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Mabry No way. Mabry is one player that has been even worse than Murton. I'd say he'll get traded at the deadline if he had any trade value.
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Best of luck to Freddie. Sounds serious. Good news out of this is that Murton will be given a whole year once they trade Nevin.
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Womack was optioned to AAA. I guess he had an option left. -
This is just to quiet the newspapers. Don't look for Dusty to be extended at all. My guess is that he "gets a great offer" at another team somewhere and they "decide to part ways".
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I just can't feel angry anymore when we lose. I just feel sorry for Ronny who dies a little bit with every loss, but has to sit and watch and call the game for the team he loves. I feel sorry for the players that are great people like Ryan Dempster who are going to be taking the losses so hard, even though he got hit in the hip with a line drive and hasn't pitched in a save situation since May 30th. But mostly, I just feel depressed. When the Cubs were up tonight, and coming back it was such an incredible release of happiness, and then when they let the game roll between their legs it just reversed all emotion and doubled it. I'm past the point of anger. I just want the Cubs to win a couple games.
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I feel bad for Dempster. He's such a great guy too. You know he's gonna be taking this badly.... I hope he doesn't get the LaTroy treatment.
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Whoever said that Lee still belongs in AAA is right. There were several pitches tonight that he just could not catch up to, that he would normally jack out of the yard. I'm guessing it'll be late July by the time he's back to normal.
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I'm not saying Dusty doesn't leave pitchers in too long, but I tire of the knee-jerk reaction when Z is over 115 pitches. He was well in control of his game tonight, and didn't look fatigued at all. So why the complaining tonight? He didn't looked fatigued. Besides, that's what I was responding to, everyone's complaints about 120 pitchcounts. That is true. I'd say the Cubs really need a win for morale, but that doesn't take precedence over the health of a pitcher.
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I've never been as big on Dempster as most here, but it does deserve mentioning that he hadn't pitched in exactly one week according to Fred's stats. ESPN shows him pitching on 6/25, but before that he hadn't pitched since 6/19. So before tonight he'd had one appearance in a week's time. Even more telling, he hasn't pitched in a save situation since May 30th. MAY.
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Well then how can you even point to a cause for that if it's years later? You take pitchers out when they're gassed, not when they've reached some arbitrary and all-encompassing pitchcount. You have to set individual limits for each pitcher, and if Z didn't get a 1-2-3 in the 8th, you pull him on the first hit or walk. 107 is not near his limit.
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Loudest booing I've ever heard for the home team. God I hate that. I can still hear angry yelling. Not Dempster's fault he never gets to pitch or that line drive off his hip. Some kinda disturbance behind home plate??? I hear lots of yelling and howling.
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As len pointed out before commercial break, Dempster started the inning taking a line drive off his hip. Might be that affected his pitching.
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God this is so miserable. :( I really thought we were gonna win tonight. :(
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Ohh geez....
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.....And that is the sound of 37,000 fans losing all hope
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Oh god. Nail-biting time.
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Why take him out if he's still in control of the game? :slams own head into sharp steal spike: Are you serious? Yeah. Different pitchers can handle different pitch counts. I think it's been shown that Z can handle a large amount of pitches in a game, probably the most of the Cubs staff. I wouldn't pitch Prior and certainly not Maddux or Marshall that high. But Z is one of those pitchers that doesn't suffer from going deep into games.
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ARAMABOMB!!!
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Why take him out if he's still in control of the game?
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Yeah. I mean, look what happened when they did that to Zambrano. Who is he even talking about? Nolasco never pitched at MLB and I don't think ever used him from the pen. He's talking about The Meat Tray I beleive.
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Like Kasper pointed out, it should be irrelevant since the tag was made. I think they mean contact as in collision. For instance, if Cedeno was in the basepath but didn't have the ball. Which is crap anyway, since a collision wasn't imminent, he was just dodging the tag.
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Yeah. I mean, look what happened when they did that to Zambrano.
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Screw you Neifi.
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His line this year was 1-4, 4.89 ERA before going onto the 60-day disabled list with shoulder tendinitis that was revealed by an MRI.
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If Pierre had been performing to his career levels before this year, I would have been fine with that trade.
