Jump to content
North Side Baseball

Laura

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    10,896

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by Laura

  1. Laura
    Thanks! I can't even remember who what's-his-name is, go RICH HILL!
  2. Laura
    Did they say the injury? That stinks.
  3. Laura
    He played in 157 games last year. He's a slow runner. Even when he's hustling, he's as slow as molasses. Plenty of speedy guys have hurt themselves running to first base. Corey Patterson's ACL injury was awkwardly hitting first base. Aramis has been running and hustling and getting on down as far as I can tell this season. I hate to see this tweak / strain / hopefully not an injury being played up as some sort of hustling issue. I just want Aramis to hit the hell out of a baseball and field his position adequately, and he's done both just fine so far. I think he's by far the most under-rated player on the team.
  4. Laura
    Well, at least you feel at home. :)
  5. Laura
    are you flirting with me? I hope not, we'd have to open up yet another forum.
  6. Laura
    Hopefully Cedeno told him to hold on to it. It takes a mighty long time to have one shipped to Chicago if he needs it later.
  7. Laura

    Morning Radio

    Laura replied to Jon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    xm
  8. Laura
    Thanks, Raisin. I couldn't remember the details. Did you get a buzzcut earlier today?
  9. Laura
    This doesn't make sense. If, in three years, Sean (who has had about 3/4 of a season at AA) isn't ready to stick on the big league roster, then I don't think it's a big concern. I'm not much of a roster / options / arby clock etc guru, but I thought that the changes to the CBA last year allowed clubs to extend the time they owned players' rights an extra year and two years for players who were drafted at age 18 or younger (as Sean was in '04). Am I thinking of something else? BTW, Raisin was convinced Gallagher would see MLB action before September callups this year (predicted at the end of last season).
  10. Laura
    Gallagher! Congrats to him & his family! I'm usually not a huge fan of having young starting pitchers brought up and slotted for long relief, given the sporadic usage they'll get. I do think this can be a good move for Sean. He's responded well to being advanced and challenged regularly. Having met him, I can say he isn't the type to have his confidence shattered by a bad outing. I'm glad to see the confidence the organization has in him, and I'll be rooting for him. Exciting times! I hate to hear about Guzman's injury/soreness, though, and can't help but wonder if his being shuffled around so much lately contributed to it.
  11. Laura
    You've been added -- welcome aboard! I'm not going to have consistent computer access for the next week, so I'd really appreciate it if people could just PM the person after them when they're due to start a thread. I've taken care of the game threads starters for today. Thanks!
  12. Laura
    Welcome back, Raisin!
  13. Laura
    The spot starter usually just starts one game thread, win or lose. In the past, if whoever had been up as game starter didn't care, the spot starter could go again if s/he won. I asked Derwood last night if he would start today's game thread, but it was as a spot starter for A New Era. In other words, it's all good. Maybe Derwood can be the on-call Stopper!
  14. Laura
    Nate gets a shout-out from Len when he gave the Peoria update!
  15. Laura
    gotta love DLee.
  16. Laura
    And as I explained above, Soriano is being payed partly because he is FAST. They aren't paying Aramis to run. Part of the silliness over Aramis' purported lack of hustle was that the difference 99% of the time was his being thrown out by 3 feet or by 5 feet. Soriano's speed, on the other hand, is the difference between him being safe/out and determines which base he ends up on. BTW, Aramis has hustled every game I've seen so far. I can think of 10 occasions off the top of my head where I've wondered why Soriano was giving up on plays before he left the batters box.
  17. Laura
    no yes...he jogged all the way to 1st base and slid for no reason into third. if he hustled out of the box it would've been very very interesting at home plate with a cutoff. He could have been very easily out. I have no problem with him playing it safe with a triple with 0 out. If it were infrequent, it wouldn't be a big deal. Not running is becoming an everyday thing with Soriano.
  18. Laura
    LIX
  19. Laura
    It's especially infuriating with Soriano because part of the Cubs' justification for his $$ is his speed.
  20. Laura
    Nice!
  21. Laura
    I think he saw it bounce up and was surprised to see it not be immediately called a HR. I say that even though I haven't been a fan of his assuming HRs that actually were not HRs already this year.
  22. Laura
    That's a HR, you squat fat toad.
  23. Laura
    I only heard a bit of the game on the radio, but Pat and Ron said that Murton had been in the lineup they received pre-game, but was lifted due to a 'tight back.' *eta: too late!
  24. Laura
    Winning a lifesize Z poster seems an appropriate prize.
  25. Laura
    Wasn't the whole issue with moving Prior to the 60-day DL that he'd accrue MLB time if that happened? I can't remember all the permutations of Prior and MLB service time and the DL.
×
×
  • Create New...