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  1. FergieJ31
    The Cards appear to be absolutely shell-shocked. Someone should remind them they are 1 up in the loss column with 4 to play, and try to forget where they were 10 days ago.
  2. FergieJ31
    Wow, a guy with a 6.02 ERA has 14 wins on the year. Unbelievable. He's nearly won fifteen games. How can anyone say he's had a bad year? :lol: On a serious note, leaving aside the pointlessness of talking about win/loss for pitchers, it's always bugged me that people look at win totals to judge a guy, over w%. A 16-14 season will get more attention than a 10-3 season. If a guy wins 15 games, it's considered an accomplishment, but if he loses 15, it's ignored. If a team is just about .500 when a guy pitches, they still talk about what a good job he did as long as he's won more than 12 games. You hear stuff like, "well, he struggled with a 4.85 ERA, but he still won 14". Who cares about win totals? If anything it's w/l, but it should be neither. Well said - I absolutely agree. When it comes to pitcher stats, in order or importance: WHIP > ERA+ > W/L % > Wins
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    I couldn't agree more, but I don't think Telander was slapping a brain-dead "bad luck" label on the Cubs. On the contrary: "Do you really think stuff like that just happens again and again because of bad luck? No, [...] the Cubs have something systemically wrong with them." Granted, he could've done a better job with the "systemically wrong" analysis that followed. Telander merely wrote a bullet-point litany of 2006 Cub angst instead of addressing underlying issues like OBP under-valuation, over-valuation of scouting and athleticism, mismanagement both on and off the field, etc. I don't think it was meant to be a analytical article. Of course not, but my point (and I think goony's too) is that he didn't write that very well. The bullet-point thing was just a fluff piece, especially following the compelling line about "it's not just bad luck" (which I agree 100% with). He didn't address anything substantial.
  4. FergieJ31
    Over/under on how many times he predicts the hitter K's on a slider low and away? I'd LOVE to see Stone back in the booth. I don't mean to single you out vance, but I think the low-and-away slider joke has been overplayed. It's not as if Stone never offered a LOT more interesting and non-trivial insights than that. I don't think it's overplayed. I think Stone's use of that was overplayed. He offered a lot of interesting insights. But by the end, he was just calling for sliders low and away on every pitch. It is overplayed, but we all have selective memory on certain things. It's funny ... I remember Stoney for calling for a pitcher to get a guy out with high heat ("look for Prior to run up the ladder again here") much more than the low and away slider.
  5. FergieJ31
    I couldn't agree more, but I don't think Telander was slapping a brain-dead "bad luck" label on the Cubs. On the contrary: "Do you really think stuff like that just happens again and again because of bad luck? No, [...] the Cubs have something systemically wrong with them." Granted, he could've done a better job with the "systemically wrong" analysis that followed. Telander merely wrote a bullet-point litany of 2006 Cub angst instead of addressing underlying issues like OBP under-valuation, over-valuation of scouting and athleticism, mismanagement both on and off the field, etc.
  6. FergieJ31
    Over/under on how many times he predicts the hitter K's on a slider low and away? I'd LOVE to see Stone back in the booth. I don't mean to single you out vance, but I think the low-and-away slider joke has been overplayed. It's not as if Stone never offered a LOT more interesting and non-trivial insights than that.
  7. FergieJ31
    They had the coin flip, the game would be in Houston. I might have to try to score a ticket for that game if it were to happen. I hate the Astros, but I'd want to see the Cardinals' demise in person. That will be an absolutely amazing baseball game if it happens, especially for Astros fans. Imagine getting a chance to see your team complete one of the biggest comebacks in baseball history against a division foe, and to clinch against that foe at home. And to add to that drama, the backdrop of the '04 NLCS and '05 NLCS series ... wow :shock:
  8. FergieJ31
    In the event of a tie between the Cards and Astros, does anyone know where the one game playoff would be played? Is home field based on a coin flip or head-to-head WL record? I assume the playoff would be Tuesday, because the Cards play a make-up game against SF (in Stl) on Monday if necessary.
