damn!

damn!

you can’t even be “first!” to your own thread?

not yet

would be hard to blow a 10 game lead or whatever it is, with 23 left. Yeah, it’s the cubs, I know.

Chatting tonight gentlemen?

Ramirez with some fancy leather there

Five strikeouts already for Wolf. (dying laughing)

must execute and tie the game

Not watching live but Ron was pretty livid about that called strike 3 on D-Lee in the 1st.

According to Gameday, the outside corner tonight is Galvine-esque. Demp hasn’t gone out there much, but Wolf is wearing it out.

I’ve never seen one team hit more warning track flyballs.

WTF is wrong with these guys? Hit the ball the other way and hit line drives. This flyball bullshit ain’t gonna do any good tonite.

Have these games become painful to watch or is it just me?

I have never felt worse watching a playoff bound/first place Cubs team. This is strange.

That’s just not a strike. Something has to be done about these umpires. The strike zones are getting silly.

did Ronnie get a new rug?

Yeah, ccd, he did. Pat was giving him a lot grief about it a couple days ago.

here that loud fucking choking sound?

here that loud fucking choking sound?

loud and clear

Anyone else thinking:

1) Thank God for football season

and

2) Maybe if I turn the Cubs off for a week, they’ll be fine and I’ll stay sane?

Two ugly assed first place teams in this town.

I usually avoid work and listen to the game, finding things quite the opposite the last two days…

Another nice play by Ted Williams out there.

Always remember that it could be worse:

The good news is that Wolf is at 103 pitches. He can’t stick around much longer.

And at this point I would just hit Wigginton with a pitch. If he’s going to get on anyway, he may as well earn it the hard way.

So I got a message for you cocksuckers–you 15% of the fuckin’ Internet who bleat like a bunch of unemployed fucking lambs whenever your team goes into a rut, like the one we were in when I was made world fucking famous. I see these worthless assholes here have been trying to keep you in line all year; but you don’t fucking listen to them. Why would you? They’re fucking assholes. So that’s why Uncle Lee’s here–to set you fucking unemployed cocksuckers straight.

oog confuse. this HJE? or C:BTFTC?

I turned it off

Goddamnit.

That’s just disgusting. Getting swept by the Astros at home is humiliation.

Lou managed this series like he was punting it. Let’s hope that’s the case.

Dave Kaplan on the postgame is going to discuss the soap opera that is unfolding around Carlos Zambrano. He teased it by saying that according to his sources the issues appear to be mental and not physical.

I’m gonna listen and I’ll write what he reports.

the issues appear to be mental and not physical.

Coming from Kaplan, I’m not surprised to hear this. He’s a chief proponent of the lazy latin headcase stereotype.

Coming from Kaplan, I’m not surprised to hear this. He’s a chief proponent of the lazy latin headcase stereotype.

Kaplan is hard to listen to. His general knobbery is different than the mentally challenged folks at the tribune, or the meatheads on the score. but he seems to perpetuate every single nugget of groupthink and old-school baseball fallacy in existence in a completely asinine manner.

Kaplan talking some shit about Soriano’s baseball acumen. Sounding like an idiot. Especially as he didn’t say shit about Theriot’s botching that rundown.

My problem with Kaplan’s line of “thinking,” and I use that term loosely, is twofold:

One, it assumes Lou and Larry, and the rest of the Cubs are being completely forthright with us. It’s quite possible, that A.) Z had the MRI and B.) the results were bad, and they’re not quite ready to break that news, or C.) there was a good bit of swelling and blood built up in the joint, and the MRI didn’t really show anything because of the swelling.

Two, while Z is a headcase, I think Harry’s work over at Cub f/x, or even a cursory glance at the Gameday data belies Kaplan’s “mental, not physical stance.” There’s obviously something physically wrong with Carlos. It’s simply a question of what, and how severe.

It’s criminal that Kaplan is attacking Sori and glossing Theriot’s asshattery. I’m turning this fuckface off. Life is too short to listen to people who are so willingly ignorant.

It’s criminal that Kaplan is attacking Sori and glossing Theriot’s asshattery.

This is par for the course with Kap. I can’t wait to here what else he says about Z.

He’s tired.

That is the worst thing that has happened on this blog.

Kaplan has nothing on this story(Z). This is nothing but him reading tea leaves. Sorry I teased this earlier. I thought he’d have something. He doesn’t.

How did he avoid GTOD nomination?

How did he avoid GTOD nomination?

Because he’s a radio and television personality, most likely. I thought we restricted the GTOD to beat-writers, columnists, and most of all, bloggers.

Because he’s a radio and television personality, most likely. I thought we restricted the GTOD to beat-writers, columnists, and most of all, bloggers.

I see. If Brenly was in there, Kap should’ve been, though.

No worries, ccd. I wish Kap would cruise by here tomorrow. I’ve got something special coming for the off day, aimed straight at him and his ilk.

A caller just called in and speculated that Carlos didn’t take the MRI because they have to inject his arm with dye which would put him on the shelf for two weeks (as it did earlier this season). Kaplan of course dismissed the call. He’s an absolute jack ass to callers that don’t have his same opinions.

I know for a fact that the gadolinium used in MRI injections has far fewer side-effects than the iodine-based dyes used in CT scans, PET scans, and other imaging techniques that use contrast dyes.

Does it really take two weeks to come back from that?

The Score is reporting that the injection is exactly the reason Carlos refused to take the MRI. The doctor told him he’d have to miss two weeks, and Z refused the test, but apparently Lou and Larry talked him into it last night, and he will have it done today.

New Thread up.