Found October 06, 2009 on Goat Riders of the Apocalypse:
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Aha!  Just when you thought we'd shirked our duties in the last game of the season, here finally is the belated Game Recap.  Just look the other way and forget that Yarbage missed the GameCast. So.  Ryan Dempster became the only Cub to pitch 200 innings in his final outing of the season -- he didn't toss all 200 in one go, though, but lasted 5 innings -- while striking out 10.  Dempster finishes the first of four seasons with 11 wins, 9 losses, and a 3.65 ERA.  For comparison's sake, the five pitchers above Dempster in ERA and four of the five pitchers below him all have more wins, which is my way of saying that on a team with a more reliable offense, he wins 15 all day long.  I still think that by the time year four rolls around, Dempster's going to have Cub fans contemplating suicide, but that's a ways away. But Ryan didn't have his best stuff -- despite 10 strikeouts -- and so the Cubs lost to Arizona, dropping to 83 wins to...
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