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Add comment July 4th, 2008
Albert Pujols gets a milestone home run (career No. 300). Cubs get a key 2-1 victory Friday night.
On Saturday, I’ll let Cardinals OF Skip Schumaker get career stolen base No. 7 in exchange for a Ted Lilly victory.
It’s very reasonable.
Add comment July 4th, 2008
At least the Cubs aren’t going to go into St. Louis to face a team brimming with confidence, not after the Redbirds took an 11-1 beatdown from the Mets on Thursday.
Carlos Zambrano is scheduled to return from the disabled list to make the start for the Cubs. He will be opposed by Mr. Looper, who used to sell candy and bird seed on “Sesame Street.”
Add comment July 3rd, 2008
Rich Hill has fallen faster than the stock market. Trying to work things out at the Cubs spring-training facility hasn’t worked yet.
After giving up three-run homers in consecutive games, is Carlos Marmol close to joining the trek west?
I’m going to paraphrase what the Score’s Dan Bernstein and Jason Goff said Thursday: excuses for Marmol may go from mechanical, to mental, to “he’s tipping his pitches,” to physical.
The Cubs had said they believed they had fixed Marmol’s mechanics. Is another trip to the shop in order, or a trip to the Valley of the Sun?
Add comment July 1st, 2008
I had a chance to see the Cubs in St. Louis this weekend, but turned it down. The tickets were about $150 each and that was a bit rich for my blood.
I tend to get a bit agitated when I’m in someone else’s ballpark. In Wrigley, surrounded by die-hard Cub fans, I can take the good with the bad. In St. Louis, I don’t know if I could handle adversity and I’d be reluctant to cheer too loudly for fear of upsetting the hometown fans.
Besides, I think my wife would rather I spend that money as a down payment on a new stove.
2 comments June 30th, 2008
To quote Mr. Horse from “Ren & Stimpy”: No, sir. I didn’t like it.”
To quote Herman Munster: “Darn, darn, darn, darn, darn, darn.”
To paraphrase Pop Fisher from “The Natural”: “Don’t you know how much I hate losing to the White Sox?”
To quote me when friends need a few comforting words: “Shake it off.”
This regular-season ride has three months to go.
Add comment June 29th, 2008
… why isn’t anyone in the Cubs dugout telling Aramis Ramirez that the White Sox were sick of letting him extend his arms and jammed him all night long? At least Trammell could have told Ramirez before he rolled into the 5-4-3 to end the eighth!
Add comment June 29th, 2008
One of the guys who wore No. 17 before Mike Fontenot has some good words to say about the Chicago Cubs.
Add comment June 27th, 2008
I didn’t have a good feeling about Friday’s Cubs-Sox contest when I heard Daryle Ward was going to start in right field. Jeez, I cringe when he’s grabs his glove to play first base.
Maybe the Cubs would have some luck starting this Ward instead.
Add comment June 27th, 2008
It took a seven-run inning from the White Sox to finally unleash one of the Register Star’s usually more vocal Pale Hose faithful to walk by my desk and chirp “Let’s Go White Sox.”
Hadn’t heard a word from him all week. I know he watched last week’s games.
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