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Kyle Farnsworth is a gutless choking dog. He can only dream of as good as Brad Lidge. I'd take Brad Lidge in a heartbeat over Kyle Farnsworth because Lidge can at least close during the regular season. Farnsworth probably could if he wasn't hung over or worrying about where his next piece of tail is coming from. Until he gets his head screwed on straight he'll be a gutless choking dog. With that said, Brad Lidge is, right now, a guy who can't be trusted to get critical postseason out. Until he proves he can do it, he can't. Chances are he'll get it done at some point however. Farnsworth on the other hand never will unless he gets his head screwed on straight.
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sorry
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Couldn't agree more..He would put a winner on the field... Yeah, the Mavs sure have racked up the NBA championships since he bought them... Mark Cuban is entertaining but until Dallas wins an NBA title they're just another team. And they'll still be just another team next spring.
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Since the schedule went to 162 games -- 1961-present -- only 14 teams have walked less than 419 times and won 80 or more games. The best of these were the 1968 Cardinals, who took the NL Pennant with 97 wins despite only taking 378 free passes. Ah, but that was a much different run environment, too. Good point. The only teams to do it that didn't play in the mid/late 60s were the '84 Royals and the '03 Dodgers; neither team exactly lit up the scoreboards on a regular basis. KC won its division that year.
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It's borderline crimminal that Angel Hernandez, an incompetent of the highest order, is working the World Series. The only way he should get into a postseason game is by buying a ticket. How MLB didn't manage to address the "everybody gets a payday" assignment rules for postseason play when it broke the umpires' union is beyond me.
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AZ Republic Article on Murton
LoneStarCubFan replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Dude, you can't read a whole lot into fall league numbers. Nobody has a book on him yet... -
NL East New York Mets Philadelphia Washington Pittsburgh NL South Atlanta Florida Houston Cincinnati NL Central Chicago St. Louis Milwaukee Colorado NL West San Francisco San Diego Los Angeles Arizona AL East New York Yankees Boston Baltimore Toronto AL South Tampa Bay Texas Charlotte or Nashville Cleveland AL Central Chicago Minnesota Detroit Kansas City AL West California/Anaheim/Los Angeles/Orange County Seattle Oakland Portland or Las Vegas
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I got yelled at by a future Hall of Famer because I asked for an autograph. Does that count?
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Finish the job Houston. Finish the job. I predict Ozzie Guillen will go off like Joaquin Andujar at least once in this series. The man is insane.
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come on man, all your posts indicate you are MUCH smarter than that. These are professional athletes - fan reaction shouldn't impact their production at home that much. That point holds about as much water as the "team chemistry" argument from last year. If you think Wrigley is a hostile environment for the home team you need to visit a few more ballparks. That place is Pleasantville compared to Comiskey, Yankee Stadium, Shea, Philly, Boston, etc. Wrigley crowds are also considerably easier on visiting players than just about any other park in MLB.
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Heeeeyyyyyy, you might be on to something there.
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Woke up again this morning and Dusty was still our manager. :roll:
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If St. Louis wins the next two games there will be no World Series this year. At least that's what I keep telling myself.
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NLCS: Astros Defeat Cards 4-2
LoneStarCubFan replied to Flames24Rulz's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I'll say it. He's taking somehting. -
Say hello to Rich Aurilia.
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Former Cubs suspended for roid use
LoneStarCubFan replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
The bigger joke is that Felix Heredia is still being paid to play baseball. I guess the old "if you're lefthanded and breathing" adage still holds true. -
Pujols should have been walked. to begin with. And Ausmus should be shot for calling for a two-strike slider to Eckstein when he couldn't touch Lidge's fastball.
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Reporter Carolyn Hughes, from what Derek's wife has said. Yeah, she's a bimbette reporter at Fox Sports West in LA. She's not a newspaper beat writer. Google = Derek Lowe Affair
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NLCS: Astros Defeat Cards 4-2
LoneStarCubFan replied to Flames24Rulz's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
The Crawford Boxes weren't even part of the original design of the ballpark. The wall you see in left center was supposed to run all the way to the left field corner, putting the distance down the line somewhere in the 330-340 distance. But Drayton McLane decided he needed more seats for his playpen so the "Boxes" were added. The hill is supposed to mimic the one at old Crosley Field in Cincinnati. That was also not part of the original design. Former GM Tal Smith had it put in towards the end of the construction process. -
NLCS: Astros Defeat Cards 4-2
LoneStarCubFan replied to Flames24Rulz's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
They've still got a 3-2 lead in the series. They're fine. Prior and Wood are throwing the next two games... -
FWIW, Lowe is screwing around with one of the bimbettes from Fox Sports West in LA, not one of the Dodger beat writers.
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Calling all Cub fans in Houston
LoneStarCubFan replied to Sweet Swinging Billy's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I don't live in Houston but I'm rooting for the Astros to go all the way. No group of fans is less deserving of a World Series team than the White Sox. -
Epstein could be a free agent by the end of the month. His contract is up and the Red Sox are apparently low-balling him. If he and Cashman are both looking for new teams to run come November 1 it'll be interesting to see if anybody kicks their GM to the curb to hire one of these guys. Cashman's name has come up in connection with Washington and Philadelphia already.
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You sure like name calling. You've done it all year. Do you even know what the word gutless means? Yes. It means Kyle Farnsworth. Somehow, I have the feeling if you said that to Farnsworth's face you would discover he's anything but "gutless." Probably so, but he'd still choke on the field when you need him most. Which is my point.
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No. Because there's no way the protest has a chance to be upheld and Scioscia knows that. He's taking the high road, which has to be extremely tough to do given the spectacular incompetence of this crew of umpires. But he's a long-time ML manager so I guess he's used to dealing with that level of umpire incompetence on a regular basis. The other reason he has to soldier on and shut up is that ML umpires are well known for carrying grudges and the Angels would be more than screwed from here on out if he had called out Eddings, Crawford and Co. for their complete lack of professional ability in the postgame press conference.