9/16/08 Brewers (Sabathia) at Cubs (Dempster): 7:05 PM CDT

[ELCABALLO45]

Ryan Dempster career ERA as a starter - 4.67.

 

Ryan Dempster this year - 2.97

 

Makes sense.

[afeter]

i want to beat dempster with his own glove bugs bunny style. I can't believe that little magic trick has worked on an entrie league of professional hitters. Please for the love of all that is right, prince hit one of a building.

 

[Bruce Ciskie]

Of course DeRosa caught the ball. Why wouldn't he make that catch?

[crewcrazy]

crewcrazy...if it's just an aesthetic change, then why do it? It's like putting lipstick on a pig. Sveum, of course, is the lipstick.

I think a lot of people are still trying to figure that out, and that's what made it such surprising news. 12 games is way too few to have any real impact, IMO. By the time the players start to respond to Sveum, it's too late.

 

The firing was good for improving morale on an off-day after a brutal series, but that good morale only lasts until you start losing another game, like we're seeing tonight.

[bucksman4]

Hardy is absolutely clueless up there. His first two swings were horribly bad. He's a prime example of a hitter "getting himself out."

[naivin]

[afeter]

8 k's in 4 innings. Yeah thats dempster styling all over our pathetic lineup. Hey Jimbo, --- remember the mantra. keep doing what we're doing and it'll turn around.

[TuesdaysWithRillo]

Can anything go right?

[crewcrazy]

At least Dempster's PC is quickly climbing. If we're lucky we'll get to face Bob Howry.

[sheetswannabe]

Cubs have given up 2 hits in the lasr 22 innings.

[bucksman4]

All of the other Wild Card contenders are losing right now. Think we can take advantage of it?

[B2k1121]

I suppose this can all be blamed on me. I bet the over on the Brewers at 84 wins. I don't win bets very often.

[Bruce Ciskie]

I'm going to go ahead and watch something else for a while before my laptop ends up impaling my relatively new large-screen TV.

 

Please do alert me if anything good happens to this team. I'll look forward to hearing from someone on this in April.

[ELCABALLO45]

I suppose this can all be blamed on me. I bet the over on the Brewers at 84 wins. I don't win bets very often.

BANNED!

[JrDave2304]

I'd be more concerned with the Brewers if I were you. After all, if they keep playing like this, it won't matter who wins the other games or what everyone else's records are.

I never said I wasn't concerned with the Brewers. That should just go without saying at this point.

[TuesdaysWithRillo]

In other news, Atlanta just went up 6-4 on the Phillies in the 6th.

[sheetswannabe]

Good News?: We are only letting their good hitters beat us.. not the bottom of the lineup

 

The glass is half full

[JrDave2304]

When was the last time we were ahead in a count while batting?

[ELCABALLO45]

9 ks? Are you kidding me?

[wibadgers23]

Hart and Hardy look absolutely ridiculous right now. Goodness.

[B2k1121]

Is there a worse player in baseball than Corey Hart?

[ELCABALLO45]

When was the last time we were ahead in a count while batting?

June 17th.... 2006. I belive...

[bucksman4]

Rickie Weeks, Gagne, Riske, Counsell, Hall...they're worse than Hart and on the same team.

[pebadger]

I thought I was beyond the anger stage, but here I am again. I just can't figure out who I'm angry with.

[chrisisoutrunning]

hey! it only took us 4 1/3 innings to double the astros hit total for 18 innings...