Parker Lets Inglett Park One: 9th Inning HR Leads Brewers Over Cubs 5-3
by Al Yellon on Mar 9, 2010 6:05 PM CST
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PrintWell, maybe they should have cancelled this one, too.
On a day when it was warmer in Chicago (49 degrees) than it was in Mesa at game time (43 degrees, as reported in the boxscore), Cubs reliever Blake Parker gave up a two-run homer to the Brewers' Joe Inglett and that was the difference in a 5-3 loss to Milwaukee, edging the Cubs' spring record down to 3-2.
Pat Hughes mentioned on the WGN broadcast that it's still going to be another week until the first roster cuts; Parker, who was the closer at Iowa last year, didn't do himself any favors in the now virtually open competition for the last two or three spots in the major league bullpen.
Derrek Lee hit his second homer of the spring, a solo shot.
There was some good news that came out of this game. Randy Wells, the first Cub starter to go three innings, made the most of it -- giving up only a single, while striking out two. Wells also drove in a run with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly. Carlos Marmol got nicked for a couple of singles and a walk, which resulted in two runs (one unearned due to an error. He did strike out two.
Of the young Cub relievers today, lefty James Russell put on the best showing, striking out all three batters he faced. Granted that only one of them (Jody Gerut) has any major league experience, but Russell, who is the son of former major league closer Jeff Russell, has earned some more opportunities to show Lou and the coaches what he can do.
After today, the rain and cold weather is supposed to move out of the Phoenix area and gradual warming into the 70's is expected through the weekend and into next week. That's got to be good news for the players, who could be excused for thinking they'd taken a detour through the upper Midwest the last three days. Today's game was delayed by rain for about 50 minutes.
Carlos Zambrano makes his second spring start tomorrow vs. the Giants at Mesa. Perhaps you-know-who -- HWSNBN -- will not be heard on the MLB.com audio broadcast as he was during today's game. Attendance today was 8,475, not bad for a day when the weather was so awful. That makes the season average for four dates 10,114 -- likely to start increasing as the weather improves.
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But through five games, most of the pitchers appear as if they belong in big league camp. Usually by this time, we’ve had a pitcher that had come up through our system having a hideous line or two. So far, only Kennard and Silva have looked like they’re stealing per diem money.
While guys like Coleman and Parker are probably a year away, Jackson and Carpenter aren’t in big league camp yet. It appears, we’re coaching our kids up right.
He who shall not be named.
So I don’t want to name him. But he can also be referred to as “he woo shall not be named.” Does that help give it away?
"Chicago Cubs baseball is on the air."-Pat Hughes
HWSNBN! There's a REASON for that!
We CAN’T use his name!
by Steven Schweickert on Mar 9, 2010 6:43 PM CST up reply actions
The first rule of Woo-woo
is you don’t talk about woo-woo.
Forget all that other stuff. I gotta believe.
by drewishdrewid on Mar 9, 2010 7:36 PM CST up reply actions
I bow humbly before Woosdom
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
@Twitter as @brommmietze
I understand the acronym but
still confused on the person we are talking about unless it is same person who created seven horcruxes
his name rhymes with....
lonniegooshoe
To eliminate exclusion, we cut out the differences to feel like we belong.
Where did it go?
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
The goo went shoo! Away it flew- out of view.
I’ll give you a clue: the hue was blue.
It wasn’t new- it’s time was due.
“Where did it go?” Gee, I dunno…
You’ll have to ask Sue(369) … or Mr. Woo …
I thank you.
"Look, what do you want me to do?"
Just in case you're reading...
nice work Randy!
"Chicago Cubs baseball is on the air."-Pat Hughes
by katie casey on Mar 9, 2010 6:55 PM CST reply actions 2 recs
rec'd
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
@Twitter as @brommmietze
HWSNBN was heard on the audio today??
Makes me glad I wasn’t listening in.
From what I saw on the plane clip in the post about him, to say his behavior is overbearing is an insult to overbearing people.
Who cares if he's a Cubs fan? This is a football forum! He is a PACKER fan as well. So, from now until March, I’m sure he’ll dedicate a lot of his time here. In late March, then we can be enemies during the baseball season. Besides, the Cubs have perhaps the most loyal baseball fanbase in the country. You have to respect that.
Go Pack!
by Jabooty on Jan 25, 2010 2:58 PM EST
by Vermont Cubs Fan on Mar 9, 2010 7:04 PM CST reply actions
yeah, I heard him in the 8th inning. It was pretty faint.
