CUBS 1, DODGERS nil
John Ely notched seven scoreless innings, but the Dodgers strung him along until the eighth inning before Xavier Paul (0-for-4 from the plate) finally told Ely that we weren't going to give him any runs this game. What's more, Paul added, I will fumble around like a blind man in right field to allow two triples in the eighth (one time of which saddled Paul with an error), so the Cubs will get the one measly run it will take to win. Then Paul added a Nelson Muntz "Ha, ha!" and gave Ely a wedgie.
Somehow, Ely did not lose composure when confronted with this news, but anyone could connect the dots between Blake DeWitt's 0-for-3-with-3Ks performance, James Loney's 0-for-4 outing, and Joe Torre's fruitless use of three pinch hitters in the ninth, all of whom generated outs (thanks Rafael Furcal, Manny Ramirez, and Garret "GAARP" Anderson). Cubs take two of three in the series, and the Dodgers slip to 2.5 GB pending the Cardinals @ Padres game (first pitch, 3.30p).
UPDATE: The Padres actually lost a game to the Cards, so we remain two games back. The Rox, winners of five in a row, are lurking in third place now...
66 comments:
That was frustrating.
1. I'm glad E is nearing his return
2. I'm glad our offense doesn't usually crap the bed like that.
I blame DeWitt! Let's kill him.
Actually, with a lefty on the mound, I would have started Belly today.
I blame Neeebs
@MC:
That seems to be everyone's mantra today. The weekend can't come soon enough.
Now I'm pissed off all over again.
#BlameNeeebs
I found E hiding in Neeebs' name. Free E and get him back in the lineup, stat!
@Neeebs
T-2 hours and counting.
Seriously, let's just start Game 5 please
Now the Gnats are beating the Nats.
I've got the touch of death today. If I tune in to a game, the good guys seem to start losing.
I'll have to stay the hell away from the Lakers tonight.
The curse of Eric Collins claims yet another game.
Can't wait to get back to the comfort of the NL West.
Does Cursed Collins continue to Colorado, or does Vin pull off the next series in Denver?
Vin does Rockies games, Thank Vin.
"The curse of Eric Collins claims yet another game."
Actually, they've yet to win a SERIES called by Collins this year.
In fact, they only won yesterday because the universe said, "The hell with this shit!" and tried to knock him off the air.
Next Eric Collins game is June 15 in Cincy. That road trip also includes the Red Sox series. Thankfully, he can't totally botch that, since he's only calling 1 of the 3 games. (FOX and ESPN have the other two.)
DAMN YOU, ERIC COLLINS
I started a spreadsheet to track the curse. Thankfully, Eric can't ruin any other month as badly as he ruined April (He called FIFTEEN games that month!). August comes close. He'll be calling ten.
His current season record is 5-13, all series losses.
@Josh, NICE!
who says we never get anything done in these threads?
Here's to a daydream of Bin walking into the booth at Coors Field and bitch slapping Collins out of his seat.
"Looks like (slap, slap) this one is (slap, slap) GONE!"
@Josh S, I'd love to see your spreadsheet work (I'm a nerd)--can we post your findings (or at least submit your paper for a grant!)?
Is this the default Lakers thread?
At least if the lakers lose it wont be the saddest thing that went on at Staples Center today. (Clippers Parade)
RT @SpearsNBAYahoo: alvin gentry stopped by clips lebron parade expecting 1000 and saw 40
i saw a video on youtube, it was maybe 50-60 people.
However thats like a tenth of the amount of people that go to the games.
Marv albert already talking about the stupid zone D.
Cleveland makes a rift on "We Are the World." Miami and New York start campaign websites. The Clippers...
they get five dozen people to walk around Staples a few hours before a Laker playoff game begins. Hmmm, I wonder which campaign will be the least effective.
figures, first loose ball foul on us.
guess the refs wont be helping us tonight.
Amare's not accustomed to having fouls called on him.
damn, refs really not helping us. Kobe in foul trouble.
WTF!? they are just letting the suns hack away.
This is not a very good start.
suns with four blocks already, all clean i guess.
need a big game from lamar tonight.
fisher is our sparkplug. wow.
I know LO was above the rim, but I don't really care.
i love luke and his basketball IQ
Now we're in this.
Cards finally get to the Pads.
Vujacic, pesky defender.
Sasha just can't make them like he used to. But his defense is really helping things out. Who knew?
must get kobe ball, NBA JAM status.
This I like!
how was that a blocking foul on fish?
@Sax 5:19
It's just a table in Word at the moment. I'll send you what I have, but I'm going to flesh it out more this weekend.
Crap! I didn't send it to myself. It's on my work computer and I'm not back there until Tuesday.
If it's a google Doc, you can share it with all of SoSG! (everybody that has gmail anyway)
i cant believe we are even in a position to lose right now.
Same.
Just give the ball to Kobe or Fish. They're the only ones who can hit a shot.
looks like a kobe game winner might be in order today.
need a stop now, we are due.
finally.
now a bucket please.
FUCKING SHIT
seriously we havent gotten ONE FUCKING CALL in this period.
Kobe or Fish? Or does Ron work his way into this play?
well, that was unexpected.
I FUCKING CALLED IT!!!
TODAY WE SPELL REDEMPTION: R-O-N
thats exactly how phil wrote it up.
My head is about to explode after today's day in LA sports.
nash looks different on the podium tonight, annoyed.
man I feel like I went 15 rounds with Apollo Creed. Taking tomorrow off might have been the best idea I had since purchasing a sixer of Anchor porter an hour ago.
Ely is really good. Not even Neeebs could stop him.
I just watched today's game. What the living FUCK was XPaul thinking on both those plays where he misjudged where the wall was by about 12 feet? Was he hammered? One of stranger things I've seen in baseball in awhile.
from what i have seen in limited time X Paul hasnt really looked great when it came to tracking down balls.
yeah when I saw him a the game last week he was really off line one ball hit to him. He was right field today? He seems more comfortable in left but still needs to work his routes to the ball.
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