Pitching matchup
Arizona: Javier Vazquez 9-9, 4.37 ERA
Cubs: Mark Prior 7-3, 3.23 ERA
Lineups
Gritty, gutty little Craig Counsell, 2b
Chad Tracy, rf
What’s left of Luis Gonzalez, lf
Troy Glaus, 3b
Tony Clark, 1b
SuperJew, cf
Royce Clayton, ss
Chris Snyder, c
Javier Vazquez, p
Cubs
Jerry the Lesser, cf
Neifi!, ss
MVLee, 1b
Jeromy, rf
Todd Walker, 2b
Matt Murton, lf
The Gremlin, 3b
Michael Berut, c
The Franchise, p
“Gritty, gutty little” = “pesky”
Oooh…scary…
Good news: Jose Macias is batting seventh, not second.
Bad news: He’s hitting in front of Michael Barrett?
Good news: Barrett’s in the lineup (at least according to Cubs.com) to offset E-ramis’ not playing.
Bad news: He’s batting behind Jose? And no Hank White?
Dusty is still labeled as the Cubs manager?
Finally they let me play!
What the hell is Craig Counsell doing with my nickname?
Javier Vazquez has great control, so when the Cubs swing at every pitch at least most of them will be near the plate today.
Murton’s getting the start today. Gerut will pinch hit for him in the second.
Who ever put up “Super Jew” should know that is offensive. What a schmuck…
Luis Montanez is hitting .319 with only four strikeouts in 47 at bats since he went up to AA. Why this would interest anyone is unclear.
It’s SuperJew, no space. Jeesh. With a space it’d be very offensive.
Better late than never?…um…uh…whatever, I still blow.
I was very offensive yesterday. I had three hits.
I find calling Jose Macias a Gremlin to be offensive. I’m a Gremlin and even when wet I’m better looking that that dwarfish little creep.
My sister is hotter than a baked owl.
I feel bad that Desipio called Shawn Green Super Jew. I talk to lots of Jews and they want to come play here. I’m not tampering with the Jews, they just talk to me. Now I’m worried that Jews might not want to come play here and be called Super.
Try the baked parrot.
No Gizmo,
You are a Mogwai. We Gramlins are what happens when the whole water, food after midnight schtick happens.
We also find calling Jose Macias Offensive, though.
Love the peos. (the little curls)
Shawn Green is Super Jew, but I’m the Hebrew Hammer! And ever since I played in that game in Florida I’ve felt like the Hebrew Hammered.
We were so tired yesterday…wah wah boo hoo. Boy are we pansies.
Wow, that’s enough batting practice. Hey, if you guys need me I’ll be in the dugout waiting for somebody to sit next to me for a little one-armed hug! Go team!
You will not find out whether I would play on Yom Kippur or not this year. First off, Dusty would not play me anyway. Two, it falls in October and I have a feeling that we will be on a vacation at that time.
Oh boy am I excited about winning the 2 hole back! Too bad I didn’t bat there yesterday, we totally would’ve won that game.
dudes my plan is still on schedule dudes. remember days ago i said we would win this series 3-1 dudes? we’ll just have to win the 3 games left dudes.
did you see the lineup dudes? how you like them apples dudes?
I couldn’t remember my crzay lineup at all when Ron asked me what it was on the pre-game, and I think I said it was Hank White hitting behind the Gremlin. Sounds like a winner go get him big boy.
It’s time to let me have a shot at managing this team.
Apparently, the NL just instituted a pitch catcher rule. We have Hank White batting eighth with Michael Barret catching Mark Prior.
Good start.
I hate me!
Gotta have some pressure on you as a pitcher, knowing if you give up 1 run you have a good shot at losing.
I’m playing, not Barrett.
Absolutely offensive! The way you guys treat Baker on this board!! I am a baker and take great offense at the things you say about my kind.
By the way, the manager of the Chicago Cubs is a big-time moran, and so are the prissy-prisses that don’t understand that SuperJew is a term of endearment and a real compliment to the best Jewish player int he league today (Adam Greenberg would have been first, but he’s not in the league, he’s still wandering around Miami looking for his baseball).
Greenburg,
I get hit w/ a line drive off the head w/ out a helmet and will probably make my next start. You get hit in the head w/ a helmet on and miss a month. I am a warrior.
I am blowing in. This means the Cubs have a 10% chance to win today.
Apparently I’m done for the year. Just FYI.
Hey Frankie T. Fuck you, you panzie ass White Stocking!
See what I do to you if you make me mad. Leadoff double,huh, bitches.
Two teams and not a one knows what to do with me. How bout you just forget me and go back to playing long ball? What? Oh, the wind is blowing in? Have fun boys…
For McCarthy and Marte. Looks like I am going to happen.
I probably could play right now, but I would rather have this situation. If I came off the DL I would go back to the minors, now that the cubs have another waste of roster space to complement macias (gerut). I would then have to deal with the great corey patterson and David Kelton while getting paid a minor league salary. Right now, I still count as Major Leager and get paid the MLB minimum.
Today’s game will likely feature me.
We suck and we will prove it in the month of Aug.
RE: #39
I said this yesterday and it’ll be proved to be doubly true by the end of the weekend:
I have been forced to watch so much BAD baseball this week that I’m about ready to explode, taking 40,000+ people with me.
I need to stay out of the air.
Not to defend the gladiator or anything, but how come when Sosa average goes down and only hits homers, it is because of steroids; but, when Thomas’s average goes down and only hits homers, all the while being nagged with worse injuries, he is a great hero
Wow! Look at the pretty ball flying high in the air!
Please Len, make excuses for us today.
I need to stay buried in the back of the lineup.
Lee is totally wasted with this lineup…
Seeing how “angry” I was at steroid use, kinda makes you think huh? CLearly, since I hate the, I never took them…it’s not like I went to Auburn or anything.
Suggestion for drinking contest:
Every time Ronnie says “Unbelievable” slam a 12-oz beer. Trsut me–you’ll be stumbling around worse than Gary Moeller at an Ann Arbor restaurant.
He just said that the scouts today are “unbelievable”
Scouts. Really?
Hey where’s the Coppertone dudes! I’m sweating and burning lika a hot dog at the gay pride parade!
Yeah you can’t believe a word a scout says unless he went to MIT or Stanford
Ronnie, I see where some scouts got electrocuted at a jamberoo.
“Buh-LEEVE” me is a shot.
“Gosh” is a chug.
Drive that baby up.
We’re a better alternative to slamming a can of beer.
Pat, that’s very inappropriate. But I still laughed.
Chuck–
What about “GEEZ!”
