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Ted Lilly, the Cubs new $40mil man looked solid (9 Ks) is his debut for the North Siders yesterday. Had all his pitches working for him, especially a low inside-fastball at the knees to righties. It seems like a while since the Cubs had a pitcher who could throw more than 2 pitches for strikes. We'll have to see how his next outing goes before officially annointing Lilly the new Sausage King of Chicago.

Equally impressive yesterday was the Cubs ability to hit singles and score runs. 4 in a row at one point scored the game's first run. Lilly's suicide-bunt-popup made the Reds look stupid. And the insurance runs later in the game were nice to see, courtesy of Mark DeRosa who looks a little too much like Todd Walker (same uni #7 and unshaven fotch), but appears to be 100 times the clutch hitter Walker ever was.

Ryan Dumpster musta lost 30 lbs, he no longer fills his 2006 uniform. Still throws like a jackass though, walking a guy with 1 out in the 9th is no way to go thru life. Glad to see Piniella out to the mound rather than Larry Rothschild. Rothy probably would have told him to go to hell. Thats probably the worst thing Baker ever did, was let Rothschild go out and talk to pitchers. I know if the manager goes out twice in an inning you need to take the guy out.. whatever.