Game 88 overflow II
by lboros on Jul 4, 2008 10:15 PM EDT
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Printwe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and dominion over the Cubs . . . .
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Jason
Interestinghausen…
I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ~Bill Veeck
It's working pretty well thus far.
That hit was a total blooper.
They say that it's never too late, but you don't get any younger...
probably because his
fastball and cutter are down 4-5 mph.
"How depressing is it being you? Would you equate it to being a lifelong Cubs fan?"
Izzy
cannot keep shit down…
I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ~Bill Veeck
wow that call was
gracious
I can't believe i gave up a homerun to that punch and judy hitter-major league 2
I'm just so happy that mfing cutter's working again
They say that it's never too late, but you don't get any younger...
All right
GET IZZY THE EFFING WIN, BOYS
They say that it's never too late, but you don't get any younger...
Top of 9, down by 1
Why the hell are they talking about fireworks and other teams?
Seriously – what about strategy…decisions…things that are going through the manager’s mind…ugh.
I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ~Bill Veeck
so i guess we've officially moved over here for the 9th uh?
I'm going to go try to find a puppy and kick it. - Brad Thompson AND THAT'S A WINNER!
Ladies and gentlemen,
the poster boy for over throwing: Kerry Wood
I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ~Bill Veeck
WHAT???????????????????
HOW WAS THAT A STRIKE
I'm going to go try to find a puppy and kick it. - Brad Thompson AND THAT'S A WINNER!
3-1 against Glaus is playing with fire, Kerry
They say that it's never too late, but you don't get any younger...
wow
and some choice words
I can't believe i gave up a homerun to that punch and judy hitter-major league 2
Bad bad bad
Tony pussed.
I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ~Bill Veeck
player of the game: Homeplate Ump
"How depressing is it being you? Would you equate it to being a lifelong Cubs fan?"
well we will not know
what would have happened had he walked
I can't believe i gave up a homerun to that punch and judy hitter-major league 2
and the ump keeps looking into the dug out
nice
I can't believe i gave up a homerun to that punch and judy hitter-major league 2
stay classy blue
I'm going to go try to find a puppy and kick it. - Brad Thompson AND THAT'S A WINNER!
that P O S ump isn't even giving the Cards a chance
MLB really needs to do something
I'm going to go try to find a puppy and kick it. - Brad Thompson AND THAT'S A WINNER!
Yadi's wallet
is the one that says “Bad MotherF*cker” on it…
I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ~Bill Veeck
don't swing at the junk LUD
I'm going to go try to find a puppy and kick it. - Brad Thompson AND THAT'S A WINNER!
disgusting.
Good thing I stayed in for this game.
"How depressing is it being you? Would you equate it to being a lifelong Cubs fan?"
well the ump did his best to take the game out our hands with that first out
that was some disgusting game calling. why there are still people calling balls and strikes and not a machine is beyond me.
good idea
i’m going to go curl up in a ball in the corner with a bottle of rum & weep like a little girl
you all be safe out there
I'm going to go try to find a puppy and kick it. - Brad Thompson AND THAT'S A WINNER!
With a Game like that he should be a marked man Tomorrow
Those at the game…let him hear it!
tim donaghy brought to you by bud selig!!!
mattnj
there outta be a law against umps like that
he completely took the bats out of the Cards hands
MLB needs to do something about these rogue umps. they are killing baseball
I'm going to go try to find a puppy and kick it. - Brad Thompson AND THAT'S A WINNER!
I'd just like to throw out that perhaps I'd rather have Wall-E
They say that it's never too late, but you don't get any younger...
At least if I cared about the game
They say that it's never too late, but you don't get any younger...
/votes for marvin
“a brain the size of a planet, and all i do is sit here day in and day out and call “ball”, “strike”, it doesn’t involve the tiniest bit of my intellect to determine that the little white orb crossed the plate… i’m 130 million times better at it than tim donaghy, but then again, so is that hot dog vendor over there…”
"If thats bad luck, lets DFA our luck away." -DriverZN
I find it odd that home teams like the Cubs/Red Sox ect.
get huge home field umpire calls…but we get none.
Hope the offense wakes up tomorrow.
You know, I don't want huge home field calls
even when the other team gets them. I just want goddamned fair umpiring
They say that it's never too late, but you don't get any younger...
With it being game 1 of 3
Tony didn’t want to get the umps pissed off for the rest of the series…I bet. I just think it’s unfair that when teams like the Cubs are playing at home they get calls like that in their favor…but not us. The Red Sox got the same treatment….the umps were giving them a bunch of gifts when we played them.
in typical TRL fashion
he said in his post game the ump didn’t cost the Birds the win
I'm going to go try to find a puppy and kick it. - Brad Thompson AND THAT'S A WINNER!
