LOS ANGELES. August 23, 2009. It was the final game of the season for the Cubs in L.A. and Dempster was in the driving seat. The question was would he be able to drive handfuls of unhitable pitches at the inform Dodgers whose machine appears to be headed towards the play off.
The first innings [...]
LOS ANGELES. August 22, 2009. Make no mistake, this was a close game. Ted Lilly came into it with a level of optimistic confidence but he was pitching against one of the strongest teams in the MLB. The Dodgers, always in the market for runs this season got two more today to beat the Cubs. [...]
LOS ANGELES. August 21, 2009. To lose the game to a hop of the ball must be like getting stung on the end of your nose when you bend down to smell a rose. The pain lingers to remind you how close you got. Tonight’s loss will really have hurt. The frustration of Lou “The [...]
LOS ANGELES. August20, 2009. Barring a supreme effort it would appear that the Cubs season has 43 more games left in it. The question now is who in the 40 man Roster can don the Superman cape! They have come from behind in the past but with a mountain of 7 games to win to [...]
SAN DIEGO. August 17, 2009. In the 9th innings when you are one run to the good the best thing to do is to believe you can win the game. If you don’t do that you will lose. And to my mind that is exactly what happened tonight. The “Guru” Lou Piniella believed that they [...]
CHICAGO. August 16, 2009. The weather had the upper hand today and won out over both the Chicago Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates. The stormy autumn rain clouds rolled up over Wrigley field from the South West and the result was that the game was postponed. This wasn’t exactly what the Cubs wanted as they [...]
CHICAGO. August 15, 2009. The only way that there could have been an anticlimax after the run fest of yesterday was if the Cubs lost this afternoon. And I don’t think any of the 40,530 Cub fans that flocked through the gates expected either a loss or a repeat performance of Fridays Pirates defensive collapse [...]
CHICAGO. August 14, 2009. Ok, so the Cubs are having a bad run with a losing streak is 5 games but Cub Fans don’t get discouraged. The current longest win streak by one of the 30 MLB teams is only 5 by Atlanta who are still 5 games behind their NL Eastern Div leaders, the [...]
CHICAGO. August 13, 2009. It was nice and warm, partly cloudy, just the right sort of day to go to the baseball. Ever the optimist Cub fans were not deterred by the recent form and the Friendly Confines were close to full. Ryan Dempster was taking his turn against the left handed pitcher for the [...]
CHICAGO. August 12, 2009. It was raining again tonight in Wrigley Field… sadly it was raining runs and they were not from the Home team. But never fear the good times are near. Cub fans We Believe. We really do believe. So lets have some PMA here…positive mental attitude. Look on the bright side. You [...]
