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  1. Rob
    Pierre has been basing his career on the faulty assumption that there's such a position as the leadoff man. Unfortunately, there isn't. Pierre plays centerfield. Whether he's leading off or not, there's no debate that he plays centerfield. And for a centerfielder, he is not productive. If you took below average production from every position in the field just because they fit some archaic mold of a lineup, you'd be a very bad team. Personally, I'd rather take production first and cobble together a lineup second. I'd be far from upset if I had too many "#3 hitters" and had to put on of them in the leadoff spot.
  2. Rob
    Agreed. I'm a nice guy. Can I make four million to manage the Cubs? Four million may sound like a lot but remember... Dusty was paying for his own toothpicks.
  3. Rob
    Interesting point. :roll: By the way, moneyball isn't about stats. It's about identifying weaknesses in the market and exploiting them. It's more about the economics of baseball. But I'm sure you already knew that; otherwise you'd just look silly talking about things you don't know. You'd be better off using the term sabermetrician.
  4. Rob
    I'm not. There'd be a reason the BoSox are looking for a better center fielder...
  5. Rob
    1. Cabrera 2. Matsuzaka 3. ARod 4. Manny 5. Wells
  6. Rob
    Your mention of the hit and run just severely soured me on Girardi. The hit and run may very well be the worst call a manager can make, outside of choosing who plays. If the Cubs never again called for the hit and run as long as I lived, I'd feel much more confident in our ability to win a World Series before I die.
  7. Rob
    He could always negotiate another out clause, this time based on team payroll or record or something. I mean, Mike Lowell had one based on whether or not the Marlins had a new stadium.
  8. 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. Let's keep this on the topic please. This type of post in completely uncalled for. You say my post is completely uncalled for. Have you been seeing what that Rob guy is saying? What I have been saying? I'd be offended is somebody told me I acted like Dusty Baker too, but you did imply davhern is a wife beater.
  9. Rob
    Evil nothing. It's evening out God's hatred of the Cubs... call it Karma.
  10. Rob
    Dusty Baker? Why am I not at all surprised at the fact a lowbrow joke went way over your head? More simple terms, then. You have repeatedly overvalued crappy, overpaid veterans. You seem to have no grasp for advanced levels of logic or science. You use archaic tactics just because other people use them, without any real thought involved. Essentially, you exhibit the same traits as Dusty Baker... a man who just got fired from baseball for a reason.
  11. Rob
    I'm really hoping he has some secret medical condition that makes him allergic to baseballs.
  12. 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.
  13. Rob
    I'm pretty sure it's 130.
  14. Rob
    Mine has completely stopped erroring as well.
  15. Rob
    That's like asking whether you want to be deaf or blind. Neither option has any real benefits. Deaf, since you asked. :lol:
  16. 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?
  17. Rob
    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.
  18. Rob
    The Mad Dog 20/20's versus the Pink Elephants.
  19. Rob
    Still better than Sweet Lou.
  20. 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
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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