BigbadB

From where I sit, they suck at night just as bad as they suck during the day. What's the difference?

I love getting all excited to hear that a team that I have players on scores big, only to be disappointed by the performance of MY players. Seattle scored 12 runs last night. My two Seattle players went 0-10 at the plate. How is that even possible? :wtg:

This probably wasn't necessary to support your argument. Let's try to be more respectful of one another, please.

Wow. I don't even know where to begin with what is wrong with this post.

Why is Juan Pierre on the list?

Ervin Santana will only get starts at home from now on. HE SUCKS on the road.

Some guys are just plain stupid. You're on your way to becoming a multi-millionaire. If you are having issues with your current trophy girlfriend, dump her and find a new trophy girlfriend. How hard can that be?

Buddiga is not going to be happy with his 29 point TBA deduction overnight.

Jacque Jones is from San Diego. Unfortunately, as bad as Jacque has been of late, we'd probably have to throw in someone decent just to give him to the Padres.

Just checking into this thead to see if Hendry's been fired yet. Carry on.

I like it when the Cubs play at 7pm my time.

We are only going to tonight's game. We have tickets for Cirque Du Soleil on Thursday night at the I Pay One Center.

It would be a predictable move by the Dodgers. Block a talented prospect like Andy LaRoche with an aging veteran like Rolen. Pierre, Gonzalez, Nomar. It would be nothing new for them. Very small sample size in regards to LaRoche's AVG and SLG at this point, but the 13 walks in 30 at bats is pretty alarming. How often do you see a guy with a .233 AVG and a .467 OBP?

I'm way inland and it's thick as heck here too...I haven't seen the sun in 3 days. There won't be many runs in the Dodgers series too. We had sun yesterday for about an hour. By the time the sun burned off most of the marine layer, it was starting to set and it just built right back up again. This will be a good game to play some small ball.

May gray is alive and well in San Diego. Do not expect many runs to score during this whole series. The marine layer is so thick, the sun still hasn't come out today. The sun usually burns it off, but not when it's this thick.

9th inning of yesterday had the closest encounter to an ejection Lou has had. The Cubs played yesterday? Who won? ESPN still hasn't updated the standings from yesterday's game. Who pitched? Why no box score? What was the batting order? How long did the starter last? How'd the bullpen do? I have so many more questions, but let's start with those. :D

Percival hasn't hit 97-98 in years. No way he comes back now and does it.

I'll be at this game tonight. Hill is going to dominate. There has been a very thick marine layer for the last week. Expect something like 1-0 or 2-1 for this game. Hill WILL NOT give up a home run tonight. Peavy will be the 2nd best pitcher on the mound in San Diego tonight. :wink: Look for me in the stands. <----That's me in my avatar.

This injury crap sucks. My DL is full. Every one of my reserves is on the DL. One of my starting relievers is now going to the DL and I have a starting outfielder who hasn't played in nearly a week because of some sort of illness. Geez.

Says the guy with the very large sig.

I am not sure what others are doing, but there has been a couple of weeks I had a sure victory as long as I didn't get negative points from a shaky starter, so I went with 6 starts instead. Wow. How chickenshit of you. :D

LOL

Exploded.

Yeah, I'm not overly fond of how the points are calculating. Although the pitching does appear to be somewhat close to the hitting. TBA takes too many points, IMO. Just some minor tinkering would probably get the job done. Maybe 1 point for a K and -.50 for a walk, or possibly even equal value? Maybe -.50 for a TBA. Maybe change an ER to -3? That would make a solo home run -2 for the TBA and another -2.5 for the earned run, nullifying the inning pitched. A triple, as it stands now is -3, which almost nullifies the inning pitched by itself. A pitcher who pitches out of the jam and prevents the runner from scoring should be rewarded a bit more than 1.5 for the inning pitched. Looking at it from another perspective, a triple that never scores should not cost a pitcher more than giving up a run. I guess what I'm seeing is too many points deducted for pitching, but just about the right amount added. An effective pitcher is getting an appropriate amount of points, but ineffective pitchers are really getting hammered in points. I think TBA is the root cause of the bulk of the deductions.

Abuck got it right. If you have issues with your pen, you do not create issues with your starting rotation to fix the problem. It's cutting off your nose to spite your face. Looking at Angel's minor league numbers and making the assumption that he can't be an effective starter in the big leagues is not a good idea either. The guy has had to work back from major arm problems. He's getting back to the form he had before the injuries and now they want to set him back by having him pitch out of the pen? STUPID! There is a reason starting pitchers are paid more than relievers. Great pitchers (Santana, Clemens, Zambrano) are not brought up as relievers for the simple reason that big league pitchers should pitch as many innings as possible. If they prove they can't go many innings and continue to get people out, then you subject them to the pen. Every team's pen is a collection of guys who aren't good enough to be starters. Some are guys who have stamina issues. Some are proven failed starters. The Cubs have been looking for a collection of 5 guys who can keep games close for the offense. They finally got that with Zambrano, Lilly, Hill, Marquis and Guzman. And now they are going to blow that up before it really had a chance to prove success. Zambrano is putting it back together. Guzman's stuff is very good and he shouldn't be the one punished because the pen has fallen apart. Every team's pen struggles. I think it will be fine once they work through their struggles. I completely agree that you move guys around in the pen and maybe call up a Marmol or Rapada if you need to make a change. Marshall probably has the best chance for success in the 5th spot over Miller, Dempster or Marmol. But, Guzman has the best chance for success over any of them. Stick Marshall in the pen if you need another bullpen arm. If Cesar Izturis is a problem in your line up, you don't move him from SS to RF to fix the problem. You take him OUT of the line up.