It's easy to be a Cubs fan, because rooting for the Cubs isn't really about caring about a winning team. Cubs fans are like Red Sox fans--they secretly enjoy losing because of the attention that it brings them.

Cubs games aren't baseball affairs--they're excuses to get drunk.

No joke... Rememinds me of what Chipper Jones agent said on espn yesterday after he blew his knew out... something along the effect of "He's not going to rush the decision to retire or not, it depends on how long it will take for the knee to fully recover, we dont want it to be a knee-jerk reaction.."


I was like uhhhhh :spock: better choice of words maybe?

Today the Reds announced that Cueto was appealing.

Either MLB will grow a pair and deny it by tomorrow (so he doesn't get his Sunday start).

Or MLB will do what it always does - nothing. And Cueto's 'punishment' will be a couple days off.

Guess what I have my money on...

Cubs up 2-0 but they were all good piitches by Westbrook. Hr does look like a "Duncan" type of pitcher.

Nice win.

And the Card fans don't disappont. :clap:

Kind of fun to say that the good news is apparently you heard incorrectly. Says he's not appealing, so yay? http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...=.jsp&c_id=mlb

Good to see them actually advancing baserunners tonight.

Got Jealous?

Cincinnati Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips went too far in his incendiary name-calling directed at Cardinals players. But he did tap into something: the Cardinals are disliked by many of their opponents. I saw that theme repeated a lot this week in media analyses of the Reds-Cardinals brawl on Tuesday night.

Five theories:
Jealousy • The Cardinals win. A lot. And draw huge crowds. The players are treated like baseball gods in St. Louis. Naturally, opponents are envious. Since the beginning of the 2000 season, the Cardinals have won more regular-season games than any other NL team. Their winning percentage over the past 10-plus seasons is .564. Compare that to the other win percentages in the NL Central between 2000 and now: Houston (.508), Chicago (.493), Cincinnati (.470), Milwaukee (.458) and Pittsburgh (.416). Wouldn't you be bitter if you were constantly getting hammered by St. Louis?

Jealousy, Part II • Since Tony La Russa took over as manager in 1996, only the New York Yankees have won more postseason games (87); Boston and St. Louis are tied for second with 39. That's 17 more postseason victories than the other five NL Central teams have, combined.

La Russa's team plays with edge • La Russa never fires the first shot, but if retaliation is in order, the Cardinals respond aggressively. If you start a battle, La Russa will escalate it. When La Russa goes into the Don Tony mode, he does not make friends.

The Cardinals irritate opponents • They gripe about such items as slick baseballs or foreign substances on pitchers' caps. The Cardinals have talked about their own pitchers tipping pitches, which probably offends opposing batters who interpret it as a slight. La Russa and the Cardinals dispute this, but clearly opponents have been bothered by it.

The George Will factor • La Russa entered the weekend with 2,616 victories, No. 3 on the all-time list. He has been exalted in two best-selling books written by prominent authors George Will and Buzz Bissinger. Many opposing managers are clinging to their jobs, and on top of that, they have to lose to La Russa and then read about his genius. Wouldn't this make you resentful?
But understand this, too: There's a lot of respect for Cardinals baseball. It may be grudging respect, but it's real. The attitude was described nicely by Michael Wilbon on ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption" earlier this week: "The St. Louis Cardinals are a great organization," he said. "As a Cub fan, I grew up hating the Cardinals. Part of why I hate them so much is that they're such an admirable organization."

From my recollection, Jim Edmonds was a huge cry baby when he didn't like the umpires
strike zone. I can recall on many occassions when he would drop his bat or his head
at home plate when he didn't get the call. The cardinals biggest whinner over the years is now with the Reds...how ironic.

Yadi is the bomb for getting in the grill of BP...BP knew exactly what he wanted when
he taped Yadi's shin guards. BP got exactly what he hoped would happen. MOST of MLB knew BP was being a classless jerk in tapping the shinn guards, then to try and do it a 2nd time !!!! BP should have gotten at least a 20 game suspension because he tried to tap Yadi's shinn guard a 2nd time.

Good for Cueto, I suppose.

The radio reports this morning said he had lodged his appeal already; there was an understandable amount of outrage at it.

Anyone else see the graphic that the Cardinals have scored 4+ runs in something like 10 consecutive games for the first time since July of 2004 (and that team was probably the best Cardinal club I've ever seen)?

Molina's resurgance has ben big, but getting Pujols and Holliday rolling at the same time is about all you need.

:spock: Really?

Henry's a ****ing dumbass. Just ignore him.

Yep.

How ****ing hard is it to bunt?