Cubs Live? — Snakes at Cubs, 1:20 pm, 5/9 | May 9th, 2008
Pitching matchup:
Snakes: Dan Haren 4-1, 3.12 ERA
Cubs: The Bull Moose 2-4, 5.97 ERA
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Pitching matchup: Yeah, Ronny Cedeno. THAT Ronny Cedeno. A player so dumb that he stands out as dumb even on the Cubs. And I want more of him? Well, when a guy starts the season hitting .373 with a 1.007 OPS and an astounding 18 RBI in 51 at bats, he kind of gets your attention. But it’s more than just a hot streak with a bunch of RBI. It’s the way Ronny’s been approaching his at bats. I shudder to think, but it’s almost like Ronny is giving actual thought to these at bats. I know, it’s crazy, right? Remember how last year we laughed at how somebody must have installed lunar gravity in Sec Taylor Stadium in Des Moines because Ronny and Geovany Soto both hit aroud .350 most of the season last year? It was hilarious. Ridiculous, even. Now? Uh…you know, maybe these guys are actually good? I mean, not .350 good, but even if they’re .290 good, I mean, that’s something. Pitching matchup: Brewers: Yovani Gallardo, 0-0, 0.64 ERA Well, true to form, Jackson takes his nuts and stuffs them in a purse. He does rank them, but he uses “controversial” categories like “Best and Brightest”, “Average”, “Could Be Better” and “Jury’s Still Out.” Guh. What is this Johnny, Little League? Everybody gets a trophy? Did you bring orange slices and Sunny D, too? Fine, if you’re not up to it. I’ll do it for you. So what set Lee Constantine Elia off on April 29, 1983? The Cubs had just dropped another one-run game, at home, to the Los Angeles Dodgers. This was back in the days when the home clubhouse was located down the left field line. The Cubs couldn’t just skulk down the tunnel from the dugout, they had to walk across the field. Some fully kreusened fans, obviously livid over watching their hapless Cubs fall to 5-14 on the season threw some beer cups at Larry Bowa and Keith Moreland, and booed the team as they trudged down the foul line. Basically, it was a scene everybody’d seen 1,000 times from the mid ’70s until that time. But this time, Lee had seen enough. Don Zimmer used to say that if you can go at least .500 in your first 40 games, that your team has a legitimate shot at being in the pennant race all year long. You have to remember that Don had a plate in his head and he’d pee his pants if he walked by a microwave, but…yeah, I have no idea what kind of point Don was trying to make. The Cubs are currently 16-9 and only the Arizona Diamondbacks have a better record so far than they do. This has come as a surprise, not so much because they’re good, but how they’ve been winning games. Since the start of the second World War, we’ve grown comfortably accustomed to the Cubs having no idea how to put together an offense. It’s not like they haven’t had a plan. It normally involves them swinging at everything, striking out a lot and hitting a lot of solo homers. We liked it that way. It was comforting. Now…now we’re just confused.
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Cubs Live! — Cubs at Reds, 11:30 am, 5/7 | May 7th, 2008
Cubs: Jon Lieber 2-1, 1.86 ERA
Reds: Edinson Volquez 4-1, 1.27 ERA
Huh? What? Really? | May 7th, 2008
Something’s not right. I mean really not right. Last night, while watching the Cubs shut out the Reds, I started thinking about ways the Cubs should look to get Ronny Cedeno into the lineup more.
Cubs Live! — Brewers at Cubs, 5/1, 1:20 pm | May 1st, 2008
Cubs: Carlos Zambrano, 4-1, 2.21 ERA
Like power rankings, only different, still lame | April 30th, 2008
John Jackson wrote a column yesterday where he ranked the announcing teams, TV and radio, for each of Chicago’s five major sports teams (yes, even the Blackhawks). Now, I’m sure that when an editor gives a guy a story idea like this, and the writer has to actually work around the announcers he’s going to rank, it gives the writer pause.
The f@#$in’ changes that have happened are multifold | April 29th, 2008
Twenty-five years. It’s been 25 years since Lee Elia lost his mind in the manager’s office at Wrigley Field and unleashed one of the most profane, vile, hilarious and entertaining rants of all time. A rant so infamous that when Jay Johnstone published it word-for-word in his autobiography, it got the book banned.
Cubs Report - Hey, they’re kinda good | April 27th, 2008