Drive me up as well
CT, I don’t see when else that comment is going to be appropriate…
a Ronnie “Jeez!” is also a chug
When was the last time before Jeromy’s AB that someone (other than Matt Murton) had one of me?
Did you guys hear me mention I had “stomach issues: yesterday?
My liver couldn’t hold it. And people who know me know that I can drink A LOT of beer.
Buh-leave me.
Those were Scout Masters, Pat.
#64, Walker had great AB to draw a walk with the bases loaded against the Sox last year…
27 pitches. Nice start.
Whew…we got out of that mess…
I am just practicing for men on base with one out
Take a shot whenever he begins a sentence with ” you know Pat”!
Yes #68 it was on Sunday Night on espn against me. Joe Morgan seemed convinced that it was a strike. Glendon Rusch threw a great game too.
It’s a good thing I’ve been kind enough to grace you guys with my presence. I could have signed anywhere last year, but I signed here. And, even though I was upset about not playing everyday, and could have gone anywhere again, I came here. And now that I’ve left 6,786 runners on base this month, you can all thank me.
–Of course, only the savvy of you knwo why I REALLY swallowed my pride and came here. Two words. They both begin with the letter “M” and rhyme with edia arket.
Well, that was fun…I didn’t have a chance in hell there.
“I’ve got a Fax here…” means you take a reversable drill with a masonry bit and stick it in your ear.
Singing means a trip to Abt for new speakers for your radio
Or a trip to Dr. Richard Wiet for a new cochlear implant. Tell him I referred you for the friends and family discount.
Todd,
Everytime you get gidp, one of us doesn’t count as being left on base. The real number is 2100 runners lob
Use of the word “unbelieavable”: 1 beer slam
“Believe me”: 1 shot, liquor of your choice.
“Gosh”: 1 shot AND 1 beer slam
“Geez!”: 1 shot, one beer, sprint to the end the room, hold a baseball bat on the ground, upright with your nose, and spin in a circle. After completing one full circle, sprint back to where you were seated and do another shot and a beer slam.
I recommend that, whenever he whinily bellows “What is going on?!?!” that you chop of your legs at the knees.
Everyone needs a cockear implant. Isn’t that right Ron Santo?
I hated playing for the White Stockings so I decided to come play with my buddy Gonzo the Nose!
Ron forgets the outs: Eat pickled egg.
Ron forgets the score: Chomp a live minnow.
Playing that game would leave me dizzy and nauseous. Kind of like listening to a cubs game on the radio, now that you mention it.
Serious questions:
Chris Snyder – related to Cory?
My drinking game is beter, pardner.
Hey Musburger! What the fuck were you trying to spell there man?
I’ll be batting 2nd all weekend now.
Another Santo-ism is after a big play: “I’ve got to see that again” meaning of course, that he’s got to see it for the first time. That one’s actually kinda sad, because it means that the diabetes is eating Ronnie’s eyesight away. I’m thinking that Santo relies on Pat’s play-by-play more than we do.
Chuck, gotta make room for the minnow if anyone plays that game!
Describing gifts: SHot of Jack and Jagermeister blend.
I’m liberal to a point, but fuck the minnow.
The minnows shall be lost.
That Musberger link is priceless. Thanks.
I wonder what a Keith Jackson “Whoa Nelly!” or “FUM-BUHL!” would garner back in the day?
10 pitch AB so for for Blanco.
I see 57 pitcheees this At bat bitch
Magic #11.
MV ME!!!!!!
I am God.
Goddamn that was sweet.
Whitey not only homers, but do so after making Vasquez throw 11 pitches.
And another for the Santo game: “Ohhhh, Yueeeaah!”
We go to playoffs, I do it myself!
Prior – you fuck. Can’t you just take 3 pitches?
Now THAT’S White Power!
Best AB by a Cub all season. And it belongs to me female doges. Andy, get my ass in your starting lineups and change that meter now mang.
I keel the ball threw the massive gale foce wind…where is my curtain call? I am so powerful it is unfair.
Bob says we’re going crazy.
I want to get back out there Chuck, I have all I need now.
“Back to Back JACKS!” – Burn $10,000 of home assets.
Brenly said “hwfc is going crazy” whooo!
Bob just gave a shoutout.
and so on and so forth…
Did Len really throw down a mention of the “HWFC”?
My status is famous again!
Nah, man. I wanted to get back on that mound and get some more Ks.
The Rockies are in our division and not one of us can manage to be above .500 at the end of July? God we suck.
“That went out with high buttoned shoes.” Rip off your…. Oh. That was a Harryism.
I think we have to all do a shot every time the Hank White Fan Club is Mentioned on the air. I don’t care if you are at work, driving a car, HWFC shoutouts deserve a shot.
Hank White’s AB: 11 pitches
The next 2 batters combined: 3
Way to nail a guy who’s on the ropes, Cubs!
Brenly was responsible for the name drop.
Chuck,
And the ONLY time Harry would say it was whenever the pitcher would pull the ole’ fake-to-third-thow-to-first play that only works once a decade, against the Cubs.
Nailed that fuck Grace.
ocnalb…that’s blanco backwards….fan club is bulc naf!
Combined, we’ve seen 20 pitches in our 2 AB’s, or 40% of Vasquez’s pitch count.
hand gem baby
“Nailed that fuck Grace. ”
Against the Black Sox AND late in a close game.
Unforgiveable.
I am a joy to watch.
I use that with the kids. My oldest answers to “Nod narb.”
Chuck, I always mutter that “high-button shoes” phrase to myself and chuckle when I see some high school pitcher try to pull that crap in a game I’m umping. It was a classic, and should be placed on Rick Sutcliffe’s tombstone.
You’re welcome Mike D. Make sure you play me this fall.
I am hitting .357 in July with two dingers and five steaks in 28 ABs.
Dave you hit that one on the nose. I must have seen Sutcliffe do that 25 times in the 80’s. Usually it was when he was sort of hurt and just laboring. It was painful to watch.
AHHHHHH!!!! Nooooooooo!!!! Hank is too powerful! I… can’t… stop… his… Ughh….
I’m colder than an eskimo dong
I’m what you call a lesbian eskimo.
AHHHHHH!!!! Nooooooooo!!!! Hank is too powerful! I… can’t… stop… his… Ughh….
AHHHHHH!!!! Nooooooooo!!!! Hank is too powerful! I… can’t… stop… his… Ughh….
I’m reporting an injury dealy, who is hurt?
It’s quickly becoming obvious that this team is just fine as is.
I must have passed out on my keyboard and triple posted. Sorry.
I say 9
Marriotti’s headline tomorrow.
