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What is it that Woody is doing differently?
BigbadB replied to Sweet Swinging Billy's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Yep, heard on a telecast the other day that Kerry changed the grip of his slider and he's feeling very comfortable with it. -
Felix hit two rangers earlier. Most notably, Felix pegged Ian Kinsler, who crushed a home run on his previous at bat. Laird was calling for an inside fastball. Seattle's broadcast booth went back to video of Sexson's at bat and watched Laird get shaken off on 3 or 4 signals, all of which were requesting something inside, and Gabbard finally did appease Laird. Granted, Sexson overreacted on the call, but Texas purposely were throwing inside on Sexson, even if Gabbard missed high rather than inside. Basically, it appeared to me that either Laird or the bench called for the inside pitch, and Gabbard really didn't want to do it.
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5/10 Snakes (Scherzer) @ Cubs(Dempster) 2:40PM Fox
BigbadB replied to sweetpeteman's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I haven't looked yet, but I'm guessing I'll actually get the Cubs/D'Backs telecast today since Arizona is the only western division team on the Fox schedule for today, which would make my day. -
Haha. Seattle and Texas play each other again this coming week. More fireworks please.
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This is a no brainer. Scherzer won't even stay in the rotation past two more starts. Doug Davis is currently on a rehab assignment and will get his rotation spot back as soon as he is declared ready to return from cancer treatment. Scherzer will then likely move to the pen or back to the minors.
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It's very unfortunate that Izzy didn't blow a save last Sunday night.
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I think Yost deserves an extension.
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I was watching this game last night and saw everything leading up to Sexson charging the mound. Hilarious. What's even better is you don't have to hit Sexson with a pitch. Just lob a couple of pitches down broadway and he'll strike out swinging. If Texas really wanted to hit someone, throw it at someone who has a higher batting average than a pitcher.
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Re: Cuban's chances getting better than we thought?
BigbadB replied to Bobson Dugnutt's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
YAY, someone gets what they are trying to do to the exterior. Remove those huge ugly concrete slabs and replace that garrish chain link fencing with decorative iron. If you look at old pictures of Wrigley, you will see where they are going with this idea. It will look so much better. Do they have old photos of the stadium through the years on the walls of the executive offices? I ask because I can't think of better wall fixtures than old photos through the years. My local bank has pictures on their walls of photos of the early days of the actual spot where the bank currently sits. It's pretty cool to see how areas develop over time, not to mention rather historic. -
Oh darn, you mean I don't get to watch him K 3 times today? No, but you do get to watch Reed continue to suck it up hardcore against another lefty. I'm sure this is just a typo, but as has been stated before, Haren really is a righty. So, I'm assuming you meant that he'd suck it up hardcore against another righty.
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Edmunds is done. I think it would make sense if Boston traded Coco Crisp to San Diego for Edmunds. San Diego is looking to really shake things up in the coming days. There has been a ton of discussion that the offense has no identity whatsoever. No big names, no go to guy, no nothing. What they could get out of Crisp is someone who can cover a lot of ground in CF and could lead off and be a threat on the bases, which is just another thing they don't have.
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Baltimore needs a new owner, GM, manager, etc........ I don't care about them. I'll only start caring about them if they consider selling off players for something less than an entire farm system in return. Until then, we have games to win.
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San Diego's biggest problem right now is offense. Pie certainly doesn't fix that.
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Mmm. I love nonsense with my morning coffee.
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He's not magically going to become a better pitcher, but the Cubs become magically better when Marquis is not pitching. :wink:
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Poor Roger. He gets thrown under the bus, AGAIN! That's okay, though. There's a whole new batch of 15 year old high school girls he can pick from that could be VERY supportive of him during this very trying time in his life. :D
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Theriot has been caught stealing 6 times? That's 6 times he wasn't on base for Lee or Ramirez to drive him in. Granted, he could potentially get doubled up more often on a ground ball if he isn't in motion on the basepaths, but that's more on Lee or Ramirez to avoid hitting balls on the ground.
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and what would that be? The one thing, I mean. :) Well, right now at least, that would be posting a .331/.406/.425. Which proves the one flaw to the ever important stat that OBP is. If you get caught stealing, you might as well have never been on base in the first place. Therefore, to accurately calculate OBP, caught stealing and caught attempting to take an extra base that you shouldn't have tried to take in the first place should be deducted from OBP. :wink:
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Apparently, Gavin Floyd is the second coming of God
BigbadB replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in General Baseball Talk
Now that's what I call integrity. -
Not a chance would I do that deal.
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Volquez threw 118 pitches with a 9 run lead. Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Count me in as liking Lou a lot when comparing him with some of our previous managers.
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Woohoo! I love a 9:30am baseball game.
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Yeah, theres no way anyone could catch up to his heater up in the zone, but even if it looks good coming out of his hand, if he doesn't have a whole lot else to through, guys will guess it and lay off. Tim and I had a long discussion about Scherzer before the start of the season, mainly because we're in the same fantasy league and we have minor leaguers and I have Scherzer. We both came to the agreement that without any decent secondary pitches, his ceiling is probably as a set up/closer.
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His best out pitch last night was a high fastball, above the zone. He fooled a few guys into swinging at it.
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There was a little bit of movement and he actually appeared to have pretty good command. Because the movement wasn't dramatic, it suggested to me that he needed to nibble the corners a bit more, which in turn ran up the pitch count. Well, that along with getting tagged quite regularly. Granted, that was the only time I've actually seen him pitch, so I'll have to wait and see what his fastball looks like against the Cubs later this week. His secondary pitches looked both weak and little used, suggesting to me that he isn't really all that confident in them, especially considering guys were sitting on the fastball.
