Since everyone and their mother's lover's best friend's drug dealer are Fanposting these past two days I figured I'd throw this out there.

Rich Harden is scheduled to go tomorrow night, but as well all know his starts can be extremely spotty, and extremely limited. Lilly, on the other hand, has thrown 6+ innings of no-hit ball twice in the last month and as looked like the most dominant pitcher on the roster.

Without a doubt we need the bats to come alive, but in an all-or-nothing Saturday Night Showdown we need a pitcher who can keep us in the game, and I believe Lilly gives us that chance.

Plus, I really wanted to post this again:

We were down. Again.

We had squandered chances. Again.

But when it counted, the bats woke up, and the Wrigley faithful had something to cheer about.

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With the high number of day games the Cubs play combined with a roughly normal working day schedule, I find myself taping a large portion of them to watch later at night. In the age of streaming games, box score updates, ESPN highlights, and almost pitch-by-pitch coverage on this here site the temptation for instant gratification is almost unbearable. However, come game time, I invariably find myslef avoiding anything related to the game like the plague, just hoping I can make it through the day unspoiled. Am I alone?