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pat's serves a whole lot of their steaks with cheez whiz, which is gross. pat's and geno's are pretty average, frankly. the best steaks that i've had: -john's roast pork. it's a little shack in an industrial area in south philly, looks like a complete dump. but their provolone is excellent, their meat isn't chopped up into little bits, and the rolls are hearty. their pork sandwiches are also amazing. -rick's steaks (in reading terminal market, center city). it's a relative of pat's, but they have pepper jack cheese as an option, which makes it outstanding. -d'alessandro's, which is up in the roxborough section of the city. their rolls are really fresh and the cheesesteak is bigger than you'll get at pat's or geno's.
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Chris Carpenter to start Wednesday
TruffleShuffle replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in General Baseball Talk
two rehab starts seems like a low number for a guy rehabbing from TJS. -
fun question - if the red sox could turn back the clock, would they opt to not do the hanley/a. sanchez for beckett deal?
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i think that's neal cotts, actually.
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sweet, i was down 34 and in 22nd place on june 8... now i'm only down 16 and i'm up to 4th. problem is, i don't have any dead weight to drop. i could dump swisher or laroche, but laroche has been on a tear and always hits a lot in the summer, and swisher still has 14 homers, which isn't terrible. i have to start employing some strategy now. my team overlaps with logan except for... him: pujols, uggla, d. lee, mccann, hamilton me: teixeira, swisher, aramis, laroche, ankiel if i dropped swisher it'd probably be for uggla, which isn't making up any ground. i guess i just have to hope that laroche stays hot and maybe one of his guys (feel free, pujols) gets hurt.
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same here. so much for me being an optimist :lol:
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i'm playing the "square two" irons that my parents bought me in 9th grade. i'm also using my original putter, and a driver called "Harpoon" because my parents were too cheap to get me a Big Bertha when i asked for a new driver in high school.
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if so, i'll do the same thing i did last year - sleep through the game.
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we haven't owned it this year
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i'm just glad yesterday shook out the way it did, with the cubs being up a game in the division. i could see the brewers taking 3 of 4 and going up a game, but when two good teams play each other, it's very unlikely that either will come away with a four game sweep. so, at worst the cubs should be a game back, and they might be up three.
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i am the 1927 yankees of the accu-league 186-82-38 .670 first place by 38.5 games Last 9 weeks: Won 11-4, 15-1, 12-5, 9-6, 12-5, 12-4, 13-4, 15-2, 15-1 (114-32-16) 1st in runs, 5th in singles, 1st in doubles, 2nd in triples, 1st in HR, 1st in RBI, 3rd in SB, 13th in K :x , 1st in OPS, 1st in wins, 11th in losses, 1st in CG, 1st in shutouts, 5th in saves, 1st in K, 1st in ERA, 1st in WHIP, 1st in K/BB C B. McCann 1B C. Jackson 2B D. Pedroia 3B R. Braun SS T. Tulo OF J. Dye OF C. Hart OF G. Sizemore Util M. Kemp BN M. Aviles (don't trust Tulo's health at this point) BN M. Reynolds BN N. Swisher SP T. Lincecum SP CC Sabathia SP J. Duchscherer SP D. Lowe SP M. Garza SP T. Lilly RP M. Rivera RP G. Sherrill RP S. Torres DL K. Wood
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should be a great series... the two worst pitchers in each rotation are not going and the teams are only separated by one game. it's nice to have a series that is so important in late july... i still don't take it for granted after all the God-awful cub teams i've seen. and, i'm semi-happy for brewer fans that they have a legitimate playoff contender to root for, since they've been in the same boat as us cub fans for a lot of years.
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Time To Trade Marquis?
TruffleShuffle replied to CubsWin's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Three simple letters...........D----F-------A. why? you're getting slightly below average performance for a guy who pitches every five days. that has some value. if he does his usual second-half nosedive then you pull him from the rotation, leave him off the playoff roster (that's going to happen anyway) and shop him in the offseason. if no interest, put him in the rotation next year until he turns into a pumpkin again. -
i think you guys are thinking of the manny ramirez who played like 3-5 years ago. this manny ramirez is a good hitter but not an elite hitter, and he's a brutal fielder. plus he's overpaid by a good amount given his overall level of production.
