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15327 Oct 9, 2013   Alan Boodman   Cubs @ Reds
15328 Oct 9, 2013   John Storer   Week 14 Reds cm
15329 Oct 10, 2013   Andrew Kennedy   Fwd: Dodgers-sent to smiley in error
15330 Oct 11, 2013   Alan Boodman   Week 13 update
15331 Oct 11, 2013   Michael Tomeo   pin@brn
15332 Oct 11, 2013   Patrick Carr   SLA at DEA
15333 Oct 11, 2013   Rick Field   NYN (CM) Week 14
15334 Oct 11, 2013   Thomas Treece   Detroit @ Brooklyn
15335 Oct 12, 2013   Alan Boodman   SLN-CHN autoplay
15336 Oct 13, 2013   Alan Boodman   Week 14 begins
15337 Oct 13, 2013   Rick Field   NYN (CM) Week 14
15338 Oct 13, 2013   John Storer   Week 14 - Cincinnati at St. Louis
15339 Oct 13, 2013   Andrew Kennedy   PRE-SMILEY-PHA @ DEA
15340 Oct 13, 2013   Andrew Kennedy   PRE-SMILEY-PHA-CM Week 15
15341 Oct 14, 2013   Patrick Carr   SLA at PIN
15342 Oct 14, 2013   Billy Vanson   Yankees manager cs CHISOX ROB R !!!!!!!!!!!!
15343 Oct 14, 2013   Jim Pardee   BON@NYN 3 Game Series attached..
15344 Oct 14, 2013   Robert Rescigno   BRN @ CHN
15345 Oct 16, 2013   Steve Bivens   Red Sox at Browns Week 14
15346 Oct 16, 2013   Billy Vanson   *** RESULTS *** YANKEES @ WHITE SOX
15347 Oct 16, 2013   Patrick Carr   SLA CM for week 15
15348 Oct 16, 2013   Rick Field   NYN @ BON
15349 Oct 16, 2013   Rick Field   NYN (CM) Week 15
15350 Oct 18, 2013   Alan Boodman   Week 14 update
15351 Oct 18, 2013   Alan Boodman   Cubs @ Dodgers
15352 Oct 18, 2013   Robert Rescigno   RE: [PreSmiley] CHA @ NYA and CM
15353 Oct 18, 2013   Larry Cupp   Senators fail to gain ground on BoSox
15354 Oct 18, 2013   Michael Tomeo   pin@cin
15355 Oct 18, 2013   Thomas Treece   Detroit at Philadelphia (AL)
15356 Oct 19, 2013   Billy Vanson   Yankees computer manager
15357 Oct 19, 2013   Jim Pardee   Email Change
15358 Oct 19, 2013   Michael Rescigno   SLN@WAA WK 14 & WK 15 CM
15359 Oct 20, 2013   Alan Boodman   Week 15 begins
15360 Oct 20, 2013   Andrew Kennedy   PRE-SMILEY-PHA @ CHA
15361 Oct 20, 2013   Andrew Kennedy   PRE-SMILEY-PHA CM Week 16
15362 Oct 20, 2013   John Storer   Week 15 - Cincinnati at New York (N)
15363 Oct 20, 2013   Rick Field   NYN @ BRN
15364 Oct 21, 2013   Alan Boodman   Cubs @ Red Sox
15365 Oct 21, 2013   Patrick Carr   SLA at DEA
15366 Oct 21, 2013   Patrick Carr   SLA at DEA
15367 Oct 21, 2013   Jim Pardee   BON@PIN 3 Game Losers
15368 Oct 22, 2013   Larry Cupp   Yanks-Nats split
15369 Oct 23, 2013   Steve Bivens   Red Sox at Senators Week 15
15370 Oct 23, 2013   Larry Cupp   Re: [PreSmiley] Red Sox at Senators Week 15 [2 Attachments]
15371 Oct 23, 2013   Robert Rescigno   CHA @ SLA and CM
15372 Oct 23, 2013   Patrick Carr   SLA Cm for week 16
15373 Oct 24, 2013   Larry Cupp   To all my leagues
15374 Oct 24, 2013   Andrew Kennedy   Re: [PreSmiley] To all my leagues
15375 Oct 24, 2013   Alan Boodman   end of season schedule of events
15376 Oct 24, 2013   Jim Pardee   Re: [PreSmiley] To all my leagues
15377 Oct 24, 2013   Larry Cupp   Re: [PreSmiley] To all my leagues
