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Found August 18, 2009 on Cub Reporter: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Carlos Marmol,  Ryan Theriot,  David Eckstein
TEAMS: Chicago Cubs,  San Diego Padres

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Gordon Wittenmyer's tweets that the Cubs will go with Carlos Marmol as closer...as expected. It's like choosing your death by slowing draining the blood out of your body versus stepping on a landmine. Good luck with that Cubs... Ryan Theriot is back tonight....and the great scrap-off of '09 can commence between him and David Eckstein, who scrapped out a the tying run with that walk in the 9th. Theriot, Bradley, Lee, Ramirez, Fukudome, Soriano, Baker, Soto and Dempster go for the Cubs.
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