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  1. bukie
    Pitching change anyway! Jared Burton in.
  2. bukie
    Volquez batting with 2 outs and none on, so apparently Dusty's pitch counting machine (Dick Pole?) is broken.
  3. bukie
    I'd wager that if Volquez's spot in the order doesn't come up here, he'll go back out to the mound for the 6th.
  4. bukie
    I do have to say, though, I have been very impressed with the Cub hitters' patience in this game. Volquez has thrown 112 pitches through just 5 innings, and the Cubs only have 4 hits. Almost every hitter has been working the count. This is the way to deal with a good pitcher.
  5. bukie
    Lee grounds out on what might have been ball 4, depending where the zone was on the pitch.
  6. bukie
    It's like one of those video games with the constantly moving target as a strike zone today.
  7. bukie
    Not to mention, the Cubs had a starter on the ropes struggling with control, and they give him two free outs.
  8. bukie
    Well, that may be a first, giving up 2 outs to move runners along one base.
  9. bukie
    So, apparently Gameday was wrong and it wasn't 3-0, but... Blanco trying to bunt with 2 strikes in front of a pitcher who can't hit at all, bunts foul for a strikeout, and the pitcher bats anyway? What the heck were the Cubs thinking?
  10. bukie
    So help me if Blanco is bunting 3-0.
  11. bukie
    Unfortunately, one of the better options is in AAA because the Cubs didn't need another left fielder.
  12. bukie
    Gotta rest the man sometime. I agree, you need to rest Reed Johnson sometime.
  13. bukie
    DeRosa walks in front of Soto....err, no, Reed Johnson. :(
  14. bukie
    The Cubs just need to continue to be patient up at the plate, and maybe tell Fontenot and Blanco to just lean into a couple to get on base or something to keep the rallies going.
  15. bukie
    Lilly still leaving a lot of pitches up. Makes me nervous.
  16. bukie
    Boston over Atlanta in 4 Detroit over Philadelphia in 5 Orlando over Toronto in 5 Cleveland over Washington in 5 LA over Denver in 5 New Orleans over Dallas in 7 Phoenix over San Antonio in 6 Utah over Houston in 6 Boston over Cleveland in 5 Detroit over Orlando in 5 Utah over LA in 6 New Orleans over Phoenix in 7 Boston over Detroit in 7 Utah over New Orleans in 6 Boston over Utah in 5
  17. bukie
    Thanks Tim. I am not so much overrating the importance of "Ozzie Ball" but trying to express how much Podsednik meant to that team in '05 and that the trade for Lee was the right move for the Sox to make. I guess when you speak into a canyon the words just end up echoing back. ;) But do you completely discount the possibility that the fact that the Sox won the world series was completely unrelated to that trade? The facts remain that the only areas where the Sox were above average in '05 was overall pitching and offensive home runs. Of the 12 pitchers that regularly contributed to that 2005 team, 11 of them pitched completely out of their minds for that entire year (Garcia possibly being an exception since he had similar statistical years), and the 12th (Hernandez) magically became completely unhittable in the playoffs. No other team that year or since has had that kind of dominance in pitching. I consider it a disservice to that team to claim "smartball" had anything to do with that season going well. If anything, it prevented easy wins because of a propensity to give away outs with overzealous SB attempts and sacrifices. EDIT: Corrected with Garcia the one not having a career year. He did have better years, but his 2005 was still above average. Buehrle did have his best year in '05.
  18. bukie
    Have to admit, I don't understand the bizarre schadenfreude towards Corey Patterson. The Cubs' management screwed with his development, he had an awful injury in 2003 when he was just starting to get it, he contributed well in 2004, and then somehow became the poster boy for everything that was wrong with the team from 2005 on.
  19. bukie
    I believe he was traded for 4 good innings of Steve Trachsel.
  20. bukie
    Because they traded Carlos Lee for Scott Podsednik.
  21. bukie
    The Sox already had plenty of power. Lee is the better offensive player when it comes to HR and RBI and AVG but what Podsednik gave the Sox was a player who could manufacture runs, a player who could beat out an infield hit (40 in 2005, 16 of those bunts), a player who could get on base (.419 OBP leading off the game in 2005) in the first inning and be at 2B by the time the meat of the order came up. He was the spark for the Sox in '05 and the offense suffered when he was out with an injury later in the year, which almost cost the Sox. Pods reminded my alot of what Bobby Dernier did for the Cubs in '84. So say what you will about old baseball traditional positions but there is a reason why they are traditions.....it's because they work more often than not and in 2005, it worked like a charm. In 2005, the White Sox won the World Series, hands-down, because of their pitching performance. They were awful offensively, particularly because of the "smartball" myth. Podsednik's usefulness was strictly a .350 OBP, which ranked 2nd on the team. Konerko was really the only offensive threat that team had. If they'd had even a little of the offense that they had the subsequent 2 years, they would have made things much easier on themselves.
  22. bukie
    Here's my argument: Every time you send a pitcher out there for an inning, it's a calculated risk. Every inning. Z was rolling exceedingly efficiently through 6 innings, and the Cubs had a comfortable cushion. Why blow an additional reliever inning in this situation when you have (A) Lilly going tomorrow, when he's struggled mightily, (B) Hill going Friday, who has also struggled mightily, © Marquis going Saturday, who has once again struggled mightily, and a total of 8 games in 8 days in early April when 3/5 of the rotation hasn't been able to throw 5 innings, let alone 7. At 80-some pitches through 6, I would think it's less of a risk to let a cruising Z go one more inning when he's been averaging 14 pitches an inning than it would be to burn a reliever specifically for the sake of extra rest for the only durable starter the Cubs have.
  23. bukie
    103(?) pitches for Z through 7. Should be it. Get Wuertz/Howry some confidence time.
  24. bukie
    Pie makes a tough catch look easy.
  25. bukie
    Yes, let's simply ignore the fact that Murton actually plays left field defensively, then your analogy is perfect.
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