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  1. Bruce Miles
    Well of course every team's ERA is going to be outstanding when they basically say "hey let's throw out the bad starts and keep the good ones." It's kinda worthless. We're talking about quality starts, period, here. I'm not talking about the bad starts, so there are no stats that we're "throwing out" here. In the Cubs' quality starts, a stat people like to malign, they have a 1.63 ERA. That's all quality starts combined, whether they meet the minimum requirement or not. In games the Cubs don't get a quality start, the team record is 11-29.
  2. Bruce Miles
    Actually, the stat is meaningul. People want to jump on the minimum requirement and say it's a bogus stat. The Cubs have 43 quality starts. The team is 31-12 in those games, and their starters have a 1.63 ERA in those starts.
  3. Bruce Miles
    410 I believe Where are they building the new park? Z is looking good tonight, at least on gameday. I really have no idea about the new park. I only know it's 410 to CF because BB was talking about it earlier. The new park will be about 6 or so blocks south of the Capitol near the Anacostia River.
  4. Bruce Miles
    Pretty hard to get out of your slump, when you havent started in 4 days. Hes a young kid, and is going to have slumps like this, but that doesnt mean he should be relagated to Lous coffee getter. In Lou's defense, the same mentality that's keeping Pie out of the lineup are also keeping Jock and Iz-sucksatbaseball-is out of the lineup. Not really. The mentality that keeps Izturis and Jones on the bench is they are proven failure who offer nothing to the team now or in the future. While Pie is a kid who may have a future if he works through struggles. Lou is trying to help Pie work through his struggles, only not in games. He's got him working on a "toe tap" move in the cage and in batting practice to keep him from "twisting" too much. Identifying and attempting to solve problems are things that weren't done here with young players the last few years. Well thats good to hear that Lou is working with him, and not just letting him try work through it on his own. When you say "toe tap" are you meaning Sosa style or different? Something similar. It was hard to follow Lou's dance step when he was demonstrating it in the dugout.
  5. Bruce Miles
    Pretty hard to get out of your slump, when you havent started in 4 days. Hes a young kid, and is going to have slumps like this, but that doesnt mean he should be relagated to Lous coffee getter. In Lou's defense, the same mentality that's keeping Pie out of the lineup are also keeping Jock and Iz-sucksatbaseball-is out of the lineup. Not really. The mentality that keeps Izturis and Jones on the bench is they are proven failure who offer nothing to the team now or in the future. While Pie is a kid who may have a future if he works through struggles. Lou is trying to help Pie work through his struggles, only not in games. He's got him working on a "toe tap" move in the cage and in batting practice to keep him from "twisting" too much. Identifying and attempting to solve problems are things that weren't done here with young players the last few years.
  6. Bruce Miles
    Here's the thing: Some of these national writers failed math class. If the Cubs keep Jones, they have to pay him through next year anyway. If they pay part of his gig for him to go away, it amounts to the same thing, not "additional debt."
  7. Bruce Miles
    Lineups Cubs Soriano, LF Theriot, SS Lee, 1B Ramirez, 3B Floyd, RF DeRosa, 2B Pagan, CF Bowen, C Lilly, P Nats Logan, CF Belliard, 2B Zimmerman, 3B Young, 1B Kearns, RF Church, LF Lopez, SS Schneider, C Simontacchi, P
  8. Bruce Miles
    And on top of it all, Lou hasn't been afraid to let the kids play and allow millons of dollars to sit on the bench. That would not have happened in, oh, the past four years. The two things I like about Piniella are his flexibility and creativity. And he's not afraid to throw young players in at key times.
  9. Bruce Miles
    So the Cubs have a hard cap as far as budget space to add or subract salary for 2007? No, that's not what I said. It's more of value for the cost.
  10. Bruce Miles
    Yes, I do. Welcome Bruce! What happened with the Jones trade? Yes, it is a privilege. Sully's a friend. On the other thing, it wasn't Sam Zell. Was it Hendry or someone from the Marlins? More Hendry. Financial or not getting the prospect he wanted? More on what the Cubs had to spend.
  11. Bruce Miles
    Yes, I do. Welcome Bruce! What happened with the Jones trade? Yes, it is a privilege. Sully's a friend. On the other thing, it wasn't Sam Zell. Was it Hendry or someone from the Marlins? More Hendry.
  12. Bruce Miles
    Yes, I do. Welcome Bruce! What happened with the Jones trade? Yes, it is a privilege. Sully's a friend. On the other thing, it wasn't Sam Zell.
  13. Bruce Miles
    Yes, I do.
  14. Bruce Miles
    Yep, then corey patterson walked up to him and refused to give him an autograph. And then later after that, Moises Alou walked to Barrett and urinated on Barrett's hands. What I'm saying.
  15. Bruce Miles
    Barrett didn't tell Paul Sullivan anything. Paul admitted he was "speculating" when he made that statement yesterday. One person with the Cubs, who has no ax to grind, said that kind of stuff defames Barrett. A person close to Barrett said Michael was very hurt by that accusation. It's too bad crap like this gets started in the first place.
  16. Bruce Miles
    Lineups Cubs Soriano, LF Pie, CF Lee, 1B Floyd, DH Barrett, C DeRosa, 3B Jones, RF Theriot, SS Fontenot, 2B Marshall, P Rangers Lofton, CF Kinsler, 2B Young, SS Sosa, DH Byrd, LF Diaz, RF Laird, C Wilkerson, 1B Metcalf, 3B Tejeda, P
  17. Bruce Miles
    Lineups Mariners Ichiro, CF Lopez, 2B Guillen, RF Ibanez, LF Sexson, 1B Johjima, C Beltre, 3B Betancourt, SS Washburn, P Cubs Soriano, LF Pagan, CF Lee, 1B Barrett, C DeRosa, 3B Murton, RF Theriot, 2B Izturis, SS Hill, P
  18. Bruce Miles
    It is the official scorer's discretion because nobody qualifies for the win based on normal rules. The starter doesn't earn the win because he failed to go five innings and none of the relievers automatically qualify for the win because none of them were in the game when the team took the lead. So does that mean that the official scorer could actually give the starter the win if the scorer deemed the starter as the most effective pitcher? No.
  19. Bruce Miles
    Lineups Cubs Soriano, LF Pie, CF Lee, 1B Barrett, C Jones, RF DeRosa, 3B Fontenot, 2B Izturis, SS Lilly, P Braves Johnson, 2B Escobar, 3B Renteria, SS A. Jones, CF Francoeur, RF Diaz, LF Saltalamacchia, C Thorman, 1B Carlyle, P
  20. Bruce Miles
    Lineups Cubs Soriano, LF Pie, CF Lee, 1B Barrett, C Jones, RF DeRosa, 3B Fontenot, 2B Izturis, SS Marquis, P Braves Johnson, 2B Harris, LF Renteria, SS A. Jones, CF McCann, C Francoeur, RF Thorman, 1B Escobar, 3B Hudson, P
  21. Bruce Miles
    Wish Soriano would show some patience. :P
  22. Bruce Miles
    Jones for Floyd.
  23. Bruce Miles
    108 pitches and stress free for the most part.
  24. Bruce Miles
    Pay no attention to me. :D (Gotta see a pitch, kid.)
  25. Bruce Miles
    Some people believe lineup protection is a myth. Oh, I know that. I wasn't looking at it in terms of "protection." If Soriano's on base and is OK enough to be a basestealing threat, chances are Pie will see more fastballs.
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