What is that?
The best field sobriety test picture I could come up with at this time(and I’ve re-typed this line like five times now).
Moving on: (more…)
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You kind of have to look past the “awesome” copyright anti-infringement measure…
But I understand. It’s cool ….
And for the rest of you villagers–put down those torches and pitchforks.
I know we lost four to two to that blabber-mouth D*&ck and his pet.
It’s Okay
It’s only Spring Training. (more…)
Today we are going to eschew what has become the “Original” format to talk about the three different types of major league baseball players, at least I believe, should be on every team:
The Super Star(Soriano, Zambrano)
The Fan Favorite(Ramirez, Theriot)
The Grinder(which is not my favorite term, but F*&k it, it serves my purpose here–Johnson, Fontenot) (more…)
Cub prosperity has hit even the hardest working Sox Fans
“What’s it been like, a hundred years?”
“Say hi to Bartman for me”
“Joe Crede is waaayyy better than Ramirez.”
“..yea, if you mean by greatest fans a bunch of beer drinking fratboy yuppies who don’t even know the score to the game”
“CUBs S*&CK”
These are just a few of the inane, biased, and trite things you’ll hear come out of a Sox fans mouth when one even begins to screw up their lips and begin to breathe the dreaded C word.
Oh, forgot this one.
“Yea, if by that you mean the “attendance world series.”
Which is a personal favorite of mine. Now I’m not saying all Sox fans are dumb and that all Cub fans actually watch the game–I’ve actually heard some pretty funny things come out of Sox fans mouths in regards to the Cubs.
But that isn’t what I’m about here(and I’m just way too tired to reach my usual level of mediocrity)
What? It’s science…
And in other out of shape, sweaty guy news, former Cubs closer Joe Borowski has decided to retire.
Borowski, a thirteen year veteran, pitched in both leagues as a reliever for a total of eight different teams.
But who cares about those guys.
Sweaty Joe will always be remembered by Cub fans as that one guy who was even scarier to watch close games than this guy.
And for his three years on the northside, most notably the 2003 debacle/division championship season.
So goodbye to you Joe, your mediocre fastball, your “You’re a professional baseball player?–F%$K you” physique, and your “Really– Joe Borowski?” 2007 AL saves leading season.
And goodbye to this post that has been built upon being as lackluster and factually ambiguous as this guy.
The Cubs are back!
Once again haunting Ho Ho Kam park in preparation for the 2009 season. Full squad workouts began at their Mesa, Arizona facility on the 20th with only one notable name missing, that being their pirouetting, non-righty hitting, early season mania-inducing only to be disappointed/confused at WHAT EXACTLY IS HE SWINGING AT?! right center fielder Kosuke Fukudome.
But more on him later. (more…)
The Chicago Cubs and starting pitcher Ryan Dempster have signed a new four year contract ESPN.Com is reporting. The four year deal will pay Dempster $52 million total including a $4 million dollar signing bonus. The contract will pay Dempster $8 million next year, $12.5 million in 2010 and $13.5 million in 2011. Dempster has a 2012 option for $14 million
It is a decent contract, but I would have preferred for it to be around $45 million total and not so backloaded but I can see why Jim Hendry and management did it this way. They had to break the $50 million mark or you know Dempster would have been very serious about leaving Chicago and signing with another team. By back loading the contact, it also lets the team still actively look at trading for Jake Peavy.
Say what Cubs Fans?
The news from the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday morning is that the Chicago Cubs have offered starting pitcher Ryan Dempster a four year contract worth $50 million. Dempster can probably get more around the $60-$65 million for four years if he chooses to go out and test the free agent market. Will he stay with the Cubs for the $12-$13 million per year? We should know soon I would expect.
The Cubs rumors are still going around about Jake Peavy. However at this time it looks as if the Cubs will need a third team to get involved if they want to land Peavy. The Padres aren’t excited about the young arms that the Cubs are trying to send to the Padres. Peavy will either land with the Braves or Cubs and we should know before Thanksgiving.
The Cubs and Dodgers kicked off the NLDS on Wednesday night and the Dodgers came away with a 7-2 victory over the Cubs. Now the Dodgers have home field advantage on their side as they need two more wins to win the series and they will play two out of three games at home.
Ryan Dempster took the loss for the Cubs as he was terrible on the mound in his 4 2/3 innings. Dempster was not his usual self as he walked seven batters including there in the fifth inning before he gave up a grand slam to James Loney. The Dodgers also hit solo home runs off of Jason Marquis and Sean Marshall in the game while tacking on another run off of Jeff Samardzija.
The Cubs had nine hits in the game, they just didn’t get the big hits that the Dodgers did. Alfonso Soriano, Derrek Lee, and Aramis Ramirez only combined for two hits in the game. Mark DeRosa had both rbi’s for the Cubs when he hit a two-run home run in the second inning. The Cubs need more production and three or more hits in an inning to score some runs if they want to win game two.
Carlos Zambrano will take the mound on game two. Hopefully he comes out and gets ahead of hitters right away and the Cubs even up the series at one game each.
It was a terrible night at Wrigley Field for the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night as they lost to the Houston Astros 4-0. The shutout was the second time in the last three days that the Astros shutout the Cubs offense and went onto win. It seemed like that Astros had no problems sweeping the Cubbies in the three game series.
Ryan Dempster pitched seven innings but gave up a two run home run and a rbi single to take the loss and fall to 15-6 on th season. Dempster just didn’t get any run support as the Cubs offense continues to slump.
The Cubs were very impatient at the plate against Astros starting pitcher Randy Wolf as they struck out eight times and only took two walks in the game. They were up there swinging early in the count and did not have good success. I hope that the offday on Thursday lets the hitters clear their minds and they come back out on Friday and really hit the ball hard in Cincinnati.
