He'll perk up for game six.

Atleas Cum Dumpster will be fresh for game 5

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I havet been this pissed since g7 of 03.

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maybe it's a good thing i'll be in the all state arena groovin to some weezer instead of watching z give up home runs tomorrow, and go down 0-2.

oh, and i too am watching the history channel.

megabear!!

Weazer Sucks only "artist " worse is Beck

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

It's shit like this that will put me back in the hospital.

i refuse to have this thread de-railed.

i like weezer and beck, and you don't. may the thread about the cubs continue.

I bet they would have been better if the game started at 7:05.



I was playing raquetball and only saw about 3 innings or so of this game, but observed this:

-Manny is something else
-The crowd was a non factor. Not that they had a ton to cheer about, but they seemed more worried than amped up
-Thie Cubs looked very tense and nervous, almost like they were playing not to lose
-Lou looked like a wreck in the postgame conference just now
-Its just one game. Yeah, captain obvious will tell you how big tommorow's game is, but cross that "down 0-2 and heading out to LA" bridge if and when you get to it

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you started it

Well ,I will go blow up stuff to let go my frustration .( online WOW I got a killer set of guys )
Go light candles tomorrow at every church in a 3 mile radius from me tomorrow .
I might even go to Reza or a Jamican place to have soem goat tomorrow .
Go to Farmers market get me soem nice ripe tomatoes and wait outside wrigley for manny and stockton ?
any other suggestions ?

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Fran,
Please stop go away okay .I was just thinking .Wow Frank was doing a stand up thing and not rubbing it in and acting liek an adult .

All of your points are valid and correct but it is not your place here okay
One more thing Frank , I watched last 2 innings last night ,wow the Black out thing looked awesome

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Its my place wherever I dammed well want it to be on this messsage board, and its comments like this that will make me rub salt in the wounds.

My previous post was 100% observation and fact. Nothing implied nor opinionated about it.

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256 post in 6 days is impressive, that is City of Fools pace.

Back to the game, after watching the press conference with Lou, they are done already.

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Frank,
Look at what I said .i said you where stop on .It is just you are a southside fan and it hurts coming from you all esp after what some other of your breathren been doing .
Seriously what did you think of the crowd last night , how they looked ?

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

OK, here's what I drew out of it:

Bad hitting, but Lowe can do that to you. Lots of hard-hit balls just didn't fall, and no real "bloop" type hits did. That's not to excuse the hitting. It was bad. Soriano looked awful. Soto had a few awful at bats. Raimrez as well. Theriot looks kinda lost right now, although he did put a good lick on the ball in the 9th. Fukodome had a better night than his stats are going to show with a really hard hit ball for an error and a sharply hit groundout.

The strike zone was peculiar, to say the least tonight, although I think that if the strike zone was the size of Kentucky, Dempster would have consistently thrown the ball to Cincinatti. Both pitchers seemed flummoxed, and the zone seemed to be something like a triangle that extended really, really low in the center of the plate and had little coverage on the corners.

The statistic about 24 of 28 teams winning after winning the first game is interesting, but not as important I think in this situation. The cubs don't have a real ace; they have three pitchers who are all solid, dependable types that would comfortably fit as #2's on really great teams. That makes game one's less essential than they might be, because you don't go into games two and three knowing you'll be getting a huge dropoff in production.

I say that, of course, with one caveat. No one knows which Zambrano is going to show up. If it's good Zambrano, they'll win. If it's bad Zambrano, they'll probably lose. I don't have a ton of faith in Zambrano this postseason in general, but I actually do going into tomorrow; I think that most of the problems he's had over the past 2+ months stem from the shoulder soreness he's experienced, and his effectiveness has been almost directly correlated to the amount of rest between starts. He'll be going with 7 days off.

Game three looks like a big mismatch in favor of the Cubs, despite the game being in Los Angeles. Game four is interesting, but I think Torre tipped his hand tonight by bringing in Maddux; he'll be bringing in Lowe to start game four and Billingsley once again in game five, if necessary. I'm 100% certain he'll do this if the Cubs win the next two and 90% certain he'll do this if the Dodgers are up 2-1. Either way, the Dodgers are kinda in a weird position. Lilly v. Maddux is a mismatch. But do you bring back Lowe on three days rest?

Just my two cents.

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Fire Phil Emery

Where the fuck is Mr. Reason to rip these motherfuckers.

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Why Frank, you have lost weight and do I detect that you went to a tanning booth?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

probably out drinkin.

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with the saints being on monday night, blackburn playing man u, and the cubs looking down at their own assholes to start this series...i may be looking at a long, long weekend in sports...

cubs are 0 for 10 when losing 1st game of a playoff series

Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please put the space after the punctation instead of before it.

I figured I'd find most of you guys here.

It's only one game. Not good, but one game.

Relax, drink heavily, wake up, enjoy gane two.

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Your new avatar.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I don't really disagree with any of that except I don't think the Cubs were so much tense as they were trying to do too much in each AB, like last year.

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Fire Phil Emery

Just remember gang: "IT IS ONLY A GAME!!".

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It is not me its the speel check it does it auto

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"