TruffleShuffle

if you're suggesting that a player like kosuke will make about as many fundamental mistakes as ronny cedeno given the same playing time, you're going to be wrong. very wrong.

and that's a big reason why ronny doesn't play more

of course chris "aborted fetus" duncan gets a 2-out rbi.

he played against walter johnson, so the 98 mph fastballs probably wouldn't faze him.

what a joke. f the cardinals.

I kinda don't hate it. Yeah, I mean it's not bad. But if Cedeno has a bad night there are 3 automatic outs in a row in that lineup. theriot gets on base 1/3 of the time, that's hardly an automatic out. if he's an auto out then it's actually 4 in a row since soriano has an OBP around theriot's.

A. Soriano lf R. Johnson cf D. Lee 1b A. Ramirez 3b G. Soto c M. DeRosa rf R. Cedeno 2b R. Theriot ss T. Lilly p S. Victorino J. Werth rf C. Utley 2b R. Howard 1b B. Ruth lf P. Feliz 3b C. Ruiz c E. Bruntlett ss C. Hamels p

You might even say he has a NO HITTER going. Also, he just hit a solo home run. yeah that's how it goes when you pitch for the giants, if you want to win you gotta get the runs for yourself

todd wellemeyer: 5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 7 K wtf

how long does a player have to be in the minors to start the season for the team to buy an extra year on his arbitration clock? i don't think longoria was down long enough for that.

No, it's really not, because our kneejerk reactions don't stupidly make the team worse. nor is this the first time that piniella has stupidly made a knee-jerk reaction. there is a history of giving up on things way too early that dates back to last season.

i am angry that people who did not have utley on their team are allowed to pick him up. utley in the "d list" was the biggest gimme of all.

i guess every game the flyers play is a game closer to watching claude giroux play nightly for us. he's beating up the QMJHL playoffs this year: 10 games, 9 goals, 18 assists, 27 points, +15. nobody else in the league has more than 19 playoff points. i am very high on him - we are deep at forward but he should be a top two line winger.

holy crap! cubs need to start spreading rumors about crow that he can't keep the ball in the yard, and maybe throw something in the rumors about him having trouble keeping his pitches down because of a shoulder injury he's hiding.

oh, i think that much of the fan base is already fully convinced of this, regardless of how the cubs handle felix pie. my problem with this type of thinking is that a lot of really good organizations are in "win now" mode and still manage to break players into the big leagues. dustin pedroia sucked ass for a few weeks at the beginning of last season, but he turned it around and won the AL RoY. Robinson Cano was lousy to start his career. the red sox and yankees are pretty much in perpetual "win now" mode. see, smart organizations understand that it's worth sacrificing a small handful of wins if at the end of the day, you manufacture a good player who will contribute to your team's success for several years. if the cubs play felix pie all year and he is a couple of wins worse than, say, reed johnson, i'm not going to be pissed if we miss the playoffs by a game. if the cubs help pie reach his PECOTA projections (roughly .290/.350/.490) then he'll be one of the better CF in the league and give you excellent defense at a relatively cheap price for the next few years. unfortunately, the mindset of piniella seems to be that they have to do everything possible to win every single game, and if reed johnson gives the cubs a better chance to win today's game than felix pie, then reed johnson is starting that game. regardless of whether pie would be successful or not, this type mindset - favoring short-term gains over long-term development - is a foolish one, and the cubs need to rid themselves of it.

he had better be as good as i expect him to be.

It was the Giants. yeah, giving up 2 runs in 5 innings to them is an awful outing.

What do you expect them to do? Keep throwing him out there every 5th day and watch him melt down again? It's been brought up by him and the organization - Hill has some serious mental/confidence issues and sometimes he's his own worst enemy. This is the smart thing to do. Put him in the bullpen, give him the time and space he needs to correct his issues and let him earn his way back to the rotation. We have a pitcher in the pen who will actually improve the staff until Hill gets back to himself. How again is this a bad thing when the team actually will improve for the short term? Let me guess, you're also one of the guys who complain about Pie getting replaced although Pie looks completely overmatched when he gets his opportunities and Johnson is clearly outplaying him. quit while you're ahead. and by "ahead" i mean "way behind."

this is incredibly idiotic. i didn't think the cubs would be this stupid with hill, again, but here we are. God, why couldn't i root for a team with normal, level-headed, competent people in charge?

oh okay, since you asked nicely i will admit that the 23 plate appearances he's had this year are more than enough to tell us, without question, that he is never going to be a quality major league baseball player. thank you for helping me to get the truth out there.

he was a high school hitter drafted by the cubs, that should've tempered your enthusiasm right away.

yeah we really needed to get ward and his 1-10 against myers into the lineup tonight.

briere was only on the ice for one goal against and was out there for all four of our goals. i don't think he was the problem. lupul plays on a line with richards, who's one of the best defensive forwards in the game, and kept ovechkin contained until modry/kukkonen gave him a goal. most of our forwards actually are good defensively - richards, gagne, carter, hartnell, umberger. by the way, umberger played on the fourth line for the first time all season tonight. because we all know that when you have a forward who had 50 points this year, the best thing to do with him is surprise him with a demotion to the fourth line in the playoffs! solid move there! if you watched the game, you might have noticed the flyers carrying the play during the second period, mostly because they had organized breakouts and a strong forecheck. then in the third period, they were stacking everyone up at the blue line and standing around in front of the net. do you think each player individually decided to stop playing the style that got them the lead, or maybe some other person told them to play a different style?

i predict some of this: http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u257/mistercolvin/output.gif

they're pretty good, but the flyers just stood around all third period. the last goal was horrible, modry (of course, he blows, but so does whoever else would've played in his place) can't make a decision in the defensive zone and coughs it up. same crap that's been happening all year; get a lead and then blow it because we stop doing the things that got us ahead in the first place. i guess i still have some hope that we look bad enough in this series that stevens will still be fired.