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No, it's pretty much all offense. You are going to have games where you allow a few too many runs to score. But if you are 5th in the league in ERA (and R allowed), and 10th in runs scored with a 90 team OPS+, and you are a couple games over .500, that's the offense's fault, plain and simple, no argument.
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2009 Chicago Bears Preseason Thread - A new era begins
jersey cubs fan replied to David's topic in Other Sports
He's country-douche. That article was like a 16-layer douchebag cake. He's got game. -
Hill has an OPS over 1000 the past 4 weeks, Soto is below 500 for the same time period, what's the big deal?
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As long as Soto is going to still play, I really don't think this decision means anything. So what if Hill gets more time this year? I think if anything it's a way of motivating Soto to work harder. He'll be back as the starter next year, assuming he works.
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No it doesn't. Maybe a little, but definitely not a lot. And really, I would say none. They are a top 5 run prevention team. Lou is absolutely right, the problem is the lack of runs scored. It's all on the offense.
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2009 Chicago Bears Preseason Thread - A new era begins
jersey cubs fan replied to David's topic in Other Sports
He's got them winning 11. I think I've settled on thinking they are a 10 win team. The offense will be much improved, I think the defense will be similar. The secondary will lose a couple games on their own, and the offense will have a tough time for a few games. If you look at the schedule and assume a loss in all away games versus teams King picks to win 9 or more (GB, SEA, MIN, ATL, BAL) and the home game against PIT, that's your 6 losses in a 10 win season. I doubt that's how it happens. And all you need to do is think they win onoe of the first 3 and you can realistically see 11 wins without any of the wins being upsets. -
Is your source Peter King? No.
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I think Hendry is here to stay for at least another year. If I had to bet I'd say he's here through at least April 2010. I could see them making a change midseason, but I would be somewhat surprised if they did it before then.
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I don't think there's going to be a new GM, not this offseason. I felt the new owner was going to come in and give the current regime a year, give or take a few months depending on when he actually bought the team. Of course I thought that was going to be a long time ago, but that's another story.
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Training camp is 11 days away, first preseason game is 17 days away and opening night is one month from today. The Hawks have stepped up their marketing efforts, sending Toews to Wrigley yesterday. And I have it on good authority that SI was intown interviewing Toews and other Hawks personel, and they are going to pick Chicago to win the Stanley Cup in the NHL preview issue. As disappointing as this baseball season has been, it's nice to have legit hope for both the Bears and Blackhawks, the only other two pro sports teams I really give a crap about.
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I read that there was an issue, but didn't realize they had taken it off the air already. I have to side with Directv as well. Versus sucks. It's completely worthless 99% of the time. And since I decided to get the center ice package last year, and will go with it again this year, I have no need for it.
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2009 Chicago Bears Preseason Thread - A new era begins
jersey cubs fan replied to David's topic in Other Sports
He's country-douche. -
I think the WBC can hurt a pitcher, but I don't see how it could cause a catcher to hit poorly. You dont think sitting on the bench for Puerto Rico and not getting hardly any at bats wouldnt have any correlation to Soto starting out as slow as he did? He had a horrible April, and then put up a much better May, and a fantastic June and had an 842 OPS in July(18 at bats) when he got hurt. Seems pretty obvious to me that April was pretty much Soto's spring training getting 46 at bats, and then he got better each month. He's been as bad in August as he was in April. And he had about the same amount of spring training playing time as he did in 2008. Hes actually 100 points higher in OPS in August than he was in April, and he was coming off an injury that he was out for over a month from. I have a hard time believing he had near the same amount of at bats in spring training 08 that he did in this years spring training/WBC. He played in 12 games instead of 11 and had a few more ABs last year, according to the espn spring data. Regardless, he had a chance to train and prepare. No, he didn't play in many games, but there weren't that many games to play in. It was a handful. I just don't see how the WBC can be blamed for this. I could see how his personal preperation could be blamed.
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It's not a Tumor!!!
