Pitching matchup
Cubs: The Franchise, 1-1, 3.66 ERA
White Sox: Jon Garland 5-4, 4.64 ERA
Lineups
Cubs
Mark Grudzielanek, 2b
Derrek Lee, 1b
Moises Alou, lf
Sammy Sosa, rf
E-ramis Ramirez, 3b
Todd Hollandsworth, DH
Michael Barrett, c
Corey Patterson, cf
Ramon Martinez, ss
White Sox
Aaron Rowand, cf
Jose Uribe, 2b
Frank Thomas, DH
Carlos Lee, lf
Jose Valentin, ss
Paul Konerko, 1b
Ross Gload, rf
Joe Crede, 3b
Miguel Olivo, c
I’m back baby!
I must be tired today
I changed my name, again. I’m in the witness protection program.
D’oh, that’s Juan Uribe. Not that anybody cares.
Bet you’d like to have me at short though.
Isn’t the "gload" that area between your balls and your ass?
I should really take a day off once in a while. Hollandsworth should play left today, and Walker should DH.
Nice of Hawk to give a shout out to new marketing nitwit Brooks Boyer when he mentioned the three sell outs for this weekend.
I’d think the thank you should go to the Cubs fans who are filling this dump.
I’m what’s between your balls and arse.
My nickname is not Gload, but Skrunk.
I’m here, and I’d just like to say again that the Cubs will win far more games this year if Todd Hollandsworth plays everyday instead of Sosa.
Hey, there’s always a guy on here who wants me to take a day off.
Shaddup!
I’d like to point out that in the pregame, the WGN graphic only showed three umpires. Now Chuck Merriwether is hurt after only two batters. Hmmm.
Did someone mention me?
You’re old! We want your decaying corpse to be healthy all year long, and not wear down by July.
Is English, DJ’s fourth language?
"Jon Garland has threw the ball very well."? Huh?
I’m now 5-9 against Garland. I wish I’d taken today off, huh?
Wheel those old bones to second, Alou!
Take that you high top wearin’, wife beatin’ mulletheads.
Guhh. Buddy, I suck kinda!
Dammit Moises, you used to say those same things to us. And here we thought we were special.
Sox fans need to let it go. They only traded him what, 12 years ago?
Remember when I used to hit homers?
Here’s a prediction: on the first pitch that Prior throws to him that’s remotely inside, Frank Thomas will dive into the dugout and hide under a blanket.
What does it say when I’m the second best guy on the bench?
DJ can’t pronounce crap. Did he just say "Ah-keee-leees tendon"?
Nice first pitch.
Jose, you ain’t ALL bad. Remember San Diego? How the hell did you that?
Lay off Andy, after all, I’m the poor man’s Joe Carter!
Oooh, Hawk has seen Prior pitch "a couple times on TV."
Can the Sox hit one past the fungo circles?
What’s up with the radar gun? Cause I know Prior isn’t throwing 82 mph heat.
Thomas singled hard to left center. Huh? Did he hit the ball hard?
What a beautiful stadium… for me to poop on.
NO WALKS!
Hawk says that Jose is "the meister of the three-run homer."
I had no idea he was German?
Jose might want to "meister" the curve ball.
Uhhhhhh….
I no longer like strike outs
Jose swung.
But why did the Cubs waste two fastballs to get to 3-2 when he whiffed so badly at the first two curves?
Is Gabor calling the game from the bench?
We are the devil.
Damn I’m getting squeezed. I threw strike 3 twice to valentin and he swung at ball four.
Two hot chicks in the background. Guessing Cubbie fans, they had all their teeth.
Just be glad I’m on the bench and not playing, because this would be a great time for the ball to get away from me and allow the Sux a run.
Sammy always throws the third out into the stands home or road. But he didn’t there. I’m sure he decided to not reward the right field mullets with one.
My foot hurts. The Cubs caused my foot to hurt. Therefore, no strikes for you, Whitey.
They don’t let us sit behind the dugout in Wrigley, esay!
Is Prior still on a pitch count? If so, any idea what they’re going to let him got to?
