SWEEP.

SWEEP.

SWEEP.

 

Okay, got that out of my system.

 

It's nice to come back after being swept to sweep the crosstown rivals. I feel pretty confident about us playing them at the Cell. Let's go for the season sweep of the White Sox!!

Ozzie has the right not to like Wrigley Field but come on, uber rats? Ozzie needs to get his head out of his butt, stop making jokes and taking jabs and Wrigley and the Cubs and manage his team. And AJ thinks we're idiots? He was just swept by the Cubs... who's the idiot now? Ozzie doesn't like jim Edmonds? TOUGH. He's hitting over .300 since he came to the Cubs. I think he's a darn fine addition to the team (not to mention he hammered the Sox in game 2). Maybe they wouldn't have been swept if they all weren't so concerned with bringing out everything they hate about Wrigley, our team, and our fans. Get over yourselves White Sox and win a game.

The better Chicago team by far is the Cubs. They will take these insults you throw at them and shove it right back where the sun don't shine. =]

 

And with that said let's go out there and beat Baltimore!!

 

Tonight's match up is Sean Marshall (fresh out of the minors) against Guthrie (3-7).

 

I have work matters to attend to so good day and GO CUBS!

Riding on this winning high lately, it's kinda disappointing to get swept.

Yes, swept. *shakes head*

I was sad that we lost again last night but then I looked at previous seasons where we would lose 6 games and I thought to myself, "Losing 3 in a row and getting swept ONE time this season so far, isn't that bad."

So I didn't watch the game last night, my best friend wanted to go to six flags. Finally got to put the season pass to good use.

But I am dreading to hear the outsome of Z's MRI. Whatever is revealed today could truely hurt or help this team. If he's out then we're in trouble cause... well he's the ace.

And thank the lord that Reed Johnson and Jim Edmonds aren't seriously injured. Then we'd lose both center fielders and the left fielder. Then we'd be in big doo doo. But Reed will be ready and Edmonds has plantar fasciitis so he'll be back soon (I've treated many cases of PF during my years of training football).

 

But I sadly won't get to watch the first game of the cross town classic because my work doesn't get comcast sports net. So I'll be watching it via gameday.

The pitching match up is Ted Lilly (7-5) versus Danks (4-4).

 

Btw, Milwaukee is creeping back up the standings. They're only 5.5 out, we'll have to keep an eye on them.

 

UGH. I was supposed to go out with the kids today to play frisbee golf... the day I get to go out and it's RAINING. So I'm off to do staff like duties.

 

Good day and GO CUBS!!!

So here we are again, sitting at work, bored out of my mind.

Let's start off by saying Happy belated birthday to Kerry Wood, who turned 31 on Monday, and Lester Strode, whose birthday was yesterday!

My buddy Brenton is really ganna hate me but Tampa's fans are really annoying. I don't think I've watched a Rays game recently but lemme tell you... their fans are super annoying. I almost wanted to mute it and listen to the radio. There was a ridiculously annoying drumming noise every time the pitcher got into a count to strike out the batter. EVERY TIME. Little things like that get to me. Then there was a man that was behind the plate that decided he wanted to start yelling franticly every time DeRosa came up to bat. His son, who I am assuming was the little Rays fan sitting next to him, was ashamed to be seen with him. It got a little irritating but he eventually gave up on it. And I think there were more Cubs fans there than Rays fans. Whenever they panned into the crowd I saw nothing but blue and red.

And the Trop is def awesome cause they actually have Rays in the outfield. Like there is just a pool where you can pet sting rays. How awesome is that?

And I'm not feeling Demp's beard thing he's got goin' on. It's going to take a bit to warm up to it.

But he pitched very well. Both pitchers did. But they got deep into the count with guys fouling everything off. Dempster had one bad pitch which Cliff Floyd took advantage off but other than that the pitching is the beginning of the game was great. Except for Kazmir having 100 pitches by the 5th.

And what an exciting play when the combo of Blanco and Theriot threw out Upton at 2nd. That was exhilarating.

Theriot had an RBI single and two pretty awesome catches. The running catch into the shallow outfield was spectacular.

Reed Johnson didn't have to wonderful of a game. He had a couple hits in the game but got caught stealing third with two outs in the 7th and his bunt play in the 9th didn't quite work out the way he wanted it.

