Win Number 10,000 is Number 1 This Year
Congratulations to the Chicago Cubs for becoming only the second team in Major League history to break the 5-digit mark for wins, as they collected their 10,000th win against the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night. In my opinion, it was the most entertaining game of the year so far. After getting an early lead, the Cubs were forced to come back twice on the strength of an Aramis Ramirez home run and a Ryan Theriot RBI single before Carlos Marmol saved the game for Kerry Wood. I’ve said it multiple times, but I’ll say it again. Geovany Soto is a stud. Congratulations, Cubs.
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10,000 of course is a “counting statistic” for a 132-year old franchise. What’s that about 70 wins a year? It’s just a number, but I admit to loving the fact that Wood got the Win for it, even if he had to allow that little tinkerbell to start a game-tying rally. Woody came back to fan Barmes when COL could have won it. I’m telling you, this team does not like to piss games away.
I heard Len say that it was #100 for Lou as a Cub. I don’t have to look it up to know that he’s ahead of at least Preston Gomez.
And now Roberts is slumping in Baltimore and Gallagher’s supposedly pitching lights out? It’s like everything’s coming up Millhouse and it’s still April. And they’re 8-1 w/o Soriano. Should I be afraid?
Ramirez was born to hit, indeed. God damn, what an all around sweet game. I have like 24 favorite Cubs right now. And it would be 25 if Rich Hill wasn’t in his hotel room cutting himself right now.
Hehe. All in all, a damn entertaining game. Cedeno is damn lucky that bobbled ball resulting in no play on Spilborghs didn’t end up giving them game winning run. So I think as a franchise they are at like 9,400 something losses, so all in all, that’s not too bad….meaningless, but not too bad. Yeah, Len said something about this being Lou’s 100th win as a Cub and tying or breaking the record for 10 fastest Cubs manager to 100.
Kid K gets number 10 K.
I was at the game tonight. It really was a fun game, though I could have done with a little boredom in the bottom of the 9th!
It was about 50/50 Cubs’ vs. Rockies’ fans. You’ve got to love being the visitor, and yet, almost outshouting the home fans.
Go Cubs!
yea, were drinkin the coolaid and it tastes effin sweet, but yes, lets not kill the coolaid man just yet.
Sir, your sage words and enlightened spirit embiggen us all. Go Cubs.
I told you Colorado was good! <——-(That was a joke!!!!)
I didn’t see any of the game, but checked the score before I hit the bed last night and saw that Colorado jumped ahead 5-4. I was pissed they lost the lead, but never worried about them losing the game. Which is a very weird feeling as a Cub fan.
I see Fukudome was 1-4. I see the “1″ was a triple and he also had yet another BB. On the season thus far, Fukudome has a 17/14 BB to K ratio. I believe someone in the SBox one day mentioned that that’s more like our pitchers’ BB to K ratio. Indeed, Rich Hill has a 14/14 BB to K ratio. So, there’s that.
Geo is hitting .358/.451/.618 with 13 BB and 14 K. Something called “patience at the plate” and “good hitting” is spreading through the clubhouse, and I like watching it on my TeeVee box machine.
Competition for ROTY should be heated this year
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/batting?sort=avg&split=0&league=mlb&season=2008&seasonType=2&type=reg&ageMin=17&ageMax=51&minpa=0&hand=a&pos=rookie
what’s the name of that comic strip?
The Perry Bible Fellowship
http://pbfcomics.com/
That is dead sexy.