Well…but he’s got a cute face!
Seriously, the media here has focused on his big hitting streak, so it kind of pushes the poor fielding to the back burner. I keep asking if Joey The Jaw Girardi is hurt. It doesn’t make sense that Hundley keeps starting. Anyone know why? I may have missed something.
jarbaby
Well, I’d assume that it’s because we know Girardi will suck. Immensely. Whereas, Hundley is expected to be pretty damned good.
In fact, I think Hundley would almost have to play defense worse than a blind, quadripalegic monkey for Girardi to have any hope to be as productive (offensively and defensively combined) as Hundley.
Plus, while Joe’s a local boy, Todd’s a legacy. I think we should nickname him Flounder.
28-1!!!
Parade has an article about the Cubs’ pitching coach. He must be doing all right. The Cubs’ pitchers have the best ERA in the league. Their hitters are 13th, so it’s the pitching that’s holding them up.
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His throwing problems were waay overblown by some folks. I watched him in LA for 2 years. His first year sucked, but he was still hurting from the operation. His second year, he threw pretty well. But the Dodger pitchers do not hold runners on well, and that added to low numbers at throwing out runners.
That’s not the curse Cub fans know. The curse goes back to right after the Cubs won the pennant in 1945 and has to do with Mike Royko, the long-time suffering Cub fan columnist and humorist. His favorite watering hole was a joint on lower Wacker Dr., under the Sun-Times Building, called the “Goat’s Inn” or something like that.
I don’t really recall all the details, but Royko pissed off the manager, as I recall, something about a goat, and he put the hex on the Cubs. Royko died a few years ago, without having seen the Cubs a winner again. Now that he’s gone, maybe the hex is over.
If anyone can recall the exact details of the hex, I’d be most obliged.
the restaurant is the Billy Goat, made famous on SNL by the “cheezborger cheezeborger cheezborger” sketch. The owner of the Billy Goat wanted to provide the cubs with a mascot and brought his Goat to the game. The stadium wouldn’t let him in and the curse was put on Wrigley that we would never win a world series.
There was a witch out there last year trying to lift the curse…but I guess it was to no avail.
jarbaby
The name of the Billy Goat’s owner is Bill Sianis, and I’ll back up jarbaby’s version of the curse events. Fucking goat.
Just to add to the whirl of goat-curse trivia…
The Cubs have since allowed the descendents of said goat into the park several times in an attempt to lift the curse. The most recent time that I recall was '96 or '97, when they started the season with that 13-game losing streak.
It worked, for that day at least, I think.
Now, if we could just figure out how to get rid of Chip Caray and the dynamic duo of Joe Carter and Dave Otto…maybe feed them to the goat?
Oh, and the original curser was, I believe, Bill’s dad, Sam Sianis.
Well, if anyone’s familiar with the song “When The Cubs Win the World Series” by the Cleaning Ladies we know that Chip Caray is part of the prophecy:
Haray Caray’s son’s son’s son’s son’s son’s son’s son’s son’s son will do the play by play
also, Ryne Sandberg will be dead and more importantly …
MARK GRACE WILL BE LONG GONE
It’s all falling into place people!
jarbaby
Funny, I always just thought he was just sort of…boring. But, now that you bring it up, it may very well have been zombification…
Now, to settle in for the last few games of this Cubs-Brewers series. Absolutely guaranteed to bear only the slightest resemblance to a normal baseball game.
However, I’m pissed that the game is on WCIU tomorrow. You’ll have to keep me posted on how Kerry looks, jarbaby.
Wait. Let me clarify. I hope you’ll keep me posted on how Kerry pitches. 
They won again tonight!.. wonder what the odds are for them winning the world series?.. hmmmm
He sure looked yummy in the dugout tonight. Kerry Wood vs. Ben Sheets…it’s going to be like hardcore porn for me watching the game tonight.
jarbaby
Now that the Cubs have stopped their headlong plunge and have a winning streak again, we diehards can hold up our heads and note the two consecutive one-hit games. Woods’ could have easily been a no-hitter. Where were these pitchers when the Cubs were sliding?
I don’t know, but I was veritably weeping this afternoon at how beautiful Kerry was pitching.
Will someone please inform that man as to how much I love him? PLEASE?
He’s just so fantastic! (oh, and everyone else is playing good, too.) 
jarbaby
Y’know, it’s all well and good to post when they’re winning…where were you when they were losing? Huh?
Freaking fair-weather fans
As for the pitching…one bad turn through the rotation is tolerable. I’m still looking for some - any - offense. This Sammy and the Seven Dwarves stuff is getting old.
Out of curiousity, how many pitches did the Wunnerful Mr. Wood throw today?
For a complete game with 14 strikeouts, that’s pretty efficient for Wood.
What’s there to talk about when they’re losing? I just suffer in silence. BTW, there’s no such thing as a fair weather Cub fan. When have the Cubs had fair weather for an entire season? Oh, yeah, fair, maybe, but not great.
well, I think that’s just at the upper edge of a pitch count that doesn’t make me extremely nervous. If he can just keep not walking people…
[yoda]Control - he must learn control…[/yoda]
And, I generally bitch about Don Baylor and his lackeys (you can tell who Baylor’s lackeys are because they’re usually the ones who can’t hit - Girardi, Buford, Matthews, Jeff Huson, and the like) when the Cubs aren’t winning. Of course, I bitch about them when the Cubs are winning, too, so…
::wanders off grumbling about rainouts::
mmmmmm…I’ll teach him control, my sweet li’l thunderbolt texan boy.
mmm…kerry woooooooooooddddd…
He and Lieber were on WGN this morning talking about the greatness of back to back one hit shutouts and they said that “they’re working on a deal with Krispy Kreme Donuts” right now.
What in the world could this mean? Please don’t let them show up on Krispy Kreme commercials dressed as the Blues Brothers or something…please.
jarbaby