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Cubs drop to 53-72 Phillies taste the fruits of an over 500 record, 63-62 box POTG: C Hank White (2B, 3 H, R, RBI) Runner Up: CF Juan Pierre (2 RBI, H, SB, but yet another CS), RP Michael Wuertz (1 IP, 3K)
Cubs drop to 53-72
Phillies taste the fruits of an over 500 record, 63-62
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POTG: C Hank White (2B, 3 H, R, RBI)
Runner Up: CF Juan Pierre (2 RBI, H, SB, but yet another CS), RP Michael Wuertz (1 IP, 3K)
box Cubs keep on falling, 53-71 Phillies reach 500!, 62-62 POTG: RF Jacque Jones (HR, 4 H, 3 RBI, R, but thrown out on the bases) Runner Up: 3B A Ram (2B, 4 H, R, RBI), 1B John Mabry (2 H, 3B)
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Cubs keep on falling, 53-71
Phillies reach 500!, 62-62
POTG: RF Jacque Jones (HR, 4 H, 3 RBI, R, but thrown out on the bases)
Runner Up: 3B A Ram (2B, 4 H, R, RBI), 1B John Mabry (2 H, 3B)
box Cardinals take a series, 66-57 Cubs drop, 53-70 POTG: CF Juan Pierre (3B, 3H, R) Runner Up: LF Matt Murton (2 H, RBI, R), 3B A Ram (2B, HR, R, RBI) special recognition: SP Juan Mateo (perfectly fine after the first)
Cardinals take a series, 66-57
Cubs drop, 53-70
POTG: CF Juan Pierre (3B, 3H, R)
Runner Up: LF Matt Murton (2 H, RBI, R), 3B A Ram (2B, HR, R, RBI)
special recognition: SP Juan Mateo (perfectly fine after the first)
box Cubs win it on the third try, 53-69 Cardinals eventually lose, 65-57 POTG: PH/1B Phil Nevin (2 H, 2 RBI) Runner Up: SS Ronny Cedeno (2 H, RBI), RF Jacque Jones (2B, H, 2 R), SS Neifi Perez (2 H, R), CF Juan Pierre (2 H, SB), SP Carlos Zambrano (7 IP, 6 H, … Continue reading “Game 122: Cubs 5 – Cardinals 4 (10)”
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Cubs win it on the third try, 53-69
Cardinals eventually lose, 65-57
POTG: PH/1B Phil Nevin (2 H, 2 RBI)
Runner Up: SS Ronny Cedeno (2 H, RBI), RF Jacque Jones (2B, H, 2 R), SS Neifi Perez (2 H, R), CF Juan Pierre (2 H, SB), SP Carlos Zambrano (7 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 6 K, QS), RP Will Ohman (.1 IP, K, 3 IHR stranded), RP Michael Wuertz (1.1 IP, H, 2 K, 3 IHR stranded, W 1/8)
box Cubs drop to 52-69 Cardinals rise to 65-56 POTG: C Michael Barrett (2B, HR, 2 R, RBI, BB) Runner Up: no one (A Ram maybe, but he got an error) THIS SUCKED.
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Cubs drop to 52-69
Cardinals rise to 65-56
POTG: C Michael Barrett (2B, HR, 2 R, RBI, BB)
Runner Up: no one (A Ram maybe, but he got an error)
THIS SUCKED.
Feely and I got to talking about this last night. I think it spurred out of my fervent belief that Muse’s “Knights of Cydonia” was either borrowed from an RPG or very much must be the background music for some gigantic boss meeting. This is unarguable. Anyway, I wanted new games, didn’t want to buy … Continue reading “gamefly gamequeue”
Feely and I got to talking about this last night. I think it spurred out of my fervent belief that Muse’s “Knights of Cydonia” was either borrowed from an RPG or very much must be the background music for some gigantic boss meeting. This is unarguable.
Anyway, I wanted new games, didn’t want to buy stuff and find myself bored with it, and was hypnotized by the constant GameFly ads. I’ve only gotten games for a few weeks, but I figured posting my current game queue is easy content, and I wanted to talk about some things I rented.
new home: please visit http://www.joeversustheworld.com for an index of old episodes! CRZ joins us to talk all sorts of wrestling, including being online in 1992, the early days of RAW, the Monday Night Wars, crappy Nitros, crappy early TNA PPV’s that featured CHEEX, plus talk of ECW, problems with the fans and the product itself, … Continue reading “Joe versus the World – 16: CRZ”
new home: please visit http://www.joeversustheworld.com for an index of old episodes!
