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I blame Tony LaRussa

God it is hard to vote for a guy whose best career moment is beating our team and costing us a world series with his go ahead double. I sitll want to write in Chance. Did you just cite Derrek Lee as the reason the Cubs did not win the World Series in '03?

umm. well. at least I'm not the first post anymore. nsbblol "strikes" again

And they really swung and missed. Really the article wasn't funny at all, that was my point. I believe it was, and that you think otherwise because you are upset that they ripped a Bruce Miles article. It really has nothing to do with Bruce Miles, I guess the standards for humor are pretty low these days. You should see the standards for debate points on message boards.

all excellent points (i'm being facetious) Riddle me this angry mob: Is it the dude in charge at the micky d's down the street's fault that the cashier has a nasty tendency to behave dangerously away from his supervision? This is your argument.

Anybody getting fired by Pigeon-brain Harrelson has to be doing something right. Lets put two and two together in a simple yet elegantly appropriate fashion: The Cardinals teams of recent memory have been notorious among Cubs fans for overperforming. + Tony LaRussa has been the manager of those Cardinals teams of recent memory. = _________________________________

If the Cardinals signed Barry Bonds, I would buy the jersey shirt and wear it out of spite from this kind of... stuff. Seriously, a "substance abuse enabler"? The man's a freaking baseball genius. Can we please let this silly hatred of TLR die already. If people said the same nonsensical and unwarranted crap about me I'd probably drink myself into a stupor and park my car in the middle of a Florida intersection just to remind myself I'm still alive. also, pardon me for being willing to shrug off that a bunch of dumb athletes didn't properly weigh the ethical and physical consequences of their actions when millions of dollars were being waved in their faces and no one was actually there to tell them it was a bad idea. and please, I can hear the "save the children" argument coming from a mile away, so don't even bother. [/thread]

Seeing as how we've know who ken tremendous et al have been for almost 20 days now, I think it's safe to say we can toss this little brain fart into the circular file where it belongs, eh gang?

Also, I'm thinking that given that Felix Pie is/was: -for all his shortcomings obviously better at baseball than Sam Fuld -victim to a 'win now, develop never' attitude surrounding last season, -because of such developed confidence issues due to the fact that there was nothing he could do short of morph into Barry Bonds to get more pt last season -Lou Piniella is actually not a moron -FOR ALL HIS SHORTCOMINGS IS OBVIOUSLY BETTER AT BASEBALL THAN SAM FULD that the whole Sam Fuld "competing for a starting position on a major league baseball team" thing is just Sweet Lou's way of fixing some of the damage to the young, emotional (you know, cause he's a fiery minority from a tropical climate) player. Plus Sam Fuld gets to tell his grandchildren that at one point, he was almost an elite baseball player. EVERYBODY WINS I have no explanation for the Theriot thing though, but that's because the general concept is too maddening to even process right now. edit: I hope Transsexual Tiger (see what I did there) is channeling his inner Nostradamus as to how the line-up situation will pan out over ST.

umm, i don't think it was him who took a weekend off for an extended drunken stupor...

Remember, when this is over, that you invited this response. -------- -In 2007, the league average for SB attempts in the NL was 130. -In 2007, the Chicago Cubs attempted to steal a base 119 times. Not a huge difference, but clearly below league average. Now, one could assume that the amount of sb a team attempts is largely a function of how fast their players run. But don't fall in this trap, lest you want to get laughed at by Dusty Baker-managed baseball teams. You see, a team can attempt to steal a lot of bases because they have some players who are specifically good at it. Hello New York Metropolitans. Other teams can attempt to steal lots of bases because they think, in general, that it is a good thing to try to do a lot. Some teams do this even though they are obviously bad at it. There's Dusty again. Now, you may also notice that the success rate of stealing bases by the Chicago Cubs (72%), like their amount of attempts, is below league average (74%). Me, the method actor that I am, decided that in order to fulfill my facade of false-intelligence, put on my thinking cap. I thought to myself, "what could these two sets of numbers possibly have to do with each other?" Accidentally, I came up with the conclusion that one informs the other. I was like, "maybe, that rascal Lou realizes that his team isn't very good at one thing, so he's instructing his team to do that thing less". I know, a stretch considering his lack of success as a baseball manager. Then, in what was almost a blinding explosion of rational, sensible thought on my part, I thought of something else: Lou Piniella was born in 1943. I see that you have trouble processing information so I'll put it bluntly: he's old. When I think about old people, my first thought is most definitely not "jesus, I wish those old geezers would just make up their mind and stick to it instead of waffling all the GD time." So, if Lou Piniella has shown himself willing to "manage" the amount of times his team does something based on its relative success rate, and sans any traumatic head injuries over the off-season, I'm thinking maybe he's going to stick to that. Yes, regardless of what he says to some dumb stiff. -------- Now, back to the guy from Wisconsin's Cleveland. You're very clearly trolling my posts, not out of something I say specifically (which I actually wouldn't mind, it's flattering), but just because you don't like "me". "blah blah blah you're an arrogant jerk stop pointing out how dumb some of the things people say on here are blah blah blah." Great, I've heard it. But unless you'd actually like to consider contributing something of value, I suggest you keep your mouth shut (keyboard... less typed...) to avoid one of these dust-ups again.

+1million Anonymity goes a long way to making someone a jerk jamie, your name isn't on that post, you must have forgotten to sign it The fact that you are readily able to know my name goes to prove that I am in fact not anonymous nor am I attempting to hide my name. If the contrary were true, i could very easily have never given my name on this website +1million

GDit How am I supposed to find out things if someone doesn't spoon-feed it to me?

Why? Was Lou joking? He's said equally dumb things in the past and never went through with them. He's attempting to play mind games, to get the opposing managers and pitchers to worry about whether or not whoever is on second is going to steal.

wow, I hope all the managers and pitchers in the NL are as gullible as this crowd.

also to no one's surprise.

Instant Classic

I like the idea of having the script with the underline, but it just doesn't execute well on account of "Cubs" being so short.

I wasn't saying the government is like a business. I was analogizing the functions of each job. A chief executive officer is essentially the top manager at his company. That's what the president is to the federal bureaucracy: the top manager. I was in no way saying the functions of their respective organizations are analogous. Any other obvious things you'd like to point out?

The president is the CEO of the government. Legislators are like the board members. I'd rather have someone with executive experience, i.e. governor, vp, etc., than "I bribe people to sign on to my stupid ideas" experience.

I would totally prefer someone who is an expert at hitting in the two-hole, which is totally different from the eight other positions in the lineup.

Depends on the salad. Usually either balsamic or apple cider.

OH I GET IT! I'M A MENSTRUATING FEMALE!

The statement above is a lot of words that essentially means nothing, isn't it? I'm not exactly sure what "true talent" means though. What value does PECOTA if it cannot make accurate predictions? Or I guess I should say more accurate than other predictions. I'm convinced you didn't actually read the sentence. He was pretty clear. Thinking that PECOTA, or any prediction scheme, is a "crystal ball" is dumb. You then proceed to fault it because it's not a crystal ball. Chew on that for a while.