Pat and Ron are obviously forgetting these that cost us the game in Washington. But other than that, we’ll say he’s almost, sort of, been a defensive Jack Wilson. Okay, no, we won’t, but he hasn’t been bad.
Continuing their year-long perpetuating of the myth that Neifi Perez is the second coming of Ozzie Smith, Pat just said,
“Neifi has 5 errors this year, and I can’t rememebr a single one. That’s a sign of how good he is.”
Ummm, I guess I was playing the “Santo” game in D.C. when Perez made consecutive errors palying second base, costing us a game vs. the Nationals, because I apparantlye blacked out and can’t recall.
Shame on me, as I usually have a Grobstein-esque memory.
Sorry, #142. Jinx.
Glad you remembered too #143.
Did someone say game costing errors?
And apologies on switching from from first-person to third-person back to first-person.
I need to sto playing the Santo Game. It’s fucking up the Gamecasts.
WGN Chicago is reporting that the Cubs are engaged in serious discussions with DBacks about possibly pissing me away.
I’ve confused Scott Williams with Matt Mantei.
Never mind that I don’t even have the first guy’s name right.
Santo just said that Matt Williams was close to joining the Cubs. Aramis must really be hurt.
I love you patrick
The hangup in the deal is that the Snakes wanted Prior to fuck up more than once in an inning at home and the Franchise just wouldn’t do it. Other players involved in the discussions were Will Ohman, Roberto Novoa, Sergio Mitre, Todd Walker and Glendon Rusch. So a deal still could be reached by 4 p.m. today. Stay tuned.
Prior’s at 60 pitches through 12 outs. Vazquez, who we thoguht was getting burned with a high pitchcount, has 65 through 10 outs.
Got the hard part of a cycle out of the way…
I like me, but I’m worried about my power. More biscuits, more meth, I be aight.
I’m where Cub baserunners come to die. Hi, Matt, nice hair.
Geez, it doesn’t matter what I do, Hooly will be starting tommorow anyways.
I’ll be batting #2 the rest of the weekend… Nah, who am I kidding, I’ll be on the bench tomorrow, even though a lefty is pitching.
He just said “Gosh” when the Gremlin popped out. Chug.
I am still the original minor league contract. How can I have a no-f***-up clause?
Female dogs fear me!!!
I am NOT to be trifled with.
Nice to be batting where I can get on base for the pitcher.
Good grief, Speier is the anti-Wavin’ Wendell…
Murton should have been heading home on that sac fly, even with the great one himself Hank White coming up next.
I’ve already reached my quota for the inning. Prepare to score.
I just have to point out the female doges for the word “bi.tches” was the funniest automatic bad word board edit I had ever seen.
10 grand, BC.
It’s hard to not strike out Royce Clayton
So Murton tripled and was stranded at 3rd? Fantastic.
I cream my pants just looking at today’s left side of the infield. One of the great duo’s in recent history… Perez & Macias.
Now THAT is what a championship, veteran team looks like.
oh yea… dudes
76 through 15 outs vs. 77 through 12 outs.
At this point, given everything that has occured, I’m suprised that I’m still around.
I make this look easy! (sucking that is)
I hate it when the leads talk back.
MLB.com says “Neifi Perez bunt pops out to shortstop Royce Clayton.”
Uhhh…he still plays SS right?
D-Lee for MVP…hey that’s a new one. I like it, it rhymes and everything.
Is it April?
76 vs. 88.
2 runs aint’ gonna be ’nuff.
I know you are but what am I?
Oh Derrek, it’s all over for you!
You’re 1-3 today.
Your MVP season is over.
…
In case you couldn’t tell, I was being SARCASTIC!
The leads are weak? You’re weak, pal.
Trying to remember, besides Dempster, who is available from the pen today?
“So Murton tripled and was stranded at 3rd? Fantastic.”
Yes.
Macias came up after Murton and hit a fly ball to center. It wasn’t deep but wasn’t shallow either. I think Murton should have gone home on the play, because Green doesn’t play center much (Therefore not used to throwing over the mound) and because Murton has shown above-average speed. And as we saw the other night with Ronny Cedeno, players can beat out even strong and accurate throws without Podsednik or Jose Reyes speed… And the ball wasn’t that far from where Ellison ended up catching Burnitz’s flyball.
Super Novoa?
Do someting Arec Bardwin!!
I drove a Hyundai to work today, that’s my fucking name!
I’m the pitch counts best friend.
What’s with Prior giving up a single? He’s toast!!
excuse me, while I go masturbate thinking about Neifi’s gold glove defensive prowess.
That dude is friggin’ awesome!
I’m supposed to throw it OVER the pitcher’s mound? Oy vey, I’m screwed!
Ahem…we agreed it’s SuperJew…no space?
Sorry I was doing some actual work for a couple innings. What’s the score in the Santo Game?
Crap! 1 for 3. I’ll be ridin’ the pine tomorrow for sure.
Prior – 85 pitches through 6
Vazquez – 99 pitches through 6
I think Chuck died of liver failure or choked on a minnow or something.
First time on third, less than 2 outs and the next batter get me home. Isn’t this where Cubs runners go to die?
See, I told you. There was Gospel truth to those rumors. Now there’s only half of me to love.
Does anybody trust our bullpen to get through the 8th with a 1 run lead?
Time to get Prior out.
I’m scared. Hold me!
I think Ron Zook might be retarded.
That’s 100 and done.
Zook it. Or something.
Screw Ron Zook. I’M the coach of the #1 D-1 football team in Illinois.
That was awful.
Andy,
That would be bad news for Illini fans.
Prior’s got 100 pitches and coming up this inning. Anybody warming up in the pen?
I really enjoyed Len’s little speech about how your feeling about your offense is dictated by your pitcher. He claimed that yesterday the 1-0 lead seemed insurmountable, but today’s 2-0 lead feels safe. Of course he said this after the lead went to 2-1 and it’s all nonsense. But it was great.
Ron Zook used me to sing “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”, and he still got the words wrong.
Who has the Colon Blow piece?
who has the Colon Blow piece?
How long until Illinois alums are making offers? And how much will I go for?
who has the Colon Blow piece?
who has the Colon Blow piece?
Jeez. I get the slow down Cowboy and I’ve only posted 4 times?
It’s so cute the way the Cubs want us to pretend like anybody gives a shit about Illini football.
And Hank White cannot be stopped.
Chuck,
The answers to 210, 211, 213 and 214 is I DON’T KNOW.
I only hit for Prior
Christ. Another sac bunt and a runner stranded in scoring position.
Chuck, stop playing the Santo drinking game.
