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Can I get a shout out for the great defensive prowess of Fred McGriff, who singlehandedly proved to the world how valuable good defense at 1b really can be?
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Yeah, but if Blanco had pictures of you to, maybe you would have been in the Hendry camp. :D
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IF (big if) Milwaukee pays to keep their star young talent.
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I've officially become tired of seeing the Cardinals and Houston leading early in their games and the Cubs losing early in their games. Let's just blow it up with 10 runs in the first. -
Not sure if it's the wisest idea to put a guy, who has never stepped on a major league mound with not a single empty seat in the house with the bases loaded and nobody out, on the mound with all that pressure with playoff implications. After walking the first guy in 4 pitches, he really settled down and looked very good.
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While I wouldn't discount Marmol's arm slot dropping, why would the Cubs use Marmol in that situation anyway? Granted, the game wasn't a blow out or anything, but his value to this team is protecting leads rather than keeping the Cubs close. You can't use a reliever everyday.
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When I watch Jacque Jones at the plate, I wonder how this guy has ever hit 27 HR's in a season. He looks more like Juan Pierre out there most of the time, swinging at anything and everything. He's falling backwards when he swings. How has no one helped him fix his swing?
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Yours is a much sillier statement. So it is not bullying to point out someone's faults and then making a spectacle of them? Showing that you dislike someone's actions is easy enough in more constructive ways. Don't go to the game, ignore the action altogether, write concerned letters. What purpose does booing have? It's the only immediate satisfaction I can think of for fans to let a player, manager or team know right away that you are not satisfied with the results on the field. Throwing tomatoes would be deemed unacceptable. Throwing batteries or spilling your drink would be unacceptable. Screaming profanities is unacceptable. Making boo noises is not unacceptable. You hear them in nearly every sporting venue in the world.
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Yours is a much sillier statement.
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Isn't power down across the entire league?
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? I don't get it. Didn't Patterson rope a double down the right field line yesterday? How was he sent home? Yeah he did. I didn't catch anything after the top of the 5th, but he didn't stay in after that AB did he? If he was being disciplined, why would he have batted at all?
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Just for oldcubsfan.......... Ben Grieve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But seriously, right now one of the more underrated players in the game to me is Matt Diaz. Tampa cut him, the Royals picked him up and traded him to Atlanta for a minor leaguer. All the guy has ever done is hit. And you want to tell me that the Kansas City Royals didn't have room in their outfield for a guy like Diaz?
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? I don't get it. Didn't Patterson rope a double down the right field line yesterday? How was he sent home?
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I'm pulling for Soto to play as well, but it does not bode well for getting a start behind the dish when you run back to third base on a ground ball with a force at any base. Small scale fundamental mistake, but it's mistakes like that a guy like Lou will notice from a guy who isn't proven at the major league level.
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:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: Loud roaring standing ovation for Big Z. Now let's get down to the business of winning baseball games.
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You just can't hear my boos all the way from San Diego. I booed the trade and I booed his lousy performance all year long. A prototypical lead off hitter was not what this team needed last year.
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I wish I was and I'm glad I'm not. It might be 120 degrees on the field on Sunday. San Diego is in the heart of a major meltdown temperature wise. Tickets were hard to come by and they want way too much. I will be at my regular watering hole in Bears gear, which is very much a Charger bar. But, I'm a regular there and a lot of other Bears fans will be there. Oh, and it's air conditioned. :D
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No. He could have a bad year and you still shouldn't write him off. No one is writing him off. The fans didn't boo him when he blew threw the stop sign. The fans didn't boo when he walked the first hitter on 4 pitches. The fans didn't boo that inning. They booed when he continued to walk hitters, including one guy he had down 0-2, and then gave up run scoring hits to a .200 hitting #8 hitter and then the pitcher. Cub fans watched Juan Pierre go a whole season in 2006 hardly ever drawing a walk, and knowing you can throw him the meatiest fastball ever and he probably wouldn't hit it past the 2nd baseman, but Carlos walks him. This team is better than they have been playing. Fans are excited right now sitting in first place with less than a month to play, and emotions are at an all time high. They expect a little bit more from their staff ace and there really is nothing wrong with showing some negative emotion for the collective crap he has strung together.
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I believe I have seen him acknowledge the fans on more than 1 occasion. You know what I mean. He wouldn't even discuss it with Len the other day. I saw that interview. It was an inappropriate question and Jacque did an excellent job of steering the questions back to the game at hand.
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I believe I have seen him acknowledge the fans on more than 1 occasion.
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Zambrano can let his emotions get the better of him and deck Michael Barrett, but fans are supposed to sit on their hands the entire game and show zero emotion. Zambrano is the prince of emotion, in line to succeed Ron Santo as king. Cardinal fans were dead wrong to boo any part of their 11 run blowout yesterday, too. If only the fans would have cheered louder at each fundamental blow up, the Cardinal players would have seized the moment and scored 12 runs to come back and win the game. It doesn't work that way. Fans pay money to show some emotion at the game. They all prefer to cheer the whole game. And they don't boo when someone boots a ground ball. Boot 4 or 5 ground balls and yeah, you're going to hear displeasure. It's the nature of the beast.
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The holier than thou routine really tickles your fancy, doesn't it?
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Trachsel a Cub (this should be fun)
BigbadB replied to JeffH's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
We aren't quite where we need to be in regards to world peace, either. -
Z is guilty of showing his emotions when he is unhappy with someone's performance. Maybe Z would prefer it if the fans came down to the dugout and punched him in the mouth like he did to Michael Barrett. I'd prefer it if he came out and stated that he knows he's letting the fans of Chicago down by pitching as poorly as he has, and that he is working on ways of pitching better down the stretch.
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Today was a game that we expected to win. LA had to fly in late and got little rest. Their bullpen went through 4 arms yesterday, and we had Z on the mound to rebound from 4 straight bad outings, coupled in with the fact we have a game and a half lead. And just to add a little more to that, the team was coming off an emotional high after DLee brought them back late in the game the day before. I wouldn't have expected Felix Pie to score from first on that double to the left field corner, let alone Zambrano. Why chance it? Why take yourself out of a potentially huge inning? It was a horrible decision. Yes, it was heat of the moment, and it can be forgiven. But, not when you go out to the mound and throw 7 straight balls and then proceed to come unglued on the mound.