And that's what he should say
You lost the game either way. Light a fire under the players to make the next game definitive enough that the umps are irrelevant.
They say that it's never too late, but you don't get any younger...
All the Cubs fans at Busch pissed me off more than the umps
It amazes me how many Cubs fans can get tickets to these games in St. Louis.
Well, it goes both ways
That’s knd of the fun of having a rivalry between cities this close. It’s downright embarassing how many cardinals fans show up at Minute Maid when the Astros are bad. (on the same topic, it was equally bad for a Red Sox-Astros game that I went to this month)
They say that it's never too late, but you don't get any younger...
bashing the umps gets you no where
but it sure has hell makes me feel better
the first question he was asked about the ump, he replied “no comment”
so with that no comment, he pretty much said all that he needed to say
I'm going to go try to find a puppy and kick it. - Brad Thompson AND THAT'S A WINNER!
but I really hope that MLB is not imitating the NBA
A cubs/redsox world series is very financially appealing…
mattnj
if that is the case
and tim donaghy had to pick one or two pitches in a game to mis-call, he certainly picked the right ones.
"If thats bad luck, lets DFA our luck away." -DriverZN
that 9th inning glaus at bat really grinds my gears
i dont know why but i think i would feel a little better if glaus would have gotten himself ejected
holy wow
marlins 17, rockies 16, in colorado, in the 8th inning.
"If thats bad luck, lets DFA our luck away." -DriverZN
rockies win, 18-17, on a blown save by gregg
base hit with the bases loaded, following 3 singles and an error. Wow.
And only 2 errors in a game in which 35 runs were scored- that is amazing.
"If thats bad luck, lets DFA our luck away." -DriverZN
Agree
Last night I said the Brewers needed more than Sabitha to get into the playoffs. But I am having serious doubts that we are going to play as good as we did the first half of the season and we will be real lucky to get the wild card over the Brewers. These next two games will be a real telling sign of what “we have”. To be honest I felt we didn’t play with much fire tonight against the Cubs AT HOME in our first big series of the season. They didn’t make Zambrano work at all and that was a real let down….at least for me. Plus I don’t think management is real serious about trying to “win it” this year. They are hoping we play like we did the first half and are going to stick with the guys we have and not make any major moves. I could be wrong…but it’s just the feeling I have.
Zambrano
I’ll give the man his due…he is a dominate pitcher…BUT why can’t the Cards ever seem to beat him? Zambrano is 8-0 against Cards in last 11 starts and the Cards use the same approach every time they face him. Go up and swing at anything they see. I would REALLY hope when we face him in August they have a different approach next time and make him WORK. Other teams can do it against him why not us?!!?
PLUS the man was on a strict pitch count and we still went up there swinging early and letting him get easy innings and get through 6 six innings easy.
We can bitch about the umps..and rightfully so…but the Cards didn’t help themselves tonight before it even got to the bottom of the 9th with the umprire shanigans.
Sweet mother of mercy
I just watched the 9th inning (sorry, had to go watch the fireworks) and that was just plain awful. Where the heck was LaRussa? Couldn’t he be bothered to go out and get run? He did stick up for his player a day after he buried a former player in the papers. Stay Classy, Tone.
by Hardcore Legend on Jul 5, 2008 12:21 AM EDT reply actions
I missed the game today
had too many other festivities and could only follow the game on my cell phone.
Was the umpiring pro-cub the entire game? Or did Zambrano just flat out beat us?
Good to see Looper with a fantastic outing against the best offense in the NL
Good to see APu get #300
boo cubs, hooray beer
Well...
the umpiring wasn’t really too bad until the 9th when he gave Wood a “hometown strike zone” even though we was pitching for the road team. I thought we was squeezing Looper at times, especially right before Soto hit his HR. As for Zambrano…he had good stuff but the Cards didn’t make him work at all and they swung at first pitches and didn’t make him throw a lot even knowing he had strict pitch count. Big mistake.
I didn’t think the Cards played with much fire tonight in what was the start of their first real big series of the season. Let’s hope the bad umpiring in the 9th will light a flame under their asses and they come out tomorrow ready to score some runs and win the next two games this weekend.
Quote from Albert...
“He’s probably one of the toughest guys that we face in our division or our league,” first baseman Albert Pujols said of Zambrano. “Obviously, he’s got our number. There’s nothing to hide.”
This is true…but it’s getting to the point where they are just giving up when they have to face Zambrano. Other teams have got to him before..there is no reason why Albert & the boys can’t change their approach with him and pound him at some point. I really think they are intimidated by Big Z…I really wish this would change. No pitcher is unbeatable…they really need to make him work. Z looses his temper real easy and can get wild after he looses it or if his pitch count gets up….they should focus on this. They just seem to lose all plate discipline when they face him.
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