The 9th was a pretty crazy inning. A few bad pitches gave the Cubs another run but sadly we couldn't get that last guy in to tie it. But you can't win them all.

 

So I have to go do work now but tonight's match up is our ace Zambrano (8-2) vs. Sonnanstine (7-3). Another good match up.

 

Good day and GO CUBS!

So I'm sitting around at work. I am terribly bored. We have a total of 3 kids inside the building and the rest of my co-workers took the others outside to play softball. I stayed inside so I could watch the hall of fame game, which ended up being cancelled. Poop.

I can't watch the U.S. Open playoff because the TVs at work don't get ESPN so I must sit around and wait for the computer to update the leaderboard every few minutes. I like Tiger and all but I'm rooting for Mediate.

 

So these past couple of games have been fantastic. They have played great ball against the Jays.

 

I'm hoping we will being the rain against the Rays these next three games. I'm sure they will and I'm looking forward to it.

 

And I was wondering, what is the appeal of getting drunk at a baseball game? Or any sporting event for that matter? I just don't understand why someone wants to go get smashed. I would like to remeber the game and not make a total jerk of myself. So please, explain to me if you can. why do people go to baseball games and go, "I'm going to get drunk!"?

 

Tomorrow's match up is Dempster (8-2 phenomenal) against Kazmir (6-2, not shabby at all).

 

Good day and GO CUBS!

So I didn't get to watch the Cubs game, GASP, I know. And they lost so I can't say much about it. I'll be headed over to cubs.com to read about it in a second but I did want to blog about the Brewers and Twins game I went to tonight.

I was heading up there with my best friend to watch the Twins play the Brewers. I have a bright yellow cobolt with two giant Cubs stickers on the back windows. It was my first time ever driving on the highway so it was a big deal for me. I was really excited.

First we get lost trying to get there because every time I go to Milwaukee for something my exit is always closed but we got there for batting practice. There were a lot of Twins fans which was nice seeing as I was rooting for the Twins. And our seats were amazing, right behind home plate.. 16 rows up... freaking fantastic.

Then the Twins annihilated the Brewers. I got to see the babe, Joe Mauer. All was good cause I had an absolute blast. (Except for the drunk creeper behind my friend and I who kept hitting on us)

Then we get out to my car and lo and behold the low some Brewers fans would go to. On my front windshield  there were perfectly circular spots that had dripped and dried. At first we thought they spit on my car but one was so high that the person would have had to be on my car to do it.  So the mystery substance is still unknown and some of it didn't come off with my wipers.

LAME.

And then of course the drunk Brewers fans kept shouting out at my car when we were in line to leave. All I would yell back was, "Best team in baseball! Have a great night!"

They are lame. Now I'm not saying all of them cause I have some good friends who are part of the Brew Crew but puh-lease. Are you kidding me? Would you really put nasty stuff on my car?

I proudly wore my Cubs hat and my Twins shirt around the field. So those Brewers fans, and I shouldn't just say Brewers fans... it's to all those fans who would do stuff like that (even Cubs fans) who are so dumb they would vandalize someone else's car cause they don't like the other persons team... You are a disgrace to the game of baseball and you make me laugh. And I have a few other choice words for you.

 

(I don't intend to offend the very respectful fans... this goes out to all those fans who would do this c r a p)

And I'm done ranting. Yay!


I'm tired and must go to sleep. Goodnight and GO CUBS!

Okay, I was going to wait until tomorrow to blog buuuuut I'm just so excited!

RYAN DEMPSTER WITH THE COMPLETE GAME WIN! WHAT A WIN!

Except with the loss of Alfonso Soriano =[  Losing him wasn't good. He was just heating up and just feeling great with his legs and BAM he's out 6 weeks. Being an athletic trainer for my school, as soon as I heard what they found in the x-ray I was like, "NOOOOOOOOO! FONS!"

But all hope is not lost because the Cubs are not a one-man team anymore. We have people who can fill his spot. I would love to see either Reed Johnson or Micah Hoffpauir in left and Riot in the lead off spot, unless Reed is in the game then have him lead off. I love Reed Johnson.. absolutely love him.

