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Miguel Cabrera, yes. Orlando Cabrera, no. -
If you think that's bad, Juan Encarnacion was batting clean up the day before.
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You mean the first three days of the season?
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would he? :D Why yes, yes he did. Give me 3 points for the save, Juan.
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17-8 The hits just keep coming
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Shouldn't the Cardinals be able to use Isringhausen in a save situation tonight? He'd be saving total embarrassment.
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Only when you're not starting him. :D
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Trade them all. That'll teach 'em.
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Interesting that Adam Wainwright watched Justin Verlander's start on Tuesday and attempted to emulate that start and went 5.2 of no hit ball. He ended up tossing a 1 hitter through 8. Sweet. Back in this race. Fact #237: There is nothing worse than a guy having an ailment and sitting out for 4 or 5 games and calling it day to day, before the team puts him on the DL when you have a replacement ready to go.
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Since Saturday, the Cubs bullpen has pitched 21 1/3 innings.
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After last night's game, yeah, they probably do need a 13 man staff for the next few days.
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I thought of Gallagher as well, but he did pitch last night, 1/3rd of an inning according to the box score. Gallagher came in and cleaned up Ohman's mess.
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Piggy isn't on the 40 man, is he? Is Rapada?
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After yesterday's fiasco, pretty much needed a fresh arm in the bullpen. I thought they might call someone up.
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Perhaps by being more aggressive, and making things happen while putting the pressure on the defense? Proactive would be to put the best 8 guys on the field rather than feeling sorry that Izturis and Jones suck, and giving them some playing time to make them feel better.
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This sounds like something you'd hear in a business meeting about Global Integrated Business Solutions. You were at that meeting too? :P
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It would have been much easier to attempt to rally against Jason Davis or O'Flerety rather than JJ Putz, who hasn't blown a save all year. This game is a pretty good example to explain why this team is where they are in the standings. They seem to just sit around waiting for the other team to do something before doing something themselves. This team needs to learn to be proactive rather than reactive.
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hehe. Yeah, if that's the way you describe a throw that bounces twice before it ever makes it to the infield.
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I'd also like to add that I'm not being a Barrett apologist. He's been pretty bad behind the plate this year. I have never seen more balls get by Barrett than I have this year. Many seemed like fairly easy balls to keep in front of him. But, if you want your catcher to have a decent chance of tagging a runner out at home, you have to give him something he can catch. Jacque Jones obviously went to the Juan Pierre baseball academy on throwing.
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I'm just going to have to disagree with you on that one. The catcher has a guy barreling for home. He's trying to block the plate, prepare for a possible collision, field a throw and apply a tag. He's wearing a glove that was not designed to field slow rolling ground balls. Jones was in shallow RF when he fielded that ball. That throw should have made it on the fly. Instead, it bounced and bounced to the point it was a slow roller by the time it got to Barrett in the fairly thick infield grass. Significant time was lost on a slow rolling throw in comparison to a throw made on the fly. Couple that in with the fact the runner was slow and even hesitated on his turn at third, and all the blame lies on Jacque's throw. It was pathetic even though it was online. A lollipop throw would have gotten to Barrett quicker than the worm burner he actually threw.
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It was either double-switching Hill for Barrett, double-switching Jones for Pagan, or letting Howry hit for himself as the 2nd hitter in the 10th inning. Pick your poison. Well I could do the 'hindsight is 20-20' thing and say that if we chose Hill, then he probably catches the throw from Pagan/Jones in the 13th. Plus Hill would not have been up with 2 outs in the 13th with the bases loaded. The throw sucked. Very few catchers in baseball would have been able to pick up a slow rolling throw from the outfield, make a quick turn and apply the tag in one quick motion. Catcher's mitts were designed to catch balls thrown in the air, not to field grounders.
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Come on. If David Eckstein is a guaranteed HOF inductee, Biggio is a lock to go on the first ballot.
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Nah. Gotta tip your cap to the pitcher. :D
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Yeah, and maybe the outfielders will eventually quit rolling the ball to home plate. The blame lies completely with Jacque Jones on that play. While his throw was on line, it was a worm burner. Jose Vidro was the runner, for crying out loud. If you can't gun down Jose Vidro (nevermind that Vidro almost came to a complete stop halfway between 3rd and home) on a shallow single, you have no business playing an outfield spot. Vidro doesn't run much better than Jim Thome.
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Haha. Good one.
