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  1. nilodnayr
    Gammons just said we're gonna take Vitters...
  2. nilodnayr
    Its sad when your OPS is less than the # Dmitri Young's scale.
  3. nilodnayr
    With 80some million on the books for next year and 90 some on the books for 09, I think we need all the <1M starters we can have.
  4. nilodnayr
    I don't know about super great tickets, but I like getting tickets in the 2nd inning for way cheap. You can usually get pretty good tickets (like middle/front of section 221ish) for half face. Vendors typically have a plethora of tickets that they have to eat.
  5. nilodnayr
    Damon has been taking balls at first and evidently might be well enough to play there, so Melky could be a permanent addition to the lineup. Hart has been jerked around a lot but is now taking advantage of the opportunity. Yost was pimping him before the season started and eventually someone is going to be traded to clear things up in the OF, so chances are that Hart is in the lineup for good now. They are pretty similar players, but I like Hart a bit more.
  6. nilodnayr
    Yay, the cubs bought an ocular enhancer machine...now all they need to do is let someone other than a pitcher use it.
  7. nilodnayr
    And Rowand is a FA after this season...the trade makes no sense. In other words, a typical Hendry move. ahh.. but what reliever do we have that the Phillies would want? Wuertz
  8. nilodnayr
    Today a fan will jump on the field and beat all the Cub players up. Whoever sold the ticket to Chuck Norris should be fired.
  9. nilodnayr
    Also traded James Shields and Theriot for Burnett and Blanton. Riot just sat on my bench as he got sporadic playing time (my work blocks fantasy so I can't make last second roster moves), so I stopped playing him. Shields has a lucky BABIP (although so does Burnett), but Burnett has an uncharacteristic HR/FB rate, great K rate and plays on a better team. Blanton was kinda a throw in, but he could a decent back of the rotation guy as insurance for some of my injured/injury prone pitchers. His ratios get better every year and overall #s are weighed down by a horrible game earlier in the week. The trade was made yesterday morning so Blantons gem lastnight made me feel better too. I like the way my team is shaping up C-Barrett 1B-Berkman 2B-Kendrick SS-Rollins 3B-Braun CI-Pena MI-Durham OF-Manny OF-Holliday OF-Griffey OF-Dye UT-Victorino BN-Tulo BN-Kinsler BN-Taveras BN-Gordon BN- plan on picking up E.Encarnacion DL-Baldelli SP-Smoltz SP-The Unit SP-Beckett SP-Burnett RP-Wagner RP-Valverde P-Reyes P- Blanton DL-Hughes DL-Harden DL-Pedro
  10. nilodnayr
    He'd hinted in his pregame comments the previous day that he might intentionally get kicked out of a game. He just saw that call as his opportunity. What I think is bull is the idea that a player can physically assault a teammate without getting suspended, but a manager can't kick dirt on an umpire. it's not about kicking the dirt. that mouthbreather at 3rd told the head umpire that lou kicked HIM. now, i'm assuming almost every single one of us was watching that game and i saw lou kick dirt all over him, but at no time did i see lou boot him in the leg. if lou had initiated contact there would've been an immedeate escalation in the umpires demeanor, of which there was none. the only contact i know of was when fat boy put his hands all over lou. if lou was going to kick his hat or some more dirt and someone got in their way, that's no fault of his. mlb needs to take a good hard look at this. if the allegations are proven to be false someone needs to get joey crawford'ed for this. ZING!
  11. nilodnayr
    In another thread they said Pie is hitting second and Jones is hitting 5th.
  12. nilodnayr
    And Rowand is a FA after this season...the trade makes no sense.
  13. nilodnayr
    finally a reason to make me watch this game.. something to root for.. :shock: Anyone hear who is leading off?
  14. nilodnayr
    Well theres a big difference betwen Youk and Cust as Cust is a Dunn-esque three true outcome guy and Youk puts the ball in play a lot more.
  15. nilodnayr
    Just because hes not in the dugout, it doesnt mean hes going to take the day off.
  16. nilodnayr
    MLB said he made contact with Wegner...I didn't see that at all. He did swat away some of the other umps hands that were trying to hold him back, but I never saw him touch Wegner.
  17. nilodnayr
    Agreed. I have no problem with what he did, or with him being given a day or two off. How is kicking dirt different from throwing dirt? If someone throws dirt onto an umpire, there is no question he would be suspended. I agree, the league has to take a stand. Not suspending Lou would be in a way condoning his actions.
  18. nilodnayr
    ESPN just said hes suspended indefinitely...
  19. nilodnayr
    But Barrett hypnotized Kerry to do it for him. And at Great America he hypnotized Kerry to act like he smelled someone's farts. But seriously, yes, up until this point, only Kerry had been named in the stereo incident, not that its a big deal or anything. I don't think anyone has a problem with the destruction and also I don't think anyone thought it was a one person incident. I would be happy to hear it was every single person on the team who had a hand in that.
  20. nilodnayr
    What about Jack Cust? Here's a guy who has a 1.033 OPS despite a .233 batting average... Nearly 200 points of isolated discipline and 400 points of isolated power... But Andy Laroche just got sent down to the minors...its not just the Cubs who dont realize the value of OBP (note. Laroche didn't show Cust's power in his short time up).
  21. nilodnayr
    http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=2890891&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab1pos1 I find it hard to believe that wojlkjoijoijoij knows Barret had something to do with it, but yet we have never heard this from any Chicago writer. He works for ESPN, but he is a Chicago writer...hes did write Cubs Nation.
  22. nilodnayr
    Are you telling me Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball? He always got crossed up. If Jobu can't hit it, no one can. "F you Jobu, I do it myself!"
  23. nilodnayr
    the MLBPA is not dumb. Exactly. They'd have a pretty open and shut case with the greivence they would surely file.
  24. nilodnayr
    Yeah, Kinsler went really quickly from overrated to underrated. I think a lot of that had to do with his BABIP which is at .231 right now. His HR/FB was flukishly high at the beginning of the year, but with the power reduction recently his FB% has actually increased. I don't expect him to hit 300 or anything, but he should provide plus power and plus speed. Hell turn it around. Dye's BABIP is at .256 so hes due to regress to the mean too. I don't expect 2006 Dye, but somewhere inbetween 2005 and 2006. Hes definitely sporting the power and the average will come around. I have the luxury of buying low on these guys and being able to bench them until they start producing with all the bench spots (hence how I still have Alex Gordon). If Kendrick doesn't turn it around soon, I can pick up Pedroia. And having Taveras and Victorino as backup OFs ain't a bad thing.
  25. nilodnayr
    Good because unfortunately for you, it would also take you dying.
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