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  1. bukie
    It is a Wednesday afternoon in April. And not a particularly warm one. Did anyone catch the official attendance? Last year, Wednesday day games in April drew 32k and 36k Last year, the average meathead was still optimistic in April.
  2. bukie
    Cubs sporting a .622 OPS through nearly 6 games....still somehow good for 20th in the league and better than Cincinnati, Philly, San Diego, Atlanta, and Pittsburgh.
  3. bukie
    I most certainly am a quality over quantity guy. The top of our lineup being up should be exciting, but it's not. Our entire lineup is just one, undifferentiated mass of bad. DeJesus has been about as expected. Castro is struggling a bit early on, and who knows what Soriano is capable of at this point? I hate to say it, but the Cubs would probably be best served tossing LaHair in at cleanup and playing him every day.
  4. bukie
    Wood strikes out the side in the 8th. Silver linings. Hard to blame the majority of the pitching to this point this year. We knew the offense would struggle to hit for power, and it has. Mostly, the Cubs need to work the count a little more and try to draw a few more free passes. DeJesus, Baker and LaHair actually leading the way in that department.
  5. bukie
    Wood tried to get Ramirez to chase a curve low and away. Not always a bad option.
  6. bukie
    There are so many things wrong with this post, I don't know where to start. I know it's an overreaction, it's 6 games into the season that I knew was going to be horrible, and I'm already losing it Oh, Byrd being garbage was probably the most right thing. However... 1) His stock is currently very low, there's nowhere for it to go. 2) Jared Sullinger is a top 10 draft prospect for the NBA, and some mocks have him going as high as 6th. That's not plummeting. 3) Campana isn't on the roster, he'd need to be called up. 4) Jackson has things to work on in AAA and there's no reason to start the arby clock, so he won't be called up, despite what WSR constantly believes.
  7. bukie
    There are so many things wrong with this post, I don't know where to start.
  8. bukie
    Also, errors are stupid.
  9. bukie
    This is what we would call National Small Sample Overreaction Week.
  10. bukie

    Week 2

    bukie replied to Quakers's topic in Fantasy Sports

    Kotchman was benched for being terrible so I dropped him. Rivera was picked up as a replacement, which I thought was okay as long as I was releasing a player. It had nothing to do with today, it was because he got benched yesterday. If that isn't kosher, then I'll just take Kotchman back for the rest of this week and replace him for next week.
  11. bukie
    I'm not sure how much Howard going to UK would hurt Illinois. If someone was going to go to UK, they'd have gone there regardless of Howard's recruitment.
  12. bukie
    You're just saying that because LaHair isn't in the lineup.
  13. bukie
    Cleveland Cavaliers? Cleveland Indians? Cleveland ?
  14. bukie
    The Cubs Way....learn it!
  15. bukie
    Was he responsible for anything besides recruiting? I'm honestly not sure what he did as far as basketball development that would be translatable to a head coaching gig somewhere, so I'm just going to assume he'll go somewhere else to recruit, like UK.
  16. bukie
    This deal sounds positively Jim Bowden-esque... Hmm....
  17. bukie
    It'll be cold there tonight. I'll be there also, trying not to catch pneumonia.
  18. bukie
    And as we all know, the only response for homer-ish lunacy is to out homer-ish lunacy it.
  19. bukie
    Screw tiers. 1. Indiana 2. Ohio State 3. Michigan State 4. Michigan 5. Wisconsin 6. Purdue 7. Illinois 8. Iowa 9. Minnesota 10. Northwestern 11. Nebraska 1G. Penn State
  20. bukie
    Well, Castillo is staying on the roster for a while, at least. Camp is the 7th reliever, well down the lists of things to bother dealing with at this time.
  21. bukie
    Castillo next inning?
  22. bukie
    It's unconscionable that the manager would use the second best reliever on the team in back to back close games with an off day in between after not getting a lot of work in spring training. No manager would make that move. I'm intrigued by the idea that Wood is the second best reliever on the team. I mean, if you have faith in his 2011, then he's got to be the best, right? Or you could just take a quick glance at any of several projection systems, which all see Marmol's 2011 as a blip more than a trend.
  23. bukie
    It's unconscionable that the manager would use the second best reliever on the team in back to back close games with an off day in between after not getting a lot of work in spring training. No manager would make that move.
  24. bukie
    No breakdown in mechanics, was pitching as smoothly in the 9th as he was all game, no concerns. Agreed. I do assume he'll be monitored far more closely than the other 4 starters given the limited IP he's racked up in past seasons. I'd assume they'll have him at an innings limit this year, possibly around 150. They do have arms ready in the minors, so they'd be better off with a "better safe than sorry" approach this year.
  25. bukie
    I don't think Fiociello is a top 15 pick next year, as of now. So he's predicting the Cubs will make the playoffs.
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