TruffleShuffle
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Grabow and it's not close. I think you're saying things out of hurt and anger. in howry's bad cubs year he had a whip of 1.43 and ERA of 5.35... with the cubs his ERA was 3.90 and his WHIP was 1.25. grabow's career WHIP is 1.45 and his ERA is 4.16, and his cub numbers have been far worse than that.
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right now grabow, over the last five years grabow by about a mile and a half.
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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.
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grabow is such a [expletive] awful pitcher, just release him
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lou waddles out to see what is going on
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i wish grabow wasn't a high-paid veteran so the cubs would just get rid of him.
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utley has been better against LHP than RHP the last year and a half but like a bear to honey, lou sees a lefty up there and jumps at the matchup.
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take the walk theriot you dumbass
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He does have his share of puzzling moves, but I don't think you get the 14th most wins in MLB history by being a complete tool. what about the 27th most wins in MLB history? would you say someone with that many wins has to be pretty good?
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who did you think was going to catch, randy wells?
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why the hell are you using two pinch hitters in the seventh inning, one of them hitting for the catcher, and you use two backup outfielders rather than your good-hitting catcher? [expletive] off lou.
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ok so we have to put soto in the game but we're going to use two other hitters here? wtg lou.
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run through the bag starlin
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once it's 3-0 just walk him; don't try to come back on a good hitter with two runners in scoring position. i guess if you still want to try to get him out, throw curveballs or changes and try to hit the corners or get him to chase.
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what on earth is that supposed to be
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just walk him and go after the next guy... terrible
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General 2010 other games thread
TruffleShuffle replied to soccer10k's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
i love cedeno rounding second and heading for third as the cf is picking up the ball in shallow center. cedeno has some of the worst baseball instincts i've ever seen from a major league player. -
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Chase Utley is on pace to hit 4 homeruns almost made it halfway there
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i have a big-time baseball crush on chase utley
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i don't know for sure, but i'd guess that under the current format, the worst team in the playoffs usually has about a 1 in 16 chance of winning and the best team is about 1 in 4. it depends how those teams are built too - good defense, strong frontline starting pitching and good bullpens have a pretty good correlation with winning in the postseason, so a team like the yankees last year would have even a better chance of winning because they were good on all those accounts last year.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-19-10
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
peoria leads 6-4 through 4 innings. nick struck has been pretty lousy (4.0 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 HR). hak-ju lee has a double and a walk (he walked twice last night - good to see patience has he profiles as a "true leadoff hitter"). lee's BABIP is .291 on a 19% LD and 53% GB (not sure how reliable those are) - i guess my point is that with his speed it's unlikely that he'll have a BABIP that low. he would seem to be a high BABIP guy based on his speed, LD/GB tendencies and lefty-ness. daytona won 7-2. kyler burke had a big game - 3-5, 2 doubles, first homer of the year, 5 RBI. hopefully this is the start of him extracting his head from his ass. brett jax had a single, triple and walk; flaherty had a single, double and walk. rusin went 4.1 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 0 BB, 7 K. shafer had 1.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K. cabrera got killed for tennessee - 0.2 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 2 BB, 1 K. vitters was not in the starting lineup. -
Hanley Ramirez benched for not hustling
TruffleShuffle replied to BleedCubbieBlue81's topic in General Baseball Talk
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Very true, I just have little to no interest in limping into the playoffs and getting swept in three games again. To me, that winds up being about as fulfilling as having missed the playoffs by a few games. Go big or go home, as they say. I have a lot of interest in limping into the playoffs. It means we have a 1 and 8 chance of winning the World Series. it doesn't mean that at all, it means there are 8 teams in the playoffs. the better teams have a better chance of winning the world series.