A game that was merely a whisper this morning has turned into a primal scream from the massive Cubs ace, Carlos Zambrano. Awash in a sea of Cubs blue at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Zambrano roared back tonight from a forced vacation due to rotator cuff soreness and an August well under his best to secure the first Chicago Cubs no-hitter since 1972 and perhaps the first to occur in a third-party ballpark.
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Time to worry: When your team has lost four straight at home during the stretch run of the division race. Time to really worry: When your manager says "If he can pitch, he'll pitch. If he can't, we'll put Sean Marshall in the rotation." Those words of wisdom were spoken by Lou Piniella, after Carlos Zambrano bailed after five innings due to arm problems in Chicago's 9-7 loss to the Astros in 11 innings. Piniella's words join "I dare anyone to cross this mighty Maginot line" and "I see no way that blimp travel fails to catch on" as inspirational benchmarks.
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And so we witness the brave veneer begin to crack in the Windy City. The Cubs are still in first in the NL Central — shouldn't that be cause for unbridled joy? — but you'd never know it. Carlos Zambrano had a stinky outing on Monday and was treated to a chorus of boos by the Wrigley unfaithful. Zambrano lost his fifth straight start, 11-3, to the Dodgers. And for Cubs fans, he had a cryptic message.
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When you're 8 games below .500, the least you could do is try to be lovable. But the Cubs, 7.5 games out in the pathetic NL Central, can't even manage that.
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If you are fortunate enough to root for a team that has an intense rivalry, you probably have someone on the opposing team you raise your level of hate for. Red Sox fans have it for Jeter and A-Rod; Patriots fans have it for Peyton Manning; Raiders fans have it for the rest of humanity. As a Cardinals fan, we've always saved our most violent vitriol for Carlos Zambrano. (Cubs fans feel the same way about Jim Edmonds, we understand.) The main reason we hate Zambrano is the only excuse for really hating an opponent: He's awesome, and awfully loud about it. (He also likes to throw at Cardinals batters and then scream at them; that's always good for some bile.)
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