Forget all that other stuff. I gotta believe.
by drewishdrewid on Mar 9, 2010 7:38 PM CST up reply actions
Hoff screwed up pretty bad with the "K"
on the hit and run with Castro. Exactly the kind of situational hitting that a “bat of the bench” should be providing.
I was gonna say,
You need the sarcasm font here?
Who cares if he's a Cubs fan? This is a football forum! He is a PACKER fan as well. So, from now until March, I’m sure he’ll dedicate a lot of his time here. In late March, then we can be enemies during the baseball season. Besides, the Cubs have perhaps the most loyal baseball fanbase in the country. You have to respect that.
Go Pack!
by Jabooty on Jan 25, 2010 2:58 PM EST
by Vermont Cubs Fan on Mar 9, 2010 7:30 PM CST up reply actions
Hoff is so last year
I’d rather have tracy or millar in April
Way too many open spots in that bullpen for a team that wants to think it can contend
Zambrano, Dempster, Wells are locks in the rotation. Samardizija, Marshall and Gorzellaney are duking it out for two rotation spots until Lilly returns.
So….that leaves a bullpen like this…
Marmol (can he close? Nobody has any idea)
Grabow (the “surest” thing in the pen)
Either Samardzija, Marshall or Gorzelnaey
Caridad (he is a lock by sheer default)
So three HUGES gaping holes in that pen. And it’s not like the front end of the pen is anything that instills great confidence until proven otherwise.
THIS, more than anything, is why I think this team struggles mightily to get to the 75 win mark. And God save the queen if Randy Wells was a fluke in 2009. Or significant injury besets Zambrano or Dempster.
The Blackhawks and the Stanley Cup in 2010.
pancakes cupcakes any kind of cake really
by jesus christos on Mar 9, 2010 9:40 PM CST up reply actions
Itty-bitty pink cakes?
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
eww
" It’s spring fever - you don’t know what it is you want, but it fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so. "--Mark Twain
by cooliogirl47 on Mar 10, 2010 12:17 PM CST up reply actions
I prefer this one
Duff Goldman (no relation) is a genius!
by Shawn Domagal-Goldman on Mar 9, 2010 10:21 PM CST up reply actions
Wow ... seriously?
A Wrigley Field cake?
Who cares if he's a Cubs fan? This is a football forum! He is a PACKER fan as well. So, from now until March, I’m sure he’ll dedicate a lot of his time here. In late March, then we can be enemies during the baseball season. Besides, the Cubs have perhaps the most loyal baseball fanbase in the country. You have to respect that.
Go Pack!
by Jabooty on Jan 25, 2010 2:58 PM EST
by Vermont Cubs Fan on Mar 9, 2010 11:16 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah the folks on "Ace of Cakes" made it.
by Shawn Domagal-Goldman on Mar 10, 2010 12:42 AM CST up reply actions
Does the clock actually move?
Or is it that huge because Charm City Cakes couldn’t get their good detail folks to work on it?
I haven’t seen that episode (if there is one), but the proportions seem very off, and neglecting the flagpoles over the scoreboard just seems…wrong.
No outfield wells, either – Wrigley Field is not Camden Yards.
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
how do you cut into a cake like that?
I wouldnt be able to….but then I easily get attached to inanimate objects. Is Al in the bleachers?
" It’s spring fever - you don’t know what it is you want, but it fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so. "--Mark Twain
by cooliogirl47 on Mar 10, 2010 8:25 AM CST up reply actions
I easily get attached to inanimate objects. Is Al in the bleachers?
Hey! Al is very animated, at times!
Forget all that other stuff. I gotta believe.
by drewishdrewid on Mar 10, 2010 11:02 AM CST up reply actions
lol, you know, you're right....dont know what I was thinking
" It’s spring fever - you don’t know what it is you want, but it fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so. "--Mark Twain
by cooliogirl47 on Mar 10, 2010 1:02 PM CST up reply actions
CHOCOLATE CAKE!!!
"I am not ashamed to say I love Greg Maddux" - Jim Hendry
Me either Jim
by Doggie Stalker on Mar 9, 2010 10:22 PM CST up reply actions
Talk about beating a dead horse...
I think you have been campaigning your views about how/why the Cubs are gonna suck for way to long long. Everyone here is sick and tired of it, and everyone on the Blackhawks board is sick of these negative posts too.