15378 Oct 24, 2013   Jim Pardee   Re: [PreSmiley] To all my leagues
15379 Oct 25, 2013   Alan Boodman   Week 15 update
15380 Oct 25, 2013   Robert Rescigno   BRN @ STN
15381 Oct 25, 2013   Thomas Treece   Detroit @ Cincinnati
15382 Oct 25, 2013   Rick Field   NYN (CM) Week 16
15383 Oct 26, 2013   Billy Vanson   *** RESULTS *** YANKEES @ A's
15384 Oct 26, 2013   Billy Vanson   NY Yankees comp mgr
15385 Oct 26, 2013   Michael Tomeo   pin@bon
15386 Oct 26, 2013   Michael Rescigno   SLN@CHN WK 15 & WK 16 CM
15387 Oct 27, 2013   Alan Boodman   Week 16 begins
15388 Oct 27, 2013   Andrew Kennedy   PRE-SMILEY-PHA@STA
15389 Oct 27, 2013   Larry Cupp   Nats scare the Tigers but drop to 32 games back
15390 Oct 27, 2013   Patrick Carr   SLA at WAA
15391 Oct 27, 2013   Patrick Carr   SFN CM for week 17
15392 Oct 27, 2013   Patrick Carr   Re: [PreSmiley] SFN CM for week 17 [1 Attachment]
15393 Oct 27, 2013   John Storer   Week 16 - Cincinnati at Boston (N)
15394 Oct 27, 2013   Jim Pardee   BON@PHA Battle of the celler dwellers.. split 4 game series..
15395 Oct 27, 2013   Jim Pardee   BON Week Final CM attached
15396 Oct 27, 2013   Thomas Treece   Detroit @ Chicago (AL)
15397 Oct 28, 2013   Steve Bivens   Red Sox at Yankees Week 16
15398 Oct 28, 2013   Alan Boodman   CHA-BRN autoplay
15399 Oct 28, 2013   Andrew Kennedy   PRE-SMILEY-PHA FINAL CM
15400 Oct 29, 2013   Alan Boodman   Cubs @ Giants
15401 Nov 1, 2013   Alan Boodman   Week 16 update
15402 Nov 1, 2013   Robert Rescigno   RE: [PreSmiley] BRN @ CIN and CM
15403 Nov 1, 2013   Michael Tomeo   pin@chn
15404 Nov 1, 2013   Rick Field   NYN @ SLN
15405 Nov 1, 2013   John Storer   Week 17 Reds cm
15406 Nov 2, 2013   Billy Vanson   *** RESULTS *** YANKEES @ A's
15407 Nov 2, 2013   Billy Vanson   Yankees comp mgr
15408 Nov 2, 2013   Andrew Kennedy   Re: [PreSmiley] *** RESULTS *** Those are next weeks games !
15409 Nov 2, 2013   Alan Boodman   Re: [PreSmiley] *** RESULTS *** Those are next weeks games !
15410 Nov 2, 2013   Billy Vanson   Re: [PreSmiley] *** RESULTS *** Those are next weeks games !
15411 Nov 2, 2013   Michael Rescigno   SLN@PIN WK 16 & WK 17 CM
15412 Nov 2, 2013   Alan Boodman   NYA-BOA autoplay
15413 Nov 3, 2013   Alan Boodman   Week 17 begins
15414 Nov 3, 2013   Andrew Kennedy   PRE-SMILEY-PHA @ BOA-Game 1
15415 Nov 3, 2013   Andrew Kennedy   PRE-SMILEY-PHA @ BOA-Game2
15416 Nov 3, 2013   Andrew Kennedy   PRE-SMILEY-PHA @ BOA
15417 Nov 3, 2013   John Storer   Week 7 - Cincinnati at Brooklyn
15418 Nov 3, 2013   Rick Field   NYN (CM) Week 17
15419 Nov 3, 2013   Rick Field   NYN @ SLN
15420 Nov 4, 2013   Alan Boodman   Cubs @ Reds, game 1
15421 Nov 4, 2013   Steve Bivens   Red Sox at Tigers Game 151
15422 Nov 4, 2013   Steve Bivens   Red Sox at Tigers Game 152
15423 Nov 4, 2013   Steve Bivens   Red Sox at Tigers 153
15424 Nov 4, 2013   Steve Bivens   Red Sox at Tigers Game 154
15425 Nov 4, 2013   Alan Boodman   Cubs @ Reds, game 2
15426 Nov 4, 2013   Alan Boodman   Cubs @ Reds, game 3
15427 Nov 4, 2013   Alan Boodman   Cubs @ Reds, game 4


