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Prepare To Ignore Miller & Morgan: Cubs vs. Brewers, Sunday 4/12, 7:05 CT

You have a number of options for watching tonight's game:

  • With the sound off
  • With your fingers in your ears, saying, "LALALALALAICAN'THEAAAAAARYOU!!!"
  • With one of the audio/video sync devices described in this FanPost, listen to Pat & Ron while you watch the ESPN picture
  • Or, just resign yourself to hearing the worst broadcast team on baseball TV today.

Me, I'm going to avoid all of the above by actually being at the game. If you're in Milwaukee tonight, stop by section 225, row 4 and say hi.

Other news: Phil Rogers thinks the Cubs will regret losing Donald Veal, based on one game he pitched this past week. This is about the same speed for Phil as the plus-minus system he developed last year.

Paul Sullivan writes of a potential new Jake Peavy wrinkle:

The Brewers acquired CC Sabathia from Cleveland last summer, and don't be surprised if they make a push for Jake Peavy later this year.

"That's going to be based solely on how well we play over the course of time," said center fielder Mike Cameron, Peavy's former teammate in San Diego. "I expect for us to play well. We have a lot of talent here."

Milwaukee general manager Doug Melvin shocked the baseball world with the Sabathia trade. But Melvin is a small-market GM with a big-market mentality, and stealing Peavy out from under the Cubs' noses would be a big coup in Wisconsin.

Prediction: Jake Peavy ends the year in a San Diego uniform.

Today's Starting Pitchers
Ryan Dempster
Ryan Dempster
Cubs
vs. Jeff Suppan
Jeff Suppan
Brewers
0-0 W-L 0-1
0.00 ERA 13.50
0 SO 1
1 BB 1
0 HR 1
vs. Mil -- vs. Cubs

Ryan Dempster gets hit hard by, of all people, Jason Kendall (16-for-37, .432 -- 13 singles and 3 doubles). The rest of this team, he handles pretty well, including Prince Fielder (4-for-16). Last year, he was 4-0, 2.45 in five starts against the Brewers and had a 1.50 ERA in two starts in Miller Park.

Derrek Lee, who is off to a horribly slow start, usually wears Suppan out (25-for-41, .467, 7 doubles, 4 HR). Hope he takes this opportunity to break out of his slump. Suppan had a 6.60 ERA in three starts vs. the Cubs last year, but as we saw last night with Dave Bush, last year doesn't always matter in getting hitters untracked. Suppan did get pounded in his only start so far this year vs. the Giants.

By the time you see this post, most of this afternoon's games will be over; here is today's MLB.com Mediacenter link anyway.

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Even if they got Peavy, that doesn't mean anything for them

They need 2 or three pitchers to actually do well, and they’d have to give up either Fielder or Braun to get him. It won’t happen with the Brewers

#34: You'll be missed!

by Chanman25 on Apr 12, 2009 5:01 PM CDT reply actions  

False

Escobar and Gamel/Jeffrees could get it done. They have a couple high impact prospects

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

by fischisgod on Apr 12, 2009 5:16 PM CDT up reply actions  

Tonight's pitching matchup...

Ryan “I’ve been taking staring lessons from Ted Lilly” Dempster
vs.
Jeff “No, you have to hold the shutter button, like this” Suppan

I left my clever sig line in my other pants.

by znohitter on Apr 12, 2009 5:05 PM CDT reply actions  

I hope Dempster throws strikes

He will end up on my fecal roster if he doesn’t.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 12, 2009 5:06 PM CDT reply actions  

"fecal roster"

huh…I mean I guess I don’t want to see that

#34: You'll be missed!

by Chanman25 on Apr 12, 2009 5:07 PM CDT up reply actions  

Fecal roster

polite speak for “shit list”.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 12, 2009 5:09 PM CDT up reply actions  

Stolen from my favorite Prof

80 year old history prof with fantastic mad scientist crazy hair talking about the whiskey rebellion and the articles of confederation.

really. best. class. ever.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 12, 2009 5:15 PM CDT up reply actions  

Sounds like one of the Music professors I had at college.

The guy had given my mother piano lessons 35 years earlier, so I figured he would be some stuffed shirt, dry academic. Boy was I wrong. The best three quotes of his:

If you invert a fourth, you get a fifth. If you invert a fifth, you get an empty.

