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Chicago Cubs
@ Cincinnati Reds

Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 12:35 PM EDT
Great American Ball Park

Jon Lieber vs Edinson Volquez

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Mark Duncan/AP (Lieber), Tony Avelar/AP (Volquez)

W-L ERA WHIP K BB
2008 - Jon Lieber 2-1 1.86 1.20 9 2

W-L ERA WHIP K BB
2008 - Edinson Volquez 4-1 1.27 1.20 42 18

Harang took over the major league strikeout lead with Johan Santana last night, but Edinson needs just 6 to pass them. I don't see why he can't do that today.

But the story here is probably Lieber. He's making his first start since last June, replacing Rich Hill, whom the Cubs optioned to Iowa on Saturday. Lieber probably won't last too long, as he hasn't pitched 5 innings in a game this season. He's not really striking guys out, but he's been effective.

Let's win.

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Pops and Little Man

will be there today. Anyone else a’goin.

Sometimes 8 Just Isn't Enough

by Pops Daniels on May 7, 2008 10:37 AM EDT   0 recs

Hordes of unwashed, unemployed Cubs fans

Have you taught Little Man to say “1908” yet? What about “Bartman?”

by Brendanukkah on May 7, 2008 10:45 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

He has learned the word "stupid"

and though we generally discourage it’s use, I will make a one day exception as long as it’s pointed at Chub Fans. My goal is to not go all Lee Elia in front of my son. I don’t set the bar that high at the ‘ol Ballyard.

Sometimes 8 Just Isn't Enough

by Pops Daniels on May 7, 2008 10:49 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I tried to teach my son the word "sucks" this weekend

as it was the only word that would properly describe the incredibly poorly designed bubble blowers we were playing with. Luckily, he doesn’t listen to me much.

It gets crazy on the road, and awful lonely. That's why I love pornography. This next song is all about my love of hardcore, barely legal pornography.

by Slyde on May 7, 2008 10:54 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

The diameter of the blow-holes should be measured in microns

I think we saw one successful bubble detach in about 10 minutes of trying. It’s perfect for play dates as long as you hate the kids you are playing with.

It gets crazy on the road, and awful lonely. That's why I love pornography. This next song is all about my love of hardcore, barely legal pornography.

by Slyde on May 7, 2008 11:02 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Slyde, are you raising a Luddite?

It’s time to upgrade to some 21st Century technology!

Your kid is so gonna mow my kids lawn.

I don't know how to paint a banana gourd to look like a Power Ranger.

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 7, 2008 11:17 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

My kids

LOVED that damned thing. I did not love cleaning it up, however.

Please Note: I may be totally full of shit.

by jch24 on May 7, 2008 11:20 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

oh, we have multiple bubble blowing machines

but this one we were trying to play with on Sunday was a gift from Grandmother, because who doesn’t by a kid a gift 6 days before his birthday?

It gets crazy on the road, and awful lonely. That's why I love pornography. This next song is all about my love of hardcore, barely legal pornography.

by Slyde on May 7, 2008 11:27 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I see how it is...

“We have multiple bubble blowing machines.”

Well, it must be nice to have multiple bubble blowing machines. And I suppose they’re all filled with “the real thing”, eh? While some of us commoners have to use diluted dish soap.

I don't know how to paint a banana gourd to look like a Power Ranger.

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 7, 2008 11:36 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

By real stuff

do you mean the tears of baby lemurs? If so, then yes, we use the real stuff.

It gets crazy on the road, and awful lonely. That's why I love pornography. This next song is all about my love of hardcore, barely legal pornography.

by Slyde on May 7, 2008 11:43 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I'll be there

As will obc and his girl. Email me your cell # and I’ll come see you.

Please Note: I may be totally full of shit.

by jch24 on May 7, 2008 11:17 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Let's.

First!

Arg, robbed again.

Tanzen!

by Verka Serduchka on May 7, 2008 10:38 AM EDT   0 recs

Funny

nice way to make light of your recent difficulties.

Sometimes 8 Just Isn't Enough

by Pops Daniels on May 7, 2008 10:42 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I do what I can.

This is why I love Spanish. Even descriptions of baseball become poetry:


...Carlos Zambrano navegó tranquilo frente a la débil artillería de Cincinnati

Carlos Zambrano tranquilly navegated before the weak Cincinnati artillery.