The guys played great tonight. Riot with 2 RBIs and Fu with a 3-R HR. Jimmy with 2 RBIs... I mean this is great baseball. Great stuff coming from the best team in baseball.

Must I even say who the player of the game is? RYAN DEMPSTER, hands down. He had a complete game win with 11 strikeouts... what else can you ask of your starting pitcher? He improves to 8-0 at home and 8-2 on the season (the same record as our ace, Z).


Tomorrow's match up is a great one. Probably one of the best you'll see in any game tomorrow. The Baby Bull (8-2) against Tim Hudson (7-4). Should be a great game. Let's keep the bats hot.

I have a headache so I'm off.

Goodnight and GO CUBS!

So today started off on a bad note. I woke up seriously two minutes before I had to open my work to let the kids in. I set my alarm for the wrong time and everything. Poop in a basket.

 

I have noticed tons more Cubs blogs popping up as of late. That's a great thing. The team is really starting to get noticed or the fans are excited enough to want to blog about their team. I have been blogging for quite some time over at another website and finally discovered this one not too long ago.

 

So moving on to the game last night, I actually took the time to write down everything I wanted to bring up , because I most def wouldn't remember everything... esp after waiting until the next day to blog.

 

My first thing is that home plate ump, Doug Evans. There was no way Lilly was trying to intentionally hit their batter after he gave up that home run. Lilly is a composed guy and you just don't see that behavior from him. But mr. umpire went on a power trip and warned both benches, was a jerk to Lilly and then all smiles with Glavine? With that said, I hate umpires. All of them.

 

Ted Lilly. Top of the first... two strike outs and then a 3-R HR. But despite that he came back to strike out eight and keep control. He did wonderfully. So what if he gave up a three run homer? The offense came back to cancel out those runs (plus the two the braves will score later) and tack on some more.

 

Derrek Lee up to bat in the 3rd inning - just when I start to think, "What have you done for me lately?" he hits a solo shot. Go Lee.

 

And I was kinda surprised wehn Glavine left after only three innings. But he left due to and left elbow strain. That sucks for the braves... they'll lose another star player. He only threw 72 pitches and it didn't seem like anything was wrong but maybe I was missing something. He's old and probably should be retiring soon.

 

I was happy to see Soriano so aggressive on base. Stealing bases and even getting caught once. It was a good thing to see cause that means he is feeling better and feeling confident with his legs. Back to 100%. Woo hoo!

 

And Geovany Soto! He hit a 3-R HR because I blogged about him =]

 

Ooo and Chipper Jones came up in the 7th, I covered my eyes and said, "AHHHHH!" Mr. 420 up against your pitcher is a scary thing. Not something you want to see with two guys on base. But whatever, he got walked and we got them to waste one of their bench guys to pinch run for him.

 

Player of the Game goes to Mr. Too Much Good Stuff - Reed Johnson. I don't know why some people are still worrying about filling the center field position. As far as I'm concerned Reed Johnson is as good as any. The man hits for you when you need it and he plays stellar defense. He had 2 RBIs last night and two spectacular catches out in center.

 

And a Happy Belated Birthday to Mr. Mike Fontenot. Mikey turned 28 on Monday.

 

On a side note, I love listening to Billy Williams talk. He has probably the coolest accent ever and he has nothing but nice things to say about everyone. Great guy.

 

And I'm tired of the Cardinals. They need to lose. They have won three in a row and have kept up with us each step of the way. They're a good team and aren't going to go away. They are like that annoying wart on the bottom of your foot, you try to get rid of it but it keeps coming back. Grrrrr, haha.

 

Tonight's match up is Ryan Dempster (7-2) and Jeff Bennett (0-3). I'm quite confident we can pull it out and win again. 27-8 at Wrigley baby! Woo Hoo!

 

I'm off to play Ultimate Frisbee with the kids and actually do my job.

 

 

GO CUBS!

I am so cold right now. It is freezing in my house... it is cold outside. It's going to be even colder in Wisconsin when I go to school.. so I have to deal with the super cold and Brewers fans... ugh.

Can someone help me? Every time I go to comment on someone's blog it says I don't have permission but after I sign out and sign back in, I can comment. What the heck?

