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  1. TruffleShuffle
    At best, the NW quadrant should be in play for Houston, no? northeast is the strongest normally, but yes, the eye will pass south of houston, which will put them on the worse side of the storm. it's also worse as far as surge and waves, but i'm not sure that houston has to worry about that from matagorda bay. galveston on the other hand..... this is an interesting storm. the pressure is down to 944 mb, which normally corresponds to a storm that is pushing category 4 strength, but it's only a cat 2 with winds sustained at 100 mph, and given the flight-level winds, even that is probably optimistic. the winds are going to ramp up, they're just lagging behind the pressure, but it's probably going to be a system where the winds are less than you'd expect with such a low pressure, because the storm is so large.
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    i still think it comes in south of houston, but they'll definitely get some rough effects from it. the saturday game, i don't see any way that is gonna be played. what they might be able to do is play early on friday and then a doubleheader on sunday, depending on whether there is damage in or around the stadium. they can probably offer refunds to the fans who paid for sunday's game(s) if they don't attend, since it may not be safe to travel to the park for the game. it'd possibly end up being a game played in front of a few thousand folks - so really no different than a well-attended marlins game.
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    the cubs won, that's generally considered a positive.
  4. TruffleShuffle
    it was actually it was ball 5, because strike 2 was low.
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    is there an IM chat? i'd prefer to avoid this pigpen of fail and panic.
  6. TruffleShuffle
    is winning the al west really something to be proud of? i mean, it's cool to win your division but all it means is that you were better than bad.
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    oh wow i hadn't even thought about that. yeah if ike takes the expected track i'm pretty sure they're gonna have to call off that game. the conditions would be horrible to play, but the bigger concern is that you don't want 100,000 people outdoors or traveling to/from the game.
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    i would also like to add jeff blauser's name to the mix, even if the vote cannot be restarted.
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    how many times has the number 3.5 appeared on this board since yesterday when pujols hit his home run? i'm gonna say 1,248. Well this time, the Brewers have already won, and the Cubs have to actually do the same, and in case you havnt noticed, that hasnt exactly been their thing lately. And yet, that means little to nothing in terms of their chances to win tonight. We're not a .200 ballclub, people. If we were a .200 ballclub, that would mean we should be winning this one. http://www.ratemyeverything.net/image/6134/0/Epic_Fail.ashx
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    actually they probably didn't, but i think that a LHP against prince fielder would be a better option than david weathers. i'll take 2 out of 3 by dusty baker's reds, too.
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    brewers win, 3.5 back, amirite???
  12. TruffleShuffle
    how many times has the number 3.5 appeared on this board since yesterday when pujols hit his home run? i'm gonna say 1,248.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    Yea, you really are CubsGM Amazing that you're this bad at hiding it pretty much. both posters (who are the same thing) are utterly worthless.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    go to hell, dusty
  15. TruffleShuffle
    how is it that dusty consistently used remlinger as a loogy despite the fact that lefties hit him better, yet he won't take out weathers to put in bray or affeldt with 2 lefty batters coming up? answer: dusty is a moron.
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    come on weathers you ugly bastard
  17. TruffleShuffle
    apparently. votto versus the cubs: .333/.410/.852/1.262, 8 HR in 15 games votto versus the rest of the league: .287/.358/.439/.797, 11 HR in 120 games :x
  18. TruffleShuffle
    wait joey votto struck out 4 times today? our pitchers should watch the tape of this game, since we sure as hell can't figure out how to get him out.
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    brad nelson, who completes the brewer fatass triumvirate.
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    at one point the brewers were close to 95% to make the playoffs. by trading for sabathia and raising their payroll to $90M, the brewers have essentially gone all in. to miss the playoffs after disappointing finish last year would be a pretty big disaster for them. for all the hand-wringing about the cobs' poor play, the cubs have lost about three-quarters of a percent chance at making the playoffs. the brewers have lost about 20 percent.
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    only 93 pitches through 6? he should be able to go the distance.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    washington state @ baylor is just a horrifying matchup.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    more cubs, less cobs plz
  24. TruffleShuffle
    i've actually heard lots of idiots make this argument. i think it stems from jealousy over players making millions of dollars and not being able to do something said idiots (incorrectly) believe they can do. i like how everyone believes that a bunt is the easiest thing in the world to do. you have someone throwing the ball 90 mph at you, often coming inside or high on you when he knows you're trying to bunt it, and you have to (a) get on top of the ball, and (b) deaden it enough that the charging 1B and 3B don't get it too quickly, but not so much that it just dribbles in front of home plate and the catcher can grab it and throw for the force out. if it was that easy, most guys would do it effectively 90% of the time. not to mention that lou continues to ask guys to bunt in late inning situations when they've hardly laid down a bunt all year. bunting against the bp pitcher who's hurling 60 mph meatballs down the middle is not the same as bunting against a reliever with a 95 mph fastball and a wicked slider. failure to bunt is most of the time not tied to laziness or lack of effort, despite what most moron fans would like you to believe.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    cards are lucky to only be down 3, lohse didn't pitch well and there have been a number of hard-hit balls that have been turned into outs.
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