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  1. Sarcastic
    WTH? Comcast just cut to commercial while Marquis was throwing a pitch!
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    Marquis is looking a lot better today than he has for about a month.
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    If you want to blame anyone for this fake surprise, blame Muskat and her nonexistent reporting abilities. Other articles clearly show that the surprise was more about what DeRosa and Fontenot would be doing than an acquisition. Still, if the Cubs haven't brought up that 12th pitcher yet, they may be waiting on a deal. We can still hope.
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    Impressive stats. It gets better: mlb.com I didn't realize he was on base that much during the trip. Well, his average was .480 so he didn't have a major spike in plate discipline, just some hot hitting and good luck. I'll take that any day, though.
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    Posting the lineup 10,000,000,000,000,000 times doesn't make up for posting it late. :lol:
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    Most likely thing is that Muskat did a bad job of reporting Lou's comments. Other reporters said that the surprise had to do with where DeRosa would be playing. The things we've heard that seem possible are that Fontenot is being considered for SS eventually and DeRosa will be playing RF tonight to make space for him. We aren't getting any big name players any time soon. Does anyone have the lineups yet?
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    At this point, that makes sense. If they can't get the other player in to town before the game, then they at least have Jones available tonight. Hopefully a deal gets done in the morning. Thats a good point Let's just say that a deal has been agreed upon (or very close to) but the players involved wont be able to get to the park in time for the game today. So the teams dont announce the deal, that way the players are still available for their current teams. Buuut I'm just grasping for straws right now. Yes, yes you are. Aren't we all, though. If there is a trade in the near future, it'll be a dumping of Jones at best.
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    I'm more worried about our first baseman who can't hit home runs. How many does he have? 6? As long as he's putting up a +.900 OPS, I think I'll be OK with Lee not hitting for power. What is his BABIP vs. expected BABIP? actual: 427. "expected" (though not thought out very hard): 340-ish. That is a very high BABIP. Why do you say .340ish, what are you basing that on?
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    Argh. How long is this going to drag out, with no payoff?
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    Maybe there isn't going to be one. This is my feeling at this point. Lou is just messing with us.
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    Discounting the curse/magic pixie dust theories about the Cubs and Cards, respectively, I don't see how the Cardinals could seriously contend for the rest of the season. It isn't as if they have just had bad luck, they have been a genuinely bad team for most of the season. Just look at their expected W-L record. They might get lucky, but they don't have any better chance than the rest of the garbage below them in the division.
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    They were hot, but they just got swept. They are no longer hot. Hot and cold is all about streaks, and Colorado is on a 3-game losing streak. I wouldn't say they're struggling, or in a rut, but they aren't hot anymore. This is a really silly argument. If a team had won 100 games in a row and then lost three straight, would you say they're not hot? What if they had lost 100 in a row, but then won 3 straight? Is that team hot? It's really maddening that you would quibble over whether a team that went 20-7, then 0-3, qualifies as "hot". Look who is doing the quibbling. You started it. In post that had a bunch of other points, you decided to take issue with my assertion that the Rockies were "hot". :lol: Can you guys agree to disagree here?
  13. Sarcastic
    About an hour and a half from now when Pinellia sets the lineup.
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    I'm more worried about our first baseman who can't hit home runs. How many does he have? 6? As long as he's putting up a +.900 OPS, I think I'll be OK with Lee not hitting for power. What is his BABIP vs. expected BABIP?
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    My guess would be Pagan. They said they want a 12th pitcher. It'd be too simple to get rid of Jones or Izzy. Fontenot's been red-hot, and Theriot has done his job (plus the squeeze bunt is helping him). Pagan has made baserunning errors and Derosa could be the 5th outfielder. Out of all the people that can be demoted, I think Theriot is on the hot seat (but the Cubs would prefer to trade Jones to make room). I don't see Pagan going because Lou views him as the best late inning defensive RF replacement. Pie isn't going down, even though he's struggled offensively, because he makes an impact defensively. Plus, Fontenot is red hot and has now supplanted Theriot and DeRosa as the starting 2B. That leaves the opening at SS and Izturis can't be optioned to AAA. That would mean that Izzy is our only SS. Izzy starting every day = ](*,) Ideally, it would be a 10 day situation; after which time Theriot could be recalled. 10 days of Izzy at shortstop is still torture. With the way Theriot is batting, it doesn't make much of a difference.
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    http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/cs-070624cubsbits,1,6772354.story?coll=cs-home-headlines I think this quote about a "surprise" is much more about DeRosa than the 2B situation-especially since Lou had this to say about Fontenot: Good find. This sounds like nothing more than bad reporting by Muskat.
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    This soon before the game, I'd bet there is no trade involved in Lou's comments. This means that there are only a few possibilities: 1) Fontenot (Pinellia thinks it is a surprise to play Fontenot over DeRosa for a day) 2) Called up Eric Patterson 3) Soriano shifts to 2B for a day (but who plays left?) My money is on #1, the least surprising.
  18. Sarcastic
    The Barrett episode goes to show that you can just never tell who the fanbase is going to turn on next. Barrett wasn't even in this poll.
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    I would be suprised if Fontenot doesn't start at 2B and I'd be even more suprised if Jones and Fontenot are traded together. Any insight into why Lou would consider starting Fontenot at 2B a "surprise"? Because he likes to jerk the media around? I doubt this will be anything big, though I'd like it to be.
  20. Sarcastic
    they have some tasty prospects...i would be all for that! Dream scenario: Zambrano to Mets for Martinez and Humber. Cubs re-sign Zambo during offseason after he punches Paul LoDuca in the face. That actually got me thinking. What stops a team like the Cubs from telling Zambrano that if he wants to be on a winning Cubs team, we'll trade him for good players and then he can sign with us in the offseason? Pride? Isn't that prohibited by the MLB? Trading a player with an arrangement to resign him in the offseason, I mean?
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    It was a bad signing regardless of what he provided in 2006. In terms of looking at the signing from a 2005 perspective, Hendry gave him at least one too many years. It wasn't going to be the contract that killed us, but it didn't bring in a particularly talented player and guaranteed him 3 years, so from that perspective, yes, it was a bad signing. From the perspective of final results of the contract, if we can trade him, I'd say Hendry got lucky on a bad contract and made it a wash.
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    Isn't that the guy who gave him a backloaded 3/16 deal? If you don't make fun of him for a week, I'll pick up the slack. The whole Jacque signing is contingent on this trade. If Hendry manages to get a decent player and/or relief from the contract, then the signing goes in the books as a decent one, possibly even a pretty good one. If he can't and Jacque continues to be a liability on this team and the Cubs keep paying his contract, the signing can quickly become a bad one, even with him being a pretty decent bargain last year. It already is a bad one. He can make it less bad by getting rid of him. It is bad this year. Last year, he gave us above average production for a very reasonable salary. I don't think 2 1/2 months of poor production completely destroys that if he and his contract are traded soon. I'd call it a wash.
  23. Sarcastic
    I think I'd rather see the Cubs face Vargas and Suppan rather than the other 3. I think that was his point -- showing that the Cubs have hard pitching matchups during the homestand. EDIT: Nevermind, beat me to it.
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    If they do make a deal today, either Hendry is working late or they did a really good job of not letting it leak.
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    How many of those games were already blowouts when he came in (hence, why he was allowed to pitch)?
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