Rob

Now that you mention it, I probably am hungry enough to eat crow. Stupid lunch not making itself so I could eat...

Are you sleeping with Ellen Degeneres? Have you seen her dance?

You must be doing it wrong.

There's no E in "crow"

Well, I guess you could say he was due.

He took our best bat out of the game... and odds are that if we have a chance to win this game, Floyd would have been the one with a chance to do that. It was stupid.

Has Lou done anything to show you he knows how to manage a bench in a close game? First you have to GET TO extras. And letting relievers bat isn't a good way to do that. Score the run first, worry about the remaining situation next. You pinch hit for the reliever if it gets there in the bottom of the inning. You don't take out our best damn bat today just because you have a weird double switch fetish.

Has Lou done anything to show you he knows how to manage a bench in a close game? Lou hasn't done anything to show me he knows how to manage, period. Though I'm sure he has plenty of apologists, he needs to get the axe. He's horrid.

Why the hell is Lou pulling double switches with a short bench in a close game? If this goes to extras we'll have pitchers, but no batters.

Before last night, we had the worst batting average (.233 or something close) with bases loaded. I reiterate --- the Cubs choke in pressure situations!! weren't you proven to be laughably wrong on this point in another thread? Mr. abuck1220 (superstar), The Cubs are DEAD LAST in batting average with the bases loaded. I call that lack of clutch hitting. And btw, stop being an ars Actually they're not. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/stats/byteam?cat=Situational&cut_type=94&conference=MLB&year=season_2007&sort=722 And they're third with RISP. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/stats/byteam?cat=Situational&cut_type=39&conference=MLB&year=season_2007&sort=722 uh....yes, they are....dead last in the national league.....that's what I meant to say. Does it really matter??? they absolutely suck in pressure situations. No, they absolutely suck in your one example of a pressure situation... I mean, if you're gonna say pressure situations, look at close and late... that's a lot more pressure than bases juiced in a blowout.

What could this solve? what you do is when ramirez gets back you bat ramirez 3 floyd 4 lee 5 No, you bat Lee 2, Floyd 3, Aramis 4, Pie 5 NO NO NO NO, DO NOTTTTTTTT MESS WITH PIE, LEAVE HIM AT 2!!! His profile fits better lower in the order. You want to maximize runs, you move Pie down. You want more "exciting" baseball, you leave him where he is.

What could this solve? what you do is when ramirez gets back you bat ramirez 3 floyd 4 lee 5 No, you bat Lee 2, Floyd 3, Aramis 4, Pie 5

We need a catcher that can run the damn bases!!! :lol:

Same but with oreo cookies in my hotel room. Same here but with a wife beater on and bud light instead of food. The doc's gonna be pissed when I go to my appointment in a couple hours.

I don't know, but he's plummeting toward DLee pre-2005 status, and that ain't good. Eh, Derrek was a pretty excellent player pre-2005. Eh, not even close. An excellent defensive first baseman with an upper .800s OPS? I'll take that any day of the week.

Hmmm.... 1) Eddie Collins 2) Ryno 3) Rogers Hornsby 4) Napoleon Lajoie 5) Biggio or ....hate to say it Joe Morgan black Americans might take issue with someone missing from that list, as might fans of the Detroit Tigers. Yankee fans might also, but who really gives a rat's tail about them. Dang, you're on to my covert racism....thus why I didn't have Joe Morgan higher. :) Jackie Robinson was a great player but the numbers aren't even close to him being a top 5 great at that position compared to the others I listed. I understand he lost years to the war and a few years in the Negro leagues, but calculating that into an equation just doesn't work. Otherwise we'd still have Ty Cobb as the all time hit leader due to his years lost in WWI or with Ted Williams being top 3 in homers if he hadn't lost years in WWII and Korea. By the Tiger I assume you mean Whitaker, who'd I'd have in the top 10, but he's not better than Collins, Lajoie, Hornsby, Ryno, or Morgan. The Yankee I'd take you to be talking about Lazerri? He didn't even have 2000 hits in 14 seasons. Don't forget, Jackie may have played more at 2B than any other position, but he only played about half his games there. Is he a 2B? Yeah... but it's kinda unfair to give him credit for his career numbers at a skill position when he wasn't playing there for a good chunk of his career. And yeah, I do say the same thing when talking about Ernie Banks while making greatest SS arguments.

Weaver is either finally gonna break out of his slump and shut us down for 7 innings, or he's gonna give up 7 in 1 2/3... there's no in between.

Ummm... Molitor is in the HoF. And while Whittaker got almost no support, his numbers are HoF worthy, as are Robbie Alomar's and Barry Larkin's.

Bruce, I don't suppose you're lurking around with a lineup?

While I know you don't like Barrett, will you at least admit that he's the best catcher of our available options (including Blanco once he comes off the DL)?

Fantastic news for the A's... bad news for those of us praying Cubs upper management would finally get a clue.

Small sample size. We all know the man has prodigous power. He's got five 30+ HR seasons and two with 45 HR.

He did go 0-6 yesterday.

Game. Set. Match.

Great, we're already fake rallying in the first.