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  1. alroy88
    I'm glad I read the whole thread before posting. I think this is the most appropriate place to quote to throw my opinion in, as opposed to hailing Todd Hollandsworth the next God. First, the salaries you quotes are incorrect. Kosuke is making $7M, Bradley $12.5M and Soriano $17M. Second, track record obviously does matter, as players have proven to be “second half” players, or fast starters. I’m not saying that our outfield is either, but it’s ludicrous to think that a players average performance won’t balance himself out. It’s the law of averages. Third, Soriano is not a “bad all around player”. He has five seasons of 30 or more steals, and four of those seasons he mashed 30 homers. Players in the 30/30 club found here. Players in the 40/40 club: Canseco, Rodriguez, Bonds and Soriano. If he’s not on the juice, he’s the only legit one to be in that exclusive club, which is pretty impressive. Fourth, fantastic month of July for all three. AB R H 1B 2B 3B HR BB K OBP SLG AVG Bradley 66 14 18 14 1 0 3 22 16 0.455 0.424 0.273 Soriano 84 12 29 19 5 0 5 9 18 0.409 0.583 0.345 Fukudome 84 12 27 14 8 3 2 13 10 0.412 0.560 0.321 Totals 234 38 74 47 14 3 10 44 44 0.424 0.530 0.316
  2. alroy88
    santana haren peavy francisco rodriguez pujols good pitching always beats good offense
  3. alroy88
    soriano is so good
  4. alroy88
    why is every single person at the pregame festivities ugly as sin? from hawk, to the dude with the ponytail whose daughter threw out the second first pitch, to the national anthem girl...this is piss poor
  5. alroy88
    i read the home run ball bounty was $1M, not $100M. http://x.go.com/cgi/x.pl?name=SEARCH_espn&srvc=sz&goto=http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=mlb&id=2900713 how ridiculous would $100M be?
  6. alroy88
    Indeed. I'd rather they win the game. If we are ahead by quite a bit throw at him. The Braves managed to do both last night. It's not mutually exclusive. No reason to fire up the opposing team at their home park, and lets face it they won because Marquis couldn't pitch his way out of a paper bag last night. We should've won that game. Not to mention the fact that the home plate umpire was being a complete ass. lol yeah tschida really gave it to us last night. and why are we blaming everything on marquis? sure, he didn't pitch well...but we didn't do anything after the third inning. gotta produce a little somethin against the bullpen. and why are we saying we should have won last night? we didn't play well...the teams that play well win.
  7. alroy88
    13-6 cobs i'd rather see them hit jones or rentaria in the first because they're hitting us so hard anyway, might as well make it sting while they get one base... plus, one free base is better than giving up a bomb...
  8. alroy88
    so are we all taking pictures of our feet and flooding len and bob's inbox or what?
  9. alroy88
    it looked pretty right down the middle to me
  10. alroy88
    solid inning...i like when the cubs take the lead
  11. alroy88
    LOL intentional walks to jones
  12. alroy88
    although i'd rather see a GIDP that scores a run than a K and then a GIDP by theriot
  13. alroy88
    value of a major league issued baseball can't be more than $10...i'd pay the 75 cents for that. There's no way that could be true...because you didn't buy it, so it's not a sales tax, and if its income, you don't report until next year. you couldn't ever put a value on that ball unless you auctioned it, at which point you're going to have the money to pay the taxes anyway. lots of good ideas in this thread about how to ruin BBonds' trip to chicago. maybe he'll catch wind of this board and just stay home.
  14. alroy88
    wouldn't the fame of destroying the ball generate more publicity and perhaps revenue than selling it? i mean, you'd go down in history as the guy who has the most important relic from the single most revered record in sports and you destroy it. also, it should be noted that there's not a 50% chance he breaks it at wrigley, but a 50% chance that he has broken it by the time he leaves wrigley.
  15. alroy88
    congrats! what's your job? Similar to what I'm doing now, yet different. It's in hedge fund administration. Accounting stuff. I'm putting my English Literature degree to great use! haha awesome. congrats again!
  16. alroy88
    congrats! what's your job?
  17. alroy88
    i can see trammell coming to the mound in a bases loaded jam this inning, reminding Z that he hasn't touched 98 yet, and then as carlos rears back for his 130th pitch, his arm falls off... hold plz
  18. alroy88
    left knee sprain
  19. alroy88
    lol, naw he gave aramis the day off and batted izsuckiz cleanup. :shock: That's a much smarter move than letting Aramis get hurt. yep, trammell should be fired for starting ramirez. what an idiot, i could have told him aramis was going to get hurt today.
  20. alroy88
    lol, naw he gave aramis the day off and batted izsuckiz cleanup. :shock:
  21. alroy88
    =/ is aramis really out with an injured knee? gameday just updated with that bit.
  22. alroy88
    No. Why not, he always gets on a base. Soriano doesn't get hot til late in the game. you are confusing me. Pie gets hits early in the game. Soriano waits til late in the game to get his hits. At least that is what I have noticed. I would rather have Pie in the leadoff spot. For his career, Soriano hits: .297/.350/.527 in innings 1-3 .282/.326/.538 in innings 4-6 .281/.331/.476 in innings 7-9 What is Pie hitting? how irrelevant is that with 66 career ABs?
  23. alroy88
    i agree...but hardy grounded out to end the frame, and lilly has only thrown 79 pitches. if our offense continues to blow, maybe we can squeeze two more innings out of good lilly.
  24. alroy88
    15 walks through 70+ IP isn't average. So I guess walks is the only way to judge if a pitcher is average or not no, but http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/gl.cgi?n1=lillyte01&t=p&year=2007 shows he has been better than average for 8/11 starts and on his cumulative year stats. I wasnt saying one way or the other, but to say just because he had only walked 15 people he wasnt average seemed pretty silly to me. i would agree the walk reference alone wouldn't prove much to his above averageness this year, but his low walk total has led to some other solid numbers. i guess we were supposed to infer that because he hasn't walked anyone, the rest of his numbers are also above average.
  25. alroy88
    in what regard? got out number 1, hardy singles Braun singles hard up the middle i thought you were referencing the first inning as a whole...where the cubs left runners in scoring position, and then came dangerously close to giving up a mammoth inning. looks like we're well on our way.
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