BigEdWalsh

Great Falls blew a 4-0 lead and lost 5-4. On the bright side, Matt Wickswat started and looked pretty good. He threw 5 shutout innings and worked out of several minor jams. He mixed in a lot of offspeed stuff with good effect. Tezak (3-5, .380) is a nice hitter who reminds me of Getz. Colligan was 0-4 but looked good in doing so. Johny Celis impresses too. He blasted a homer to right. Sorry to say this but Todd Gossage is a waste of a roster spot. He was neither impressive at the plate or at first base. Brett Graffy lost the game giving up 3 in the bottom of the 8th but was the victim of two seeing eye hits up the middle and a swinging bunt single which drove in the tying run. The go-ahead run scored on a fielders choice...a bang bang play at 1st which nearly ended the inning and would have left the game at a 4-4 tie.

Hell. I'd go, wear a Cubs hat and run on to the field wearing nothing but a Cubs hat and a pair of shoes and do a headstand in centerfield too. Wait a minute...I'd get ejected from the ballpark and wouldn't see the game. Forget about the streaking. But yeah, to see the Sox beat the Cubs in the world series I'd be Ronnie Woo Woo and wear a Cubs uniform too.

Hey! Just back from the Great Falls game. What a blast. Voyagers pulled out a squeaker coming from behind with 2 in the 9th. Jesus Avila narrowly missed a grand slam in the 9th. The ball just hooked foul. Most people including myself thought it was gone. Earlier in the game , also with bases loaded he crushed one that was quite a bit more foul but easily had home run distance. The 2 hitters that impressed me a lot were Nick Ciolli and Kyle Colligan. Colligan's two singles were absolute rockets off his bat. A late round draft pick Jake Nelson from New Mexico St. made his professional debut tonight and looked good throwing a scoreless inning walking one and fanning one. Trailing by one in the 9th Orem led off the inning with a single. The second batter bunted, the ball hit the plate, Dubler who had come in to catch the 9th, snagged it fired to second, relayed to 1st.... DP!! I have no idea who he is, but Enrique Lechuga who pitched the 8th and 9th fanned the final batter. Game ova! Besides me and my kids there were a handful of other Sox fans there in Sox hats and shirts. We had fun. Back for game 2 tomorrow afternoon. One other note: 8th round pick Ryan Buch came out to pitch (I don't remember what inning), warmed up and then went to the dugout and Dan Puls came out to replace him. I don't know what all that was about.

Well, I'm glad for your boredom. It's way cool that you did this. Thanks.

Bellamy with a Save for Bristol. He's been good so far. Also Great Falls won tonight. Celis was 1-3 with 2 rbi. I'm excited that I'm going to their next 3 games. They're playing in Orem and I live 10 minutes from the ballpark.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 06:32 PM) Zobrist absolutely deserved to make it. Damn straight. As did Dye.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 07:14 PM) Really the only purely pro-cubs thing on that list is #9. But they like to wallow in their misery so you have the bad Cubbie moments too.

1. 8th Inning Nightmare / 10.14.2003 Five outs from the World Series, the Cubs suffer nightmare 8th inning of Game 6 of the NLCS as fan Steve Bartman interferes with Moises Alou's attempt to catch a foul ball, followed by Alex Gonzalez muffing an inning-ending double-play ball; Marlins win the game and later the series. 2. Hester, You Are Ridiculous / 02.4.2007 Following a regular season in which he returned six kicks/punts for touchdowns, Bears rookie Devin Hester returns the opening kickoff of Super Bowl XLI for a touchdown, the first time in Super Bowl history that feat is accomplished. 3. Series Champs / 10.26.2005 In the only run of the game, Jermaine Dye hits a game-winning RBI single and after an 88-year drought the White Sox become World Series Champions, sweeping the Astros in four games. 4. Say It Ain't So(sa) / 06.3.2003 Sammy Sosa is caught with a corked bat and ejected from the game; claims he mistakenly used a batting practice bat. 5. Cross-town Quarrel / 05.20.2006 Cubs catcher Michael Barrett ignites a bench-clearing brawl by sucker punching the White Sox's A.J. Pierzynski after a collision at the plate. 6. Desert Miracle / 10.16.2006 Trailing 20-0 at halftime of Monday Night Football vs. the Cardinals, the Bears' defense stages an incredible fourth quarter comeback; Mike Brown and Charles Tilllman both return fumbles for touchdowns and Devin Hester returns a punt 83 yards for a touchdown and the Bears win 24-23. 7. One for Sweetness / 11.7.1999 In their first Bears game since the shocking passing of NFL legend Walter Payton, the Bears defeat their storied rival Packers 14-13 (the team's first win over the Packers since 1993) on a blocked field goal by DT Bryan Robinson. 8. One for the Ages / 04.30.2009 Bulls force a game seven in its first round playoff series with defending NBA Champion Celtics with a triple-overtime, 128-127 thriller that features Joakim Noah's steal, full-court drive, dunk and three-point play that fouls out Paul Pierce with 35 seconds left. 9. Big Z, Big No-No / 09.14.2008 Carlos Zambrano throws the first no-hitter by a Cubs pitcher in 36 years, against the Astros, at neutral Miller Park in Milwaukee. 10. Don't Stop Believin' / 10.23.2005 Scott Podsednik, who had not hit a home run during the regular season, blasts a solo homer to center field in the bottom of the ninth off closer Brad Lidge to lift the Chicago White Sox to a 7-6 win and put the team up two games to one in the World Series.