This might be the only time I would pat a mullet headed sox fan on the back if he jumped out of the stands and beat up Waving Wendel
DJ’s just making shit up. Has Hollandsworth been a pinch hitter for ten years?
How about two?
The White Sox fans can help out the Cubs by attacking and beating up Wendell Kim!!! No more Cubs being thrown out by 30 feet at home!!!!
Hawk is a complete ignoramus.
"So many teams are beginning to discount scouting."
That’s just so simple minded and wrong. It’s not that the A’s or Dodgers or Red Sox "discout" scouting, it’s that they won’t just take the word of some fat, loser scout before they draft or trade for a player. They take the scouting report and the stats into account.
He was trying to use the fact that the Cubs scouts knew Barrett was going to .290 as his "proof." Barrett’s numbers when healthy were above average for a catcher. You can throw last year out because he was hurt almost all year. Plus Dick Pole is a former Expos coach.
I’m going to have to turn the sound off before I kill myself.
No two out magic?
I’m starting to get in a groove…
Can you guess how many of us are in the stadium today???
I guess I haven’t missed much.
Are as intellectually advanced as that Walt fellow from CR.
Bitches! I make good defensive plays, too, Crede.
The Franchise just humilated Big Frank with that "fastball under the chin, yakker down the middle" sequence.
Hey Ozzie, that’s why there was a "Prior Watch."
Frank Thomas is way better than Mark Prior…
They’re showing random red squares in the outfield and beyond the LF wall. Is this where they put cell phone towers in the Cell?
My subway sandwich is better, why there is no sandwich watch? My sandwich sell more!
Can we give Ross the "Gload glove?"
just how out of shape is gload? did the sox announcers just say that when you run that hard, you see more than one baseball coming down at you?
How about we drive in a damn run?
Buddy, I just didn’t want to K again.
Happy birthday to me
What did Carpenter ruin them last night?
Hawk and DJ are completely and totally incompetent, but it shows how bad Chip is that I’d still rather listen to a game called by them.
Crap.
I love to walk Carlos Lee
Care to elaborate on that?
Send this bum down! I’ll work for pizza!
I think BC was just giving us the punchline to a Pat Hughes joke.
73 posts already? Yep, Cub fans don’t care about the Sox.
It never gets old when a Sox player pops up and I yell, "Oh, he just missed it!"
Steve, we’d have 73 posts in an hour if we were just discussing whether the Cubs should bring the bullpen car back.
Don’t flatter yourself.
And from the looks of things, you’re almost due for a refill of that Natural Light.
Not scoring in the past half inning was why I said "Crap".
Hello!
How’s my Bako impression?
Barrett just combined the Gabor Bako glove whiff with the Rey Ordonez no-look transfer.
Do not try this at home, kids.
DJ knows how to hit!
"Paulie should just be guarding against the fastball."
Curveball. Single.
You don’t need "two" to see Darrin’s an idiot.
1-0, tee hee.
Jesus Christ.
Hey Yosh, that new shipment of Rawlings is still a few days away.
I’m not the same pitcher as last season
I think I just realized what Hell is. Think about a baseball game where there would be more than one play-by-play announcer (Think about that "Naked Gun" movie where Reggie Jackson is trying to kill the queen. There is a scene where they show the announcers and there is like 12 or something). Then, think of the announcers being Chip Caray, Hawk Harrelson, and Joe Buck. Yeah, you’re getting depressed just thinking about it. Then put Joe Carter and D.J. as the color commentators. And keep yourself away from weapons.
How much did Bako have to pay Barrett to do that twice?
Yeah Dolan blow, that’s why you got all of 100 posts last night while the Cards were pantsin’ y’all.
Do you think that maybe you’re jsut a little rusty because you’ve thrown a whopping 23 innings this year?
Nah. I’m sure you just suck. We should waive you.
Heck, nobody wants to get me runs or play defense, so why should I pitch well?
Clever, clever, Steve. We also got 277 posts at the same time for the NBA Draft.
