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  1. Rob
    Very exciting! \:D/
  2. Rob
    Well I loved the old board theme and my first instinct was to switch immediately back to it. But now that I've had a chance to sleep on it, I think I'm gonna give Nexus a shot...
  3. Rob
    Would it help if I got drunk and harassed people? Cause I'm willing to make that sacrifice for you.
  4. Rob
    Theriot has a .337 OBP this season. He's got zero business at the top of the lineup the way his walk rate has degraded.
  5. Rob
    Don't suppose you'd be willing to share in more explicit terms?
  6. Rob
    [expletive]
  7. Rob
    Why are you arguing it is all or nothing? Nobody said that happy baseball players are guaranteed to be more productive. You could have a team filled with Miles, Neifi, Fuld, Scales type players and they could have the best time in the world and they would still be a bad team. Where on earth did you get that I was arguing it was all or nothing? My point was simple... some players react differently to different stimuli. A happy atmosphere and "good chemistry" is not necessarily the best way to get full production out of our team. Some of our players may perform worse under those circumstances.
  8. Rob
    This is an extremely naive viewpoint. Sure chemistry isn't the only factor, or likely even the main factor, for the club's problems, but to completely discount work environment and/or work politics is foolish. As a business owner, it sure helps productivity to have a staff that gets along. I think it is funny that most people think that just because a guy is a baseball player, that he is immune to the same issues that most everyone else deals with on a daily basis. Why do you think your business is anything like a major league baseball team? Because it involves people. Why do you assume it isn't? If anything the stress associated with playing professional baseball including, regular travel and nearly 6 months of working everyday with very few off days would make interpersonal relationship even more important than the average job. what makes anybody thing that happy ballplayers are more productive? Some of the best players we've ever seen in baseball are miserable jerks.
  9. Rob
    Excellent move. Rotoworld is saying we claimed him on waivers, so it doesn't even look like we gave up anything.
  10. Rob
    http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1271/586960641_b68d4b1b0b.jpg?v=0
  11. Rob
    Soriano is still our best bet for production from LF next season. That said, while I refuse to give up all hope until we're mathematically eliminated this season... I see no reason not to start giving some of our guys a chance to show what they can do. Fox especially needs some reps out there, as his D has been significantly worse than even Soriano's uninspired performance out there this season. And the extra plate appearances can't hurt... it's been interesting watching him adjust to breaking stuff. I wouldn't waste any time running Fuld out there though. Any value he brings to this team is from his glove and speed... the extra PAs wouldn't do him any good and he doesn't need the reps in the field. Hell, give Hoffpauir a few starts out there... give him a chance to get his batting line back up where it belongs and end the season on a good note.
  12. Rob
    Has Huseby regained enough velocity that we can consider moving him into the rotation? Last I heard he was working high 80s out of the pen.
  13. Rob
    Reimold is the oldest and the worst defender of the bunch... not to mention how injury prone he is. I'd unload him well before I considered any of the other three. Thankfully for the O's, they have the DH. Slide Luke Scott to 1B like they've been trying and DH Reimold.
  14. Rob
    Apparently so many people at OH were ragging on him early in the year that every time somebody mentions him now it blows up into a big "I told ya so" fight... Despite being perhaps their most interesting topic of discussion right now, there are a whopping zero open threads about him. Looks like not just Cubs fans are ridiculously short-sighted.
  15. Rob
    Only the types who have also booed Bradley and think Soto should be benched.
  16. Rob
    Bad luck isn't regression. It's bad luck. If you maintain your insistence on blaming Soto despite all the indications that he's done everything in his power to perform his job duties, that is absolutely trolling... something you've got a nice little history of already. You constantly dismiss good statistics and use bad ones to back up stupid opinions even after people politely correct you. At a certain point it passed you simply being stubborn. You're a troll.
  17. Rob
    Wait. So Geo hasn't had a bad season? Did I say something wrong. And what's wrong with the Waton reference? He was a one year wonder as well. Sure he's had a disappointing season... but he's done everything in his power to have a decent one. He's got a batting average on balls in play of .240 despite a line drive percentage of 19.5%. Say it with me now... there is no way to explain away that kind of discrepancy without bad luck being a very significant factor. Hill has been terrible with the bat too, but his peripherals say he's really just been that bad. Soto's numbers have been bad too, but his peripherals say he's simply hitting the ball on a line right at people. Packing an extra 15 pounds doesn't have a damn thing to do with that.
  18. Rob
    Goodness... I don't know if you're trolling or really just adamantly remaining ignorant. But I hope either you or the mods resolve the issue of these blatantly moronic posts.
  19. Rob
    Im very curious to hear who the other 10 were. If they said that only Harden and heilman were "stories" than who the hell were the others? Gregg? Grabow? Miles??? If someone claimed Miles, and Hendry didnt hand him over with a pink bow on his head, that just sucks. The point is that Harden and Heilman getting claimed wasn't really a story either... waivers aren't really a worthy news item 99.98% of the time.
  20. Rob
    The problem here is that ERA on its own isn't even a good stat.
  21. Rob
    What about peripherals?
  22. Rob
    CERA does, indeed, have it's limitations. Can you list for us what those limitations are ? Can you comprehend why they aren't applicable in this case ? Quite simply, there are far too many variables to neutralize or even out over such a short sample size. The opposing team's health and performance. Where the games are played. What the weather is like when playing. The health of your own team. And when you have your starter missing a month, plus other injuries forcing player changes, it becomes even harder to account for the changes... especially with such a ridiculously simple formula. Even if you want to give Koyie Hill 100% of the credit for the better pitching performances (and there's no reason to give him any at all, as every single attempt to quantify or prove that certain catchers can call a better game has come up inconclusive at best or proven outright wrong at worst), Alfonso Soriano hit .337/.412/.558 during the month where Soto was out and Hill got all the starts. Now does it really seem fair to you to assign the brunt of the positive impact on our team's offensive output, run differential, and record to Koyie Hill's .194/.262/.258 line in that time?
  23. Rob
    CERA is a junk stat with no predicative value. Those stats really don't mean a thing... let alone bode well for Hill.
  24. Rob

    Z is Hilarious

    Rob replied to E.J.'s topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Maybe if Milton Bradley spent more time at a waterpark, he wouldn't have these attitude problems.
  25. Rob
    Glee!!!
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