Cubs vs. Phillies vs. Iowa Cubs

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The Cubs' are really running a daunting lineup out there for their game against the Phillies today.

  1. Campana CF
  2. Barney 2B
  3. Castro SS
  4. LaHair 1B
  5. Baker RF
  6. Stewart 3B
  7. Mather LF
  8. Castillo C
  9. Garza P

Meanwhile, the Iowa Cubs' lineup today against Nashville is:

  1. B. Jackson CF
  2. Amezaga RF
  3. Valbuena SS
  4. Rizzo 1B
  5. Wright LF
  6. Cardenas 2B
  7. Vitters 3B
  8. Apodaca C
  9. J. Jackson P

Is it me, or is the Iowa lineup more imposing?

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  1. GBTS

    (dying laughing)
    (dying laughing)
    (dying laughing)
    (dying laughing)

    Pirates/Braves game:
    (Color announcer draws a hashtag-like symbol on the screen during a replay to show how outfielder’s gloves are webbed so you can still see through them; has difficulty describing said shape)
    Chip Caray: Dave, if you were on the Twitter universe, you would know that’s referred to as a “hashtag.”
    Dave: (off camera) Hey Chip, what do you call this?
    (silence)

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  2. josh

    @ ACT:
    Agreed. He’s always walked the razor’s edge. But he used to get a lot of swinging strikes, but doesn’t anymore. He’s not close enough to the zone.

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  3. Berselius

    Great start by Garza today. I forgot about the hit in the first inning and was holding out hope for a no-hitter for about 4-5 innings of that game (dying laughing)

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  4. Recalcitrant Blogger Nate

    I went to the Cubs Phillies game today. Really enjoyed getting to see Garza dominate. Phillies fans got short of patience as he proceeded. I hate to admit, but I’m actually kind of intrigued by the Campana led, scrappy, small ball approach to offense. I liked the Cubs aggressiveness, even when they get thrown out. Wellington Castillo looked good on defense today, and bad on offense.

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  5. Recalcitrant Blogger Nate

    That first hit really should have been caught. Baker got an awful jump, and I think a better RF, like say DeJesus would have gotten there. Barney covered a ton of ground on that play.

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  6. ACT

    Great. ESPN is showing the Yu Darvish Show tomorrow. I’ll probably divide my attention between that and the Cubs’ attempt to win the series against a team that one 100 games last year.

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  7. ACT

    WRT Matt Garza, I saw about half of his no-hitter, so I’ll just say this is the second-best start I’ve seen from him.

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  8. melissa

    Cowley has been a sexist pig for some time now. He’s a Steelers fan and when Rapelisberger’s incident in Atlanta happened, he tweeted, “At least he likes women.”

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    Aisle424

    The difference between this and Mariotti is that Mariotti’s douchebaggery was in the actual newspaper and it generated people reading it “to see what he’d say next.” Cowley pulled this shit on Twitter where it isn’t drawing people into the website AND it’s probably solidifying those who already weren’t going there to ever go there again. I could very easily see him on the unemployment line soon. There is literally no reason to keep him. Nobody reads that paper because Joe Cowley works there and there are now a shit ton of people who won’t read it while he still works there.

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    Aisle424

    Berselius wrote:

    Mariotti had plenty of non-newspaper problems as well (arrests, etc.), though that might have been after he was employed by the sun-times

    Yeah, but people did buy that paper because of Mariotti. I can’t fathom there are people outside of Cowley’s family that willingly choose the Sun Times over the Trib because of Cowley. Mariotti was a rainmaker over there. Cowley is a Mariotti-wannabe, which is really pathetic.

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