BrandoFan

Let's face it: Wright-Colon-Elo have not shown up for this searies. PLain and f***in simple. From what I heard Wright got out of a bunch of jams. He may not have had his best stuff but he definitely "showed up". Wright "showed up"? You didn't see the game did you? If he shows up like that against the Yankees/M's/Red Sox....he gets tagged for 8 runs instead of 1. 1 run in 6 and a third is terrible. But anyways I didn't see the game and frankly I don't really care. You will care when his ERA is over 6.00 and we find out that Rauch's go NOTHING. Bliss.

Yes?

Let's face it: Wright-Colon-Elo have not shown up for this searies. PLain and f***in simple. From what I heard Wright got out of a bunch of jams. He may not have had his best stuff but he definitely "showed up". Wright "showed up"? You didn't see the game did you? If he shows up like that against the Yankees/M's/Red Sox....he gets tagged for 8 runs instead of 1.

Jimenez....Yeah all errors are equal...

Let's face it: Wright-Colon-Elo have not shown up for this searies. PLain and f***in simple.

I see no reason the sox cant win this game. Lightening. Bottle. Thrice. (of course we can win this game in theory, anything is possible...but throwing mistake breaking stuff into sluger's wheelhouse decreases your chances dramatically. I don't like Olivo's game calling one bit) Each event in time is independent of all others. Our bats are independent of Kerry Wood's dominant pitches. We are waiting to long on his fatsball and then are surprised why we miss it by a foot...Duh, you're not going to hit his breaking stuff.

I see no reason the sox cant win this game. Lightening. Bottle. Thrice. (of course we can win this game in theory, anything is possible...but throwing mistake breaking stuff into sluger's wheelhouse decreases your chances dramatically. I don't like Olivo's game calling one bit)

You're forgetting that we are still one the worst hitting teams in the majors...Speaking of which, it's 3-1 now and Wood is dealing. Who ever is calling this godawful game needs to be shot.

if it was Olivo's idea to throw that pitch right into Alou's wheel-house....idiot. If it's GM's....idiot.

Olivo with yet another crucial pass-ball/WP, runner goes to 3rd...his non-throwing defense is WAY overrated and so is his game-calling. And even his throws often go into center field, release too slow. He also can't tag anyone out at the home plate on close plays, poor positioning. He will be one of the best defensive catchers of recent memory, but he has WAYS to go. That droepped K-3 on Pirzinki with bases loaded alone with Gordon pitching his heart out could have been big. To be fair, Sandy did the same thing on Friday.

I hope to god Maury is right in his prediction, I really do. I would never root against the Sox just prove a point. I am hope I eat crow big-time, we NEED this game.

RPS, you DO realize that we're lucky to have 1 let alone 2 wins this weekend? We haven't mean dominating people and have serious holes in the line-up. Big-time. I mean you're usually very observant....today's game should be a VERY difficult one, a bloodbath- Cubbies ARE desperate and have to EXECUTE extremely well, we CANNOT let up like we've been doing all season long, most notably last game in Wrigley and 2nd game in Mnetrodome... LoAIZA is out best pitcher and Wood is beatable (in the past), but if I were you, I'd be just a little bit less confident in the Sox win today all things considered.. That's all.

Dude, all I was saying is that in baseball ANYTHING can happen (Pedro's peformace in 1999), especially when we are talking about a 26yo pitcher just entering his prime, one whose ERA was UNDER 3.00 for most of the season...to say nothing of our PATHETIC underachieving offense... BTW have you checked Burly and Colon's numbers this season? Compared to them Wood is a Hall-of-Famer... And who cares if he "doesn't know how to use his flithy slider"? He STILL GETS IT DONE BIG-TIME without it, lol. I wish Garland/Wright/Rauch were this "clueless".... I just don't get this blind bias toward Cubs players and their ability...and I am a self-proclaimed #1 Cub hater, mind you! The biggest irony is that Sox fans have been blowing their collective load over Loaiza TWICE as much as Cub hopefuls have been over Jesus prior...and ELo has been nothing but a deeply mediocre pitcher most of his 10-year career....What a joke!

Oh please, sexy-Rexy...

