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  1. TruffleShuffle
    Over 162 games that's an awful lot more. Cubs leadoff spot, 2005: .299 OBP Juan Pierre, 2006: .284 OBP So you're comparing production from 19 games this year to 162 games last year? Chris Shelton must be one of the the best homerun hitters ever. Look out Ruth and Aaron. Yet you've already found a way to attribute Walker's early-season success to having Juan Pierre batting leadoff. Yet another thread where someone mocks sample size, unless it helps them prove their point.
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    Neifi's career OBP is .301, and that's with a few years in Coors to pad his stats. Graffanino's is .336. Neifi's career OPS+ is 65; Graffanino's is 91. Graffanino creates almost 0.6 runs per 27 outs more than Neifi. I'd say Tony is clearly better than Neifi, even with Neifi being better on defense.
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    Simple solution...be optimistic with the early start and the players coming back and quit bitching so damn much. Pretty easy. OK, so be optimistic now and then act shocked when the Cubs' lack of health and ability to get on base catches up with them, and they finish around .500?
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    This off-season wasnt exactly the best free agent market you'll ever see. Even with Jeromy Burnitz, we'd get the same production. Our only option was to trade, and I am deeply disappointed of what Hendry, the best trade manager, got out of the Patterson trade. Why? Syd Thrift isn't the GM of the Orioles any more. They actually could pick up tapes or look at stat sheets and see for themselves how badly Patterson sucks. Plus, they knew that his arbitration number would be high, so they'd be paying close to $3 million (the real figure is $2.8M) for a guy who had an OBP of .254 and was probably one of the worst players in all of baseball last season. There was enough risk on their end; nobody was going to give up premium talent for Patterson after last year.
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    i put zero importance in all three of the things that you give neifi credit for. Apparently you didn't take the Dusty Baker seminar: "Playing Baseball The Right Way"
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    Yeah, and compare me to your average weekend golfer and I look pretty favorable too. Sure, I shot a 92 today, but I'm better than the old guy who can't hit it more than 100 yards, or the lady who's afraid of the ball.
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    Maybe we shouldn't get mad at Jacque Jones then... after all, a lot of us knew it was a terrible signing by the Cubs, and knew he'd be crappy. I'm sure by the end of the year he'll have done what he always does, end up with 20-25 HRs and a bad OBP.
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    I don't think the strikeouts thing is rubbish... but I do think that C-Patt was a colassal disapointment and Jones was signed (stupidly) for over $5M a year to fill a hole in RF. Meanwhile, Neifi was basically a cast-off who came for nothing. People expect nothing of him -- and he doesn't disappoint, in that respect.
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    6. Ryan Harvey 7. Nick Markakis 10. Ian Stewart 12. Lastings Milledge 19. Conor Jackson 20. Chad Cordero 23. Brandon Wood 29. Carlos Quentin 32. Matt Murton Yeah, oops is right.
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    I don't think anyone expected Miller back before June. I know, I meant "see you back on the mound, rehabbing the shoulder, in June"
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    As I've posted in another thread already tonight, check back in October. I'm sure you won't hear many people bitching if the Cubs keep up the current pace, but many people see plenty of reasons why the Cubs will fall well off the pace they've set to this point. You see us as pessimists... I see us as realists. Time will tell which is more accurate.
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    Ah yes, "geeks", like knowing and understanding baseball statistics and how they relate to the game is somehow a negative thing. Yes, I do think it's an accident. Check back with us in October, or at some point after the Cubs have played more than an eighth of the season. Haha, silly little numbers. I'd argue that your statistically insignificant reference to the Cubs leading the league with runners on and RISP is about the silliest statistical reference made in this thread, but apparently stats aren't silly when they go toward proving your point. Now, let's try to realize that almost every player on the Cubs has a higher OBP than Pierre - meaning that he, by himself, probably constitutes less than 10% of the total baserunners that the Cubs have had this year. So you're willing to attribute the Cubs leading the league in batting average with runners on, and with RISP, based on a player who has made up less than 10% of the total baserunners on the year? That's quite a stretch, to put it kindly.
