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With the pinstripes and his switch hitting, he reminds me of Mickey Mantle.

Yeah Aaron Miles. Show us what Jim saw in ya.

Twins fans are a joke. You only show up on the road. Your crap act almost got your team contracted. that's because the commissioner and mlb owners were idiots. That maybe, but still why the hell would you make it an option by never showing up in Minnesota but invading other teams parks? they draw ok especially for a small market team. Now, but they weren't then were they?

Twins fans are a joke. You only show up on the road. Your crap act almost got your team contracted. that's because the commissioner and mlb owners were idiots. That maybe, but still why the hell would you make it an option by never showing up in Minnesota but invading other teams parks? Also it was because Bud wanted to help out his Brewers.

Twins fans are a joke. You only show up on the road. Your crap act almost got your team contracted.

Oh well, get em tomorrow.

You haven't heard? He's the new Ryne Sandberg.

Yeah he's ok.

Overall? He's their 4th best player when Jameer Nelson is healthy. I'm a sucker for big guys who can play point, its what I used to do. But, I really like Turk so I am probably way overrating him. He is such a matchup problem. With he and Lewis, they have some freaky match up problems on the wings. Yeah they sure do. Lewis is good, but how the hell does he only get 3 points last night?

So is today the game we score 5 plus this series, or the game we struggle to get one?

Overall? He's their 4th best player when Jameer Nelson is healthy. I'm a sucker for big guys who can play point, its what I used to do. But, I really like Turk so I am probably way overrating him. He is such a matchup problem.

Maybe, he really needs to develop a jumper then. Robinson had a very nice jumper. Turk is their best player right now imo.

He's been abominably bad this series. But yeah, maybe he can demand the ball some more and play to the weakness of his team. Yeah he has been bad. But he is 23, lets not go so crazy and say something like "Worst great player ever" just yet. We could say that not because of this series, but because he can't shoot free throws. He also has no post moves besides a baby hook he flings towards the rim. But, he's a very nice guy and a good dunker. Those free throws were awful, were I a Magic fan I would be having flashbacks to Nick Anderson. All in all he's a little better Mutumbo to me.

I don't think there was any need to reward Dempster. We paid him when he was hurt and let him rehab on our dime. He just paid us back with that year.

No problem. They were really high on Viciedo.

Sure they do. The end result of both seasons was a very, very poor playoff "performance" where the team simply failed to compete on any level in any capacity of the game. These are not robots out there. Psychology is a giant portion of human beings. You can't just ignore external factors and how they play upon a team. Many players have said there is "extra pressure" due to not winning a world series in 100 years. Is this true? Maybe. We wouldn't know unless we were those players in that playoff series. A team that repeatedly chokes while maintaining the same group of core performance leaders is certainly succeptible to a saturation of their psyche. If you were at your job, and every year you did well in sales, but at the big convention you lost ten major accounts(and you repeated this for several years), do you honestly think this would not affect you psychologically or in terms of your overall performance in that field? My solution to improve the Cubs offense: Play the remaining ~100 games in the season. Sales analogy: who cares about my psychology...the results show that I suck at sales, so I'd expect continued failures whether or not psychology has a thing to do with it. The fans are the ones susceptible to said saturation. Because you know NOTHING about the "failure to compete". They weren't trying to suck. They just did. And do, however a large part of this is also attributable to luck. Also, I'd say that Lou's failure to take Dempster out after 7 walks certainly did not help matters, in last year's playoff opener. Starting Dempster in and of itself was very stupid. Zambrano is the guy you gave all the money to. He's our ace. He should have pitched the most important game of the series.

0-3, failed to even show up for an inning in the NLDS. That's a very strong indicator that they were flukey, or lucky. So a 3 game losing streak makes a 162 game season "Lucky or Flukey' That is not solid logic. Your suggestion to Fire Hendry and it will be a step towards fixing the problem. Okay, who do you replace him with two thirds of a season remaining. I think there needs to be a realization here that there is still a Majority of the season left and the Cubs still have a winning record. Adding up the variables here, it is more likely that the Cubs are in contention now then not in contention. I want Hendry gone as well, but realize it can't happen during the season. Hendry is a problem though.

No, I'm saying that 0-3 in back to back NLDS's is not flukey, but rather an indicator of a weak team. Also, these are not robots out there. It's perfectly reasonable to accept that the playoff chokiness has saturated their psyche. It's a three game sample size, it happens. I'm of the theory the more times we keep getting there the more apt we are to break through. I also won't give up on this year because our starting pitching has the chance to win any short series. We just have to find a way to get in.

For the Braves Brandon Hicks #11 Eric Cambell #19 Stephen Marek #22

Dayan Viciedo #2 Tyler Flowers #4 Jordan Danks #7 Brian Omogrosso #19 according to BA

So you are going with the "hey the 3 game sample size is worth more than the 162 they just played theory?"

Mojo I am not arguing with your points, but explain how it was ok to not offer Kerry Wood arbitration. Can you also explain how it was a good idea to trade away are only real back up third baseman for nothing, or at least nothing within the context of being able to help us out this year.

Nevmind the fact too that Soto was already coming into the game so why not use him, and save Reed for later? Yep. I think Lou got into Frankie Williams stash lol. :banghead: ](*,) Frankie. What could have been.

Nevmind the fact too that Soto was already coming into the game so why not use him, and save Reed for later? Yep.

Yep we are run by idiots.