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  1. Elrhino
    I bet Nolan Ryan threw down his glove, got him in a headlock and fed him knuckle sandwhiches on the way out the door.
  2. Elrhino
    The Pirates are getting better, but when they get to the Mienkiewicz/Paulino/Bixler part of the lineup ... yikes. Talk about a black hole in the bottom of the order.
  3. Elrhino
    The Cubs cruising to an easy win, Marmol getting a day off, Astros/Cardinals/Brewers all losing and Gallagher futher cementing himself in Lou's mind as a better alternative than Marquis for the 5th rotation spot could just about qualify as achieving best case scenerio of the last 24 hours.
  4. Elrhino
    When Soriano is hot he can almost singlehandedly carry an entire offense by himself for a month. ... but when he's cold? yesh.
  5. Elrhino
    I don't really have strong feelings one way or the other, but it was kind of surreal when I caught myself cheering for Edmonds over Greg Maddux.
  6. Elrhino
    Not that any GM of a contending team would do it in a million years, but wouldn't you be tempted to float Dempster's name on the open market right now just to see what he could bring in return just out of curiousity if nothing else?
  7. Elrhino
    If you were at the game, would you want them to leave him in? After he just k'd the side in the 8th?
  8. Elrhino
    Sounds like your typical East Coast based writer who believes the rest of the league exists solely to supplement the Yankees and/or Boston with missing pieces.
  9. Elrhino
    I thought he made an interesting point that the Padres have extreme away splits, considering they play zero away games in Petco to weigh down the average and they've played an inordinate amount of away games in Coors and Chase. Might be worth considering the next time we're salivating over a Padres player based on his away splits.
  10. Elrhino
    I don't have any ill will at Prior, but I do enjoy pointing and laughing at those who said the Cubs would rue the day they decided to stop paying him millions to rehab.
  11. Elrhino
    He very well may be, but if you really believe he is then you can't just selectively attribute the bad moves to Cuban and then attribute the good ones to someone else. If he's making personnel moves, then he must be doing something extremely right considering what the Mavs overall record has been since his arrival ... especially considering where it was before his arrival. If you're not attributing it to Cuban, why even bring it up in a topic about Cuban? It seems you certainly wanted to smear him with it because of your first personal vendetta, whether it was any of his fault or not. I feel sorry for Mavs Fans. Cuban is going to sell off the Mavs and buy the Cubs, and as Mavs go back to being the punchline of the NBA they're going to realize how much they didn't appreciate what they had.
  12. Elrhino
    Time to steal a base on Kendall.
  13. Elrhino
    At least the Brewers' closer is worse than ours.
  14. Elrhino
    The Mavs weren't just a "bad franchise" when he took them over, they were a helpless franchise. So if we're going to attribute basketball moves to him, even though he was just the owner and not the general manager, then you can't just attribute the bad moves to him. You also got to give him credit for singlehandedly finding Josh Howard at the end of the 1st round. Or getting Steve Nash for nothing in a trade with Phoenix. Or drafting a future NBA MVP like Dirk Nowitski as a 19 year old in the draft after Jason Williams, Tractor Trailer and Larry Hughes. And could someone explain to me exactly how Cuban is responsible for the Mavs "choking" in the playoffs anymore than John Mara is responsible for David Tyree making an acrobatic catch in the Superbowl. And if you followed the Mavs, you would also know that Avery Johnson is the Dusty Baker of basketball managers... without the people skills.
  15. Elrhino
    Cuban wasn't the general manager, he was the owner who trusted the advice of his basketball braintrust. Also, the Kidd deal wasn't ridiculous ... the Mavs knew they weren't going to win a title with their previously constructed lineup, and they were taking a high risk/high reward move knowing their window was closing rapidly. Just because it didn't work doesn't mean logic behind it was ridiculous. All you have to do is look at the before and after with that organization. One of the most pathetic franchises in the NBA before - 10 years highly competitive teams and contenders, almost overnight.
  16. Elrhino
    He took on Jason Kidd's 23 million salary because he wanted the Mavs to win a Championship. When you throw in luxory taxes and the like, Cuban took on almost 30 million when he could have been perfectly content to sit idle with a team that was going to the playoffs. The move didn't pan out, but it show you he's not afraid of spending money. I can promise you he would be on the cutting edge of statistical analysis and would enforce it from the top down. The first thing he did when he came to the Mavs was hire a team of engineers to come up with new statistical models, because he thought the traditional basketball stats were so antiquated and useless. Also, I get the feeling that he's pretty much deflated with the Mavs after a collapse in the NBA Finals and two consecutive first round exits. I could see him selling off the Mavs and finding a new pet project. I find it interesting he's at Wrigley and talking business the day after his team is eliminate from the playoffs (and he just fired his coach earlier in the day).
  17. Elrhino
    More like Jason DuBois vs. David Kelton
  18. Elrhino
    Of course, the irony is we're going to put the worst OBP on the team at the top of the lineup as soon as he gets off the DL.
  19. Elrhino
    How many times has a player had 5 RBI's and 7 LOB in the same game? The Cubs are getting on base at just a ridiculous rate.
  20. Elrhino
    Winning is the ultimate deoderant, but the LOB totals for some of the Cubs in this game is staggering.
  21. Elrhino
    Much better, but still had some problems with his control. He's still got work to do, but it's a sigh of relief.
  22. Elrhino
    Fuku DeRo Lee Ram Soriano Soto Pie/Johnson Ronnie/The Riot That's my lineup and I'm sticking to it.
  23. Elrhino
    I think the Cubs ought to go Little League and let Fukudome coach 3rd base when he's not batting. I trust his baseball IQ and judgement a lot more than Yost.
  24. Elrhino
    After 9 beers, everyone starts to sound like Harry Carey.
  25. Elrhino
    Pie hardly lit up Iowa in 2006. Last year he had a very good half-season in Iowa with 220 at bats. Was that because he clearly outclassed the competition or was it because he's was playing lights out? The sample size is in the gray area that you could make a case either way, but given that when he was called up he continued to hit at a torrid pace at the bigs and then promptly came crashing down to earth I tend to believe it's the later. As I said before, Pie's plate discipline so horrendous that he's going to have to depend on a high BABIP. As such he's going to go through extreme hot and cold streaks, and will have be judged on a large sample size until they balance each other out. I don't see how anyone could conclusively say that any time spent in Iowa would be "meaningless" when given that he's only put up one good half season there and he looks so thoroughly and completely lost on the major league level.
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