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  1. gflore34
    Why do I have the feeling that despite it being overtly obvious moves need to be made, Hendry' going to sit on his hands and wait it out? At the very least, these are moves that should be made: 1. Dump Jones, bring up Pie, put him in CF for the rest of season. 2. Dump Erye, bring up Carmen Pignietello or Clay Rapada 3. Dump Barrett, bring up Soto and go with him and Hill until Blanco comes off the DL These three moves would improve the team furthermore, if Hendry has any thoughts at all about saving his job and face, something must be done.
  2. gflore34
    The nonsense of Zambrano aside, today was exhibit A of Barrett' Baseball stupidity and defensive ineptitude, picked off again, passed ball, throwing error.
  3. gflore34
    Absolutely unacceptable. Z's days as a Cub are clearly numbered. As this point, I'd like to see him shipped to first taker for some prospects and Guzman moved into the rotation. Barrett, on the other hand, I'd take a bucket of baseballs for him - used even.
  4. gflore34
    Juan Pierre, yes Juan Pierre, has more RBI's-13-than Soriano, words don't describe...
  5. gflore34
    The opposition grounding into DP's with two on and nobody out? I've seen everything now!!!
  6. gflore34
    But Jones is significantly older than Pie, so how can Jones not be the best option? If it Busty managing I'd grant you that but, I think Lou is reaching the end of patience with Jones.
  7. gflore34
    Another K for Jones, I really believe the Jacque Jones experiment is coming to end and quite soon.
  8. gflore34
    Kyle Davies has a CBS Sportsline Player Ranking of -1.25 and a career ERA of 6.16 given this, he'll quite probably go 7, giving only a run or two.
  9. gflore34
    Anybody for Orr's first HR of the season?
  10. gflore34
    Boy, that DP came out of nowhere!!!
  11. gflore34
    Gotta love those XBH's on 0-2 counts!
  12. gflore34
    Blanco' a better receiver, and he'll stop more pitches in dirt, look at Barrett' approach, he's never going improve at receiving pitches nor will he cut down on the passed balls. Moreover, team's run at will on Barrett, they'll not run so much on Blanco.
  13. gflore34
    I believe we'll see less of Barrett and Jones in the Cubs lineup and more of Blanco and hopefully, Pie. Barrett and Jones are both defensive liabilities and, for lack of better word, stupid when it comes to Baseball. What the Cubs "lose" in offense by not playing Barrett and Jones will be offset by what they'll gain in the defense Blanco and Pie bring. Barrett' worth as a catcher was his offense, if he's not hitting, he worthless as a catcher. As for Jones, last year, he at least, supplied some power, with the power outage, he's worthless as well.
  14. gflore34
    Not a riddle at all, its the Cubs, if Barry Bonds were a Cub, he probably be on the DL but, if weren't he'd have only a couple of HR's.
  15. gflore34
    What? And remove the shock/surprise element Jones and Pagan bring to the table? Tell me you aren't shocked and surprise every time Jones or Pagan gets on base. I saw Jones draw a BB yesterday, ten years from now, I'm going to be able to say to my sons - "It's not a myth, Jacque Jones actually drew a BB, I saw it."
  16. gflore34
    It's a little late but, raise your figurative hand if you knew DeRosa was going to K after Ramirez' K with runners on 1st and 2nd, 0 Outs (in the 4th, I believe). I'm raising my hand, told my wife before he stepped to plate, watch DeRosa K here.
  17. gflore34
    Honestly, I don't know what good firing Hendry will do, the damage has already been done, the roster is what it is. The time to fire him should have been the end of last season, before he had a chance to put together this mess.
  18. gflore34
    I'm wondering if the above is making the situation worse, that is, trying too hard can at times, exacerbate a bad situation.
  19. gflore34
    Bases loaded in San Diego, 1 out - GIDP 1st and Third in LA, 0 out, fails to make solid contact, runner is held at third Cubs don't score.
  20. gflore34
    As I was mowing my lawn this morning I was thinking about the Cubs being only 5 games out. And how many games Izturis offensive and defensive presence, or lack of, in the lineup has cost the Cubs. I know Baseball is a team sport however, Izturis has cost the Cubs at least four games this season. If the Cubs get those 4 games, despite today' loss they're tied with Brewers in the loss column, only a game out.
  21. gflore34
    What about Todd Helton? I know his numbers have been inflated due to Colorado nevertheless, he has put up some mind boggling stats - lifetime: .334 AVG, .432 OBP and .592 SLG
  22. gflore34
    well you're over exaggerating, but I think I have one explanation. think Mike Remilinger. when we are talking about soft tossing lefties, I think what we usually mean is a pitcher without a dominant fastball that primarily uses the change and/or the curve as his out pitch. quite often, these players have reverse splits, as we can see with Paul Maholm, Zach Duke and Tom Glavine. yet no matter what type of stuff a lefty throws, Lou (and Dusty before him) sends out an all right handed lineup each and every time, regardless of the splits. another problem with going all right handed against a lefty has been touched on by Brenly a couple times this year. the pitcher doesn't have to change anything to get hitters out. he sets into a groove of throwing darts to the outside corner, and lives there all game. left handed hitters generally feast on low, inside slow stuff, but the pitcher doesn't have to worry about it. he can throw the same pitch time after time and zero in his location in without interruption. This make sense you'd think Lou and perhaps, Perry might consider this? Because the all right handed hitting lineup isn't working nor has for the past 4+ seasons.
  23. gflore34
    Was Linebrink up in the pen? If so, probably however, given the choice, I'd take Theriot vs. Linebrink over Izturis vs. Wells.
  24. gflore34
    That inning was the proverbial "pitcher fighting himself" inning. Wells would throw a first pitch curve to the perfect spot on the outside corner. Or he'd let one fly that ends up looking like a pitch out. He wasn't just nibbling when he walked two guys, he was missing by a wide margin, which is pretty much the only way you can walk the always jumpy Michael Barrett late in a close game. Very high and outside, very low and inside. He was all over the place. I actually got excited thinking there was a good chance he'd throw such a bad pitch that even Izturis couldn't try and swing. To be fair, the DP pitch was probably a strike, but I still think you have to make him throw 2 in that situation. This may be a generalization but, I gotta believe a truly competent hitter would have made Wells throw more pitches.
  25. gflore34
    But wasn't he at about 95 and wasn't that about the limit during his rehab? 4 of the previous 6 outs were in the air, and a couple balls went pretty deep. It wasn't inevitable, but I know I wasn't expecting much more out of him. He had thrown 92 pitches in his previous start, but that was a strong 8 innings of a blowout game. The start before that, he threw 97 pitches. By my count, he was at 87 pitches through 6 and had retired 10 Padres in a row. I don't see any reason why he couldn't be trusted to go another inning. My bad, I was subtracting the pitches leading up to the HR away from his 100+ total, forgetting that he stayed in the game after that. I wasn't keeping track during the game, but I thought it was time to pull him. Regardless, I'm still pissed Izturis swung on 3-1. A K and Marshall is out of the game. A walk and the Cubs are up 2-0. I really wish somebody hit for him there. If anything you need a deep fly there, and Izturis is not good at those. I agree, Izturis should have been taking, in fact, if Wells was missing by as much as I've read (didn't see the game). He should have never swung the bat, chances are Wells would have thrown a ball before throwing two strikes. Even if he K's, a pinch hitter was on deck...
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