Soooooo the Cubs huh? Oh yeah (say it like the Kool aid man).

Cubs get to go back to Wrigley with a winning record from this road trip. That's exciting seeing as that puts the Cubs at 11 - 3 against the West and leaves us on a good note when we welcome the Braves to the friendly confines.

Speaking about the Braves... I am relieved to hear that we won't be facing Chipper, or at least for the first game. He scares the crap out of me. Best hitter in baseball... yeah, scary when your team is facing him. But then again it would be nice to take care of business with him and maybe prove we can sit him down. But why take the chance? Even though Jones has gotten me 6 hits in my current streak in MLB's beat the streak.

And my star of the game this evening is most def Marquis. I mean, whoa. He worked about 6 1/2 innings and managed to keep the Dodgers to 3 hits, yes count them.. 3. He lifted his record to over .500, he is now 4-3.

Honorable mention of course goes to Mark DeRosa. I am a happy camper tonight that he is on my fantasy team. I never had him start until I realized my other second baseman blew... big time. But DeRo had a wonderful three hits, including a home run in the first and an RBI hit in fifth. Woo hoo!

And DeRo batting second caught me off guard at first. I thought maybe Ronny would just slip into Riot's place at second in the line up but Lou moved it around a bit, and I'm not complaining.

And of course Marmol came in to get 2 awesome outs. But my satellite cut out because of a storm so I didn't get to see them.

Hopefully, when we're back in Chicago, Soto can get back on the horse and start hitting again. He went 0 for 4 tonight and hasn't been too hot this road trip.

Monday we have an off day (what is a baseball addict to do?) and Tuesday it's our lefty Lilly (5-5) against the ever aging Glavine (2-2). Game time is 7:05 CT. Think we can take them? Oh yes we can, esp since it's at home... and we are a fantastic 26 -8 at home. Must be the Wrigley field magic.

I think my posts would be a little longer if I didn't have such a short memory. Maybe I should start writing things down as I'm watching the game.

Ew, it's raining again. I hate storms.. and I really hate tornadoes. We are under a tornado watch until 1:00 am.

Ooo, and on other sports notes, Celtics take game two!! I have a friend who is in love with Kobe and says he is way better than Jordan. You can't be better than Jordan. I don't even like basketball but I will be very happy if the Celtics could hold off the Lakers and win it all.

And make sure to stop by here:

http://braverays.mlblogs.com/  : Rising from the Ashes - A Rays fan who blogs for the love of his team. It's a great read even if you aren't a Rays fan.


I can't remember if there was anything else I wanted to add. Thank you short term memory for crapping out on me.

Oh yeah, I told my friend Jamaal I would blog about a comment he said to me on Friday. He just really wanted to get into a post. So here it is:

Jamaal: Staples center... blah blah blah blah blah...
(Me sitting thinking to myself, what time was the game on again?)
Jamaal: What am I saying? If the Cubs don't play there than Stephanie doesn't care.

Here's to you Jamaal.


And hopefully the rain will stop so I can catch some sleep. I am off to watch Fear Itself and Swingtown.

Goodnight and GO CUBS!

 

Let's start off on a good note.

I saw Kung Fu Panda last night. It is probably the best animated children's movie ever. It was purely amazing.

Now to the Cubs.

I am not going to sit here and criticize everything they did today (even though that was a pretty bad 7th inning). I have realized that you can't do that. These guys have played incredible baseball the first couple months of the season and they had a bad couple of games after winning 9 straight, so what?

Buuuuut I am going to nit pick a little at that seventh inning. First off, I think Aramis could've handled that ball to Derrek better. That could've saved us. Also, I thought Riot had the ball in his mit the entire time during that stolen base attempt. Was the ump saying he didn't have control or he bobbled it? He def didn't bobble it, it stayed in his glove the whole time. And I thought there was control seeing as it didn't come out. And then on to Fukudome and the hit to right field. He def should have caught that first one but by diving as he did combined with the way he was holding the glove, he couldn't. He should have gotten under it.

And WOW to Z's fit in the dugout. I know I would have reacted very similarly but holy crap. I feel bad for the coolers =[  haha.

Disclaimer: I am not a Major League Baseball player. I do not know exactly what is running through their minds or the minds of some of the umps.


