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Friday, July 18, 2008

Chicago Cubs (57-38) @ Houston Astros (44-51), Friday, July 18, 2008, 8:05pm

CHC: Ted Lilly (32, LHP, 9-6, 4.68)
HOU: Brian Moehler (36, RHP, 5-4, 4.28)

The Primer Chimp Posted: July 18, 2008 at 09:00 AM | 59 comment(s)
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1. SteveM. Posted: July 18, 2008 at 12:11 PM (#2863699)

Thank God the break is over. It did show me I need to get a life as I was bored without a daily Cubs game.

2. Cabbage Posted: July 18, 2008 at 12:41 PM (#2863725)

Baseball!

3. A Surfeit of Peaches Graham (SdeB) Posted: July 18, 2008 at 06:49 PM (#2864150)

Is the new season starting already? How time flies.

4. Meatwad Posted: July 18, 2008 at 07:26 PM (#2864186)

iv been going through withdraw thankgod its back

5. retro-shiite Posted: July 18, 2008 at 07:43 PM (#2864204)

Cubs on free TV, and retro-squeeze cooking dinner. Sounds like a Friday night to me.

6. retro-shiite Posted: July 18, 2008 at 07:44 PM (#2864207)

I have to say, though, I kind of enjoyed the few days off. Give me a chance to recharge. Plus, I've been under the weather. I've still got a delightful chest cough workin'.

7. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 07:48 PM (#2864212)

August Chicago Meetup Thread.

8. retro-shiite Posted: July 18, 2008 at 07:48 PM (#2864211)

Yo, Meat--you put that check in the mail? Don't make me send Giuseppe and Rocco over.

9. SteveM. Posted: July 18, 2008 at 07:52 PM (#2864217)

Retro, I am jealous. What did she make?

10. Meatwad Posted: July 18, 2008 at 07:53 PM (#2864222)

retro, i forgot and was just thinkinf i need to finally send it. i have a one track mind and its in overload withthe boozing and the womanizing. that and theres a new meatmobile so things have been busy for me but ill get it there scouts honor

11. retro-shiite Posted: July 18, 2008 at 07:56 PM (#2864225)

I'm waiting to find out what's on tonight's menu, but I'm sure it'll be worthwhile--she's an awesome cook.

Say, Steve, how'd your cradle-robbing attempts go? I understand you were successful in scoring a second date.

New Meatmobile, huh? This one got all four wheels?

12. Meatwad Posted: July 18, 2008 at 07:57 PM (#2864230)

of coruse its a saturn, had to relearn manual hadnt dirven one in 8 years been an adventure and i know i pissed off a lot of people, oh well #### em

13. retro-shiite Posted: July 18, 2008 at 07:58 PM (#2864231)

And Meat, I'm giving you crap more than anything else. I mean if it were 10 bucks more, I wouldn't be able to pay the mortgage this month, but as it stands, I'm OK. :-)

14. retro-shiite Posted: July 18, 2008 at 07:59 PM (#2864233)

I got rid of my car (manual) 8 months ago, and I still find driving an automatic weird.

15. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:00 PM (#2864238)

16. retro-shiite Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:01 PM (#2864240)

I answered in the meetup thread, but I'd definitely be down for a mid-August powwow. My insane best friend from high school may even be in town around then. If that's the case, I'll have the devil's own time allotting Cubs tickets for the week without pissing people off.

17. Meatwad Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:02 PM (#2864241)

well i know its not the strawberrys i ate.
driving an automatic is so much nicer, less work and less thinking

18. retro-shiite Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:02 PM (#2864243)

Yeah, sure thing Szymborski.

Ha. Bad analogy. For one thing, Meat actually attended the game I got him tickets for.

19. retro-shiite Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:04 PM (#2864247)

I'm getting used to the automatic, since of course rentals are always automatics, as is the squeezemobile.

20. Meatwad Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:05 PM (#2864248)

and best of all took the girl i went ot the game with to my exs apartment and crashed there while the ex went to her bfs still not sure how i pulled that one off

in other news some hot girl gave me her number as i was driving on us 31 today, actually called her and talked to her, jad to stop for gas so they followeed and bs'ed for a few shes hot and lives near my base and wants to hang out...jackpotr

21. SteveM. Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:05 PM (#2864249)

Never date much younger women. They have enthusiasm for some things, but eventually you do have to talk to them.

22. Meatwad Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:06 PM (#2864250)

this is a new retro squeweze right, not the one i met when we went to milwaukee

23. retro-shiite Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:06 PM (#2864251)

All right, guess I've gotta make the walk over to Home #2. I may or may not check in during the game. As Steve once pointed out, gamechatting and a quiet couple's dinner aren't necessarily the best match, even when both parties are die-hard Cub fans.

24. Meatwad Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:06 PM (#2864252)

no you dont, just stick it in their mouth thatl shut em up

25. SteveM. Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:08 PM (#2864255)

I saw the Cubs were going to call up the Hoff. Who did they send down?

26. retro-shiite Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:10 PM (#2864257)

Never date much younger women. They have enthusiasm for some things, but eventually you do have to talk to them.

