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  1. bukie
    Mather helping out the pitcher by swinging at two garbage pitches, on a day where the strike zone is about 6 inches square.
  2. bukie
    And to say he made Nick Hundley look silly would give disproportionate value to all other uses of the word silly.
  3. bukie
    Three of the four pitches to Quentin were in the zone on Gameday, and Alonso swung at the second pitch.
  4. bukie
    My theory about Hawk is that he's not actually silent when the opposing team does something good, he's just swearing up a storm in the booth and the network just mutes him for five minutes.
  5. bukie
    Marmol is going to have to throw a lot more obvious strikes before an umpire is ever going to give him something borderline.
  6. bukie
    Apparently Illinois did match and Chew bolted for Marquette anyway, since he's apparently buds with Williams. Weird situation.
  7. bukie
    At this point, if Castro is going to hit 2nd, it should be some form of LaHair/Soriano/Stewart at 3-4-5 with Mather hitting on occasion in place of the pitcher.
  8. bukie
    Yep, he just increased his walk rate by 25%.
  9. bukie
    Well, comparatively, it was a pretty low bar.
  10. bukie
    The Cubs are 1-1 when Dempster allows at least 4 runs in a start, and 0-6 when he allows fewer.
  11. bukie
    Yes.
  12. bukie
    So, NBA lottery tonight! For me, the biggest story is to see if someone jumps Golden State, because then they'd have spent the entire second half of the season tanking for nothing, as they'd lose their first round pick.
  13. bukie
    It was inspired by a conversation I had at work today, which resulted in a surprising number of legitimate contenders for most terrible baseball stat. Enough that I thought it would actually make a good poll here, for a change.
  14. bukie
    There are plenty to choose from, but if you could abolish just one stat, which would it be?
  15. bukie
    Even if Scotland's not good, they're still better than all but maybe 3 other teams in CONCACAF (Mexico/Honduras/Costa Rica), so it's really nice to see them blow someone away that's better than the competition they'll be facing in qualifying the next 6 months.
  16. bukie
    Maybe Henry Blanco? He wore 24, and there's an outside shot that it's supposed to be a 24..
  17. bukie
    I'd go with 150 tops, preferably as spread out as possible throughout the year rather than shutting him down in August.
  18. bukie
    To be fair, Castro is 22, and Miguel Cabrera got traded before his 25th birthday after making 4 All-Star games. I don't see what the state of the team has to do with trading Castro though. Either the risk/reward of multiple prospects are more valuable than Castro or they aren't. The fact that the team has a lot of holes to fill shouldn't have anything to do with it. Either way, the players who are here will be here at least 4 years (Castro) and probably 10+ years so the Cubs will have plenty of time to build around them in other ways. And I don't see much that should make the Cubs want to trade Castro right now. 2 elite prospects probably wouldn't be worth it IMO. Actually, Cabrera is the perfect example for why not to trade Castro. Look at the supposed return the Marlins got for him.
  19. bukie
    I harken back to all those other times in MLB history 21 year old all stars were traded to improve their teams... ...nope, not once.
  20. bukie
    Via Kevin Pelton: In case you didn't think 5 years was a long time, this happened 5 years ago today: http://t.co/msNINMes
  21. bukie
    i'd opt to use a 6 hitter. In fairness, the Cubs really don't have a catcher right now.
  22. bukie
    DeJesus is much better at getting on base. Campana is better at running around them once he's on. Barney is better at preventing the opponent from getting on base with his defense. Cardenas make the most solid contact. If they were somehow melded into one super player with all the benefits of each and none of the drawbacks, I'd be all for leading off with 25 year old phenom Darian CampJesus, but such a player doesn't exist on the roster. In the mean time, they all play different positions, and since DeJesus's best asset is most beneficial at the top of the order and isn't keeping anyone else from playing, he's best served to just stay there.
  23. bukie
    Neyer, Nate Silver and Bill James, mostly. Grew up as a math geek anyway, so I was already into statistics before many of the newer things started being tracked. I'm not exactly sure when statistical analysis really started trending away from the classic triple crown line (AVG/HR/RBI), but I do remember MLB tracking GWRBI for a while like that was some advanced "thing". OBP and SLG tracking didn't pick up much widespread attention until after Moneyball was released, and then Neyer's OPS got picked up more widely by ESPN as the go-to "advanced" statistic (even though Neyer knew it wasn't a great additive stat right off the bat).
  24. bukie

    Week 8

    bukie replied to rawaction's topic in Fantasy Sports

    The DL parade continues. Youkilis off DL, Feliz on to DL, picked up Paulino to cover starts for the week.
  25. bukie
    Was the last pitch Wood threw one of the old-school slurves? It kind of looked that way, and if it was, that would be a pretty awesome way to go out.
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