If you have a kid who can’t play an instrument, give him two sticks and make him a drummer. If he can’t do that, take one of the sticks away and make him a conductor. If he can’t even do that, take the other stick away and make him a professor.

Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach wind up as critics.

I left my clever sig line in my other pants.

by znohitter on Apr 12, 2009 5:23 PM CDT up reply actions  

I love witty profs

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 12, 2009 5:26 PM CDT up reply actions  

+1

I’ve noticed the best teachers are usually the ones that had the hardest time with the material themselves.

I left my clever sig line in my other pants.

by znohitter on Apr 12, 2009 5:29 PM CDT up reply actions  

I like profs who can make the subject

useful and interesting.

Even if its a simple subject if I don’t see a use for it, I won’t do it. Or I won’t do well at it.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 12, 2009 5:32 PM CDT up reply actions  

Zno

…as a college music teacher, I’m not sure what to say :)

by leothelip on Apr 12, 2009 6:19 PM CDT up reply actions  

What the hell is up with these weirdo profile pictures?!

They are so random.

Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

by dtpollitt on Apr 12, 2009 5:08 PM CDT reply actions  

Yeah, saw a murder he committed

"It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies." - Mike Royko

by DTJchris on Apr 12, 2009 6:03 PM CDT up reply actions  

Really want to win tonight. Hopefully i can get off work in plenty of time to get my beers on!

Riveting stuff at augusta..

Chanman you going to Dave at UVA next weekend?

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

by fischisgod on Apr 12, 2009 5:19 PM CDT reply actions  

They already gave up LaPorta for a rental, would they really do the same with Gamel?

Okay, just so I understand it... in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.

by bren on Apr 12, 2009 5:21 PM CDT reply actions  

Anyone have any ideas about lineups tonight?

Derek has had a bad first week :(

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

by fischisgod on Apr 12, 2009 5:23 PM CDT reply actions  

Cubs, per Gordo via the Recap thread from earlier today (thx, cubsnlinux!)

Fonzie
Dome
Lee
Bradley
Aramis
Fontegod
TheRiot
Hill
Demp

I left my clever sig line in my other pants.

by znohitter on Apr 12, 2009 5:27 PM CDT up reply actions  

Awesome

it looks like a winner. i am worried about Soto. I hope he recovers soon. Hill is kind of meh. But Bako would have been an even bigger meh.

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

by fischisgod on Apr 12, 2009 5:29 PM CDT up reply actions  

More from Twitter
cst_cubs Soto throws before game, 60 percent strength. Says shoulder feels normal, says he can play Mon, start Wed.

Climb off the ledge. He’s fine.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 12, 2009 5:30 PM CDT up reply actions  

Nope

you can jump.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 12, 2009 5:33 PM CDT up reply actions  

can a person jump in from the ledge

or jump off the ledge onto the bridge?

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

by Cubbie-Tim on Apr 12, 2009 5:51 PM CDT up reply actions  

(Ron Burgandy voice):

“I’m Jeff Suppan?”

Ron Santo should sing TMOTTBG everyday. Period.

by Schwa on Apr 12, 2009 5:28 PM CDT reply actions  

Damn these sunday night games...

I’m not staying up until 1am to watch the first pitch. I’m outta here basically. Hopefully I wake up to as good news as I did this morning.

The day we lose our will to fight - Is the day we lose our Freedom.

by sanantonecub on Apr 12, 2009 5:34 PM CDT reply actions  

Hope so!

Day games coming soon. That should help, right? (I have no idea of the time difference and math and I aren’t speaking today)

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 12, 2009 5:36 PM CDT up reply actions  

Doesn't Peavy have a no-trade clause?

I don’t think the Brewers are apart of those teams he wants to be traded to. My prediction: Peavy is a Angel, or Cub if the Padres are out of it.

Tamia Lynn Davis:
Born: August 18, 2008

by Unique on Apr 12, 2009 5:41 PM CDT reply actions  

Wanna watch this game but...

