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Also...nothing against Boog and JD, but it has been so nice listening to Pat and Ron do the games this weekend...

Pat Hughes and Ryan Dempster were a nice change of pace although Dempster would get tiresome if he was a regular.

Sometimes I wonder: at the beginning of the year, what if we had traded Rizzo and/or Baez and kept Darvish and Schwarber?  What if we had kept Mills in the rotation and passed on Trevor Williams?  What if we had passed on Pederson also?  What if we had traded Happ while the trading was good?  Hindsight is 20/20, and we might still be in the same stew, but I don't think so.  I think we'd still be in the hunt for a playoff spot, the Cub rep would be intact to draw interest from free agents, and we could reload.  Sigh.

BTW: Cardinal fans are not rubbing it in these days.  Worse.  They express pity.  Rather have taunting..

great another 108 year rebuild

65% chance of early thunderstorms

Boog and Ryan Dempster in the Marquee booth tonight.

Demp talking about umpires calling a pitch a strike because it looked like one as it was coming in.

That mean a catcher pulling a pitch back into the zone doesn't do anything, right?

Has a team ever gone from 10 games over .500 to a 100-loss team?  It feels like we might challenge that record.  Please don't lose 100, Cubs.  There's rebuilding and then there's historically humiliating collapse.

It is wild to think that on June 25 the Cubs where tied for first place and 9 games over .500.  103 loses is the Cubs all-time record and that seems approachable this year.