That game ROCKED.

..I will be there on Saturday and I cant wait!

Man I love baseball!!

In the box score at the top you need to change Marmols save total.. that was his 2nd save not his first.. Just thought i would point that out…

Great win today. Nice to see sori have 3 bad abs but not let it affect him when it matter most!!

It’s gonna be one wild and crazy roller-coaster ride all year with this team. Hang on tight!

Who do we beg at SBN?

Any more games like that- I’m gonna have to double up on the TUMS and Rolaids. And I’m in front of the TV watching. The old lady that had the “dead” Cardinal on her hat was a Hoot. Go Cubs Go!

but they were in fact very polite and well behaved. Sure they cheered wildly for their team but they were knowledgeable and serious fans.
I am stilling recovering from the game.l literally forget to take my blood pressure pills today which was not the best day for that.

Thanks for the link so that I could hear what was said. Great PR and hope you get on the best sellers list.

As far as the game, well they always have to make you sweat it out. I get nervous enough following on gameday at work but I worry about my 81 year old mother watching at home on TV. Sometimes she turns it off if it makes her to crazy but I hope today she saw the whole thing.

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Zambrano started out great but I knew things would go downhill when he threw his glove into the ground. After that he definitely wasn’t the same.

BUT they came back to win the game, like so many games last year. I’ll be happy to split the next 2. The Cardinals offense is red hot at the moment. I don’t think they will stay that way all year but they are right now.

and this was the most intense game i’ve ever seen live… Zambrano was in too long i thought.. he started getting hit real hard around the fifth… but he stuck it out.. im really glad i got to use the W flag i got when i was walking into the ballpark… seriously though.. freaking awesome game.

I just seen the highlights but it looked like he was taunting the Cardinals dugout after. Any word on this?

What a day to miss a game! I tell ya though after all the running around I did out here in the land of the sun, (CA), coming home, punching up BCB, and seeing the Cubs won; and in the manner they did – best nightcap I could imagine. Tomorrow will be another great game, just hope I can find a midwest Fox feed… Missed ya’ll in the threads, but it sounds like they were filled with numerous chicken littles… Glad I missed that. Have a great evening everyone!

CUBS WIN!! WOO-HOO!

If we have any more games like this I don’t think I’ll survive this season.

I go to the cardiologist tomorrow for a checkup (nothing wrong just a follow up on the surgeries I had) and I’m really afraid he’s going to tell me that I can’t watch the Cubs anymore. He’s a diehard fan.

And what a great time. I was at Game 2 of the playoffs last year, and I agree with Al, it felt like a playoff atmosphere out there when Marmol came in to pitch the 9th.

Let’s hope for another win tomorrow. Anyone read the yahoo recap of the game? At the end there was a note with some sour grapes from TLR:

For a second consecutive day, Milton Bradley refused to talk about the third-strike argument that resulted in his ejection from Thursday’s game. Piniella backed his player, saying: "It didn’t look like a good pitch to me." Cardinals manager Tony La Russa’s take: "I don’t know how the Cubs get away with making the comments they make about umpires."

Link to story can be found at http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=290417116&prov=ap

It’s always nice to fly my W flag, but when the win is at the expense of the cards,,,,,, happy days

TLR is joke. The way the Umps have been calling balls and strikes lately I’m surprised Lou hasn’t blown a gasket yet. The home plate is 17" across. The strike zone don’t start at the ground level and go up into the batter’s eye’s.

for your birthday than a cubbie win.
A little scary the amount of K’s in the last 2 games (23)
but I can still hear Harry say (CUBS WIN,CUBS WIN) in my head.

Felt like the Fukudome game against the Brewers last year

says that Pujols is questionable for tomorrow, due to being hit on the elbow.

I was sitting pretty darn close to you yesterday, but didn’t make my way over to say hello… It’s such a pain in the neck to move around in the bleachers. I prefer to stay put.

Really. It was weird.

I had cataract surgery yesterday morning that wiped me out for much of the day. I got up from resting late in the afternoon, came out and the Cubs were tailing by a run in the 8th with Sori up.

My wife was watching the game and I said to her, “This would be a good time for a home run”.

Next pitch. WHAM. A homah!

I went out to start the grill for dinner. I came back in minutes later and it was the top of the 9th, the Cards had two on and one out and Carlos was closing.

I said, “This would be a good time for a double play grounder.”

Next pitch. 6-4-3 DP.

I’m considering playing the lotto today.

I figure after I get the other eye done in two weeks that I’ll have x-ray vision too.. ;)

- but why? I assume you are talking about fan intensity not player intensity?

I think there is more to this than just random events. I can’t quite explain it , but I feel it has something to do with how the event is sold and hyped. The real point is, is there something that can be identified and avoided, so there is a higher liklihood of bringing that intensity in October.

I would not be surprised if TLR goes after someone today in retaliation for hitting Pujols. Everybody knows it wasn’t intentional, but Tony is a spiteful SOB. I’m thinking it will most likely be Soriano.

Quite funny, Al. “Aside from the two HR’s to Ludwick and the mistake to Barden”. Huh?

Z turned an early 3-0 lead into a 5-3 deficit in no time, then promptly gave the Cards two more runs after the Cubs had worked back to 5-5. I’ll give you the fact that he went 7 innings, but giving up that many runs…not sure you could say he pitched “well”.

Maybe mediocre, maybe hum-hum, but that’s about it.

In the end, who cares? The Cubs won…all that matters.