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  1. TruffleShuffle
    i guess they can overcome the LF offensive black hole because adam jones is quickly becoming awesome and nick markakis was already really good.
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    have you ever watched a sporting event without thinking that the team you were rooting for was not getting screwed over by the officials?
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    good post, CCP. if he has found a way to at least get some extra base power then a change in approach is okay, but if he isn't any stronger then he'll just end up hitting more fly outs and not getting much positive out of it. khalil greene has legitimate power, but he started swinging at junk a lot more in recent years and sacrificed patience and batting average for power, and got worse. personally, i'd think that theriot should just hit line drives and hard ground balls. i did see a hardball times article on BABIP that suggested theriot was very lucky in 2008 - they were using a new formula that they claim is more accurate that the traditional methods of calculating expected BABIP. now, i think the new method evaluates theriot's xBABIP too low, but that being said - if he lost the 24 hits that the method claimed he wouldn't have had without the extra luck, he would've been a mediocre shortstop instead of above average last year.
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    considering that most of the team is injured, you don't want to burn a position player by pinch running. rich harden's ARM is made of glass; i'm pretty sure he can run around just as capably as anyone else.
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    yeah nice to see something other than a single from him. unfortunately he made two errors so it wasn't all good news.
  6. TruffleShuffle
    very nice outings for searle and carpenter.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    theriot's grand slam saved the season
  8. TruffleShuffle
    c'mon angel, be as good as everyone thinks you are.
  9. TruffleShuffle
    way to not overreact.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    09:$16M, 10:$16M, 11:$16M club option ($5M buyout) I wonder if that option gets picked up eh $5M is pretty big for a buyout, they might as well just let him play it out.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    pujols' contract needs to be up soon so the cards have to pay him $30M a year or whatever instead of the bargain they're currently getting.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    from now on they should consider LLF's potential reaction to any article before publishing it.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    solid matador D on that pierce drive.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    scalabrine vs hinrich, elite athleticism head to head there.
  15. TruffleShuffle
    too bad miller's hand wasn't a little lower, he could've drawn blood.
  16. TruffleShuffle
    i was arguing the grab, not the trip :)
  17. TruffleShuffle
    nelson perez has a grand slam for peoria; they're tied at 7. flaherty has a homer and 2 walks; vitters is 1-3 with (believe it or not) a single. castro continues to not hit A+ pitching. i'm going to keep posting this until fleita reads it and sends him down.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    we're talking about game seven of the celtics-bulls series, that play where hinrich stole the ball from pierce, correct? just making sure we're on the same page because right now i feel like i'm taking crazy pills. he did grab him briefly when hinrich tipped the ball away. it wasn't what made hinrich fall, but Pierce did grab him. i guess my definition of grab is different than other people's. i consider a grab to be when one person puts his arm out and either grasps or impedes the progress of another player, not when two guys' arms barely rub against each other. it's pretty irrelevant though; if they called every time there was that much contact there would be 500 fouls each game. it was a really bad call but it's the nba, so i sort of expect that.
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    we're talking about game seven of the celtics-bulls series, that play where hinrich stole the ball from pierce, correct? just making sure we're on the same page because right now i feel like i'm taking crazy pills. you probably are but that has nothing to do with it in this case. he definitely grabbed him on the play. okay i can't really agree to disagree since you're wrong, but i'll drop it at this point.
  20. TruffleShuffle
    we're talking about game seven of the celtics-bulls series, that play where hinrich stole the ball from pierce, correct? just making sure we're on the same page because right now i feel like i'm taking crazy pills.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    well people are saying this has been a historic series, and it certainly would be historic for a team to score zero points in an entire half of basketball.
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    he really didn't. at all.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    great call ref
  24. TruffleShuffle
    that's because he's not good. he was better in 2007 because he had a ridiculous .363 BABIP. glaus had health issues for much of his career. then last year he played 151 games, had his highest single-season OBP since 2000, and improved his production (presumably) without the steroids he was using while with anaheim and toronto. now glaus is hurt, like one would expect, but barden and thurston are putting up better-than-glaus numbers. anyway, glaus is going to start declining soon. just hope that it isn't this year.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    actually when you factor in pie's uselessness, cubs CF hit .290/.374/.484/.858. if fukudome has made the adjustments to be a productive hitter - which certainly seems possible since he's showing more extra base power and maintaining an excellent walk rate - a platoon of fukudome and reed johnson could very easily put up a line similar to cubs' CF in 2008 without much luck involved.
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