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  1. biittner77
    The bullpen would be a lot better if the starting pitchers didn't give up 5 runs per game. The talent in the pen is there it just hasn't shown up yet. Cotts is terrible and perhaps Piniella should consider not putting him in every game.
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    Samardzija's secondary pitches were erratic last year. He got by because teams didn't see him that much. He needs to improve those pitches and the best way to do that is in Iowa's rotation. The Cubs need to show the discipline to keep him there.
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    The imporvement of Peavy over Marshall outweighs the lack of production from whomever they call up to replace an injured starter.
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    On the other hand, if the Cubs got Peavy they'd have arguably 3 #1 caliber starters and 2 solid #2 starters. They could afford to have an actual #5 for a few starts here and there. If 3 of their front line starters get hurt they're dead even if they keep Marshall and Smardz
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    I don't see them retiring anybody's number anytime soon. It will probably be a long while before they give out 34 or 38
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    On mlb radio the other day they had some reporter saying that they think there will be a lot of salary dump type trades at this years deadline because of poor attendance in some places. So getting Wood back for free is more plausible than it would have been say 2 years ago. That being said, it's much more likely that the Cubs try to trade for a LH set up, move Old Style to Marmol's role and move Marmol to closer.
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    I don't know but I wanted to vote for Bob Vance of Bob Vance Refrigeration.
  8. biittner77
    Would all the seats be replaced with outdoor his/hers bathtubs?
  9. biittner77
    Cupcakes are more dangerous in week 1 than at any other time of the season except perhaps the final game. In week 1 they still believe they can win. By week 6 they know how bad they are and lose hope. The final week they're playing for their jobs.
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    I don't think it's a matter of him realizing he's not good at his job. I think he's fine at his job and knows that's always been good enough with Michael around. Now he's realizing that just doing enough disappoints the boss and he's getting caught with a lack of effort by the new guy. He realizes he doesn't try very hard and wants to make it look like he does. He's also realizing that this is what he's going to be doing the rest of his life. In season 1 he said that if this was really his job he'd have to throw himself in front of a train. Now he has a mortgage and has to take it seriously.
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    Was he tight when he was getting A, AA, AAA, and AAAA hitters out in ST? Tight used to be a slang expression for being drunk. Kevin Gregg can only get people out if he's drunk.
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    people make this argument all the time, and it's obvious that either a) it's not as easy as you think to throw certain pitches in certain spots all the time or b) he truly doesn't flail at every slider away. otherwise he'd be ryan harvey and not a borderline HOFer. Or C, professional baseball pitchers are cocky sons of bitches that think they can get anybody with their heat and don't need to [expletive] foot around with nothing but breaking balls. well, that's not true. baseball players probably aren't the brightest bunch, but they're smart enough to know that if all they have to do to get out soriano is throw him crap, they'd throw crap. The answer is probably more that a 4 seam fastball is the easiest pitch to throw for a strike and pitchers try to get ahead by throwing fastballs early in the count. This goes along with Soriano's propensity to swing at a lot of 1st pitches. There are also pitchers that can't throw a slider. I hope Soriano does make himself into a HOF candidate since that would require him to have 3 more above average seasons after this one. That would be 2 more than I expect to see.
  13. biittner77
    I don't much care what they're doing as long as they make it home in one piece. Someone mentioned earlier about switching a college D-lineman to OL. Didn't the Bears do that with Big Cat Williams?
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    I don't like Soriano. I am happy when he's productive and don't root against him. I hate seeing him flail away at that slider away. Why does anyone throw him anything else? Why is it wrong to hate good players? Any fool can hate bad players like Neifi Perez. It takes imagination to hate players that don't suck.
  15. biittner77
    Whoever said that Gregg= Dempster closing was exactly right. It won't be pretty but most of the time it will be effective. Another element to keeping Marmol in the set up role is money. If they move Marmol to closer it would likely double what he could ask for in arbitration. I'm not sure how much that weighs in the decision but its probably in there somewhere.
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    If you were Chad Fox and your options were pitching for Dusty Baker's Reds or retiring what would you do?
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    Yes. I'm tired of hearing how the Big 10 is boring. During the late 80s they tried to run n gun stuff with Tom Davis at Iowa, the Flying Illini and the fab 5 and never won anything. Now it seems like a big 10 team makes the fianl 4 just about every year. But out here it's all ACC is awesome, blah blah blah.
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    Listening to the idiots on ESPN talk about this trade would be funny if they weren't so contradictory and absurd. Jim Rome says the Bears gave up too much, that Cutler won't help because they don't have any receivers but he likes the trade because it shows the Bears are trying. FTH? Some other DA was saying Cutler would be no good because it gets cold in Chicago. I never realized that Denver was such a tropical paradise.
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    Personally I'm inclined to agree that it's a wash. But I'm not above citing the numbers just to stop the stupid argument dead in its tracks. No [expletive]. Arguing about guys that may have had some value when turf was the norm. The '85 Cardinals couldn't compete nowadays, kids. The [expletive] Astros don't even play on turf, and they invented it. I'd like to see what their individual obp were. Based on fuzzy memories it seems like they got on base a lot and scored lots of runs.
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    He was bad for us for half a season and had a bad spring. But he had some success in Oakland. I'm still surprised we couldn't trade him for something. It's not like his salary would make a trade impossible. Hendry was saying during the game on Saturday that he was shocked this spring when getting calls about his relievers how most teams in the league couldn't even take on 1 million dollars in salary. He couldn't believe that they didn't save a little flexibility at the 11th hour to add somebody. I'm pretty sure he was implying about his efforts to try to trade Gaudin and that the contract was just making that almost impossible. So they could have traded him but would have had to pay most of his salary. Instead they release him and have to pay all of his salary minus Legue minimum. That bra bomb better work Nerdlinger.
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    I wonder what the motive for the players is for this. I know many times they try to avoid too much of the statistical side not because they don't like it, but because they don't want any focus on that to affect them on the field. At the same time though, it can be hard to evaluate exactly what your weaknesses are on defense (as far as I know, position players don't look at videos of their defense nearly as much as their batting or opposing pitchers) and so their section could give them a fair objective opinion. Then again, who knows. They often have very different perspectives about things than fans. It looked to me like they were genuinely curious. They also seemed to think the book was fair to them. You're right, players have a different take on things than fans. That's probably why Theriot made his comment about errors. Pitchers, such as Maddux, talked about wins. That's their perspective. After reading what they said about Theriot I can see why the players would like it. He goes out of his way to not say anything really bad about Theriot. On the other hand he has poor range to the hole and his weak arm keeps him from making plays there. I suppose that would be true of a lot of SS. but it still seems like he's sugarcoating Theriot's defensive flaws.
  22. biittner77
    It seems like the Cards really shot up the charts. Wasn't their system pretty bad a couple years ago?
  23. biittner77
    TGJ seems like a guy that would be pretty anonymous if not for his father's HOF career. As far as the Gathright signing the only thing that makes any sense is that they were close to trading Fukudome to Seattle. That assumes logic. Hendry may have just wanted him because he's LH and fast.
  24. biittner77
    I totally missed the Pace signing. Is that a done deal? Did they say he'd be playing LT or is that speculation? To those that are piling on Schlereth, yes he's an idiot but Orton had a decent season last year considering what he had a bad O-line and a suspect O coordinator. Orton should be a good filler until they can draft another QB. This trade reminds me a lot of the Cubs finally filling the glaring hole at 3rd by getting Ramirez. As someone once said, I'm as happy as a very happy person who has a good reason to be happy.
  25. biittner77
    Not being able to make as many double switches may turn out to be a good thing. A situation where 2 of the MIs get hurt in the same game is pretty remote. What is much more likely is one of them has a nagging injury that's not bad enough for the DL but keeps them from being able to play.
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