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  1. bukie
    Winning does wonders to demeanor... No matter how one feels about JJ, I agree it is good to see him playing like a kid & enjoying the game. He isn't a bad guy, I think, so I hope he continues playing w/ some joy. maybe we'll get lucky in the process & he'll start producing on a semi-regular basis... I would love to see JJ catch fire for 2 weeks, hit 4-5 HRs or so, and then be rolled out to the Yankees with additional assets for A-Rod.
  2. bukie
    Wow, Atlanta has had 22 baserunners, and only 4 have scored.
  3. bukie
    According to the official rules: I'm not sure when they removed "pitches effectively" from the rule, but I think it's now just automatically regarded as a save.
  4. bukie
    :-s 3+ innings of relief to end the game is a save, no matter the lead.
  5. bukie
    12 runs on 10 walks today. No home runs.
  6. bukie
    Whew, I was worried the Cubs wouldn't make it to 10 runs today.
  7. bukie
    What does our offensive production have anything to do with QS's? The only reason Z came out after 5 IP was because of the 9-0 score. A pitcher has to go 6 innings with 3 or fewer runs to get a quality start. I guess next time Lou should tell his players to stop scoring so that Z can chase a meaningless statistic. Didn't seem as if he was disapointed about it, just pointing it out, since Z had thrown 8 consecutive QS's.
  8. bukie
    Had him pegged for the Giants.
  9. bukie
    Gallagher hitting, according to gameday, so it would appear he'll go at least another inning.
  10. bukie
    What this day needs to top it off is either a JJ or Koyie HR.
  11. bukie
    5 runs on 2 hits that inning. For the Cubs.
  12. bukie
    And 4 walks score for the Cubs this inning. If only they could be this patient every game.
  13. bukie
    Base cloggers.
  14. bukie
    From my previous post: I'm not even saying it was definitely a Zambrano-Barrett issue, just that it seemed weird that 19 of 20 Zambrano starts correlate to either pitching well without Barrett back there or pitching poorly with Barrett back there. It's the weirdest pitcher-catcher correlation I've ever seen. If there indeed was an issue, though, then obviously something had to be done to fix the "staff ace". Either tell Zambrano to suck it up, work with Barrett to figure out what's up, or trade one of them. Obviously, Hendry chose option C and dumped Barrett.
  15. bukie
    It was only one game...but it wasn't pretty. At least he didn't strike out! :P
  16. bukie
    Again, they aren't meaningless. What I'm saying is that Zambrano had a problem with Barrett this year, and previous numbers, in that instance, are meaningless. There's no way to prove it, but if there wasn't a problem, it was an odd coincidence. If you're going to pretend that 1/2 of the season's worth of starts are meaningless, there's no reason to continue the conversation, because you've apparently already made up your mind and are unwilling to accept anything else.
  17. bukie
    That I agree with. If the Cubs had to get rid of Barrett to keep Zambrano, I am all for getting rid of Barrett. Sure, but they didn't have to. That was the point. The numbers from this season are a meaningless sample size with plenty of varying factors. Checking out Barrett's overall numbers catching the staff in the time he's been here, he has been fine catching the Cubs pitchers. It's not so much a meaningless sample size, at best it's an odd coincidence that every single one of Zambrano's 8 poor starts were with Barrett catching, and 13 of his 14 other starts were with someone else catching. Is it Zambrano's problem as much as Barrett's? Absolutely, but something had to be done to fix the situation. Apparently, Hendry picked to dump Barrett.
  18. bukie
    Carlos Zambrano, through June 1, had 4 quality starts out of 12. 3 of those QS's were with Blanco catching. Since the Barrett fight, Zambrano has 8 quality starts out of 8 starts. Barrett didn't catch any of them. Barrett caught 7 of the 8 non-quality starts, and the one Barrett didn't catch, Blanco caught him in a 5 1/3 inning, 2 run start that just missed being a QS. If ever there were an example of a pitcher and a catcher not getting along, that is it.
  19. bukie
    Apparently about $900k. $5.5M of his $13M salary is being paid by the Pirates, half the remainder was already paid out by the A's this year, and they sent cash in the deal to cover a good chunk of the rest. So unless Blevins becomes the next Willis (:roll:), it's a no nothing deal with possible upside? Well, Blevins was doing impressively well this year as a reliever, but it is quite possible that Hendry actually sold high and bought low, here. Question remains whether "bought low" will actually translate into any improvement for a player like Kendall, though. Can't be worse than what Bowen provided offensively, and pitchers seem to really like his game calling ability, so hopefully that can be a non-issue. Not good at throwing runners out, but nobody has been this year for the Cubs.
  20. bukie
    Gambler's fallacy. Starting 2-12 in 1 run games doesn't mean you're due to go 12-2. It means you're due to go 7-7. Law of averages, more so. Flipping a coin 100 times, even if 12 of the first 14 are tails, at the end of that 100 times it's most likely to even out. Sure, that next flip is still 50/50, and any single flip is 50/50, but at some point the greater average trends towards, well, average.
  21. bukie
    Apparently about $900k. $5.5M of his $13M salary is being paid by the Pirates, half the remainder was already paid out by the A's this year, and they sent cash in the deal to cover a good chunk of the rest.
  22. bukie
    Perhaps a large part of why the Cubs are winning more lately has to do with luck. It had to even out at some point, and after starting 2-12 in 1-run games, they are 10-3. Part of that has to do with the bullpen pitching better, part of it has to do with Lou using the pen better, and part of it has to do with some kind of attitude, as silly as it sounds. The only thing that the Cubs could possibly have benefitted from dumping Barrett is that possibly the attitude of the pitching staff is better. Which would be a shame if true.
  23. bukie
    Referring to Hendry's rock-solid reason for the trade, or the concept that it's absurd to think it could happen with the Cubs?
  24. bukie
    If only the Cubs had ready replacements for Jones and Izturis in their minor league system, they'd be pretty good offensively...
  25. bukie
    Well, it's not raining here right now. Looking about 50/50 for tonight.
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