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[Mrbob]

Yankees don't have the pitching to make to the world series.

 

[methodman]

Yankees don't have the pitching to make to the world series.

Neither do the Giants. BUT THEY GOIN ALL THE WAY!! BWHAHAHHAHA

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

well there we go. a normal game 3-1 in the fifth.

 

[Joe]

el duque is fan-fuckin-tastic. god damn.

 

[speshylives]

Someone get those ex scientists at Balco on the phone..we need something that will help El Duque pitch forever.

 

[rc213]

Fukkin Douchbag Umpire cost us a run and probably a big inning. MOFO must be blind, not a bad outing by Nomo so far just 1 bad inning where a walk to the pitcher got him in trouble. He also failed miserably on 2 bunt attempts i believe.


Also why the fuck do they have Cora so far back in the line-up?

 

[Mrbob]

GIVE ME A D!
GIVE ME A U!
GIVE ME A S!
GIVE ME A T!
GIVE ME AN I!
GIVE ME A N!
GIVE ME AN Y!

WHATS THAT SPELL?

DUSTINY!

WHO'S THE MAN?

 

[Eminem]

oh shit, you guys took 11 innings to beat the expos. congrats.

 

[Mrbob]

Better than losing in 11 to the expos.

You still don't get it. Soon you will understand though.

 

[Desperado]

What's that green crap on Dusty?

OH SHIT DUSTY HAS LEPRACY

 

[Ninja Scooter]

What's that green crap on Dusty?

OH SHIT DUSTY HAS LEPRACY

you mean vitiligo? leprosy is the disease that makes your arms fall off

 

[Miguel]

The Lizard needs to go back to Hee Haw

 

[Mrbob]

Fridays Cubs/Marlins game has been postponed. Saturdays game is in jeapordy too. Looks like we'll have a double header on Sunday and a make up game sometime in September/October.

 

[Lathentar]

Yep... looks like 2 days off for the Cubbies at least. It'll be nice for them to sit back and watch the wild card kinda unfold around them for a couple days.

 

[Desperado]

you mean vitiligo? leprosy is the disease that makes your arms fall off

and Vitiligo makes your skin lose its pigment. not turn green...I think the Simpson's has warped my idea of leprosy.

 

[Mrbob]

Marlins 2.5 games back of the Cubbies and on a crash course for a huge double header on sunday? Biggest two damn games of the year? You bet! Cubs will sweep. It's September.

 

[Lathentar]

Come to think about it... Florida should sweep.

Sucks for the Cubs to have to play one of the hottest teams in baseball 6 times in the next 9 games. I just hope you null each other out. Just like San Diego and San Fran. will be doing later (hopefully).

CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Team  		W  	L  	PCT  	GB  	E#  	HOME  	ROAD  	EAST  	CENT  	WEST  	AL  	L10  	STRK
Chicago 	73 	60 	.549 	- 	- 	37-28 	36-32 	10-5 	40-36 	15-15 	8-4 	6-4 	W1
San Francisco 	73 	62 	.541 	1.0 	28 	39-30 	34-32 	19-13 	15-15 	28-27 	11-7 	5-5 	L1
San Diego 	71 	61 	.538 	1.5 	29 	33-33 	38-28 	18-14 	17-15 	28-22 	8-10 	6-4 	L2
Florida 	70 	62 	.530 	2.5 	28 	35-29 	35-33 	33-19 	12-18 	18-14 	7-11 	8-2 	W7
Houston 	70 	63 	.526 	3.0 	27 	33-33 	37-30 	16-14 	37-30 	10-14 	7-5 	9-1 	W6

Biggest Series-

Chicago:
Florida Sept 3-5
Florida Sept 10-12
Atlanta Oct 1-3

San Fran:
San Diego Sept 17-19
Houston Sept 21-23
Los Angeles Sept 24-26
San Diego Sept 28-30
Los Angeles Oct 1-3

San Diego:
St. Louis Today (Already lost the first two games)
St. Louis Sept 6-9
Los Angeles Sept 13-16
San Fran. Sept 17-19
Los Angeles Sept 21-23
San Fran. Sept 28-30

Florida:
Chicago Sept 3-5
Chicago Sept 10-12
Atlanta Sept 17-19
Atlanta Setp 24-26

Houston:
St. Louis Sept 14-16
San Fran. Sept 21-23
St. Louis Sept 27-29

Easiest schedule Chicago, second easiest.... Houston? San Diego and San Francisco are basically dead in the water. They play LA and each other too many times. Florida can singlehandedly take out the Cubs. The Astros best hope is to split with St. Louis.

 

[Mrbob]

Look at the amount of times Houston still has to play St. Louis brings a tear to me eye.

SD and SF are in trouble. Between playing each other, houston, and LA, its gonna be a bunch of beating each other up.

I think this Cubs/Marlins 6 game set is going to decide the wild card. What I mean is if the Cubs can come out on top (4-2 or 5-1) I think its over for the rest of the Wild Card hopefuls. We own Atlanta, and the rest of the month is against Pittsburg and Cincinnatti.

 

[Scoobert]

Marlins and Cubs probably won't be playing Saturday. After their Expos game they went straight to Chicago.