- no way to watch from Japan
- Masters goes 3-man play-off
- no enough time in busy Monday morning

good luck guys!

by dragonsfanatic on Apr 12, 2009 5:49 PM CDT reply actions  

Dome's diary

btw Dome wrote his diary before arriving Milwaukee….mainly talking about first 3 games, his mindset for his 2nd season, condition of his right elbow, Cubs clubhouse, no major effect by WBC experience for next 6 months, Chicago opener etc…
Will translate and let you folks what he thinks when I have time.

by dragonsfanatic on Apr 12, 2009 5:58 PM CDT reply actions  

you’re the man!

If it weren't for the gutter, my mind would be homeless.

by Cubsfanatic on Apr 12, 2009 6:03 PM CDT up reply actions  

This is too funny

>The camp has been a selfish thing to hear, he will do as one likes.
>Or driving.

lol

by dragonsfanatic on Apr 12, 2009 6:14 PM CDT up reply actions  

so, not a very good translation?

:-P

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 12, 2009 6:15 PM CDT up reply actions  

LMAO

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

by Cubbie-Tim on Apr 12, 2009 6:19 PM CDT up reply actions  

Yeah I just read the translation. I have no idea what the hell is going on.

Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

by dtpollitt on Apr 12, 2009 6:17 PM CDT up reply actions  

macho donkey business man!

As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.

by santoswoodenlegs on Apr 12, 2009 6:18 PM CDT up reply actions  

what about this -

This year, the world’s GANBARIMASU goal of this team.
Since last year I was really mortifying.

:-D

by cubsnlinux on Apr 12, 2009 6:18 PM CDT up reply actions  

I'm fairly certain that GANBARIMASU is a giant robot that will destroy the rest of the 29 MLB teams,

ensuring our victory. At least that’s my translation from the translation.

Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

by dtpollitt on Apr 12, 2009 6:19 PM CDT up reply actions  

Robodome

I understood the translation about as well as I understand him.

I Love My Cubbies and their mortifying CFer

Long Live the GANBARIMASU

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

by Cubbie-Tim on Apr 12, 2009 6:21 PM CDT up reply actions  

Wrong.

The GANBARIMASU is the ensuing destruction of civilization by Godzilla and his army of terrible lizards.

As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.

by santoswoodenlegs on Apr 12, 2009 6:21 PM CDT up reply actions  

I'm torn between

being completely disturbed and in awe of your “random picture that fits the current moment” skill.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 12, 2009 6:23 PM CDT up reply actions  

+1

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

by Cubbie-Tim on Apr 12, 2009 6:29 PM CDT up reply actions  

Some time I'd like to see the inner workings of your hard drive...

BCB PIX—>RANDOM—>ANIMALS—>IMAGINARY—>WORLD DOMINATION

Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

by dtpollitt on Apr 12, 2009 6:38 PM CDT up reply actions  

That's absolutely true

and bottom line of all the athletes on the earth…

by dragonsfanatic on Apr 12, 2009 6:23 PM CDT up reply actions  

thanks!

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 12, 2009 6:08 PM CDT up reply actions  

Game starts now please?

If it weren't for the gutter, my mind would be homeless.

by Cubsfanatic on Apr 12, 2009 6:17 PM CDT reply actions  

Nope

in order to make the Miller & Morgan torture more effective. you must wait another 45 minutes.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 12, 2009 6:19 PM CDT up reply actions  

I've had a really good

day and not even those two can ruin it.

by sue369 on Apr 12, 2009 6:23 PM CDT up reply actions  

did you know they added steve phillips to the booth?

i’d forgotten… but he’s on my tv with joe morgan.

good to hear you’ve had a good day. happy easter!

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 12, 2009 6:25 PM CDT up reply actions  

Thanks, I

hope you had a good one too.

by sue369 on Apr 12, 2009 6:53 PM CDT up reply actions  

I hope everyone ahd a great Easter

to be capped off with a Cubs win

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

by Cubbie-Tim on Apr 12, 2009 6:55 PM CDT up reply actions  

I think Derrek Lee must be dog tired

So let’s give Micah Hoffpaiur the next few starts :) And if Micah does well let’s give Lee even more rest!

by eamus-catuli on Apr 12, 2009 6:25 PM CDT reply actions  

Blasphemy!!