  9. FergieJ31
    Agreed - very nice article. The only silly thing he wrote was that this year is "arguably their most disappointing since 1969". Huh? Does Phil not remember 2004? The realistic pre-season expectations of that team were so much higher than this year's team.
  10. FergieJ31
    No question about it, but as Billy Beane said: "My job is to get my team into the playoffs. What happens after that is a g**d*** crapshoot."
  11. FergieJ31
    Yeah but Sox fans will always have 2005 on us. It's the absolute, ultimate, no-possible-retort last word in any sort of trashtalk. [ Oops, did I say 'always'? Ouch that was pessimistic. Visualize AC000000 ]
  12. FergieJ31
    Yeah if I were a Cards fan I'd be pretty nervous. I imagine TLR's sphincter is pretty darn tight these days. But there is some cause for optimism for the Cards: Their slump reminds me of the White Sox late season scare a year ago, when the Indians came on like gangbusters. And look what happened in the post-season. The whole "momentum going into the playoffs" thing is a myth.
  13. FergieJ31
    :lol: great post. And pass some of that peyote my way plzz.
  14. FergieJ31
    Shooter had one of the all-time great mullets. One of these days we need to assemble an all-star-all-mullet team on NSBB (or maybe it's already been done?) pitchers, Big Unit, Rod Beck, Dennis Eckersley ... position players: John Kruk (and pretty much all the Phillies teams of the early '90s), Mike Piazza, Vinny Castilla, Mark McGwire ... Back on topic, I'll never forget that wild run in '98, up to the last day when some Rockie I barely heard of named Neifi Perez put the Cubs into tie for the WC. Neifi saved Brant Brown from an even worse fate than being remembered only for that play.
  15. FergieJ31
    Meant to post this yesterday, the eight-year anniversary of the infamous Brant Brown play (it must be the masochist in me that wants to commemorate the day, but Cubs fan = masochist by definition) http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/news/1998/09/23/cubs_brewers/cubs.html You can hear someone in that clip (Steve Stone?) mistakenly say "tie game" - then correct himself a second later. This audio clip of Santo is very short: http://www.northtonorth.com/pages/soundclips/santoohno.mp3 We've all had too many "Oh no!! Noo!!" moments since that day :cry:
  16. FergieJ31
    I did the math, Kerry Wood has made $14,171.51 per pitch the past two seasons. And considerably more per strike.
  17. FergieJ31
    I assume you root for the White Sox? There's nothing wrong with having a few teams you actively hate. Hell yeah I rooted for the White Sox in the last World Series. It was great for the city of chicago. I have alot of friends who are Sox fans and even though there is your usual back and forth banter, I was happy they got to experience the joy of a world series. You are a better man than I. I have a lot of friends & co-workers who are Sox fans, and I was happy for them last year. Just like I was happy for the Cards fans I know when they won the pennant in 04. But no matter how much I like my friends, there's no way in heck I'm rooting for either team in the WS.
  18. FergieJ31
    Fixed Well played :lol: Someone here used to have a great sig that was a photo of Barry looking up and apparently pointing at a large Photoshopped asterisk hovering over his head ... loved that sig.
  19. FergieJ31
    That was one of the funniest chatroom bits I've seen all year on progressiveboink.
  20. FergieJ31
    I'd rather have the pitcher reach base. It's not even close.
  21. FergieJ31
    And Les Walrond. Well played. Ryu kidding? I Juan Jim to Rusch Glendon out the door, and Mabry I'll buy tickets again. Howry we gonna compete? That's Rich. Ohman. I LOL'ed. Me too - and no well-trod Wood-en puns makes it more impressive. It's only missing a line about getting our Prior-ities straight.
  22. FergieJ31
    Impossible - we all know Dusty is a racist :roll:
  23. FergieJ31
    Juuuuuuuu-nior!!! wtg :D
  24. FergieJ31
    I could be wrong but I don't think it's sarcasm. I don't think Dusty meant anything other than ARam getting red hot without DLee in the lineup.
  25. FergieJ31
    Greg, is that you?
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