Lou brings in Marshall and Cotts to get a lefthanded batter out, Marshall walks Prince and Cotts hits Cousnell.
 Soriano butchers the ball in left, why is he out there?
 Gregg walks Chris Duffy? Come one.
 Then with runners on the corners the groundball to Theriot. Now if your going to go for two, Theriot looked like he was half way, not all the way in, then go for two. Theriot looked surprised that Weeks was going, and from what 75 feet Theriot could not get the ball to home without bouncing up there.
 Problem is, who to play at short?
This was not Lou’s finest day. However don’t walk Chris Freaking Duffy

i love you

this was funny the first time..now it’s just old.

We get your point alright?

1. Bringing in Cotts after Heilman was doing fine
2. Pulling Cotts for Marmol, wasting him for the 8th
3. Pinch hitting a ground ball hitter, Miles, instead more of a fly ball hitter in Hoff, in a sac fly situation.
Those aren’t reasons to fire him. He’s been great and led the Cubs to a great 2 years, and was great at rebuilding this team after 06. Relax, his contract in up in 2010. He’ll most likely retire.

but he sure makes it hard sometimes. What on earth was he thinking?! Did he hold a post game press conference?

all you bandwagon jumpers get off now!! we have 1 bad game and the crying on bcb begins. hold on wait, lemme get you some tissue or maybe some cheese for your whine!!

is really lost on a lot of people.

settle down.

+1 for the BCB Store.

Satire loses it’s edge when it’s recycled over and over.

One was (kind of) funny. Now it’s just boring.

If these games are as unimportant and meaningless as some people on here suggest, then why are we bothering to comment on them at all? Maybe we should just suspend this site until after all-start break.

we know you arent a fan of certain people that are a part of the team, you should take your frustration out another way other than trying to tick people off

How long do we leave Gregg as our closer?
or
How long is Theriot our starting shortstop?

How many more of these, “how long are we going to give, ” posts are going to pop up here?

Good God Gracious, they lose a game and the sky is falling.

Hey, wake up! Its a 162-game season; this is going to happen.

 As I am the one that Santo’s Wooden Legs (which I’ve always taken offense to) is trying to mock, I would like to say that I did find the first post funny, mainly because Dome did well. Like any Cub, any criticisms I have of some, I hope they prove me wrong, which over the last 2 days he has. I didn’t see the game in which he had 4 hits against the stros, but i’ve heard that 3 of them were on first pitch fastballs, which I’ve never doubted Dome’s ability to hit a fastball. In yesterday’s game in which he had 2 hits, he proved me wrong again. Especially his double down the LF line which was a breaking ball away and he stayed back and hit a line drive down the line. I hope he keeps proving me wrong. I will never root against any Cubs player, ever. He did strike out on a curve ball that he was way out in front of and got fooled bad, but that’s going to happen.

 Yesterday’s concern for me was the bullpen. Gregg looks to me like a poor mans joe borowski. Viscaino even though he didn’t allow any Runs, was not impressive at all. Short arms it and only throws 88. Even Marmol was less than impressive. His fastball was there but not the usual Marmol break on his slider that I’m used to seeing. Not worried about him though and he will be the Cubs closer soon, especially once gregg get’s in Lou’s doghouse.

 very questionable moves by Lou yesterday, the most glaring to me was the Miles PH as opposed to Hoff’s, who has a natural upper cut swing. Hell, i’d rather see Gathwright in that situation if Lou was so worried about staying out of the DP.

 It is a long season, and that’s what I imagine SWL is trying to say and he’s right, but this is still an open forum where people should be able to express their opinions, negative or not.

Anway SWL, I am honoerd.

….The Matrix of Blame, that could be linked to on the side bar on the site. The Matrix would display most of the roster guys, the managers, coaches, the goat, announcers, addition of or lack thereof speedgrass, etc…The columns would have the weekly game schedule as the headings. Each cell entry of The Matrix would be used for assigning blame and I suppose the lauding of praise, but really a tool like this is primarily used for assigning blame. When you put your mouse cursor over a given cell it magnifies or zooms the latest entry for that cell and if you click then you can post your own entry. In order for the Matrix to function properly a comment must be limited to something like 20-30 characters.

We could even have weekly or daily polls to determine the next row entry to the Matrix, i.e., excuses to add or blame to assign.

At least we are not White Sox fans! I watched the Sox last night and they got their butts handed to them last night. This team is a mess…old, and slow.

Cubs will be fine.

Hoff and EA have 25 boys

they are trained to become the greatest Cubs team ever. To ensure no one but the CUbs get all 25, the kids are born adn raised in Thailand so they are not forced into the draft.

Until then, we let Hoff picth (both as a starter and from the bullpen), pinth hit, and play all positions not named Catcher, where we let Lilly play.

Personally, I have found that the hardest part of com—TIMING!!

Can we get Dusty back from the Reds? :P

yeah SWL c’mon over and fill out the application. Sit right here in Lou’s chair. Don’t steal his pens and leave the cup of tobaccy juice alone. Its a present from Joe Torre. Now get outta da clubhouse office and back to your dreamstate, Bro

He managed one Hell of a game today. Lilly 1-hit the Rox. I’m surprised Lou didn’t blow a gasket on the home plate umps eyesight or lack thereof. A very generous strike zone. Guess they enlarged the plate from 17" across to 20" today.