Jump to content
North Side Baseball

mul21

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    11,093

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    11

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by mul21

  1. mul21
    I had that thought the other day when somebody was talking about the Sox calling it a year. What would they want in return? Pitching? IF, OF? Do we even have anything they're interested in?
  2. mul21
    Edmonds Eckstein Theriot Erstad Borowski OK, seriously... Sizemore Utley Reyes Peavy Oswalt I'll take guys who are way above average at positions that are tough to fill at their productivity level.
  3. mul21
    too many walks. stop it.
  4. mul21
    I don't know if he's been calling it the same way all night, but the home plate ump in the Brewers-Astros game has a strike zone as big as the Pacific Ocean.
  5. mul21
    1.142 OPS at Coors .845 OPS away from Coors Coors doesn't have nearly the disparity in splits it used to though does it?
  6. mul21
    Sheets just finished a complete game for the Crew. They win 6-2.
  7. mul21
    An .055 IsoD, while not spectacular, is certainly respectable for a guy in his 1st full ML season. The BABIP he's sporting may be a little high to be sustained, but his IsoD is far from a big worry in my eyes.
  8. mul21
    You're separating the argument into 2 different parts and that isn't what anybody is saying. The argument is that Murton would be an above average player if given regular playing time. Not every player has the same makeup, some guys need to play every day, others can get 5 ABs a week and be very good at doing that. The belief here is that Murton will excel if given a regular job in the everyday lineup, hence the Jeremy Giambi effect. If you want to come up with something in the other direction, call it the Lenny Harris effect. Bottom line is that some players, especially young guys who don't have a lot of ML experience, need regular PT to get in a rhythm and play to their ability.
  9. mul21
    ..... seems like it's a larger field this year, no? Team W L Pct GB CUBS 22 29 0.431 --- Tampa Bay 22 29 0.431 --- NY Yanks 22 29 0.431 --- St. Louis 21 29 0.420 0.5 Houston 21 31 0.404 1.5 Washington 21 32 0.396 2.0 Cincinnati 21 33 0.389 2.5 Texas 19 34 0.358 4.0 Kansas City 19 35 0.352 4.5 While I find it fantastically awesome the Yankees are on this list, it makes me want to puke that there are 4 teams from the Central on here. What a bunch of pathetic, crappy baseball. Ugh! Oh, shouldn't these be reversed? I thought the goal was to have the worst record.
  10. mul21
    I see a guy trying to profit off his son's death. Probably doing the same things he did when his son was alive, by blaming others for his kids' failings. so the bar shouldn't be held accountable for their negligence? There was no negligence on the bar's part. They may have served him more alcohol than would allow him to legally drive but went the extra mile to offer him a cab, more than one time if I recall correctly. There is absolutely no way on God's green earth a sane and logical person can possibly think the bar is in any way at fault on this. Man, irresponsible litigious people just piss me off.
  11. mul21
    in a more serious attempt to answer the question, I'm going to guess that it's because Cedeno has joined the team, and he's the best-fielding SS, so Fontenot has been shifted to 2B and Patterson to LF. I'd prefer to see Fontenot into the OF so Patterson can continue to work on his defense, but whatever. They're the ones that haven't won a World Series for 100 years, so I'll trust they know what they're doing. Thanks, it didn't make much sense to me when I saw it. Has Fontenot pretty much been determined to not be a viable SS option at the ML level? Would he and Theriot up the middle in either order be that bad if they both hit well? I'm with you Truffle, the lack of direction and potential knee jerk reactions it looks like may be in the works really bother me.
  12. mul21
    Anybody know if EPatt has been playing LF much? I see he's out there tonight.
  13. mul21
    When was the last time the Cubs had 3 lefties in the rotation? For a long time they didn't have any. Didn't they have like a 4-5 year stretch without any wins from a lefty starter?
  14. mul21
    Are we sure Dempster is still closing? Did we ever get a definitive answer on that? Sounds to me like he is mentoring Guz for the position in the future and will keep the job for now. What Demp's future is after Guz takes over is anybody's guess. That's kinda the way it sounds to me anyway.
