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  1. jersey cubs fan
    if you're referring to me, that's not what I was saying. I was only pointing out they had similar numbers in their final years of college. What about their first years?
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Actually, this series is part of that 10-game road trip. After this series they will have 7 games on the road.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Leon is getting larger
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Reyes looking silly in the field. ARod just choked St. Jeter across the plate. Dirk Giambi at the plate.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Only Lee and Ramirez have played more innings than Theriot at their respective positions. He's on pace to blow by last year's totals when everybody said he tired down the stretch. He needs to rest sometime. You can't expect him to keep up this current pace.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    So did he injure his teeth?
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Day-night cross borough double header, the Yankees just tied up the Mets in the early game, 1-1 in the first.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Dave Duncan has routinely turned mediocre guys into solid pitchers. I highly doubt it's luck.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    He never had one before coming to the Cubs. His improvement was drastic and the decline equally so. It probably makes sense.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    So you think they should get 2 starters? I don't see how that is possible. Hopefully they can get one good starter. But the rest of the arms that will become available will probably not be any better than their own guys, and since pitching is already overvalued, you'll just have to pay even more using lord-knows-what as bait for two arms. I think people put a bit too much emphasis on trade deadline acquisitions. Every year we hear about the guy who is going to put some contender over the top, but it rarely works out that way.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Maybe to fans, but I doubt to anybody that matters. It could indicate his value and status is a little higher than people may have thought before.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    If teams think about this stuff....maybe they don't care...I dunno... I would hope they wouldn't care. That sort of superfluous concern doesn't really help the team at all.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    The notion that bosses/managers/gms can't yell at a player/employee in front of others is laughable. Chacon sounds like Ryan Leaf going off on that reported. It's unprofessional, bad for morale, and can create the appearance of a hostile workplace. If you want to get the most out of your employees and get them to respect management, having a profanity-laced tirade in front of them isn't the best way to go. There are more professional ways of dealing with insubordination. I understand that the manager/boss is limited in his/her options if the employee flat-out refuses to meet in private to discuss the matter. However, in many companies, you can get HR involved, or (in a worst case scenario) have security help the employee box up their stuff and escort them off the premises. Obviously, that doesn't necessarily apply to sports, but that doesn't mean the only option is to yell and scream in front of people. If Chacon wanted to talk right there in front of everyone, he could have said what needed to be said in a professional but direct manner (maybe he did and Chacon is lying...I don't know). I'm not saying you need to handle people with kid gloves, but when you are managing people, you need to act in a professional manner. You're right, he should have gone to HR to fix things.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I guess with the DH, we can afford to be down a reliever, but the way a lot of them have been throwing lately, I dont know. Basically, Lou will be forced to go with Cotts as a loogy, and we might need to see more Wuertz than we'd like. I trust Demp for the most part, but I hope Gallagher and Marshall can step up. Having a DH means you can get by easier with one less bat on the bench, not with one less reliever in the pen. You're facing more hitters and less pitchers, so more relievers is better. You don't have any double switches due to pitching changes, so the bench doesn't get chewed as quickly. Not having Eyre for the Sox series is not good if we don't get another pitcher up. If you can get more innings out of your pitcher it can, as you dont have to worry about double switches or batting for the pitcher in general. The DH doesn't mean you can get more innings out of your starter. If anything, the guy would likely leave sooner, as he'd face a DH 3 times instead of a pitcher.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    No joke, I would much rather be active early rather than later. I don't want to wait till the last hour of the deadline like we did with Nomar. My guess is that the Indians will want CC representing them at the ASG, so I'm guessing it won't happen till after that if it happens. Or, trade him now, and MLB will be forced to use one of your other players that will actually be a part of your future on the AS roster.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Why is it wrong to yell at an obscenely insubordinate employee? In front of everyone to the point where that person physically assaults you? There was nothing wrong with confronting him...but Wade crossed a line here too. There are disciplinary measures that can be taken for insubordination. What did he think yelling would accomplish? This sounds like something you'd say to a 4th grader. The guy is a well compensated employee who refused to follow instructions from his bosses. He didn't accidentally put the wrong paper in the copy machine. I'm just going to say it sounds like a poor management style. It obviously backfired on Wade, and now the players probably have even less respect for him than they did. The notion that bosses/managers/gms can't yell at a player/employee in front of others is laughable. Chacon sounds like Ryan Leaf going off on that reported.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    "Par for the year." That's fantastic. Why was he in bed with his son anyway?