B.C., the scenario you just described will be bested by the new SAP White Sox broadcasts….
We also got 277 posts at the same time for the NBA Draft.
Which shows what huge Cub fans y’all are when you’re already looking forward to The Deng Curry Show. Yeah, we’ll all need a Hinrich manuever the winter….
One run will not win this game…
re: number of posts
It’s because all these cock$ucker$ don’t work! These day games!
Y’all need to get a job.
I see you are "Steve THE Sox fan!" Nice to meet you! If my new commercials work out, you can change your handle to "Steve one of SEVEN Sox fans!"
Comcast digital cable sucks. The telly in my living room is a second ahead of the one here in my office. Echo Hawk is not a good thing.
Steve, what about me? Why are you slumming with the Cub fans?
Hey Brooks, go work on the schematics for Southpaw’s compatriot a bit more. Maybe you can find a toothless, homeless guy who yells "woo" all the time. Gotta love the Cubs and their exploitation of the mentally ill.
5th inning? Time for 3 straight walks…
While I was watching a part of the game last night, I noticed that WGN was five seconds ahead of Fox Sports Midwest (The Cards’ telecast). I wonder if this is always the case for FSM or if it was implemented after the Steve Kline incident, or when Tony LaRussa cussed on FSM live during the post-game interview when asked about the Kline incident?
Hey, the competent Cubs rightfielder just got on base!
Lee, I have a job. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t need to follow along here during the game, I’d be watching on TV. Duh. Ooops, gotta go. My boss wants to see me about something.
Dolan exploits us, too.
Fck, I’m awesome.
Jon Garland, someday we’ll meet….
Well, this is a defensive masterpiece all around.
BC, the reason FSN Midwest is five seconds ahead is because everything’s slower in Missouri.
I’m gonna throw this one into RF. Ooops
I wish there was only one Steve on here. Every time I see the anti-Cubs Steve, I worry that it might be an alternate persona of mine.
Barrett up. This has possible rally-killing double play written all over it.
I can’t believe I didn’t wave Holly home on that throwing error.
We’re got none … on that uh, "duck snort."
Just hit ’em to shallow right.
Nice display.
Juan, I’m the only second baseman who should ever try to make that play. Go back to the Rockies, you Cub-loving surrender monkey!
Andy, WGN was the one ahead, not FSM.
Then again, FSM is the station that thinks Jim Hayes is a good reporter so it would make sense they are five seconds behind.
BC is your computer in Missouri?
Is this a baseball game or a how-to seminar on awful defense?
Marriotti’s right I do sound like FoghornLeghorn
Crap. Nothing worse than ruining a bad joke with the wrong word.
Insert Alex Kaseberg reference here.
I don’t know what’s going on right now Andy. This computer had some trouble even working last night. Today it was fine earlier but it must be really slow right now.
That last post didn’t get up for almost two minutes.
Come on down to Don Cooper Ford-Lincoln-Mercury!
My name just reeks of car dealer.
It’s so crazy when the pitcher throws 4 times and then the batter just jogs to first.
I’m baaack.
Gruddy hit that one so hard it knocked the broadcast to test pattern. Wow.
Put it on the board……………
United Center Steve, I’m not anti-Cub — I’m just pro-Sox. Assume nothing.
Oh my — that one almost went into the Kishwaukee.
A homer…Grudz? Who knoew?
United Center, what?
I’m sorry, other Steve, I just assumed that all Sox fans hated the Cubs. (Whoops.)
You can put it on the board….
I’ve been taking my vitamins
In all unfairness, it’s not Grudz’s hitting, it’s Garland’s pitching. Needless to say.
Hey, that’s four runs I believe. Maybe Prior will start pitching now or something. Oh, wait, he already was.
Who else thinks this Walker/Grud platoon thing is a good idea just because both will be working their asses off as to not get showed up?
I can’t help it, I’m now talking like Hawk. Short sentences. Over enunciating. It’s so completely irritating.
But yes, I’d trade him for Chip.
What’s with all this power from our 2nd basemen this year?