  15. mul21
    So now the staff looks like this right?: Z Lilly Marquis Hill Marshall Eyre Ohman Wuertz Howry Guzman Dempster Marmol
  16. mul21
    agreed that catch was only necessary because he was playing 3 steps behind 2nd base at the time My favorite Edmonds move is when he runs around in a circle and then falls down to make a catch while all the Cards fans ooh and aah because most of them are such blindly following sheep they don't realize he's showboating. At least some of the sports guys down here are finally calling the fans on stuff like this, it's funny to hear them call into the sports shows all peed off because somebody is criticizing their beloved Cards.
  17. mul21
    Being in the St. Louis area, they really are having some horrible luck and a very Cub-like year. They've got 3 guys that hit 1, 3, and 4 in their lineup last year who are all hitting probably 60-100 points below their career averages, their young pitching has just been bad, and their ace is hurt. I do blame them for low-balling Suppan (I think they offered him a Marquis type deal) and Weaver stupidly left after having success under Duncan. Plus, Jocketty finally made a mistake and kept Edmonds around a year too long and now has to pay him next year as well. They are completely screwed unless the young pitching figures it out and Pujols, Rolen, and Eckstein remeber how to hit sometime soon. I think Albert may have just gotten out of his prime years since he's about as old as Julio Franco now (sorry, obligatory old Pujols joke).
  18. mul21
    I love all the rational reactions in the game thread. It's almost better than being at home watching the game. On a side note, maybe Lou will notice how bad Demp is without regular work and figure it out, unlike our most recent fearless leader.
  19. mul21
    I really don't think you can mess with THE RIOT, though. It's just too good of a nicname.
  20. mul21
    It's not a great idea to have a pitcher with a significant injury history throwing 109+ pitches for 6 consecutive starts. Why not 108+ or 110+? Actually Will Carrol and other people who speak on pitch counts think that the 105-115 area is the best amount to maximize the contribution of a starting pitcher - 120 is the bad mark. Because if you look at the pitch counts his last 6 games have been 109 or higher.
  21. mul21
    I didn't see the game, but the brief highlights I saw of Z pitching he was comming straight over the top in almost an exaggerated motion. I've also not seen the drop in velocity. What did the gun have him at? SNY had him throwing 87-88 in the first. I DVRd from the 2nd on and watched later, slowing on occasion to see him pitch. I saw much of the same stuff I'd seen before. Yes, he was throwing over the top, but not all the time. And it was hardly just a case of him reverting when he got rattled. Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez sure didn't like the looks of his mechanics, although they seemed to agree that he improved as the game went along. He was regularly hitting 93-94 on the SNY gun later in the game and I saw a couple run up there at 95-96 so his velocity was not an issue last night. Control on those faster pitches wasn't always great, but at least he was getting it up there with some gas on it again.
  22. mul21
    I put that loss entirely on whoever decided to tell Wuertz to even concern himself with Reyes at 1st. You just can't let a guy like Endy freaking Chavez draw a walk because the coaching staff decides the pitcher needs to throw over to 1st 4 times and then pitches out. Also, part of the blame is on Blanco for not being able to do the only damn thing he's good at. /end rant
  23. mul21
    So we predict the drunken blackout to occur sometime between the bottom of the first and the middle of the second, right?
  24. mul21
    Are you sure he didn't swing and miss? Actually the baby seal wasn't in the strike zone so he kept the club on his shoulder, waiting for the seal to get into his wheelhouse so he could pop it up.
  25. mul21
    In their defense, the pitchers they've faced the last 2 days have been prettysolid all year. I don't like all the wasted oppotunities in game 1 of the series, but hey, sometimes the pitching picks up the O and sometimes the O makes up for the pitching.
×
×
  • Create New...