2-2 HR 2RBI W(intentional)
I don’t like the bullpen much and I don’t remember what happened the other day against the Giants when I sent Zambrano out to pitch the 8th.
Nice first base coaching there. Sarge pointed like Prior should run to second on teh overthrow. Prior didn’t, because he’d have been out by 82.7 feet.
I Ruv Hank Rite!!
My shit-tastic color commentary had me bellowing “bee-yoo-it-full” on the bunt, stepping all over Masur’s play-by-play. And then they forced the runner at second.
Yeah. Beautiful.
I’m a degenerate moran.
Whatever you do Dusty, don’t have anybody warm up in the ‘pen, that way if Prior allows a runner you won’t be able to take him out for another two or three hitters. That was your brilliant stategery on Wednesday.
I Ruv Hank Rite!!
Ron, don’t be so hard on yourself. You’re not a degenerate.
Not to mention, Stumpy, that I called the relay throw as being “in the dugout”
But Prior’s still on first.
You’d think with WGN’s budget, they’d at least overpay a competent broadcaster to fill in for 1/2 inning. Instead, by hiring me to do the job, they’re acting like the SCORE.
Did Zook just say, “As I was telling the Cubs before the game…”
Did Ronnie give the boys a little pep talk before the game?
Stepping on Mazur PBP is never a mistake.
The Score never goes on the cheap. They made me the Blackhawks pre and postgame host because I played one season of Park District Hockey when I was a little kid!
They should let me do one-half of an inning of baseball play-by-play for the Chicago Cubs.
On WGN’s budget, they should buy a fucking box of Depends.
I love lamp.
I love…table.
SO, who’s warming up in the pen for the Cu?
Who’s this Sean Greene? I’m SuperJew!
Prior hurls the spheroid with much alacrity and that is the final strike this batter is allowed. The crowd’s jeering of former Cubs players reeks of schadenfreude.
And if the Cubs can get an insurance run, Allstate will contribute…
For it’s 1,2,3 strikes yer owwwt
for the old ball game
Maybe someone with tourettes will be invited to sing TMOTTBG soon.
You can never have enough angry, tone-deaf 7th inning guests
The spheroid is propelled over the second of the four bases, just out of the reach of Neifi..
Ron: Uh…Milton, I’ve got a fax here!
Always nice to see Dusty get the bullpen up too late. That never gets old.
What was it that Santo just warbled on that bouncer up the middle (at least I THINK it was a bouncer up the middle, I couldn’t tell because Ronnie’s oblivious to the fact that he broadcasts, you know, for an AUDIENCE)?
It was a combination of “Ahh” “Gosh”. I just don’t know what you’d call it.
If you think Ron Zook is retarded, wait until Ron Turner is calling 3-yard out patterns when it’s third down and 9…
Then again, I’m a Bears’ fan too, so I might be dying a double death this football season.
Yeah, getting a guy out at pitch 100 would be stupid.
Oh, yeah. The bullpen sucks.
I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
ZZZZZZZZ….
Umm…. you already know, huh?
Looking forward to Bleed Cubbie Blue on why this game isn’t a setback.
ZZZZZZZ….
Goddamn it What IS that play when the runner tries to steal and the hitetr hits the ball? Chrissakes, I’m confounded.
Bad move starting this inning with Prior.
It’s nice to know you’re going to give up the lead a good ten minutes before it happens. Just a tremendous feeling.
Prior’ll get out of it.
Well, this inning is setting up swimmingly…
For the Diamondbacks.
Yuck.
Don’t worry, I’m how Prior will escape.
I love it when my starters go deep, too deep, dudes.
“Whelp….” – I have no idea what to do with this Ronnieism.
The question of course is will Troy Glaus’ grand slam reach Waveland or just bounce off the Tru Link fence?
Chicago is sure beautiful in the summer.
wake up, Dusty… it’s the 8th inning. We eat in 20 minutes
zzzzzzz……nah Prior needs to wok this out himself……zzzzzz
Do Diamondbacks swim? I know they have a pool, but…
A few innings ago, Ron was trying to explain how excited he is that Nomar, Kerry and in his words, “Steve…uh…Matt Williams, no…uh, I always think his name is Matt Mantei..”are coming back.
that’s 117.
Prior on the mound with one out in the eighth. Nothing can go wrong!
Now for the meat pitch grand salami
Prior should be able to go 9 today.
That was so obvious.
How can Ron not believe it when it’s been this way all season?
Well, that went swimmingly.
For it’s 1…2…oh crap…
Dear Jim Hendry,
There is no need to add to this team. You might want to subtract a few things. One of them being your toothpick chewing stooge.
Love,
andy
Dusty should be booed the second his gigantic as steps out of the dugout.
Let me hang up on Shalit and make some calls.
It’s been this way, 0-2 base hits, since LaTroy last year.
BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Problem with me, Derrek?
Dusty leaving in Mark Prior way too long and allowing him to give up a lead with 1 out in the 8th while the bullpen isn’t called to action when it should be…
We haven’t seen this before, right?!?!?!?
I’m over.
Ok, So I can hit like a right-handed Wade Boggs. I throw like a quadrapalegic.
Nice work Dusty!!!!!!!!! Fuck you DUSTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice work Dusty!!!!!!!!! Fuck you DUSTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What did I do, fire one off the mound? The mound’s always in the way.
Absolutely ridiculous managing (or lack thereof) by Dusty. I would be leading a “Baker Sucks!” chant if I was at Wrigley.
DUSTY SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ah, you can’t beat fun at the ol’ ballpark!
I am now the 5th best starter in Chicago, as I am now behind Freddy Garcia too.
Sounds like Murton just punched his ticket back to AA.
I’m over.
Don’t worry fellas, Hank is going to give me throwing lessons.
It’s really too bad you can’t bet on certain events occuring in sporting events while they’re going on.
We would all collectively have enough money to buy the franchise.
I don’t know what’s worse, me being left in, or that 0-2 pitch to Glaus.
You walk Gonzalez to load the bases for a potential double play with Glaus, but you don’t walk Clark because Shawn Green is on deck? What, he never hits into double plays.
Further proof that our manager doesn’t get the whole “strategy” thing.
You guys gonna blame this one on me too?
Dammit! I forgot to put in Hollandsworth!
A visit to the mound is in order.
Such is life as a Cub fan, I’m gonna start drinking now.
Andy, I understand strategy fine, it’s the tactics that elude me.
That’s what this is!
Don’t talk bad about Dusty, he once talked to Hank Aaron, and then passed that talk on to me. He’s big time, and a name dropper, that makes him great.
I’m protesting this game. the Diamondbacks keep having runners attempt stolen bases while the hitters hit. Cincinnati was doing it all week, too, as well as San Fran.
