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Dusty Piniella?

 

Lou Baker?

 

 

 

Why is it that we always fall in love with our managers after their first successful season only to realize that they make TONS of awful mistakes?

 

Marquis + Dempster over Lieber/Marshall/Gallagher? Really?

 

Theriot isn't a hole, heck he's a borderline All-Star. Really?

 

Dome batting 5th, Soriano batting 2nd? Really?

 

Theriot batting leadoff? Oh sorry, Theriot in the starting lineup? Gahh, my bad, Theriot on a major league roster? Really?

 

Niiiiiice!!! This guy is a smart one.

 

Oh yeah, he's also not willing to give Pie time to adjust and has probably convinced himself that Johnson's upgrade over Pie offensively (and I don't even know if he really is an offensive upgrade anyway) is worth more than Pie's upgrade over Johnson defensively.

 

 

 

Another note, the speed on that ball just hit by Theriot was approaching 50 miles per hour, he's really hitting some frozen ropes.

 

The key is. If this continues like this, Lou will make changes.

 

I sure hope so, that's the only hope I have with Lou. Even when he said that he wants a fixed lineup I don't believe him, Lou contradicts himself in a good way a good amount of time. For example, last year Lou decided that he was going to move Dempster to the rotation and by the end of the day convinced himself to change his mind.

 

I still don't know understand why nearly every single knowledgeable Cubs fan could write out a better lineup than Lou though. He doesn't seem to understand that giving your worst hitter the most plate appearances is not a good thing. If every one of us could tell by now that Theriot sucks, how is it that the guy getting paid 3 million bucks can't?

 

Also why is it that the bad things have to happen before anything gets changed? Is it asking too much for dumb, and even blatantly dumb, decisions to just not be made in the first place?

 

Wow, I just went from backing Lou to completely turning on him within the same post. Ugghhh I guess I'm just frustrated but I still think Lou needs to wise up.

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The Brewers are just better than us.

I agree with this.

Hopefully Sheets gets hurt again.

 

 

Braun and Fielder too.

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LOL! Hart stole second AND third on our defensive upgrade of a catcher who doesn't have a hit this season yet?

 

He stole it off Hart, not Soto. Soto wasn't the problem although he really is looking poopy.

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LOL! Hart stole second AND third on our defensive upgrade of a catcher who doesn't have a hit this season yet?

 

He stole it off Hart, not Soto. Soto wasn't the problem although he really is looking poopy.

Yea, he fired a bullet to second, a little offline, but it was way late anyway, same for the one to third. Can't blame those on the catcher.

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Remember last year we started 1-2. So this isn't that big of a deal. If we start the first two months like last year though, that would be bad.

 

The problem is, the Brewers a year older and a year better, and are less likely to colapse as bad as they did last year, and with Dempster on the mound tommorow, a sweep is likely, and thats giving these guys a lot of momentum.

 

 

Momentum in baseball is a joke.

 

Very true, it doesn't exist.

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I am resting on the hope that this is an off day and the Cubs are playing the worst they'll play all year

 

I'd say yes to the first, no to the second.

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