Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best
Excitable boy, they all said
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy -- Warren Zevon
Tonight's "Excitable Boy" matchup features Carlos Zambrano and Livan Hernandez.
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It might be a good night to start John Mabry -- Mabry is 12-for-21 (.571) lifetime vs. Livan, with two doubles, two HR and no K's. Hernandez has been successful against the Cubs in his career, winning three of his last four starts at Wrigley Field, posting a 1.67 ERA over 32 1-3 innings and pitching at least eight innings on each occasion. Memorably, in this August 2001 game, in which Barry Bonds hit his 50th HR of that now-likely-tainted season, Hernandez was 4-for-4 with three runs scored and a HR himself, and was in the middle of a streak of eight straight hits.
No more of that sort of nonsense.
Thought I'd also mention this, passed along by BCB reader ballstitch (who lives in Champaign), about the bizarre reasons that many of you won't be able to watch tonight's game:
Well, the last WCIU game went back to the norm ... those of us in a claimed zip code that don't receive WCIU (due to distance) got no game.
As you suggested, I emailed WGN about the situation where a crescent of folks in between local over the air broadcast range and out of market zip codes are getting hosed. I received no reply.
Just thought I'd let you know. It was on my mind because I and everyone else in the downstate claimed ZIPs will miss tonight's game as it is on WCIU. This has to affect parts of Iowa and Indiana as well.
So I'll be watching the Cardinals. You'd think that would make someone lift an eyebrow.