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    Hey, I like Willingham a lot... but I doubt he puts up a .900 OPS for the year, when Derrek Lee couldn't even do that playing half his games in that park. Plus, it's not like Wes Helms or whatever bum is batting after him will provide much protection. Willingham is a legitimate cleanup hitter like Neifi Perez is a legitimate 2-hole hitter. Plus, I don't even think offense is their biggest problem. Behind Willis, their rotation consists of Sergio Mitre, Brian Moehler, Jason Vargas and Scott Olsen, which, to put it mildly, is a bit short of intimidating. Their top setup men are a washed up Matt Herges, Todd Wellemeyer, and someone named Carlos Martinez, and their closer is Joe Borowski, who, as much as I love what the guy did for the Cubs, doesn't have much left in the tank. The starters suck, and the games that they do hand over to the bullpen with a lead are still in dangerous shape.
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    Karros was probably just saying that because he couldn't hit in April. Then again, I'm not sure what his excuse was the other five months of the season. Also, here are some stats from ESPN about the past five years... Juice Box Through Apr 25 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Homers Per Game 1.043 1.071 1.123 1.032 1.176 Runs per game 4.618 4.728 4.814 4.592 4.921 Aggregate SLG .417 .422 .428 .419 .439 So, everyone else has figured out how to hit in April... apparently Juan Pierre and ARam missed the memo.
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    I'm firing up my Cubs translator... "few days" = "see you in June"
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    Any guesses? I say they don't crack 50. That team is atrocious. Not taking anything away from the Cubs, because they're supposed to beat the dregs of the NL (like the Pirates and Marlins), but jeez. When Josh Willingham is your cleanup hitter, Wes Helms is number 5, and a hitter who is average for a catcher is batting sixth, that's a bad sign. I almost passed out when I heard that Reggie Abercrombie, he of the 121/793 BB/K ratio in 657 minor league games, and proud owner of an .800 OPS last year, almost two-thirds of which was compiled in A-ball, would be starting on a semi-regular basis. Not to mention that half of the pitching staff should be playing in Double-A. Traaaaaaaain wreck. 48-114.
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    Wait, you're saying that trading for a leadoff hitter with a .326 OBP last year was a bad idea?
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    Good stuff! And, Harvey walks twice to bring his BB/K to an awe-inspiring 5/20. To be honest, those are the only stats I look at for him. I don't care if he hits 60 HRs this year; I'm convinced that if he doesn't improve his discipline at the plate, he'll never make the bigs.
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    I always wondered what a $15M payroll this day in age would get you. And tonight, I found out the answer: A 4-5-6 of Josh Willingham, Wes Helms, and Miguel Olivo. What an awful team.
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    I thought pocketbooks were for chicks :?:
  21. TruffleShuffle
    Proper Name: Jose Alberto Pujols Born: January 16, 1980 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Height: 6-3 Weight: 225 lbs. Age: 26 Pronounced: POO-holes
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    Personally, I'm shocked that the St. Louis press would buy the Cardinal player's excuse at face value and then make an effort to make him look like a great guy. They hardly ever do that sort of thing.
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    Thru yesterday's games... 73 TruffleShuffle 66 XZero77 63 Soccer10k 61 KarenMac J-Shils Jazz 60 TrueBlueCubFan Outshined_One 58 Serena wade TheDude MrWood RoastTheD---Goat Mizzou 57 ndistops jd6762 sherwood921 56 RocketSauce SeldomSeen Garwilly IMB! UMFan83 55 AramisFan 54 DCNashville 53 VanceTheCubFan bukie reggiemiller rules Scott G.F. 52 srbin84 51 TransmogrifiedTiger Cubbies75 50 NCCubbieFan sethuel1 Bob's Keeper 48 MarkPrior'sCalves CubsinNC Marco4 SouthSideRyan 47 tadowdaddy Derwood pistolcub42 46 Treeman otis89 45 rawaction DJAXXFAN 44 Joe_Cub 43 Flames24Rulz Southpaw19 Vinestal 42 MarkR 41 HHHBK21 cubfanfromoz 40 sandberg23 Dobson 35 Guancous 34 UBlink 30 HawkCub I will continue to keep score as long as I am winning :lol:
  24. TruffleShuffle
    70 for me... 2 homers for Giambi today! I knew he'd find a better masking agent before this season began.
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    My biggest problem with legalizing it is that I don't think there's a way to test if people are under the influence of it while driving. They can do blood tests or hair tests to know if you've smoked ever, but not whether you just got high 5 minutes ago. The reason I say that is because I knew a lot of people in college who would get high and then drive to parties, home, wherever, because they knew they couldn't get in trouble like they could for drunk driving. So if there's no way to tell if people are driving high, then I'd have to say no to legalizing it.
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