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6/15 Padres (Wells) v. CUBS (Lilly) WGN 1:20 CST
illiniguy replied to IWU_CUBS_FAN's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Nice, after Wells shows up the ump on balls and strike call Michael swings at the first pitch. I can't wait until he is gone. -
Beane re-upped for 7 more years
illiniguy replied to sunnydoo's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
so he has to win a world series and the reason he hasn't so far is because he trades his prospects that failed to win him a world series? he's only averaged about 93 wins and a playoff appearance every other year... boy i'd hate that Yeah, going to playoff games nearly every year totally sucks. I wish they would spread them out more, like the cubs do. It makes them more special that way. Yeah, someone from my family has been at every cubs home playoff game since 1945. It would be a lot more expensive doing that out here. When we went it was news. When you go no one cares. -
He doesn't like the scrappy white guys as much. Baseball is played in the heat you know.
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I sincerely doubt it. YEah I was joking, should have used a smiley.
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pitching around pie?
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Well he swings at a lot.
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Man you are a minor league nerd, I love it.
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8 rbis now for the cesar.
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Well I'll be.
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But losing in extra innings is so painful. Cesar will take care of that right here. We aren't scoring.
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20/20 hindsight... it's the wrist injury that did it; otherwise he's a 30 HR, 900 OPS guy consistently. Was he though? Didn't he spike one year?
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If izturis bats here someone should be fired...likely Hendry. Oh he is gonna hit. well, he'll bat... Yeah sorry that was a bad way for me to put that.
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If izturis bats here someone should be fired...likely Hendry. Oh he is gonna hit.
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Lee isn't going to put up a .413 OBP this year. His numbers are plummetting, to the tune of a 750 OPS in June. I don't think you can project numbers for the rest of the season based on a month. Players have good months and bad months. I can project he won't maintain his numbers. He had a fluke start based off an insance BABIP that was unsustainable. He has not sustained it and his numbers are falling fast. Yep this will be a mark grace season before it is done. With the way Derrek has looked lately, I think we should be praying for a Mark Grace season. I don't want to pay Albert Pujols money for a Mark Grace year. We should have sold high.
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Lee isn't going to put up a .413 OBP this year. His numbers are plummetting, to the tune of a 750 OPS in June. I don't think you can project numbers for the rest of the season based on a month. Players have good months and bad months. I can project he won't maintain his numbers. He had a fluke start based off an insance BABIP that was unsustainable. He has not sustained it and his numbers are falling fast. Yep this will be a mark grace season before it is done.
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.413 OBP. I'll take it. You can get a few guys with that obp without having to pay that much money. Who? Kevin Youkilis. ok maybe not a few. Youkilis hasn't hit FA yet. Right and since our organization doesn't value things like obp we don't have anyone who can do that in our minors. It's part of the reason our team is always worse than it should be.
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.413 OBP. I'll take it. You can get a few guys with that obp without having to pay that much money. Not unless they're pre-FA. Fair enough. We have built our team around Mark Grace again though. I will admit though it isn't Hendry's fault that Lee got hurt right after he signed.
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.413 OBP. I'll take it. You can get a few guys with that obp without having to pay that much money. Who? Kevin Youkilis. ok maybe not a few.
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But his is cheaper and done 4 years earlier. He is making as much as Pujols, there is no way he deserves that if he isn't 40+ homers. Our one real chance in this game is probably a Soriano homer. He is the one guy we have that you can really hope to change a game around with one ab. Although the contract sucks he is more of a game changer than Lee. Okay, fine, but Lee makes less than Soriano and his contract expires sooner, so it's a little easier to swallow than Soriano. I'm not praising the guy. I've been scared of his lack of power since last year. Part of it is I just don't like DLEE. I haven't since we got him. I think his d is very overrated and I think the only way he is on a championship level team is as a suporting cast member. Which would be fine if we werne't hitting him 3rd and paying him a ton of money.
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.413 OBP. I'll take it. You can get a few guys with that obp without having to pay that much money.
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But his is cheaper and done 4 years earlier. He is making as much as Pujols, there is no way he deserves that if he isn't 40+ homers. Our one real chance in this game is probably a Soriano homer. He is the one guy we have that you can really hope to change a game around with one ab. Although the contract sucks he is more of a game changer than Lee.
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6 homers, everyone talks about the Soriano contract, but if Lee isn't going to hit for power his contract isn't very pretty either.
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No you cut his ass. That is what a competent team does. Admit you made a mistake Jim. For once in your tenure admit you screwed up and cut the bum.
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Oh yeah he smoked it. Maybe if his ass wouldn't have been in the Mariners dugout he would have been able to actually drive the ball. Are you kidding me? That ball was barely out of the infield. Yes I was kidding. He bailed out per usual. Makes it hard to drive the ball.
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Oh yeah he smoked it. Maybe if his ass wouldn't have been in the Mariners dugout he would have been able to actually drive the ball.
