Soriano had the ball in his glove. Would have been a great catch. I suspect Sam Fuld would have caught up to it.

:-P haha

…. that there have been racist remarks made. I’m sure these are not the only ones.

Proving you wrong isn’t the point. Everyone from Derrek Lee to Billy Williams to Lou Piniella have advised Bradley to simply ignore these. He hasn’t been able to do that. He really has to. That’s the point.

Did Security do anything besides walking by and constantly looking at them?

If not, isn’t that a massive FAIL by the Cubs?

I was reprimanded by an usher for sitting on the wall while posing for a picture. I’m surprised that the ushers won’t approach noisy fools like those and in so many polite words, tell them to STFU.

that just because it appears as though security doesn’t give a rats arse about the cussing isn’t a good reason to let it go. Maybe if N Oakley had approached an usher and said, “Hey man, I brought my kid to this game to have a good time and those idiots are being rude, profane and disgusting.” Something might have gotten done. If good people don’t stand up for what’s right, they can’t expect anything to happen.

The beautiful thing about the first amendment is that we all have the right to tell someone we think they’re an idiot without fear of repercussion (although I can’t remember the last time I called my boss an idiot to her face). So do those guys have the right to be stupid? Unfortunately, yes. Do we have a right to stand up to them and get them to keep it clean? Of course we do.

16 days left until Bears vs. Packers

Woohoo. :-)

any wins are going to come easy. But maybe that makes them better.

But I’m not going to bring that game up. Largely because the Bears are also one of my favorites. A few years ago, when the Bears went to the Super Bowl, I cheered for them.

need to play when Aramis was out. I think he put so much pressure on himself to perform then.

Soriano or the Cubs?

I was confused.

if hendry keeps him because he thinks the other team isnt giving up enough, i will strangle someone

I didn’t know them.

You were there? Why didn’t you stop by and say hi?

but that really depressed me. I knew we’d been awful… thats even worse then i thought.

That’s strange, since he probably wouldn’t have taken 2nd base if not for the throw to the plate.

a sweep of the Brewers in Milwaukee.

Indeed, baseball is a funny game.

BTW, it’s 1-0 Cards top 3.

I’m not particularly a fan of Bradley, but 9% more people think he’s a bigger problem than the offense as a whole?

Lets say for the fun of it you’ve got to draft a team to play a 7 game series over the next week, wherein the drafting loser of the series dies. This series starts tomorrow, so tonight you’ve got to choose your team. You can build the team as you wish, but you MUST pick 5 non-pitchers from the current cubs roster as of this moment to play as a part of your team. They will continue playing tomorrow with the same momentum, injuries, whatever else as they ended today with.

Who do you chose? No chance you skip Bradley, and that is IF he makes it out of the top three. In fact, filling the 5th spot after you’ve got Rami, DLee, Dome and MB is hard… Theriot i suppose.

How the HELL could anybody possibly choose Bradley over “offense” in that poll? And seriously, who is voting “starting pitching”? Why is that even an OPTION?

that’s got to be approaching a record

Slightly more than a month to go. As silly as this may sound, it’s do-able.

Maybe that’s what this team needs: for people to start ignoring them in favor of other fall sports. Then they sneak into the playoffs on the last days of the season and make a miraculous run through the playoffs to meet the Tigers in the WS.

BUZZ…BUZZ…BUZZ…BUZZ…(bedside alarm going off)

“Time to get up!”

(You never know. Until they are mathematically eliminated, I’m not throwing the towel in completely…)

I’m speaking specifically about the fan behavior at the ballpark, not general opinion of Bradley.

and I have gone to numerous basketball and football games at major universities. There is a difference between the crowds. Sit in the student section at a Big Ten basketball game, and you’ll hear today’s typical college speech: “I was just goin’ to my f-in class and this guy f-in texts me that he needed the f-in check TODAY or I would be f-in in the s-hole with him.” I don’t hear as much of that in the bleachers. The crowd there is a little older (early- to mid-20s) and drinks more. In the first few innings, it’s a lot of “hey, look at me, throw me a ball” kind of stuff, as well as sexual jesting with or about others in the bleachers. 8-10 beers later, it’s “You f-in suck you piece of s” yelled at either the opposing ballplayer or the home player, if he made a bad play. If I’m there, I’m usually with my sons, and they’re somewhat inured to the verbal diarrhea due to their having been in the university setting with me. But they comment on the decline in humor and increase in volume as the game goes on. I have, at times, turned around and gestured toward my kids, which usually results in the loudmouth’s friends elbowing him to calm it down because “there’s kids here.” The mean comments and out-of-control yelling don’t happen at the college events, because there’s little to no drinking in the stadium.

My takeaway? This is something the Rickets need to address with additional security and instructions to ushers and security. Signs should be posted throughout the bleachers that “Excessive, profane speech will not be tolerated. Enjoy the game and let others enjoy it too.” Publicize it, set a new standard, and people will be able to adjust their behavior.

One other note: a minor tragedy of the bleacher fans’ behavior is that it sometimes drowns out classic taunting. It is fun, and not offensive to anyone, when a whole section starts chanting the opposing fielder’s middle name, or shouting “left, right, left, right” as he walks slowly back to his spot after chasing a foul ball. Knowledgable fans can toss off some great barbs in the moment, attacking the player’s fear of the wall or known proclivity for partying. I hate to lose that in the humdrum volume of the drunken show-off. But such is pro sports today. (I’m 46, by the way.)

Here is hoping Demp pitches as good for you today as Wells did for me this year on my birthday.

Now you know that Al is not making it up that I read or look down during the “scary” parts.

by me this time.