And I yelled at Lee when he questioned strike two before the double. “It’s not the umpire, Derrek. Swing the bat!”

but this has GOT to suck for the Astros. Not only is there a hurricane that wrecked the state of Texas, but they played at Wrigley Field ( minus 84 miles).

It’s a great day to be a Cubs fan, and I’m sure as hell not complaining on this end, but I’d have a quibble or two with the MLB if I was born in the city of Houston.

A senior at Marquette and was ecstatic last night when I heard the game was here in Milwaukee. Best 25 dollars of my life was spent tonight. Realized in the bottum of the 8th when Dero caught the ball that it was going to happen. I have never witnessed anything so amazing. If you told me last week that I would watch Carlos Zambrano thow a no hitter in person in Milwaukee against the Astros, I would have thought you were crazy. Section 220 row 15 seat 8

but since home is Gurnee I have a shorter trip than most of the Chicago-area folks. Section 228, row 2, so a little past 3rd base, in the loge. Quite good seats.

I have to give props to the Milwaukee organization for putting on the game on apparently quite short notice, and being pretty well staffed regarding concessions, ushering, etc. It was kind of a mess leaving the general parking, but I probably could have saved some time by not following the herd and instead heading south to National Avenue. But I got to hear the whole WGN postgame on the way home.

They didn’t have any Cubs-Astros scorecards, reasonably enough, but they gave me an extra Reds-Brewers scorecard (from earlier this month) so I could keep score. “If you want a pencil it’s a dollar” – “Thanks, but I don’t need a pencil” – “then Thank You.”

Managed to say hi to Al before the game – nice to see you again Al – you must have had a great view from your section.

The game was nowhere to be found on my DirectTV mlb package or on WGN. I about lost it when I couldn’t get the game. Thank God for MLB.TV. I was watching on a laptop out by the BBQ and then simply pointed to the screen to show my wife what was going on. She cleared the spot on the dinner table for the laptop and the family stayed glued to the screen well after the food was gone…I love that woman!

We were in RF section 104, row 5.

Aside from Z’s game, my favorite part was the Huuuun-Ter, Huuuuun-Ter, Huuuuun-Ter, YOU SUCK!! Chants. It really was a unique experience with the sheer number of Cubs fans just itching to show that they were there. Non-Cubs fans showed on the jumbotron were booed, the 7th inning stretch was great and I participated in at least 3 different acappella renditions of Go Cubs Go.

Awesome, just unbelievably awesome.

Took my little brother, had to teach him that you can’t talk about a no-no while it’s in progress. At least he realized he was seeing something historic. Sori’s homer landed about 2 sections over from us. Nice quick drives there and back (from/to Madison). All I gotta do now is pick up a Trib tomorrow to put with my ticket to save forever. Looking forward to drivin to Wrigley Tuesday for Demp/CC.

just a few rows behind the Astros dugout! We had a spectacular view of Big Z’s every pitch. I’m also gonna save these newspaper clippings and ticket stubs. My Grandfather was at the last Cubs no hitter as well, Milt Pappas, 36 years ago. This was something I had always wanted to see for myself and I must admit to tearing up a little bit. The whole atmosphere was ELECTRIC. Couldn’t have worked out any better for the Cubs.

Almost directly behind home plate, incredible. Best road trip to Milwaukee.

best game I’ve been to in my life. Between last nights Badger win and today’s no-no its been a good 24hr

I was also at the second best game pitched in Miller Park, Ben Sheets 18k performance vs. the Braves May 16, 2004.

Well worth the 6 hour round trip for a 2 hr game! Once it was the 7th inning and he was at 85 pitches, I knew he had a chance, especially since the bottom half of the order was coming up. Z was AMAZING.

Incredible game. I kept thinking it would get broken up at some time, but that 9th inning was incredible. Sometime I’ll always remember!!!

It was awesome, glad I decided to goto this game. Too bad my Tivo didn’t record it, I set it to the wrong game sadly.

Took my 4 year old son to his first Cubs game. Drove up from Peoria at about 2:30PM and just now got home (3:45AM). Well worth the trip and a night to remember for myself and my son.

Drove up there with some buddies at the last minute after a disappointing Bears game. Wow… that was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen in my life. That “Let’s Go Z!” chant in the 8th was LOUD and gave me goosebumps. I only missed the 5th inning b/c I was searching for a giant pretzel.

My seats were basically right where Bartman would have been in Wrigley only at Miller Park. Great atmosphere… GREAT game. Best I’ve ever seen in person. Wore my BCB shirt hoping to find some more of you guys but didn’t get to see anyone.

to have that picture of Geo in every game thread from here on out…October too.

sitting on my couch in Tulsa, had tickets to the game in HOUSTON…..i know it wouldn’t have happened there but it hurts still to think it could have….BUT i got to watch it on Astro’s feed then the 9th on ESPN

UNBELIEVABLE! Imagine if the cubs played every game in a dome? I don’t remember hearing 23,000+ ever making that much noise. What I don’t understand… people leaving in the 7th – 9th innings? I know we all had a long drive back to chicago, but with the fast pace the game was going and ummmm a no hitter being tossed, why would you leave? Glad to eb part of it and thanking my wife for buying the tickets as I was calling her from a bachelor party on saturday night after we found out the game was being played in Milwaukee!

.. although in the flesh, we were scattered to the winds across the Midwest.

My four brothers, my mom and I are all die hard Cub fans, from Chicago to Columbus, Hammond and here in Cleveland, TN. When the top of the 9th started, my phone started ringing off the hook. We were all barely coherent. I am certain that the phone connection problems we all had were because Cub fans across the nation were clogging the circuits. Sure it was!

My mom, God bless her, has a heart condition and I thought she was going to die when she keyed in screaming on the phone: “THREE MORE OUTS! THREE MORE OUTS! Aren’t you watching it? It’s on WGN!!”

I had been watching Gameday dumbfounded and was too wrought up by the drama of the moment to go to the BCB game threads. I knew WGN in Chicago had it, and my mom was watching it .. But when my mom’s hysterical query sank in, I realized .. "Dang it! ESPN simply HAS to be covering this .. " I turned the boob tube on and just in time to see Z walking out of the dugout and to here the boys on WGN calling it all (thank GOD it wasn’t the talking heads on the Eternally Suckily Pompous Network) ..

My wife couldn’t take it .. she had to hide during the second out .. but when the third came, I let out my war whoop and danced in my living room with about a couple zillion other of the CUBS NATION ..and my phone didn’t stop ringing for about ten minutes as an avalanche of calls from my brothers poured in and they were as ecstatic as I. My mom said she cried on her knees in front of the TV, bless her.

What a night! Unforgettable! Excelsior!

GREATEST NIGHT OF MY ENTIRE LIFE….hopefully up until the end of october!!!! :)

in 234, left field bleachers, row 1. Wow, that was fun! To bad I decided to be a student today, and not stay in Milwaukee for todays win