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  1. cl smooth
    not to thread hijack, but i bought an industrial-strength plunger and a snake. the new plunger is all it took...5 or 6 tries and she was unclogged. the bears/saints game will proceed without any interruptions. and for the record, she is buying pizza and drinks for the game because of this ordeal. :D 8-)
  2. cl smooth
    my girlfriend came home from SF last night and dropped a log in our toilet. now it's clogged. pray to the gods that i get this situation resolved before the game starts. i don't want to be fixing toilets while the bears are duking it out with the saints!
  3. cl smooth
    I hope we fire Lee or at least dock him his pay. That lazy bum. your argument doesn't fit with what he said. lee was hurt for four months last year and played in 158 and 161 games the previous two years as a cub. prior hasn't pitched in 30 starts since '03 (21 starts in '04, 27 starts in '05, 9 starts in '06). derrek lee has been much healthier than mark prior over the course of three seasons.
  4. cl smooth
    Punching Judy? it's the spinoff from judging amy.
  5. cl smooth
    we all know about the blood clot in the lung(s), but what is the official word on his playing career and also his spot on the cubs roster? if he's sitting out for 6-12 months, can the cubs just waive him and open up a roster spot? sounds terrible in principle since he had no control over the clots, but if he's just wasting space on the roster (you can insert your glendon rusch wasting a roster spot joke here), why keep him?
  6. cl smooth
    And then we would have had about 100 pages on what a jerk Hendry is for letting someone outbid him on Soriano. I'm not happy about the contract, but Hendry (and Piniella) decided he was the man that they needed and he went out and got him. It certainly doesn't look like the money has hindered him from signing other players. Low OBP, high SLG. OBP isn't everything. It's all about how many runs Soriano creates, both by driving guys in and being driven in. Typical leadoff hitters are next to worthless getting guys in. That's a huge waste of baserunners. Soriano is much better than some punching Judy who can get on base at a .360+ clip. i rather have soriano hitting somewhere in the middle of the order to utilize that high SLG instead of sitting in the 1 spot where he can hit 20 solo home runs and drive the imaginary cesar izturiz on 2nd base home for an imaginary run.
  7. cl smooth
    i must say...izturiz's projected OPS is making me horny. :x
  8. cl smooth
    i believe he was just picked off waivers by the cowboys.
  9. cl smooth
    why did kenny williams trade for a player he previously had the year before? didn't he do the same thing a few years back with robby alomar and carl everett? if you like the guy, keep him the first time around! :?
  10. cl smooth
    braves? astros? springfield atoms?
  11. cl smooth
    $15 million per year? That is crazy. I think it's even crazier that the Astros would hear that and counter. i don't think the astros have any other choice. besides oswalt and possibly backe, who else is intimidating in that rotation? they need another anchor in that staff and pettite is/was their man to do that. with clemens (again) possibly out of the picture (again), their starting five is extremely weak. it's that or dump the money they would've spent on pettite and clemens the year before on some second-tier starter like meche or lilly. speaking of salaries and the astros...how much do they have available to spend this offseason? we all know the contract given to carlos lee, but with bagwell's contract officially off the books and however much they spent on clemens last year (i doubt he comes back) and also the $16+ million on pettite, what's the cash left over for free agents?
  12. cl smooth
    this thread depresses me. i was at game 2...the night before my 21st birthday. and what a present! never seen so many people outside of wrigley field in cubbie blue...and jovial! i've been a cub fan since birth and that is, without question, the greatest feeling i ever felt being a cubs fan. just to see all those people around the chicagoland area and around the US (perhaps the WORLD?!) root for the cubs and cheer them on. game 6 and 7 were slugs to the chest...agon should have played that ground ball cleanly. how ironic is it that our gold-glove caliber shortshop botches it when we needed it the most. again, dusty should shoulder most of the blame because of bad managerial decisions. what could of been... :(
  13. cl smooth
    they mention this in geoge f. will's men at work book, as well. the book itself is a good read, although a little dated (1990). he interviews tony larussa, orel hershiser, tony gwynn and cal ripken jr about managing a game, pitching, hitting and defense, respectively. one of the first books that i've read from that time period that's not a bill james-related book that mentions OBP and slugging percentage. a good quote in the book is where either rene lacheman or jim lefebvre, who are larussa's coaches on the a's at the time, talk about runners "clogging the basepaths." it made me think of someone who we all hold dear to our hearts...funny that in one hand, they talk about OBP and SLG percentage in a good light but then bring up a crap theory like that.
  14. cl smooth
    anyone notice the flub on the front page of cubs.com where it says that dawson came to the cubs via a trade? seriously...who writes this stuff?!
  15. cl smooth
    i always thought that pete rose did the same thing just to break cobb's hit record. his last four seasons were crap, imo. and were pitchers trying to deny him the hit record? if you look at his stats, he has 86 walks in '85. he had not received that many walks since '79 with 95. he was averaging around 40-60 walks between '79 and '86.
  16. cl smooth
    i don't get why people hate on this, either. bands think it's cool that you wear their merchandise to shows...hell, it's a great way for them to get revenue, for one.
  17. cl smooth
    3141 hits = HOF in any era. .388 career OBP .338 career BA Is there really any reason he shouldn't get in? let's not forget his EIGHT batting titles, either.
  18. cl smooth
    *is a douchebag* with jeff fassero's and neifi perez's number, no less. why did they have to have my favorite number?
  19. cl smooth
    thanks for the equation. is there a number for runs created that shows that player X is above/below the league average in that department? like how an OBP of .350 is the benchmark (usually) for a good player who gets on base, for example...is there something like that for runs created? you mentioned situational biases for runs scored and RBI...which is better to compare if player A is more of a run-scoring threat than player B? i was thinking about setting up a lineup and, correct me if i'm wrong, one would think that a player with a high run total (100+) should be near the top of the lineup (preferably batting in the 1 or 2 hole) so that the power hitters in the 3, 4 and 5 hole could drive him in. i hope i make sense. :)
  20. cl smooth
    this sounds like a silly question, but what is the difference between runs and runs created? i know a run is where the player himself crosses the plate, but what exactly is runs created?
  21. cl smooth
    with all these goofy contracts for subpar players, it feels like the late 90s/early 2000s all over again...unreal contracts for some, miniature american flags for others!
  22. cl smooth
    can we put up the bruce miles batsignal and see what his thoughts are on this? i'm sure he might have a small nugget or two of info that we don't know...
  23. cl smooth
    we're giving a backup catcher 2.5 million?! :shock: can they give us all cash for rooting for this crap?! seriously...wow!
  24. cl smooth
    this move is not that good since you overpay a player of his abilities (or lack thereof)...money that could've been diverted to a bigger signing like soriano or zito or one of the top-tier free agents.
  25. cl smooth
    i believe he's a platoon player. over the last three seasons, he's played 48 total games at 2B, 34 games at SS and 85 games in RF. hendry isn't the starpest tool in the shed, but i can't see him signing a player to a deal like that and have him play 2B straight out the box when he's only played 48 games in that position over the past three seasons. even if he's platooning with jacque in RF against lefties, that's one hell of an expensive role player.
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