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  1. goonys evil twin
    There's a whole lot more about the guy to hate.
  2. goonys evil twin
    Yes, it does help. The problem I see is that Hendry is the type of person who would build his team specifically to score more on groundouts. He's sacrifice real production for so-called clutch timely hitting and contact. That 1 run, in a game when you are down multiple runs (and a season when you've scored so very few runs) isn't all that helpful.
  3. goonys evil twin
    And I hope he realizes that scoring one run at a time with speed and sacrifices isn't going to win a lot of ballgames (unless your pitching staff is remarkably good) The beauty part of that was there were no sacrifices for that run. Theriot turned a double into a triple and scored on an infield grounder. A run scoring ground out is as much of a sacrifice as a grounder to the right side that moves a runner over. Everybody applauds it, but a double or HR would have been much better.
  4. goonys evil twin
    "We were trying to get him that win". Real reason: Dusty doesn't give a crap about the health and well being of pitchers, never has, never will.
  5. goonys evil twin
    And I hope he realizes that scoring one run at a time with speed and sacrifices isn't going to win a lot of ballgames (unless your pitching staff is remarkably good)
  6. goonys evil twin
    I bet the official explanation would be something about being fair to the player and feeling bad that he played hurt this year and knowing that "the real John Mabry" is so much better.
  7. goonys evil twin
    Okay, no Cy Young for Zambrano. Pull him. Hit the showers, take a couple months off, but try and stay in shape. See you in February big guy. Don't get hurt.
  8. goonys evil twin
    Just a guess, but that Insider article is probably just quoting the Chicago papers' speculation. It's a pet peeve of mine when Insider gets "according to" status, just because I remember when it first came out it was simply linking to the papers that I already read. And I'm pretty sure it's the same thing now.
  9. goonys evil twin
    As Tim pointed out elsewhere, there are a lot of 3B out there. And if you break down the production teams are getting from LF, RF and 3B, you'll probably see 3B is really no more of a premium than a corner OF spot.
  10. goonys evil twin
    I won't miss baseball for a very long time. When a sport is run by so many willfully ignorant people, and your team is handicapped by the worst of the bunch, it's not hard to lose interest.
  11. goonys evil twin
    i think it's ludicrous to say a 3.20 era is great. so there. The difference is, you're wrong.
  12. goonys evil twin
    He proved he couldn't stay healthy for those 8 years. But he also proved that he could go through a full year as a great starting pitcher, and healthy. And my point was to see if he can stay healthy. Starting pitchers are exponentially more valuable than relievers. If he's healthy, it'd be absurd to keep him there because of people like Mateo, Marshall and Marmol.
  13. goonys evil twin
    The defense was great, and the offense stunk, yet they concentrated on defense throughout, getting line and linebacker depth and "ignored other areas of need". I don't think you're reasoning holds up. Part of it was needing to replace Azumah, part of it was probably anticipating further troubles with Brown. I'm a little concerned with all the 4-receiver talk that the running game is going to be what Seattle tries to exploit. The Bears seem to run-up an awful lot of tackles for no gain, but the right running game gets way too many 5-15 yard runs against these guys.
  14. goonys evil twin
    I don't see the humor. Haha, dead guy, toilet, cubs suck. Haha.
  15. goonys evil twin
    Is this the Cubs answer to getting guys on base more frequently?
  16. goonys evil twin
    I don't see this happening. Bochy apparantly doesn't seem very likely to leave and Towers doesn't want him to leave. The two have a good relationship. I thought I read that a lot of Padres people wanted out, or were hinting about leaving, including Bochy.
  17. goonys evil twin
    I'm witchew, and when I say I'm witchew, I'm witchew.
