I love baseball! And I was reminded yesterday just how much I love the game. The Twins and Tigers were playing a one game, do-or-die, playoff to determine who would move on in the postseason. The teams had identitical records during the regular season, thus the need for the one game playoff. I don’t have any particular [...]
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Cubs Continue Winning Ways
September 25, 2009 – 8:19 am
Things did not look good for the Cubs entering the 9th inning of last night’s game in San Francisco. The good guys were down 2-1 and faced the Giants closer, Brian Wilson. With two outs and Micah Hoffpauir on first base, Jeff Baker came to the plate with the game on the line. Wilson got [...]
Cubs Lose Heartbreaker to Cardinals
September 19, 2009 – 7:58 am
The Cubs game against the Cardinals started out good, but ended horribly for the northsiders. In the first inning, the Cubs scored two runs off of John Smoltz on consecutive doubles by Kosuke Fukudome, Derrek Lee, and Aramis Ramirez. Unfortunately, that was all of the offense the Cubs could muster all night. The Cardinals tied [...]
Cubs Try to Lose, But Can’t
August 24, 2009 – 5:24 am
The Cubs did everything they could to throw away yesterday’s game in Los Angeles, but the umpires wouldn’t allow it. A bad throw by Ryan Theriot pulled Mike Fontenot off of second base on a force out, but the umpire called the runner out anyway. Don’t these types of calls usually go against the Cubs? [...]
Cub Lose As Hope Fades
August 21, 2009 – 8:32 am
The Cubs lost, the Cardinals won, yada, yada, yada… With 40 games remaining in the season, the Cubs are now 7.0 games back in the NL Central and 6.0 behind Colorado in the NL Wildcard race. Honestly, there’s not much hope left to hold on to. Maybe if I ignore it, it will just go [...]
