The Signs Point To A Cub Victory
Submitted by Cubnut on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 11:30pm
Good signs from Wednesday night's 10-6 Cub victory at Arizona:
- Alfonso Soriano returning to the lineup with an RBI and a double; Alfonso Soriano returning to the lineup, period
- Mark DeRosa being able to leave his outfielder's glove in the locker room
- Derrek Lee hitting his first home run in more than a month
- Aramis Ramirez and Geovany Soto breaking their respective 0-for-forever hitless streaks
- Kosuke Fukudome walking three times
- Ted Lilly sliding into third base without breaking his leg or his neck
- Carlos Marmol snapping off some nasty sliders and working a scoreless ninth inning (I choose to overlook the double, the base on balls, and the fact that on Thursday, Kerry Wood will be off to meet another hand specialist and probably get a new ointment prescription)
- Ronny Cedeno striking out as a pinch hitter on a head-high pitch—the familiarity of it is comforting
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#1 Re: The Signs Point To A Cub Victory
Marmol made Chad Tracy look like a clown.
#2 Off-Topic - FF
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#3 Re: The Signs Point To A Cub Victory
anyone notice Marquis wearing a blister wrap on his finger too, call it pitcher Solidarity or is he a charter member of the Woody blister club
can sharing a jar of pickel brine be far behind?
#4 Re: The Signs Point To A Cub Victory
Cubs troika of pitchers (Lilly, Z and Dempster) make the Cubs the first team to have three 10+ game winners.
Probably the first use of the word troika on TCR.
noun
1 a Russian vehicle pulled by a team of three horses
• a team of three horses for such a vehicle.
#10 Re: The Signs Point To A Cub Victory
Nice word!
#43 Re: The Signs Point To A Cub Victory
Da.
The nomenklatura send word of their approval.
#5 Re: The Signs Point To A Cub Victory
Edmonds getting an MRI on his left knee today...
Center fielder Jim Edmonds was unavailable because of the sore left knee that forced him out of Tuesday's 9-2 loss. He will have tests Thursday in Chicago to determine his availability for the series against Florida and the Central showdown in Milwaukee next week.
http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/bas...
Cubs vs Scott Olsen tonight (another lefty) so Reed Johnson probably would have gotten the start
#6 Re: The Signs Point To A Cub Victory
Why oh why does Bobby Dean Howry sucketh so much? Last three outings: 2 and a third, 6 hits, 5 earned. Ungood.
Nice to see the bats awaken. Can we look forward to seeing the Cubs swing with their vaginas until the last game of each series? Yikes.
#7 Re: The Signs Point To A Cub Victory
Hee!
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/c_c_sabathia_...
#9 Re: The Signs Point To A Cub Victory
Oddly enough, when Chad eats a hot dog, he imagines it's C.C. Sabathia. ::ninja
#8 Re: The Signs Point To A Cub Victory
I moved the first week of July and DISH hasn't had a chance to come out and get me hooked up. Lately I feel like I haven't been missing anything. Last night sounded fun, though.
OT... it's really strange not having watched TV in three weeks. I feel so rural. At least with the bunny-ears I could watch the first 12 innings of the all-star game. And thank god for nickjr.com or the kids would have drove us nuts by now.
#11 Jeff Samardzija Up for Wood?
http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/bas...
#13 Re: Jeff Samardzija Up for Wood?
Why not bring up Ascanio or Wuertz? Shark is finding a groove in AAA right now and changing his role in making him a RP could upset that. You could also bring up Ceda as their is a open spot on the 40-man roster and about 2-3 dead spots on the 40-man that will be DFA'd at the end of the season to make room for Rule V or MILFA's that need to be put on the 40-man.
#14 Re: Jeff Samardzija Up for Wood?
I donno, Wuertz and Ascanio have both been pretty discouraging with the big club for whatever reason.
With Wood out and Howry pretty terrible, Lou's big troika (see that!!!) of relievers is now a one-ka. -Maybe even less than that with Marmol still a bit irregular.
Samarddijaz is on the 40 man, so why not? Seems like he's going to be a RP anyhow.
#15 Re: Jeff Samardzija Up for Wood?
I'm all for Samardzija. New blood can't hurt. All we really need right now is a week or two of a few solid relief outings. Hart did a nice job last year in a similar role. So let's see what this guy can do. If he does well he could be a spark to the team.
#34 Re: Jeff Samardzija Up for Wood?
gonna agree with WISCGRAD on this one, Samardzija is the hot-hand right now and if he can go on a Kevin Hart '07 run, Piniella will use him in increasingly more important situations. Plus Kerry isn't going to be out that long...or at least he shouldn't be...
#16 Re: Jeff Samardzija Up for Wood?
You just try saying "MILFA" in Parachat!
#18 Re: Jeff Samardzija Up for Wood?
yeesh...samninja's on a heck of a roll i'd hate to see interrupted.
these "long guy" types suffer in lou's pen. he'll run out the old familiar time after time but guys like loober and marshall have scrapped to get work as the long guys.
he's just getting his groove the past month or so...
#12 Re: The Signs Point To A Cub Victory
So we might see the Domer in Wrigley shortly - wow. That's quite an upturn in the kid's fortunes, to say the least.
#17 HIll to start again tonight for Daytona
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnlin...
Was supposed to start last night, but was rained out. Also released Mike Phelps, called up Jordan Latham from peoria.
#19 Sherrill to the NL Central?
Brewers and Cards top two contenders, but Cubs also scouting him. MacPhail, as usual, wants 3 good prospects in return.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-sp...
#20 Deja Vu
Cubs | Pie Recovering from Ankle Injury
Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:08:39 -0700
Mike Kiley, of the Chicago Sun-Times, reports Chicago Cubs OF prospect Felix Pie (ankle) is about a week away from returning to action with Double-A West Tennessee. Pie has been sidelined with a sprained* right ankle he suffered sliding into second base.
*actually broken
Cubs | Pie Recovering from Ankle Injury
Thur, 24 Jul 2008 13:08:39 -0700
Cubs OF prospect Felix Pie injured his ankle sliding
into second base on a double Tuesday and was removed
from the game. He did not start Wednesday.....
Here's hoping he hasn't seriously reinjured that ankle.
#21 Re: Deja Vu
I'm a bit confused about this story... For one, he is playing in Iowa, not Tennessee, and, although he didn't start yesterday, iowacubs.com shows that he did have an AB. It doesn't seem that he would have come into the game if his ankle was broken...
#23 Re: Deja Vu
Check the dates...first story is from three years ago.
#24 Re: Deja Vu
Ahh... My bad... I didn't see where he was going with this...
#26 Re: Deja Vu
Do we even know if it's the same ankle?
#52 Re: Deja Vu
I think Felix is ok. He came in as a defensive replacement late in the game and got an at bat even.
#58 Re: Deja Vu
speaking of Pie...
.371 BA over the last 10 days, but just one walk and 5 K's over 35 AB's. 2 2B, 2 3B and 1 HR as well.
338/380/554 in July
#22 This would be pretty neat
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2008/07/elias-sports...
#25 This guy seems like a winner
http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/286#comment-347
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