Sammy Sofa

The point, that you completely missed, is that what a young player accomplishes in the majors in a relatively small sample size very early in their MLB career often gives little indication as to what kind of player they will turn out to be. If the Cubs seriously want to explore the idea of Colvin as a starting OF then he needs to be back in the minors starting full time. There's no place for him to start regularly with the Cubs right now unless Fukudome is traded, and even then it wouldn't necessarily be better for him to be starting for the Cubs as opposed to playing full time in the minors and consistently having success down there. I know you have a new player that you irrationally crush on nearly every week, but there's really no justification for the Cubs going out of their way to clear up a regular starting slot for him at this point in Colvin's career.

Lou has never handled a bullpen well over the course of his managing career.

That's not the point. The point is he's our best option right now. No, he's not. Hes 1 of 2 consistant hitters this teams had all season, the other 1 being Byrd, so yeah, hes the best option right now. He'll never be as good of a defensive outfielder as Kosuke, but the main problem for this team has been offense, not defense and as long as he can provide some, he deserves to play. Over who? If you seriously expect them to be able to trade Kosuke for anything of value it makes absolutely no sense to effectively bench him for Colvin. Colvin will get plenty of AB's between pinch hits and starting for Byrd and Soriano when they get days off. If he's going to be playing full time he needs to go back down the minors.

It is a long shot. I have no desire to see him end up a bust, but the simple fact of the matter is that it's a long shot that he would pan out to be a starting OF right now. Just because he was a 1st round pick doesn't make him any kind of lock, especially with the Cubs' drafting history. His performance so far this year also isn't any kind of guarantee of what he'd be as a starter. Fox is a great example of someone who set the world on fire with a relatively limited collection of AB's.

Boooooooooo.

That's not the point. The point is he's our best option right now. No, he's not.

Yes, because Colvin's performance thus far this season is an accurate projection as to how he'll perform as a starter with the book out on him.

Plenty of people give a damn. It's more just how awful these threads tend to be.

That's still a loooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng shot.

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minor league career vs lhp: 0.277/0.308/0.460/0.768 minor league career vs rhp: 0.276/0.324/0.461/0.785 Fine. He can't hit righties either Will he also play his entire career with a torn elbow ligament? No, but he will play his entire career with mediocrity.

So get him more starts after Fukudome is traded.

minor league career vs lhp: 0.277/0.308/0.460/0.768 minor league career vs rhp: 0.276/0.324/0.461/0.785 Fine. He can't hit righties either Exactly. Hence the *BARF*. Colvin as a starter is almost a lock to be depressing.

The point isn't whether Theriot should or shouldn't have thrown it to 2nd; the point is that the runner was smart enough to stop as soon as Theriot was on the base path with the ball so he couldn't be tagged. I believe it was Soto who recently botched a similar scoring opportunity recently for the Cubs by just charging like a goon.

Everything about that is so... *BARF*

DC cabbies were notorious for over-charging. The city had this silly zone system where the cost of the ride was based on how many zones you crossed. Well, you can imagine how this was abused. Definitely. I call out cabbies all the time both here and when I lived in DC for taking bad routes. Maybe jersey's just got bad luck.

Pele, obviously, though I assume you're talking about active players. A decent number of sports fans here could probably throw out "Ronaldo," though odds are they'd have no idea which one.

True enough, but the Angels have expressed interest in Nady and if you can land anything in excess of what you'd have to pay for Spilborghs then why not? I've always liked Spilborghs and so far this year he's been pretty good even against righties. Though Colvin desperately needs a platoon partner. Why does Colvin need a platoon partner? Isn't the idea to get him consistent at-bats and start several times a week now? Like Jersey just said, he is absolutely horrible against LH pitchers.

I guess it's an NYC thing? I've taken a ton of cabs in DC and here in Chicago.

That was pretty boring, though it's kinda weird you've been in so many cabbie-related altercations. Oh well.

Forget Kane; I want to hear the details of the multiple fights that jersey has been in with cabbies, because that is kind of bonkers.

Exactly. It's a gated community, but for all the wrong reasons.

im sorry, but when was this? (not being sarcastis, im reading these posts a few hours after the game and cant exactly pinpoint when it happened over even for which team It wasn't the Cubs, unfortunately. I think it was when the A's scored their final run, and it was because the runner they had on first stopped immediately because the Cubs threw to first, so they had to tag that runner to get the 3rd out, which allowed their runner on 3rd to score before the tag was applied. So, like a normal double play situation that somebody made more difficult? Was it Theriot? I think so. It just reflected back to a recent game where the Cubs botched getting a run by running into the final out at 2nd before the guy on 3rd could score.

A guy who celebrates a Stanley Cup win by partying and hoping to score chicks doesn't equal rape monster. Seriously, that's some [expletive] crap coming out of you. Why is any white guy who has a good time a frat boy rapist? Well, I made it pretty clear that Kane stuck out in is behavior even compared to very young professional athletes, so I obviously wasn't declaring "any white guy who has a good time to be a frat boy rapist," you you go off and enjoy that insane tangent on your own. It's not my problem if you can't/won't wrap your head around obvious hyperbole. To me, there's a difference between a young athlete enjoying his fame and getting laid left and right as opposed to being such an obvious sleaze as Kane seems to revel in being coupled with the excessively stupid [expletive] he keeps showing that he loves to do with absolutely no thought to the consequences. As much as some people want to act like he's just a random 21-year-old, he's not. What is the excessively stupid [expletive] he keeps showing that he loves to do? Where are these consequences? Cameras are following him everywhere. We saw him shirtless in a limo a few months ago. He got in an altercation with a cabbie a year ago (I've been in a few of those, cabbies are scum) and now he's been drunk in a parade and laughing and smiling and dancing and talking about hoping chicks dig him. Where is the excessively stupid stuff? With all these cameras they should have caught something excessively stupid. Is he raping chicks in toilets? Is he surfing down a highway on a pickup truck? Talk about overly conservative. How am I being "overly conservative?" Where did I say that someone needs to do something about him or he should be stopped? I just think he comes across like an idiot, especially when he plays with so many other young players who somehow manage to not come across the same way. Maybe they're just lucky, or I missed it, I don't know. I'm not a hockey fan, so I don't follow these guys too closely, but nearly everything that I've picked up on with Kane paints him to be the kind of jerk off who thinks Entourage is some kind of bible and is on the fast track to Roethlisberger-ville. I have no idea why you're getting so worked up over someone thinking Kane comes across like an idiot. Why do I HAVE to like him?

Cutting Grabow wouldn't be the best of ideas. With more than a year left on his contract, he could very well pitch like he has the past couple of years and have some trade value. Indeed. He's been frustrating as hell this year, but right now I'm just hoping he's able to bounce back and pitch more along the lines of what he's shown consistently before this season. Was he consistently good before this season? I didn't think he was. Hasn't he been below replacement level a time or two? Consistently serviceable would probably be the best way of putting it. Still nowhere near worth the contract he got, but also nowhere near being this bad.