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just say cheesesteaks... not cheesesteak sandwiches. maybe he means two pieces of white bread with a cheese steak in between Funny how you can get a cheesesteak pretty much anywhere in the Mid Atlantic and just about all of them would be better than the one's you'd get in Philly. you're going to the wrong places in philly.
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you're probably right about this. from interviews, i always got the sense that baseball was his "other" sport while football was the primary one. like he would play baseball pretty much just in the spring, then in the summer he'd go to camp with the football team and play through the fall. i think football probably requires more preparation because you have to work out a lot (and do football player workouts, which aren't like workouts for other sports), learn the playbook and get on the same page as the starting quarterback. it seemed like he played baseball because he was just a really good athlete and was good enough to do it despite not dedicating much time to it. that being said, $10 million is a lot of scratch, and i don't think that it's a good allocation of resources to drop that much money on someone with so much uncertainty.
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i will just say that people have really made a lot of conclusions about a guy who has pitched four innings. he's filthy, a gamer, has moxie, great fastball with movement. billy petrick looked pretty good after a couple of innings last year too.
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well i think it's very clear cut, though this is a cubs board and i suspect that there will be enough homers that disagree with me. anyway, i've presented my argument, so i'll leave it up to the reader to decide. Well, for what it's worth, this reader read your last two responses to TT and will likely remember your pompous attitude about it much more than any logical arguments you might make in the future. to each his own
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oh he's a bad shortstop, no question. but he can play there if you need a guy to play there for a couple of innings. he'd probably make the plays hit right to him and screw everything else up. he's also played some third base.
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Top 2009 Prospect List from Scoutingbook.com
TruffleShuffle replied to Guancous's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
i'd trade vitters straight up for a whole lot of guys on that list, but most people knew that already. trevor cahill and brett anderson, jason heyward, rick porcello, wade davis. lars anderson is the guy we should've given a sizable bonus to, not drew rundle. brandon wood or jed lowrie? yes please. saying that mat gamel is a "bit of a liability at third base" is like saying that tony pena jr. is a bit of a liability at the plate. he's worse than ryan braun, if that is even possible. pedro alvarez at #63? wut? tyler colvin is #100. veal 112, samardzija 120, josh donaldson 172 (??), eric patterson 198 ("the scrappy Patterson has been a hot shortstop prospect for some time"), cashner 231, flaherty 269. i don't think ceda was on the list, though i only looked through it once. -
i remember reading this last year... it was from the 2006 BP handbook (published after the 2005 season): and it surprised me, because it sure looks to me like he has a quick and compact stroke with the bat. i also remember breaking down some of the numbers and seeing that his K-rate had dropped from like 22% of ABs when he started in the minor with the orioles, to something like 12% last year. for a guy who doesn't has decent pop but not a great deal, that adjustment was really the difference between being a career minor leaguer and a solid backup at the big league level. his k-rate kept dropping and i thought maybe von joshua had something to do with it. anyway, i'm glad to see him doing well. he certainly helped the cubs during soriano's absence and has proven that he deserves some playing time to give various players a day off.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-26-2008
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
what'd he do between 2007 and 2008? i saw that he was picked in the 37th round by the tigers out of high school. -
i think this plan is a good one, though i'd pitch him wherever - not just the 8th or 9th or any given inning. right now, i don't know that he has enough of an arsenal with his secondary pitches to keep fooling hitters multiple times through a lineup. the problem will be if he pitches really well in relief the rest of this season, the cubs may just keep him there next year and never really give him a chance to start again.
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it's possible that you don't like fontenot because you're completely negative about everything, but you also could've fallen into the trap that so many people on this board fell into - they see a little white guy who's been in the minors for a while and think "there's no way this guy can play" or "lolololol grit." his minor league line of .291/.366/.437/.803 suggests the ability to get on base and provide a little pop. his median pecota projection for this year was .278/.353/.424/.777 - not great for a regular starter, but plenty good for a spot starter who can play either middle infield position. he's been better than expected, but even at his expected level of production, he would've been a useful part of the team. and please everyone, let's start to understand that bat speed has just as much to do with power as size does. hanley ramirez is another good example of this. Hanley is listed at 6'3" 195 lbs. really? wow, last time i saw him listed it was 6'1" and 175 lbs. leon's getting larrrrrrger.
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that is a really bad idea.