Dusty has caught alot of flak for bringing in Fox with a 7 run lead. Fox pitched the day before. The game was in hand. He is blamed for Fox's injury by Steve Stone. I'm sorry Fox got hurt ( although if he was our closer, we're hurtin. But a relief pitcher in the major leagues should be able to throw almost every day. If you can't do it, you shouldn't be on the roster. Fox was an accident waiting to happen. Dusty is not the most astute handler of pitchers but this is not his faulr.

MOE Thacker

I heard Boers and Bernstein critcizing Comcast for electing not to show the video taken of Kerry Wood on the rampage after being taken out of the game the other night. Does the media have to cover every darn thing? Do I really need to see Kerry Wood destroying things? Is that really news? Isn't he entitled to some privacy? It seems to me that Comcast made the right decision not to air this. We don't need to see every darn thing that these guys do. He is entitled to have his own temper tantrum. Truthfully, he was right to be upset. Making the same pitch to Dunn twice with predictable results was pretty dumb. He seems to not be able to get himself over the hump to be what he should be given the kind of stuff he has. Frustrating!

Now if he had been destroying Sammie's boom box- that might be different.

During the dot.com craze, Alan Greenspan used this phrase to describe the stock market. The Cubs have won the first two. Nomar hit one, he was ok after being hit. Corey hit one, made a nice catch. Wood and Zambrano look good. Prior appears ready to go. The bullpen will work out.

We're ready to go.

Morris Benton Thacker played four years for the Cubs. He came up in 1958 and in 11 games hit two home runs, and hit 250. In the next three years he didn't hit any home runs and never hit over 200. He was a back up catcher. Makes Paul Bako look like Pudge Rodriguez.

My friend Rick (Probably his dad) and I took to calling him "Moe Thacker the Whacker". He was emblematic of the mediocrity of the Cubs in the late 50's early 60's. Slow and untalented.

Moe died in 1997.

Moe

Neil Young expresses my attitude towards the Cubs. I have been a cub fan all of my 51 years, and have been repeatedly misled, more likely held illusions about their chances for success. Spring Training is traditionally the best time of year. Our rookies are phenoms (Who can forget Gary Scott, Ty Griffin, Tarzan Joe Wallis, Mike Harkey and countless others). Our veterans are all in great shape and poised to have career years. Lo and behold, by June our hopes have been cruelly crushed by the reality of mediocrity that has been the hallmark of the franchise.

Last year was goind to be different. Everyone , even Las Vegas, said we had a good chance to get into and win the World Series. We all believed it. Well it took longer but you all know what happened. (Still it was nothing compared to 69). I vowed I was through.

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