He spreads the joy onto other forums besides here?
"I cherish this dream I had as a little kid to play baseball,'' Ted Lilly
by Madison Cub Fan on Mar 9, 2010 10:38 PM CST up reply actions
Yep.
After the Packers-Bears game in the first week of the NFL season, he published a FanPost at Windy City Gridiron titled “Earl Bennett Absolutely Blows”, or something like that.
He posted that despite the fact that Earl Bennett had 7 receptions for 66 yards against the Packers, and the Bears fans were really taking him to task for that one.
Also at WCG, he made a very derogatory remark about sue369. Something like “The BCB c*** shows up” … I don’t remember the exact words. If that incident occurred at Windy City Gridiron, it has since been deleted because I couldn’t find it in the comments search there.
I seem to remember that comment occurring in BLou’s post about Earl Bennett. Maybe someone who participated in that FanPost can confirm this belief.
Then there was this inciteful FanPost at Second City Hockey after the Blackhawks lost to the New York Islanders. I don’t follow the Hawks too closely, so I don’t know the exact score of the game, but, reading into that FanPost, it may have been a blowout.
Also, scroll down in the Second City Hockey FanPost to see what may be the single best comment directed at BLou that I have ever seen.
Who cares if he's a Cubs fan? This is a football forum! He is a PACKER fan as well. So, from now until March, I’m sure he’ll dedicate a lot of his time here. In late March, then we can be enemies during the baseball season. Besides, the Cubs have perhaps the most loyal baseball fanbase in the country. You have to respect that.
Go Pack!
by Jabooty on Jan 25, 2010 2:58 PM EST
by Vermont Cubs Fan on Mar 9, 2010 11:28 PM CST up reply actions
Also, in the Earl Bennett FanPost,
Have a look at the remark by PolishSausage.Ditka.Bears toward BLou. Quite possibly the most recommended comment I have ever seen.
Who cares if he's a Cubs fan? This is a football forum! He is a PACKER fan as well. So, from now until March, I’m sure he’ll dedicate a lot of his time here. In late March, then we can be enemies during the baseball season. Besides, the Cubs have perhaps the most loyal baseball fanbase in the country. You have to respect that.
Go Pack!
by Jabooty on Jan 25, 2010 2:58 PM EST
by Vermont Cubs Fan on Mar 9, 2010 11:50 PM CST up reply actions
Yes, there are holes.
But it’s March 9. Still time to fix those. It’s not like Mel Rojas is protecting leads for this team.
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. - Ryne Sandberg
true, though teams looking to contend don't generally go to camp
with quite so many question marks in the pen
I guess I'm just a worrier, that's why my friends call me whiskers
With the amount of young arms, I can understand the approach
Keep in mind, the 1990 Reds were led by 3 youngsters at the back end of the pen. It worked out pretty well for that Lou Piniella-led squad. I’m not saying that Cashner, Carridad and Marmol will equal Charlton, Dibble and Myers, but it’s not impossible for a young bullpen to come together and succeed when they’ve have question marks entering the season.
The biggest thing, IMO, is to figure out and establish roles as early as possible once the season is underway, in order to provide a semblance of order for the bullpen heading into May and June.
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. - Ryne Sandberg
Here is what I find foolish...
BLou makes it sound like the contenders for the open spots in the ‘pen are a bunch of scab semi-pro pitchers from the Eastern Iowa Hawkeye League. NEWSFLASH: All good relief pitchers were young at some point in time. I’m not advocating that you go about your business year in and year out hoping to get lucky, but you make it sound like Mike Harkey is back in camp.
Its funny, you spend most of your life gripping a baseball. And in the end, its almost always the other way around.
Hmm.... I think I've read this before
Can it be – am I simply reliving the same post over and over again?
Maybe I’m stuck, playing a small recurring part in a blogging movie called BLuehog Day. I just hope my name isn’t Ned and I’m not an insurance salesman…
Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."
by ballhawk on Mar 9, 2010 9:58 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
It's cooooold out there today!
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
I think it like a madlib
He set the template many years ago and just plugs in names on the current roster and posts.
"I am not ashamed to say I love Greg Maddux" - Jim Hendry
Me either Jim
by Doggie Stalker on Mar 9, 2010 10:24 PM CST up reply actions
But is he ever wrong?
