Dempster, Lee Lead Cubs To Win At Rain-Free Wrigley Field

Either way it was a wonderful game to watch last night, Dempster wasn’t quite as good as he had been before, but still pitched a very good game. And defense! was like turning on a switch from last night…Baker played a solid 3rd, good plays all around.

With a somewhat speedy runner…but to send Soto when the LFer had the ball prior to Soto touching third was a bad move IMO.

I would have held him knowing you at least will have the lead off guy hitting with two out and two in scoring position.

Since it was only the second out, I think I’d have taken my chances with Dempster hitting it to the outfield.

I was surprised when I saw it, but BB said just what you did and thinking about it, it made a lot of sense to send the guy because of those factors….Demp being next and Theriot being the hitter with two outs after Demp. Live he seemed to be out by quite a margin, it was kind of difficult to see during the replay if an off line throw would have gotten him.

What did surprise me most about it was I could see live Soto wasn’t at third yet when the LF picked the ball up.

team has been stingy in the runs department. Got to take your chances.

I thought Lou said he wasn’t going to use Z to do that this year.

in certain limited situations but this was with big lead.

Using Z to hit, that is.

I would prefer Colvin. Again you can’t really judge much of anything by the limited stats if you never let him play against lefties.

and I will admit eating some crow last night after Nady went 2-for-3. ;-)

was April & May when he was not healthy and the Cubs admitted this when signing him. I actually really like Nady and I have to assume his recent defensive fiascos where the result lack of work/practice etc. It made perfect sense for the Cubs to sign a righty to platoon with Dome and they had no way of knowing Colvin would have the monster ST and be so good when he made the squad. At this point it is water under the bridge, but signing a guy who at a minimum could not play the OF till June and then letting him do it was a very bad move.

Colvin still needs to get some starts Vs left handed pitching. Whether he does this in place of
Nady, Sori or even Byrd a few times really is not a huge deal. Lou’s obsession with platooning at every possible especially but not exclusively against lefties is not a good strategy and has not worked well. It is hardly limited to Colvin. Not using Soto despite his being the player with the highest OBP is certainly bad if not worse.

Sitting in the RF bleachers and the drunk guy above me spilled it down my back. My second one a few year later was much better!

Was about to post this. I cannot take credit for this, but it is inspired.

the Nincompoop part…. that’s just hilarious

It’s always been funny regardless, but man if so that’s truly inspired as well as accurate.

Quite simply, it’s not Hendry’s MO to fire a manager, though the only real test of it was with Baker. If that serves as any barometer, Piniella will be here until the last pitch of this season. Hendry also typically defers to veteran players, like with giving no-trade contracts and the like. Not firing Piniella is what I’d expect from Hendry.

I’d like to see someone else come here and see if they can recusitate this team, but I can also see the logic in keeping Piniella. This team has failed because of Fukudome, Lee and Ramirez, no one else and not Piniella.

Just some posturing to keep the hounds at bay. Can anyone really be defended when they intentionally walk someone to get to Konerko with the bases loaded? He’s like 2nd or 3rd in OPS.

Hendry spends too much time reading the papers and message boards… and feels he has to come out and support his manager.

But driving in two runs…..this season I’ll take the 2 RBI just to get them in and trade the out.

Again, it wasn’t close and I like the aggressiveness on the basepaths last night. Let’s talk about how another ump clearly missed an easy routine call. Can they force them to get eye-exams every six months?

Sinatro on the other hand usually doesn’t do much

If we are using “better than John Grabow” as our measuring stick then mabe Hendry should sign Dopirek to pitch. Or…..well…..anyone who has been DFA’d

Good enough reason to sign him IMO.

Or Lou will move Cashner into the rotation and Gorz as well, sending Wells to the pen and using a six man rotation. But Lou has a man crush on Wells.

In all seriousness, I think Gorz deserves to be back in the rotation though, especially since Wells has looked sub-par.

The Cubs resigned him to a 2-year deal that in retrospect was quite clearly a mistake. To be honest at the time I didn’t really have an opinion one way or the the other, didn’t seem to me to be that big of a deal. I don’t think signing Nady was a mistake. At the time he was signed, we had no idea Colvin would emerge and it would have been just as ruinous go into the season without an adequate platoon partner for Fukudome as to go into the season without a better second basemen like Hudson. That being said, I have thought the Cubs should have acquired Hudson each of the last three off-seasons, and I am mystified why they never took a run at him.

I think we all should start looking for Duncan’s pointy tail & goat hooves.

Dunc’s kid. The fans were jubliant, and management would not say a word about it.

I’ll take my chances with STL acquiring Grabow in a heart beat, dump that salary and let us benefit from him pitching for a change. Love to see them turn Grabow into Fassero after leaving us.

And while I was watching the highlights on the MLB Network, Hazel Mae pronounced Quade’s name as “KWAYDE”, not “KWAH-dee”.

He was a HUGE deal for the D-Backs but never really got the power that they wanted out of him. He was a Hoff situation, 1B/LF

They don’t seem to be as low as they were last year though.

 a good chance to hear GO Cubs GO….as the chance of that decreases,,so does the willingness to spend $40