If it weren't for the gutter, my mind would be homeless.

by Cubsfanatic on Apr 12, 2009 6:26 PM CDT up reply actions  

"Or, just resign yourself to hearing the worst broadcast team on baseball TV today."

Tim McCarver retired??! HOORAY!!

"Clogging up the bases isn't that great to me." -Dusty Baker on OBP

by vtcub on Apr 12, 2009 6:33 PM CDT reply actions  

Phillips

He vaults the broadcast team into total oblivion. I was able to tolerate Miller and Morgan. Steve Phillips will likely lead me to hitting the mute button very early.

by dmlichte on Apr 12, 2009 6:38 PM CDT up reply actions  

True.

Phillips is a moron and so is McCarver. I think the only reason I can tolerate the ESPN broadcast is Miller’s sweet voice, which I would take over Joe Buck any day.

"Clogging up the bases isn't that great to me." -Dusty Baker on OBP

by vtcub on Apr 12, 2009 6:42 PM CDT up reply actions  

*Phillips is a moron and so is Morgan

is what I meant to say.

"Clogging up the bases isn't that great to me." -Dusty Baker on OBP

by vtcub on Apr 12, 2009 6:43 PM CDT up reply actions  

Miller would be fine

if they’d either let him do it himself or give him a nonmoron for a partner.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 12, 2009 6:44 PM CDT up reply actions  

Why is this night different from other nights?

Maybe Phillips and Morgan will keep their mouths shut and let me enjoy my Cubs without their idiotic commentary?

"I'm not much of a chemistry guy, you know. Chemistry to me is a pinch-hit double with the bases loaded"--Jim Frey, Chicago Tribune, 1985.

by zevkalman on Apr 12, 2009 6:46 PM CDT reply actions  

This night is no different than any other

therefor you will endure their idiocy

If it weren't for the gutter, my mind would be homeless.

by Cubsfanatic on Apr 12, 2009 6:46 PM CDT up reply actions  

My soundtrack for the game

Will apparently be a barful of drunken Braves fans singing along to Bad Company. So net win there.

"I owe [Dunston] a lot. Nobody would know how good I was at digging balls out of the dirt if it wasn't for him..." -Mark Grace
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root

by Clutch16 on Apr 12, 2009 6:55 PM CDT reply actions  

that might be a push

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

by Cubbie-Tim on Apr 12, 2009 6:56 PM CDT up reply actions  

In regards to Phil Rogers...

How exactly do we allow him to give him any credence at all? Both of Chicago’s major papers have dropped off the map in terms of usefulness. We should all just ignore his rambling nonsense.

by northernsails on Apr 12, 2009 6:55 PM CDT reply actions  

Watching BBTN...

Was that Ronny Cedeno out in LF for Seattle??

by kanderber on Apr 12, 2009 6:58 PM CDT reply actions  

yes

scary thought

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

by Cubbie-Tim on Apr 12, 2009 7:01 PM CDT up reply actions  

yep

watched him up in the dome on wednesday from my seats in left field…actually doesnt look too bad in the field, however he was overpowed by Nathan in the 9th

by kodypuckett23 on Apr 12, 2009 7:02 PM CDT up reply actions  

not necessarily

It seems as if Wakamatsu is just doing some patchwork lineups while Ichiro is out. I know Griffey has been primarily the DH with a couple starts in right, and Cedeno has been alternating with Endy Chavez and Franklin Gutierrez for the other outfield spots

by kodypuckett23 on Apr 12, 2009 7:06 PM CDT up reply actions  

JUMP

Evey Hammond: Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

by dtpollitt on Apr 12, 2009 7:06 PM CDT reply actions  

Miller Morgan should be Axed

Funny how they showed Eucker in his radio booth and no sound comin out of his pie hole. Great game by the way. Thanks Sori for not letting me see ya smack the first pitch. Darn neighbors and their Easter dinner get togethers!

"It was a wise Man that invented Beer" (Plato)

by LarryCubFan on Apr 13, 2009 2:19 AM CDT reply actions  

Nah. Peavy will be somewhere, eventually.

Don’t be fooled by the Padres quick start. If he pitches well, his value will almost certainly go up, and Jeff Moorad will make sure this gets done.

That’s “Uecker,” FYI.

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Apr 13, 2009 12:10 PM CDT reply actions  

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