Piniella & Co are no dummies…they will try to keep the Cubs focused on another short term goal….even though we all know that home field is only as good as you win at home and MLB that is not a big deal (except for TB)

The other item will be to give DLee a two-day rest sometime in this frame before next weekend. The same will be to get Ramirez a day or two, and possibly rest for DeRosa and Theriot.

Decisions on Howry is the last item plus getting Fukudome some AB’s working on his Americanization of hitting the baseball.

BTW getting Ward some playing time and consecutive AB’s will provide dividends as a pinch hitter.

relax, enjoy the game, and cherish this season.

At this point, who cares?

But only 1/2 game separates them and the Phils.

Not related to your question, but if the Cubs play Philly, I’d rather it be in round 2, so that’s extra incentive to do well in New York this week.

It doesn’t matter what the Cubs do the rest of the way, as far as that makeup game goes. It’s Mets/Phillies and Houston.

… even if it was brief. I have met SO many BCB’ers the last couple days, sorry if it’s been so brief, know that all of us share the same goal… winning it all.

is the second stringers will all be auditioning for Lou

Since the game means nothing to STL. The remaining 7 have post-season implications, so they’ll probably only rest one player at a time for those.

When the Marlins beat out the Giants and the Cubs upended Atlanta, I thought it was a gift from God. “Cubs are playing the wild card team…we’re a cinch to win the pennant!” Five years later….

Actually, if you take a look at the W-L records, the Marlins won 91 games to the Cubs’ 88. Marlins also scored more runs/game (4.64 to 4.47), had a higher OBP (.333 to .323) and clogged more bases (515 to 492). And while the Cubs’ team ERA was better (3.83 to 4.04), the runs allowed/game was close (Cubs 4.22 to Marlins 4.27) as well as the runs allowed (Cubs 683 to Marlins 692).

Maybe the Marlins were the better team after all, and Steve Bartman was just an innocent bystander.

and gave up the 3-run bomb to Pujols that tied it.

You can’t turn on the TV without seeing his mug.

American TV for example – you can’t sell a sitcom unless the execs can see it running 5 or 6 years, you need the inventory of at least 100 episodes for syndication money and DVD sales.. In the UK, you can have a brilliant concept like Fawlty Towers run 12 delicious episodes because the system (back then at least) was largely taxpayer funded, so there wasn’t the economic need to homogenize the concept, and make the characters more likeable.

Oh yeah, to answer your question – Caliendo is played. That TBS show of his put him over the shark ; )

Never liked the guy
Never will
Corporate shill

should stick to comedy CDs. Anyone remember Rich Little and The Copycats?

The remote will be getting a workout today!

for the BEARS?! you give us up for the BEARS?!

Alrighty then. Have fun!

Or tomorrow. Actually we prolly don’t need to win anymore and we still will have homefield advantage.

his fanbase reaches out overseas, while Pujols reach doesn’t exactly extend that much.

1. Their pitching was wildly overrated.
2. Granderson missed the first month.
3. Their defense was atrocious, which didn’t help the pitchers.
4. They were counting on some older guys (Sheffield, Rogers, Renteria) to be studs who are passed their prime, and are useful only for a supporting role.
5. They are the only front office in baseball who hadn’t figured out that Cabrera had eaten his way out of 3B.

but i dunno about the order yet. :-)

but my order was way off.

I tried…

he has a pretty good season at Iowa, and he’s a 25 year-old. Maybe not the best of prospects; still excited nonetheless.

Also known as the “hungover and loving it” list.

75 or 80 pitches maybe?

Put him at the top to give him maximum at-bats

how embarrassing would it be to lose to this line-up?

He’s starting to drive the ball again

but it might screw up the other guys in the rotation. They don’t have a sixth starter as good as Sean Marshall to plug in.

Something is much more wrong in that dugout much more than we ever realized

Oooops…wrong blog.

…if stories about it hadn’t been repeatedly stuffed down my throat all season long. Now I just want them to get it over with so that I don’t have to hear about it anymore!

There are only two ballparks in MLB: Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park. Since Fenway has not closed, this is the first ML ballpark to close.

Get your facts straight.

I’m pretty critical of ESPN generally, but I think this is a big deal. Yankee, Fenway, Wrigley…they are sort of the last big, classic ballparks out there (now that Camden is rennovated, Comisky is gone and they took down Tiger Stadium). I’m sad about the whole thing. Particularly in the context of Cubs players saying they want a new Wrigley, which would literally break my heart.