Also, some Marlin players are staying at Pro Player this weekend because they have no where else to go. Some will also be staying at other player's houses.

Cubs aren't even in town. They ran away, too scared to face the Marlins.

 

[DMczaf]

Ichiro Update!

3 for 5 tonight

BA = .375

Hits = 217

Projected hits = 266

He's a monster!

 

[Flizzzipper]

Does anyone have the video of the Cubbie hitting the mammoth homer at Wrigley that went on or over the roof at the houses across the street? I think the player was Glenallen Hill. I haven't seen it since it first happened and would love to save it to my comp.

 

[rc213]

The way the Dodgers pitchers are going and the way we are hitting were gonna get hammered in St. Louis this weekend.

 

[Lathentar]

Who isn't getting hammered by St. Louis?

 

[Desperado]

August 26, 2004

Bluefield manager Gary Kendall sat in his office Wednesday afternoon, discussing the inevitable.

Greeneville was bussing into town for a three-game series in the Rookie-level Appalachian League, with league home run leader Mitch Einertson in tow.

"We only saw him three games earlier this year, and he homered off us. He's coming in here today and will probably tie that record," said Kendall, who laughed off the idea of giving Einertson the Barry Bonds treatment.

Maybe he should have avoided Einertson. The Greenville center fielder cracked his 24th home run of the season Wednesday night in a 13-10 win. That tied the Appy League record set by Wytheville's Joy Gritts in 1960.

"Coming out of high school and hitting over 20 home runs is almost impossible to do," Burlington manager Rouglas Odor said. "Manny Ramirez, when he was here (in 1991), he hit 19 home runs and had 63 RBIs."

Einertson, the Astros' fifth-round pick out of a California high school, has a league-best 63 RBIs of his own, adding a .305 average. While he boasts that impressive .705 slugging percentage, the 5-foot-10, 180-pound athlete also has a .410 on-base mark that illustrates his knowledge of the strike zone and ability to lay off bad pitches.

"He hit the homer, but he had three hits last night, so the kid knows how to hit and isn't all power," Greeneville manager Tom Bogar said. "What's amazing to me is everybody knows who he is and what he does now and are trying to pitch him different. But he's making the adjustments."

Observers aren't sure what's quicker, Einertson's bat speed or his ability to make those adjustments. Johnson City manager Tommy Kidwell said his staff found success against Einertson one night by consistently feeding him soft stuff down and away. The next night, he ripped one of those offerings over the fence.

"He's hit fastballs, splitters, changeups," Kidwell said, "and he's hit them all hard."

--WILL KIMMEY

Einertson's final season stats:

Batters		BA	SLG	G	AB	R	H	TB	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	E
M.Einertson	.308	.692	63	227	53	70	157	15	0	24	67	32	70	4	4	5

-Appalachian League All-Star
-Appalachian League Player of the Year

damn, 5th round? we sure came away with a steal there.

and HE'S 18.

 

[rc213]

Who isn't getting hammered by St. Louis?

True =-X

 

[Meier]

YHENCY! Gave up 2 hits but ended up getting out of with a 3rd K. This kid is the future.

 

[Poody]

I bleed BLUE

 

[Ninja Scooter]

if Ichiro finishes September at the same type of blistering pace he was in August, he can hit .400!! IT IS POSSIBLE!

 

[MASB]

Ichiro Update!

3 for 5 tonight

BA = .375

Hits = 217

Projected hits = 266

He's a monster!

It'll be great if he can break the record. Truly historic.

 

[Matrix]

Look at the amount of times Houston still has to play St. Louis brings a tear to me eye.

SD and SF are in trouble. Between playing each other, houston, and LA, its gonna be a bunch of beating each other up.

I think this Cubs/Marlins 6 game set is going to decide the wild card. What I mean is if the Cubs can come out on top (4-2 or 5-1) I think its over for the rest of the Wild Card hopefuls. We own Atlanta, and the rest of the month is against Pittsburg and Cincinnatti.

Tony might give the Stros those games Everyone hates the Cubs and their whiney ass players.

 

[Meier]

Ichiro is my favorite player in the bigs... he's just a treat to watch. We NEED him in LA! Come on Nintendo, give him up! I love foreign players in basketball too. So damn fundamentally sound.

 

[Miguel]

"He hit the homer, but he had three hits last night, so the kid knows how to hit and isn't all power," Greeneville manager Tom Bogar said.

IT'S TIM BOGAR you douche!

*smacks WILL KIMMEY

Anyway, Marlins take 2 on Sunday.


Sunday night, the standings will look like this

*Wildcard*

Team  		W  	L  	GB
Chicago 	73 	62 	.549 	-- 	
Florida 	72 	62 	.530 	.5 	
Houston 	73 	63 	.526 	.5

Florida beats Chicago in the doubleheader on Sunday. Astros sweep the Pirates Friday/Saturday/Sunday.

I'll go ahead and say it now. This is a 3 team race. San Francisco and San Diego play each other and all these other teams too often to have a chance.

 

[Lathentar]

That would be insane Mig.

