That is hysterical!!! The unsaid in that article is astounding: "Our team freaking sucks and can't draw crowds from our own large city or our state, so let's market to the following: People who love the Cubs but are too poor or too cheap to get tickets to Wrigley Proper People who hate the Cardinals but don't want to travel all the way to St. Louis to heckle them People who want to heckle Barry Bonds Awesome!!
Has anyone seen this article? http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...an/09/25/donovan.thursfour/index.html?eref=T1 I want to email Bud Selig and see if he plans on making these teams play at other stadiums and if not why? Fair is fair correct? The Stros could have played a make up double header. Anyone have a link where I can email him and ask?
Another link where a sportswriter notes the Astros getting screwed: Cubs need ace Zambrano to focus, find old form The numbers tell part of the story. In his last eight starts, Zambrano is 2-2 with a 7.93 ERA, and he's allowed 69 baserunners in 42 innings. Remember, that stretch includes a no-hitter. Take out the no-hitter, which came against a sleep-deprived and hurricane-weary Astros team, and Zambrano would be 1-2 with a 10.09 ERA in seven starts.
