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  1. Mephistopheles
    obligatory http://www.topnews.in/light/files/Marisa-Miller_0.jpg
  2. Mephistopheles
    he was basically having a high BABIP thanks to seeing eye grounders early last season. This year they're line drive rockets sprayed across the diamond.
  3. Mephistopheles
    comparing KFs hot start this year compared to last years is like comparing Rosie O'Donnell to Marisa Miller in a swimsuit contest.
  4. Mephistopheles
    No it's not.
  5. Mephistopheles
    Sure you can argue regression to Soto and Lee. But not regression to .109/.268/.130/.398 and .189/.253/.284, respectively. Sure our guys will go down at some point, but when our guys go down AND our entire team is under performing to the thousandth degree, that's why we're playing so poorly. Come July when someone goes down, the rest of the team won't be hitting 150.
  6. Mephistopheles
    For one we won't have terrible defense at third with Fontenot. We won't have terrible defense at 2B with Miles. We won't have terrible defense in RF with Hoffpauir. We won't have terrible defense at first with Hoffpauir. Not to mention like half of our lineup is hitting under 200. As for our pitching. As poor as its been it could be worse. See: Philly. 1. Do you expect Carlos Zambrano to continue having an ERA above 4.50? You know with a .337 BABIP? After all his BABIP has never been above .280 in years. His ERA has never been above 4.00 much less 4.50. 2. Do you expect Rich Harden to continue having an ERA above 5.00? You know twice his ERA last year. Not to mention he is sporting a 37:14 K:BB and a K/9 of 13.5. 3. Do you expect Ryan Dempster to go from a ~3.00 ERA to a ~5.50 ERA overnight? 4. Do you expect Carlos Marmol's ERA to be 6 all season and Gregg's to be above 5 all season? If you answered yes for any of questions 1-4, you're most likely going to be dead wrong. Right now almost out entire roster is bottoming out, and we're 10-11. That's pretty good all things considered.
  7. Mephistopheles
    Opening Day is the only game thus far we've played where our projected 8 (Bradley, Soriano, Fukudome, Ramirez, Theriot, Fontenot, Lee and Soto in case you don't know who they are) have all been in the starting lineup. That's one game of 22. Only in 11 of the games have seven of our projected 8 been in the starting line up. That's eleven of 22. We're 7-4 in those games. Bradley hasn't lost significant time to injuries? Coming into today he had 45 PAs this season. Soto only had 56. Guess how many Ramirez had? 56. Stop running in circles with a bad argument.
  8. Mephistopheles
    thats sad.
  9. Mephistopheles
    no he did not.
  10. Mephistopheles
    we're not getting proven wrong because we have all said we'll be fine once we get our horses back. they're not back yet and we havent had them this season except for like two or three games at the beginning of the year. if aramis ramirez is out the rest of the year, geovany soto hits 150 the rest of the year, rich harden has a 5+ era the rest of the year (despite a ~14 k/9) and milton bradley hits 100 the rest of the year, yes we will only win 75 games. fortunately none of those things are likely.
  11. Mephistopheles
    a 6'1" 2000 lb shortstop. i thought id never see the day!
  12. Mephistopheles
    Answer: No. Don't be an armchair coach/manager/bitcher.
  13. Mephistopheles
    okay so youre saying he traded derosa for miles and three minor league p's? because he's not that dumb.
  14. Mephistopheles
    so youre saying that hendry traded derosa for miles straight up.
  15. Mephistopheles
    and neither would bradley...
  16. Mephistopheles
    I didn't say it was a good trade, but to put it in the company of the Kazmir/Zambrano trade is going to far. A trade that would be in that company would be Josh Vitters for Carlos Silva.
  17. Mephistopheles
    That really isn't true. DeRosa would have been playing RF because Bradley is out (if we were even able to sign him) and you probably would have a combination of Miles and Johnson depending on the day, which is equally suck to what we have now when Hoff was out there. Were we worse off for a few games? Yes, but it really didn't hurt us.
  18. Mephistopheles
    Look on the bright side, Fonte is hitting .232/.338/.449/.787 which could probably be improved upon when he settles into a his .280ish batting average ways, though he probably won't be having a .220 IsoP all season long. He is on pace for 31 homers. Trading DeRosa has yet to hurt this team and it probably won't.
  19. Mephistopheles
    Ricky Nolasco wasn't an elite prospect when he was traded. He was a decent one, but far from the quality of Scott Kazmir. Comparing the two is a bad, sad case of 20/20 hindsight.
  20. Mephistopheles
    yeah that was a dumb ass move. sure, fonte has a rough split against southpaws, but Pinto can't get lefties off. His career OPS vs RH is 687 compared to 747 against LH. It's worth a chance, you don't screw yourselves over in case you get out because Reed Johnson will STILL get out 65% of the time. dumb.dumb. dumb.
  21. Mephistopheles
    http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090430&content_id=4501732&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb&partnerId=rss_mlb
  22. Mephistopheles
    i take that back sean, we're probably not going to get any baserunners today sean.
  23. Mephistopheles
    what is a meph something?
  24. Mephistopheles
    yeah we're not scoring any runs today. sorry sean, we're losing no matter what. why'd you even bother showing up. let lou throw some pitches.
  25. Mephistopheles
    I love how well that plus power has played thus far in his career. It's so great to see someone like Rasmus come up and NOT be Babe Ruth for the Cardinals. He's a true Felix Pie.
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