Great job Hampton! Cubs announcers just confirmed it ... Looks like Gagne is out for the Dodgers-Giants series ... BAD BAD NEWS!!
TBS is showing the game too? I would wrather listen to their broadcasters wrather than the Scrubs....but eh. NOw that the scrubs are losing, I love to hear their announcers eating it.
It all depends on which Carey you like listening to... Skip (the dad)... or Chip (the son) Both have perfceted the art of being a "homer" (must be hereditary)... although Skip tends to be more tolerable because he doesn't blow out your ear-drums whenever Sammy does his little bunny-hop.
The Tribune "From The Cubicle" guy is already in the dumps. I hear the faint wail of a bugle in the distance. It's playing Taps. Nomar fans to start things off. Link
From the Cubicle Live play-by-play of the Cubs-Braves game. Refresh for the latest agony. By Adam Caldarelli ChicagoSports.com October 1, 2004, 3:34 PM CDT With three games left on the schedule for all involved, it's come to this: The Cubs' inability to put away lesser competition (the Mets and Reds) has them scrambling to eke into the playoffs in a season when most knowledgeable seam-head types predicted them to win it all. It could still happen, but they've got to get there first. To get you caught up on the wild-card standings and remaining schedule, the Cubs trail Houston and San Francisco by a game. The Astros play host to Colorado this evening, while the Giants play the Dodgers at Chavez Ravine late tonight. But first we have a pretty decent pitching match-up on our hands with Kerry Wood (8-8) going against Atlanta Braves lefty Mike Hampton (12-9). The Braves, who would be the Cubs' first-round opponent if they make the playoffs (big if), can get a little early revenge for last year, when the Cubs dismissed them from the post-season. For those of you that have been watching recently, this Cubs team is vastly different than last year's. It's a beautiful day outside. The sun is shining, the Cubs are whining ... ah ... baseball the way it shouldn't be played. Kent Mercker just called. He wants me banned from Tribune picnic. For those of you joining us for the first time, first I say welcome and then I say, this is how this works: Refresh the page for the latest. And if you've got something to say, please don't hesitate when it comes to ranting, venting, complaining, complimenting, chatting even, on the adjacent message board. We'll have baseball soon. Sit tight. Steve Stone update: Radio reports reports of Stone's firing are wrong. He's on the call. In case you missed it, Stone went on WGN radio yesterday and said what every Cubs fan was thinking. First inning OK, here we go everyone. Got the Advil and something to throw handy? Wood faces shortstop Rafael Furcal to get things started. I stand corrected. The sun is no longer shining. As for the Cubs whining, well, that still stands. The wind is blowing out. Wood jumps all over Furcal with two straight strikes before Furcal shatters his bat with a bloop to Corey Patterson in center for the first out. Twenty-six outs away from the no-hitter. Marcus Giles, whom Mark Prior took out last season between first and second, breaks up the no-no with a line drive to left. Here's no one's favorite, J.D. Drew. Giles breaks for second, Drew drills it to Mark Grudzielanek with enough time to turn the 4-6-3, but Grudzielanek boots it and everyone's safe. Chipper Jones grounds the first pitch to Aramis Ramirez at third. He steps on third but can't get Jones at first. First and second and two outs for one of the better names in baseball, Johnny Estrada. Hey, Rick Majerus at the game. Looks like he's enjoying a dog. Big shocker. Estrada lifts one to Patterson and Wood pitches out of a minor jam. Patterson just rips one but it's right at Drew in right. Derrek Lee rolls one to Jones at third. Two quick outs. Lee is ending the season like he started it: ice cold. Chip Caray still going with the no-one-wants-to-face-the-Cubs-in-a-short-series line. I would think everyone would want to face this team right now in any type of series. Just ask the Mets and Reds. Aramis Ramirez does a very rare thing and strikes out. Second inning First baseman Adam LaRoche leads off for the Braves. Hey, there's Cubs fan Bob Beck on TV. He's got his headphones under his baseball cap. Interesting look. LaRoche hits one to center and Patterson plays an out into a single with a late jump coming in. Andruw Jones (batting seventh?) gets jammed and meekly grounds one down the line to Lee, who steps on first. LaRoche takes second. Dewayne Wise, the No. 8 hitter filling in for Charles Thomas, belts one into the junipers in center and the Braves take a 2-0 lead. Hampton files out to Moises Alou in left. Stone just uttered the term faits accomplis. There's no room for that baseball, especially now that Les Expos fled Montreal. Braves 2, Cubs 0 Alou leads off the Cubs' second with a single to left. Nomar Garciaparra lines to Drew in right, to bring up Sammy Sosa with a man on. Sosa draws a walk. Grudzielanek, hitting .405 lifetime against Hampton, is a good guy to have up in this spot. Grudzielanek rips a single up the middle, scoring Alou. Sosa takes third. Barrett, one of yesterday's goats, will try to make amends here. Barrett grounds one to Hampton, who slips, takes a seat, recovers and throws out Barrett. Sosa stays put, but Grudzielanek takes second. Hampton gets Wood looking at strike three on a pitch that looked outside. Wood does the smart thing by not arguing the call. I'd like to see that from the Southwest Airlines Plane View over-head cam. Instead we get a Southwest commercial. Braves 2, Cubs 1 Third inning Giles lines one into the right-field corner and hustles all the way around to third. We missed the actual hit because WGN was singing the praises of Miller Lite. Lead-off triples are never good. The Cubs will concede the run with everyone back. Drew pops one to Nomar behind second. Not nearly deep enough to score Giles. Now Chipper pops up the first pitch. Two great pitches by Wood. He looks a little angry and then blows Estrada away with a high fastball. So much for the lead-off triple. Patterson fails to do the job of the lead-off hitter and grounds out to first. Lee draws a walk, which is good because Ramirez sure can hit with guys on base. Not this time. Ramirez grounds to second. Giles flip to Furcal, but Furcal's throw to first is high and Ramirez is safe. Good play by Lee to go in hard at second. Alou quickly puts an end to this one with a ground ball to third. Fourth inning Wow. A ton of comments on the message board. At least they're all positive. Breathe, people. Adam Lyndon LaRoche gets his second straight hit off Wood and another lead off guy on. Jones, Andruw that is, pops out. Wise follows with a pop to Nomar. Hampton works the count full before putting a high fastball in the bleachers. Egads. Furcal grounds out to end it but not before the pitcher homers. Braves 4, Cubs 1 I hear the faint wail of a bugle in the distance. It's playing Taps. Nomar fans to start things off. To make matters worse they just showed a shot of Antonio Alfonseca in the Braves dugout. What, no shots of Dave Veres or Mark Guthrie on hand? Sosa walks. Grudzielanek pokes a single to right. Sosa doesn't even consider running on Drew. Barrett quickly ends any threat by bouncing into a double play. Fifth inning Copyright © 2004
looks like the cubs are becoming closer and closer to being out of it should be a helluva series for LA-SF with hopefully LA taking 2 of 3 at least :]
Wow, the boo birds are out in full force. Guess those Cubbies aren't so lovable this week, are they Cub fans?
http://cbs.sportsline.com/mlb/story/7746219 LOL, the kids find like 60 WS tickets that fell off the truck, give them back the Yankees, and the Yankees reward the kids with, oh my god, NJ net tickets! LOL. What a rip job! At least send the kids to the WS for crying out loud or at least a playoff game.