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Message #: 15327
Message from: Alan Boodman
Sent: Oct 9, 2013
Subject: Cubs @ Reds

One of our better efforts: the Cubs attempt 3 chokes in Cincinnati, succeed only once!  We LOBbed as many as we could, when not hitting into countless DPs, but recovered after a disgusting (but ever so typical) game 1 choke to narrowly win the final 2 contests....
 
 
Game 1: CHN starter Hank Wyse blew most of his 3-0 lead when he coughed up a triple & 3 singles in the CIN 4th and finished the job when he was gophered by Grady Hatton in the bottom of the 7th.
 
Wyse left immediately and was replaced by Perfect Paul Erickson (who would be a Cy Young winner on a team just a tad less luckless than the Cubs) and he held the fort (2.1 IP, 1 baserunner, 0 runs) but since he was scheduled to start the series finale his time on the mound had to be limited.
 
There's no better way to ensure a successful choke than to bring super-arsonist Emil Kush into the game, and that's precisely what happened in the 10th: single, gopher, ballgame.  Cubs choke, 5-3 in 10, LOBbing 12 and still finding time to hit into three critical DPs so as to blow a 3-run lead and avoid winning in regulation.
 
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Game 2: The split cards were favoring our opponent as usual by a ratio of about 50 to 1 and therefore Frank Papish quickly found himself on the wrong end of a 3-1 score.  Finally in the CHN 5th, HAL was temporarily distracted and removed his boot from our throats just long enough (despite 2 more adverse splits) for us to plate 4 runs when Marty Marion came through with a bases-loaded double after Andy Pafko was IW'd to get to Marion.
 
Erratic play by the Reds (walk, wild pitch, error, walk) gave the Cubs 2 insurance runs in the 8th before another one of our well-timed GIDP's aborted that rally.  Feeling charitable, we had the hilarious Kush donate those 2 runs right back to the Reds.  Jess Flores restored order and retired 4 of the 5 batters he faced, and preserved the almost-choked-away 7-5 victory.
 
Frank McCormick homered twice for the Reds, giving him 3 for the series (27% of his season total of 11 in the space of 4 at bats).
 
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Game 3: Perfect P. Erickson was thankfully in typical form, tossing 6 effective shutout innings before yielding to a typically ineffective bullpen performance though the contest was too close for the Kush Fireworks Show to appear today.
 
In the first 3 frames, CHN batters came to plate with 2 outs and 7 men on base, plated zero.  At last, Jim Russell delivered 3 RBI in 2 innings and gave Erickson a 4-0 lead, and he left with that lead intact.
 
Murry Dickson, the third man to be given a chance at the closer's role in Chicago in 1946, and the first man not to choke in that role 90% of the time, was hardly at his best today.  He allowed 2 hits opening the CIN 8th and saw to it that both scored despite allowing no further hits, then sealed up the win with only minor difficulty in the 9th.  Final score: 4-2.
 
It shouldn't have been quite so close:
 
'Runners Left In Scoring Position With 2 Outs': CHN - 9, CIN - 0.
 
Alan
 
 

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