Tanzen!

by Verka Serduchka on May 7, 2008 10:49 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I think artillery is overstating it a bit with this offense

they hardly even qualify as carrying bats.

It gets crazy on the road, and awful lonely. That's why I love pornography. This next song is all about my love of hardcore, barely legal pornography.

by Slyde on May 7, 2008 10:54 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Our military is stretched, Slyde

The quagmire in Iraq prevents us from deploying our artillery in Cincinnati. Which is why it’s up to the local cops to do that instead.

by Brendanukkah on May 7, 2008 10:57 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

The girl I had a crush on just got engaged to a Marine

Call it a petty, vindictive grudge, but I stand by my position.

by Brendanukkah on May 7, 2008 11:10 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I believe it was Bill Hicks who said

“I have the unique position of supporting the war but hating the troops.” He’s dead but that was funny stuff way back during the first Gulf War.

Sometimes 8 Just Isn't Enough

by Pops Daniels on May 7, 2008 11:16 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I was a big fan of Hicks

He said something along the line that “politics makes strange bedfellows. Saddam wants to kill George (HW) Bush, and suprisingly enough I do too. Who wouldve thunk it?”

by johnny cueto thinks we're sellouts on May 7, 2008 11:23 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I think it was Hicks who had a line:

“If you’re in college and you’re studying marketing, would you do us all a favor and kill yourself now?”

The audience would laugh and he’d say, “No, I’m serious. If you can’t find a better way to spend your parents’ money and a better way to spend your life than marketing. You should just die.”

The audience would again laugh and he’d say, “No. Really. Kill yourself. Stop laughing. It’s not a joke. Die.”

I don't know how to paint a banana gourd to look like a Power Ranger.

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 7, 2008 11:30 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

He had some choice words about Jay Leno shilling for Doritos too

Oh, and the “Let’s Hunt Down Billy Ray Cyrus Show.” One can only imagine what he’d make of Hannah Montana.

by Brendanukkah on May 7, 2008 11:33 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Does that mean we have to invade?

We can steal their natural resources and set up a puppet government full of people we trained to kill. Come on, it will be fun.

by johnny cueto thinks we're sellouts on May 7, 2008 11:38 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Who you calling a puppet government?

I don't know how to paint a banana gourd to look like a Power Ranger.

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 7, 2008 11:40 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Whatever

If they didn’t want us in their countries, they wouldn’t have let us pass the Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt Corollary.

by Brendanukkah on May 7, 2008 11:44 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

'sup brendan?

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 7, 2008 12:06 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Just "working"

It’s nice to be able to follow the game from my desk. Beautiful day out too! It’s helping me forget that the drive in this morning took two hours.

by Brendanukkah on May 7, 2008 12:10 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

damn...

seems like public transportation would be faster :-)

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 7, 2008 12:11 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I took that yesterday

It’s about $12 round trip, still takes 80-90 minutes, door-to-door, and they gave me a $40 parking ticket… for parking in the parking garage.

I’m kind of over DC right about now.

by Brendanukkah on May 7, 2008 12:37 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

yeah i read that yesterday

so i was picking on you :-)

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 7, 2008 12:41 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I didn't get it...

but I am still mad about it.

by Brendanukkah on May 7, 2008 12:43 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

it's ok...

you’re moving to cincinnati anyway

we’ve got museums and stuff

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 7, 2008 12:43 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I've been to Cincinnati...

didn’t see much stuff there.

by Gray on May 7, 2008 12:44 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

head across the river...

there’s a little bit of stuff there…

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 7, 2008 12:45 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

How much stuff is there to paint?

I’m getting the itch

'cause something is happening here, but you don't know what it is.

by Man Mountain on May 7, 2008 12:45 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

In Kentucky?

Well, the horse ambulance in Louisville could use a new coat. Or at least a good scrubbing down.

by Brendanukkah on May 7, 2008 12:47 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

don't go to louisville...it sucks

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 7, 2008 12:47 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I talked to a guy from the Cincinnati Museum Center at a conference in Denver

He said to be on the lookout, because they have jobs on the horizon. It’s sounding more tempting every day.

by Brendanukkah on May 7, 2008 12:46 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

they've got the bodies exhibit!

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 7, 2008 12:47 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Saw it

Really liked it.

by Brendanukkah on May 7, 2008 12:48 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah, I wasn't a huge fan.

Then again, I saw it in Charlotte. And everything’s better in Cincinnati!

by Gray on May 7, 2008 12:49 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

don't come back here

it’s awful. really. i’m in a desperate search to get back to the east coast. it was a big, big mistake to come back here.

