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let me guess, you also think the mcdonald's coffee lawsuit was completely ridiculous too.

wow. did you forget to take your meds today?

Have you ever been on a highway going 60-70 mph and come up on an object in your lane that is stopped? When you're going 100 feet per second, it's extremely dangerous, and it's not like you're driving down the highway expecting to have vehicles parked on it. I think the tow truck driver did the right thing by shielding the other vehicle with his larger one, but if he had time, he should have put flares up.

I see a guy trying to profit off his son's death. Probably doing the same things he did when his son was alive, by blaming others for his kids' failings. so the bar shouldn't be held accountable for their negligence? Negligence??!?! What the hell are you talking about? Please. Stop. Talking. Just because Josh Hancock died while behaving in a negligent manner (drinking, high, talking on cell phone) doesn't necessarily off the hook if they also were negligent. I'm not even a lawyer and I understand this. If this is over your head, then perhaps you should follow your own advice about not talking.

Howard also has hit a HR in about 36% of his major league flyballs... I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Upton won't be able to do that. I'm also guessing that Upton may have a hard time sustaining his .451 BABIP.

Ya, and those 2 bad seasons he had...one he was an all star in and he played hurt for over a month and the other was attributed to him coming back from TJ which takes 18 to 24 months to recover from. He was an all star because he had a ridiculously high BABIP (i.e., luck) in the first half of the year, and then was one of the worst players in baseball (545 OPS) in the second half of the year. TJ surgery should affect a pitcher a lot more; he sucked before his injury in 2006, also. yeah and I would feel okay about those numbers if it were in the area of his career norms... but his career OBP is below .300, and his OBP the past two years is below .300. In fact, he's only had one year with an OBP over .302, and not only can he not get on base, but he also can't hit for power either. For a major leaguer, he's a bad baseball player.

ahahaha.... seriously, when Izworthless grounded into that double play, did anyone not know that the Cubs were going to lose the game? If so, I'm sorry to hear that. Fortunately I can see a loss from a mile away, so they're not nearly as disappointing. I just sort of laugh and shake my head.

grand slam for chicago cubs' backup catcher geo soto! oh wait he's still with iowa because simple jim signed blanco to a ridiculous two-year deal. Oh well, at least it's good for the I-Cobs.

yyyyyyyyyyyyyiiiiikes

Winn, Pods and Wandy Rodriguez (wtf???) are all killing me.

Is it really bad luck to give up long balls? Usually you hear of luck being involved when you're talking about balls in play. But HR, BB and K are the things a pitcher controls. right, but Curt Schilling has always been fairly HR-prone. Yesterday Hill gave up 6 hits and 4 of them left the park - that doesn't happen very often. He may end up being a HR-prone pitcher because of a flyball tendancy, but if he can limit the number of hits and walks he gives up, he can still be a very effective pitcher. It happens more often if you don't have overpowering stuff and you flake out on your location at certain times during the ballgame. Wouldn't you say that's a fair statement? yeah, but how many times will a pitcher give up 3+ HR and have the homers be two-thirds of his hit total in the game? Probably less than 5 times this year, I'd guess. Most of the time if a pitcher is giving up HR like crazy, he's giving up a lot of other hits too.

Going 3-10 in a September callup is far from a huge success. The other teams and GM's who passed on Brown were correct. Beane was the one who was wrong. No offense to Beane, it happens to everybody. nobody is going to bat 1.000 when it comes to drafting amateur talent. So Brown didn't work out. Beane got Nick Swisher, who had a 126 OPS+ last year and has an excellent 293/416/486 line this year. He also got Joe Blanton, who was not very good last year, but pitched very well in 2005 and is off to a good start in 2007. Mark Teahen had a 117 OPS+ from 3B last year; this year he's been shifted to RF because of Alex Gordon and has a 126 OPS+ (including a .403 OBP). Meanwhile, the Cubs spent more money on Bobby Brownlie (bust), Luke Hagerty (injuries - bust), Chadd Blasko (see Hagerty), Matt Clanton (see Blasko), Brian Dopirak (on the road to nowhere), Justin Jones (going nowhere), Billy Petrick (still some potential, but hasn't made it past AA), Matt Craig (hitting well this year, but still hasn't made it past AA after being drafted as a college player), and Rich Hill (hey look! a productive major leaguer!) In fact, the only guys the Cubs drafted who have made any impact at the major league level are Hill and Rocky Cherry. I'd have to take the A's draft over the Cubs draft. I think if you do this exercise for almost any draft in the late 90s and early part of this decade, you'd find that the A's were better at identifying major league talent.

