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YES 1-0 CUBS!!

cmon marshall

we got this. excited to see if kendall is worth a damn.

Scheurholz Beane Ryan Shapiro Epstein Dombrowski Jocketty Melvin Stoneman Jocketty

as much of a clown as this guy might be, its not unfathomable that the cardinals could turn it on and win the wild card. Did anyone, let alone us expect us to have a fighting chance after that series loss to texas? Theres still way to much baseball to be played to make assumptions.

+1 for meph

i love ryan braun, the jew bastard. He's going to be one of the highlights from that amazing 2005 draft for a while. Upton Gordon Zimmerman Braun Tulowitzki Maybin Bruce Ellsbury Sterling bunch of position players.

I'm coming to the conclusion Barrett was our biggest problem the past 2 years. Notice our record since Barrett departed and notice the Padres record when Barrett starts. It's not good for the Padres. my goodness, this is driving me nuts here lately. since barrett left the era has been the same. the catchers have obviously hit worse. how in the holy hell do you figure that barrett's mere presence alone was the difference between a team that was five games under .500 and a team that's playing like .700 ball? you have got to be freaking kidding me to even believe for one second such an idiotic notion. i mean, really, the fact that the cubs have improved so much has nothing to do with zambrano having like a 1 era over the last two months or marmol pitching like mariano rivera or soriano hitting like 15 homers in the past six weeks or theriot and fontenot taking turns being impossible outs or rameriz jacking game winning hits left and right or lee having like a .800 babip or bob howry deciding to stop pitching like total crap or ted lilly pitching awesome or kaz matsui bobbling that grounder or angel pagan playing out of his rear. no...it's all because the devil curse of michael barrett has been magically lifted by the swoop of harry potter's wizard wand and presto suddenly the team is better. he was such a terrible influence on the team that if he had been on the team yesterday instead of hitting a 3 run homer derrek lee would have been like, "you know what...i could hit a homer here, but michael barrett has been really mean to me lately, so i'm going to pop out instead." and just tonight, i heard ramirez say that koyie hill brought him a cup of chicken noodle soup when he had a tummy ache, so he felt strong enough to pelt one off the wall (barrett, of course, was known to kick ramirez in the face whenever he got tummy aches). the fact that there has been such a dramatic improvement goes even further to disprove such a stupid idea. i mean, seriously, is he such a destructive force that the day he left the team immediately improved from a .450 team to a .700 team? can you even wrap your head around how completely ridiculous that is? you'd have a better argument if they improved two games. as if the catcher's era crap we had to endure wasn't stupid enough, now we get catcher's winning percentage? best post since saorsa's "down with stats or whatever his name is.

way to go Karl Ravech espn blows

right, and the pirates are paying 5.5 million of it this season, and since were only paying for half a year of him, withotu any cash that might be coming back to us, its essential kendall for 3.75 mil.

Beane said that it was a minor league Left Hander. Pretty obvious that its Blevins.

ARAM FOR PREZ

what would it take to get them though?

HAAHAHAHAHA

hopefully this will make you guys feel better: Barrett so far with SD: .265/.265/.327 SLG , 0 HR, 0 BB, 2 R, 3 2B, 1 Error, and 2 Passed Balls. Hopefully Soto can do better than that.

Perez, and its not even close for me.

salty's being waved at texas for texiera because McCann is blocking. Thusly, neither seem likely.

Duh, we traded Maddux for Izturis. How much more do you want?!? Julio Lugo. Yeah, I was in favor of Lugo for SS. were you in the pro lugo at CF? egh what an idea. i was pro kenny lofton though as a pie stop gap.

if so, i assume pie gets called up.

har har...

depends on your assessment of Marmol. I've thought for at least a year now that Marmol's repertoire was better suited for the bullpen, so I'd have put him there coming into this year. The alternates for the rotation would've been (for me) Guzman and Gallagher. the cubs minor league system could have produced an era near five. marquis will probably be close to that. time will tell. point is, marquis had a stellar april. A great may, and a bad june. I think tommorow's start will tell us alot .

well your kind of being narrow in that assumption. Derosa wasn't simply a value at the time for his offense at 2B, he was also valuable for being able to backup at multiple positions, and do it well I might add. yeah and those few outings don't amount to much. not even close to 20 runs. no where close. few outings? in his career, derosa has had the following experience Total as 1B 41.0 IP Total as 2B 1204.0 IP Total as 3B 1312.1 IP Total as SS 829.2 IP Total as LF 79.0 IP Total as RF 787.2 IP i was talking about in one individual season Ok, but his value as being defensively versatile is still backed up by his innings logged at all these positions. Just because he was stagnant at one position last year doesn't mean his defensive prowess would have been discounted by hendry, and obviously it has shown up this year.

well your kind of being narrow in that assumption. Derosa wasn't simply a value at the time for his offense at 2B, he was also valuable for being able to backup at multiple positions, and do it well I might add. yeah and those few outings don't amount to much. not even close to 20 runs. no where close. few outings? in his career, derosa has had the following experience Total as 1B 41.0 IP Total as 2B 1204.0 IP Total as 3B 1312.1 IP Total as SS 829.2 IP Total as LF 79.0 IP Total as RF 787.2 IP

well your kind of being narrow in that assumption. Derosa wasn't simply a value at the time for his offense at 2B, he was also valuable for being able to backup at multiple positions, and do it well I might add.

it might be now, but it certainly wasn't at the time. why in the world would someone think that durham was washed up in winter 06? I never said that one would think that while comparing the two in the offseason, i was saying the chances of durham reverting to career norms, and derosa reverting to his platooning numbers in the 2nd half of 07.