  18. goonys evil twin
    I couldn't agree more, but I don't think Telander was slapping a brain-dead "bad luck" label on the Cubs. On the contrary: "Do you really think stuff like that just happens again and again because of bad luck? No, [...] the Cubs have something systemically wrong with them." Granted, he could've done a better job with the "systemically wrong" analysis that followed. Telander merely wrote a bullet-point litany of 2006 Cub angst instead of addressing underlying issues like OBP under-valuation, over-valuation of scouting and athleticism, mismanagement both on and off the field, etc. I think this goes back to my original point that Telander isn't a good writer. So in other words, the Cubs are doomed, any manager who manages the Cubs are doomed, I dare you to not believe it curses even though they are probably cursed ("maybe they don't exist"?), the Cubs are bad and it's not because of bad luck. What a terrible sequence of thoughts. I can't tell if he's just sitting on fence of completely jumping back and forth.
  19. goonys evil twin
    Wow, a guy with a 6.02 ERA has 14 wins on the year. Unbelievable. He's nearly won fifteen games. How can anyone say he's had a bad year? :lol: On a serious note, leaving aside the pointlessness of talking about win/loss for pitchers, it's always bugged me that people look at win totals to judge a guy, over w%. A 16-14 season will get more attention than a 10-3 season. If a guy wins 15 games, it's considered an accomplishment, but if he loses 15, it's ignored. If a team is just about .500 when a guy pitches, they still talk about what a good job he did as long as he's won more than 12 games. You hear stuff like, "well, he struggled with a 4.85 ERA, but he still won 14". Who cares about win totals? If anything it's w/l, but it should be neither.
  20. goonys evil twin
    Over/under on how many times he predicts the hitter K's on a slider low and away? I'd LOVE to see Stone back in the booth. I don't mean to single you out vance, but I think the low-and-away slider joke has been overplayed. It's not as if Stone never offered a LOT more interesting and non-trivial insights than that. I don't think it's overplayed. I think Stone's use of that was overplayed. He offered a lot of interesting insights. But by the end, he was just calling for sliders low and away on every pitch. By the way, Stone wouldn't be back for PBP (play-by-play), he'd be the color man, or analyst. Len is the PBP guy.
  21. goonys evil twin
    He's a poor man's Ricky Reilly, and Rick Reilly is a hobo's writer. I'm not a fan of the "it's the Cubs" reasoning behind bad things happening to this team. When reasonable people analyze the squad and find the flaws in advance, and those flaws are exposed, it's not luck that is holding back the team.
  22. goonys evil twin
    I actually think this season is quite unforgetable. A lot of those early-to-mid 90's teams were forgetable, the Trachsel years. The Scott Bullet years. This year was spectaculiar in its failure. All those 3rd/4th/5th place teams just blend together for me. There's not much worse than a 77 win season. Losing 95/96 games, that's an accomplishment.
  23. goonys evil twin
    http://www.northsidebaseball.com/PremiumForum/viewtopic.php?t=35687
  24. goonys evil twin
    I'm pretty sure you don't have to argue. 2.75 ERA, 165 ERA+, compared to 3.26 ERA and 131 ERA+. I think there are several hitters each year who have a great season, with a handful having elite years. Likewise, I think there are several pitchers who have great seasons, and a handful with elite years. Demanding an elite year doesn't make much sense. Demanding that a highly touted player be among the 2 or 3 best to be considered having a great year is absurd. In 2003 Wood led the league in K/9, K's, fewest hits allowed, was 8th in ERA, tied for 4th in QS, was 9th in WHIP, was in the top 5 for complete games and shutouts. He had the 6th lowest OPS against. By any reasonable measurement he had a great season. To say otherwise indicates a clear bias against the guy, probably based on some sort of feeling of being let down in other years. Who knows. But the fact is he had a great year that season. If he ever gets healthy enough to be a starter, it would be foolish not to give him the chance.
  25. goonys evil twin
    I'd call his 2003 great, without question. Not down in history great, but great nonetheless. As great as Zambrano last year. zambrano wasnt great last year either imo. we must have a different opinion on what "great" means. i look at some of the years pedro, maddux, clemens, johnson & sanatana have had and woods 2003 just looks like a very average year that a good pitcher would have. not a great year by any stretch imo. So by your definition, there's about 1 great pitcher per year. i wouldn't say only one but most years have a few guys who have great years. i just dont consider a 3.20 era and 14 wins a great year. Why are you listing win totals?
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