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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I don't understand how people can defend the idiocy that is that type of WWE style celebration and then try and discern when it is and is not appropriate.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I hate idiots that say this crap. No, people don't suggest your arm will fall off if you throw 100. It's not even close to that. You can't have conversations with these people.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Howry threws strikes. Easily hittable strikes, but strikes nonetheless. Heilman walks everybody, yet Lou hasn't lost confidence in him for some reason.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Heilman's the type of arm you throw out there in the 5th last night when Dempster clearly didn't have it. And you hope to get 2-3 innings out of him without giving up a ton of runs.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    How much money or alcohol could it take to get a Mobilean?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Cover your ass? He does kind of suck, but he's probably a step above a Grade A bum.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    He made it about as clear as he could make it that Rickets was going to be the owner pretty soon without coming out and saying it. And no businessman of that ilk is going to come out and say a deal is done until the deal is truly 100% done.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    You seriously think the guy is going to have back surgery in order to miss training camp? .... Maybe he didn't even have surgery and he had his doctor just right him a note. Or maybe he delayed the surgery until the end of July knowing that it would allow him to miss training camp.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Sac bunting can occasionally result in a hit, whether you are trying or not. Point is, a successful sacrifice bunt slightly lowers the team's chance of winning. The chance that the bunt will be mishandled by the defense negates some of that. How do they determine if the guy was trying to sac bunt or for a hit?
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I seem to recall someone (BP?) doing a study that shows when you take into all of that plus fielding errors, sac bunts move closer to a positive proposition. Wait, when you include all the bad things that can happen when you sac bunt it becomes closer to a positive proposition? Fielding errors (and bunts for hits) are a positive proposition for the offense. They not only outweigh the force outs and failed bunts, they actually push the attempt closer to breakeven (not that it was ever that far off, it was always pretty close). Bunting for a hit is an entirely different proposition.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I just hope to God this is it and we're done with it now. As I've said all along I think there's a higher upside with Favre in the playoffs than the current stable but also a lower floor. If Favre was trying to play through injury and was bad, they wouldn't have the balls to bench him and he would lose games by himself. The QB spot should still be better than last year and in the regular season I think the options are safer. I just don't trust them to do anything in the playoffs. At least now I don't have to go through with forcing myself to like a guy I detested for a decade and a half. Wait until training camp is over before you are so sure. Sure about Favre not coming back or sure about our QB situation? I meant the former, the latter won't need nearly as much time to think about.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    why? you want ryan howard practicing bunts on the one in a million chance he's going to be asked to do it? just because you could bunt in high school against a guy throwing 68 mph doesn't mean every major leaguer is going to be able to do it against a major league pitcher. I get your point and all, but come on....Mike Fontenot is not, and never will be, Ryan Howard. Exactly. Obviously I don't ever expect a guy like Ryan Howard, Aramis, Fielder, etc to be asked to bunt, but a guy like Fontenot HAS to be able to bunt. There's no excuse for him not possessing that skill. Just like any fast player should know how to properly steal a base. And so on. Should, and does are different things. If he doesn't have the skill (and there is no evidence that he does) then just because you think he should doesn't justify asking him to do it.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    I just hope to God this is it and we're done with it now. As I've said all along I think there's a higher upside with Favre in the playoffs than the current stable but also a lower floor. If Favre was trying to play through injury and was bad, they wouldn't have the balls to bench him and he would lose games by himself. The QB spot should still be better than last year and in the regular season I think the options are safer. I just don't trust them to do anything in the playoffs. At least now I don't have to go through with forcing myself to like a guy I detested for a decade and a half. Wait until training camp is over before you are so sure.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I seem to recall someone (BP?) doing a study that shows when you take into all of that plus fielding errors, sac bunts move closer to a positive proposition. Wait, when you include all the bad things that can happen when you sac bunt it becomes closer to a positive proposition?
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, ESPN never airs any other sports, and it's impossible to figure out how to air more than one television program in the same month.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    why? you want ryan howard practicing bunts on the one in a million chance he's going to be asked to do it? just because you could bunt in high school against a guy throwing 68 mph doesn't mean every major leaguer is going to be able to do it against a major league pitcher. I get your point and all, but come on....Mike Fontenot is not, and never will be, Ryan Howard. Nor is he somebody with a history of bunting. He has zero this year, and just 4 as a major leaguer. He's a let it all hang out hitter, even if he doesn't hit for Howard power. Just because people think that he should have been able to get it down doesn't mean it's a good idea to expect him to get it down, not as lefty, with the bases loaded, facing a wild pitcher and limited bunting history. If a guy can't do something and you ask him to and he fails, then yes, he failed, but you're an idiot for asking him to do something he probably isn't good at doing.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Zell on CNBC mostly talking real estate, mentions he expects Cubs sale to be done very soon (or maybe it was fairly soon). ""It's safe to say Mr. Ricketts is probably leading player in that arena."
