Sammy Sofa

Absolutely no reason for Soto to not be hitting for Hill here. Yeah, Aardsma's been much worse against LH hitters...but Hill sucks balls.

Come on, Milton walk off.

Why?

The end of Ted Lilly's MLB career is going to be hideous.

There's not been a cheap productive player alive that WSR hasn't wanted to trade.

I'll throw up if I see Jonathan Silverman in the dugout But he's so good at math.

Don't be fooled by the apathy I've got; I'm still I'm still Fukudome on the block.

DAMMIT. I'm giving it 110% 100% of the time.

No, please, I couldn't possibly have another bite of delicious, delicious irony.

You could have stopped after "I'm lost."

Oh, wow. I want full credit for finding this one.

I don't know if I'd call a .254 average with 27 RBI over the three summer months "killing" it. Wait, what? How does July and August become three months? How can someone come to the conclusion that he sucks in the summer if he's a very good player for 2 of the 3 summer months? It's not like his July and August numbers are propped up with a decent performance stretched out over relatively few PA. In July he had 103 PA and managed a .926 OPS. In August he pulled off a .904 OPS, again in 103 PA. His horrible June was over the course of 96 PA. I am simply baffled as to how anyone can come to the conclusion that he sucks in the summer based on his 2009 numbers. This tangent just gets increasingly bizarre. And now he's getting slammed for "only" having 24 RBI in July and August? What? He had 12 RBI's in each month, which is 2nd only to his April, where had 15, that people keep talking about like it was some amazing month he'd never come close to again.

I wouldn't necessarily say "really streaky." Soriano strikes me as a really streaky player. Fukudome definitely has his peaks and valleys, but his valleys last year seemed relegated to a couple of a long stretches as opposed flipping on and off like a streaky player like Soriano does. It's not as though there's only one "really streaky" crown in the castle. I'm just saying, it's not a description I would think accurately describes Fukudome. All players are streaky in one way or another, but he really hasn't shown himself to be a player of relatively short term peaks and valleys like Soriano.

I wouldn't necessarily say "really streaky." Soriano strikes me as a really streaky player. Fukudome definitely has his peaks and valleys, but his valleys last year seemed relegated to a couple of a long stretches as opposed flipping on and off like a streaky player like Soriano does.

Soriano really hasn't even had one of his infamous cold streaks this year to this point. And weren't people saying at the beginning of the year that Soriano and Soto having rebound years was the key to this team's success? Well they've both rebounded and we're worse this year. I'm sure next year they'll be saying the same thing about Lee and Ramirez. Well, those two bouncing back and then Aramis not missing half of the season (presuming he would produce as Aramis normally has). And assuming that Lee would have put together some reasonable approximation of being a serviceable #3 hitter. It's depressing because if you had Lee anything even close to what he did last year plus "normal" Aramis and Soto and Soriano doing what they're doing this year plus Byrd and this team is kicking some serious ass. A lot of woulda/coulda/shoulda's, yeah, but I don't think anyone was expecting Lee and Aramis to be such non-factors.

How again is Soto showing that he's "not out of the ordinary" this year in terms of being a hitting catcher?

Who cares if it's a summer month? If we're talking about 2009's numbers he killed it in July and August, so there goes the whole "he sucks in the summer months" theory from looking at last season, unless you're now declaring September to be a summer month, too.

Maybe Dempster, but that's a long shot. Nady likely has some value. They could probably still move Lee if he waived his NTC provided they didn't expect to get too thrilling a return. Fukudome should have some reasonable value so long as the Cubs pick up some of his contract.

This team is reaching levels of bad that I never thought possible. A Cubs fan couldn't possibly say that with a straight face.

It's very real when you're watching a bad team.

Man, I completely forgot that this game was on. How bad has Wells looked? Did the Cubs' errors lead to any of the runs? It seems like it's been way to long since they had a game without an error.

Giving up a HR to Seattle is pretty bad. You're so silly.

They've been facing a bunch of LH starters lately.

And if they were winning nobody would give a [expletive].

It is not arbitrary. The statement made was the he starts fast and his numbers fade over the last four months of the season. That has been the pattern - I know you favour comparing apples to oranges but doesn't make any sense. That's why you compare the same period in each year. I am picking the same months from each year to compare - you are picking different months from each year - you are being far more arbitraty than I. LOL Why are you only looking at May. What happened to April??? April is part of April and May. Because that weakens the argument you just leave it out?? That assertation was those months the last two years have been better than the last four. Sure there have been periods during those months where has hit well but if you but they are different each year. Where to this point April and May, through 3 years, have been similar. The suggestion that splitting the season in two at the same point every year is too arbitrary but then supporting your arguments by pulling different smaller periods each year is laughable. What in God's name are you talking about? I'm pointing out how you're arbitrarily splitting the season up into two very different periods just to spin it to fit your point. I was saying you should use different arbitrary comparisons; I was pointing just some of the combinations you could do that would presumably have equal weight to the arbitrary combination and generalization you're flogging to make your point. I'm not "ignoring" any month. He was excellent in April; he was also excellent in July and August. You keep pushing April/May as some kind of period of great play he never duplicated, but he essentially did for another two month period later in the season. So why do you examine the first two month period on its own, but the second two month stretch of good play can only be looked at when lumped in with the two sub par months? See what I'm getting at? Your analysis of his year is totally arbitrary. You're doing everything you can to downplay his later good play, nevermind it's a two month stretch that's actually better than April and May, so that you can sum it up so it sounds like he's a got a 2-year pattern going where he slides after the first two months.