Iowa Anthony Rizzo see's LaHair's HR and raises him a pair of HR's as he went deep for # 5 and 6 tonight. His OPS is currently some enormous figure I don't care enough to look up but trust me people is big. And thick. Beef Castle hit a HR himself and Brett Jackson went yard for the first time …
Belated game thread: Cubs at Cardinals and a piece of history
The Cubs are already up 4-0, thanks to an Ian Stewart 3-run homer off of Wainright. I forgot to include this piece of history in my minifacepalm this morning. Yesterday marked the 100 year anniversary of the last game that Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance played together. In memoriam: Baseball's Sad Lexicon These are the saddest of possible …
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (2-5) at St. Louis Cardinals (5-2) and Mini-Daily Facepalm
Yesterday's game Before the game I said all they had to do was beat the Brewers best pitcher, and they did. I was stuck in a tedious meeting for most of the game but I surreptitiously checked the score towards the end and was glad to see the Cubs up 8-0. Then I checked the box score and saw that …
Site should be fine now
Hopefully the site is back up and running for good now. Our host, Dreamhost, had a DDoS attack on one of its data centers. This led to multiple extended outages at Obstructed View beginning on Monday for a few hours and then Thursday for much of the day. They have reportedly made some hardware changes, which will supposedly protect against …
Game thread – Brewers at Cubs 4/12
The Cubs just need to beat Zack Greinke to avoid the sweep. Easy peasy. Lineups Brewers 2B Rickie Weeks CF Nyjer Morgan LF Ryan Braun RF Corey Hart 1B Mat Gamel SS Alex Gonzalez C Jonathan Lucroy 3B Cesar Izturis (can't believe he's still on a MLB roster) P Zack Greinke Cubs RF David DeJesus 2B Darwin Barney SS …
The Children Are The Future (And The Future is Coming) Cubs Minor League Watch Sponsored by WorldCom
Iowa The alternative title for The Dark Knight Rises was Josh Vitters Lives! and the forgotten 1st round pick continues to do very well. He is hitting .450 and showing some patience at the plate. Which can only mean that the Cubs need to hire the batting instructor away from the AAA team and get him to Chicago stat. Beef …
Game thread: Cubs at Brewers (4/11)
The Brewers are resting a bunch of players today, so this could be the best chance to avoid a sweep. This is a year! Cubs lineup RF David DeJesus 2B Darwin Barney SS Starlin Castro LF Adolfo Soriano 1B Bryan Lahair 3B Ian Stewart C Geovany Soto CF Marlon Byrd P Ryan Dempster Brewers lineup LF Norichika Aoki RF …
Daily Facepalm 4.11.12
1000 word recap of Paul Maholm's Cubs debut last night Other comments on last night's game You'd think that conditions like last night's (freezing, wind howling in) would be conducive to pitching, But when you can't locate multiple pitches, you're going to get hammered. Maholm walked two and hit two batters in the first inning, as well as a double, …
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Iowa Rockin' Randy Wells went 6 IP and gave up 4 ER. He also stuck out 5 and walked nobody. Guys, I don't know how to say this but Josh Vitters has more walks than strikeouts. Enjoy this moment while it lasts. Personal favorite Adrian Cardenas hit his first homer of the year as well. Smokies God this team sucks. …
Brewers at Cubs Game Thread
Tonight's game feature's the 14th and 17th slowest fastballs from the 2011 season. Justin Verlander's change-up was as fast as the fastballs from Paul Maholm and Chris Narveson last season. Between Shaun Marcum, Narveson and Randy Wolf the Brewers have the market cornered on soft tossing starting pitchers.