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Everything posted by bukie
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Yeah, nobody is hitting worse than their career norms except for Byrd, Soriano, Soto, and the entire bench. Really, the only two hitters hitting unsustainably well above their projections are LaHair and Clevenger. Are you arguing that this offense isn't pathetic? Are you reading anything? It's below average, more hitters are hitting unsustainably bad than unsustainably good, and several offenses are doing far worse. -
There's less to learn from playing Baker regularly than there is playing Stewart regularly. And please work on sentence and paragraph structure.
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Yeah, nobody is hitting worse than their career norms except for Byrd, Soriano, Soto, and the entire bench. Really, the only two hitters hitting unsustainably well above their projections are LaHair and Clevenger.
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You must not be watching a lot of baseball this year. The Pirates have scored half as many runs as the Cubs this year. Ha! Check back in a month and see what it looks like. The Cubs haven't been good offensively, but they're hardly the worst offense in their division, let alone in baseball, without even considering them as one of the worst in history (I mean, look at Seattle last year). Their pitching, however, is one of the worst in baseball so far, and they've given up more runs than anyone except Boston. That is the kind of thing I don't think will keep up, as the starting pitching is better than they've shown in two weeks. Do you mean the 2010 Mariners? That was an horrid, abysmal offense. 2011 was really bad, but they were nearly 50 runs worse in 2010. Wow, that was two years ago already? Yeah, that offense was atrocious. Ichiro was the only regular with an OPS over .700 (and he was just .754). Russell Branyan was the best hitter on that roster.
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Theo is gonna set a lot of records. Most years as an MLB executive without winning a division title? Despite a lot of second-place finishes, the Red Sox did win the division in 2007.
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You must not be watching a lot of baseball this year. The Pirates have scored half as many runs as the Cubs this year. Ha! Check back in a month and see what it looks like. The Cubs haven't been good offensively, but they're hardly the worst offense in their division, let alone in baseball, without even considering them as one of the worst in history (I mean, look at Seattle last year). Their pitching, however, is one of the worst in baseball so far, and they've given up more runs than anyone except Boston. That is the kind of thing I don't think will keep up, as the starting pitching is better than they've shown in two weeks.
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You must not be watching a lot of baseball this year. The Pirates have scored half as many runs as the Cubs this year.
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For some reason I thought Stewart was hitting a lot better than he is.
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If Stewart is going to continue to hit, may not be a bad idea to bat him second.
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Charlotte is historically terrible.
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In a vacuum, you're right. But Bayern is better than Chelsea and Real Madrid is not as good as Barcelona (whatever the La Liga table says). Bayern still has a better chance to advance. I think Barcelona will advance, but I'm not sure they'll win the final. Oh, I don't think they're more likely to win, just that they can still afford to bunker and have a little bit of leeway. They'll still probably lose 4-0.
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Well, Bayern and Chelsea each won their home legs of the semis, so the return trips in Spain should at least be interesting. Chelsea may actually be in a little better shape due to the home shutout.
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Congratulations. Treat yourself to a cookie for your successful pessimism.
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SMU's a Big East program. *smacks forehead*
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Also, on an amusing note (to me), that makes the last four Illinois head coaches (if Jerrance counts for the interim period) currently coaching four separate Big 12 programs.
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It's just like a non-compete, if that non-compete applied to every decent company in the entire midwest (and east coast).
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Well, that's one way to get to be a head coach in a year.
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Somewhere, Eric Gregg is Smiling...
bukie replied to MembersOnlyJacket's topic in General Baseball Talk
That's a weird jump in logic from "let's get the calls right" to "let's replace players with robots". It's like saying that if the NHL is going to review goals, they may as well have a mechanical goalie. -
Re: Games in which the Cubs are not playing
bukie replied to El Duderino's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Well, at least now we know exactly where Rick Ankiel has to be on the field to be able to throw a strike. -
Which would be a lot easier if Lunardi didn't disavow all knowledge of his ridiculous April bracket as soon as the year rolls around. Every site I checked for it linked to the main bracketology page, which is annoying.
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Purdue as an 11 seed? No, making an actual full bracket in April.
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Yep, that's officially the stupidest bracket prediction of the year.
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It's as if the owners got together, singled out one hypothetical owner that complained the most about draft spending, who we'll call "Ferry Jeinsdorr", and went with his plan for the new agreement because otherwise all 30 teams weren't going to be on equal footing in the draft.
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All the new Nike kits:
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I can't believe a man that tried this http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/001/519/628/bobbyvstache_display_image.jpg?1320892778 would have clubhouse issues.
