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  1. Andy
    Damn it, Z.
  2. Andy
    I am laughing way too hard at these comments.
  3. Andy
    Good sir, I'd say Timothy Hudson deserves a Golden Glove award for that play he just made.
  4. Andy
    Two black guys in the lineup too. Integrating baseball will destroy our grand old game!
  5. Andy
    I prefer that DiMaggio guy in New York. More MVP's dude! :^o
  6. Andy
    I assume B&W? Awful. Is it at least in HD? I dunno. I'm (relatively) poor. Plus, maybe it's my glasses, but HD always looks fuzzy to me. It's either your glasses or you're watching standard definition on an HDTV. Real HD broadcasts are crystal clear.
  7. Andy
    Interesting. Everybody stays the same except Lou gets his speedy lefty leadoff guy in left instead of Soriano, even if he's no left fielder. Meh. I don't like EPatt leading off. Fukudome and DeRosa would be much much better leadoff candidates.
  8. Andy
    Seriously, when Pujols went down, I knew something bad would happen, and of course it's an injury that'll keep our guy out twice as long. I think the Cubs can continue to play well without Soriano, but I don't know if we can continue to play the way we have. We may need the Cardinals to fade away more than we did before.
  9. Andy
    If that's what you want to believe then go ahead. But teams don't put in a lot of money into the draft for nothing. And the draft is still a crapshoot. There been great picks early (Arod/Chipper, etc, etc) and great picks late (Piazza). There been plenty of "highly thought of players" draft high, who busted. So just because they were "once highly thought of" doesn't mean anything. With that said, guys like Luis Gonzalez (4th rd/88 draft), Steve Finley (11th rd/86 draft), Edgar Martinez, all developed late in their careers. So as much moaning and groaning we can have over players like Ryan Ludwick having, in essence, a career yr, it could also means he might finally be putting it together. Personally, I'm hoping it's a career yr, and he struggles---like his teammates---without Pujols. Ofcourse it's a crapshoot. But that doesn't change my point that these players were highly thought of, and not just coming out of nowhere. Ludwick was highly thought of, disappeared for 5 or 6 years, and now is very much coming out of nowhere. You don't suddenly have the light click on at 29.
  10. Andy
    Haha, Derrek Lee got Len's car with a foul ball
  11. Andy
    I'll put that one on the Reds more than Looper though. They made his life pretty easy. Eff you, Greg Norton.
  12. Andy
    k thnx idiot Give me a break. People were jumping with joy around here when the Pujols news broke. That's an exaggeration at best. I think the most excited reactions came from those that don't want Cardinals' fans to have an excuse that they didn't win the division, which is hardly jumping for joy. I just think its ridiculous to post something like that when within the past 24 hours there have been plenty of posts about how great it was for Pujols to get hurt. Well, that guy's on my ignore list, so I don't like him either, nor do I think his post was called for - I was just saying most of us weren't really all that happy to hear about Pujols going down.
  13. Andy
    Derrek called out on a pitch that went DOWN to his bat.
  14. Andy
    k thnx idiot Give me a break. People were jumping with joy around here when the Pujols news broke. That's an exaggeration at best. I think the most excited reactions came from those that don't want Cardinals' fans to have an excuse that they didn't win the division, which is hardly jumping for joy.
  15. Andy
    I don't care if he 'kept getting injured', he'd never OPS'd even .900 in a season at any level and now he's OPSing nearly 1.100 when he will turn 30 in a month. It's a load of crap any way you slice it. Becareful with that argument. D Lee went multiple seasons without an OPS over .900 and about the same age posted an OPS of 1.1. Were you calling that a load of crap? Obviously Ludwick isn't as good as Lee, and he won't end up with an OPS of 1.1. But he could still end up at .9-1.0 Derrek Lee made a tangible improvement to his game - learning to hit (especially to pull) the inside pitch. He also had consistent OPS's above .850 at the big league level. Ludwick had been below .850 every full season (more than 200 ABs) he had played since two good years in 2002 and 2003 (which, admittedly, I messed up, he OPS'd in the low 900's in both those years but were still in the minors and not the majors).
  16. Andy
    The difference is that beyond DeRosa, Theriot and Dempster, they don't really have any reason to wonder if we have any magical powers. And those three combined don't even remotely approach the BS of Ryan Ludwick let alone all the other idiots they have playing well.
  17. Andy
    Brendan Ryan knocked in Braden Looper, who doubled to raise his average to .385. ETA: Actually he knocked in LaRue. Looper still on base.
  18. Andy
    Braden Looper is hitting .385. He's 1/4 tonight, though - it was .409 entering tonight.
  19. Andy
    Go figure. I came here to post that Looper is 0-3 tonight to lower his average to .360 and he doubles. He's now hitting .385.
  20. Andy
    Nice going Jimmy! 7-0!
  21. Andy
    Time for a Jimmyslam
  22. Andy
    I think the Cubs will be ok provided Derrek Lee continues hitting the ball as he did last night. Ok, this is getting ridiculous. That's an 0-2 pitch too, and a fastball.
  23. Andy
    Kelly Johnson is not having the most impressive game in the field.
  24. Andy
    I don't care if he 'kept getting injured', he'd never OPS'd even .900 in a season at any level and now he's OPSing nearly 1.100 when he will turn 30 in a month. It's a load of crap any way you slice it.
  25. Andy
    Ludwick just homered again, giving him more homers than any Cub.
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