Cubs Lose Game Everyone Turned off in the 7th

What can you say about a game the Cubs lost 10-4, and ended after midnight on a Tuesday?  Well, not much, except to say that most of you didn't see the end of this game..  Dale Sveum got ejected for arguing balls and strikes, or in actuality, he was ejected because Cody Ransom flipped his bat and Home Plate Ump Dana Demuth stared at Cody, and Dale started barking at him, and then Dale was tossed.

Yer Outta Here!

DeMuth and Sveum look like they're about to kiss....I don't know how they argue so close to each other's faces without laughing.  They almost did laugh last night it seemed.  

Fascinatingly enough, Demuth quite possibly means "Of Death".   Dana of Death!  Ha ha...he's got a girls name!!!!

Anywho....Starlin Castro struck out and slammed his bat....he was 0-4.

The new kid Gillespie made another great catch!

He then slammed into that bullpen fence in front of him.  He was OK, but his body has intertwined with many a hard and injuring obstacle lately.  

Vegas odds on him being injured soon, 2-1.  Just in time for DeJesus to come back.  I'd love to see an argument between Dana of Death, and David of Jesus!  Biblical!

Junior Lake, pretty much the only reason to actually watch this game, or any game these days, went 3-5, is batting .545, and hit a home run.  He also missed a really tough catch in center and slammed into a wall.  Please don't get injured Junior.  You're our only hope!

Unfortunately,  clean shaven, Travis Wood couldn't get out of the 6th, (maybe it's time to grow the beard back), and the #bullpenisterrible hashtag made a return shortly after his exit.  The Dbacks scored 3 in the 6th, 7th and 8th, so If you turned off the game after the 7th, you got an extra hour of sleep and missed a few "Ugh" moments.  But the Cubbies did fight back, scoring 2 in the 8th and 1 in the 9th off a Schierholtz 2 run shot, and the aforementioned Junior Lake "too little, too late" dinger. 

Yeah, the bullpen was bad.  Rondon and Bowden each gave up 3 runs.  The Cubs have been trotting these guys in and out for a few years now.  Neither one of them has been consistently effective.   Doubt they are a part of any future plans.  Or at least I hope not, unless they figure out a way not to get shelled every other appearance.  Rondon seems to have a little Marmol in him, but without the wicked slider. The comparison is more about style, intensity and approach.  And walks....lot's of free passes.

Meh.

There's another game tonight!  Samardkjbgirtgb958 vs. Ian Kennedy.  I like our chances tonight.  C'mon Cubbies!  Give us a reason to turn into the midnight pumpkin.  But Please.... don't lose 4-3 in the 9th after leading 3-1 all game.  That's the worst, when you stay up all late, and they lose at the last minute.  If you do lose, could you make it a blowout early?  People gotta go to work.

In the meantime...everyone hate Angel Hernandez!

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Awesome Fight in LA! Cubs Lose!

It really is not worth it to talk about last nights Cubs game, because it was the suckiest suck that ever sucked.  When I turned on the game in the top of the 6th, after returning from Dave and Busters, I thought I'd sit down to a nice 3-1 ballgame, and hangout with my Twitter friends, but alas.  Things changed and they changed fast.  The Reds scored 6, all charged to starter Matt Garza, who gave up, gulp, 9 runs total yesterday.  Despite the Cubs, ummm, 4 errors, all 9 runs were earned.  The Reds hit, damn, 4 home runs and 4 doubles.  And at the end of this game, the Cubs lost 9-2.  This is what happens when good teams play bad teams.  The bad teams get their, ouch, asses handed to them.  This game was nothing but a laugher.  Worst of all, Starlin Castro went 0-3, and is now batting, oh jeebus,  .240.

So, yeah, nothing about last nights Cubs game is worth talking about unless you're a Reds fan.  But....

Soooooo much more happened on the West Coast last night.  Awesome baseball fight!  It started in the 6th, when the Dodgers Puig was hit badly by the pitch.  I mean, this dude seems hurt.

An inning later, Dodger pitcher Zack Greinke was hit by a pitch!  Right in the face!

Then this happened.....

Pow!  Zap!  Bomph!!!

 Crack!  Bang!  Thwack!!!

Boom! Bop! Boing!!

I'm coming for you next ump!!! 

I will seriously stretch out your shirt!  Watch me! 

Break it up....break it...ahh...what the hell...fight! 

You smell!  No you do!   

 I know I'm short and bald, but I know Karate!

Eat Railing!

Ahhhh!!!! 

 You wanna see my shrunken balls?!

Fuggaitaboutit! 

The old butterfly shadow puppet....

Wanna see our pimp walk?

See, much better than talking about how Darwin Barney is batting .201, but for some reason is batting lead off, and Cody Ransom committed 3 of the cubs 4 errors, and Soriano strikes out, like, um, most of the time.  Yes.  The fight is more entertaining.

I'm going to Wrigley today, weather permitting, hopefully something like this awesome baseball fight will happen.  But I doubt it, the Cubs look dead.  Besides, Aroldis Chapman and Joey Votto  of the Reds could take like 5 Cubs each at a time.  We'd get beat in the game and the fight too....At least  Carlos Marmol would come in handy, he seems like he can fight.  

Anyway, the game's going to get rained out, but Mike Leake 5-3, 2.93 goes against Travis Wood, 5-4, 2.65.  These are two great hitting pitchers, and if we are going to win any games this series, it will likely be this one.  But alas, here come the rains....

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