TruffleShuffle
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hey bullpen let's try not walking everyone.
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ugly fetus-face, catcher who recently learned to hit, meph's man-crush up for the cards.
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you must be new at being a cub fan.
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gave that one a ride
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let's get some run.
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if miles hit a home run here, creepy cards fan would probably kill himself.
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dump one down in the RF corner.
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go run around for a while gregg, keep that knee strong.
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thurston, rasmus, skippy, ankiel - this is one of those times it'd be really nice to have a lefty reliever who didn't suck ass.
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joe thurston has a .919 ops? figures.
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coming into today (small sample size obviously): Season Team GB/FB LD% GB% FB% 2005 Yankees 2.91 14.1 % 63.9 % 22.0 % 2006 Yankees 3.09 16.9 % 62.8 % 20.3 % 2007 Yankees 2.51 18.3 % 58.4 % 23.3 % 2008 Yankees 2.41 22.1 % 55.0 % 22.8 % 2009 Yankees 1.14 37.5 % 33.3 % 29.2 % line drive rate and GB/FB rate have been going the wrong way since he started. obviously this year it's a complete disaster but the problems have been building.
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fire neal cotts.
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uh oh stan musial at the bat.
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good call idiot.
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Ya till July, just like last year i dunno, they have the best hitter in baseball and another one of the top 10 hitters in the game, plus lohse is now a lot better than the back of the rotation guy that he was before he arrived in st. louis. i guess it depends on whether wainwright and carpenter are healthy for the stretch run. Pujuls/Ludwick may be the best 3-4 in the NL, but the rest of their lineup is questionable at best, but if Ankiel, Duncan, and Glause end up productive, watch out. If they have Carpenter healthy for any length of time, Carp-Wain-Lohse will be a very solid front of the rotation. Until Ludwick does it for another season I'm not convinced he's nothing more than a flash in the pan, even if all the above does happen they're not better than the Cubs. the cubs' bullpen isn't very good and they have some injury-prone pieces that they're counting on heavily (bradley, z, harden). the cubs probably aren't as good as the team that won 97 games and the cards might be better than the team that won 86 games; i don't see why people refuse to believe that this might be a decent race.
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they probably were underrated. they won 86 games last year and are probably just as good this year as they were last year, if not better. the "back slide" that projection systems forecast is predicated on all the guys who "overachieved" last year not doing so again this year, but it still looks like (for example) lohse and ludwick are still awesome. if one team continually overachieves, it's probably time to stop being surprised when it happens.
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his stuff is pretty bad unless his sinker is sinking, and apparently it's not sinking right now.
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Ya till July, just like last year i dunno, they have the best hitter in baseball and another one of the top 10 hitters in the game, plus lohse is now a lot better than the back of the rotation guy that he was before he arrived in st. louis. i guess it depends on whether wainwright and carpenter are healthy for the stretch run.
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keep digging the hole demp
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The only point I am trying to make is that we are not qualified, from this perspective to determine if an umpire if failing. If it was a safe/out call then fine, you can see that. With calling balls and strikes, you can't tell from TV. if you're watching every pitch from the exact same vantage point, you get a pretty good idea if the umpire how the umpire is calling pitches that appear to be 8 inches off the outer part of the plate. even if your vantage point is wrong you can still tell that the umpire is doing his job poorly.
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unfortunately lohse has weirdly become a really good pitcher since joining the cardinals, so we're probably not going to score 3 runs today.
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Milton Bradley Suspended 2 Games (Appealing Suspension)
TruffleShuffle replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
i don't know what to tell you. i've been watching games and seen gameday take a ball that was 2 inches off the ground and put it in the middle of the strike zone. I'm guessing that was the old system and not this year or last. it was less than a week ago. -
let's get some runs, or better yet flail helplessly at pitches outside the strike zone and lose 7-2.
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However, when those walks come as a direct result of Dempster throwing pitches that were called strikes to Theriot, it gets frustrating. a pitcher is also going to start pitching a few inches off the plate when he sees his teammates getting rung up on pitches like that. lol this game is turning into an ass-whipping, let's give up another 12.
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here's manny ramirez in his prime