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4 ip, 5 h, 2 er, 1 bb, 3 k, 1 hr, 3 go/3 fo for simpson. meh. coello has been terrible so far this year... not encouraging.

yeah so let's just pull him from a game when he made an out and three errors. that should do wonders for his confidence, embarrassing him in front of the home crowd.

that sounds kind of gay

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daytona rained out =D> peoria scored 8 in the top of the 2nd inning on a bunch of walks and singles. alcantara is hitting over .300 now, which i think is about all you're looking for from him - he's only 19 so he's not going to show much secondary skills, but if he can show a good hit tool as a young player in full season ball, that's a good sign.

never happened before our awesomely average cubs did it.

since barney homered i take it the wind is blowing out to left at about 90 mph?

I keep hearing he'll end up in LA Which LA team? I could see the Clippers (yes, really) making a serious run at him. yeah i'm sure one of the nba's biggest stars would voluntarily choose to go play for a racist and incompetent owner.

quade thinks esmil rogers is a LHP, that can be the only explanation for that lineup.

50 more points against than anyone else, yippee

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He's getting shipped in the offseason if that happens. How many teams want a goalie who chokes in the playoffs and has 11 years left on his contract? He has a no-trade clause too. i'd take him.

What is it about the playoffs that turns normally good coaches into complete morons?

bobrovsky (starter going into game two) gave up three goals in the first period of game two, mostly because the defense was playing like hot ass. laviolette pulled him for boucher - fine. then he went with boucher from games 3 through 5 and gave up on bobrovsky - panic move. leighton was the backup for games 3-5; when boucher gave up two of the worst goals in history in game 5 then leighton came in and played all right - let's remember that leighton was either hurt or in the minors for almost the whole year. then leighton inexplicably gets the start in game 6. just a terrible call and leighton gives up at least two soft goals while ryan miller makes about 10 tough saves.

Myers just CRUSHED him. And then Boucher sucked again. I'm rooting for Buffalo though. That city deserves a winner. have you been to buffalo? they don't deserve a winner. although the women of buffalo who are repeatedly beaten by their boyfriends and husbands after painful bills losses do deserve a winner, if only to stop the abuse.

i assume the blackhawks aren't starting a goalie that they had in the minor leagues for the entire season, correct? that already makes you guys smarter than peter laviolette.

He's a cardinal secret agent, there's no other explanation

this is from a pre-season BP article and talks about some of the weaknesses of vitters:

random notes: from after 15 games played:

it's a difference 3%. if you take 5 per game and you make 35%, you make about 10 more shots per year than a guy shooting 32%. comparing rose's shooting percentage to each team's shooting percentage from outside the arc is dumb. he quite obviously is not a sharpshooter who is going to make over 40% of his threes, so why are you comparing him with a group that includes those guys? it makes a lot more sense to compare him with the elite scorers, most of whom are not elite outside shooters but have the ability to score from any spot on the court.

A) 32% is bad B) most of his 3's ARE wide open. any anyways, look at his game log from this season. he started off the seaosn red hit from 3 and has been atrocious ever since, yet he takes over 5 a game. it's hurting his game. i don't know how you can argue otherwise. he's hitting 3's at a well belpw average rate, yet he takes them at about the largest rate possible. a) 32% is not bad. it's close to the same rate that lebron and kobe make, it's better than dwyane wade, it's just slightly worse than kevin durant. plus a three pointer is worth three points, so shooting 32% is like shooting 48% from inside the arc. b) i would guess that most of his threes are not wide open. maybe they're not as contested as a drive through the lane, but i doubt they're like rajon rondo threes where teams are standing five feet back begging him to shoot. c) he made 30% of his threes in march and april, which is more "below average" than "atrocious." plus do you not understand that his ability to create shots for teammates, get to the free throw line, blow by people for layups or dunks, is there because he can shoot the ball too? if he just decides to forgo long jump shots because he's not as effective out there, teams will just drop off him and crowd the lane. forget about all those blow-bys and layups, or the kick out to an open teammate.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gordoal01.shtml if he can keep that babip around .450 he is going to be a really good player. note - he's hitting lots of line drives and his K rate is down so it appears that he is making legitimate strides, crazy babip aside.

yeah rose made about 32% the last two years, and if it's wide open then he'll make a higher % than that. it's silly to say that he should just stop shooting threes, especially if he's wide open.

i'm wondering about vitters' approach so i'm going to check the gamecasts to see when he's swinging. so far these were his PAs today: -ground out on 1-0 count -home run on 1-0 count -ground out on 0-1 count (first pitch called strike) -ground out on 2-2 count (called strike, swinging strike, ball, foul, ball, ground out)