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Actually white sox fans and ND fans are in the same family The "I am sick of hearing them" family The words are different but the noise serves the same function. It is annoying If it's not whining about the Cubs from WS fans. It's whining about the schedule from ND fans. If it's not Maglio is better than Sammy from the WS fans. It's we could have had Randy Moss but we're too good from ND fans. It's all functionally equivalent. I can't wait until Weis leaves and ND becomes another mid major with a little history, just like Army. The WS are on their way down now.
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Is this b/c of the long season he just played or do teams do this for most 1st year players?
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I don't think it's that, though. He put up pretty darn good power numbers and his LD% is fairly reasonable. What most people have been criticizing him for is his lack of patience, which tends to be something that works across aluminum and wood bats. I wonder what his coaches told him they wanted to see out of him. I wouldn't at all be surprised if they told him some crap like they wanted him swinging the bat alot, being more aggressive at the plate than normal in order to quickly adjust from aluminum to wood. Either way, I'm not impressed with his showing, but, like I said, I'm waiting until after next season to declare him a good or bad pick. I'd wait longer than next year before declaring him anything, but my early impression remains skeptical, and will until he improves significantly. Oh, and you are probably dead on as far as what he's being instructed to do by the Cubs. I will remain skeptical too, probably more than most as I think the pick was terrible. Nevertheless, I am awaiting where he will go to for the winter leagues. I hope he goes to Mexico where he will see a lot of junk ball pitchers.
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Dusty is really showing how much he wants it. Frankly, I am shocked he is still putting Murton out there every three days a week. Pagan is the man to take them all the way to the top. Watch out KC we're coming for you.
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ugh Just say no to Joe!
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Beltran is a difference maker, instead we ended up with Burnitz. Hendry and his lack of foresight. I so wanted Beltran when he was on the market. Here was a player who is entering his prime and would likely produce throuhout the length of his contract. Going into 2005 Patterson was no sure thing, as we found out. Besides think about the defense.... Patterson in RF and Beltran in CF. Oh well, now we have JJ and will likely have Pierre for another two years. The Jones and Pierre signings aside, after 2004 was Beltran worth $17M/year when he had a career high OPS+ of 136? As great as his 2006 season has been, he and Boras were leveraging his incredible 2004 postseason to get completely overpaid, at the time, by the Mets. What you are saying is all correct, but Beltran will produce and be over paid.
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Beltran is a difference maker, instead we ended up with Burnitz. Hendry and his lack of foresight. I so wanted Beltran when he was on the market. Here was a player who is entering his prime and would likely produce throuhout the length of his contract. Going into 2005 Patterson was no sure thing, as we found out. Besides think about the defense.... Patterson in RF and Beltran in CF. Oh well, now we have JJ and will likely have Pierre for another two years.
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As I said every player's different. It's not my theory either. I'm just saying what Todd Walker has said. Maybe Todd Walker is the only baseball player who feels this way, I don't know. Maybe Todd Walkers was just making stuff up? Maybe he was asked a stupid question and started to theorize. Let's get this back to Hill. Maybe he is more comfortable pitching in the bigs. Maybe that's why is better. Maybe all his problems are psychological. It could be true. However, I highly doubt it. In life there is a learning curve for every organism. The learning can only take place from experience. Rich Hill started off terrible and wasn't given enough time to show what he could do before being yanked around by the brain trust. Now you are saying he has done ok with no pressure, when in fact you have no idea how much pressure he's been pitching under since being called up. Neither do I. But knowing what I know about behaivor, I'd say it was quite a bit. Dusty and Hendry both basically said, "It's time to put out and produce or you won't get another shot" the last time he came back.
