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  1. TruffleShuffle
    This team is not nearly as good as the 2008 team It doesn't need to be in order to get into the playoffs. Going just by the regular season, nobody would have taken the 06 Cardinals over the 08 Cubs, but yet the 06 Cardinals played well when it counted and the 08 Cubs choked. In other words, all we have to do is get in. the 2006 cardinals made the playoffs because the division was a joke; to beat the 2010 cardinals, the cubs are going to have to be good.
  2. TruffleShuffle
    cardinals win on a down-to-their-last-strike home run by a scrub; cubs lose a game where they had 13 LOB and the opponent had 2. pretty typical for the fortunes of these organizations.
  3. TruffleShuffle
    at least for caridad, that umpire did a reasonably good job: http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfx/index.php?month=4&day=9&year=2010&game=gid_2010_04_09_chnmlb_cinmlb_1%2F&pitchSel=534428&prevGame=gid_2010_04_09_chnmlb_cinmlb_1%2F&prevDate=49
  4. TruffleShuffle
    So, what should the Cubs do with the young guys in the bullpen who've had early struggles? Send the ones without stuff(Berg, Caridad, Russell) down in favor of the ones that do(Parker, Gaub, Stevens). this i agree with. gaub, stevens and parker might not become major league pitchers but they've got better stuff than berg, caridad and russell, and they're more likely to become successful pitchers. there's just a much better correlation with high-k, low H/9 guys doing well in the majors than there is with guys who get by on grounders and guile.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    So, what should the Cubs do with the young guys in the bullpen who've had early struggles? well for one thing, part of the problem is that a lot of these guys - samardzija, caridad, berg, russell - just weren't that good in the minors. they might be struggling in the major leagues because they're lousy pitchers who just won't cut it in the long run. but back to your question, ideally you have a better mix of veteran arms and young guys, just like you do in a big league offense. you don't want too much of the burden falling to guys who don't have much track record in the bigs and whose confidence can easily be damaged as a result of a few bad outings. the cubs do have three veterans (marshall, grabow, marmol) but one of them they use as a swing guy, one of them they use as a LOOGY and he's not good, and the other is a closer. so a lot of the burden is just falling on guys who really aren't good. samardzija is probably the only one of the four guys who has stuff that could make him a good 8th inning guy, and he's a long way from getting there.
  6. TruffleShuffle
    yeah that's pretty much what i'd expect from the cubs, panic after four games. if dustin pedroia had been a cub nobody would've heard of him; he had a really bad first month in the bigs and they would've exiled him back to iowa for good.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    i think you meant Irritable Bowel Syndrome Lou
  8. TruffleShuffle
    so if you're going to go into the season with a player as your starter, why are you benching him after going 1-for-6 in 2 games??? if you have that little confidence in him then just don't have him around; give the job to a guy who's actually going to get a chance to build up some confidence.
  9. TruffleShuffle
    sorry guys the cubs are good, we're goin places in 2010!
  10. TruffleShuffle
    you're being generous, ADD lou is probably in hendry's office right now asking him to call up some kids who are throwing well.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    at this point i'm just hoping that hendry doesn't shortsightedly trade good prospects for middle relief help, a la jon garland for matt karchner. they may as well go ahead and add a digit to each number on the AC sign outside wrigley.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    felix pie needs to hit. no hits in three games? OFF TO IOWA FOR YOU, GOOD LUCK IN BALTIMORE. wish his ADD had acted up in the 8th inning, maybe we wouldn't have lost.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    i wouldn't mind them doing that to the manager who sat there with a thumb up his ass while his pitcher kept throwing balls in a close game.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    that's being generous
  15. TruffleShuffle
    who knows. soto had two bad games and now ADD lou has him in the doghouse.
  16. TruffleShuffle
    hey on the bright side we won the LOB battle 13-2
  17. TruffleShuffle
    100% awesome fake rally
  18. TruffleShuffle
    can't really say the ump was calling it wrong. caridad is just dumb enough to keep trying the same thing while hoping for a different result. edit - link was to strike zone showing 50 pitches in the same place, all of the balls.
  19. TruffleShuffle
    Should be Marshall unfortunately we'll get to the 8th inning down 2 runs because every other reliever in the bullpen sucks balls
  20. TruffleShuffle
    i like baseball, just hate the cubs
  21. TruffleShuffle
    this guy can't throw strikes... leave him in, he's rollin
  22. TruffleShuffle
    hey maybe if i keep throwing it in the same place the ump will change his mind
  23. TruffleShuffle
    congrats to carlos silva on a career high in single-game strikeouts!
  24. TruffleShuffle
    gotta say one thing, having silva on the mound means the fielders will stay on their toes
  25. TruffleShuffle
    i'm starting to think that koyie hill may not our answer at catcher
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