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  1. Rob
    Anger Management. Let me guess, you probably would beat your wife/husband if you had one? There are somethings you just keep to yourself. No need for you negative posts. ??? It deals with his anger problems. Start backing up your opinions with fact, and less might get angry. Here is a fact: Sac bunts work. If they didnt, they wouldnt be used in baseball. Here's a fact: Iraq had WMDs. If they didn't, we wouldn't have gone in there. Here's a fact: Smoking pot is a smart decision. If it wasn't, people wouldn't do it. Here's a real fact: Saying that just because people do it, it's smart... isn't. Edit: Wait a second... you nearly had me fooled. Everybody, I'd like you to meet Dusty Baker.
  2. Rob
    I'm pretty sure it's 130.
  3. Rob
    Mine has completely stopped erroring as well.
  4. Rob
    That's like asking whether you want to be deaf or blind. Neither option has any real benefits. Deaf, since you asked. :lol:
  5. Rob
    It's a shame we have to waste that great stat by poor position play. Our guys are above league average in "catching the ball." We were sixth in the majors in defensive efficiency (the percentage of balls put in play that were turned into outs) It's just all those damn walks we give up. It's going to drive me crazy that Dusty never figured it out. He commented on how the walks were hurting us, but he never made the connection that if we would be the ones taking the walks we could hurt other teams. I mean, really, how thick can the man be?
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    No player on the Dodgers with more than 400 PA had an OBP lower than .355 Drew - .393 Ethier - .365 Furcal - .369 Garciaparra - .367 Kent - .385 Lofton - .360 Martin - .355 I realize 400 AB is a strange cutoff, but people were either above 400 or below 250, the only exception I saw being Jose Cruz. In other words, a playoff caliber offense can't have holes in the lineup like Pierre is, unless he's the only hole. Can a team drag a guy like Pierre into the postseason? Yeah... but he's sure not helping the situation.
  7. Rob
    The Mad Dog 20/20's versus the Pink Elephants.
  8. Rob
    Still better than Sweet Lou.
  9. Rob
    Get Giles and Andruw Jones. I like Andruw, but he's another Juan Pierre waiting to happen. He has 1 year left on his contract. It would cost a lot to get him and you risk losing him after just one season. He's going to want his HUGE payday on the next contract he signs. That's why I like Drew more. Unless we take on some bad contract for Andruw. Picking up the rest of Hampton's or Hudson's contract would probably lower the price of prospects quite a bit
  10. Rob
    I'm looking forward to a season in which I don't know anybody who's injured. Training staff hasn't been canned yet (and they shoulda been the first to go), so I don't see a healthy team happening.
  11. Rob
    Agreed. Zambrano is something that can be easily taken care of in spring training. Unless we're really scared about the starting pitching market inflating to the point where he'd get 100 million instead of 75 or so, it's very stupid to work on this before the more important things.
  12. Rob
    Hey Bruce, do you have any idea where all of the lying about injuries came from? If it was the coaches, I'd love to look forward to a season where I might actually know who's injured and for how long. If the traning staff or Hendry was dictating it.... ugh.
  13. Rob
    I'd do 5/75 for Z in a snap. Even if he blows out his arm he could play right field for us.
  14. Rob
    And here I was thinking that when I said "just about" everybody would understand that it was in deference to you and your Dierker fetish.
  15. Rob
    While I'm fairly fantatical in my analytical approach to baseball, a manager's job is extremely hard to divine from the numbers. Even taking all the right tactics doesn't necessarily make for a great manager. Motivation and player control in general are just as much a part of the job, if not moreso nowadays. Sure, I'd love a motivator that doesn't abuse the hit-and-run, but there's nobody on the market like that right now (unless Earl Weaver decides retirement sucks). Given the choices out there right now, Girardi is near the top of the list. He doesn't do the infuriating things as much as guys like Frank and Sweet Lou, and he seems like he'll get the most out of these guys. Is he the ideal manager? No. I don't think anybody's saying that. But he is just about the best available, and that counts for something.
  16. Rob
    What do you like about Francona? Francona was on the Discovery Channel's show about the science of baseball (i.e., sabermetrics) and talked glowingly about the *new* types of analytical analysis. I don't know if affects his management though. That he had Youkilis as his leadoff hitter most of the season would make me believe it does affect his management. They actually had Brian Roberts most of the season. Youkilis had 391 AB and Roberts had 560 AB in the leadoff spot. Both had very respectable OBP. although... Ummm... Brian Roberts?
  17. Rob
    Pretty sure, though I don't have it offhand. I would say he might have given up a few more inherited runners, but he also was saved by others preventing his runners from scoring. You come in and strike out 1, walk 1, and then give way to somebody else who gets 2 outs, and it looks like you did a great job. But you allowed half the runners you faced to reach base. BP estimates he kept 2 more runs from scoring than expected, but that the relievers behind him saved him about 7 and a half runs... nearly twice as many as the next guys. In other words, he was pretty good at keeping inherited runners from scoring, but the rest of the pen was even better at keeping his from scoring.
  18. Rob
    I sure hope so at this point. With Gonzalez off the market, the longer we wait... the better the odds that Sweet Lou makes his way to the North Side.
  19. Rob
    Sweet, my optimism didn't even last 36 hours since the firing of Baker.
  20. Rob
    I'd be extremely surprised if the Trib actually managed to finalize the sale of the Cubs within the next five months. Heck, Major League Baseball will take longer than that to go through everything in approving the new owner(s).
  21. Rob
    How is Kazmir more like Brackman than Price? I wonder what would happen to KC's interest in Wieters if Boras is his adviser. Hopefully it disappears entirely. The more I've looked through his numbers, I've developed some serious man love for Wieters.
  22. Rob
    IIRC, that guy had "Fire MacPhail" written on the back of that same sign. Sign is shooting 100% so far...
  23. Rob
    I'm afraid that announcement will come literally seconds after announcing Dusty wont be back. I deserve a honeymoon period, damnit. I've been unhappy since May... just give me a couple weeks of unbridled optimism already.
  24. Rob
    I have a feeling Hendry is gonna do some big things this off season....knowing his job is in serious jeopardy. Same here, so I'm pretty scared. Big pressure leads to big mistakes. Say hello to CLee at 5/60.
  25. Rob
    Frank Robinson, Lou Piniella, and Felipe Alou all available in the same offseason. Let's just say there's a reason I was hoping Dusty got fired in-season.
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