I spent much time debating the Heilman trade – just not here, but enough to get out of my system. I have an actual non-Cubs post floating around in my head, just not yet the interest to write it out yet. Maybe later.
This is more a guess at what will end up happening rather than [...]
A shocking turn of events. Or not all: I think he should be in, have long stopped being surprised he’s not and try to spend the least amount of time possible thinking about it. It’s only the be all and end all if you care at all.
The one thing is – I know everyday, we [...]
I had a whole post about walking around Wrigleyville a few Sundays ago – the Sunday that would’ve been Game 5 of the World Series, a home game – and how desolate and empty and depressing the area was, and how I was still despondent and not ready to ride the rollercoaster again. The thing [...]
Dodgers were clearly the better team. Congratulations.
If you need me, I’ll be tuning out the world as much as possible for as long as possible.
Thanks for trying, Derrek.
Mark DeRosa’s blog entry, tonight:
You’ve got to let this flow over you and consume you for a couple hours. You have to. “Z” was pitching a great game, he’s feeling good, the double play gets turned, we go back into the dugout and the whole game is different. Our offense is able to relax and [...]
Dodgers 2-0
POTG: the crowd. For all that’s been said about the game 1 fans and the reasons they were as quiet as they were, the people who showed up for this game decided things were going to change. They were going to cheer, they were going to cheer more, and they were going to start [...]
I think I may be getting excited for this. Hard to tell, what with more posts in three hours than in some three week stretches.
- I hate doing predictions, because they’re so useless and no one really cares about them, they just care about what actually happens. But I think the Phillies are a deeper [...]
I’m with the those who say playoff baseball is as much random chance as anything else. I don’t believe it takes anything away from the champions, because everyone has a chance to the rules of the game before they play it, but it’s different enough from the regular season that you shouldn’t be surprised when [...]
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Cubs 96-61
Mets 87-71
POTG: 3B A Ram (2 R, 2 H, 2 RBI, 3 BB, HR)
very close: RP Cotts (1.1 IP, BB, 3 K, 0 R, 0 H, 2 marooned)
Runner Up: LF Soriano (2 H, 2B, RBI, BB), SS Ryan Theriot (3 H, 2 R, SB, still over 300), B D Lee (2B, 2 R, RBI, [...]