That shit’s illegal, and I’m going to get in touch with Bud Selig to make sure it STOPS.
Ok. I’m done. Fuck Dusty. He sucks. Kill me. I suck. We all suck.
Most people have realized that we aren’t very good, but then in the back of our mind we know that the other wild card teams aren’t either. Wish I could just quit watching them, but I keep getting pulled to the tv. I won’t even start w/ baker.
You watch…
The Cubs will win in the bottom of the 9th on some inexplicable sequence of events and nobody in the Chicago media will call out Dusty on yet another case of his horrific managing.
This is what happens if you have to consistently pitch with a tight-ass because there’s no room for error thanks to a shitty offense for a second season in a row.
You know, Hendry is gonna think a (futile) trade is even more neccessary now and it won’t matter if this team is stacked with all-stars. His Dustiness still won’t know what to do.
Fuck this shit. I’m putting the cell phone away. I’ve got a date with Marie Callender.
I won’t be here for long guys!
Dudes! Who drew on my face while I was napping dudes?!
This is also what happens when you keep trotting your starters out for an extra inning because you have a shitty bullpen for the…98th season in a row.
Dammit! I forgot to put in Hollandsworth again!
There’s some of me to be heard as Dusty walks to the mound.
Yeah bring in the Black Farns with the bases juiced instead of at the beginning of the inning when nobody’s on base.
Dusty manages out of spite. He’s telling Hendry to get him a bullpen. If Hendry had any balls, he’d can his before the end of the inning for sacrificing games to make a point.
Say what you want about the bullpen, but Bob Novoa starting the 8th was the ONLY decision to make.
Screw making a trade, I’m writing up a contract exstension for Dusty as we speak. This is gold, all I gotta do is change the players…it’s the players and fans faults, not Dusty’s.
Hi BC, maybe you should start rooting for a team that’s not owned by the media.
Honest to God, why do the fans continue to miss chances to greet our fearless leader with the Dusty Sucks chant?
Why did we not boo Dusty there?
Dude, Prior told me he was fine. That’s why I let him in the game. Dick Pole also told me he wanted to fuck me up the ass. I let my team do what they want. I am the manager damit!
Nah, they’re calling for me again. This seems like a nice place to play.
Again, we leave a guy on 3rd w/ 1 out earlier in the game that will end up costing us.
at least Dusty should try the “going-with-the-bullpen” strategy instead of leaving the starters out there until they’re gassed. He’s proved twice this week that this move is no more effective than Wuertz, Remlinger, etc…
Again, we leave a guy on 3rd w/ 1 out earlier in the game that will end up costing us.
Len just say I have “cat-like quickness.” I spreeng like tiger, mang!
Super Novoa
Even if Hendry pulls off a trade for both Manny and Soriano this team will not make the playoffs, it has absolutely no chance. But if you don’t make any moves besides firing Dusty this team will be in. His decisions are the difference between this team and one that is 3 games up in the wildcard right now, even with the injuries.
Are, um… inexcusable.
We are the idiots that fill up the stadium every game to watch a terrible coach and a very average team. Do we really have the right to bitch about Baker? I mean we are just as stupid.
Fear not, I am clutch.
Al Gato Marrón
Christ on a bike. The next we get a runner to 3rd, we might as well order a straight steal of home, we’re just as likely to score.
If Dusty doesnt use any of us, why are we carrying all of us (and 12 pitchers total).
I have to disagree, Mike D. I don’t think Dusty manages poorly out of spite, he manages poorly because he suffers mlid retardation.
He’s not nearly smart enough to use spite to his advantage.
Good point #329.
Case in point– watch him have Lee sac bunt here.
mild, that is
Hi Chicago Tribune, maybe you should start spending money on a baseball manager that doesn’t suck…
If Dusty knew I existed, I would be used at some point in this at-bat.
The very fact that we fill up the stadium gives us the right to bitch about Baker.
But, of course, the words “hit and run” “squeeze bunt” and “proactive” are completely alien to Dust Bag.
I have 1 RBI the last 5 games. I am in a Slump.
GIDP. For fuck’s sake.
Hence the double play.
Hey Derrek, you can move over now.
Gazpacho Valverde Maricon!
Yes Derrek, this is when the better hitters begin to gain on you.
I love it when guys get on their high horse about a baseball team’s head “coach.”
Go to the games, boo the moran, prove to the ownership that you know what the problem is and you’re tired of it.
I don’t understand why you guys are getting upset on this magnitude.
Let me get this straight. They move over everybody but the first baseman to the left of 2nd base. Derrek Lee the “mvp” who used to only hit the ball to right field isn’t smart enough to take advantage of that today?
This team is a f-ing joke.
At this point I would almost prefer they don’t come back, just so somebody in the Chicago media has to ask Dusty why he made that HORRIBLE decision…
Then again, that would require courage on the part of a beat writer, and I am kidding myself when I think that any of the Chicago beat writers have that.
Yeah, well it’d be nice if somebody else in the lineup got a clutch hit once in a while.
Did you guys hear my interview with Dusty last night. God I am a no integrity, awful insult to journalism.
Did I ask Baker why he never squeezes?
Did I ask if he’s going to keep startign Hollandsworth? No
But I did ask him such meatballs like “How frustrating is it to be second-guessed by the fans?” and “I talked to LaTroy. You know he’s a really good guy”
I SERIOUSLY need to have my fanboy, insecure ass beaten to death with a sack of hammers. Let’s see what shit comes out of me tonight when I fire up the ole’ WGN Propaganda Machine.
BC,
The writers don’t want to lose access to me.
Eat it, BC. You only wish you had half the talent I do.
The Dusty Baker Dumbass Dejour has me as the year. Are you predicting the same for next year? See you in 07′.
The writers don’t want to lose access to their jobs.
This is how our offense looks when the wind is not blowing out.
It’s not a hitters’ park, man.
I would fuckin’ love this more than anything right now. Too bad the fans have no balls. I’d love to hear Dusty’s whining and maybe, just maybe, the fat shit would bow out of the final year of his contract. Him getting thrown out on his ass would be much better though. As much as everyone wants to hope the Cubs still have any chance at all, I really would prefer a tank job if it meant we’d get to see a real manager next year.
The chance we have to win this game.
Steve, you quit your job because the Cubs thankgodfully left me go.
The question is will D.F. Baker let Murton hit in the 9th?
Chance “we” have to win this game, unless one of the Cubs is actually posting on Desipio from the dugout.
Great. My parents are watching my kid today. That means my dad probably tossed the couch out the front window.
I’m already flying the L flag.
