8/17/2004 Cubs (Zambrano) at Brewers (Santos)

[stkmtimo]

Boy, that Billy Hall really sucks!

 

He does...just not today http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/tongue.gif

 

Tim

[rluzinski]

Yeh, yeh, Bill Hall is really clutch http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif I'll take er'!

[burniebrewer]

There's 1 for the good guys. Let's get 2 more and go SF and anybody else not from Chicago in the Wild Card chase.

[hawing]

Having just returned from the game...

 

Another big relief and (overall) decent outing. Maybe a high LOB count is starting to seem normal. I had to dash to the concourse to see the complete path of Hall's triple because our seats don't provide a view of that corner. Imagine my pain upon seeing Sammy scramble to pick that ball up. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

Cubs fans were still in the majority (60-40? maybe I'm just hopeful), but the ones around us were okay this time - and for anyone who read my ranty post earlier today about not being ready for tens of thousands of Cub fans, that's saying quite a bit.

 

Obviously it helped when the Brewers took the lead, but I didn't feel harassed at all, for once. We did hear about one fight on the terrace level concourse - guy didn't like what his lady was saying so (of course) he threw beer in her face - but otherwise things were practically mellow, for the royal blue scourge, at least.

 

Oh, and I chuckled when I read one of RoCo's earlier posts, 'cause it occurred to me repeatedly:

 

[NO FREAKIN WAY does Helms make that play]

 

Now on to Wednesday night and the No Run Support Classic (Sheets vs. Clement). Anyone else anticipating 0-0 in the 21st?

[ja002h]

Now on to Wednesday night and the No Run Support Classic (Sheets vs. Clement). Anyone else anticipating 0-0 in the 21st?

 

Nah, they'll score enough runs once those 2 are out of the game.http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[JohnBriggs12]

I looked up "base clogger" in the dictionary and lo and behold saw a picture of Lyle Overbay.

[lend d money]

I was also at the game. I couldn't believe Overbay wasn't sent on that ball to Patterson. Since Counsell hit a line shot, Patterson didn't get the opportunity to set and throw like you would on a lazy fly ball. The throw lost steam as it approached the pitcher's mound. It would have taken a second throw to get him out. Highly doubtful. As a third base coach, you have to take the on-deck hitter into consideration. That alone should have prompted Donnelly to send him. My seats were on the 1st base side. Boy, the umpire blew that call on Jenkins coming back to the bag. I thought he was out by a good step.

 

Can someone tell me if the 3-2 pitch to Sosa with the bases loaded was a ball? From my vantage point, it looked to be at high and outside. That was the turning point of the game.

[tlpc4]

The paper says that Overbay left early on the sac fly, so he returned to third. Donnelly sent him, Overbay just blew the play.

[NastyTwig]

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Obviously it helped when the Brewers took the lead, but I didn't feel harassed at all, for once. We did hear about one fight on the terrace level concourse - guy didn't like what his lady was saying so (of course) he threw beer in her face - but otherwise things were practically mellow, for the royal blue scourge, at least.

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We had some nice beer throwing/fights going on in the buckethead section. Seriously, if you're a Cubs fan, why sit in the only place where there are Brewer fans? A 40 year old cubs fan, obviously drunk, arguing with a bunch of teenagers. The ****** deserved it. After the game it was like we won the world series. Every Brewer fan stopped and high fived each other on the way out while chanting "Cubs suck". It was beautiful.