That screams 'mouthpiece of the Cubs'. Maybe he did have tardiness issues, but if he was getting people out, he was getting people out, and I don't care if he used smoke and mirrors, magic wands, bunny rabbits or [expletive] hamster armies to do it.
If this turned out to be true, oh, darn. It would be just too bad if St. Louis lost a guy who never should've been contributing anything of substance to begin with.
That's disingenuous. Since the end of last May, Derrek Lee has been utterly worthless offensively. There is no explanation why he started off so well last year and ended up what he has been for the last 11 months or so, but it is what happened.
And since we can't bench the completely worthless Derrek Lee for no good reason, Hoff now has no position in that or any other lineup. This team's pissing me off already.
And on the Boyd/Hoye thing, we misidentified him as Boyd in that game thread a few times before ultimately deciding after the game that he didn't deserve to be called by his real name. Hence, Boyd.
If St. Louis wins the division when they've spent each off-season the last few years trying to plug as many reclamation projects into their lineup as possible, I'm probably going to jump off a bridge.
When Lou is finished making proclamations like "Bradley won't play if he's not 100 percent" and "Hoff won't play RF anymore", we're not going to have nine to take the field with. God, I hate everything about baseball right now. Gotta love Brian [expletive] Barden almost OPSing more than our 3-4-5 hitters put together.
Boyd's issues stem from the 2007 home opener when he called a horrid game behind the plate, capped off when Bob Howry gave up a game-winning homer after a blatant strike 3 that wasn't called.
I have a rule. Anyone who once tried to get the umps to see if Greg Freaking Maddux was doctoring the baseball has no right to ever complain about anything in baseball, ever.
As for the topic at hand, I never boo current Cubs. I felt dirty when I was at a vintage bad-Sammy game in 2004 and he was getting absolutely eviscerated by the fans. I'm not sure if I was ever going to be a boo-er before then, but that game turned me off booing forever. I'm okay with (and encourage) booing people like Dusty, and I have a totally irrational hate for LaTroy that no stats will ever change. But beyond guys who were either memorably bad for us or had memorably bad moments, I don't understand why one would boo any player - unless it's something like a guy is throwing at us or just mocked somebody.
It's a song that has been around for years. Wikipedia is your friend. I could tell the song was 20 years old, I was just wondering if it was always played and/or if it is just big now because of the winning. I never heard it on WGN growing up and was just curious. It was written during the 1984 season and to the best of my knowledge really never popped up again until 2007. In fact, I swear to the moons above we didn't start playing it after home wins until partway through 2007 when it became clear we were a decent team, because I watched that team all year and don't remember it being played in early games.
For what, 7 million or so more (?) we could've kept DeRosa and Wood and saved ourselves from this Miles/Gregg crapfest. I'm sick of those two. And Milton Bradley might not suck so much if he'd quit getting rung up on ball fours.
If it goes 7, you win, I think. The Bulls have to win in 6. I think they will, but if they don't win Game 6 I don't think they beat Boston in Boston in a Game 7.
I think they should announce that anyone in the stands planning on having children, or that already have small children, should force them with all of their might to make them left handed because that's how much you can suck and still make millions of dollars. I was just saying, if I'd known then what I know now I'd have spent hours at a time working on my pitching when I was younger. If I threw 15-20 mph faster I'd be making 450K/year right now as a pitcher.
Yup...part of the reason why I never understood why a lot of people were picking the Reds for their darkhorse team. If a team is bad enough for long enough, everyone will pick them as a sleeper team at least once.
I think Cubs fans in general, and us especially, have a 'it doesn't matter till the playoffs' attitude about this season. I wrote an article about this for the site, actually.