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I heart Flaherty
  19. jersey cubs fan
    He is now. He wasn't 24 hours ago. Over his last 100 innings he is, over his last 300 he's not, over his last 500 he is, over his last 750 he's not. Seems to me like he's an average pitcher oscillating around the average. Seems to me he's obviously not consistently above average.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    WHIP is such a bad stat. It's the batting-average of pitchers. His FIP going into today was 4.50, almost dead even with his ERA. No BABIP luck or anything like that in there. Is it really? I'm sway-able on this. 1.5 just seems exceedingly high to have such an average ERA. He's 3/4 of a runs over the NL league average ERA.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I wouldn't be so sure about that. What's clear is he can't go 30 starts without a boatload of complete pant crappers. We don't know when those will happen, but history may indicate they are more likely to occur the later in the season we go. As a starter, when he does blow up, it screws up a lot of things because you almost feel obligated to let him go 3-4 and give up 6-8 runs just because he was the starter, even when you know he's toast. That screws up that game, plus forced you to hit the pen early, which can screw up future games. We have no idea if he'd be able to cut back on the suckiness and be a bit more effective out of the pen, clearly that has happened before. Plus, when he does suck, you pull him right then and there. He'd also be available for spot starter duties, and long man situations.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Marquis ERA+ 2005 102 2006 74 2007 101 2008 101 (not including todays game, which will surely push that below 100) I'd call that at or below league average. Calling that "consistently better than league average" is pretty misleading. First, as has been mentioned, relievers consistently post better ERAs than starters. The league average for a starter is around 95. Second, nice arbitrary endpoint that leaves out his best season. He's about 50/50 right now to make this season his fourth in the last five seasons of above-average starterness. The mindless Marquis hate is just that, mindless. He's our worst starting pitcher, give or take a Gallagher, but that doesn't mean he's horrible. That's a very stupid thing to say. There are clear reasons to hate Jason Marquis. Crystal freaking clear.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    And yet he was still too much of a liability to keep in the playoff rotation, because he so often disappoints, as he did throughout the second half. Part of being consistently above average is not being consistently horrible over large stretches of multiple seasons.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Marquis ERA+ 2005 102 2006 74 2007 101 2008 101 (not including todays game, which will surely push that below 100) I'd call that at or below league average. Calling that "consistently better than league average" is pretty misleading. Correct me if I'm wrong (as I'm sure many will), but by definition, I think 100 is league average. So while it may not be a great deal better, 3/4 years is "consistently better than league average." Now, he'll probably drop below 100 after today and I want him off the team as much as anyone, but his post wasn't really misleading. So that's 2/4 and clearly not consistent. Why don't we look at this career: 92 128 82 77 115 102 74 101 and soon to be below 100 in all likelihood. Clearly not a consistently above average pitcher by any stretch of the imagination. Making fun of people for disliking what Marquis brings to the table is a foolish practice.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Marquis ERA+ 2005 102 2006 74 2007 101 2008 101 (not including todays game, which will surely push that below 100) I'd call that at or below league average. Calling that "consistently better than league average" is pretty misleading. Starting pitcher average is more like 90-95, not 100. But he's probably going to be worse than that this year after today's outing. He'll be close enough though that 1 good outing will push him back to average. His ERA will have to continue to go up to get pulled though. Except that average includes a significant amount of starts and innings thrown by guys who aren't regulars in a rotation bringing down the cruve, and making the concept of an average pitcher rather meaningless. Marquis is a guy who goes out into a rotation year after year and disappoints.
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