Gameday Open Thread/Dodgers @ Cubs

The Cubs return to Mesa and take on the Dodgers. Batting second and pitching for them is Randy Wolf, the Cubs send out Dempster. The lineup from Muskat:

3B Aaron Miles, SS Ryan Theriot, 1B Derrek Lee, RF Milton Bradley, LF
Micah Hoffpauir, 2B Bobby Scales, C Koyie Hill, CF Joey Gathright and P
Ryan Dempster.

Rich Harden threw a 43-pitch simulated game and could start Tuesday.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 2:24pm
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Submitted by Rob G.
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 2:39pm

2-0 Dodgers in the bottom of the second, both runs in the top of the first...

Kemp single, SB, sacrifice by Wolf, Loney got on somehow that wasn't a walk, hit, error, HBP or dropped third strike (shrug), Walk to Dewitt, Ausmus RBI single, Mientkiewicz with an RBI out and then out of the inning...

Submitted by Ahone Ahtwo Ahthree
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 11:06pm

Must have been a FC - maybe Loney hit it at someone who tried to nail Kemp at third and didn't succeed...

Submitted by Rob G.
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 11:30pm

if I read the box score correctly, Kemp was already at third base after Wolf sacrificed him. Could have been a FC to try and tag Kemp or something and everyone was safe.

Submitted by Rob G.
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 11:32pm

nevermind, Phil has the account of it, chopper to first and tried to get Kemp at home but he made it back to third.

Submitted by Cubster
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 2:48pm

Dempster gets the first hit of the day...

woo.

Hu's on second?

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 2:51pm

Hu's on first...oh wait.

Submitted by LLBoogie
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 3:08pm

Go CUBBIES!!! Can't wait to the official season starts up back in the city.
Keep the faith and support Chicago's real team. I already got my gear for my annual pub crawl, http://www.tattooedtees.com/, bad a$$ shirts. Spring is the air in the Chi. Love it!!

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 3:14pm

i heard that company was run by nazi sympathizers.

tell everyone...i know i will!

Submitted by The Joe
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 3:35pm

Funny, I recently heard the same thing about you!

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 3:43pm

Me, too!

Submitted by Cubster
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 2:54pm

The 50 year contract deferral? How much is a Juan Pierre bunt single worth? It does look like LA will pay JP and Manny about the same dollars in 2009.
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if Pierre is serious about wanting to play this year, and away from the impossible competition he faces with the Dodgers, then he must defer his salary for 50 years, and sign at the league minimum. The signing team pays him what he is worth (0.4 + 2.45 = 2.85).

http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/com...

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 3:05pm

how anyone gives a 1-dimentional player (his CF skills were already declining even with the legs healthy) a deal like LAD gave him still blows my mind.

2 year deal is risky enough...paying him 10+m for even one year is crazy, though...much less 4.

-separate tangent-

"By the way, the value of the Redsox increased by 100MM when Pedroia signed that contract"

that is fucking retarded. straight up slow-bus...even with the weak ass explanation after the statement.

Submitted by Dr. aaron b
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 3:09pm

Did Harden throw 43 simulated towel pitches?

Submitted by Cubster
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 3:20pm

Now Hu's on 3rd...wait, he's thrown out by Theriot at home...so Hu's not home and Lou's thankful (per Pat Hughes).

Koyie Hill throws out the runner at first to end the inning.

Submitted by Rob G.
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 3:30pm

Bradley 1-2, lifted in the 4th for a pinch-runner...

early reports were that he was mauled by a lion.

Submitted by Rob G.
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 3:33pm

scoreless innings for Berg and Vizcaino

Submitted by Cubster
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 3:44pm

Hoffpauir SF. He's got the most rbi's in the cactus league...so he's got that going for him, which is nice.

2-1.

mountain lion or puma in Yuma?

Submitted by Rob G.
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 3:56pm

http://vineline.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/03/some_...

puff piece that Ed Campusano is the locker room joke-teller...

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 4:23pm

is it just sad or foretelling of things to come that the clubhouse there looks a lot more player-friendly and nice than the one at wrigley?

it's a nice old building, but as much as the fans hate the bathrooms...yeesh...

Submitted by Rob G.
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 4:48pm

Stevens and Atkins competing for who will get cut first...

Submitted by Ryno
on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 5:32pm

Well I see the linescore, but how did Demp look?

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