 

[Miguel]

OR WOULD IT?

 

[Poody]

Bring on the birds..

Lima vs. Morris Friday
Ishii vs. Marquis Saturday
Weaver vs. Williams Sunday

Lima time is now and he better step it up

 

[Wheeljack539]

I think our chances against the Cards are good with both Lima and Weaver, as long as Lima can keep the ball in the park. It's Saturday's game with Kardiac Kaz that concerns me. Which Ishii will show up?

 

[Desperado]

IT'S TIM BOGAR you douche!

*smacks WILL KIMMEY

Anyway, Marlins take 2 on Sunday.


Sunday night, the standings will look like this

*Wildcard*

Team  		W  	L  	GB
Chicago 	73 	62 	.549 	-- 	
Florida 	72 	62 	.530 	.5 	
Houston 	73 	63 	.526 	.5

Florida beats Chicago in the doubleheader on Sunday. Astros sweep the Pirates Friday/Saturday/Sunday.

I'll go ahead and say it now. This is a 3 team race. San Francisco and San Diego play each other and all these other teams too often to have a chance.

Damnit Mig, the last time you predicted a sweep we lost the series!

 

[Lathentar]

Damnit Mig, the last time you predicted a sweep we lost the series!

Good call, he really needs to shut up with predictions.

 

[Mrbob]

MIG HAS CURSED THE STROS!

D00M3D!

 

[Miguel]

*yawn*

All you non-believers. Enough with you. Astros will sweep. Astros will make the wildcard. Astros will make it out of the first round.


That's as far as I'm going...:lol

 

[Mrbob]

Todd Walker was on the radio bitching about the Cubs announcing team today too lol! Shut the f up and play your damn games! Don't worry about the announcers. Cubs players are ticked off that the Cubs announcers give the opponents players too much credit and not enough credit too their own players. Now when you guys bitch about Chip and Steve being homers you know why. They get a ton of scrutiny if they say one bad thing about this Cubs team! I think its pretty funny though. Dusty needs to shut this team up and tell them to play ball.

BTW here is a pretty detailed account of the problems:

http://www.forums.mlb.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=ml-cubs&msg=114564.1&ctx=0

 

[Eminem]

MrBob +100000000 for not siding with the Cubbies on this one.


Give me a fucking break. A bunch of crybabies on that team. Again I'd like to know why they're watching the game on tv rather than out of the dugout. Stone ALWAYS tells it how it is, for better or worse. Learn to deal with it you aholes.

 

[Poody]

are the Cubs fucken serious. The Cub annoucers are bias as hell. Just watch the series between the dodgers

 

[NLB2]

Todd Waker also bitched about Chip and Steve not giving the players nicknames. So the next game whever Walker came up to bat, the announcers would call him stupid shit like "The Louissiana Lumberjack". It was great.

 

[Desperado]

MIG HAS CURSED THE STROS!

D00M3D!

You know, I'd like for you to keep making predictions. Really.

 

[Matrix]

Holy wtf Viz just hit a solo HR :eek

 

[Matrix]

BELTRAN IS GOD!PLEASE SIGN HIM LONGTERM!PLEALMAALDSJAOKOWKWSE!

 

[Eminem]

Todd Waker also bitched about Chip and Steve not giving the players nicknames. So the next game whever Walker came up to bat, the announcers would call him stupid shit like "The Louissiana Lumberjack". It was great.

:lol :lol as opposed to the south sider's hawk and DJ, who give a nickname to any and every player.

roberto alomar = robbie
paul konerko = pauly or pauly boy
joe borchard = joe b(pronounced joebe)
magglio ordonez = maggs
carlos lee = el caballo or C Lee(pronounced see lee)
joe crede = super joe
jon garland = big jon
ben davis = big ben
aaron rowand = young aaron
jose valentin = josey(hoe-see)


yep, i think that's about it. those ridiculous nicknames + he gone + you can put it on the board + hawk and dj's stories and self-depricating humor + thier laid back knowledge of the game = they are great announcers.

they're the announcers where if you like the sox, you love 'em to death like i do, but if you don't like the sox you'll hate 'em

 

[Poody]

nope beltran will be going to the yanks

 

[Eminem]

and also, major props to steve stone(whom I always have liked a ton. i've never bad mouthed stoney) and chip carey for not taking any shit from these cub players.

i really think stone hates moises the most. when moises made that SIMPLY HORRIBLE base running play where he ran from first to third on a fly ball with one out, I just loved Steve's commentary. "that's just a terrible play. he should be watching the ball" *zoom in on moises talking to the cubs 3rd base coach...you can read moises lips saying "did he catch it?" * steve stone: "YES Moises, he DID catch it." and he said it in the coldest tone.

definitely upped my respect for both of them for not caving in to these cubs crybabies. walker was one of the cubs i liked a lot too. time to add him to one of the many whiners on the team.
I'd rather see him get pissed and hit shit or throw his mitt than criticize the GOD DAMN ANNOUNCING. ah, that team pisses me off.

last year this team was nowhere near as hatable. i only hated them because of my south side bias. but this year, if i was nowhere near chicago, i would genuinely dislike this team.