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  1. TruffleShuffle
    for one thing, he's part japanese
  2. TruffleShuffle
    And our setup/closer situation is probably elite while mateo might be "promising," his results as a major league pitcher have not been solid or better. nor has russell, whose decent 1.3 WHIP is damaged by the 11 home runs allowed in 52 innings. it would be more accurate to say that mateo has been lousy and russell has been solid against LH batters while throwing batting practice to RH batters.
  3. TruffleShuffle
    blister
  4. TruffleShuffle
    for the same reason that you have officials on the field of play in every other game, to make a ruling on the routine plays (which constitute 99% of the calls probably) and rulings on close calls, with those rulings being maintained if video cannot change the call conclusively. do you really want a guy in a booth spending 15 minutes trying to figure out a bang-bang play at first? you let the umpire make the call, if look at it for a minute or two, if you can't overturn the call then move on. "sometimes it goes your way, sometimes it doesn't" just strikes me as lazy and irrational.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    according to the box score, whitenack's final line was 6 ip, 3 h, 1 r, 0 er, 1 bb, 3 k, 1 hbp, 12 GO/2 FO
  6. TruffleShuffle
    on the plus side, the cardinals suffered another painful loss today, taking the lead in the top of the 9th (scoreless duel between carpenter and billingsley for most of the game) then losing on an ethier double (off trever miller) and a home run (off now steroid-less ryan franklin)
  7. TruffleShuffle
    the way pena is "hitting" i don't really want him at #4.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    more normal outing for whitenack, with tons of ground balls and way less (actually 0 through 4 IP) strikeouts.
  9. TruffleShuffle
    In my pants. Now that is well done. Horrifying, but well done. Heh. I questioned myself on that one but just couldn't let it go. actually from your post, it sounds like you did let it go.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    Seriously, go [expletive] yourself. Your posts are insanely stupid. personal attack much? ruin game threads much?
  11. TruffleShuffle
    i think he can be a decent back of the bullpen option. ran into some bad luck today. the front of our bullpen is good - like better than average good - and the back of our bullpen still sucks.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    i feel like that might have some negative repercussions the rest of this year.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    I guess... although look who they pitched in games 2 and 3. look who we pitched in game 2.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    that was kind of predictable (get everyone's hopes up by striking out two, then giving up a 2-out hit)
  15. TruffleShuffle
    nobody is
  16. TruffleShuffle
    hopefully because they were losing by 30 runs. or he was traded for a 35 year old LOOGY.
  17. TruffleShuffle
    it's amazing how quickly a guy can go from middle of the order terror to washed up. CASE CLOSED. happened to heaps of players in the past; might have happened to pena already.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    it's amazing how quickly a guy can go from middle of the order terror to washed up.
  19. TruffleShuffle
    His ops is .876 against rhp and .975 at coors. The guy can hit.
  20. TruffleShuffle
    Breathe, then post.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    Someone with more knowledge of the minors than me - is Brett Jackson actually major league ready? Depends on which facet of his game you're talking about. He's a good defender in CF and has enough speed to cause trouble on the base paths. In those respects, he's ready. As for his bat...hard to tell. He's handling AA about as well as can be expected, but I'd like to see how he looks against pitchers with more advanced offspeed stuff in AAA before seeing him in the majors. He probably could play in the majors now, but he'd have a lot of growing pains along the way. Just looking at his MiLB stats, has his walk rate been better than expected? He's got a .099 IsoD in the minors and I seem to remember (which could be wrong) when he was drafted that people weren't impressed with his walk rate in college. No, his walk rate was always good. His k rate was/is high.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    Let's just pretend theriot never existed
  23. TruffleShuffle
    wtf?
  24. TruffleShuffle
    speaking of guys who shouldn't be playing shortstop, junior lake made three errors.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    i think his whip is under 10.00 after this outing
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