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  1. Laura
    AWESOME :cry:
  2. Laura
    Santana. Wins very heavily weighted in Cy Young voting; still, it will take more than one win for Halladay to beat Santana as it stands and there are a few games left.
  3. Laura
    I'm not quite sure what to think about this. :arrow:
  4. Laura
    I guess the charm wore off with LA and Maddux is back to doggin' it again. Either that or he's always been bad in Arizona. ETA: though now that I look at the boxscore, only 2 of the run were earned runs. I'm not sure if that counts as dogging it or not.
  5. Laura
    He should pitch a reality series or mockumentary wherein he runs the Cubs (one yr as manager, one as GM, maybe he can broadcast if it goes 3 yrs). I'd be more apt to buy tickets. :)
  6. Laura
    Nooooooooo! Guess I shouldn't mentioned that opposition slugging pct. Mobile did stack the lineups with lefties, which will happen until the splits go down. Harvey with a nice night.
  7. Laura
    1-0 Daytona through 2 Someone hit a HR ... but I just tuned in and they didn't say who! ETA: Ryan Harvey!! 2-0 Daytona through 3 on an RBI single by Matt Craig. ...still 2-0 through 5... I'm out for awhile ... GALLAGHER! :D
  8. Laura
    They'll occasionally mention opportunities on Cubs.com to buy on-field time for special events (like father-son playing catch day, which was a Fathers' Day event) on travel dates -- which I have absolutely no problem with -- and if I recall correctly, that money went to charity. They'll also auction opportunities like throwing a first pitch out through the mlb.com aution pages, also for charities. My impression is that these on-field day-of-game fantasy-type BP sessions aren't publicly advertised or sold. They're probably available as part of some sponsorship fee. I would guess that the $$ does not go to charity; if it did, they could at least mention that as partial cover for doing it at all.
  9. Laura
    I hope not, too ... but I will say that I wish they *would* invest a little $$ into revamping their health & conditioning (or injury prevention -- whatever you want to call it) throughout the organization. For obvious reasons, but also over past couple of years you keep hearing comments, particularly from pitchers, about how the Cubs don't require as much strenuous exercise as other organizations. Eyre said one of the reasons he was psyched to sign here was because Rothschild didn't make them run meaningless drills; Gwaltney said one change he noticed from the Phillies org to the Cubs is that the Cubs 'don't run you into the ground' ... it does make one wonder. But that's a whole 'nother topic. As far as the excuse-making goes, part of the annoyance with this is that the Cubs *used* the opportunity to have more on-field practice time as one of the justifications for having more night games. Everyone knew the main reason was to generate more money and that the pure baseball considerations and player preferences were secondary, but it's still annoying to have had on-field practice time used as a rationale when it turns out they're selling it off, anyway.
  10. Laura
    They (Speier and Dusty, IIRC) were asked about it after it became public knowledge. I couldn't find the old thread w/the original mention; you'd have to dig it up for the exact quotes and how they were asked, yadda yadda. Dusty never takes accountability for anything ... but I doubt he's the guy selling on-field BP to businesses. This is a Trib / front office issue that's interfering with the Cubs playing baseball. As for whether players would take advantage of the time if it were available -- like everything else, I'm sure some would and some would not. In my opinion, it's foolish to deny those who would like the extra time access to the field because some other player isn't going to use it. I also think this is more of an issue at Wrigley than it may be at most other parks because the in-house (off-field) batting facilities are so limited, meaning that you do need field access if you want meaningful practice time.
  11. Laura
    It's not the Cubs making excuses. I'm sure the front office would prefer that this got no press whatsoever.
  12. Laura
    I've heard they sell like hotcakes! I wonder when Veal will be on a non-minor-league card.
  13. Laura
    It's worth noting that Pie missed the second half of the '05 season in AA due to injury. He was not only promoted to AAA this year, but he had to 'shake off some rust' to start the season.
  14. Laura
    They can have corporate snowball fights. :)
  15. Laura
    In the last thread (which I couldn't find) they had quotes from Chris Speier that indicated the corporate practices had interfered this season with drills/practice that he wanted to run with individual players on the field. It's not necessarily the team-wide practices -- and we've heard ad nauseum about the limited indoor batting facilities at Wrigley. I have no problem with them renting out Wrigley for any purpose they want to on the ~284 days and nights per year that baseball isn't scheduled to be played there. When it conflicts whatsoever with the team playing or practicing baseball, it shouldn't happen.
  16. Laura
    This never gets old. Good thing the Cubs don't need any extra batting or fielding practice. I know there was a thread on this before, but I couldn't find it.
  17. Laura
    Very nice additions.
  18. Laura
    Thanks, I missed that in all the Neifi! excitement.
  19. Laura
    The best part about switching from clarinet to alto clarinet was moving over next to the sax players and in front of the trombones.
  20. Laura
    Sounds like they want him to get plenty of playing time around the field, but I think that injuries played a role. The DJaxx lost Nic Jackson, Dopirak, and Cates for the year; Miguel Negron was out for awhile and Eric Patterson was promoted -- they're running thin on position depth. Olin Wick is on the DJaxx roster now, I missed him being added. If the roster is current, they're carrying 3 catchers.
  21. Laura
    good grief
  22. Laura
    To be clear, that's the angle the sports radio jocks are playing up. I think with the recent Nightengale article, though, that the racial angle will be a media topic regardless of whether Dusty brings it up or not.
  23. Laura
    Well, I can somewhat answer this part of the question. Yahoo Splits has 41 games where he threw 121 or more-4 more games where he threw 136 or more, and 1 game he threw 151+ pitches in his career. It lists 4 hits and 3 runs, none of the runs earned for Maddux after pitch 151 in that game-so it was likely that he threw 160 pitches or more, making me believe that the 167 number is probably correct-or at least close to it. Glad to know where to find retro pitch counts.
  24. Laura
    Thanks, Nathan! Pie with a leadoff double ... but he's stranded.
  25. Laura
    I'm not sure the latest angle in the race & Dusty Baker saga has been posted yet -- I haven't seen it. Dusty made some comments about pitch counts and about Marmol in particular. Here's how The Tribune quoted him: Boers & Bernstein on The Score had the audio of Dusty's comments. What he actually said was, "If I left somebody out there 167 pitches, you'd lynch me." B&B's take is that Dusty will be deliberately raising racial issues as part of the reason why he won't be returning as manager. They thus believe that Dusty would choose to use a racially charged term like "lynch" and that the Tribune, caught in the crossfire between reporting the news and protecting the Cubs' image chose to desensitize Dusty's word by inserting a more neutral term. In my mind,there is a legit question as to why the powers that be at the Trib would replace 'lynch' with 'criticize' ... as distasteful, perhaps, as the term 'lynch' may be, it's certainly not unfit to print in a family paper. This is bound to get ugly. And that's not even getting into the whole question of whether Maddux ever threw 167 pitches in a game.
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