DiamondMind

We're going to absolutely destroy Seattle defensively. 23-3 sounds about right. Run the ball and get a TD from defense/special teams, win.

I want the head of Jim Hendry on my desk in the next 48 hours.

Thank god koyie is getting a real opportunity to show his skills on the field. Now we can all properly and effectively judge his worth to the ballclub.

Castro has a freaking cannon. It's like he doesn't even realize it yet.

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/3745/demotivationalpostersroe.th.jpg fukudome rf theriot 2b byrd cf colvin lf nady 1b ramirez (?) 3b castro ss soto c gorz p young cf johnson 2b upton rf montero c reynolds 3b laroche 1b drew ss gillespie lf kennedy p I thought aram was out for a while?

I'd like to see Soto and Colvin switched, but whatever. At least Theriot is eighth.

I'm not sure if this is relevant to this discussion or not, but I'm just curious, what would you do with Vitters? edit - this has nothing to do with colvin, Im just curious.

I'm not convinced at all we're teaching our players concurrent approaches from the minors to the bigs, fwiw. I always feel like we don't adequately prepare our prospects for the bigs anyway, so it's pointless. And on top of that, what's Rudy Jaramillo for? I agree with a fair amount of stuff you post on this board, but not this one. Agree to disagree.

Come on. McGehee is not a good player. We should be praying that Colvin isn't another McGehee. I'm not saying he's a good player! I'm saying Milwaukee has the brains, unlike us, to ride the hot hand until it's over. Of course Casey won't keep this up forever, but he is right now! So is Colvin! But that's really not "brains." It's the Brewers not having a better option. They got lucky that McGehee had the stretch that he did, but in the big picture it's basically meaningless. Colvin, unlike McGehee, actually has a shot at being a productive part of this team for an extended period of time, even if his ceiling does end up being basically a 4th OF. With a player like Colvin you don't "ride his hot hand;" you get him in the minors starting full time working with the coaches to see if his new found power isn't a fluke and what type of player he can ultimately be. The answer isn't to prop him to be some kind of short term savior or boost because he hasn't demonstrated anything before this year that showed he can be that player. This current team isn't worth potentially wasting whatever potential he has. What happened to Mat Gamel? How the hell is McGehee meaningless, he was leading the NL in RBI's last I checked. Is there some magic X number where things stop becoming a fluke and become an admittedly rare reality? What about Randy Wells? What was your opinion on him last year? How the hell could you advocate sending Colvin to the minors right now? Trading Fukudome to Seattle for Milton Bradley makes more sense than not promoting Colvin to FT right now. Look at the Cardinals, is David Freese some freaking top prospect? No. They COACH players and MAKE THEM BETTER. The problem with this team is not Colvin or Fukudome or your opinion on McGehee. It's that this team, this franchise, can't coach a player out of a paper bag. Let me ask you this, if Colvin was on the Cardinals, do you think he'd be out there with Rasmus or in AAA? I really think you're just playing devil's advocate here - it is simply beyond my comprehension how you're advocating what you are. And Fukudome blows.

Come on. McGehee is not a good player. We should be praying that Colvin isn't another McGehee. I'm not saying he's a good player! I'm saying Milwaukee has the brains, unlike us, to ride the hot hand until it's over. Of course Casey won't keep this up forever, but he is right now! So is Colvin! Look, all I want is to stop looking three years in the future and talking about development and expected value and all this [expletive], and worry about how to not blow tomorrows game. We can't even get to .500. Colvin helps us win RIGHT NOW. That's the end of it as far as I'm concerned with him and Fukudome.

Are you talking about Fukudome? A typically productive player? Are you watching the same games I am? 715 OPS in May and dipping to an abomination like 552 OPS this month. This happens EVERY YEAR. He starts off hot (fukudome), and everyones like oh hey he gets on base he's a pretty preductive guy. Then the wheels fall off in late may/early june and its downhill fukucopter drilling into the batters box from then on.

How could anyone rather see Fukucopter in there than Colvin lately!? Against RHP, where I assume the argument is here, Colvin is out OPS'ing him by literally a good 200 points. Colvin's also sporting a sick .655 SLG% against righties during the same four week span. Also, why are people comparing him to Dutch Value. You can't judge everything by minor league sabr! I have a single argument: Casey McGehee. I'm NOT SAYING anything Colvin is currently doing is sustainable. I'm just saying right now, at this specific moment in time, there is NO EXCUSE for him to not be in there EVERY DAY against RHP.

I'd rather listen to 72 hours of vuvuzelas than this god forsaken song again

That's not the point. The point is he's our best option right now.

It's because the team is horrible, nobody gives a damn, and the Cubs aren't doing anything this year. I'm just checking this thread every so often in between doing stuff for work. I'm still drunk like Kaner fwiw.

Todd Hollandsworth my ass. Colvin needs to be in there daily.

Colvin's got 33 K's in 102 BA's to go along with a .608 SLG%, and yet he is as skinny as juan pierre. Is it so ridiculous to expect a mini adam dunn as he ages?

Since when is conor jackson an A?

Eh, probably just Soriano being Soriano. He'll be back soon enough. I know I know, it's like the league stops throwing him breaking stuff, then remembers to throw him breaking stuff, then forgets, cycle cycle cycle.

As good as he was earlier, Soriano is completely lost now. Where is master seance Jaramillo?

Colvin freaking murdered that

Sure, keep telling yourself that. He would have been the closest thing to Stenbrenner we could have gotten, and say what you will about Old George, he gets what he pays for. He doesnt put up woth failure. You're judging Ricketts already?

Is that how bad it's gotten? We're back to talking about Cuban?

I just threw my cellphone across the room, bounced off the wall, battery flew out, scared the crap out of my cat. thanks cubs.

Nice job Stevens