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Zambrano is ALWAYS available. If it were 2 days after his start, I would be worried about that actually happening if this keeps going.
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I would have brought in Dempster here..you need to save your long man for last. What happens if we get a run, bring Dempster in, then he gives up a run? Then we will really be scrambling for somebody to pitch.
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What's that bring his total on the year to? Three? Lol..actually 27, but it feels like 3. Izturis has had a good game, but he really ruined that inning for us.
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Me neither. I can't believe Houston didn't make Novoa throw two strikes in a row. I guess they got the memo that you can't walk across home plate. That's what I was shocked by..swing at 2-1 if you want, but swinging at 2-0 with a guy who put the first two pitches in the dirt and cannot give up a walk? We'd still be talking about that days later if it was a Cub. :D
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If this goes another inning or two, we'll need a couple out of Novoa..only pitchers behind him are Guzman or Dempster.
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His last full season he had 25 SB and 9 CS. I want to clarify my own statement there, because it looks better then it is. That is by far his best year with SB's, but it does show he must have decent to pretty good speed.
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His last full season he had 25 SB and 9 CS.
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ESPN has him at 3 at bats in the 3 spot this year-those might be pinch hit at bats though.
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Murton!!!!
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Nice call Dusty on that one. You have to applaud the effort by Everett there-he did everything he could there to get the bat on the ball.
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Well, let's see. We got a run in the 1st on a Pierre triple and Izturis single. We added one more in the second on a Cedeno home run to left. Mateo pitched really well-had one bad inning, but threw a great deal of strikes-which was well appreciated 5IP, 2ER Jacque crushed a 3 run homer-over the hill in center-440 feet. Ohman and Weurtz combined to give up the 4 runs in the 6th after Mateo left the game to give our current score of 6-5 Astros.
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We've theorized that it is because Mateo had just hit Clemens, and was due up 3rd in the 6th-and so Dusty was worried about a retaliation hit. Theriot went up instead, and Clemens promptly hit him.
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What do you mean? I'm sure Scott Eyre has been involved in many double switches this year, not just this one :D
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Where would you have suggested a double switch? Mateo was fine at the end of the inning-and you certainly don't double switch when the 9 spot was just up, as it just was. What I'm saying is that Baker usually does a double switch and if it was Perez hitting he would be playing second right now. Ouch, Everett had a good swing on the foul and he had Weurtz down. Perez would not have been put in the game in this situation..even Dusty knows you don't move the pitcher from 9th to 7th when you have the 2-3-4 hitters coming up-I don't think he's ever done anything that idiotic (with the possible exception of the 9th as a defensive replacement only)
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Where would you have suggested a double switch? Mateo was fine at the end of the inning-and you certainly don't double switch when the 9 spot was just up, as it just was.
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Ugh..I really had completely forgotten that Bynum was ever on this team. He's not signed for after this year, is he?
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Len and Bob said Dusty wanted to get more speed near the top of the lineup in order to play small ball against Clemens tonight because of his lack of giving up home runs.
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Pierre has been going to left quite a bit, especially over tha last 2 months. Izturis, I don't know about. I've seen Izturis line serveral balls down the left field line in his Cubs career-of course though, we haven't seen enough of him to know anything much about his tendencies.
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That's actually not as bad as Otis made it out to be-I feared instantly that Ramirez had been taken out for Neifi along with Barrett taken out for Blanco. BTW, this looks like straight batter-pitcher matchups here. Barrett is 4/23 against Clemens (.174/.208/.174)-Blanco apparently hasn't faced him, so this was decided to be the night Blanco plays. Murton is 0 for 2 against Clemens, and Pagan is 2 for 3 (not like either of that matters-probably more that Pagan is getting about 1 out of 3 starts right now, and this one is it) Pierre and Ramirez have the best numbers against Clemens-Pierre has a .368 average (7/19) with a .526 SLG against him, while Ramirez has a .333/.391/.476 numbers against him. Jones also has good numbers-7 for 26 with 5 doubles and a hr-.269/.376/.577 against Clemens.
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Making a Cubs walkoffs video (completed!)
CubColtPacer replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Wow, was that really all the same game? I remember all of those incidences, but I don't recall them being in the same game. I certainly remember a Wood ejection after he walked two straight hitters, but I don't remember that being in the 9th inning. BTW, the score was 10-10 in the 9th. What kind of pitcher was "dealing" with the score 10-10? I think he meant series there. The double switch and the 2 home runs to win the game 11-10 was on Friday. Wood got tossed in a 3-2 loss on Saturday. I can't remember for sure which game Freel made that wonderful catch was in. -
At some point you have to leave the starters out there though-Marmol had to stay in that game on Sunday. There were 2 relievers who were unavailable for Sunday's game because they had pitched so much recently, and if we had taken out Marmol earlier we may have run out of pitchers.
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In 2004, the Cubs had the best chance of winning. When Hendry signed Maddux the chances increased even more. Disagree. The 2004 Cubs with Beltran and Cruz/Rusch (2004)/Mitre are a better team that the 2004 Cubs with Maddux and Patterson. The only way to get Beltran in 2004 was a trade. Maddux and Beltran were not choices up against each other. Maddux was signed after the 03 season, and Beltran was traded to Houston in June of 04 and became a free agent after the 04 season. We had no idea that a player like Beltran would automatically be available the next offseason (and of course Beltran hadn't completely broken out then either) when we signed Maddux before the 04 season.
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Furcal and Patterson would be an upgrade over Jones and Cedeno (Jones is 4 points worse in OBP then Patterson, and 52 points better in SLG, and Furcal has a 60-70 point edge in both)-but your lineup also adds about 10 million dollars more to the payroll then is currently there-Jones actually has made only about 1.2 million more then Patterson has this year. Furcal would have looked better on this team-but that salary would have hurt us for both 2007 and 2008 for a player who is a slightly above average offensive shortstop.
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# 2 slot is reserved for Nefei. Bruce asked Dusty about that. Well, let's see. I'm ok with the first part-Neifi has done a great job against Oswalt, and so I'm not unhappy about him starting in the 2 spot for that game. I'm fine with the end, because Murton might be producing and be more comfortable down in the order right now. The middle? Ridiculous-if anything, Pagan should have the same reason Murton has for staying down in the order-he's producing, so why move him? Instead, Dusty shows exactly what he wants out of the 2 spot-and I really don't understand even more then the speed why a switch hitter is so valuable at the 2 spot more then other spots in the lineup.
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Making a Cubs walkoffs video (completed!)
CubColtPacer replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
That game was one of the wildest games I've ever seen. Baker actually snapped in that game as well as he couldn't execute a double switch properly. I wish he would do that more often. Get in an umpires face. Throw things. Go on a profanity laced tirade in the media. He won't do it b/c of his 5-year old son. Does anyone else think the age of his son is why he doesn't do these things like Ozzie?? B/c Ozzie's kids are all grown-up. I don't think it has anything to do with his son. Are there no crazy people with young kids? Are all people with young children perfect role models? All people are different, if he didn't have any kids he'd still most likely act the same. I think it does, for the only reason being that Reds game where Baker got tossed a couple years ago and went crazy (the game where Martinez got called out for batting out of order). The story in the paper was that when he got home, his son was scared to see him and called him something like crazy daddy. Baker apologized, and said he would control himself better in the future-and he has, to the detriment of some.