After yet another brutal start for Chris Volstad (I seriously can’t BELIEVE this is what we got in exchange for Zambrano), Dale Sveum came as close as he has to teeing off on a player since he said that he was going to bench Darlin’ Starlin and then Theo changed his mind for him:
“Not much has changed, obviously,” Sveum said. “Another big inning. But there was still some hard contact going on before that. His stuff and location wasn’t all that good anyway. … He didn’t really pitch to the game plan either.
“That was a little bit discouraging too. (Catcher Steve Clevenger) got shook off a lot for some reason. So another combination of a lot of things he’s got to learn to work on.”
So we’re not going to have to watch this trainwreck again, right Dale?
“We’ll run him out there again, as of now,” he said. “We’ve just got to stick to our game plan and trust Clevenger back there.”
Oh.
Am I the only one who read that as “I want to say he’ll never pitch for the Cubs again but I have to check with Theo first?”
Cubs and Braves back at it tonight at 6:10 pm CT on WGN. We’ll be back with a game thread later.
Happy Fourth, Everyone!
Don’t blame Dale, there’s NO ONE ELSE to run out there. Hendry and company left the cupboard bare.
Mather has a good arm. I wonder…
is it just me, or does this cubs team kinda, i don’t know, suck?
Not only do they suck. They suck and they’re BORING. Give me a team full of Ronny Cedenoes any day. At least that would be entertaining.
I was going to say khaki, but suck surprisingly works well too.
Massive thunderstorms coming across the lake. It’s at times like these when you realize how flimsy lake cabins actually are . . . .
If I don’t come back, avenge my death.
If you die, ask God why he hates Volstad.
Roger
Send those thunderstorms down here. Dry and hot here…it’s a desert in southern wisconsin. No fireworks tonight…and I can’t even grill out this evening via city order because of the lack of rain.
same in Chicago. I’m just praying our A/C is still on, or we might come home to a dead cat.
Chicago has had thunderstorms over the last couple weeks. We haven’t had a measurable rain in over a month. It’s really bad. Most of the trees in our neighborhood have turned fall colors already and begun shedding their leaves.
I honestly don’t ever recall a drought like this in my lifetime.
Not at my house, we haven’t. We had one day where it rained for like 3 minutes, and that was it. Maybe while I’ve been gone, but not before I left.
“I just spent 4 hours burying the cat.”
Why?
and I’ll have Spellcheck avenge you. I’ll give him a sledgehammer and rename him Thor.
Thor has way better hair.
Thor is way hotter than Spellcheck….
Still watching the fire that started last night in Palmdale. They have some containment, but may evacuate . I am taking my mom and sister to Santa Monica Fri-Sat. Just to get away from the heat for a little bit..
Yikes! Be safe!
Can anyone tell me when “Build me up Buttercup” became mandatory at ball games? Watching the Nats-Giants game and they are playing it too…
I don’t know, but I just want to say that I liked the song WAY before “Something About Mary” came out.
I just realized that I have never seen a movie with Ben Stiller in it. I don’t think I have missed anything. Same thing with Cameron Diaz, and Jennifer Aniston…..
“I seriously can’t BELIEVE this is what we got in exchange for Zambrano and fifteen million dollars”
Fixed, unfortunately
Booo.
Shows just how little Z was worth.