Yeah, there was no need for me to start the 8th inning. Nope. Nothing to see here. No siree.
So Novoa pitches a 1-2-3 9th. Which just pisses me off more, since had he been given that chance in the 8th, Dempster might have just closed out a win there.
If you can’t dominate teams from me at home, you are not a contender.
All Cub batters should take a strike.
So, the Yankees won with George Costanza as an employee. What’s Dusty’s excuse?
Will I hit for Gremlin?
I have issued 26 BB’s in 37 1/3 IP.
Whoa.
Christ, Bruney is fat.
walker
murton
eramis
barrett
hollandsworth
Cubs vs DBacks: 1-3. Soon to have the DBacks clinch the season series.
Will I hit for Gremlin?
Strike 2.
Brian Urlacher is Football Farns
please don’t bail Dusty’s lame ass out again, do your duty and lose like men.
Walker walks on 5 balls. Again batters should take until a strike.
NO FUCKING BUNTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Anyone?
In the offseason, I’m a lumberjack.
I might work here.
Dusty will bunt right away – stupid stupid move.
Pinch Runner? You got it! Ronny on the Spot!
Now????
Stupid move bunting the first pitch – at least take a strike.
F’n brilliant. Take the bat out fo the guy hitting .469
Hey, Chuck … who has the Colon Blow piece?
Just who we want up.
Unbelievable.
Only Dusty finally gets off his reactive to call a BUNT and run.
Pardon my Santo impression but that is unbelievable. It may be the WORST decision of the day and that’s saying a TON. Fucking asshole Baker.
Nah, i make too much sense
Now we’re giving away outs?
it’s hero time!
And Macias stays in to save A Ram.
No one ever see Kirk Gibson?
I got the gremlin in now. I’ve got the D-Backs just where I want em.
They’ll buckle under the pressure.
Aramis must be dead?
I’m sick.
Cedeno had second base stolen anyway. Maybe THEN you bunt, but not there. I am just sick.
Bruney is setting up the double play.
Minds: Dunno. Gotta search old Gamecassts I guess.
I just squeezed out a turd while taking that ball
Watch–
He’ll bunt here, too.
I’ll win it
Yes, Barrett, good speed to beat out a double play.
I guess it wouldn’t have made sense to let our most patient hitter try and draw another walk.
Hank’s two for two with a homer. Barrett’s proven to be a lousy pinch hitter. Oh, this seems like a great move.
Time to stand up and waiver your arms.
Brenly suggested a missed sign there on the bunt and run. I don’t think thats the case. Cedeno came from the bench so I’m sure instructions were given to him on what would be called before he left the bench. Then Spier talked to Murton before the pitch – so no sign was given to Murton.
Baker did in fact call for the old bunt and run play! Brilliant!
I can’t believe this! You think Aramis is a better hitter than me?
Thanks for the out, Cubs fans! I haven’t thrown a strike yet!
I mean Barrett…
Dusty pulling Hank?
He deserves to lose even more now.
Who is pinch hitting?
Is Barrett or Blanco batting?
I am happening
I just can’t take it anymore. Even if they win, it’ll be liek Wednesday’s game.
The decisions in this inning are positively mind-numbing.
I am.
Am I the only one who thinks Cedeno missed third?
Wow, Baker is a genius. Best coach in baseball.
WEEEE! I just knocked over my beer!
Ron popped out of his seat. And his legs.
I don’t care. I really don’t.
I hate to be such a negative prick–and deep down, I cannot help but hope for a victory– but any succes the Cubs have only serve to cover up the fact that we have as a manger, a complete fraud.
Don’t say that Andy, even if it’s true.
Way to go Dusty!!!!
You f-ing douchbag!
I guess I was. Nice at bat by Barrett, he actually made Bruney throw a strike before he thought about swinging.
No me today??
i’m batting NOW?!?!
I could have done that….bitches
Cubs win!
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
No f-ing way.
I am god.
Amazing…
Very nice…. Farther removed from firing Dusty.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
No f-ing way.
I’m speechless.
Or I’m Ron Santo, because the only words going through my head right now are “unbelievable”
The only thing I’m happy for is that Bob Novoa deserved the “W”. If Dusty wasn’t a tard, he’d have had a hold and this game would have ended about 15 minutes ago.
Once I get my jaw off the keyboard it’s a lot easier to type…
what about the mediocrity meter? is that the DFBeqM-M?
I told you dudes I am a genius.
I was just kidding. I still love Dusty! HAHAHAHA!!!! WOOOOOOO!!!!!!
The eighth was a joke but you gotta admit, he pushed all the right buttons in the ninth.
A post of mine from a little while ago:
“You watch…
The Cubs will win in the bottom of the 9th on some inexplicable sequence of events and nobody in the Chicago media will call out Dusty on yet another case of his horrific managing.”
Two walks, a “bunt-and-run” which doesn’t end up costing us, a hit by Barrett after Dusty defies the power that is Hank White, and an Aramis Ramirez four-bouncer getting by Troy Glaus to score Jose Macias?
Inexplicable.
Un-fucking-balievable!
Bruney threw 20 pitches, 9 strikes. One was bunted for a sac. Two others were hits.
Pretty sad ratio.
I’m soiled.
FYC!
I pooped a hammer.
Those are the happy totals, Chuck
I love E-ramis, but I didn’t understand a word he said in that post-game interview.
It would be even nicer if we thought that Dusty’s boss realized this is the third of four wins on the homestand all accomplished in spite of the manager.
Ronnie just said Barrett drove in the winning run…someone check his blood sugar level.
I’ll send an OB GYN over to give you all a checkup.
snatching victory out of the jaws of DFB, again.
Hey, Chuck … who has the Colon Blow piece?
I don’t know what to think…
I’m happy the Cubs won.
I’m frustrated that Dusty is an idiot.
I’m mad that Dusty won’t get called out for being an idiot.
A day in the life of a Cubs’ fan, I guess.
Hendry might be grossly obese and have a Beatles haircut, but he’s a fairly savy guy and I’d bet big that he knows these wins have been in spite of Dusty’s lucky ass.
I such a fat ass, I break my own feet when I walk on them!
1) The Friday Florida game when they faced Willis.
2) Wednesday’s game vs. SF
3) Today
Discuss.
If Aramis didn’t already made my day, you just did. Nice work.
In Dusty We Trusty!!!
Wheeee, he really is a good manager!!!
Dusty’s in absolutely no danger of getting fired. It’s not on merit, it’s just so.
The BUNT and Run. I still can’t believe Dusty had a .469 hitter give up the 25th out of the game to a pitcher with a walk ratio that makes Michael Wuertz’s look like Jon Lieber’s.
