Re: 5/20 Idiots (Dempster) @ Phillies (Blanton) - 12:05 CST, WGN

[TruffleShuffle]

grabow is such a [expletive] awful pitcher, just release him

[erik316wttn]

Lou must not have wanted to win today.

 

Grabow shouldn't even be on a major league roster right now.

[illiniguy]

John Grabow is awful. Thanks Lou and Jim.

[cheapseats]

=D>

[E.J.]

Grabow!

[Sammy Sofa]

WHY IS HE STILL IN THERE.

[JoshiQ]

Why must we pitch Grabow? Couldn't he just be our bat boy or something?

[genbar]

That Grabow guy, eff that guy.

[MADD_DOG_31]

Who's worse....Grabow or Howry?

[NotSoSober]

WHY IS HE STILL IN THERE.

Because Lou is a god damned idiot

[TruffleShuffle]

WHY IS HE STILL IN THERE.

 

lou has already walked out to the mound to make one switch this inning and also checked with the ump when there was the lineup card confusion... he's exhausted.

[J.R.]

DFA

[haubrich91]

Wow, this sucks. Great signing.

[JonJayCutler]

Who's worse....Grabow or Howry?

 

Grabow and it's not close.

[PrimeTime]

I swear has to be getting wasted before every game.

[Sammy Sofa]

Eat [expletive], Grabow.

 

Love that Castro arm.

[erik316wttn]

To me, there are very very few things in baseball more frustrating on a day-to-day basis than a relief pitcher who sucks hard and keeps getting trotted out there day after day, like the manager needs to prove some sort of point.

[rawaction]

Maybe it's because he hasn't faced lefties enough. Nady's career numbers mean nothing, because he's a shadow of his former self.

 

His career year was 2008, and he didn't play last year. They said from the beginning he wouldn't be 100% until June. And he still had a decided OPS advantage against LHP going into today. I don't see what the problem is.

 

So, you value a .611 OPS vs LHPs from a guy who is not 100% healthy and missed a year over a guy who has a career .667 OPS vs. LHPs and has hit everything in sight from the RHPs he has faced all year?

 

When you consider the defensive advantage Fukudome has, there's no reason to keep running Nady out there without even a thought of putting Kosuke in there.

[David]

So Lou is gonna keep running Grabow out there to blow games like he did Howry. Fun. And we get Howry back too.

[TruffleShuffle]

Who's worse....Grabow or Howry?

 

right now grabow, over the last five years grabow by about a mile and a half.

[Rob]

[expletive] you, grabow.

[illiniguy]

Who's worse....Grabow or Howry?

 

right now grabow, over the last five years grabow by about a mile and a half.

Luckily for us Jim was able to resign him when he did and for so cheap.

[Sammy Sofa]

Maybe it's because he hasn't faced lefties enough. Nady's career numbers mean nothing, because he's a shadow of his former self.

 

His career year was 2008, and he didn't play last year. They said from the beginning he wouldn't be 100% until June. And he still had a decided OPS advantage against LHP going into today. I don't see what the problem is.

 

So, you value a .611 OPS vs LHPs from a guy who is not 100% healthy and missed a year over a guy who has a career .667 OPS vs. LHPs and has hit everything in sight from the RHPs he has faced all year?

 

When you consider the defensive advantage Fukudome has, there's no reason to keep running Nady out there without even a thought of putting Kosuke in there.

 

No we value the guy who has a .302 .376 .464 .840 career line against LH pitchers over Kosuke against LH pitchers.

[David]

Who's worse....Grabow or Howry?

 

Grabow and it's not close.

 

I think you're saying things out of hurt and anger.

[lumafia]

When the Lou Piniella biopic is filmed, I hope Clint Eastwood plays Lou.

 

Nick Nolte