While the fan interfering was certainly stupid, I can definitely see how it could happen. As soon as the ball's hit, you're just looking up and not at the fielder. Even though I do think that if you're in those seats you have to realize that any foul ball that you are going to catch the fielder will have a chance too, I'm not gonna blame everything on that guy. To me, the true goat of the inning has to be Alex Gonzalez. Best fielding percentage in the NL and he does that. You could see that he really wanted to turn 2 but he should have known that with Cabrera running you were only going to get one. If he gets the force at 2nd the Derek Lee double only scores 1 and the fly ball from Conine gets them out of the inning still up 3-2. I know, I know you can't say the rest of the inning would have gone exactly the same way but you go a long way towards calming your pitcher down with a 2 run lead and runners on the corners with 2 outs vs. bags full and only 1 out. The fan acted stupidly, but that's what fans do. A-Gon is paid to make that play and he didn't.
Now the biggest enemy for the Cubs is negativity. I think the importance of having Dusty as the Cub manager has been blown out of proportion this year, but one thing I think he is better at than any other manager is getting everyone to think positively. If you would have told me going into the season or even heading into this series that the Cubs would be having game 7 at Wrigley with Wood on the mound I would have taken it in a heartbeat and felt real good about their chances, so I am still confident. Little tidbit I heard this morning: last 13 times a series has gone to game 7, the home team has won 12 of them. If Wood is on tonight the Cubs will win; if he is not, they will lose.
Still, if the Cubs lose tonight, congratulations Alex Gonzalez; you just became Leon Durham!
Now the biggest enemy for the Cubs is negativity. I think the importance of having Dusty as the Cub manager has been blown out of proportion this year, but one thing I think he is better at than any other manager is getting everyone to think positively. If you would have told me going into the season or even heading into this series that the Cubs would be having game 7 at Wrigley with Wood on the mound I would have taken it in a heartbeat and felt real good about their chances, so I am still confident. Little tidbit I heard this morning: last 13 times a series has gone to game 7, the home team has won 12 of them. If Wood is on tonight the Cubs will win; if he is not, they will lose.
Still, if the Cubs lose tonight, congratulations Alex Gonzalez; you just became Leon Durham!
