Got to take mom to the game on mothers day last year. Hope this year goes as well. Happy mothers day and go cubs!

think freel plays today? Is that hamstring serious?

I managed to catch just enough of yesterday’s game to watch Dempster give up the homers, then got called away again. To see this was the final score is demoralizing, although it didn’t look good at that point anyway.
Here’s hoping Marshall can have another good outing and get some run support this time.

can give the Cubs…his career year….and now…it’s back to the career average?

It’s Jeff freaking Suppan.

isn’t too bad for how the season has gone so far

Linky

going to see Star Trek at 12:50.

How’d the book-signing thingee go yesterday? Did Kramer show up and try to share in the credit? You guys going to be on Regis next?

“You see, the beauty of this book is, if you don’t have a Cubs jersey, you just pull the jacket cover off and it unfolds into a jersey!”

“Fabulous! Did I tell you this guy was bonkos!”

He looks kinda creepy and a little ominous, almost like he’s a villain that’s up to no good, they probably shouldn’t have used the black background

Now that Fox is gone and replaced by Ascanion, Jim and Lou need to continue weeding out the bad and planting some new seeds.

Stevens up — Patton gone — Lou loved him in the spring but he has shown nothing to deserve a roster position at this point. Stevens deserves a shot.

Waddell up — Cotts gone — Neil has been consistent since he came over from the south side. Unfortunately, consistently poor is not good. I think Brenly summed it up well in the opener against the Brewers just after Heilman walked the leadoff guy and Braun was getting ready to bat. Bob mentioned that Fielder was due up but Lou had no one up in the pen at that time. Bob said that Lou was reluctant to let Cotts pitch against Fielder because of Fielder’s good track record against Cotts. So if he can’t be counted on to get out the leftys why in the God’s green is Cotts on this team? Time to give Waddell a chance.

Heilman gone — Reinhard up — Others may not like this one but for the same reason that I did not like trading for Heilman in the first place — the Mets got rid of him because he did a lousy job for them in the pen. As bad as the Mets pen was last year, they needed to make changes. Heilman was one of those problems. Just because the guy throws had doesn’t make him a good pitcher — does the name Farnsworth ring a bell?
Give Reinhard a chance.

Lee to the DL — Fox up — It’s time to get this right. If Lee is hurting as much as we are led to believe, put him on the DL and let him heal. As consistent as he was as a good contact and line drive hitter with power prior to his hand injury and subsequent problems, Lee is shadow of his former self. Bring up Fox and let him platoon with Hoff at first.

Our problems to date have been fairly clear — a lousy bullpen with the exception of Marmol and for the most part Gregg. The trio of Soto, Lee, and Bradley have been nothing short of awful all season.

The Cubs can correct or at least attempt to correct the bullpen problem. They can set Lee down until he is better. They will have to fight through the Soto and Bradley problems until they turn it around. With them, there is no other choice.

Rotate these pen pitchers from AA and AAA until we find guys who can do the job. It just makes no sense to continually trot guys out to the mound that succeed as much as a good hitter. A good hitter succeeds 3 times in every 10 that he appears at the plate. The Cubs or any good team cannot afford that same level of success.

Fox on DL? great. Time to find that box I have with all the Tums and Kleenex in it. Whos next?

I doubt that it has anything to do with multiple injuries to people like Ramirez, Lee and Zambrano.

;-)

the Cubs went scoreless in the first, Fuku got a hit, but no one else could manage anything