Archive for September 2004
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September 29, 2004
What’s Latin for Cubs Suck?
Posted by Mike J. | 10:10 pm | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0
Practically every game the cameras zoom in on Wrigleyville’s “Eamus Catuli!” sign, the Latin version of Let’s Go Cubs, which I never really understood. Who goes to the trouble of making a sign in Latin to cheer on a team?
Lately I don’t want to cheer the Cubs in any language. For more than a week […]
September 10, 2004
Split
Posted by Mike J. | 7:38 pm | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0
Cubbies split today, and I can’t say I expected more. It was in an odd fashion, getting shut out in the first game before trouncing the single-A callup Logan Kensing in a pleasing 11-2 win. Cub Nation itself wavered between the games, ready to give up on their playoff hopes, but they showed that they […]
September 9, 2004
Wake up call?
Posted by Mike J. | 2:23 pm | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0
The Cubs managed to drop Scott Downs’ ERA a point and a half in one night, and somehow I’m not surprised. Amazingly the Astros have come from the lower half of the division to claim second place as well as the Wild Card for the moment, and perhaps this will cause them to realize how […]
September 8, 2004
Excuses Excuses
Posted by Mike R. | 6:20 pm | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0
Despite what you hear from the Cubs about last night’s game, the Cubs did not lose because the wind was blowing in. The wind didn’t make Matt Clement’s neck flare up. The wind didn’t push Mike Remlinger’s pitches out of the strike zone It didn’t make Mosies Alou strike out with men on the corners […]
September 7, 2004
Anxiously Resting
Posted by Mike J. | 11:49 am | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0
Sammy Sosa sat out with bursitis in the hip on Monday, allowing Ben Grieve to crash into the wall and bloody up his eye in the Cubbies 9-1 victory. Its weird to call any repercussion of a hurricane a blessing, but the Cubs really did benefit from this break. You know Sosa would have played […]
September 5, 2004
Break’s over
Posted by Mike J. | 7:34 pm | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0
The Cubs finally get back to business tomorrow with another series against Montreal, this time at Wrigley. The last couple of days have been strange not having any Cubs baseball to watch, but I’ve managed to make a few observations, which I’ll keep brief-
The St. Louis Cardinals are really, really good. They swept the Dodgers […]
September 2, 2004
Good Riddance
Posted by Mike R. | 10:04 am | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0
I’m not going to lie, I don’t like Olympic Stadium and I don’t like the Montreal Expos. I don’t dislike them out of spite nor do I hate them for any particular thing they have done I just plainly don’t like them. Maybe my hard feelings have something to do with the near disastrous trip […]
September 1, 2004
Buy Your Playoff Tickets Now
Posted by Mike R. | 10:10 am | Old Style Posts | Comments: 1
Excuse me for being a tad bit cynical but I am far from impressed with the Cubs’ latest acquisitions of outfielder Ben Grieve from Milwaukee and backup catcher Mike DiFelice from Detroit. DiFelice should be able to battle Paul Bako for the player who should most be wearing a triple A uniform award as he […]
Prior-ities
Posted by Mike R. | 9:16 am | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0
As of my writing this, September 1, 2004, Mark Prior is 4-4 with a 4.87 ERA, 96 strikeouts and 41 walks. To compare that to last year’s amazing season, at this point in 2003 Prior was 14-5 with a 2.36 ERA and in the midst of a terrific 10-1 stretch. In 16 games this season, […]
Go…Tribe?
Posted by Mike J. | 1:36 am | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0
Deciding I didn’t have enough distractions in my life a couple of weeks ago, I started shopping for a baseball video game to fill some of my free time. I settled on EA’s MVP Baseball 2004 for Xbox, far and away the best baseball video game since Bases Loaded. I wasn’t that great at first, […]