Re: Time to accept Edmonds?

[shnsajax]

Jim Edmonds has gone from being released in May to a potential National League Player of the Month in June. The Cubs center fielder is hitting .352 (19-for-54) in June with five doubles, five homers, 18 RBIs a .438 on-base percentage and a .759 slugging percentage.

 

That would be absolutely hilarious.

[CubbieBum]

Jim Edmonds has gone from being released in May to a potential National League Player of the Month in June. The Cubs center fielder is hitting .352 (19-for-54) in June with five doubles, five homers, 18 RBIs a .438 on-base percentage and a .759 slugging percentage.

 

That would be absolutely hilarious.

 

I think i would make at-shirt of it and wear it when I know I'll be around a Cardinal fan.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Jim Edmonds has gone from being released in May to a potential National League Player of the Month in June. The Cubs center fielder is hitting .352 (19-for-54) in June with five doubles, five homers, 18 RBIs a .438 on-base percentage and a .759 slugging percentage.

 

That would be absolutely hilarious.

 

I think i would make at-shirt of it and wear it when I know I'll be around a Cardinal fan.

 

Dont you mean a half shirt?

 

Anyway, anyone who cant accept his .998 OPS since joining the Cubs is a moron.

[abuck1220]

geez, the cubs and their pixie dust...every player they pick up off the scrap heap turns to gold. luckiest team ever.

[Wheelimus]

geez, the cubs and their pixie dust...every player they pick up off the scrap heap turns to gold. luckiest team ever.

 

What are you trying to say? That scrap heap grabs at times work out? And with as much as both the Cardinals and the Cubs go dumpster diving, it's just basic law of averages?

 

Insane. It's obviously Cardinal pixie dust.

[Jehrico]

geez, the cubs and their pixie dust...every player they pick up off the scrap heap turns to gold. luckiest team ever.

And you would still hate the Cubs.

[Schwarber Fan]

geez, the cubs and their pixie dust...every player they pick up off the scrap heap turns to gold. luckiest team ever.

 

:roll:

 

So we get lucky one time

 

Do you realize the players that St. Louis has that are producing for them?

 

Mark Worrell (who?) has 2 MLB at-bats and already 1 HR and he's a relief pitcher

Braden Looper is batting .367

Aaron Miles, .318

Skip Schumaker, .305

Ryan Ludwick has 16 home runs

Brian Barton, who had 1 HR in AAA last season, already has 2 with the Cardinals

Jason LaRue has 2 HRs in the last few weeks, JASON LARUE who hasn't been in the majors for at least a year

Even Cesar Izturis went yard once

 

That's just the offense. With the pitching staff they are relying on, they should be no where near 2nd place.

[abuck1220]

omg a guy who hit one hr last year in AAA has two this year? he should only have like 1/2 of a hr based on his AAA hr rate!!! what is with this crazy magic cardinal voodoo???

[Sammy Sofa]

HOME RUNS ARE THE SIGN OF DEVILTRY.

[abuck1220]

i mean, jason larue has hit not negative one, not zero, not even one, but TWO homers in the "last few weeks." if that's not 100% proof positive that the cardinals have a deal with baseball satan, i don't know what is. TWO. TWO!!!

[Sammy Sofa]

I DEMAND AN EXORCISM.

[Schwarber Fan]

I knew this was coming, whatever

 

If you think the Cards aren't overachieving on a ridiculous level, you're sadly mistaken.

[Sammy Sofa]

What's a "ridiculous level?"

[Jehrico]

omg a guy who hit one hr last year in AAA has two this year? he should only have like 1/2 of a hr based on his AAA hr rate!!! what is with this crazy magic cardinal voodoo???

Let's pick one stat to ridicule from the list and ignore every other grossly over-achieving player! Yeah!

[Schwarber Fan]

What's a "ridiculous level?"

 

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/6187/cardssuckuh1.png

[Sammy Sofa]

What's a "ridiculous level?"

 

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/6187/cardssuckuh1.png

 

So where should they be? "Ridiculous level" implies that we should know pretty specifically where they should be instead of where they are.

[haltz]

Let's pick one stat to ridicule from the list and ignore every other grossly over-achieving player! Yeah!

You could ridicule most of them. Ludwick and Schumaker are past their 90th percentile PECOTA lines, but he even managed to pick out the least surprising of their stats.

[Derwood]

The Cards are so lucky.....they have this rookie catcher who never hit at all before last year in AAA and now he's the leading vote-getter in the NL at his position.

 

Oh wait, that's us

 

But they do have this over-the-hill 38 year old scrap heap CF who is hitting the snot out of the ball.

 

Nope, us too.

 

Oh, right, their light-hitting SS who everyone wanted to be replaced in the off season who is leading the team in average and has a bazillion multi-hit games.

 

Um.

 

Must be the mediocre reliever turned lights-out starter who is undefeated at home.

 

No, not the Cards?

[Sweet Swinging Billy]

I've really been impressed with Edmonds. I'm going to predict that he sticks with the team the rest of the year (including the post season).

 

Yeah although Edmonds has played well, I think He's gonna go into a massive slump and I predict that come September, Edmonds will be gone. What does everybody else think? Does Edmonds continue to be with the team throughout the rest of the year?

 

 

I think that he's played well enough that I really don't see him being cut.

 

--- Yeah Vance, you're probably right. I just wanted to disagree with Zamora.

[Schwarber Fan]

The difference is:

 

The Cubs were supposed to be good, and they are even better than expected

The Cards were supposed to suck, and they are the 2nd best team in the NL.

 

True, the Cubs have overachieved, but what the Cardinals have done is unreal.

 

As for Soto, I honestly expected his current production. Theriot, Demp and Edmonds are nice surprises, but the entire STL roster is insane with it's over-production of below average players and backups.

[Sammy Sofa]

Insane?

[Schwarber Fan]

Insane?

 

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/insane

[Sammy Sofa]

Thanks.

 

That doesn't sound like the Cardinals at all.

 

What the Cardinals are doing sounds like baseball.

[Schwarber Fan]

Thanks.

 

That doesn't sound like the Cardinals at all.

 

What the Cardinals are doing sounds like baseball.

 

insane+baseball = the 2008 St. Louis Cardinals

[Sammy Sofa]

No, it's just baseball.