04/05 CUBS (Zambrano) @ Atlanta (Lowe) 3:05 CDT, WCIU & ESPN

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Why pull Marshall? Lou is an idiot, and why not let Colvin bat after such a great spring?

 

Because spring training means exactly as much as how Colvin did in my MLB2k10 season. And I don't own a video-game system.

Yea, Tracy has been impressive the past 3 years, hopefully he gets the majority of at-bats

 

His major league averages are better than Colvin's minor league averages. Colvin isn't good at baseball.

[OleMissCub]

warning track power FTW

[Cubswin11]

Hey guys come on, Nate McClouth is a Gold Glover...

[David]

damn you mclouth

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Maybe we should look into getting some of this "defense" all the statheads are talking about these days. Seems like it could help.

[TruffleShuffle]

Their centerfielder has good range. Is that allowed? It doesn't seem fair.

 

he definitely doesn't.

[Soul]

Hey guys come on, Nate McClouth is a Gold Glover...

 

Don't wanna hear any of that crap. Damn him.

[Guest]

Kyle I hear what your saying man, and on the surface it seems like it would make sense, but I can't see how your argument that you have to miss bats to be a good pitcher works when there have been far too many pitchers, HOF ones at that, who made a living pitching to contact.

 

Name them. I bet almost all of them missed bats at a decent rate.

 

Greg Maddux in the later part of his career (2002-2008) put up a 3.92 ERA and struck out only 14.1% of the batters he faced

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maddugr01.shtml?redir#2002-2008-sum:pitching_simple

 

I'm at work so I'm not putting a ton of thought into this, so I'm likely to be contradicted, but that's just the first name I thought of when you asked me to name one.

And when Greg Maddux was, you know, good, he struck out an awful lot more guys.

 

Isn't that the exact point trying to be made about Carlos?

[Hall7810]

James Russell debut

[erik316wttn]

It's frustrating as all hell when we hit balls hard either right at someone or someone makes a good catch, and they have bloopers and seeing-eye singles all day long.

[Soul]

Their centerfielder has good range. Is that allowed? It doesn't seem fair.

 

he definitely doesn't.

 

They turned on the air conditioning to push him along faster.

[Omar]

McLouth can go **** himself.

 

yes. how dare he do his job and catch a fly ball.

[Ski]

This game is tied with some luck. If that Theriot line drive is a base hit, we'd have the bases loaded after the Fuku walk and the D Lee drive could've tied it.

 

Of course, we completely lack luck.

[Schwarber Fan]

Russell... might as well, we aren't scoring again anyway.

[SpongeWorthy]

Fook looks locked in. If he's just able to drive the occasional fastball and he should be able to OBP around .400

[SouthSideRyan]

Four outs resulting from Theriot at-bats today. That's about what I expect for the season, on average.

 

Castro's head peeks over the horizon.

 

Yeah! God damn you Theriot for hitting a hard line drive.

 

Damn you straight to Hell!

 

Are you really going to make this post after implying every hit Z gave up was his fault??

[Vanilla Ice]

Four outs resulting from Theriot at-bats today. That's about what I expect for the season, on average.

 

Castro's head peeks over the horizon.

 

Yeah! God damn you Theriot for hitting a hard line drive.

 

Damn you straight to Hell!

No. Because this isn't his fault, you know. That ball was hit all that hard. Or the center fielder made a good play. Or he's depressed. Or something.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Their centerfielder has good range. Is that allowed? It doesn't seem fair.

 

he definitely doesn't.

 

That makes it even more annoying.

[erik316wttn]

If the Cubs are sellers at the deadline this year, I don't think I'd be opposed to sending Z off somewhere.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

If the Cubs are sellers at the deadline this year, I don't think I'd be opposed to sending Z off somewhere.

 

Nobody's buying at his contract.

[Soul]

If the Cubs are sellers at the deadline this year, I don't think I'd be opposed to sending Z off somewhere.

 

Nobody's buying at his contract.

 

I'd be happy if they simply consider not making him the opening day starter.

[treebird]

when i said i didn't see how russell would get into a game that didn't go into extra innings, i forgot about games in which the starter gets pulled in the second. my bad, sorry guys.

[TruffleShuffle]

If the Cubs are sellers at the deadline this year, I don't think I'd be opposed to sending Z off somewhere.

 

Nobody's buying at his contract.

 

yeah no kidding, i'd be very much for trading him somewhere, but unfortunately we'd probably have to eat half his contract.

 

carlos gonzalez (one of my biggest man-crushes in the game) had 4 hits today... think he is gonna have a big year.

[Butterscup1679666578]

Fook looks locked in. If he's just able to drive the occasional fastball and he should be able to OBP around .400

 

Not that I'm trying to be a douche or anything because I'm a Fukudome fan, but he starts out hot every year.

[OleMissCub]

If the Cubs are sellers at the deadline this year, I don't think I'd be opposed to sending Z off somewhere.

 

it takes two to tango and we'd be the only ones on that dance floor