It makes my head hurt knowing that I root for a team that employs a manager who made that call.
I know, #454. I just like to think it’s true.
I have no idea who has the Colon Blow.
And, so long as I have no idea why I’ma colonel, I promoted myself.
Shamelss self promotion!
Wait, isn’t Colonel Blimp a knockoff of Corporal Corpulent?
Fuck the stress, let’s go get high and buy some whores.
B.C., Try this instead…
1. I’m happy the Cubs won.
2. I love Aramis Ramirez and I want to have his children.
3. All games are ultimately won or lost by players, not managers or coaches or announcers or fans on message boards who ought to get some work done but are too busy criticizing how other people do their jobs.
4. Tomorrow may be another disaster like yesterday but tomorrow is a long time hence and it’s FRIDAY for fuck sake and it’s almost quittin’ time and we are all going to get very drunk tonight because that’s what Cub fans do win or lose.
5. We might be getting Manny Ramirez!
6. We don’t live in Baghdad or Beirut or Bosnia.
7. WWIII is also a long time hence.
8. Roberto Novoa is a fucking stud and he’s on our side and I love him.
9. Did I mention it’s Friday!
10. Did I mention the CUBS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!
Another day in the life of a Cubs fan!
LUF = Lighten up Frances!
That was funny rereading the post transcripts and watching everyone hit the window ledge and the steak knives and the oven ranges.
Then having the Cubs win. Use plasticware, folks, please.
For those of you still playing…
“I don’t believe it”: 3 times (twice on Glaus’ game-tying RBI. Both count)
“Unbelievable”: 7 times
“Gosh”: 4 times
“JEEZ”: 3 times, all in the 8th inning.
If you were playing this game and you’re sober now, you’ve got a problem.
I suck but I’m better than you.
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Apex is me. From the Messageboard (link above “Re: When did everyone here give up on Dusty?”)
About five minutes ago, when Prior had bases loaded and gave up the single to Glaus that f@#$ed this game up. I finally saw it. I tried to avoid the argument because I liked Dusty so much during 2003. Any coach that wins a division title gets away with plenty of screwups in my book. That’s just how I am. But the rope just lost all slack.
I left my office and went downstairs to my car, turned the radio on and heard the Glaus at bat. I heard Ron just about die in the booth. I hate feeling like this.
30 min. later…
Eh… I changed my mind. I still like Dusty, kind of. Ok, a lot. That ninth inning rally was orgasmic. Remind me to start a splooge fest for Dusty when we clinch the Wild Card.
I guess it’s not ok to get too down whent he Cubs are down or too up when they’re up. That’s the kind of fan I am. But I know I’m not alone.
It’s okay Apex, just not healthy.
And we all do it. Nobody said being a Cub fan was all popsicles and cold beer.
Who wants salad?
dudes i told you dudes this team has character dudes
and it’s becuase of me dudes. Never count us out dudes
dudes where’s manny dudes?
plan is going along dudes, we win tomorrow and sunday dudes and
it’s another step to our 90 win season dudes.
I think you mean Francis.
OK… thats the last time… I have other fools and drunks to tend to.
Yes, its okay to get up when your team’s riding high and its okay to sink down when they’re scufflin.
But when is it okay to piss down both pant legs in panic and alter me in the 8th fucking inning of a 1-run ballgame?
I not play outfield. You make I play outfield, I go back to dominica
Fuck us, we need to die.
The best part of today’s examination was when the whole Desipiot gang started screaming in the ninth inning for the King of the Mendoza Line, Hank White, to stay in the game and bat for himself rather than being batted for by Berut, one of the best hitting catchers in the NL.
That cheered me so up so much that I’m giving you all a round of Monistat-7 … free of charge!
On PTI I proposed A. Ramirez, C. Pat, Mitre, and I think someone else too, for Manny, and Bill Mueller. If this trade is made, Santo will finally keel over and die.
Take a joke, 477, you human douche.
We are the dumbest fuckers in the world, it would be a good thing if we all got hit by buses.
Dusty talks a good game, like Bobby Knight, only completely soft about it. He’s bound to get some diehard fans on his side with that us against the world BS.
Numero 479 is no’ me, he no do the funny accent, mang! He jus’ some tool wi’ no sensa hooma!
482 is LYING. I speak great english, probably better than most Chicagoans.
Now I have to leave, I’m stopping by taco bell before my frisbee golf tournament.
Glad we won
#480
Yesterday, I wouldn’t have cared. But a Cubs win is a natural high. And you can keep the buzz goin’ with a few beers and an Asstroll loss. Try it! It’s better than crack!
Brave!
dudes thanks for wanting me out dudes but no go dudes
dudes cubs win and you loose dudes
dudes where’s baker basher dudes?
quiet as all my detractors dudes
when we win, they loose dudes
Get to fuck, you insufferable prick, dudes. Just fuck off and leave us alone, you fucking cretin, dudes. You”re not seriously suggesting that you’re anything other than one lucky motherfucker, surely, dudes?
dudes he who hate me, who wishes me bad results is no real cub fan dudes.
They are not cub fans because when I loose they smile, they are happy dudes.
They are not cub fans because when I win they are tormented and angry dudes.
I say they, the anti bakers, are the stoneys, chips, merckers, alous and sosas of 2005.
Brave!
I concur that #477 is a humorless douche and #480 gets my write-in vote in the next presidential election.
If you have me, you realize that #477 was right on the money. Stop and think about the idea of Hank White being a better choice to hit in that situation — hell, in any situation — than Michael Barrett. Even the preternaturally sane Andy Dolan let his screaming meemies get the best of him when Baker sent Barrett to the plate for the Commander. Andy and BC and CT and Mike D. deserved to be called out for that.
And how is #477 humorless? Since when have vagina jokes directed at faint-of-heart Cubs fans stopped being a part of Desipio’s towel-snapping locker-room lexicon?
Look, nobody in this game thread (except for the literacy-challenged yahoo who posted #486 and #488) was questioning the fact that Baker is a clown who is making tactical decisions with a Magic 8-Ball. But he got that one decision right.
477 was humorless because no one really believed Hank would have a better chance to succeed than Berut.
It was rallying around Hank because of the perverse belief that he’s better than he is.
dudes just chill dudes
ok let’s pretend I’m getting fired dudes, hehehe, who you want with my job dudes?
rigleman? please, dudes let’s be serious.
You just don’t understand, it’s gonna be me or is gonna be nobody, capish dudes?
He gone.
and dudes, before I leave to have a good dinner in one of Chicago’s finest restaurants dudes, I leave you this golden nugget dudes:
Today I passed Jimmy Leyland and became the 44th winningest manager in the history of this great sport dudes. 12 1/2 seasons of pure brilliance where my average for wins is 86 per year dudes.