UC Steve, as a one-time NIU attendee and U of I @ C-U grad, I have to hope that UC doesn’t refer to my alma mater.
Can Hollandsworth play short? Really, how many times is being a lefty a hindrance there? Maybe a third of the time? I can live with that. Plus, there are no walls to hit with your face at short.
I’ll write that up and fax it to Dusty.
Hey, should we go out and commit a bunch of errors, too? Maybe send Mercker out now, just to make sh1t interesting.
"What’s with all this power from our 2nd basemen this year?"
I don’t know but I’m not complaining. Grudz actually hit a home run on his rehab with Iowa while in Oklahoma City.
I’ve got a couple good innings in me today! No lead is safe!
Is the guy in the sweater vest behind the chicitas a Cubs fan?
It’s nice to see a team commit three errors against us for a change.
Nah, it’s probably me.
Hey, who put me on the Sox bats?
Methinks Prior’s fastball is easier to "look for" than to hit.
And yes, I decided to break out "methinks" just to be uppity.
How north side of me.
My bunting skillz would be indispensable to the White Sox ballclub.
Sox Steve, the UC is University of Chicago. And I feel like a chatty Cathy here on the discussion board. Sorry, Andy.
I like the scenic shots of Lake Michigan, Navy Pier, the Sears Tower…you know all th shit you can’t see from Comiskey.
"Maybe you can find a toothless, homeless guy who yells "woo" all the time. Gotta love the Cubs and their exploitation of the mentally ill. "
Umm, Stsve, perhaps you’re too young to remember, but WHAT THE HELL WOULD YOU CALL ANDY THE CLOWN?
Well-adjusted?
Hey anyone have any cheese?
Thanks to me, the Sox will get to rally against the Cubs pen.
Pardon the typo. That would be STEVE, THE Sox fan that I’m talking to.
I’d say the only surprise is that being toothless and homeless that Ronnie Woo Woo wasn’t a Sox fan.
No error this inning
1 more inning, I’m sure.
Actually, Ronnie (since getting his chompers) is married and owns a company called Woo-woo Washers. He allegedly washes windows around Wrigley on his days off from being annoying.
UC Steve, my bad. I didn’t know U of C guys had time for baseball. With all them hot chicks on campus and all.
Mike D., we made sure Andy the Clown was locked in the crapper when we tore the old park down. If only we’d known about his dimwit mulatto son up north, we woulda taken care of him back then, too.
Andy, did you really learn in journalism school to release stuff on Fridays? I haven’t learned that yet, I’m wondering if I am wasting my parents’ money.
Also, if you will check Andy’s Daily Dose, I defended most of Central Illinois against the attack of someone who claimed anything south of Joliet didn’t really count as Illinois. But I also criticized most of Southern Illinois, calling it "Northwest Kentucky".
Over on baseballprimer.com today they had a long discussion about the Beltran trade and how the A’s could trade Mark Teahen because he was trapped behind Eric Chavez. They contend that Chavez is the second best third baseman in the game behind Rolen.
Chavez is a stud, I’m not arguing that, but they went on about how great Adrian Beltre is and Mike Lowell.
How can you have that discussion anymore without E-ramis?
I submit that last play as exhibit A.
Defense is his weakest facet and even that is well above average now.
And yes, E-ramis. Happy Birthday to you.
Andy,
RE: #146…I was wondering about that…like how did the producers get the angle THROUGH the Robert Taylor Homes?
When Houston comes to town, if Everett’s back, I bet I’ll gush over him more than Beltran.
Jack Ryan’s PR guy must have gone to me. He’s also out of a job.
Sweet — wonder if Woo Woo comes as far northwest as Damen and Irving? Of course, he probably uses spit and the Tribune for that extra shine….
The WGN stat box says the Cubs started the inning with three outs.
Is that fair?
For my first face-off with Carlos…I bet I’ll walk him.
BC, I studied broadcast journalism and public relations at the Harvard of the Midwest, Northern Illinois University. They taught us all kinds of tricks.
