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  1. I like the term Boers and Bernstein use. Whena team is this horrible and actually amusing to watch, they call them "fun-bad". It's really fairly amusing. Fun-bad, recent example the Chicago Bears 90's teams and early 2000's teams. They have been so horrible its almost amusing to see them blow games or just get blown out. They haven't even been mediocre. Seems like they've turned it around now. Still have an embarrassing offense.
  2. There was a bad call earlier in the inning as well. I'd be pissed too.
  3. Thats actually the worst argument I've heard in my entire life. If you're dusty baker or the manager of any other major league team, you know what the strengths and weaknesses of your team is. If you know your team can't bunt, STOP BUNTING. You don't attempt things with the wrong personnel. Heres an analogy: I'm trying to get from one room to the next. Strategically speaking, I should use the door, but I don't have the key. So should i continue to bang my head against the door until it opens? No, you try something else.
  4. Seriously, he's been phasing Murton of the lineup for some time now, pushing him lower and lower. I dont understand it. He's one of our most productive hitters and somehow in the dog house with big ol Dusty. Whatever...........
  5. Thats a halfway decent lineup How come no one has suggested leading off Murton? He has the highest OBP on the team.
  6. LOL So now we have 18 threads floating around about how bad Dusty Baker is? I for one will have no part in it. nah, I enjoy it.
  7. I wish he could find a rod of +2 intelligence. Can I just say that this was incredible? And yes...I got it too. And part of me is with XZero - I should have no shame. But then . . . I do, whether I want to or not. You guys feel bad, I'm the one who made the joke- makes me the ultimate dork. In my own defense, I never played D&D much, only one unfortunate experience with some fringe friends. NE Ways, basically everything he's done in the last week has infuriated me, including flipping around the batting order and then flipping it back unnecessarily, and the misuse of the bunt.
  8. Yes, there could be a silver lining. ...yeah right! Dusty didn't give up the 3-run homer. We should be booing Dempster. 26 saves in a row until today.Booing him would be ridiculous. It's OK to boo Latroy but not Dempster. I'd hate to play the race card, but... Ok, even if your joking, after reading everything you've posted in the last few weeks, if I knew you in person I would slap you. You sound like Barry Bonds.
  9. Incredible. I don't even care if the Cubs have 40 wins going into September, it can't get any worse than this. Dusty MUST be fired. NOW.
  10. So true. I really can't even care at this point. Its actually amusing to see these guys flounder out there.
  11. This was so expected that I'm not even dissapointed.
  12. Even simple animals know that when you try to get some cheese and get shocked, you stop trying to get the cheese. But goddarnit, variable rewards systems, like gambling, tend to grab people. So Dusty sees some good results from bunting , you know what he's gonna do? BUNT SOME MORE. Of course spread over the course of a season its gonna have a very negative effect, but he wont worry about that. i'm curious to see what these "good results" are. It seems like whenever we bunt, that run never scores. Basically a successful sacrifice. We've been so bad at bunting that just to move the runner over qualifies.
  13. Even simple animals know that when you try to get some cheese and get shocked, you stop trying to get the cheese. But goddarnit, variable rewards systems, like gambling, tend to grab people. So Dusty sees some good results from bunting , you know what he's gonna do? BUNT SOME MORE. Of course spread over the course of a season its gonna have a very negative effect, but he wont worry about that.
  14. Please just right a nasty letter to the editor instead. But thats so much less fulfilling.
  15. I've said this before, and I'll probably say it again, but: If the Cubs find a way to lose this one, I'm gonna firebomb Dusty Baker's home.
  16. Murton played yesterday. Off the bench.
  17. Win or not, I'm infuriated about this lineup. Its like Dusty Baker ran headfirst into a brick wall, picked himself up, and did it again. Why does he continue to field a batting order that he knows is ineffective? He switched in Cedeno at lead off in our first win in like 8 games....and then switched him to 3rd in the batting order?! He's bumped down Murton (arguably our most effective hitter this season) further and further down the lineup and the last 2 games has benched him. I don't even know why thats going on. He has this idea in his head that having Blanco and Perez in will help Maddux defensively, but i think the loss in run production more than outweighs whatever minimal gain in defense. I hate this man.
  18. So sad, and yet so true. I have to admit, I laughed. Well done. :lol:
  19. Don't forget Javier Vasquez, who's pitching like a monster. BTW, I am on record saying the Thome move was fantastic, my brother being the witness. I knew they got a steal with that one. I also said he was gonna hit 100 home runs, so we'll see how that pan outs.
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