That number will do the trick again this year dudes and we’ll be all happy come october.
later, dudes.
Okay dude, we’ll take nobody.
Yes, like the last 2 years, we’ll be happy in October, just like the Giants were in 02. Shut the fuck up you stupid ass. Go clean out Darren’s diaper.
And then lick your fingers clean, you assbag.
Hey, I hear the Twins are gonna need a center fielder.
You guys should be thanking me for being a total dumbass and not putting Valverde as the closer. Long live Brian Bruney, bitches!
Me being better than Berut is a running joke on Desipio, for christ’s sake. How can you read Desipio regularly and not get that, unless you are some gigantic dumbass?
And now watch some other dumbass be like, “duh, you can’t even spell B-A-R-R-E-T-T!”
I heard Kasper and Brenley mention the Hank White fan club today. I asked people on listening to the score if they could call in and tell me where the fan club is. Someone get a free plug for Desipio on the Score
Because I have been used as acloser before, and I crap my pants. I am an Octavio Dotel like setup man. Not a closer.
I asked about the existance of the Hank White Fan Club? I don’t care if we have about the same IQ (me being a cub fan puts me a tad ahead), don’t confuse me with that jackass.
Barrett got a single and I’m glad he did, but all we said was that Hank was 2-2 with a homer and Barrett has been a lousy pinch hitter. Wow, somebody’s got his undies in a bunch tonight.
Hey I don’t think Mike Murphy can read or write. we all know he can’t talk.
Dammit, shoulda copyrighted DFB…
Looks to me like Andy has refuted 492 and 501.
dudes, after the terrible 8 game losing streak, a losing streak that would break most ballclubs and potentially end their season, we are 13-6. a lot of this victories coming from behind in the late innings.
This goes to show you a lot of things:
the guys play hard for me, they care about me, they like me and they have character because of me. They had the chance to tank the season right there and didn’t. This team is a reflection of me, we overcome adversity. A lot of dudes gaves us for dead and you know what? we’re very much alive dudes.
What I don’t understand is why am I receiving so much hate dudes? especially now after the 13-6 dudes? a lot more hate than the one I got during the 8 game losing skid dudes.
Don’t be the stoneys, chips, merckers,etc of 2005 dudes.
You can try ignoring the eight game losing streak if you like, but the fact remains that we are only three games over five hundred with over a hundred games gone. That doesn’t speak for a manager who’s getting the most out of us. With a payroll like ours we should be doing far, far better than we are.
payroll like us? its 87 mill minus the 18 mill between nomar and kerry that have been basically all year on IR. Take out the 4.5 mill of your hated la troy and it’s a beautiful effective payroll of 64.5 mill.
We have no bullpen, no LF and that ain’t my fault. Heck, I’m playing a 2B in CF.
How much did Carlos Beltran cost dudes?
How much would have cost to have clement back this year dudes?
that’s why they aren’t here dude.
I am fucking clownshoes. End of story.
adversity after adversity dudes, doubt after doubt dudes, this team keeps on going, never quits dudes.
Last 10 days of the season we play 7 times against the ‘stros dudes.
With me as manager,everybody will be happy come october dudes.
how you like them apples dudes?
dudes, did you see that in our last 4 wins the winning pitchers have been:
dempster 3 times, Novoa 1 time dudes.
See, this team never quits and wins late, wins when everybody thinks they’re dead dudes.
same will happen with the wild card dudes…we’ll win late dudes.
In dusty you trusty and there won’t be a problem dudes.
dudes, talking about salaries, take out another 5.1 between boro and corey dudes.
See, we have to work magic with what’s left:
macias
neifi
holly
hairston
blanco
These 5 guys are KEY to what we’re doing dudes because it’s what we have dudes, and this guys COMBINED make less money than Steve karsay dudes.
You know who steve karsay is dudes? I tought so dudes.
See, we’re working magic dudes. Don’t interfere with it and will be all happy in october dudes.
Dusty, you don’t get to magically subtract the money of guys who are hurt or sucking. You still have to pay them, they still count against you, pal.
we’re the 9th payroll in the bigs dudes..even seatlle is ahead of us dudes!
how many teams make the playoffs dudes? that’s right…8.
so, technically by payroll standards we are not playoff worth dudes.
But…you have me dudes and I’ll deliver dudes.
Did you see our payrolls #517? You are an assface, go away.
Hey fuckface, I’m sure most people here know that I was one of the Yankees’ dominant setup men, until I had arm problems.
Romero and Lew Ford for Pie. Does anyone have this on their radar?
Here’s one my sources say could come about Manny for Corey, straight up. Steve Phillips, a buddy of mine, says Corey is on the Sox wishlist.
Oh yeah, do me on your desk silverhead!
Corey Pattersonth + Jothe Mathias, anyone have thith on their gaydar?
518. yeaah! whooo! lets fire dusty now!! woohh that’s the whole purpose of the season. Cubs make sure you loose so dusty goes.
cubs loose yeah so we can fire dusty. Were 3 out of the WC but lets fire him now!! wwhooo!!! great!
519. dominant yankee yeah! thats why you’re with the rangers now yeah!!
go root for the sox
Judging by my grammar, I should be a sox fan. As for Karsay he was a very good setup man for the Indians and the Yanks, and has not pitched an inning for the Rangers. You can tell by my posts that I am illiterate, as well as baseball illiterate. I am the reason people stereotype Cub fans as idiots. I know nothing. I am a LOSER, with one “O”…what am I, 12? As for Karsay, he’d still be with NY if he didn’t, you know, have a ton of arm problems.
I amm en 11 years old reatrd. I werr a helmut to proteck my brain. Cubs loose…Cubs loose. Me luv Dusty.
Regression to the mean sucks.
525 & 526 cubs lost, so you’ll be happy now.
It was Dusty’s fault that DLee tried to steal third with no outs.
Let’s fire Dusty.
Enjoy this win, Anticubs.
We’ll enjoy it.
525 & 526 you might have better grammar than me, but it all goes to waste when instead of a good articulate answer you have to rely on insults. Learn to think with your brain, not with your guts, dudes.
I could be the dumbest post in the history of this great site.
Maybe I should think about retiring at the end of the season, wouldn’t wanna embarass myself.
Boy Brian Kenny, you’re daughters are beautiful…and I clearly have no social skills.
I was so excited about Peter’s speech, which we both cried at, that I spelled my name wrong.
Good luck catching us, bitches.
My .157 avg. and I are the savior of this Cubs team. Look out National League.