Actually, I’m sure they taught me more than that, but that was the one day I wasn’t too hungover to take notes.
The Ice Man is up in the pen.
When do we get The Franchise off the fucking pitch count?
Maybe I’ll just hit Carlos. Break his hand!
Holy Crap, I pitched yesterday!
Buddy, I run like the wind!
Gload sucks. I could have deeked Sammy into a force out at second.
Excuse me while I lube up a poodle.
Well, I hope y’all are happy. I need me another Pabst and a mullet waxing now.
Todd Hollandsworth is the best baserunner on this team.
In fact, he’s the smartest player that this team’s had in my memory.
Remember when Fred Huebner would insist that Jose Valentin’s errors and misplays never hurt the Sox.
That one hurt, tubby.
Lassie if you value your testicles please stay away
I need to get to about 14 before the ‘pen comes out.
How close did I get to being thrown out?
How many runs will we have to score to make sure this game isn’t blown by the bullpen?
Eight?
Ten?
Seventy-nine?
I’m in Mensa, Mike D.
So there.
Oooh, doughnuts!
BC, I like your thinking.
Are Hawk and DJ completely silent?
Dis is no fung.
Can I get in a 3some with Clettitte?
I see Ozzie pays as much attention to lefty/righty splits as Dusty.
Patterson does quite well vs. lefties, thankyouverymuch. In this past week alone, he’s jacked ropes off Zito and Burger King.
Of course Steve Kline got him out, but that was because of Kline’s famous "scat-ball" that he throws after he rubs his hat.
Are we vaunted?
We were hoping Cliff Politte would come in.
"The Dream Politte he lives in inside of my head
The Dream Politte he talks to me in the bed.
The Dream Politte he comes to arrest me!
Oh, no!"
Speaking of Huebner, how about that picture where’s he’s sweating all over disgusted Bill Petrson after golfing 9 holes and riding in a golf cart? He looks like he was having a grabber, the fat phuck.
Hey, Ozzie, hitting lefties is fung!
Hawk and DJ, every time you mention Oddibe McDowell and laugh, I will hit another rope off your pathetic ball team.
We can do that too
Maybe it’s me
Hmm, this seems like a good time to bunt.
Hell, what isn’t a good time to bunt?!
Let’s load ’em up for Grudz.
I’m a power-hitter now. Watch out! Don’t wanna face me with the bases loaded.
My shitty strike zone helped out in that double play. Strike two was at least a foot outside.
In case you were dying to know what Barrett, Corey and Ramon were doing.
There’s so many ways to blow this lead! Shall I begin with a walk?
Ahem. Hawk, DJ, morons…
My name is pronounced Lester.
The Ice is cool and silent. Just like me.
Who’s going to talk about the visibility at home plate without me around?
as Alou jogs IN to catch the ball.
Here I come
Famous 51s in Cubs history.
Jon LeICEster
Mel Rojas
Terry Adams
Get the ICE ready for my arm.
IF (and it’s an if, people, with this pen, always) I do good, what kind of pizza do I get?
If I’m not mistaken, Alfonseca’s pants were size 51, so there’s another one.
How many consecutive half innings has WGN missed at least the first pitch of?
The bottom of the 7th is our favorite.
I’m going with the name of an uppity white rich guy for the 7th, 8th and 9th.
Leicester Farnsworth Hawkins
What the hell happened to me? Did they just change my name to Leicester?
I can’t see.
Here I come
Rothschild: Hey Jon, just get Rowand to ground into a 6-4-3.
Ice Man: OK, boss.
Meltdown, thy name is 6-4-3 DP.
Where’s my Desipio fruit basket?
The speakers at the Cell are playing "We Will Rock You," (despite losing by 5) which was immediately followed by a quick groundout to end the inning. Gotta love it.
I think a hat and a glove look the same. Maybe I’ll have to squeeze out whatever’s blocking my vision next inning.
My brilliant strategy for resting Mo and Sammy.
Have Holly play left tomorrow and DH Mo and then have Holly play right and DH Sammy on Sunday.
I’m brilliant! Or Captain Obvious.