I've seen Wood pitch lights out, but never against the Sox. They seem to make him pitch instead of swinging at a lot of the wild garbage. Sox seem to have his number. So f***in' what?! I've seen Cubs miss golden scoring opportunities with bases loaded on three different occasions on Friday against a s***ty pitcher (Wright)...Even one of those hits could have buried us. Guess what? The didn't miss them on Saturday, coming up with two huge bases-loaded hits both time that almost killed us again...Baseball LUCK can change just.like.that. This whole new-found arrogant attitude of Sox fans is disgusting; I hope Sox players come out as intense as ever and start putting short/quick swing on the ball instead of tying for the long ball, complacently thinking that Kerry Wood is nothing...when he is on, he might be as good Prior.....and after we've been shut down by MUCH LESSER pitchers practically ALL SEASON LONG, you'd think fans would be just a little bit more humble. YMMV.

Hey, I do too, RPS. It's not mutually exclusive to ridicule him and be afraid of his stuff at the same time. (I also do my share of prayin' that Garland/Wright would ever come close to being a "b****" Kerry Wood is. )

Would he have scored fronm 2 or did Jiminez moving him to 3rd make the difference on that run? Jimenez didnt move him to third. Jimenez grounded out to 2nd, so Olivo had to stay put. So yep, DLo had NOTHING to do with this win. He very well might have cost us another game. :finger Sorry your wrong Dlo did move him to third on the hit to Grudz. So actualy he did what he was supposed to do and actualy IMO made up for the error he made in the 7th that could have cost us the game but didn't. Make up for it? You're gotta be kidding...my god! --3rd inning: Grudzie is on 2nd, 2 outs....Cubs hit a slow grounder, Jimenez gets a bad read on the ball and is forced to make a spectacular fielding play to barely recover for it...if the ball goes by him, Cubs score---and 3 out 4 times, he doesn't make the play. I am not going to hold a close call against him, but he should be reprimanted for getting to a point where he needs to make a flashy, risky play on a routine grounder... --Another play an inning or two later: he gets a bad/late read on the more or less routine grounderball by Gridzilanek with Goodwin on 1st and ZERO outs in the 4th, the ball ends up going under his pathetic semi-dive...result? Runner and 1st/2nd, zero outs, top of the order coming up, Cubs poised for a big inning to put the game out of reach. I am not even expecting him to turn a DP on that play or even force the fast runner at 2nd even tough that's what good fielding 2B do in that situation...but to get ZERO outs out of the whole thing is ridiculous and typical of his play all season long. He got lucky speedster Tom Goodwin got stopped by Kim, he could have easily cruised to 3rd...Cubs end up loading the bases with 1 out and only remarkable choke jobs by Sosa and ALou prevent the Cubs from blowing the game wide-open. Sox are lucky to escape if only because Wright threw another bad change-up knee high to Sosa on 2-1 count and Sammy hit it 400 feet foul.... --Flash forward, his worst offense: runner at 1st, 1-outs.....Gonzalez hits a routine DP to Jose, who quickly flips to Jimenez who decides out of the blue to barehand it for no good reason since Gonzalez is pretty slow, running from the right side of the box....so instead of the being over, Cubs are back in business and Sox are forced to load the bases up and try their luck with Sosa and Alou....how Cubs do not blow the game open I do not know, but I tell you that Jimenez shouldn't avoid fans' and coaches' wrath just because of it. He's been this s*** all season long... SO ARE YOU SAYING BECAUSE HE FAILED TO GET A HIT WITH RISP AND 1-OUT LATE IN THE GAME, HE REEDEEMS HIMSELF??!! WTF, if anything you should thank Maggs for driving that runner in from 3rd with a real base-hit... My god, some people are just clueless, Jimenez has had as bad a game as a defender can have given the gravity of this game. If this offense wasn't as pathetic as it is, I would bench him for a weak...too bad we have no better option. 1st face it brando you don't like the guy, I have been reading your posts for about 3 to 4 months with out posting but I know how you feel about DJ. So you will always have a biased view on what ever he does. My whole point was that he atleast made up for the error in the 7th inning. He could have just hit the ball to the left side, tried to hit a homer, or even just struck out but he made an effort to hit it to the right side and thats what he did. The reason I know he was tring to do this was because a pitch or 2 before he hit a hard grounder to the right side that just went, foul that shows me he wanted to be the team player. Another thing(this is for everone), everone last year, except for HSC, liked DJ and was expecting him to be the starter. They even liked him in traing camp when he was producing, but then we got the report from Klesko and Nevin saying that he was lazy and everone turned on him before even giving him a chance to prove him self. You're so f***ing OFF-BASE in your presumption that I am biased against DJ, I am not even goung to dignify the rest of that tripe. If you wish, do a post search and see for yourself just how much I "unjustly hated" Theangelo in March-April-May...I am not going to waste time on doing your research, especially not when you appear so confident in yout conclusion. (better yet ask Steff and HSC, LOL)

Alomar will be 36 after this season...at 9 Mill? No thanks, I'll take my chances with Jimenez and his hitting potential which he has in plenty. (Incidentally, there are a TON of people we can acquire who will help us more- Mike Cameron and Matsui included. With line-up protection, those guys are MONEY players in the prime of their careers.)