Now I figured I would get a little Joe Mauer action seeing as he is a total babe (oh yes =]) and playing the Sox currently. But the one night I actually get to sit down and watch a Twins game, he isn't even in the starting line up. Yay for rain delays, I guess.

Tomorrow is the finale against the Dodgers for the wonderful Cubbies. It is Marquis (3-3, gag) vs Brad Penny (5-7, not much better than our guy huh). Let's step it up and put another one in the win column.

Oh, and the Cards are killing the Astros in the top of the 2nd at this very moment, 7 - 0. So we'll lose a game in the standings. But it's still early, so smile =]


GO CUBS!

So I come to the MLBlogs site and BAM there is my picture on the front, crazy stuff.

But last nights game was a heart stopper in the 9th. If the rest of the season is going to be like this than I def won't make it past the age of 18.

Did anyone else see Freddie Prinze Jr behind the plate? It was def him but sadly, he was cheering for the Dodgers.

Glad to see the Cubs scoring runs again after the bats quieted down Wednesday.

What about Fu? Scored the first and last runs of the game. Unstoppable. What a dude.

And Ryan Theriot. I'm not bringing him up because he is my favorite or anything but to me it seems like he has become more patient at the plate. He seems to be hitting the ball more and drawing more walks but maybe I am only seeing that cause I am biased.

Demp started out with great stuff. He continued all night but Jeff Kent, who knew? When he hit the first one I was like, "All right, we'll give it to you old man." Then a second? Grrrr.

Geovany Soto. Had an off night last night. My friend called me today and started bashing Soto. I was like, "DUDE... you can't be the greatest every night."

All that matters is the guys went out there and got it done. Another one in the win column. And another half game ahead of the Cards. Man, I can sympathize with those guys. That second game would've been a hard loss but because us Cub fans are conditioned for it we would've taken it like champs.

So tonight we get to see another rematch between (one of my favs) Gallagher (3-1) and Kuroda (2-5). This should be fun.


GO CUBS!

My friend informed me of a contending song for the Cubs in 2008:

Butterflies and Hurricanes by Muse.

Change everything you are
And everything you were
Your number has been called

Fights and battles have begun
Revenge will surely come
Your hard times are ahead

Best, you've got to be the best
You've got to change the world
And use this chance to be heard
Your time is now

Change everything you are
And everything you were
Your number has been called

Fights and battles have begun
Revenge will surely come
Your hard times are ahead

Best, you've got to be the best
You've got to change the world
And use this chance to be heard
Your time is now

Don't let yourself down
And don't let yourself go
Your last chance has arrived

Best, you've got to be the best
You've got to change the world
And use this chance to be heard
Your time is now



Great song. I don't really like Muse but I do like this song and it fits almost perfectly.
I would like to know what you think. If anyone has any other songs, let me know. I want to comprise a play list.


And talk about amazing, (even though I haven't mentioned anything amazing yet) the Cubs 9 game winning streak. Let's hope Demp can get it going again and start a new streak. I am looking forward to Len with the Rico Suave mustache.


Tonight's starters:
Dempster (7-2) against Billingsley (4-6)

Let's go CUBS!


But these west games kill me. Game starts at nine and ends at or close to midnight. I need sleep but I have to stay up.

And my mom is disappointed in me cause my BFF (yes, I said it. My Best Friend Forever) wants to take her little sister and my little brother to see Kung Fu Panda tomorrow night. And the first thing I said to her was: "Will I be home in time to watch the game?"


Annnnd I will be meeting Geo on June 23rd. He'll be up near my house signing at some store in the mall. I def bought my ticket. I shouldn't have cause I really needed the money, but oh well! It's worth it.


And here is a lovely pic of my Cubs tattoo =]
grrr, i couldn't figure out how to shrink the picture. go me.

Wow, I love the Cubs.

I love this team more than any other team I have gotten to see play in my life so far. It is a real pleasure getting to watch them.


Btw, Ryan Theriot tonight? Come on, fantastic. 3 for 5. LOVE IT.

I found myself going to through withdrawals today. Haha, yes I said it. It was hard to wait till freaking 9:05 pm to watch some good ole Cubs baseball.


And Z, 3 for 3. Need I say more?