They could have a 3:00 or 4:00 Chicago time game. We’ll see.

The Angels have played road games in the first series, so I don’t think it matters what time zone the Dodgers are in…my guess is the Cubs are the first game Wednesday.

what affect do the Wrigleyvlle ordinances about night games have on the playoff schedule?

to us Cubs fans who live in LA either.

I was just watching him today and remembering how much Lou loves “power armed guys” and someone with good stuff who could spell Marmol when we have stretches of close games would be fantastic.

If we play the way we are capable of playing, I believe we are the best team in baseball and can beat anybody. That statement has nothing to do with the Dodgers. No team should be taken lightly in the playoffs because the playoffs are indeed a crapshoot. The Dodgers are a dangerous team, but I have the utmost confidence in our team.

However, you can’t take their record in the last 53 games and project that out over a full year, that is complete nonsense. That’s like taking the Cubs’ September and saying that they’re an 81 win team; your logic sucks. Take a look at who they’ve been playing the past month, an NL West loaded schedule.

I always thought he was cute.

paul asenmaucher is coming back. mlb is allowing him to be on the post season roster.

He might actually do that. Gaudin, Guzman, Wuertz, even Hart would be better choices.

Its going to be a very tough series its a totally different team than what we played earlier in the year, however the Dodgers have had a history of doing what the Cubs did last year in the playoffs, not putting up much of a fight.

I’ll say Cubs in 5 :)

The Dodgers have had a cakewalk September. Take away the three games against the DBacks (who are one game over .500 at the moment) and they didn’t play a single game against a team with a winning record this month. They played San Diego 9 times this month.

Too many people are underestimating the Dodgers, they are going to be tough.

Lou has saw our bullpen and seen it limp along the last few weeks, I don’t blame him for wanting to see as many guys as possible.

In fact I’m surprise we didn’t see Randy Wells today..did he get hurt or something?

“V’YaFutzu Oyvecha V’Yanutu Mitanecha MiPanecha” against the Dodgers, and all the other teams we’re gonna face in the next few weeks? :-)

Durham is a complete Cub killer I hate the idea of having to face him in the NLCS.

If thats true won’t the game be played in shadows for the first few innings?

I’m going to try to cram everything into Monday and Tuesday… sigh

Sweet Lou has managed for 20 years and has 3 World Series rings, 2 from his days on those great Yankee teams of 1977 and 1978 and 1 as manager of the Reds. Suffice to say Sweet Lou has game.

If not for Manny, Joe would likely be sitting home this postseason.

And since we have no Manny to distract us…

I really think managers are over-rated, I think a full season is more than enough for Torre to know what he is doing. It will come down to execution by the players not the strings pulled by the managers, that is unless Lou uses Howry in a key situation lol

the first few games.

I really do.

I believe they have said Lowe will start game 1.

To be followed by Billingsley then Kuroda.

the last few days has been mix-and-match or tryouts, once everyone has a role I think stuff’ll stablize.

But Saito was on the DL for a while so he could be a tad rusty but he did manage the save last night.

The Cubs played well on the road this year and split four games in LA in June. They can win in that park.

but I’d rather go after a guy then give away free baserunners.

playing the same amount of games as the other series. That way there is no overly long layoff.

paper they are superior but the choke factor is big with them.

Less Filling!

the crowds always rushed the field and the players always tried to get off as fast as possible. I like your screen name but it’s too bad he is known for that one play. The other night on I the game we won in the 9th when Marquis pinch ran, Soriano was on 2d and he didn’t go all the way to third and I panicked and then realized there was no one on first so it wasn’t a force out situation.

the Dodgers are my second favorite team because they were my dad’s favorite (even though he never forgave them for leaving Brooklyn he still was a fan all his life) but I don’t see them matching up in any category with the Cubs. Except middle relief maybe. Manny is just one guy who is off for the big payday as soon as his team is out of the playoffs.

Baseball writers are just so inscrutable sometimes.

And the only danger for Nomar is making it through a whole series without an injury.

wasn’t there a guy who was one handed who pitched in the bigs? (I saw something about him on TWIB but i can’t remember his name)