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  1. Andy
    Yeah, I'm not sure what a comparable cost to us would've been, but that LA gets a guy like Wood (who rumor has it they're going to flip for Price, but they shouldn't), and they're in our league with their infinite resources, [expletive] sucks.
  2. Andy
    First sign the season is close: preseason coaches' poll is out. 1 Ohio State (62 1st-place votes) 2 TCU (1) 3 Alabama (1) 4 Baylor 5 Oregon 6 Michigan State 7 Auburn 8 Florida State 9 Georgia 10 USC 11 Notre Dame 12 Clemson 13 LSU 14 UCLA 15 Ole Miss 16 Arizona State 17 Georgia Tech 18 Wisconsin 19 Oklahoma 20 Arkansas 21 Stanford 22 Arizona 23 Missouri 24 Boise State 25 Tennessee
  3. Andy
    He's having a terrible season. Will be interesting to see the angst from us if/when he goes on a tear with STL It's adorable that you included the 'if'.
  4. Andy
    They're getting him for future seasons, which isn't a bad play frankly.
  5. Andy
    Holy [expletive], would never have guessed that.
  6. Andy
    Yeah, now the Cubs can blow games in the 8th instead of the 9th. I'd rather use Rondon in the highest leverage spots. Several guys should be able to handle the bottom of the order with a 2-3 run lead. To be fair, today's 9th was the high-leverage spot with Reyes, Arenado and Gonzalez with a 1 run lead. I agree with your hypothesis, though. Still should be someone better than Motte in the 9th.
  7. Andy
    RD of -3 for the series and we win the series. Not ideal but they all count the same. Now hopefully the Brewers unload some people and we beat up on them this weekend before the PIT/SF stretch that will go a long way towards determining our season.
  8. Andy
    =D> =D> =D> =D> for Lester. Now we need some insurance.
  9. Andy
    That's what I hate most about it. People excuse it because, 'hey, you tried', when in fact you ran yourself out of an opportunity. But where I disagree is that you are coming at it from the perspective that it fails every single time when it fact it works out more than it doesn't. It needs to work out far more than it doesn't to justify it. Isn't it generally accepted that you have to successfully steal like 75-80% of the time for it to even be a neutral effect on your offense?
  10. Andy
    Seeing as how Motte's thrown 39 pitches the last two days and Soriano 40, I'm guessing neither is available. Excellent. We might actually get our best relievers pitching late in this one.
  11. Andy
    Foolish Rockies, tossing a LHP against Ross. They fell right into our trap.
  12. Andy
    If either Motte or Soriano pitch in this game I'm going to be supremely annoyed.
  13. Andy
    Olney and Bowden both mentioned the Cubs as a team in on the Price bidding now that DET has reportedly put him on the market.
  14. Andy
    His adjustments have really been impressive. Plenty of reason for optimism that he will become the 'Barry Larkin' that Beane promised when he sent him over.
  15. Andy
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  16. Andy
    Couple of big K's by Lester to get out of that. Up to 9 through 4.
  17. Andy
    Well, this is looking bad
  18. Andy
    Slumpbuster, hopefully. Nice.
  19. Andy
    There's a subset of Cubs fans that are overly wedded to the prospect brigade, and another subset (which I'm begrudgingly on the fringes of) that doesn't think think this iteration of this team is likely to justify a win-now move. I'd like for things to be going better, but I can understand the POV of not wanting to make a move the way the season is playing out.
  20. Andy
    I agree. Starlin's performance has been terrible but the last thing I want to see is Joe pile on.
  21. Andy
    Of WC1, yes. But they're only 3.5 behind the Twins for WC2 (albeit with 3 other teams in between them).
  22. Andy
    Being in the AL must be nice.
  23. Andy
    Basically this Tigers sucking streak is probably the worst case scenario for the Cubs long term. We probably would have better odds getting Price as a FA than we ever will in a deadline trade, especially with the recent struggles probably making the FO lukewarm on being huge buyers I may be misunderstanding your point, but from that POV wouldn't that be a good thing for possibly getting Price? He wouldn't cost a draft pick, which was a stated reason the FO was so excited to go get Lester. Unless you're saying you think whoever trades for Price would be able to lock him up long-term.
  24. Andy
    Muskat said that Ramirez first felt the ab pain on a sneeze.
  25. Andy
    They should. Even if (especially if) they're not getting rid of him, he needs a few days to collect himself anyway.
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