I'll pay for eats.

QUOTE (tommy @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 03:00 PM) Carpenter still in. And strikes out the side. Sweet!

I always pick 'em up. I throw ALL my pennies in a jar and cash them in every few months. The other day I cashed them in and had enough for two packs of cigarettes.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 01:22 PM) I love how Rich Harden sucks. I have no idea what happened to him, he was dominate last year and all the years before. He just was injured. Now, he just plain sucks. I have him on 2 of my 3 Fantasy teams. I've been afraid to start him his last two starts. I don't know why I just don't drop him. He's really only been good for the K's and that's it.

I was amazed at the number of nailbiters in the fingernail thread.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 01:32 PM) I think Squires and Lamar Johnson (etc.) go too far back into the 70's/early 80's for the purposes of this poll....haha! What's next? Worst Sox defensive players of the last 20 years? You know that Wilson Betemit would have to be on that list along with Dan Pasqua and Carlos Lee. Okay, Carlos was no stud defensively, but he played in 148 games one year without committing an error and he had a fairly decent arm. Not saying he'd make anybody's all-defensive team but I don't think he was brutal.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 02:22 PM) maybe if I was drunk enough, that crosses my eyes and causes them to water. I'd be screaming like a middle school girl. You and me both, Formerly known as Soxtex. I can't stand plucking. Way too painful, even if only for a brief second or two. Jezzus!

QUOTE (robinventura23 @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 11:26 AM) And who can forget the Ken Hill experiment? 1 very bad start, not Arnie Munoz in Montreal bad, but very bad nonetheless.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 11:21 AM) As I get older this is becoming a problem. I don't wanna be an old dude with a hairy nose. Just wait. When you get even older ear hair starts getting more abundant too.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Jul 10, 2009 -> 11:18 AM) I let mine grow long enough that I can wax them and spread them out under my nose like a Clark Gable mustache. Funny, I do the same. But, I have more of a Rollie Fingers.

Seriesly. How do you remove your nasal hair? Scissors? Little tiny miniature rotary clipper, do you just grab them with your fingers and yank them out? Or do just let them grow naturally?

C Karko 1B Konerko 2B Durham SS Guillen 3B Crede LF Calderon CF Johnson RF Ordonez And now for the best I've seen in my lifetime: C Lollar 1B Walker 2B Fox SS Aparicio 3B Crede LF Minoso CF Berry RF Rivera

Happity Burfday to you!

Jeez, I'm old enough to remember the Kennedys and Martin Luther King getting assassinated. Those deaths hit hard, but John Lennon's murder was a real shock. I was especially hurt by his death. When Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix died those deaths bothered me quite a bit, too and they were all within a few years. And later Keith Moon. But none were especially shocking. If I'm not mistaken Janis, Jim and Jimi were 27 years old. That's so frickin' young.

I'd buy the Cubs and move them to Portland, Oregon. Then I'd sell them.

I'm happy for Mark. He's deserving.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Jul 4, 2009 -> 05:43 PM) RIP I can't recall in my lifetime where in a span of 10 days or so,so many famous people passing away,Ed McMahon,Farrah Fawcett,Micheal Jackson,Karl Malden and tragically now McNair...I'm stunned. I know most on here are way younger than me and probably don't know who Sky Saxon is but he died too. He was the lead singer of The Seeds ("Pushin' Too Hard" was their biggest hit and they were in the cult classic Psych Out with Jack Nicholson and Dean Stockwell).