His predictions of the Cubs finishing the season in a suboptimal position for the fans has been spot-on every single time. Why, I doubt anyone could be so accurate with their posting unless they didn’t happen to post their predictions for failure in winning the Championship of that particular league on the board of the team that won the Championship that year. Betcha he didn’t describe how futile the Yankees’ campaign was last season on Pinstripe Alley, even when they started horribly.
It’s trivial to know that 29 out of 30 teams in the MLB will fail in their quest to be the next champion. It’s also easy to predict that a team you know well due to media coverage may well be one of those 29 teams. And when your team doesn’t happen to beat those 1-29 odds and you crow about how you “saw it coming” – well, that’s just pathetic.
Here’s a prediction: The Oakland Raiders won’t win the Super Bowl next year. Another prediction: If they don’t, I’m not gonna go over to www.silverandblackpride.com and announce that I totally called that!
It’s called “playing the odds”. Combine that with an inflammatory writing style and you get the poster in question. His posting style is designed to seem somewhat logical, because it is – the Cubs probably won’t win the 2010 World Series. Unfortunately, (probably) neither will the A’s, the Orioles, the Royals, the Nats, the D’backs, or the Pirates.
Saying that a team will fail to live up to their fans’ hopes of winning a Championship is not the hallmark of a prognosticator – it’s the hallmark of a coward. Too timorous to harbor any hope, he defers to defecating on others’ dreams. And he’ll be right, too! Right up until the day he’s wrong.
Oh, how I long for that day.
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
by Clutch16 on Mar 10, 2010 6:10 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Speaking of gaping holes...
As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.
by santoswoodenlegs on Mar 9, 2010 9:59 PM CST up reply actions
Oh god. The unprotected google image search for "gaping holes" doesn't leave many options...
Come visit me inside Wrigley along the Addison side mezzanine fence straight up from 1st base.
by section229beer on Mar 9, 2010 10:13 PM CST up reply actions
that's pretty damn cool, actually.
Forget all that other stuff. I gotta believe.
by drewishdrewid on Mar 10, 2010 11:07 AM CST up reply actions
Wow.
News flash: these are two losses IN SPRING TRAINING!
I’d rather see these things happen now than in the regular season. God forbid you actually give a Cubs team a chance by March.
Who cares if he's a Cubs fan? This is a football forum! He is a PACKER fan as well. So, from now until March, I’m sure he’ll dedicate a lot of his time here. In late March, then we can be enemies during the baseball season. Besides, the Cubs have perhaps the most loyal baseball fanbase in the country. You have to respect that.
Go Pack!
by Jabooty on Jan 25, 2010 2:58 PM EST
by Vermont Cubs Fan on Mar 9, 2010 11:15 PM CST up reply actions
Agreed. If you win 3 out of every five it doesn't look that good until...
you project that out over 162 regular season games. Do the math. Hello playoffs!
"Look, what do you want me to do?"
97.2 wins?
That’s probably good enough to make the playoffs.
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
No way. you will fail to reach the playoffs by 0,8 Wins
The old 2.5 children problem…
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
@Twitter as @brommmietze
A half-child is good for
Falling over due to massive imbalance. And then flopping around. Not attractive to any potential mates in the area.
Not that I have any personal experience, mind…
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
Did anyone?
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
Well, on a free DVD a friend lent to me...
…one viewing was enough…
"Look, what do you want me to do?"
The State rests, Your Honor...
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
I have a hole in my pocket
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
@Twitter as @brommmietze
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"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
@Twitter as @brommmietze
People should just ignore the troll
Some of the stuff he posts is so stupid that he doesn’t believe it. Ignore him.
To me it's all going to come down to Marmol...
If he’s anything close to lights out in the 9th, then I think we’ll be all right. If he struggles with control and can’t handle late inning pressure, I fear it’s going to be a long season.
The 7th and 8th innings...
…are just as important as the 9th, and that is what concerns me a bit right now.
"I don't like them fellas that drive in two runs but let in three" Casey Stengel
Dozed off in the 8th - A really pity about that last inning
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
@Twitter as @brommmietze
I think most of us are concerned about the pen ...
but Wells’ performances so far make me feel better about the rotation. Could you imagine where we would be now — and where we would have been last year — if he hadn’t come around?
Right.
As of now, the Cubs first three rotation spots — Z, Dempster and Wells — seem solid. Assuming Lilly’s return is on target, the top four should be as good as last year, if not better.
"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra
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