Belated game thread: Cubs at Cardinals and a piece of history

In Game Threads by berselius106 Comments

The Cubs are already up 4-0, thanks to an Ian Stewart 3-run homer off of Wainright. I forgot to include this piece of history in my minifacepalm this morning. Yesterday marked the 100 year anniversary of the last game that Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance played together. In memoriam: Baseball's Sad Lexicon These are the saddest of possible …

Site should be fine now

In Commentary And Analysis by dmick8950 Comments

Hopefully the site is back up and running for good now. Our host, Dreamhost, had a DDoS attack on one of its data centers. This led to multiple extended outages at Obstructed View beginning on Monday for a few hours and then Thursday for much of the day. They have reportedly made some hardware changes, which will supposedly protect against …

Game thread – Brewers at Cubs 4/12

In Game Threads by berselius76 Comments

The Cubs just need to beat Zack Greinke to avoid the sweep. Easy peasy. Lineups Brewers 2B Rickie Weeks CF Nyjer Morgan LF Ryan Braun RF Corey Hart 1B Mat Gamel SS Alex Gonzalez C Jonathan Lucroy 3B Cesar Izturis (can't believe he's still on a MLB roster) P Zack Greinke   Cubs RF David DeJesus 2B Darwin Barney SS …

Game thread: Cubs at Brewers (4/11)

In Game Threads by berselius196 Comments

The Brewers are resting a bunch of players today, so this could be the best chance to avoid a sweep. This is a year! Cubs lineup RF David DeJesus 2B Darwin Barney SS Starlin Castro LF Adolfo Soriano 1B Bryan Lahair 3B Ian Stewart C Geovany Soto CF Marlon Byrd P Ryan Dempster   Brewers lineup LF Norichika Aoki RF …

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Daily Facepalm 4.11.12

In Facepalm by berselius30 Comments

1000 word recap of Paul Maholm's Cubs debut last night Other comments on last night's game You'd think that conditions like last night's (freezing, wind howling in) would be conducive to pitching, But when you can't locate multiple pitches, you're going to get hammered. Maholm walked two and hit two batters in the first inning, as well as a double, …