jjgman21

when enough Cubs fans root for any team, that team begins to play like the Cubs.

McCann's pants are ridiculously stupid.

but i guess the receiver is allowed to touch the defensive back while the ball is in the air you didn't read my entire post.

you can't touch the receiver when the ball is in the air. I suppose if a receiver grabs the db by both shoulder pads and then shoves off once the ball is in the air, technically the db is touching the receiver.

meaningless or not, evidence right there that pitchers care about getting the "W"

magic # is the number of wins by the first place team plus the number of losses by the second place team, so yes.

this is really dumb. there's a good chance that the Cubs will need Marmol, Howry and Demp in a close game tomorrow. too bad we burnt them out in two blowouts.

yeah prior and wood were fine in 2003 too Thats not what I was commenting on. Commenting on those freaking out when he gave up a hit. I really didn't think what was going on could be classified as 'feaking out.' but whatever.

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+1 Edmonds is done too now. It's basically Pujols and scrubs on that team. Pujols is done too. that leaves scrubs.

agree 100%.

come on Bob. it was 0-2.

game day people Ward K's on 3-2 back door slider Soriano double to lf corner, both runner score DeRo lineout to right.

while that was a nice backdoor slider to Ward, what has been lost in the good pitching, hitting, and defensive performance of the Cubs today is some pretty terrible umpiring by Hallion today.

now Monroe? we keep saying it, but now would really be the time for that first Cubbie dinger. edit - never mind. come on pretty boy.

the Cubs should have about 9 runs with the way they have hit the ball today., the Bucs none. and what will brewcrew fan board say? two errors! how lucky!

RBI is not meaningless. When it comes to evaluating an individual player's performance, yes, it pretty much is. because the stats show that batters are no better in "clutch" situations than in "nonclutch" situations. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/6014/situational;_ylt=AiOdIGbve4WS2MzSUeKPdn6FCLcF http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/6014/situational;_ylt=AtxcXjhol3bdxrEebElBtkCFCLcF?year=2006&type=Batting http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/6014/situational;_ylt=Amw.C6HHjgFt5wyeyBBVp1iFCLcF?year=2005&type=Batting http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/6014/situational;_ylt=Aki4QRrJIYdEN9f6.fHIaI.FCLcF?year=2004&type=Batting accept the stats show Aramis is better in clutch situations year after year.

there you go Pat Hughes.

no.

his last start, I came on and bitched down the Hill homers for excusing him for some poor pitching. now I have to bitch down the Hill haters from not seeing his performance thus far for what it is, bad luck pitching.

whaaaaa? if anyone had hit the ball hard I would understand, but that's not what is going on here.

Bonds has said that if he's not a Giant, he's not playing left field, so I don't know why this is even a point of discussion. as for moving Soriano to right, I'm all for it. better yet, move him back to second.

look for Wainwright and Looper to come down with hang nails and Kip Wells and Mike Maroth to get those starts.

you're missing the mark here. I don't think there has been a large amount of complaining about how the Cardinals won and lost their ballgames like we see the Brewers fans complaining about. what we have complained about is 16th round picks becoming the best hitters in baseball, career crap players constantly having career years once they put on the Cardinal uniform or at least carrying the team for a couple months (ie. Abraham Nunez), outperforming Pythag on a yearly basis, etc. I personally have complained about the beneficial strikezone the Cards seem to get year after year. put that on me, not all of NSBB or all Cubs fans.

what's truly pathetic about that Brewers fans comments is by it's own terms, there was no luck involved in many of those plays, let alone that at least one is factually incorrect. 9/12 - why is the "lame groundout" not a function of skill as opposed to luck? Demp made a nasty pitch to get that grounder. as for the DP, sorry our GG first baseman made that play, but wouldn't letting a game get tied because of one little bobble by said GG first baseman be bad luck? three players made great plays. that's not luck. 9/14 - first off, Izzy came in at the beginning of the inning. perhaps if the Cubs weren't so unlucky that Pie's lazer beam didn't clear the wall, the rest of the inning wouldn't have played out like it did. as for Izzy making 'one mistake,' that's really what hitting is all about. waiting for that one mistake and not missing it. why a fifth crappy hitter in a row not getting a hit is 'lucky' I have no idea, but Theriot made a very good play on a very difficult ball. 9/15 - making a pitcher accumulate 115 pitches while retiring 17 in a row isn't luck. it is a skill rarely displayed by the Cubs called strikezone judgment. I didn't see the game, so I have no idea if the Cubs got a break on a ball three pitch, but if I had a dollar for every generous strike call Franquelis Osoria received yesterday I would treat you and your entire family to banana split. questionable pitches happen all the time, the Cubs quite often coming up on the short end. why Soriano hitting a pitch from a pitcher with a 2.34 ERA, who also happens to be faltering quite a bit lately, is "luck" I have no idea. it really seems to be a matter of skill. 9/19 - perfect throws from 235 feet away are now luck? the Reds third base coach shouldn't have sent Hopper, but the Cubs still had to make a perfect play and they made it. yes, the Cubs scratched across a run. three line drives back to back to back often result in scoring a run.