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Not so sure, cubsin03 was the original poster saying it was a defensive position. You may be right. The dude at the end of his second post threw me off. I've never seen anybody actually type it if they weren't joking. Sya it maybe, but never type it.
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I swear if I hear this crap 1 more time, Im going to bang my head repeatedly into a wall. THE CUBS HAVE BEEN WINNING IN SPITE OF THEIR CATCHERS, what part of that is hard to figure out. The Cubs starting pitchers were pitching just fine the entire month of April with Barret catching also, so whats your point Catcher is a defensive position, dude. And so is 1st base 2nd base SS 3rd base CF RF and LF, so what the hell is your point? That phrase is an absolute idiotic phrase, since every position is required to play defense. But in case you didnt know, there is another part of baseball called offense, and I dont care how great you are a calling a game or blocking pitches, its not going to make up for an average under .100 Keener, meet sarcasm. Whenever someone types dude in their post, you know they aren't being serious.
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In the future, please read posts for what they say, not what you believe the poster is thinking. I have NOT asserted that the Cubs are winning because they traded Barrett. There is no empirical data to support this, but I don't see how there could be either. The Cubs have played better without Barrett, it's likely coincidence but we'll never know. While I don't yet put much stock in it, if it continues I'd be loathe to completely dismiss it. Finally, just because I have no evidence doesn't make it untrue. Plenty of things have existed long before they could be explained. It does, however, mean that I won't argue the point (which would be futile). If you read my post carefully, you would see that I never said that you had asserted that Barrett leaving was the reason for the Cubs' success. I pointed out that to do so is absurd, negating the point that "maybe it was, we don't know". Again, Barrett's leaving contributing to the Cubs winning is in fact less likely than my shoe habits doing the same. It is absurd to say, maybe that is it. There is no reason to not dismiss it. Plenty of coincidences occur, people just don't notice the ones not based on conventional wisdom as often.
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If you have no evidence for something, there is no rational reason to assert it or believe it is true. Maybe the Cubs are winning because I started putting my shoes on left foot first! That argument is actually more valid than the argument that the Cubs winning has anything to do with trading Barrett, since we can measure how his departure hurt the team, and but not how my shoes did.
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We're definitely going to need the Rockies to win today with Marquis pitching. This is true. They need to pulln him now. On the plus side, the Cubs have scored at least 6 runs the past two games. Maybe they'll manage to score a few today. All bow down to my mighty predictive powers.
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While I completely agree the Cubs are winning in spite of their awful catching situation, I'm not ready to agree with the later. Is it coincidence that the Cubs have been much better without Barrett? Maybe, maybe not. Also, Barrett is hitting 264/264/321 with the Padres. While that's certainly better than what Bowen/Hill have given the club, the Cubs would still need an upgrade from those putrid numbers. What possible argument can you make that the reason the Cubs are doing better is because of getting rid of Barrett and replacing him with even worse production? I'd love to hear why the hell you think that. I have yet to see a single, solitary reason that isn't complete BS.
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Sweet. I can't tell if you are joking. The ESPN announcers will be all over Bonds for the whole game. It's better than watching on MLB.TV with CSN. Ah, that explains it.
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I always thought that the win was awarded to the pitcher who had what was ultimately the winning lead the longest if the starter didn't go 5.
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Sweet. I can't tell if you are joking. The ESPN announcers will be all over Bonds for the whole game.
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How Do You Feel About Larry Rothschild Now?
Sarcastic replied to Outshined_One's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
The pitching was fine while Barrett was here. See Fred's stats on ERA w/ different catchers this year. I have no idea how this response is relevant to my post. I didn't mention Barrett, and I'm quite aware of Fred's stats. I thought my parenthetical would quell such condescending responses, but I guess not. The post had nothing to do with Barrett or CERA -- and the post explicitly stated the later. It had everything to do with the logical fallacy of assuming one intangible affects a tangible, while another quite similar intangible doesn't. It's pretty simple: if a pitching coach can affect pitching, then so can a catcher. Maybe neither do, as I'm not sure any persuasive empirical data exists. But you can't have it both ways. I'll agree that there is no way to accurately measure the difference between one PC and another. I never said I gave any credit to Larry for the staff this year. My second response was aimed more at DDS' post than yours. -
How Do You Feel About Larry Rothschild Now?
Sarcastic replied to Outshined_One's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Please look at the above, all who think that Barrett's departure madde a big difference for the pitchers. -
Why are people mad about using Marmol early? That was a key situation, and you have to bring on your best pitchers in that sort of situation.
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Is Derrek Lee's power gone forever?
Sarcastic replied to Mephistopheles's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
But when he slugged .500 he didn't do it by batting .330. -
Bob Brenly just said "lot of points scored already today." And he's a baseball guy.
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He gave up a hit to the pitcher. Take him out, Lou. Now. The DP was good, but he still needs to be taken out before they get back to the middle of the Astros lineup.
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With the game back in reach, Lou needs to pull Marquis at the first sign of trouble in the 3rd.
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The problem is, who will take him, and who will replace him?
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We're definitely going to need the Rockies to win today with Marquis pitching. This is true. They need to pulln him now. On the plus side, the Cubs have scored at least 6 runs the past two games. Maybe they'll manage to score a few today.
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its still his fault because he doesnt limit the amount of balls in play I agree that he isn't good, not enough Ks, too many BBs. Just saying some of the hits were lucky. And now he needs to be pulled.
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Marquis is being hit a bit, but some of these hits have just been lucky groundballs up the middle. His luck on balls in play seems to be shifting a bit, but it may not last for the rest of the game.
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Besides the 3-5, are there any other good hitters on the team right now? DeRosa is solid, but the rest are garbage.
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Unless ??? is a top player, why would the Pirates do that?
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I don't think Fontenot applied the tag until Berkman was in.
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Again, why do people think Soriano hitting 5th is going to do much good? Because he can drive in more runs with people like Fontenot, Lee, and Ramirez hitting in front of him instead of the catcher, Izturis, Pagan, and the pitcher? True. He also won't get as many at bats. True, but I'd rather him be up 4 times a game with a chance to drive in base runners 2 or 3 times, than have him come up 5 times and only have 1 opp. to drive in base runners. The thing is, the difference in OBP between the 3-4 batters and the 8-9 batters doesn't add up to two more RBI chances per game. It is much smaller than that. Add to that the fact that Soriano is only somewhat more likely to drive in those runs than DeRosa, and you have a much smaller impact than most people would think. Studies have shown that the most productive lineups bat their hitters in order of OPS from highest to lowest. Why not bat one of the better hitters first then?
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Again, why do people think Soriano hitting 5th is going to do much good?