadcast (same with FOX), they can only show them localy

"Destiny is a matter of choice, not chance"

by MerlinDog on Sep 15, 2008 7:43 AM CDT up 0 recs

Also...

MAGIC NUMBER = 7

by BelieveinBlue2314 on Sep 14, 2008 10:46 PM CDT 0 recs

That's killer.

by dat cubfan daver on Sep 14, 2008 10:55 PM CDT up 0 recs

I haz blurg: hotbeans.wordpress.com

by digitalbenjamin on Sep 14, 2008 10:55 PM CDT 0 recs

ALL HAIL RAPTOR JESUS

i mean.. Zsus?

by nathew on Sep 14, 2008 11:25 PM CDT up 0 recs

Zsus???

A ha ha ha. ROFL.

I haz blurg: hotbeans.wordpress.com

by digitalbenjamin on Sep 15, 2008 9:25 AM CDT up 0 recs

OH YEAH!

There’s the PIC! LOVE IT BABY! After the final strike, ZamZilla feel to his knees, rose his arms into the air, looked upward, and unleashed the roar of Godzilla!

by TheHawkRules on Sep 15, 2008 6:03 AM CDT up 0 recs