TruffleShuffle

always fun to wake up and see the cubs blew a seven run lead

take it back

the problem here is that you're talking about year-to-year flukes. greene has been way, way better away than at home every year since he started playing in san diego. he's had about 1100 PAs home and away, and the difference in OPS is 200 points. put it this way. todd helton's home OPS is 1.128 over the course of his career, and his road OPS is .885. If you played for an offense-neutral park and were to trade for him during a year where he is pretty much at his career averages, wouldn't you expect his OPS to be closer to .885 than to 1.128? Now everyone would say "of course, but that's because Todd Helton plays at a mile above sea level," but the past 2-3 years, San Diego has been as much of a pitcher's park as Colorado has been a hitter's park. Earlier in Helton's career, Colorado was a more extreme park toward hitters than San Diego is toward pitchers, but the fact remains that San Diego is the best pitcher's park in baseball, by a pretty significant margin. Add to that the fact that Greene's game - fly balls and hitting for power - is affected very adversely by the heavy marine air and deep outfield of Petco. So if you're trading for Khalil Green, I think you can have a pretty high level of confidence that he'll be at or very slightly below his career road OPS, rather than near his overall career OPS.

while we're at it, bench ARam for this game and start fontenot in his place.

are you referring to matt laporta? if so, no they didn't.

i agree with what someone said in the game thread. once howry gets over his usual first month or month and a half of suckiness, i'll put our bullpen up against anyone else in the league. unless eyre starts pitching again, because he makes it worse.

Rick Ankiel: 3 Cub leader in home runs: 3, Derrek Lee :-& #-o

either that or they win a gold glove

he will slump, but the difference between him and soriano is that he will actually walk when he is slumping, so he won't turn into complete dead weight in the lineup.

his last name is hams? boy i hope he turns out good.

file that under bad trade ideas.

eat that, everyone in my work fantasy league who laughed at me for drafting kerry wood

Blanco is a good backup catcher...who's gonna play like once every three games. Chill out bout the salary henry blanco is not a good backup catcher, and if he's playing once every three games, he's playing way too much on your feet

holy hell san francisco is bad

oh well, it's not like we're paying blanco $2.8M or anything.

yeah that ball was more than a foot outside. maybe runge doesn't like the japanese.

i have to jump in here, because this is a very common misconception of pie. he's not utterly impatient; he's averaged 3.74 pitches per at bat, which is nearly or very slightly above where aramis ramirez is most years. pie actually shows decent patience at the plate. his biggest problem, IMO, is pitch recognition and judgment about what to swing at. when he gets in a hole he does a poor job of shortening his swing and making contact. there are also times when he is ahead in the count and swings at a pitcher's pitch, grounding out or popping out weakly. if anything, his instincts are lacking at the plate, but he is not a true hacker in the vein of corey patterson.

i hope he sucks.

man, do you like anyone or anything in sports? i said i dislike john calipari, not john wooden.

not only is he a very good player but he is a very smart player. his "error" was a good throw and he got screwed when weeks ran over soto; his caught stealing was very good instincts but bad luck that the would-be WP happened to bounce off the batter. he really knows how to work the count and foul off tough pitches until he gets one to hit. we have had a lot of stupid players/hitters on this team - barrett, jock and soriano spring to mind - so it's nice to see a guy who plays with his head not in his rear end.

ryan harvey for nick markakis or lastings milledge luis montanez for chase utley mark pawelek for jacoby ellsbury tyler colvin for travis snider

eric patterson

win or lose, i'm kinda hoping calipari has the same final four experience as his first one - it gets wiped off the books completely.

just once i would like to hear billy packer say "bad decision" or "poor shot" while a ball is in the air. he is the king of second guessing. arthur's last shot was a perfect example; guy shoots a wide open jumper, puts it off the heel, and after the miss billy says "why?" because there was nobody within 10 feet of him, you miserable old prick.

apparently every time a UNC player shoots a three and misses, billy fudge packer is going to tell us that it was a bad shot because the guy is trying to tie the game with one shot. what a miserable old piece of crap.