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  1. badnews
    Call me old fashioned but I prefer a pitcher who conducts himself like Mike Mussina any day. The dude is like a robot on the mound. You could butcher his firstborn in front of him and his face would stay frozen in that impassive, deadly mask. He's like Robert Patrick from Terminator 2!
  2. badnews
    We're going to see a lot of crazy things in our lifetimes. I can't wait until people refer to Oswego and a close-in suburb.
  3. badnews
    You can say that but then you should say who they should've drafted. Most of the guys I wanted were picked just before Cashner so I couldn't be too disappointed. I thought the Cubs should've taken Odorizzi though. Would've liked Xavier Avery, or a lefty like Wade Miley or Robbie Ross instead of Flaherty. The Braves picked the guy I wanted right ahead of the Cubs. I thought Schafer sounded too much like Grant Johnson, I was hoping for Tyler Sample instead. Some of those lower round picks look intriguing though. Speaking of which, anyone see Travis Snider up with the Blue Jays?
  4. badnews
    What's hard to understand that some of us get frustrated as hell with this nonsense? Look, this is baseball, I don't approach it with the 100% logical common-sense approach I do with my professional life. I see Carlos Zambrano walk Michael Bourn and I start hopping around like a chimpanzee. I see our "ace" melt down at the worst possible time, I get agitated.
  5. badnews
    Give me a break, Michael Bourn scores. Why don't we walk Doug Davis while we're at it. Save the walks for guys who can actually hurt you. ****
  6. badnews
    Sorry to be "this guy" but DAMN IT ALL YOU CANNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WALK MICHAEL ****ING BOURN THE DUDE HAS LIKE A .480 OPS AND ALL HE DOES IS STEAL BASES, WHICH HE CAN'T DO IF YOU WALK HIM BECAUSE HE SUCKS ASS. Seriously - call me an overreactor because these games do make me emotional, but I have to wonder what kind of 'ace' issues a free pass to an utter stiff like Bourn. Just throw the ball down the ***damn center of the plate, he won't do anything.
  7. badnews
    Yeah, that and the whole being the all time home run leader among 2b thing too. I don't understand where people are getting this idea that HOF voters are just going to blanket leave out every player from the era.
  8. badnews
    He looks a lot worse against good pitching than other hitters who hang around a .900 OPS. I'm not sure I can think of any .900ish OPS hitters I would expect less out of in the playoffs. Maybe Vlad Guerrero because he always sucks in the playoffs. Anyway, if after the playoffs you don't see Soriano look awful on at *least* 5 breaking pitches low and away come here and let me know. I just have not seen any .900ish OPS hitter swing at those pitches so frequently. It's like he has no self control on those low and away breaking pitches. So it seems like in the playoffs, when the stakes are higher, such things will be more fully exploited.
  9. badnews
    Because I don't think Soriano is capable of hitting good pitching at all. And unfortunately I don't think the Pirates' starting pitching or the Marlins bullpen will be featured anywhere in the playoffs. He's good at punishing mistakes, but he's not adaptable. If a pitcher even halfway executes his gameplan he's got no chance. Plus, he just plain swings at too much crap. I've never seen a "successful" hitter who swings at unreachable low and away breaking balls so frequently as Soriano. I wonder why anyone throws him anything but low and away breaking balls, he's awful at laying off of them. I remember in the 2003 ALCS where Soriano struck out 11 times in 30 ABs, most of them on some garbage looking breaking pitch low and away. Fast forward 5 years it's still a near-daily occurence with him. Go look at Sunday's game, 8th inning, vs. the Phillies, Madson struck him out on a pitch that was crap low and outside.
  10. badnews
    Jeff Kent's a lock to be in the Hall of Fame. All time HR leader among 2b, an MVP Award... he's a lock.
  11. badnews
    Yeah, I'm worried because there's no one on this team I trust to produce offensively in this lineup. I feel like Soto, Ramirez, DeRosa, maybe Edmonds could do okay, I expect ****-all from Lee and especially Fukudome and Soriano. Would anyone be surprised if the Cubs lost every playoff game 3-1, 4-2, 3-0, 4-1, that sort of thing? Anyone going to be surprised by the "(fill in the blank pitcher) was nasty tonight?" topics like there was last year for Webb and Doug Davis (even when I still think they weren't).
  12. badnews
    I like that Jeff Kent dared to take on a sacred cow. Bowing and scraping to people just based on their reputations is how we ended up with most of the country pretending to like Joe Morgan.
  13. badnews
    I wouldn't have minded Marco Scutaro in Cedeno's place.
  14. badnews
    I thought maybe it was a typo but they put it in the play-by-play section as well (it doesn't make sense there either). So I suppose somebody told somebody the wrong thing.
  15. badnews
    I actually didn't like what I saw. I've never seen Bowden pitch before, and the last guy I saw who consistently worked the upper third of the strike zone with mediocre fastballs so frequently was Eric Milton. His release point seems really high and most everything seemed to be up.
  16. badnews
    I don't understand how Brad Ziegler got in the game: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=280830111&page=boxscore
  17. badnews
    I wonder how the Cubs will fare against the playoff starters. Especially if they happen to be Haren, Webb, and Johnson. You could see the Cubs getting swept again. Some of the hitters, I don't know. Maybe it's just my wrong assumption, but it seems like Soriano gets a lot of his production off garbage pitching and he's the last guy I'd count on in the playoffs. I mean, does anyone feel the opposite, that Soriano is going to do well in the playoffs?
  18. badnews
    Other roster moves for Boise: ETA: See Derek Ingram's post below for the report on Cashner in Daytona. Brett Wallace just jumped up out of his chair and said "Hey, wait just a darn minute, I thought I was the 13th overall pick!"
  19. badnews
    What happened to Verlander this year, I wonder.
  20. badnews
    There's probably a lot of statistical evidence to prove Soriano is better, for some reason I just feel like Carlos Lee is the better pure hitter. He doesn't strike out much, hits for power, and always seem to be a good clutch hitter. Plus even if he is fat and slow in left field you don't seem to see the mental errors you see with Soriano. Then again I don't really watch Astros games so maybe I'm just slapping my forehead over that botched catch tonight.
  21. badnews
    #1- Do you think maybe Zambrano should be the #3 starter in the playoffs behind Dempster and Harden? #2- Do you ever find yourself wishing the Cubs signed Carlos Lee instead of Soriano?
  22. badnews
    Don't worry about blank. You let me worry about blank.
  23. badnews
    For Daytona just put rained out already!
  24. badnews
    I think 3 years is a possibility but I think the minimum it would end up being is something 3/42.
  25. badnews
    It's what Luke refers to himself as when he's trying to pick hookers at Mos Eisley.
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