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I wassn't saying it's factored into his decision, but it is factored into how people view it. If it's a success, the manager is brilliant, if it's fails, the player didn't execute. Managers feel the need to make things happen, part of that, I believe comes from the culture of celebrating those who make things happen as brilliant strategists. Ozzie Guillen stills get credit for Ozzie ball in 2005 even though his team led the league in homers and had ridiculously good starting pitching, something Ozzie had nothing to do with. But that season is for some reason painted as a season when Ozzie made all the rights moves.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    No, you're wrong. He had to make contact and put the ball in a place where they couldn't get an easy out at home. He had to hit it fair, or else he's suddenly down in the count. And on top of all this, you had to have a pitcher with control issues pitch a buntable ball. As it turns out they were lucky to get the pitch they did, it's not even certain putting the ball in play helps. A DP is very possible at that point, let alone the force out.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    You know I thought so as well, but it seemed like Lou made up his mind to put the squeeze on before Fontenot's AB. If that was the case, you want to bring a good bunter to the plate, hence Fontenot instead of Fox. Sure, he could have used Blanco but that would have just been too obvious he was going for the squeeze. Fontenot had a perfect pitch to bunt and he just missed it. He deserves more of the blame than Lou. Why? It's always easier to call for something like that than execute it. If it succeeds I guarantee Lou gets most of the credit for being brilliant. It was still bases loaded with a guy who isn't a huge bunter (0 sac bunts this year, just 4 in his major league career) and a pitcher who was throwing the ball all over the place.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Elaborate why? Are pitchers adjusting to him? Is he wearing down? He can't hit lefties at all, and he's just not that good. His minor league numbers suggested he might be a good role player, as did his first exposure to the big leagues. He peaked at just about the ideal peak age, 28, with an ideal role. He wasn't part of a platoon at 2nd base that saw him facing every righty, he still got significantly less than half a season's worth of PA. And by most accounts he was put out there in favorable matchups. He's already surpassed last year's total PA. It's probably safe to say his numbers last year were a fluke, and it might be safe to say this year's are lower than you would expect, except that all previous evidence of him in the majors was as a role player. He's always been prone to the strikeout and his "sneaky power" is more of a doubles thing than significant HR power. He had some good AAA numbers, but that wasn't until he was repeating the level and in his mid 20's. His total major league numbers are just slightly below his total minor league numbers (and that's with 4 seperate seasons in AAA to inflate them).
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Actually, it was really smart... just badly executed. Bases loaded. The guy doesn't have much control, they aren't exactly having trouble getting base runners, a lefty is at the plate, and considering the fact that he couldn't square around early and put it where he wanted, the chances of either missing it entirely or hitting it right to somebody were greater. It was unnecessarily risky. Managers love the praise that comes with calling a "brilliant play" and the vast majority of the blame when it fails goes on the players for failing to execute.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Que? So far he's had 3 starts. They go as follows: 5 innings pitched - 1 ER - Credited with a LOSS 5 innings pitched - 2 ER - Credited with a WIN 6 innings pitched - 1 ER - Credited with a WIN Granted - as others have alluded to he has walked quite a few guys (11 over the 3 games, which isn't bad, except he had five in each of the first two games). However, he hasn't allowed a home run yet as a starter and he's been able to pitch out of most of the jams he's gotten himself into. Like I said before, he hasn't been stellar - but to say he's been terrible is quite an overstatement, IMO. Why are you only looking at IP/ER (ERA) and not the stats that actually show how effective he's been? 5 IP- 9 baserunners, 5 BB, 3 K 5 IP- 10 baserunners, 5 BB, 1 K 6 IP- His good start Like I said, he's had one good start. In his other 2 starts he was terrible, he just didn't give up many runs because a ton of guys were left on base. That's luck. As a reliever, he was even worse. On the season he has a 1.52 WHIP On the season he has 16 BB and only 9 K's (wow) Outside of that one start, he has been terrible. Edit: BTW, in what world is 11 walks in 16 innings "not bad"? That was my question. 11 walks in 3 games isn't bad if you are talking about 7-8 inning starts each game, not 16 total innings.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I pretty much said the same thing when I saw that series of events.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    That's because some of these team's obsession with left handedness is ridiculous. If you saw Jim Hendry dump DeRosa, and add Miles in an effort to get more left handed, and heard Lou Piniella freaking out about the need to keep Sean Marshall in the bullpen, you'd probably try and get as much as possible for your run-of-the-mill lefty.
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