CRZ joins us to talk all sorts of wrestling, including being online in 1992, the early days of RAW, the Monday Night Wars, crappy Nitros, crappy early TNA PPV’s that featured CHEEX, plus talk of ECW, problems with the fans and the product itself, a Summerslam preview, CRZ tries his hand at voiceovers while I wonder what an arm-drop is. Nearly an hour of power for you!
To listen to this show, right click to download the mp3 file here, subscribe to the RSS feed @ http://www.thecubsfan.com/joe.xml, or add it to your iTunes Podcasts by clicking here. If you’ve missed an edition, click on the microphone icon in the upper right hand corner of this post to see all of the ones we’ve done so far, or scroll to the end of this post.
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We’ve changed all the links ONCE AGAIN. (It wasn’t working for us the other way.) You want to right click now instead of the old way. If you’re doing the RSS, there’s no difference.
Previous editions:
16: CRZ [being CRZ] (08/17)
15: Justin Shapiro and thecubsfan [WON HOF, US, Mexico] (08/10)
14: Dr. Keith Lipinski and Mike Sempervive [WON HOF, Japan] (08/04)
13: thecubsfan [lucha] (07/24)
12: Matt Foy [ROH] (07/17)
11: Bryan Alvarez [being Bryan Alvarez] (07/12)
10: Mike Coughlin [MMA] (07/01)
9: Dr. Keith Lipinkski [Japan, general wackiness] (06/27)
8: Tanvir Raquib [ECW, parallel dimensions] (06/17)
7: American Balloon [his career] (06/10)
6: Justin Shaprio [RAW, ROH] (06/03)
5: Albert Ching [Judgement Day, ECW] (05/28)
4: Vince Verhei [everything] (05/21)
3: Matt Foy [ROH] (05/14)
Bonus: Hogan Knows Best recap (05/08)
2: Justin Shapiro [WWE] (04/29)
1: thecubsfan [lucha] (04/22)
box Cubs sweep AGAIN, 52-68 Astros are awful, 57-63 POTG: SP Ryan O’Malley (8 IP, 5 H, 6 BB, 2 K, QS, W 1/1) Runner Up: C Michael Barrett (HR)
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Cubs sweep AGAIN, 52-68
Astros are awful, 57-63
POTG: SP Ryan O’Malley (8 IP, 5 H, 6 BB, 2 K, QS, W 1/1)
Runner Up: C Michael Barrett (HR)
I figured out that my e-mail problems of a few weeks ago was due to a spam fikder being turned on and filling up my main account’s space. I think it was running for about 2 close to 3 months. In that time, it caught over 100,000 spam e-mails.
I figured out that my e-mail problems of a few weeks ago was due to a spam fikder being turned on and filling up my main account’s space. I think it was running for about 2 close to 3 months.
In that time, it caught over 100,000 spam e-mails.
box Cubs YAWN, 51-68 Astros ZZZZZ, 57-62 POTG: LF MATT MURTON (HR, 2H, 3 RBI) Runner Ups: SS Cesar Izturis (4 H), 3B A RAM (2 R, 2B, 3 H), RF Jacque Jones (HR, 3 RBI, 2 H, 2 R, OF AST), RP Bobby Howry (.2 IP, 0 R, 2 IHR stranded), RP Roberto Novoa … Continue reading “Game 119: Cubs 8 – Astros 6 (18)”
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Cubs YAWN, 51-68
Astros ZZZZZ, 57-62
POTG: LF MATT MURTON (HR, 2H, 3 RBI)
Runner Ups: SS Cesar Izturis (4 H), 3B A RAM (2 R, 2B, 3 H), RF Jacque Jones (HR, 3 RBI, 2 H, 2 R, OF AST), RP Bobby Howry (.2 IP, 0 R, 2 IHR stranded), RP Roberto Novoa (2 IP, 0 R), RP Angel Guzman (3 IP, 0 R, best personal perfomance in the ML?), RP Ryan Dempster (3 IP, 0 R), RP Rich Hill (2 IP, 0 R, 3 K, actually pretty dominant, W 3/3)