Know Thy Cubbies

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Sorry for the boring KTE, not a hell of a lot jumps out at me about the
Cubs looking over the press notes.

Feel free to chime in if I missed anything

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Chicago Cubs (17-18)

Pitching Matchups

Jason Marquis R 5-1 1.70 vs Tom Glavine L 4-1 2.98
Carlos Zambrano R 3-3 5.83 vs John Maine R 5-0 1.79
Rich Hill L 4-2 2.51 vs Jorge Sosa R 2-0 2.77
Angel Guzman R 0-0 3.57 vs The Masked Marauder L 0-0 0.00

Nuggets

Michael Barrett
Batting .179 away from Wrigley
Has an eight game hitting streak

Cesar Izturis
6 game hitting streak, has safely reached base 20 of 25 games
One gold glove, 2004

Derrek Lee
Left Sunday’s game with next spasms
Only two homers following 20+ homers last six seasons

Alfonso Soriano
Hit safely in 27 of 29 games

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I saw the Cubs a week ago. They carry way too many outfielders (Murton, Pie, Soriano, Floyd, Jacque Jones, Angel Pagan) and every relief pitcher it seems is a lefty (Howry, Cotts, Ohman, Eyre). One of their rare RHP relievers has the cool name of Rocky Cherry. You never heard of their SS or 2Bman.

See ya, gottta go to the game!

[Frayed Knot]

Monday night's game is a national ESPN game for youse out-of-towners

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Looks like it'll be Jason Vargas behind the Marauder's mask. They skipped his turn in the Zeffs rotation last nite.

[Guest iramets]

See your post of 9:33 PM (or as you'd say, of 21:33) on May 13 here

[Willets Point]

I split the stuff that didn't have to do with knowing the Cubs to a new thread but as usual in my grand incompetence, I missed a post.