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I think the WBC can hurt a pitcher, but I don't see how it could cause a catcher to hit poorly. You dont think sitting on the bench for Puerto Rico and not getting hardly any at bats wouldnt have any correlation to Soto starting out as slow as he did? He had a horrible April, and then put up a much better May, and a fantastic June and had an 842 OPS in July(18 at bats) when he got hurt. Seems pretty obvious to me that April was pretty much Soto's spring training getting 46 at bats, and then he got better each month. He's been as bad in August as he was in April. And he had about the same amount of spring training playing time as he did in 2008.
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I think the WBC can hurt a pitcher, but I don't see how it could cause a catcher to hit poorly.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-31-2009
jersey cubs fan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Wow, that is an impressive line he's put up this year, the post ASG is (.323/.442/.535) amazing. -
The Cubs traded away a player with two seasons of above average production at 2B in order to let a guy who had 500 PAs of above average production take over. Obviously Fontenot tanked. Now you're asking to trade away with a half a decade worth of above average production to let a guy with 200 PAs of above average production take over. They're similar situations, though I'm not sure both moves aren't and weren't favorable propositions for the Cubs. Wait, so you are comparing DeRosa and Soriano as well as Fontenot and Fox in this discussion? And you are implying it would be a mistake to trade away Soriano? Or am I reading something wrong?
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The Cubs saved $2.5m in the DeRosa to Miles shift, that did not make or break the Bradley acquisition. 3.3 million actually (5.5 for DeRosa, 2.2 for Miles) and depending on how you charge the signing bonus for Bradley, that could be as little as 1/3 of his contract for this year or more than 1/2 of his contract. But I tend to agree with you that getting more money for the Bradley deal was a concern but not a significant one. However, I don't agree at all that they signed Miles to get more left-handed. They signed Miles to replace the versatility of DeRosa and as a platoon partner for Fontenot. The fact that he switch hits was a distant third in the reasons for signing him. In fact, if Miles batted only from the left side, the Cubs probably wouldn't have signed him. You can not agree if you choose, but you'd be wrong. It's so freaking obvious, I don't understand the need to try and pretend it's not what happened. Bradley replaced Edmonds. Miles replaced DeRosa. The goal was to get more left handed and only one of those things got the team more left handed.
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That's not even close to true. It's absolutely the truth and it still cracks me up that people deny this fact. Or they were trying to save money since there was speculation throughout that stretch that they were able to add Peavy if they could afford him. With the ownership situation what it was, every little bit counts. And beyond that, the idea that because Hendry misidentified DeRosa's replacement has any bearing on how good an idea it was to trade DeRosa is silly. Hendry got quite a good return for DeRosa, especially with the benefit of seeing how they've all performed this year. He sacrificed a great deal of 2009 production for bullpen prospects.
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he's not allowed to play catch with his daughter? He was caught playing a pickup game which was reported days ago. Since he was caught, he is now saying he was just playing catch with his daughter. Again, the Dusty excuse. Hide behind the kids. So lame. "Reported" by some random caller on a sports talk show. That makes it 100% true. Wrong. Z admitted to playing softball. Why is this so hard to follow? :banghead: And for those laughing at waterparks, I present: http://www.rideaccidents.com/ Still want your $90 million supposed ace and leader farting around these places? I love waterparks, if I was a starting pitcher I'd absolutely take the chance between starts to head to one of those.
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Do what? Something stupid? Not like the Dodgers gave up anything of value, but there'd be no point to this. Nevermind that Thome supposedly only wanted to go to a team that had a sure chance of playoffs. I read that as having the stones to drop worthless vets down the stretch. Yeah...that makes a lot more sense. Really Heilman's my only complaint, unless there was actually a taker for Dempster or Gregg, which I doubt at this point of the year. Yeah, and I can see the justification for holding onto Heilman if the other team was literally offering nothing and you just wanted to save face in negotiations by showing you were willing from walking away from the table. Personally I'd have let him go for nothing, as he's fairly worthless, but he's not such a anchor that you'd have to jump at the first chance of dumping him.
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No, the radio. Yes, when I first saw Soto this spring I thought he looked like considerably fatter than last year. This was long before his slump may have caused any retroactive concern about his weight.
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The way he was looking at his finger (and how nobody on the Denver bench seemed to care that their starting QB was staring at his bloody bent finger) suggested it was more than just a simple cut. He looked horrified.
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Favre looked exactly like I expected him to look in his first significant preseason action. He's going to look good at times early, but he will implode.
