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  1. CubinNY
    Lou must be having kittens in the dugout. Marquis got lucky there.
  2. CubinNY
    Throw strikes damnit. Marquis is so frustrating.
  3. CubinNY
    I agree. But the Braves are out of it so Cox is trying to limit the damage and get guys into the game too. At this point it's almost like ST for a team like the Braves.
  4. CubinNY
    Mine is working.
  5. CubinNY
    Seriously, Jim Edmonds? His performance is so far more than I ever expected it is beyond my ability to explain. Simply amazing.
  6. CubinNY
    Dave Otto is a terrible replacement for Santo. Pat, as always is great.
  7. CubinNY
    If you are sitting in the bleachers, the price of beer isn't an issue. Yea, I know. The two statements are independent of each other. It's actually good they don't serve beer in the bleachers because the fans are crazy enough without it. I think it's pretty stupid. It encourages getting wasted before showing up and bringing in hard liquor. I've been out there when beer was available, and it wasn't that bad. You wouldn't bring your 12-year old daughter, but it hasn't gotten any better since banning beer. I don't think there is a worse place to watch baseball than in the RF bleachers of Yankee stadium. Those guys are the dregs of humanity and proud of it. I don't know how many of them can afford to go to the game.
  8. CubinNY
    Or at least point out that the statement is moronic. The question is the person's level of prior information. Wins are important, but they are a team statistic, not an individual statistic. Wins as a statistic for a pitcher becomes less important with each game the pitcher does not finish. And within in that, each inning that is not pitched.
  9. CubinNY
    I agree.
  10. CubinNY
    I respect that your aversion to it is more about injury, and I feel ya there. But players diving for moving objects all the time in the outfield...and their hand gets to that spot far faster than their feet would have gotten to that spot. And that object is moving...in theory it should be easier to dive for a stationary object. Please no Bandon. Let's not go through this again. Keep your beliefs but know they are wrong. You can't catch a ball with your foot. You can't get to some spot ahead of you faster by stopping running. Catching it is irrelevant. Think of a diving catch. The ball lands at spot X and the player catches the ball just a hair from touching the ground. You really think that you could have gotten your foot to spot x faster than you could get your hand there so that the ball lands on your foot, or you can kick it? Sorry buddy...it's not wrong. It's common sense. Catching is completely relevant. In fact, it is the MOST relevant variable. It's maddening. What part of the body is closest to the ground? What is the fastest way to get to spot X with the body? That's it I'm done.
  11. CubinNY
    I respect that your aversion to it is more about injury, and I feel ya there. But players diving for moving objects all the time in the outfield...and their hand gets to that spot far faster than their feet would have gotten to that spot. And that object is moving...in theory it should be easier to dive for a stationary object. Please no Bandon. Let's not go through this again. Keep your beliefs but know they are wrong. You can't catch a ball with your foot. You can't get to some spot ahead of you faster by stopping running.
  12. CubinNY
    Does he have a twin? and what's with all the Nazi hair cuts?
  13. CubinNY
    How does a city hate another city? This doesn't make sense to me. Chicago and NY have always had a huge rivalry in many things, financial markets, architecture, art/museums, sporting teams, etc. Paris and Berlin had a pretty big rivalry a few years back. A city isn't just the land it occupies. It's the people and attitudes that shape it, and history is littered with cities that hated one another. Athens v Sparta, now that was a rivalry.
  14. CubinNY
    Karma is on our side this year.
  15. CubinNY
    An out is an out. If you want to look at something look at how many times he doesn't make an out. He gets on base nearly 40% of the time he comes to the plate. We've all seen this movie before.
  16. CubinNY
    Whogivesacrapaboutstrkeouts?
  17. CubinNY
    What makes you predict this? Position they play?
  18. CubinNY
    The only team in the playoff hunt that could've claimed him before Arizona was LA. Dunn's a Free Agent after the year. Does the team have to be in the playoff hunt to claim him? I thought any team could claim him but the team with the worst record gets him.
  19. CubinNY
    Last year some guy came and posted some pictures he took at Wrigley. the picture was a wide angle shot from the visitor's side of the field. I was using one for my desktop and stupidly put the photo in the trash. Does anyone remember the thread or have the pitchers. Thanks,
  20. CubinNY
    I can't believe another team didn't put in a claim on him. Baseball "people" are so myopic sometimes. The guy is a game changer almost every time he makes contact with the baseball. I am laughing so hard at the Reds. Dusty Ball, catch it! He's going to have the worst punch-and-Judy-no-walk-line-up in baseball. They've already quit on him, according to "the Cowboy". Maybe they're getting rid of the malcontents.
  21. CubinNY
    I'm agreeing with this. He's still playing good defense. He looks lost at the plate. It's hard for me to analyze his swing as I have a hard time understanding how he ever makes solid contact, but he seems to be really off balance and is expanding the strike zone.
  22. CubinNY
    That's awesome writing. I love it. You can taste the jealousy. It's another page or two in the rivalry.
  23. CubinNY
    I want some lotto numbers, staat.
  24. CubinNY
    Jeff Bagwell, Craig Biggio, Trevor Hoffman, Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling probably also fall into "that era" of people worthy of being in the HOF. Curt Schilling should only get into the HOF if he buys a ticket. The rest of them, yes.
  25. CubinNY
    No offense to Bruce Miles, but the BWAA sometimes behave like middle school girls. They see themselves as the gatekeepers, but they sometimes act like jilted lovers. I think they send a message to all the sluggers who put up good enough numbers for consideration and not vote them in for awhile. They should probably do the same thing to all the pitchers too, but they won't. I think it would be fitting to wait and put all of the steroid era players in at one time and have a special section of the Hall for them. If Smoltz, Glavin, and Maddux retire this year that will pretty much be everyone from that era. Bonds Sammy Mac Palmerio Clemens Glavin Piazza Maddux Smoltz --------- It sucks that everybody gets tarred with the same brush but I believe they all knew what was going on, so many are accessories. The only other person I can think of who is worthy from that era is Jeff Kent, but I'm sure I'm missing some (Jr. Griffee and Visquel). People like A-Rod and Jeter kind of fall in the middle and will have to play significant time outside of that era.
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