Right, but AZ Phil's reports cover the time that he was really playing poorly at 2B, and most people agreed that he's not played well at 2B this year either. Still, that's just two months. You're right, they should let him work out his problems at 2B and have someone work with him if necessary... moving to the OF now just seems like a silly knee-jerk reaction (which is becoming common in this organization).

Is it really bad luck to give up long balls? Usually you hear of luck being involved when you're talking about balls in play. But HR, BB and K are the things a pitcher controls. right, but Curt Schilling has always been fairly HR-prone. Yesterday Hill gave up 6 hits and 4 of them left the park - that doesn't happen very often. He may end up being a HR-prone pitcher because of a flyball tendancy, but if he can limit the number of hits and walks he gives up, he can still be a very effective pitcher.

Hill was lucky his first few starts... low BAA, very low BAA with RISP, and very few of his mistakes were getting hit hard. The last three starts his location hasn't been as good, but he's been unlucky - his bad pitches have been hit out of the park. Still, he's got an adequate BB rate, a solid K rate, and a 1.09 WHIP. He'll be fine.

in a more serious attempt to answer the question, I'm going to guess that it's because Cedeno has joined the team, and he's the best-fielding SS, so Fontenot has been shifted to 2B and Patterson to LF. I'd prefer to see Fontenot into the OF so Patterson can continue to work on his defense, but whatever. They're the ones that haven't won a World Series for 100 years, so I'll trust they know what they're doing. Well, it was bound to happen with EPatt struggling at 2B defensively. He was struggling some, but I certainly haven't seen anything that would suggest that he's been so bad for so long that it's reached the point that the Cubs have to give up on him at second base. He was bad in the AFL, but outside of that I don't think he was worse than average. And, as has already been mentioned, his bat really doesn't look as nice at a corner outfield spot.

Not the NFL draft. Number 3 is worth a lot more than that. totally. Dwyane Wade was picked ONE pick ahead of Kirk Hinrich. Carmelo Anthony was a #3 Darko Milicic was picked THREE picks ahead of Dwyane Wade.

I've read comments from scouts and GM's that place him in the top 5. Lots of time between now and the draft. Don't take the mock drafts and ranking out there as gospel. I think Conley at 3 makes perfect sense for the Hawks. i really doubt he'd go ahead of horford and williams, so if they're set on conley, i think they should definitely explore trading down at least to 5

Conley's their man at 3. I would try to trade down if I was them -- if at all possible. Conley is not the third best prospect in this draft. He may not be in the top 10. Of course, he does play the position of Atlanta's biggest need. Conley at 3 would likely work out for them, but you should be able to get him much lower (maybe even their #11 pick). That said, Atlanta has to be absolutely thrilled to be #3 -- they get two picks in the top 11 when they had the chance of having none. sixers give #12, #21 and a future 2nd for the #3 and take al horford or brandon wright. Portland would be able to grab Conley or Acie Law with the 12th pick. i'd wet myself.

bend over, cubbies

in a more serious attempt to answer the question, I'm going to guess that it's because Cedeno has joined the team, and he's the best-fielding SS, so Fontenot has been shifted to 2B and Patterson to LF. I'd prefer to see Fontenot into the OF so Patterson can continue to work on his defense, but whatever. They're the ones that haven't won a World Series for 100 years, so I'll trust they know what they're doing.

apparently the cubs are set for the future at second base with mark derosa and perhaps ryan theriot by the way, he hit a three run homer tonight

hahaha yeah right

are you talking AGAIN? jeez, this mizzou guy doesn't shut up. :wink:

even if we don't get real lucky, i'm cool with picking #12, 21 and 30. Lot of good players in this draft.