LMAO...dude you're so wrong it's not even funny.

I saw the replay of O'Leary and Sosa's back-to-back catches, robbing Lee and Valetin of 2 and 3 RBI's respectively with us down 6-4.....MERCY!!! Farnsworth should be buying them flowers for the next month... I think it even tops the eyes-closed Manny Ramirez catch at the Cell on Valentin's drive from the right side that would have cleared the bases just the other week...Val also just missed another late-nning homer on Friday in the 7th when his bat shattered on contact and he ended up missing a homer by about 30 feet. Sucks.

Guess what? HE CAN JUST AS EASILY THROW A 1-HITTER/14 K'er AGAINST OUR WEAK OFFENSE... And don't tell me how "unhittable" Elo has been...In this series--in any series--anything can happen. In 1999, 3 of Pedro's losses came against Devil Rays, Marlins and the WhiteSox...and Elo is NOT Pedro.....nor are Cubs DR, M, WS- they've been a first place all season long and are as DANGEROUS as ever after 2 excruciating losses. Instead of crossing our fingers and hoping for the best, most Sox fans here are already breaking the brooms out as though it's a foregone conflusion that an All-Star-caliber Kerry Wood will melt again...UNBELIEVABLE, like players like fans I guess--we've been shortchanging our competition virtually ALL SEASON LONG and our complacency and selfishness (long swings much?) has been the CAUSE NUMERO ONE-O for this (so far) pathetic season. We are the underdogs as we were in 2000, and we should repond accordingly instensity-wise. EOR.

(It's been crazy coupla days to say the least...and I am not even talking about two amazing steal-victories over the sCrUBs! lol) HOWEVER, I am amazed at how short most of y'all's memory is...How soon dso we forget the lethargic play and sheer hopelessness of April-May-half-June stretch? They say you can't win the pennant in April, but you can lose it...well the Sox have been "losing" for 2.5 months prior to the Wriggley/Twins series--and even then we allowed our struggling, mediocre-ish opponents to steal a couple of games from us (Colon and Garland's starts when the an eclectic mix of bad umpiring, defense and baserunning did in)....... ....NOW we get complely out-played and out-SPitched (Danny Wright? How that fool didn't get tagged for 5-6 runs on Friday I don't know...Colon? Judging form fan's responses, he did his best to lose the game), only miraculously escaping an 0-2 hole.......AND ALLL OF SUDDEN WE ARE THE s***????!!!! WTF, are we turning into little, annoying arrogant pissant Flubbie fans after only a couple of (albeit super-exciting) victories? It's not like we dominated the Cubs- thanks to remarkable Sosa/Alou choke jobs and Alfoneseca bum, we didn't lose both games...We certainly found out that loading bases to "get to" people is NOT SMART MANAGING. So how about good ol' TAKING IT ONE GAME AT A TIME, HUH? This is not the same as "not partying your ass of after each win", I am a very volatile person prone to crazy celebrations myself afterall...but after countless despicable losses (need memory refreshed?) and heartbreak in 2003 (and 2001-2002 while we're at it), I think some healthy scepticism is in order. YMMV.

Wrong again, I agreed with Manuel on leaving Colon to pitch to Bonds AND on taking Colon out at Wriggley even as both moves backfired. Next time don't condescend if you don't have the facts straight, K? To be continued. I am out- have a life to attend to.

Tom Gordon threw about 25-30 pitches before he even reached the 9th, ending up with 40 to my count....this is a 36yo guy with history of serious injuries, one who hasn't pitched really well in years, the small-framed dude who throw in mid-90's with a slider and curves that are VERY taxing on both his elbow and shoulder...No brainer, bring the Kock in, sink or swim. (In any case, I am heading out. Back on Sunday afternoon as usual. )

No. Unequivocally so. If anything, he's made this sorry franchise a tiny bit more respected nationally. Last season, we had Todd Ritchie and John Garland as our #2-3, for crying out loud. What a joke...and now we can do some damage in the playoffs, if we ever get there, with Colon-Elo-Burly trio.