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Are you freaking kidding? After his poor start of the season, demotion to the bullpen, and demotion to AAA, every start is a pressure situation. Pressure is an individual phenomenon not a team or group one. When I am golfing and am lining up a 4 foot put for par, with no money on the line, no crowd, and just my friends watching is one of the biggest pressure situation I face on a weekly basis. I don't agree with you. Even if he failed this time around he would've gotten serveral more shots at the bigs because of his stats in the minors. Todd Walker once said it's easy to play for smaller market teams that draw no fans because there is no pressure. Playing for Boston and NY is far more pressure, where you are expected to excel from day 1 and expected to win. I don't know how to respond other than asking you about when you feel pressure. Is it becuase of the situation or becuase of what others say about the situation? BTW- I would think that pitching in Wrigley in front of a packed house, for a manager and GM who haven't exactly "had his back" is a pretty big pressure situation. How much pressure do you think Anibel Sanchez had last night when he was pitching in front of 30,000 empty seats?
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--Joe Paterno =D> =D> =D> Go Penn State! Go Big Ten! Nothing would make me happier then to see ND go 0-for-the Big Ten. It will show everyone the REAL reason why they didn't want to join.
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Ticket exchange forum?
CubinNY replied to chuckywang's topic in North Side Baseball Issues & Suggestions
Wise non-move. Let Stub Hub et al. take care of that stuff. -
Are you freaking kidding? After his poor start of the season, demotion to the bullpen, and demotion to AAA, every start is a pressure situation. Pressure is an individual phenomenon not a team or group one. When I am golfing and am lining up a 4 foot put for par, with no money on the line, no crowd, and just my friends watching is one of the biggest pressure situation I face on a weekly basis.
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Dempster - only 9 of his 24 saves were 1 run leads.
CubinNY replied to frostwyrm's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Agreed. The only exception that I can think of is Marino Rivera who still pitches two innings on some occasions. -
Dempster - only 9 of his 24 saves were 1 run leads.
CubinNY replied to frostwyrm's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
The point is that Dempster has contributed very very little this year, despite having 24 saves. I'll also add that even successful closers are overvalued and overpaid, and when closers are less than totally successful they are absolutely hideous in terms of bang for the buck. How many closers on a .400 team do? Seriously. Mike Gonzalez is a talented young arm who gets little attention and has little value in Pittsburg, but that doesn't mean he isn't worth keeping in the closers role. Closers only have value on winning teams anyway, which is why I don't understand the thread. It seems to me you're beating up on a guy just because his team has been terrible. You are missing the point. The save stat is useless. It doesn't matter if Dempster was on a winning team or not. Simply giving the pitcher who pitched last in a close game a save is stupid. -
Oh, because the O-H-I-O chants are so awesome. OHIO is a weak chant. If 1/3 of the shoe chanted THE, next third chanted OHIO, last third chanted STATE, it would be comical. MIZZOU sounds like a decent chant. ILLINI is pretty good too. We are just sounds silly to me. you expect people in Ohio Stadium to be able to measure thirds? I wish I could refute these statments, but sadly I cannot.
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Ron, you do a great job of broadcasting the games. I've listened to a few since we moved down here. Embrace the future.
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I don't think so, from my painful experience the ball broke a blood vessel in the area and it bled. It's like a bruise on your skin except the blood vessels in the area are much bigger and the bleeding doesn't stop as fast. As long as things weren't detached he will be able to reproduce. BTW the ultrasound in that area is a very weird sensation. They put this viscus jell on everything and then.... well you get the picture.
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Yep. That's about the right color.
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Base clogger!!!
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Me neither. Especially from Smardjalphabet. He looked real good And that saftey better have shaved the rest of his head after the game or the Preists won't let him on campus. ND has standards to keep up after all.
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Memphis Tigers up 7-0 on OleMiss. Take that Olemiss!
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He took a ball to the balls, more than likely. It happend to me once and was the last time I caught a baseball game. My testies swelled up the size of a 16' softball and turned black.
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Chan Galey is a terrible coach, Charlie Weiss is not. So close but yet so far. And that was a terrible call on the spearing, but it probably had nothing to do with the outcome of the game.
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Agreed. Terrible call.
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Probably because you weren't in the clubhouse. :wink: Phil has notoriously been perceived as someone who let the fame go to his head and treated others around him (non-players) as though they were beneath him. So when were you in a clubhouse? Bruce Miles is in the Clubhouse almost every game, and he said something to that effect.