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  1. AlwaysaCub
    Do you post here only to laugh at people that aren't blindly optimistic? More like post here to laugh at the obnoxious pessimists. How old are you? Why wouldn't you be a pessimist, or more like a realist. Optimists are obnoxious. Meanwhile, Marquis needs to hit the showers and the waiver wire fast.
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    i didnt write that you fraud. I am not a marquis fan by any stretch but he isnt below average at all OMG JACQUE!!!! WHAT A PLAY I'm pretty sure his ERA+ proves he's the definition of below average. what is his era+? 110 this year
  3. AlwaysaCub
    If blanco makes an out without a double play, do you pinch hit for Marquis? Will Lou?
  4. AlwaysaCub
    This would be how a team outperforms a Pythag record by 20 games. Insanity...anyone know what the record is? Theres actually a really good article about how the Diamondbacks are "beating" their Pythagorean Record. They really aren't "beating" anything, they just are really good but tend to lose in blowouts because of how bad the back end of their bullpen is. Where is said article?
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    This would be how a team outperforms a Pythag record by 20 games. Insanity...anyone know what the record is?
  6. AlwaysaCub
    Well, I think you should be jogging over regardless as soon as the ball is struck because, as was just proven, you never know.
  7. AlwaysaCub
    I wouldn't go that far. If we pull Marquis soon we still have a chance.
  8. AlwaysaCub
    Yeah he's great if all you care about are lead off homers. I wouldn't touch that .235 avg and .285 obp
  9. AlwaysaCub
    Sliders that bounce 5 feet in front of the plate is hardly nibbling. It's more like sucking.
  10. AlwaysaCub
    In 3 years, Mark Cuban. Today, Z.
  11. AlwaysaCub
    Dude, he was fast. Don't muddy the waters with actual logic.
  12. AlwaysaCub
    That would be shades of the 2003 5 game series at the start of September. It would again be a stake through the heart of that vampire Tony La Russa.
  13. AlwaysaCub
    I don't ever recall getting the sense that people here believed Jones was 'done'. They just thought he wasn't worth the money. One major difference between the two is that our GM didn't trade one of our best hitters for a below-average leadoff hitter and trumpet it as a smart move. Well, argue about chemistry all you want, but the year after that trade the White Sox won the World Series. If Jim Hendry could make a trade like that, even if for a worse player, would you really argue?
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    That graph is probably the flattest one i've ever seen.
  15. AlwaysaCub
    Yeah, but Soriano makes up practically a quarter of our power and we now only have two guys who are any threat to homer anymore in Ramirez and perhaps Lee. It takes an awful lot of singles every night to score enough to win.
  16. AlwaysaCub
    isn't it "dragged", not "drug"?
  17. AlwaysaCub
    Getting out of that using a 90 mph fastball was very un-Zambrano. He actually took something off rather than overthrowing.
  18. AlwaysaCub
    We don't match up well at all with the Padres...but they are now stuck with this newfangled curse of Mr. Barrett.
  19. AlwaysaCub
    I personally think the cadence in his speech in the Chevy Commercial is great. " "Well, if he drives an 07ChevyTaho, then he can get to the ball park justlikeme!"
  20. AlwaysaCub
    Yeah, this is a real turning point for them. One of three things could happen: 1. Yost loses the team but isn't fired, the Crew collapses. 2. He goes off on a tirade, and they get as hot as we were, which we can weather and overcome. 3. Yost gets fired, and the spririt of Harvey's Wallbangers guides them to the World Series to be swept by Cleveland. One is what we want. Three would suck.
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    x2 I was about to throw up
  22. AlwaysaCub
    in their defense, this year show that you can be perfectly (in fact, fantastically) effective and successful as a staff while giving up so many walks. Not saying it's a good idea -- long-term, I think it's a bad philosophy. Bit can work, for a while, it seems. It's all about the total number of baserunners you give up. Our team, by virtue of striking so many people out year after year has always had a low BAA. As long as they can be in the middle third in BB allowed, which this year they finally are, they are going to be pretty good at preventing runs. Also, our infield defense this year is really helping.
  23. AlwaysaCub
    But in the postseason and in critical games, your best pitchers pitch a much higher percentage of the innings. In the playoffs having a shutdown middle reliever is invaluable (See 2002 Angles, 2006 Tigers). I think this needs to e taken into consideration. How much of an upgrade over Floyd is Dye actually? The difference between Griffey and Jaque is much greater than the gap between Dye and Floyd, which is almost nothing at this stage in both of their careers. Floyd is hiting .294/.357/.397, an atrocious slugging percentage for a right fielder. Dye has a more respectable slugging, but is hitting only .234/.296/.459 overall, which as an overall line is even worse than Floyd's. But then again, Jason Kendall was hitting the mendoza line, so who knows.
  24. AlwaysaCub
    5 Hr in 8 games for Lee...that one was really huge considering how Zambrano has been pitching.
  25. AlwaysaCub
    CF Pierre SS Neifi 1B Lenny Harris 3B Macias oh, nevermind this is too depressing :) Gaah. I still have nightmares about that time he had Lenny Harris batting leadoff. :shock: Oh God I just remembered that. Then I threw up.
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