A's Lineup
- Eric Sogard, SS
- Collin Cowgill, CF
- Seth Smith, LF
- Jonny Gomes, DH
- Josh Reddick, RF
- Brandon Allen, 1B
- Wes Timmons, 3B
- Landon Powell, C
- Josh Horton, 2B
- Pitcher: Bartolo Colon, RHP
Cubs Lineup
- Tony Campana, CF
- Darwin Barney, 2B
- Starlin Castro, SS
- Bryan LaHair, 1B
- Jeff Baker, RF
- Reed Johnson, LF
- Steve Clevenger, C
- Blake DeWitt, DH
- Josh Vitters, 3B
- Pitcher: Ryan Dempster, RHP
There is a Cubs game today!
@ Mish:
http://isthereacubsgametoday.com/
One of you are lying.
Because it’s important:
They’ve got a new lead-in song for WGN….not much better than the last one. I miss the more jingly one they used ~10 years ago.
Chicago Cubs baseball is on the air!
Sorry to hear about your friend Mish. One of my best friends from middle school and high school was killed in Baltimore 5 years ago and he too was a super nice guy. Seems this world holds on to the bad ones more than the good ones. I feel your pain.
@ Berselius:
+1 x 2 or 288
Snoop is a strange character because I didn’t even know she was a woman until about after 10 episodes. (dying laughing)
Castro making $567k this season
@ Berselius:
Ah sure just a little more than SK is making this season.
They should teach Tony Campana to hit it anywhere but directly to the pitcher.
And by a little I mean a fucking metric cackload
Suburban kid wrote:
This is an American blog, SK, don’t bring your commie measurement systems over here.
/Luke Scott
my apologies. make it an Imperial dungload.
Blake DeWitt ———–> yard
Anybody else just hear Zonk talk about the numbers and statistics theories called “cybernetics”? (dying laughing) Oh well, at least he’s trying I guess.
rattier wrote:
Wasn’t “cybernetics” invented by L. Ron Hubbard? (dying laughing)
Cubs > 1/2 of the A’s
Vitters is having a nice day today
Plugged in the headphones just in time to hear Zonk say “Gamecock.”
How does Casey Weathers’s stuff sound?
@ josh:
Who was he referring to?!?!?!?!?!
The 2 time motherfucking back to back college world series champion!!!!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/who-said-it-mitt-romney-vs-mr-burns
/Political Talk
Steve Clevenger’s mugshot on Gameday makes it seem like he’s surprised to be there.
@ Mish:
I need to hack into site to +1000 this (dying laughing)
@ bubblesdachimp:
To be honest, I wasn’t really listening. I heard “cock” had a juvenile laugh, posted it here, and then went about my business.
@ bubblesdachimp:
Some A’s batter, probably Powell, Horton, or Sogard
@ josh:
Don’t you have your own blog to make penis jokes on?
@ Berselius:
Landon Powell was on the 2004 College world series atendee USC gamecocks.
Yes Pat, it is hard to believe that Judd has been with WGN for 4 years. Feels like 40.
College baseball is only an honorable mention on the list of things I don’t give a fuck about.
So, the pitching’s going to be better in the regular season, right?
I believe I was 3 years into college before I realized that the hats that the jocks wore that said Cocks was supposed to signify a real team. I’d always just figured that they were making ironic, self-aware commentary.
Scrubby McOrg-Filler got knocked around this inning
any word on corpas or weathers?
Berselius wrote:
/Cub Fan’d
@ bubblesdachimp:
Manny Corpas struck out a dude to end the inning.
Mucker wrote:
I always liked Snoop. That girl was born into crime, was later convicted of murder, got clean and turner her life around while incarcerated and then, as so many others given her circumstances, was arrested again during a drug raid last year. I liked the actress and I liked the story. So far it hasn’t ended well, but I’m nothing if not positive and upbeat. (dying laughing)
I know any reports on their stuff?
@ bubblesdachimp:
Corpas just threw a pitch behind someone
Oh no! We suck again!
@ mb21:
Definitely one of the most interesting real stories from that show. That and the British rap guy who became a controversial Norse god.
Suburban kid wrote:
That’s because you’ve been at the same employer for 82 years.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
It’s being televised more, which is a good thing, but it’s still not the least bit exciting unless you’re watching your favorite team. It’s quite a bit like the WBC with the exception of the watching your favorite team part. (dying laughing)
@ josh:
Idris Elba, who played Stringer Bell, says that when he’s in the states people have approached him asking for advice on managing their criminal enterprises. They’re also really confused by his British accent (dying laughing).
this could just as easily have been a Chicago Tribune article:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/sources-any-number-of-players-could-be-traded-to-n,27523/
Also, sorry to burst our bubble MO but Stringer Bell is a Scum fan.
With all apologies to SK, this is a better photo of Ned Stark with a baseball bat:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikehayes/baseball-is-coming
It was great to hear a few innings of Pat, but jesus Keith Moreland is rough. He’s not terrible, but he is rough.
@ Berselius:
RocknRolla isn’t how I found out he was British, but it certainly cemented him as such in my mind.
@ Mish:
I’m going to go watch a documentary about minstrelsy.
@ Suburban kid:
Still better than Judd.
WHen that’s finished, and you’re still beating off to your fantasy characters, I’m going to go browse on the retroscope and marvel at actual shit that really happened long ago in historical tymes.
Keith sounded the same as usual to me, but I didn’t hear the whole thing. I was disappointed to hear him pronounce Sczcur with no problem.
@ Mish:
I think I meant GBTS.
@ Mish:
THat probably makes sense.
I’m a bit late on Gameday but it seemed Tony Zych was in the game and had mixed results with two hard hit balls and two strikeouts. Must find radio that actually picks up AM in this building.
@ ACT:
On the other hand, maybe not.
mb21 wrote:
I’ve seen my salary increase exponentially over that time but when you start out on a dollar and a half a day, it takes a while to get to Bobby Scales’ salary level, let along Castro’s. And to think me and Starlin were both born in the ’90s.
Zonk said the new pitching coach is Chris Bosco.
Suburban kid wrote:
The hitting coach is Rudy Ovaltine. Not that much farther off from how he pronounces Jaramillo.
Lenny Dykstra ———-> 3 years in the clink
@ ACT:
I hear the clink is a lot better than prison.
@ mb21:
It is. It’s also slightly better than the slammer, but not quite as good as the cooler or the big house.
@ ACT:
True, but cooler and big house aren’t quite as good as reformatory. A reformatory is like a penitentiary up the river.
BTW, since I don’t want to track down all the comments, I just want to say thanks to all you guys for your well wishes. It’s been kinda a rough day. Your the best fagets an unrediscredited blog commenter could ask for. (dying laughing)
@ ACT:
What about Federal Pound Me in the Ass Prison?
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/05/bears-expected-to-make-run-at-free-agent-vincent-jackson/
@ Mish:
I’ve heard good things.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/from-socially-awkward-to-socially-active-mlb-in-an-online-age/
@ Suburban kid:
Hey SK, what’s the doc you’re watching?
new shit
http://www.obstructedview.net/chicago-cubs/projecting-the-2012-cubs-ryan-dempster.html