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    Jeff Samardzija Mark Appel Randall Delgado Andrew Cashner Dan Vogelbach Brian Roberts Gleyber Torres Luis Valbuena Fergie Jenkins Michael Conforto Jon Gray The starting lineup of the first Cubs game I ever went to. From June 15, 1974... Don Kessinger Jerry Morales Billy Williams Jose Cardenal Rick Monday Bill Madlock Dave Rosello Steve Swisher Steve Stone
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    :hello:
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    Ever since 1984, every single good or bad situation the Cubs have been in in the postseason, I've had a feeling something bad, insane, stupid, whatever, was going to happen. Last night when they scored that first run, I told my son, whose only Cubs playoff memories are 2007-on, " game over, they're going to the Series". It was the most confident I'd been in the team at any point since being up 2-0 in 1984. It still hasn't completely sunk in.
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    http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-upcoming-mike-leake-mistake/ Sent from my Lenovo TAB 2 A10-70F using Tapatalk
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    One of my favorite games, in person, was against the Mets in the early 90's. Darryl Strawberry was at the plate late in a close game, 30-some thousand chanting Daaarrr---rrryyylll at Wrigley. He ended up striking out and the crowd kept chanting it through the rest of the inning, both top and bottom. It was just spooky and fantastic at the same time. Sent from my Lenovo TAB 2 A10-70F using Tapatalk
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    While I think it's a crap play and should be illegal, that rule only covers a fielder trying to field a batted ball, not catching a throw.
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    WTF!?!?! Is he throwing a softball?
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    Hey, Cal Eldred pitch for Mil in that Sosa 3 HR game. We played against Urbana once when I was in high school. I think it was my SO year (Eldred's JR year at Urbana). I went 2-3 with a double and a couple of runs against him. That and catching a Chris Hatcher (got a cup of coffee with the Royals in the 90's) line drive are my only brushes with future MLers.
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    I've forgotten the looks of the plans, what's going under the Bud sign? Video board?
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    Back when I was in high school the song "Rock Me Amadeus" was a big hit. The Italian girls in our school would sing along and change the words to "I'm a dego". Of course, the also change the Rock Me part to [expletive] Me.
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    For the most part they weren't competent before the DH existed. Why would that change if we got rid of it everywhere else now? Pitchers have never been very good hitters because they aren't going to spend the time working on it when they get 130 PAs (pre-specialization of pitchers) to 60 PAs (last 20-30 years) per season. There are always exceptions, but for the most part, they've always been fairly bad.
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    I looked to see if this was posted earlier in the year and didn't see it, thought it was appropriate here. I don't know how many of you played or still play Strat-O-Matic, but here's the card they came up with based on Bryant's ST this year. http://www.strat-o-matic.com/community/announcements/kris-bryant-spring-training-strat-o-matic-card
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    Video board dome.
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    Even those under the impression that there's a 1982 action classic entitled "Rambo" know better than that. Ha. I was 10 when The New Hope came out and I don't remember anyone calling it that. No one did. It was just released as Star Wars back then. Except it says "Episode IV: A New Hope" in the opening crawl Here's the original crawl.
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    What if you're traded for prospects before then?
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    This fact is still unbelievable. That three weeks in 2012 was glorious. How it influenced perception for rest of the year was confusing.
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    People also have the weird belief that if a player strikes out a lot, they must never walk. Holds true for some, but nowhere near all.
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    Wait, did I read that right, the expect a lower K% from Javy than from Bryant? I mean, I'd take their projections for both, but that just seems, well, odd.
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    And #4 on the list (not at 10/9 inn) is currently a FA.
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    They taught it in the 70's too. My LL coach was the dad of a friend, he'd played in the Indians system in the 60's, as a catcher. He spent considerable time working with the catchers on how not to stab at the ball, not to "throw" your mitt at the ball but make smooth movements to it, how to try to always catch it with the fingers up and how, if you had to move your glove, to try to move it from out of the strike zone into the strike zone not the other way around. Now, those may not all be considered right or wrong now, but it's not like pitch framing is a new thing. They thought it helped 40-50 years ago. Now, is it's value overblown? Likely, but it's not nothing. I'd consider it more of a tie breaker between two otherwise similar players than something to put at the forefront of rating a catcher. If Castillo and Ross were otherwise similar but Ross was a better framer, and their cost was similar, I'd take Ross. But there's no way I'd buy into a multiple win advantage for Ross just on framing.
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    I was in high school in '84 and wanted to take a bat to Steve Garvey. I wanted to do the same in '89 to Will Clark. Both a couple of arrogant assholes. BTW, in '89 I was married and stationed in Fulda, Germany.
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    Who the [expletive] is Matt Abbatacola? Shouldnt Joel Sherman or one of the other NY guys be all over this? Matt Abbatacola has been the Executive Producer of “The Boers and Bernstein Show” since 2003. He joined the station as a production intern in 2001. Prior to joining “Boers and Bernstein,” Abbatacola served as the Associate Producer and board operator of 670 The Score’s morning show. Given that the last time I heard the Score it was on AM 820, that would explain why I have no clue who Matt Abbatacola is.
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    Who the [expletive] is Matt Abbatacola? Shouldnt Joel Sherman or one of the other NY guys be all over this? Yeah, I have no [expletive] idea. Just thought it was funny given the discussion over the bloggers the last couple of pages. It was actually a RT from Brett.
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