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I'm not sure where this new version of Soto came from, but he has been a pleasure to watch. He doesn't swing at garbage, he is constantly ahead in the count and he drives the ball just about every time he makes contact. We need to give this man his own sticky thread so that we can worship him daily.
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](*,) sadly, given lou's a.d.d. managing, it wouldn't surprise me if this happened. Come on, he wasn't even finding the strike zone and every guy was hitting him hard. Throw the Brewers out against him and the Cubs get destroyed. If Marquis or Marshall looks strong the next few starts, I would put Lieber in over Hill. Just because a guy is having command troubles in one game doesn't mean he's always going to have command problems. You've seen Hill pitch enough to know that there is zero reason to bump him from the rotation based on his outing tonight. What's even better is he was horrible tonight but Lieber came in and kept the Cubs in the game.
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Ya gotta tip your cap to Liebs today. He worked quickly and efficiently. Really reminded me of his last stint with the Cubs. I hope he continues pitching well.
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Ryan Dempster – Early Season Cy Young Candidate?
BigbadB replied to GoCubsGo1679625768's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
This may have been discussed in the game thread, but I kind of thought that Pie might have had a shot of catching that solo shot by Bay. It looked like he gave up on it to play the ball off the wall when in reality it barely cleared the wall. I could be wrong, since I only saw it on a small screen tv in a bar. -
Edwin Encarnacion got himself a little bench time yesterday since all he's done is clog bases with walks. Amazingly enough, Edwin has drawn 9 or 10 walks in the early going.
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4/10 Cubs (Hill) at Pirates (Morris), 6:05 PM CT, WGN
BigbadB replied to soccer10k's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Cedeno and Pie should be plenty fresh. Soto better not be behind the plate today. If anyone needs a day off, it's Soto. Reward Pie with a start since he did have the game winning hit last night. Pittsburgh's bullpen should be in worse shape than the Cubs, and the gas can that Matt Morris can be could spell disaster when Pittsburgh elects to leave him in there in an attempt to save the bullpen. -
Forget about Hudson
BigbadB replied to Backtobanks's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Yes, because Hudson clearly stands out WITH Utley above all other 2b's in the entire world. :^o -
they do the same with NFL sunday ticket I'd rather have it automatically renew. Here's how hard it is to cancel: type http://www.directv.com into your browser and click a few times. It shows up on your bill before the season starts, so you can also cancel then. I can see it being annoying, but I like the auto-renew. And it's not stupid, it's quite smart to charge people and then wait for them to cancel instead of not charging them and wait for them to renew. Agreed. Cox stopped doing it this year because too many people complained about the auto-renewal. I liked it because you got an extra discount for being a return customer and you automatically got the early bird special.
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Moving Soriano to third in the order is not going to force pitchers to magically throw him a significantly higher number of fastballs. Besides, if you're that worried about his OBP, why on earth do you want him batting third? If you're going to move him down, why not just move him down to fifth or sixth? Exactly. Soriano will swing at garbage whether he's hitting 1st, 3rd, 6th or 9th. Moving him around in the batting order is not going to change what he will swing at, and pitcher's aren't going to all of a sudden throw him beefy, middle of the plate fastballs because he's hitting 3rd rather than 1st. It's ridiculous to even consider that they would. Soriano has a major league contract because of what he can do to a garbage pitch. The number of golf ball swings Soriano has put over the outfield wall over his career pales only to Vladmir Guerrero. The difference between Guerrero and Soriano at the plate is Guerrero puts more balls in play, hence the better overall stats.
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Yep. Longoria will be up very soon.
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In a nutshell, Jason LaRue isn't even worth a bag of balls.
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LA Dodgers: No field-level access for fans w/o box seats
BigbadB replied to snoodmonger's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I can hear those rich kids teasing the poor kids now: I got some ice cream, and you can't have none, cuz your daddy's on welfare... -
At what point should we begin to doubt the Tigers?
BigbadB replied to inari's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
When did Porcello sign? They can't trade him until a year after his official signing date. And based on his performance so far, I don't think I'd even consider trading him. -
agreed. I don't see it as a dictatorship to have a set rule on when you can or can't make a roster change. I don't pull anyone from my roster unless I see an ambulance symbol, meaning he's looking at some bench time due to an injury. I see it more as one less chance for confusion. Dealing with a sucky guy in the line up is part of the challenge of winning each week. You don't know who the sucky guy is going to be, and once you do figure out who it is, it's too bad so sad, IMO. An injury is something totally different, and the injury guys replacement has just as good of a chance to be the sucky guy as any of the other guys. :wink:
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BigRedSun kicked my ass in my ESPN fantasy league last week.
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To be fair, Theriot didn't deserve that first SB. He was only out by about a mile and a quarter. Of course, as a Cubs fan, I'll take a few bad calls if it means a Cubs win. It does bother me a bit when an umpire blows a call that badly, however.
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Theriot is an ideal candidate to come off the bench. When you need a pinch runner for Daryle Ward, Theriot is your man. Cedeno will outslug Theriot, which is what I want from a guy hitting behind the very patient middle of the line up.
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Juan can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm only aware of being able to replace guys when they aren't assured of playing time due to an injury. Cordero came up lame while warming up last week and he didn't get into what was a save opportunity. I was watching that game. I'm supposed to be helping Juan organize the rules into one place, but I was jonesing so much for baseball that I ended up watching baseball nonstop this past week instead. The rest of this week is a bit hectic for me with the WPBA (Women's Professional Billiards Association) in town Wednesday through Sunday. I help organize that event, so the rules project will probably have to wait until next week.
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Haha. Oops!
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Why is Valverde on your bench now? I was told that I could move players as long as the roster stays legal. This is what happened last week when Cordero got placed on reserves despite the fact that he was only day to day. Hmmm. That doesn't sound right to me. Cordero being day to day is different than just switching players out. I'm under the impression that the only time you can take someone out (excluding SP) of your line up is if they are injured or traded. In the case of Cordero, he was slightly injured and listed as day to day, therefore a roster change would be justified. Valverde sucking wouldn't fall under that same theme.
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Why is Valverde on your bench now?
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If Soriano were to continue to struggle, the Cubs have the ideal guy to put there. His name is Kosuke Fukudome. But, while Ryan Theriot was hitting 2nd for the Cubs, the Cubs averaged 3.5 runs a game while the team went 1-3. With Theriot out of the 2 hole, the Cubs are averaging 7 runs a game and are 3-0. Just put decent hitters 1/2 along with the usual suspects throughout the rest of the order and this team will win plenty of games.
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Aramis and Soriano should feel just guilty enough at this point to donate part of their weekly salaries to Fukudome.
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Okay, I'm converted. I was one of those in the camp of "Theriot sucks - but he's the best we got." Screw it and just play Cedeno. I'm watching on MLB gameday - was it a well placed gapper or a shot over the CF's head? Gameday's dot - which usually shows where it falls - was at the wall. I'm watching the Pittsburgh feed on MLB EI, the Cedeno shot was over the CFer's head in dead center.
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I'm very disappointed by this news.
