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  1. Rob
    Zambrano has batted three times in the last two innings.
  2. Rob
    :lol:
  3. Rob
    Ground ball behind 3B. Kouzmanoff got it and went to step on 3rd to end the inning, but Aramis beat him there. He makes an off-balance throw to first that flies over Adrian Gonzalez's head, and nobody moves to pick the ball up while it's sitting back by the tarp. DeRosa got to 2nd, and everybody else scored.
  4. Rob
    No more hustle comments about Aramis this season.
  5. Rob
    Reed Johnson breaks the streak. :cry:
  6. Rob
    Soriano is now batting .300 with a .891 OPS in May.
  7. Rob
    I love it.
  8. Rob
    My guess at the lineup? LF - Soriano SS - Theriot 1B - Lee 3B - Ramirez C - Soto RF - DeRosa CF - Johnson 2B - Cedeno
  9. Rob
    It's not a joke though to the best of my knowledge... So homophobia's cool then, just so long as the target actually is a [expletive]? It's also cool if you're too young to understand what's going on. http://www.appletreeblog.com/wp-content/2007/06/god-hates-fags-kids.jpg
  10. Rob
    If this actually happens, I'm not sure whom I would shoot first... Lou, Hendry, or myself.
  11. Rob
    I have problems with Lou's handling of all of the following: (in no particular order) 1.) Marmol's workload 2.) Pie getting benched against righties in favor of Johnson 3.) Ryan Theriot getting handed a starting job he didn't deserve, performing worse than our option with a higher ceiling, and still keeping said job. 4.) The copious amounts of hit-and-run attempts, often in extremely poor situations. 5.) Ryan Theriot being given the green light. 6.) Rich Hill's short leash... not exactly the smartest idea to give the guy with confidence problems something extra to freak about. 7.) Marshall as a LOOGY. 8.) Chad Fox getting high leverage situations. 9.) The complete disappearance of Michael Wuertz. 10.) Marmol being saved for late in ballgames, and then pitching regardless of the score. I also have a minor issue with Soto's workload. It'd be nice for his knees to be feeling good come September. I realize he's been a beast, but he's got more PA than anybody but Kurt Suzuki and Russell Martin (with Oakland having played a couple more games than us, and Martin playing 3B for a handful of games)
  12. Rob
    Troy Glaus just lined into a double play to get Jeff Suppan out of some trouble in Milkwaukee. Score is still 4-1 Brewers in the middle of 6.
  13. Rob
    How do you get up early to watch a game that starts at 1:20 central time? Even in California, that's not the crack of dawn. Those 11:20 am wakeup calls are rough. :lol: They sure can be. I was visiting a friend and ended up out at the bars til 4 am last night... then I had to get up around 11 to drive the hour back to my apartment. I'm honestly surprised I made it all the way back without A) Vomiting B) Falling Asleep C) Crapping Myself So lay off the man... maybe he was getting his drink on last night too.
  14. Rob
    Dunn is an upcoming FA. Which would mean two comp picks, almost certainly. And if I knew the first one would be in the #16-20 range, I'd consider the deal a little more seriously... but there's no way to be sure of that.
  15. Rob
    The Cubs would be better off just playing Pie, Cedeno, and Hill... unfortunately, Lou isn't that smart.
  16. Rob
    Were some MLB team unfortunate enough to have me in charge, I'd have one pen spot reserved for some worthless AAA guy with little value and I'd abuse his arm like crazy in every blowout. Then when his arm went out, I'd find another one. The weird thing is, I doubt you'd hear the players union complaining. It'd give a lot of guys a chance to make the majors that they wouldn't have had under normal circumstances. You don't think Les Walrond will kill to have a major league gig for two months? Ryan O'Malley? Jon Leicester?
  17. Rob
    Ball dropped pretty far in front of Upton. Sori was heading to third. Upton had some trouble picking it up, so Soriano was already on 3rd. Upton kinda lobbed the ball back in towards the middle of the infield, and Sori took off. With 2 outs in the inning already, I don't mind the play so much. The odds of us getting that run in anyways weren't great, and success guaranteed a run... so the breakeven point on plays like that is low enough that the attempt was worthwhile.
  18. Rob
    Gee, what do you know?
  19. Rob
    God help me, I still love the ninja thing...
  20. Rob
    Coming into today he had a LD% of 20.6% (the highest of his career). He also had a nice .200 BABIP, when, with neutral luck, you'd expect that BABIP to be somewhere around .325 It's just been bad luck.
  21. Rob
    Oh darn, you mean I don't get to watch him K 3 times today? Nope. Instead you get to watch Reed Johnson put the lightly put the ball in play over and over again... maybe going 1-4 (a single, of course, as Johnson has no power) in the process.
  22. Rob
    Just a quick back of the napkin calculation here... Dunn to LF, Sori to RF, Fukudome to CF... LF is gonna cost us probably 10 runs. (From Sori to Dunn) RF is gonna cost us probably 5 runs. (From Fukudome to Sori) CF is gonna cost us probably 15 runs. (From Pie to Fukudome) I feel I'm generally being conservative with those estimates... and that leaves us to the point where Dunn would have to create an extra 30 runs with the bat, and probably another 5 to account for the difference in their baserunning prowess. Could Dunn do it? I'd say that he probably could. Is it worth giving up the talent to find out? Probably not... not unless we're pretty damn sure he's gonna be necessary to let us have a chance to squeak into the playoffs. I'd be plenty happy if Lou would just stop wasting our time with Johnson in CF versus righties.
  23. Rob
    Soriano went 2/5 yesterday while getting robbed on a line drive that should have made him 3/5... and we sit him today. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
  24. Rob
    please stop I'd recommend putting him on ignore. If everybody else does it, I wont have to see his posts at all since nobody will be quoting him.
  25. Rob
    Are you even watching the game? He can't be. Nobody could be so stupid as to rip on Sori for hitting the ball that hard.
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