2008 NL Central Champs!

by Daedalus on May 7, 2008 12:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

You're probably right

I think tops on my list of dream places to move is Seattle at the moment.

by Brendanukkah on May 7, 2008 1:01 PM EDT to parent up   1 recs

i've always wanted to go there

it’s so far away, though, so it’s been tough to get there.

maybe you’ll see junior if you go.

2008 NL Central Champs!

by Daedalus on May 7, 2008 1:02 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

rec'd

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 7, 2008 1:03 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Lineup

Patterson, CF
Hairston, SS
Griffey, RF
Phillips, 2B
Votto, 1B
Dunn, LF
Encarnacion, 3B
Bako, C
Volquez, P

Cubs
Johnson, LF
Theriot, SS
Lee, 1B
Ramirez, 3B
Fukudome, RF
Soto, C
Cedeno, 2B
Pie, CF
Lieber, P

Find me on MySpace- http://www.myspace.com/mixfmkyle

by MixFMKyle on May 7, 2008 11:40 AM EDT   0 recs

No Soriano today

I know Cubs fans had been clamoring for Lou to drop him from the leadoff spot due to terrible production (sound familiar?), but he had a decent game yesterday, and the Reds are generally the cure for your offensive woes. I’m surprised to see him out of the lineup.

Also, I called that Cherry Hudson, Jr. sighting last night. Hooray for me!

by Brendanukkah on May 7, 2008 11:42 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

The Fay sez

Valakia promoted to AA, and Mesoraco promoted to Dayton

Find me on MySpace- http://www.myspace.com/mixfmkyle

by MixFMKyle on May 7, 2008 11:44 AM EDT   0 recs

Also

Todd Fraizer promoted to Sarasota and Logan Parker promoted to Dayton

Find me on MySpace- http://www.myspace.com/mixfmkyle

by MixFMKyle on May 7, 2008 11:46 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

well time to sit at my house

and wait for plumbers to show up, probably 5 hours from now. I dont wanna push it, but lets see if we can win the series. I just wish we had about 7 more Jerry Hairstons (let voltron pitch) then victory would be assured.

by johnny cueto thinks we're sellouts on May 7, 2008 11:59 AM EDT   0 recs

plumbers are for suckers...

just throw a cherry bomb down there.

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 7, 2008 12:00 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

100 years old?

and it has plumbing?

that’s progressive!

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 7, 2008 12:03 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

mine too

we just had the original cast iron stack replaced. Dreadful stuff. My house is circa 1890. Yours?

Sometimes 8 Just Isn't Enough

by Pops Daniels on May 7, 2008 12:08 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

i coulda went to the game today

but I’m going to be here threading it up with you guys!

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 7, 2008 12:00 PM EDT   0 recs

Rusty & "K"orey

Was Rusty asleep in the dugout again last night…... How come his home boy “K”orey didn’t play ?

by dacub on May 7, 2008 12:11 PM EDT   0 recs

hey...

shouldn’t you be at gabp with all the other cubs fans?

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 7, 2008 12:12 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

What's your high score on Golden Tee?

'cause something is happening here, but you don't know what it is.

by Man Mountain on May 7, 2008 12:18 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I remember that movie.

Henry Fonda, right? On Golden Tee.

We Are ... Marshall!

by Thundering Turtle on May 7, 2008 12:33 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Cowboy says...

we need to swing the bats, and by that he means really swinging the bats.

Isn’t our problem that we are swinging at everything?

Tanzen!

by Verka Serduchka on May 7, 2008 12:38 PM EDT   0 recs

Sort of

but not really. At bats are ending a lot earlier, but surprisingly the Reds are actually swinging at the first pitch less than they did last year. But slightly more than the league average – I think. The big problem is that they are the 2nd worst team in the NL when they put the ball in play on the first pitch (.737 OPS). The league average is .896 OPS when the ball is put into play on the first pitch.

It gets crazy on the road, and awful lonely. That's why I love pornography. This next song is all about my love of hardcore, barely legal pornography.

by Slyde on May 7, 2008 12:46 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Seriously, though.

Why the hell is Dunn batting sixth?

by Gray on May 7, 2008 12:41 PM EDT   0 recs

he's hitting leadoff

the pitcher’s spot is really our cleanup hitter

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 7, 2008 12:42 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs