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  1. gflore34
    loss
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    The half season of Ramirez hurts, Byrd will play approximately as well as Bradley (less on base but more slugging, given his career numbers) but I'm not convinced we'll get anything better out of Zambrano or Harden's replacement(s) or even Soto this year So whats the big difference between this year and last year? Less Bobby Scales? Ok, peg us for a few extra wins on top of the 83 mark then Then go ahead and subtract a few more for a slightly worse bullpen and a month less of Lilly The big difference is we got older. Plus some of our guys are aging badly, Soriano. We will look better when Ramirez starts hitting, assuming he does. The thing that bothers me is I really don't think that the Cardinals are that good. They have two pitchers, one being held together by band aids one elite hitter and then one very good hitter. Why does it seem like they always overachieve and we always underachieve? I don't get that either, simply amazing that anyone they pick up off the waiver wire and throw in the bullpen becomes Mariano Rivera.
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    This is a bad, bad baseball team, there's nothing to point out and say - it's going to improve. The bullpen as is will continue to walk the world, Zambrano as well, it's pretty discouraging.
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    I kind of expect the Predators not knowing what hits them on Sunday. I think the Predator will see how outclass, talent wise, they truly are in this series. They're in for a hard dose of reality Sunday, in the long run this loss may turn out to be a good thing.
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    I attribute this lose more to luck than anything else, the Hawks are far superior to Nashville, luck will not win this series.
  6. gflore34
    The Cubs have got to be leading all of baseball in infield singles given up.
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    Thought Len was a little over the top with his Cardinals are stacked rhetoric, has he taken a close look at their pitching staff? It's pretty damn far from stacked.
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    The leash on Soriano has got to be shorter than a month, you just can't afford to keep playing a LF who can't catch the ball.
  9. gflore34
    If Lou pulls a double switch or the Cubs somehow manage to get to the pitchers spot this inning - ball game. Anybody not named Marmol is not going to get through the 8th un-scored upon.
  10. gflore34
    If close games are going to be the norm this season you've got to put someone in LF who can catch the ball - even Lou should be able to figure that out.
  11. gflore34
    Except for 2008 it's never going to change is it? Can't buy a hit with RISP, it's been like this for nine of the the last ten years.
  12. gflore34
    You know what pisses me off? The Cubs bullpen thus far costs them two wins yet, the collection of [expletive] that is the Cardinals bullpen hasn't affected them one bit. Ryan Franklin? Are you kidding me?
  13. gflore34
    Soto just plain sucks doesn't he? Maybe 2008 was an abberation.
  14. gflore34
    His craptastic offense wouldn't look so bad at 2B either. I'm fairly certain in a month or so it's not going to matter, he'll be benched.
  15. gflore34
    When was the last time Z threw a hitless inning? The no-hitter September 2008?
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    I'm somewhat glad about Detroit no longer being a possible first round opponent but, also, I was kind of hoping they would have been. All the crap about the Wings being the team no one wants to play in the first round is a load of bs, this is not last year's Wings or that of two years ago. They're not as good, they're not better the Hawks and the Hawks would have taken them in six games. I really wanted to see the Hawks beat them in the playoffs unfortunately, I don't think the Wings are going to make it out of the first round.
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    When you've got a bullpen that can't throw strikes that'll never happen.
  18. gflore34
    Zoubek just fouled the SI cover.
  19. gflore34
    Theriot still has the O'fer going, any takers for 0-20?
  20. gflore34
    There ya go! Marmol! If he consistently throws strikes nobody' going to touch him, throwing K's removes all the league has - take, take, take, pray for a BB.
  21. gflore34
    Given the discussions of probability, mean and regression to the mean in yesterday' Game Day thread, I'll propose a probability, p, for this event of .05 well, I'll stick by my "the law of averages is a bunch of crap" theory that truffle was so nice to archive for me, and say that the Cubs open at Wrigley at .500 or better. Cubs win tonight 5-3. Wells goes 7, gives up 3, and Marmol gets his first save of the season. Reads good to me, let's hope it's a reality by 10CT or so.
  22. gflore34
    Given the discussions of probability, mean and regression to the mean in yesterday' Game Day thread, I'll propose a probability, p, for this event of .05
  23. gflore34
    I suspect you're thinking of Andy Pratt, whom the Cubs acquired with Richard Lewis for Juan Cruz and Steve Smyth. He pitched in 4 games for the Cubs in 2004 (1.2 innings) and gave up 4 earned runs (21.60 ERA) on 7 walks (strangely, no hits) with 1 strikeout. In one game at Atlanta (which I was at) he faced 2 batters, both of whom walked, and both of whom then scored off of Farnsworth, which helped turn a 2-1 lead into a 5-2 loss. That's him, thanks. I knew his last name started with a P and he was the son of a coach.
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    Yours wasn't going to be as awesome as this one. Don't stand in the way of awesome. I was hoping to improve on my overall 9-4 game thread record. Vanilla Ice, if the Cubs lose today, it is 100% your fault. if?
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    I don't believe so, well, not yet, a name which came to mind: Danny Jackson and the lefty they Cubs got from Atlanta, threw perhaps, 3 strikes as a Cub, got hurt and disappeared.
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