http://www.thecubsfan.com dislodged from time, space, relevancy Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:43:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en thru 118 team games, AVG/OBP/SLG (OPS) Player L: 269/369/399 (768) Player H: 277/313/482 (795) Player L can be quickly identified as the beloved Kosuke Fukodome. He's still credited for walking 10% of the time, but it's more like 7% in the last couple months. Who's Player H? Player H, having as good or better season, ... http://www.thecubsfan.com/2008/08/11/the-startling-scary-truth/ So far this year Cougars record in games I've gone to and kept track: 2-8 Cougars record in all other games: 57-47 On the upside, I can now repeat the speech from Animal House in my sleep. I have playoff tickets, but I might support the team better by staying away at this point.  ... http://www.thecubsfan.com/2008/08/09/i-hold-in-my-brain-the-anti-win-formula/ Took long enough to write this. I found myself standing around Wrigley again, which is sure enough time to get started. Too late for a narrative, but maybe bullet points. There's tons of photos on flickr too. 1) The neighborhood itself was taking the day off. My usual parking place was ... http://www.thecubsfan.com/2008/08/05/0729-cougars-vs-peoria-wrigley/ Yea, I'm not doing 22 entires. Wanting to talk about a game, not being able to talk about beacuse there are a dozen entries left to go, and forgetting about what you wanted to say when it finally comes up is awful lame. So I'm going to go lightning round ... http://www.thecubsfan.com/2008/07/18/game-71-to-game-95/ That sure didn't take long! This was in the works for a while, but things actually got more intense after CC went to the Brewers. As and Cubs seems to have a very good relationship for these kind of things (see: last year's Jason Kendall trade), so that it happened ... http://www.thecubsfan.com/2008/07/08/rich-harden-new-cub/ This was among the shortest broadcasts ever - it seemed no more than a 30 minute show between start (after the delay) till cancellation (oddly right during an interview.) They seemed so sure they were going to play until the end, it was sad to watch even while knowing what ... http://www.thecubsfan.com/2008/07/04/game-never-mind-cubs-ppd-san-diego/ POTG: SP Ted Lilly (6 IP, H, BB, 6 K, 0 R, QS) Runner Up: LF Reed Johnson (2 H, 2 R, 2B), DH D Lee (2 H, 3 RBI, BB), CF Jim Edmonds (2 H, RBI), 1B Hoff Power (2 H, 2B, R) You know, you can actually walk a lot ... http://www.thecubsfan.com/2008/07/03/game-70-cubs-7-blue-jays-4/ POTG: LF Reed Johnson (HR, 3RBI) Runner Up: SP Jason Marquis (7 IP, 4 H, R, 2 BB, 1 K), 1B D Lee (3 H, 2R, 3B, BB), CF Jim Edmonds (2 H, RBI) There are things you expect to happen in life. Jason Marquis out dueling Roy Halladay is not one ... http://www.thecubsfan.com/2008/07/03/game-69-cubs-6-blue-jays-2/ Cubs 43-25 Blue Jays 35-34 POTG: RF Fukudome (2 H, 2 R, BB) Runner Up: 3B A Ram (2 H), CF Edmonds (2B, 2H, RBI), RP Michael Wuertz (1.2, 3H, 0 R, one stranded) The thing about getting One More Starter is the other guys don't really impress me. If you're going to give ... http://www.thecubsfan.com/2008/07/03/game-68-blue-jays-3-cubs-2/ Braves 32-35 Cubs 43-24 POTG: CF Jim Edmonds (HR, SF, R, 2 RBI) Runner Up: 3B A Ram (H, 2 BB, 2 R), C Soto (3 H), SP Z!!! (7 IP, 8H, 2R, 3BB, 3K, QS; H), RP Wood (2 IP, H, BB, 4 K, W) I had this post written up, and I ... http://www.thecubsfan.com/2008/07/03/game-67-cubs-3-braves-2/