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  1. bukie
    Rocco birdies 15 too, and now leads by 1.
  2. bukie
    Woods was up 3 strokes after 10, but now it's all tied up after 14.
  3. bukie
    I think there's an important distinction to be made between the Cubs playing "over their heads", and the Cubs playing better than anyone really expected at the beginning of the year. The second part is definitely true. Even if everyone is simply producing as projected, the Cub fan in all of us couldn't have foretold that it would work out that well. In terms of overall production related to wins, any method you look at suggest the Cubs are actually playing right according to production, and the Cubs are producing about as well as predicted. Sure, DeRosa didn't decline, Theriot became more patient, and Dempster has worked out better than imagined. Also, Lilly was awful for two months, Hill isn't even in the rotation after being replaced by average innings from Gallagher, and Lee is underperforming his projections. All in all, it evens out.
  4. bukie
    Looks like everybody won the last HOF game.
  5. bukie
    Man, this Blue Jays roster is a who's who of "what ever happened to that guy?" ball players. Matt Stairs, Lyle Overbay, Scott Rolen, David Eckstein, Brad Wilkerson, Kevin Mench, Rod Barajas, Scott Downs, A.J. Burnett. The team is built around Wells, Halladay and RIos, with the rest filled in with inexpensive role-player vets. I suppose that's one way to do it when the payroll is so limited.
  6. bukie
    That's not even the issue. A ball off the top of the wall is NOT a home run either way. The issue was whether or not it hit the ivy behind the wall and then bounced off the top of the wall.
  7. bukie
    I think there are a lot of people who have no problem cheering all the Cubs except Edmonds.
  8. bukie
    Nobody is saying Lee has been terrible. You are just assuming because some of us don't think he's an All-Star that means we think he's terrible, and then using absolutely no statistical basis for your opinion. He should get better, but up to this point he in now way deserves All-Star consideration. He'll get it, but he doesn't deserve it, and he certainly deserves less consideration than Soto, Ramirez, Fukudome, Soriano (although injured), Zambrano, Dempster, Wood, Marmol, Theriot and DeRosa. There's a difference between bashing a player and showing that he isn't perfect, or the best in the league.
  9. bukie
    What stat do you want? 7th in the NL in slugging among 1B, 16th in the NL in OBP, 8th in OPS, 6th in HRs, 8th in batting average, 11th in walks, 7th in K's. 8th in RARP, 7th in VORP, 6th in EQR, 9th in Win Shares. He does lead the NL in DPs, though. And ABs. Nobody's hating on players. Some of us are just being realistic, and some of us are spouting nonsense to make themselves feel better about a baseless opinion. Derrek Lee has no business being an all-star this year based on numbers.
  10. bukie
    Lee gets to a lot of balls that are generally out of the 1B zone (OOZ), where he's 4th in the NL. However, he leads NL 1B in fielding errors with 5, and is third worst among NL 1B in all errors with 6 (Votto 8, Delgado 7). His overall fielding rating (RZR) puts him a distant 4th in the NL, in a cluster with Adrian Gonzalez, Todd Helton, Mark Teixeira, Ryan Howard and Joey Votto (who gets to a TON of balls OOZ). The best defensive 1Bs, this year, by far, to this point, have been Pujols and Berkman. That cluster of 6 is in the middle, average to above average, and the other 6 1B (Adam LaRoche, Carlos Delgado, Prince Fielder, Conor Jackson, James Loney and Mike Jacobs) are below average. So yes, Lee has been average to above average in the field this year.
  11. bukie
    I was kind of secretly hoping that it was Pat Burrell, so the Cubs could claim him.
  12. bukie
    Holland could realistically sandbag it vs. Romania, and neither France nor Italy could advance.
  13. bukie
    DeRosa as an All Star? I don't know about that. I think the only two positions where the Cubs shouldn't get all star consideration is 2B and CF. DeRosa's actually been the third best 2B in the NL this year (though far behind Uggla and Utley). If there's any position that shouldn't get all-star consideration after CF, it's 1B. Yeah because he has been the fourth best offensive first baseman, and the best defensive first baseman means he shouldn't get any consideration? Closer to the 12th best offensive first baseman with a .275 EQA, behind Berkman, Pujols, Gonzalez, Helton, Fielder, Conor Jackson, and Teixeira in the NL alone. And Lee hasn't exactly been the best defensive first baseman this year. Average, though.
  14. bukie
    Quite possibly the most balanced (L/R) lineup the Cubs have featured all year.
  15. bukie
    Their 3rd degree win ratio is higher.
  16. bukie
    Holland's really had some rough football luck the last several years. About time they get on a roll.
  17. bukie
    DeRosa as an All Star? I don't know about that. I think the only two positions where the Cubs shouldn't get all star consideration is 2B and CF. DeRosa's actually been the third best 2B in the NL this year (though far behind Uggla and Utley). If there's any position that shouldn't get all-star consideration after CF, it's 1B.
  18. bukie
    He has the Cubs with 5 All-Stars, only one of them being a position player. And that one was DeRosa. Lee, Ramirez, Soriano, Fukudome, Soto and even Theriot also deserve consideration. That's just amazing.
  19. bukie
    Was Ozzie Smith really that much better than, say, Omar Vizquel? The Wizard of Oz could be the worst hitter in the HOF. Of course, he's not in it for his hitting, so it's hard to say. Perez, though, for sure. Sutter, Winfield arguable.
  20. bukie
    "Hey Hey" is a Brickhouse trademark. Not associated with Buck in any way.
  21. bukie
    I'm of the belief that managers can do little to make a team win, but a lot to make a team lose. A manager's responsibility is to put the team he's given in the best position to win. Some managers feel the need to affect the game every chance they have, and that's where mistakes are made more often. Managers in this vein are Cox, Tony LaRussa, Lou Piniella and Dusty Baker, just to name a few. In these cases, the flaws the manager do have are greatly amplified, because they try to directly affect the game so often, they will make more overall mistakes. Does that make them bad managers? Well, if a manager does nothing but make the lineup cards and call the pitching changes, it's the players that really affect the game most. I'm not sure that makes someone a good manager if they don't affect the game a whole lot, but at least they don't screw things up that way. As for the Braves 14 years of success, I think you have to credit Schuerholz at least as much as Cox for that.
  22. bukie
    Oddly enough, also a 3-2 game in extras, and also tied in the bottom of the ninth on a HR. Dibble actually intentionally walked Doug Dascenzo with runners on 1st and 3rd with one out...
  23. bukie
    ESPN Article: The life of a manager can be a whirlwind ESPN detailing the managers that are under fire one minute, and safe the next. I did find this bit amusing: Interesting that the Brewers were a disappointing 7 games back 16 games ago, and then they ran off a 12-4 string that brought them to within...7 1/2 games. The Cubs are 13-3 in their last 16. Also interesting, last year after 64 games the Brewers were 34-30 and had a 5.5 game lead in the division. This year after 64 games, the Brewers were 33-31 and trailed by 7.5 in the division. So, really, the Brewers season hasn't been a whole lot different. Everybody else just got a lot better.
  24. bukie
    Argh...Gameday has every video highlight EXCEPT the Edmonds HR call. WTF?
  25. bukie
    Cubs now lead the Astros by 10 games...and the Astros are only a game under .500.
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