Ah, yeah. The intellect gap. So ending things was probably a good thing.

A high school friend of mine is 36, a Harvard law grad, an in-house counsel for a major media outlet in NYC, makes serious coin, is quite a sophisticated and personable fellow, and is in phenomenal shape. He has a proclivity (aesthetically, at least) for early-20s women (really, who among us doesn't?), and has dated a few (he's a catch, to put it mildly, so that isn't surprising), but of course, he complains that they're not at his intellectual level.

Duh.

27. retro-shiite Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:11 PM (#2864259)

no you dont, just stick it in their mouth thatl shut em up

That's my boy. That's why Meat only dates radical feminists.

And yeah, this is a different s.o. from the one you met, although it's been 6 months, so I suppose we're not really that "new."

28. retro-shiite Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:12 PM (#2864262)

All right--I'm leaving just in time to miss the first inning. Talk to y'all soon.

29. retro-shiite Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:13 PM (#2864265)

I'd favor sending Hart down in favor of The Hoff, but I haven't heard.

30. SteveM. Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:13 PM (#2864267)

When I moved to the small Mississippi town I am escaping from in two weeks, i once dated this incredibly hot girl. But when I asked her what her career aspirations were, she replied she hoped to make supervisor at Dollar General. That convinced not to actually date again until I found a job elsewhere.

31. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:21 PM (#2864274)

No replay of the liner going over the pitcher's head, eh? Nice job, FSN Houston.

32. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:21 PM (#2864275)

Edmonds definitely thinking about the short porch in LF.

33. SteveM. Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:24 PM (#2864280)

This might be if interest to some here.


http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-tribune-cubs.html

34. SteveM. Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:24 PM (#2864281)

That didn't come out as I planned.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-tribune-cubs.html

35. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:27 PM (#2864286)

Thanks, Steve. I'll post it on the newsblog.

36. SteveM. Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:42 PM (#2864321)

Thanks Andere.

37. SteveM. Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:44 PM (#2864326)

Ok, I have the kids dinner in the over so i can finally sit down and watch. Seems I haven't missed much.

38. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:47 PM (#2864333)

Screw Minute Maid. To me, it will always be Enron.

39. SteveM. Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:48 PM (#2864336)

Len and Bob are right-I keep expecting to see Biggio or Bagwell every time we play in Enron.

40. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:51 PM (#2864342)

You might normally think 2-out triple, BFD, but with Lilly on the mound...

41. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 08:52 PM (#2864345)

Whew. Maybe the break did him some good.

42. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 09:08 PM (#2864382)

And he did it!

43. A Surfeit of Peaches Graham (SdeB) Posted: July 18, 2008 at 09:09 PM (#2864384)

Heh, it wasn't until the Edmonds HR that I realized I was listening to the Astros broadcast. The announcers were so matter-of-fact, and I thought "Hey, aren't the Cubs batting?"

44. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 09:09 PM (#2864385)

Okay, you right-handers, you don't have to try to hit it the other way.

45. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 09:10 PM (#2864387)

Wow, that was close. Apparently Fontenot was paying attention to Edmonds.

46. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 09:34 PM (#2864431)

Nice play by Lilly.

47. SteveM. Posted: July 18, 2008 at 09:43 PM (#2864452)

This is a very fast game. I blinked and we are already in the 7th inning.
It does not sound like Rich Hill will be back in tha majors this year.

48. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 09:47 PM (#2864456)

Indeed it does not. If ever. Prediction: he will not be traded this year, because he is worthless.

49. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 09:49 PM (#2864458)

I didn't realize Carlos Lee was Mexican.

50. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 09:50 PM (#2864459)

I hope someone is warming up.

51. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 09:56 PM (#2864465)

Uh, I think a triple play was on his mind.

52. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 09:57 PM (#2864466)

Nice K of Wiggington. Pull Lilly's ass regardless.

53. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 10:03 PM (#2864471)

He's 0-2 on Matsui, but I would have pulled him.

54. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 10:13 PM (#2864484)

It's interesting that the Japanese have embraced baseball as they have since we, you know, bombed them to smithereens and all.

55. SteveM. Posted: July 18, 2008 at 10:21 PM (#2864500)

I believe as I slip into my professional voice, that the Japanese were exposed to baseball far earlier, sometime in the 20s. I remember seeing pictures of Ruth and Gerhing on touring teams in the Far East.

56. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 10:28 PM (#2864518)

Sure, but you'd think that nuclear warfare might have cured them of it.

57. Andere HUSSEIN Richtingen, Socialist Posted: July 18, 2008 at 10:34 PM (#2864534)

####.

58. SouthSideRyan(CASEY'S GONE!!) Posted: July 18, 2008 at 10:34 PM (#2864535)

well ####.

1 run off Brian Moehler.

59. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: July 18, 2008 at 10:42 PM (#2864548)

I'm sure glad I opted to do something fun instead of watching this drivel. This sounds like a throwback to the days of getting totally shut down by a fifth starter or a spot starter.

Kosuke looks really lousy and as someone who remember Kaz Matsui's first season, I'm worried.

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