Back to business today after the boys took a day off yesterday.


Question: Do you think Lou will go with the 4 man rotation in the playoffs or put Lilly in the bullpen?

OR bring in Lilly to start the 6th in Harden's starts, when he has 100+ pitches through 5.

[Edited on August 3, 2008 at 12:13 AM. Reason : 3]

8/3/2008 12:12:53 AM

Someone needs to sit down with Harden and tell him to hurry up his plate appearances. His pitches/PA is awful.

8/3/2008 3:09:43 PM

Does that really matter?

8/3/2008 3:14:19 PM

Yes it does matter. The reason being you want your good pitchers to be able to pitch as deep into the game as possible. Each pitcher has a certain pitch count when their performance starts to slide and they have to be relieved by the bullpen. So if you have to leave the game during the 5th or 6th inning you leave the rest of the game (4-5 innings) to the bullpen which in most every teams case is not as good as the starting pitchers.

8/3/2008 3:27:28 PM

When he averages 4 pitches / PA (this is what he AVERAGES!), that's serious.

He's putting the pressure both on the bullpen in HIS game as well as the next guy in the rotation since the bullpen just had to pitch last night.

Don't get me wrong, Harden is a STUD and his stuff is nasty but someone needs to tell him to stop nibbling away at hitters like a little bitch and just DEAL.

8/3/2008 3:33:25 PM

I thought you were talking about how slow he works. My bad.

8/3/2008 5:17:18 PM

8/3/2008 5:17:44 PM

^ hero of the Sunday! Go Cubs Go!

8/3/2008 5:40:17 PM

might as well put this guys pic into play too, no love after the game winning homer!

8/3/2008 5:46:55 PM

I hate rain delays

8/4/2008 9:28:32 PM

Today's game was awesome....especially the 3rd

8/6/2008 6:41:01 PM

heall yeah, i was at work but was watching the tracker on espn, and went wild when derosa cranked his granny

8/6/2008 11:48:18 PM

Very fun game to watch, especially Backe's meltdown.

8/6/2008 11:55:33 PM

i always talk to my mom about the cubs since she grew up in chicago and a diehard cubs fan, but she always tells me it's too early

but she's been through it before, in 1969, and what was it.....1984?

8/7/2008 12:01:46 AM

In 84 they actually made the playoffs, but blew a 2-0 series lead to San Diego. They didn't make it at all in 69.

8/7/2008 12:02:47 AM

Back in the summer of '69

Let's hope the momentum keeps on going against those bastards down I-55

8/7/2008 12:26:44 AM

Maybe 1989??

8/7/2008 12:29:42 AM

1969 is definitely the most painful season... black cat and all.

8/7/2008 1:00:37 AM

This has been a fun season so far. Nice to have a day off today for the players and for my nerves.

8/7/2008 11:42:59 AM

in 69, they had an like a 8 1/2 game lead on the mets and cardinals around mid august, but ended up sucking a nut and losing the division to the mets (who won the world series I think) by like 10 games...

8/7/2008 7:56:21 PM

HANK WHITE in the clutch.




[Edited on August 8, 2008 at 5:33 PM. Reason : W]

8/8/2008 5:33:01 PM

^ probably in MS-13, but still clutch!

8/8/2008 5:34:29 PM

haha

8/8/2008 5:36:27 PM

damn, 8-2 in their last 10.. STHUPER STHWEET!

8/8/2008 5:40:44 PM

Quote :

"n 69, they had an like a 8 1/2 game lead on the mets and cardinals around mid august, but ended up sucking a nut and losing the division to the mets (who won the world series I think) by like 10 games... "

yeah, that's what i was talking about

8/8/2008 11:23:58 PM

2/3

8/10/2008 11:47:17 PM

8/10/2008 11:50:06 PM

I went to the game on Friday. The Cubs are definitely for real, I just wish the idiots that show up at Wrigley weren't their ambassadors. I loved how the d-bags behind us were talking shit to the Cards by saying "YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE RELEASED EDMONDS!!!!!!!". Granted he did hit two dingers.... haha



(He was traded to SDP before SDP released him).

8/10/2008 11:50:59 PM

8/10/2008 11:53:15 PM

8/10/2008 11:54:01 PM

That's pretty petty after I dapped your team.

Those guys were Cubs fans, by the way.

8/10/2008 11:54:40 PM

Still haven't proven that.

8/10/2008 11:57:16 PM

Cubs outscore triple-a Atl 18-2 to go 5-0 against them this season. Here's to Lilly completing the series/season sweep tomorrow.

8/13/2008 10:35:48 PM

8/16/2008 12:55:59 AM

incredible

8/16/2008 10:30:45 AM

sweep of the bucs, 9 straight series wins, 33 games over .500, best W-L in MLB, life is grand

let's go CUBS and let's go PACK tomorrow night

8/27/2008 9:40:27 PM

C'mon Cubbies!

Get this game tied..

[Edited on August 28, 2008 at 10:38 PM. Reason : RAMIREZ!!!!!!]

8/28/2008 10:36:30 PM

nice work Madson

8/28/2008 10:45:30 PM

8/28/2008 11:35:46 PM

GO CUBS GO!

8/29/2008 4:13:58 PM

I've got a real strong feeling that this will be the last mlb baseball thread at the top of this message board in 2008. no jinx.

[Edited on August 29, 2008 at 4:39 PM. Reason : NO JINX MOTHERFUCKA!]

8/29/2008 4:36:44 PM

ugly weekend, hopefully Z will have his stuff workin tomorrow after a long break

9/1/2008 10:03:02 AM

Cubs suck...sorry

9/3/2008 6:44:28 PM

my bosses son got called up last night for the 3rd time. hopefully he doesn't suck it up like he has done his other times

9/3/2008 11:07:50 PM

9/14/2008 10:30:38 PM

All it took was a fake home game in Milwaukee.

Zambrano is a piece of shit. This is still the same guy who punched his catcher, right?

9/14/2008 10:38:57 PM

At least our players didn't fix a World Series. And yes they have played in them before....and yes I know the White Sox beat the Cubs in one of those series...and you still haven't proven those Sox fans who beat up the Royals coach were really Cubs fans.





[Edited on September 14, 2008 at 10:44 PM. Reason : [Edited on September 14, 2008 at 10:44 PM. Reason : You suck at NCAA 2008]]

9/14/2008 10:42:07 PM

Props to Big Z tonight.

Houston has now suffered this No-No and Kerry Wood's 20 strike-out game 10 years ago.

9/15/2008 2:39:54 AM

Man Lilly was OH so close to another one.

9/15/2008 7:57:51 PM

How exactly is giving the Cubs some free homegames justified by MLB?

What a screw job for the Astros...

9/15/2008 8:36:25 PM