Scoreboard Watching 9-30 [Cubs, Giants, Padres game info]

The mediots in Chicago will have a field day with this one. Can't wait to read the Trib & Sun-Times tomorrow.

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune...sredeye,1,474045.story?coll=cs-home-headlines

When Dusty Baker came to town a couple of years ago, he said he wanted the Cubs to shed their image as lovable losers.

Congratulations, Dusty.

The Cubs are no longer losers, and they're about as lovable as the Taliban.

This year's Cubs team has been a defiantly fan-unfriendly bunch. When they're not on the disabled list or being suspended by the league for misbehavior, Cubs players circa 2004 are calling the TV announcers to complain about the play-by-play commentary or getting doubled off second base for the third time in a week....

Sammy Sosa's home-run hop has quickly gone from endearing to annoying, especially when he does it prematurely and turns a sure double into an embarrassing 9-4-6 putout at second. It may have been cute when he was hitting 60 homers for a noncontending team, but when he's batting .260 in a pennant race ... it's time to put a cork in it, Sammy.

Fundamentals don't seem to matter to Baker and his players. Moises Alou has committed a career's worth of base-running blunders this season, most of which Baker has shrugged off as "aggressive" mistakes. No, Dusty. "Aggressive" base running is going from first to third on a single. Getting doubled off base on a routine fly ball-even in a hit-and-run situation-is not aggressive. It's just plain stupid.

Speaking of stupid, have you ever seen a team create more animosity with umpires than this year's Cubs? Baker and four of his pitchers -- Kerry Wood, Carlos Zambrano, LaTroy Hawkins and Kent Mercker -- all served time on the suspended list this season for various altercations with authority. These days, no game seems complete until a frothing- at-the-mouth Cub is forcibly removed from the field....

I want to like these Cubs, I really do. They could be the team that saves me and countless other fans from going to our graves without seeing a Chicago baseball team win a championship.

But perhaps this is our destiny (Dustiny?), the way fate meant it to be. We'll get our World Series title, but we'll get it from this whiny, unlovable collection of complainers.

After all, fate has been as cruel to us before.

Let the meltdown begin!!!

 

At least now the pressure is off Munro. Big game, but less pressure. Especially if the giants Fall. This Wild Card is in our grasp now.

 

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just gotta find something for the Giants in the ol' bag of tricks.

anybody have any ideas?

 

wow, just got a chance to check in. reading the thread is hilarious with all the goat references and damn near as intense as watching the game. can't believe they blew another one to the reds in extras. very nice.

 

Jeff Brantley just said the Cubs would win the wildcard on some sportscenter segment. I couldn't help but laugh

 

After the loss today he said that? What is he...on CRACK?

 

I saw that. And one of the guys on Around the Horn kept insisting that, not only would the Stros not make the playoffs, but that the there would be a playoff for the Wild Card between the Cubs and Giants.

One of the reason I'm enjoying seeing the cubs self-immolate is all the fawning the media gave them last year, this preseason, and during this season.

And still tools like Jeff Brantley won't shut up about the damn Cubs.

 

Was that bit with Brantley taped before the ending of the game?

 

Nope, it was a debate between him and Tim Kurkjian on the set of Sportscenter. Timmy said the Astros would clinch on Sunday and Roger would win the Cy Young.

Brantley responded by saying the Cubs would win the Wild Card and that Clemens would get to watch the playoffs from home with his kids "like he wants to."

 

tinkers to evers to chance

that's playing the cubs against the giants!! divide and conquer!

 

I can guarantee that Nomar was bunting on his own for a hit. Baker was probably as surprised as anyone.

 

my goodness..what have the cubs shown you in the past few weeks that gives you the confidence to pick them to win the wild card when they're one game back and facing a division champ over the next 3 games????

 

He a in a time zone that is 3 days behind real time.

I heard it too but I just laughed.

 

Starting with 2 pitchers that have been hot in their last 3 starts in Mike Hampton and Thompson.

Too late for them.

Go Pads!!!

 

I didn't see the game so I guess I can't judge for sure, but you really think Nomar would do that??

I could understand if you are playing small ball with the other team's best releiver, but Padilla had allowed 2 baserunners per inning coming into the game and had an ERA over 12.

 

WHOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!!

I was tkaing a math test so I missed the end of the game! I love the Reds now! My 2nd favorite team!

Lats I heard from the game Prior had gotten his 13th K in 6 innings.

So happy the Reds won.... Final score?

 

Prior's a stud. He did everything possible to give his team a win, and they couldn't score against a mediocre pitcher.

 

Its funny. Last year, the roles of the Cubs and Astros were switched.

How nice it is to be on the sunny side of things.

Even if we fail to get into the playoffs, the last 6-8 weeks has been fun to watch.

 

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHE

Life is great huh?!

It must suck to be a Cubbie fan....