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If I were Jim Hendry I would trade Wood as soon as possible. Yes, he can be dominating, but only for a handful of times per season. I knew that this would happen to him again this season. I was absolutely certain. If he only misses a start or two, I'm sure that it will happen again before the season is over. I don't think Wood scares anybody anymore. Yes, he can be lights out at times, but he is wild enough that disciplined lineups can draw enough walks and fight off enough pitches to elevate his pitch count and knock him out of the game in the 5th. The Cubs can get more for what they're paying Wood. They should try to trade him to the Texas Rangers for Mench or Nix.
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Will you shave one off if they sweep? No...., no shaving, but I would raise both of them..., just like Dan Plesac's wierd eyebrows. If the Cubs sweep, I'll raise you your raised eyebrows for a body painted Cubs logo streaking incident. But how could you live with yourself afterwords? The shame, the shame. You'd have to take a 2 hour shower just to feel clean afterwords.
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It's about time the Pirates called in their favor, after they gave the Cubs their whole team in 2003.
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So that Shingo for D. Lee trade never wen't through, huh?
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Reyes and Tavarez are pretty much doing what they did last year for us, minus Julian's bad first month or so last year. So that would be two career years in a row for them.
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The percentages are still the same then, and have been so the entire time. The quiz is complete crap. How could MLB.com mess it up so badly?
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I don't know but whatever it is is more than just luck. Good scouting? Jocketty seems to have some kind of gift lately for finding guys who will thrive under our system. They are average elsewhere, but bring them to STL and the blow up. They obviously saw something in Carpenter, though, that's not just a lucky break. They signed him when he was already injured after Toronto released him and let him get healthy. He was great last year, then had the nerve problem in the elbow that cut his season short. Right now he's practically unhittable.
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It was actually the Jim Edmonds "the catch" figurine day. Great pitching by all three Cardinal starters this weekend. Carpenter just absolutely dominated the Astros today. They looked like little leaguers. His cruve ball was just ridiculous. The Astros linuep isn't the best, for sure, but they were the hottest team in baseball over the last month coming into this series and the Cardinals put the smack down on them big time.
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There's a thread about this in rivalries. The poll is clearly total bs. Not only are most of the supposedly correct answers wrong, but those percentages have remained unchanged the entire life of the poll.
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The STATS also said that there was no way the BoSox should have won the ALCS but they did and it all hinged on one play or misplay. Game 1 Mark Bellhorn The Red Sox winning the ALCS hinged on Mark Bellhorn doing something in a game they lost? I think he's talking about Bellhorn's go ahead home run in game one of the WS.
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What a wonderful paragraph. Not only are the subjects worthy of high praise, but they are worthy of the lyrical qualities of these few sentences. This is almost a short prose poem. Notice the rhymes: "way" with "A," and later "business" and "exists." Almost an heroic couplet there at the end. And the whole thing has a subtle rhythm to it. Nice work.
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This quiz is absolute crap. Is it supposed to be some kind of joke?
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I got 2 out of 10 right. Almost everything else on that list happened before I was either born or old enough to follow baseball.
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Ha, not any more. :D Thank you Nationals.
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McCarver & Buck = Cruelest Form of Torture
vaball replied to The Voice of Reason's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I can't stand Buck because he editorializes all the time. When Rogers came into the game, the first thing you heard was about how he and possibly McCarver(didn't want to speak for him) had a change of heart about Rogers playing in the game. Same thing with the Randy Moss incident. He immediately went into saying that it was disgraceful, disgusting, and other such disses. On a related note, I was surprised when Buck was not doing Cardinal PBP on FSN this year. What's the story behind that? He does editorialize too much I agree. I usually just tune that out. He only does play by play for Cardinals home games, and only then when he isn't doing something for national Fox. -
Considering the relative sizes of the US and the Domincan the amount of talent coming out of that small country right now is amazing.
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McCarver & Buck = Cruelest Form of Torture
vaball replied to The Voice of Reason's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Tim McCarver is brutal. But Joe Buck isn't that bad. He's better when McCarver isn't his color man, he just brings the whole operation down. It sounds like what people mostly don't like about Buck is that he is a Cardinals fan. If that's the case just admit that's the reason, instead of pretending like he is bad at his craft. And accidentaly calling D Lee Carlos Lee is not evidence that he is bad at play by play. That kind of thing happens frequently in sports play by play. -
Even without Arod, the Dominican team is going to dominate this thing. Their infield alone could possibly be Pujols, Soriano, Tejada, Ramirez/Arod. Throw Manny out there in LF as well. Isn't Pedro Domincan too?
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I just watched The Two Towers. Now I'm assuming I know where your moniker comes from. I always wondered about that.
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If Wags is traded, I'll put my money on Boston, who needs him more and has just as much if not more to offer. I think his destination will come down to prospects. Somehwere in this thread is a quote from Epstein about not mortgaging the future to win now. I agree though that Boston is a likely destination, and that it is more likely that he would be dealt there, or to the Cardinals, than to a divisional rival like Miami or Atlanta.
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The price in terms of prospects for Wagner will be high, but not sky high. His impending free-agency and the unlikelihood that he will resign with Philly creates a big incentive to get something for him this season. There is therefore the impetus to get something for him while they can on Philly's end. Other teams will be equally aware of this. How much Philly will get will probably be determined by which GM blinks first. I think it unlikely that the Cards would trade either Wainright of Reyes for Wagner. Walt has a real knack for getting teams to take a handful of mid-level prospects.
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Well if Rob Neyer thinks so, then it must be true. (Insert appeal to authority falacy.) Obviously Clemens has better numbers, but the game showed that it would have made no friggin' difference who started. Carpenter and Clemens were the only NL starters who didn't give up any runs anyway. It wouldn't have made a difference if Willis started either, only that the AL would have gotten the lead an inning sooner. Though it would have been nice if he hadn't given up that two run bomb to Teixera cause the NL eventually got 5 runs and maybe could have taken it to extra innings if Dontrelle hadn't of pitched so badly.
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I hate the American League and everything it stands for. Why home field advantage can't be decided by the team with the best record is beyond me.
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Clemens did deserve to start over Carpenter. Willis did not. As I thought would likely happen, Willis pitched badly. Not like it matters who started this game anyway.
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What are you talking about? He ran WAY out of the basepath to try and break up that double play.