Ooh, one of my highlights!
Now where is home plate again?
Is it hard to see right now? I wish Hawk and DJ would discuss it.
Here comes the (real) heat!
Just dont fukcn walk him
Is Jose Valentin the new Iraqi Prime Minister?
Ah, pitching! That’s what I’m supposed to be doing out here.
Please no hit ball to me!
Don’t hit it over me, either.
Then again, … I thought I was trying to … uh, where’s the booze?
Well, ain’t that a kick in Kyle’s ultratight pants….
Maybe I can get that hair club for men commercial now
Wow, the ‘pen sucks. Where’s that Jimmy Anderson?
I make men bald.
Oh, I’m all over this!
Good to see Corey and Sammy learned something from Gload and Uribe….
Can’t anybody yell "I got it!"
On either team?
I make some women bald, too.
We’re amazed people actually listen to these bozos…
Makes me glad I watched the game muted at work for the first 7 innings…
Hawk just blew my speakers out of my tv
Hello!
Howdy, LaTroy!
Now quit stealing my act.
He gone.
Am I pitching?
Well, he’s old enough to be me.
I think if you had a race, Corey is the fastest man in baseball.
Home Run
Put it on the board……….
Yes? Did I really hit that bomb!
Yikes. Gruddy and me have hit two lonnnng bombs today.
I dropped a few bombs today
"Mike Jackson’s had some problems. He was on the mound when he threw that grand slam to Broussard."
Where the hell else would he be when he threw it?
Sorry guys..I’m just saving for the rest of the series.
Anybody else just see Ray Lankford ride through that cross walk on his Rascal?
I thought that first one was going to be in my ear.
Willie Harris?
Timo Perez?
Are these the "really good" hitters on the bench, Hawk was talking about?
Nice shot of Dusty blowing his nose into a huge Gatorade towel.
Will this game ever end?
Hi LaTroy
Nice shot of Dusty blowing his nose into a towel before the last pitch.
Gotta love the nearly identical double posts. Damn Dell.
Britney’s engaged. Again.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY PAPI CHULO ARAMIS!!!! MwUaHz!!!!
I was doing a little search on Chip Caray earlier this evening, trying to see if there were any wire stories saying he was gone from the Cubs. I didn’t find any, but I did find this gem from a year-old article on SI.com from Jacob Luft:
"Considering the time and resources poured into signing and developing prospects, it is shocking to see the small window many of them get. Take the Cubs’ Bobby Hill, for example. A year ago, Chicago was welcoming him as its second baseman of the future. Before his first start at Wrigley Field, spastic WGN announcer Chip Caray told his viewers, "The Bobby Hill era is about to begin!"
After 59 games, Hill was optioned back to Class-AAA Iowa in June with a .182 batting average. The Cubs signed Mark Grudzielanek to play second base, and he has done well enough to put Hill on the trading block as the club continues its eternal search for a third baseman. If he is moved, The Bobby Hill Era will have lasted a grand total of 190 at-bats."
First off, I think calling Chip spastic is too nice, but I digress. But, boy was he wrong when Hill came up…
"The Bobby Hill Era"?!?!?!?
Maybe in fifteen years we’ll be talking about "The Aramis Ramirez Era, thanks to Bobby Hill", but I doubt we’ll be talking about Hill in any other way except that.
Sorry, forgot to include the link to that CNNSI.com story. Here it is:
http://www.cnnsi.com/baseball/news/2003/06/12/the_beat/
Andy,
#75 must be archived as one of the all time great comebacks.
Saaaaaa-lute!
TO: BC
RE: #156
I suspect you are in fact wasting your parent’s (should it be parent’s or parents’?) money.
We can only hope the BC era is shorter than the Bobby Hill era.
I mean, there’s always hope…right?
We’re always here, hand in hand
I click PAYPAL and nothing happens.
Not a popup blocker problem on my end.
Perhaps you need to publish the oh-so-secret Paypal account addy so people could actually donate dough instead of wasting time clicking ad links.
Thanks in advance.