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Cubs/Reds recap, strange happenings, and Neil Cotts Watch
Finally baseball was back on last night as the Cubs pounded the Reds 7-2. They haven’t played since Saturday, I was having serious withdraws.
Looks like Rich Harden maybe falling back into form, much better, and luckily deeper outing then his previous start. Only gave up three hits and two runs. Good strike out to walk ratio at 8:2, man I love his changeup, so deceptive.
I’ve been taking a liking to Micah Hoffpauir at Right Field; he could also play First Base. I have a feeling Milton Bradley will be back in the starting lineup tonight, so it moves Hoffpauirs hitting capabilities back to the bench. At least we know if Milton Bradley isn’t able to play Right or Derrek Lee goes down at First Base, we could count on Hoffpauir to filling in at either position and do a decent job.
I really would like to know if Kosuke Fukodome will continue to his early season dominance. Last year he started off like this, but after each month passed his batting average kept on falling by an average of 30 points. But anyway he didn’t have any hits last night, but walked twice and scored two runs.
Theriot is a pretty good offensive player; I love him batting in the eighth hole. But, I have a bone to pick with him. His defense is atrocious at shortstop. Last night Lee saved Theriot twice and two balls horribly thrown to him. The coaches should really work with him on his defense, if they already aren’t.
Speaking of horrible moments like Theriots throws to first, did anybody catch the cat running onto the field? Shades of ’69. Then immediately following the stupid cat there was foul ball to hit where the Bartman play happened, shades of ’03. I had to leave the room after those back to back incidents.
I’m gonna start a fun segment on my blog called The Neil Cotts Watch. I’m sure my readers know how much I hate this guy. So let’s get it started.
Cotts Watch, Day 1:
Pinella put Cotts in the eighth inning last night, with a very comfortable lead. He basically just had one job to do and that’s get the ball over the plate, something he doesn’t know how to do. In just 0.1 innings last night he struck out one, gave up a base hit, and gave up a walk. Way to get runners on base with a good lead going!
Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry has been at the Cubs Triple A Iowa affiliate, the Iowa Cubs.
Heres what I think will go down:
The Cubs will call up Starting Pitcher Jeff Samardzija, move current Starting Pitcher Sean Marshall to the bullpen to be our left handed specialist, and fade out Cotts by cutting him off the team.
Gregg shouldn’t close, Theriot sucks
Two things I learned from the Cubs loss to the Brewers today:
1.) Kevin Gregg shouldn’t be the closer.
2.) Ryan Theriot has no baseball instinct.
Was a long day at work, and watching the Cubs game really topped my day off, I’ll watch real baseball now and finish watching the White Sox game.
Oh, by the way, YOU SUCK GREGG AND THERIOT.
Thanks for waisting a great outing by Rich Harden.
Counting my chickens
The eggs have hatched. Basically it’s time to talk about who should be starting game one of the playoffs for the Chicago Cubs, either Carlos Zambrano or Jake Peavy. Two things: we will get Peavy this season from the San Diego Padres, and the regular season is basically over. The Cubs will win the division by at least 15 games, so why do we even have to play the first 162?
I guess the one thing to look forward to tonight’s opening game is for Zambrano to prove to the Houston Astros that the Astros really do suck. After all that moaning and whining last season in August when Zambrano pitched the no-no to them was pitiful. I heard a lot of “well that’s because we played in Miller Park” and a bunch of “wah, wah wah” from the Houson fans. Well we’ll see if the Astros will get their justice on opening day, doubt it.
In all seriousness though if the Cubs don’t win the World Series this year then the season is a failure. The Cubs window is closing with an aging team, and if they can’t do it this year, then I don’t even know, it’s a bout a two year time span left in the window.
One thing I do know is that Rich Harden better step his game up. Harden has looked horrible all of spring training. I think he still may be pitching injured. Fukodome and Lee also better stop playing with a tampon under their jockstrap.
Cubs spring training game, player thoughts, and Bako cut
Cubs and Royals finished today’s game in a tie in the tenth inning at eight runs a piece.
I’m by no means a major league scout, but I’ve been watching baseball long enough to determine win a pitcher is on or off, and today my friends, Cubs starter Rich Harden was off..way off. His location was horrible today. I’ll cut the guy a break because obviously its spring training, and because I think he was working on his change up today. At least that’s what it seemed like to me. I wonder if I could look up how many pitches of each pitch a pitcher throws, something to look into.
On the plus side at least two of his homers he gave up came off of Royals third basemen Alex Gordon who’s on my fantasy team, but the negative on this one I guess is I have Harden too.
Fukodome has some issues to work out in center. Reed Johnson called for the ball, Kosuke cuts him off and tries to catch it, and then drops the freakin ball! The next inning he hit a homerun to make up for it, but still, he better think next time. Once again, luckily it was just spring training.
Oh almost forgot Milton Bradley went 4-4 today, he’ll be a HUGE up to the Cubs this year.
By the way it looks like me and Lou are on the same page once again, the Cubs cut backup catcher Paul Bako and named Koyie Hill back up catcher for this season.
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