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Indians win - nice work JoBo!!
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Zell to Purchase Tribune Co., Sell Cubs
FergieJ31 replied to 98navigator's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
The fact that Reinsdorf hates Cuban gives me another reason to like Cuban. Would Reinsdorf have any more influence over MLB owner voting compared to his feeble influence when NBA owners voted Cuban in 29-1? I'm guessing Reinsdorf was the only no vote there. -
The natural (but unrealistic) extension of this sentimental idea is that the Chicago Cubs would become a publicly-owned, non-profit organization like the Green Bay Packers: http://www.packers.com/community/shareholders/ If by some miracle this ever happened I'd be first in line to buy shares. [/PipeDream]
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Zell to Purchase Tribune Co., Sell Cubs
FergieJ31 replied to 98navigator's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I used to sort of agree with the thought that Cuban would probably not get enough votes if he wanted to buy the Cubs, but I think the "he's too brash for conservative MLB owners" argument is overplayed and naive. As they said in Spinal Tap, "money talks, bs walks". Arguably Cuban would add intrigue, fan interest and hence positive value to MLB as a whole, and this is what prudent owners should care about with their vote. I also think it's telling that Cuban got a 29-1 approval when he bought the Mavs. Does Phil Rogers think NBA owners are that much less conservative than MLB owners? And I assume Reinsdorf was the lone defector, is that right? If so, I see Jerry had zero influence over other NBA owners. -
I have made a Go Cubs! post in the Opening Day game thread every year for the past three years. I've noticed something ... it helps the Cubs win on Opening Day but the season never turns out well. So this year I will make no such post. You can bookmark this thread and thank me after the Cubs win the World Series. This message brought to you by the Spurious Correlation Foundation.
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Boston is a good place for him; the pine tar won't show on that dark cap.
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It's that time of year again...
FergieJ31 replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Well said Annie -- let's play ball!! -
That was such a good game. http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2003/B10030CHN2003.htm I almost forgot Mark DeRosa was on that 2003 Atl team. He doubled and scored the only run in that game, and was a thorn in the series, going 3 for 7 with 2 doubles and a walk. Hopefully he'll post good postseason numbers for the Cubs this year too :wink: (hey I can dream)
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Prior vs Maddux, the matchup in Game 3 vs Atl ... seems like eons ago.
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The butterfly effect taken to extreme: http://www.log24.com/log/saved/Quantum_Baseball.html This is a very slippery slope for those of us who are superstitious :wink:
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So... One small thing, can effect many others. I'm more into focusing on what happens in the game. Hypothetical example: Soriano gets on base. Murton is up next. Soriano is caught stealing on a failed hit & run. The next pitch, Murton homers to left field. We are then all left saying "Man, why did he try to steal? It would've been a 2 run HR!! That idiot..."... How do we know that? How do we know that the pitcher's mind drastically changed to something as little Soriano being caught stealing 2B, or how do we know that Murton's mindset didnt change because of the failed hit & run? Should we really assume that Murton would've hit the home run anyway? Feel free to post your opinion. Yes!! I've been making this point for years - first time I've seen someone else say it. In philosophy this is related to causation and counterfactuals - it's speaking about a reality that doesn't exist but very conceivably could have existed if a prior causally-related event had happened differently. Is the pitcher's mental state affected by the runner at first? Absolutely. But this also opens Pandora's Box of predestiny and determinism. Are we even allowed to consider counterfactuals? It's possible that Soriano getting caught stealing was predestined from the instant of the Big Bang.
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This Texas ballclub is a team that is going to try to outscore you :roll:
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In This Thread, I Unveil Mark Prior's Future
FergieJ31 replied to KingCubsFan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Yep Joe Nathan - well played Laura. -
The Police have a few songs that accurately capture the Cub fan experience of recent years: Murder by Numbers King of Pain Driven to Tears ...
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Quite disturbing. Crap, by tomorrow that pic is gonna be someone's sig :oops:
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He was quite fun to watch play defense when he first started with the Mets. I remember one of his first games with the Mets in '96 (maybe it was even his debut), they were playing the Cardinals with Ozzie Smith. Rey made an incredible relay from his knees to gun someone out at the plate. After the game Ozzie made some remark along the lines of "I think we've just seen the second-coming of me."
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My favorite moment from the Rey Rey era - his two run bomb against the White Sox: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200407030.shtml There was a collective gasp of disbelief from the crowd; the surprise level would have been no higher if a flying saucer had landed in the outfield.
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http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/273029,CST-SPT-cub26.article Rothschild says Prior's velocity isn't completely back, but Piniella says: ''We're just going to make sure that he really feels that he's ready,'' Piniella said. ''There's no issues, nothing.''
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Wow - Lou keeps saying the right things. And that's about the best Lou quote I've heard since he was hired. That's actually an amazing and laudable thing for any manager to say out loud.
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I'll always remember his good 2001 season and him filling in as closer. Me too, and I'll always have even fonder memories of Sammy going yard on him in the bottom of the 15th against the Cardinals in this game: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2003/B09021CHN2003.htm
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Its the jewish guy from "So you think you can dance" which was like the "American Idol" for dancing. [/url] Oy vey so it's his yamulke flying off ... good, I was afraid it was his teeth. As for Bobby Hill's personality and whether he's cocky or not, I've heard 2 or 3 anecdotal stories that I won't repeat here. But suffice to say if there's even a modicum of truth to these stories then "confident" is a very polite word to describe him.
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He needs a theme song. 8-) :wink: I agree completely with don_k ... and the theme song won't matter because a deafening crowd will drown it out.
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I took "throwing with confidence" to mean "throwing without fear of re-injury", and erring on the side of caution. Maybe I'm reading too much in there. Sidenote: In 2004 I injured my achilles tendon very badly (not a tear but close) in the early summer. I got a lot of jokes that the injury was a "sympathy pain" of a die-hard Cub fan (I can laugh now :) ). Point is, it took me well over a year before I was able to play tennis "with confidence" and put real stress the heel again. Mark simply might not be feeling 100% confident about what kind of stress he can put on his right shoulder AND left oblique AND right subscapularis ... and that would affect his pitching motion, velocity, control .. everything.
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It's a little shaky and the audio is about 1 sec behind video, but still a pretty awesome scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihk24PUXW60
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For all the sophistication usually demonstrated on nsbb I'm astonished by the direction this thread has taken. Evaluating a GM via a linear regression based on 5 data points? Wow. I won't even go into how awful a linear model is here. Correlation has nothing to do with it - I'm not even sure what the correlating variables would be here. Yes the "trend" is -1.1 wins per year but the standard error of that slope is a whopping +/- 12. You can conclude nothing statistically there; it's absurd to even bring it up.