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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I can't wait until Soriano busts out with a 3 HR game. This guy probably wouldn't post for a few weeks. Of course, in Soriano's 4th AB, he could strikeout and CubsGM will run to his computer and post, "OMG SORIANO SUCKS HE HAS NO PATIENTCE LOLZ!" You say this as if he's unfairly criticizing Soriano. He's been awful all season so far. Complaining is more than justified. He basically had 2 bad weeks, was injured for 2 weeks, had a couple bad games, and now is doing decent. He's been hitting the ball hard nearly every AB the past few games. He's not worth 18m, but with his track record, I don't think a couple bad weeks is worth flipping out over (not that you are, but apparently CubsGM is) It's May 7th. His season-to-date numbers are atrocious. His month-to-date numbers are bad. It's hard to justify picking on a guy who complains about those facts.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I didn't know he was on 4 days rest! Dusty never learns. 4 days rest is normal.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Volquez threw 118 pitches with a 9 run lead. Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Count me in as liking Lou a lot when comparing him with some of our previous managers. Who is the manager that left young Volquez in for roughly 120 pitches in a blowout? Edinson Volquez, meet Mark Prior. Here's your towel, learn how to throw it. While Lou can be frustrating to watch during a game, you have to admit, his teams are far more fundamentally sound top to bottom than any team I've ever seen Dusty field. He's maddening at in game management, but he seems pretty good at all of the other stuff. I actually put the in game management well down the list of concerns. Compared to Dusty he's solid. The biggest issue is how he determines who gets jobs, which is apparantly based off first impressions and short-term thinking. The biggest strategy problem I've had was actually pre-game, when he pushed Hill back, making it all the more difficult for him to deal with control issues. That forced their worst pitcher to pitch against Milwaukee, and forced him to go with Lieber against a team perfectly suited to destroy Lieber. His lack of foresight on the Hill move was incredibly disappointing. He doesn't seem too sacrifice happy, although he does make far too many decisions that lead to outs on the basepaths.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I'm actually not too worried about the batting average with Colvin. The ISOP is the most disappointing to me. He's right about .200 for his career in ISOP, and was at .171 last year in AA. He has to get back up in that range and keep the walks progressing to be a legit prospect. If he gets luckier with BABIP, I could see him have a solid .270/.335/.430 type season. Nothing special but probably good enough in a pitcher's league to deserve a promotion to Iowa next year. Everything worries me about Colvin. He's essentially been an older lesser version of Pie and Patterson up to this point.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    ???????????? Lou wanted to double switch early when the game was not out of hand and he needed Marshall to go more than 1 inning. Theriot was the logical option. And Soto is a catcher playing a day game after a night game in a blowout. Lou has done some odd stuff, but this is not something to complain about.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    From an F to a D. You can graduate with a D.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Sweet agent speak Mr. Clifton.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Yes, his explanation for taking out Z last night was enough to temper any calls for his ouster. Until I see a clear-cut improvement I can't see joining the crowd.* *With Dusty, anything was a clear-cut improvement.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I can't wait until Soriano busts out with a 3 HR game. This guy probably wouldn't post for a few weeks. Of course, in Soriano's 4th AB, he could strikeout and CubsGM will run to his computer and post, "OMG SORIANO SUCKS HE HAS NO PATIENTCE LOLZ!" You say this as if he's unfairly criticizing Soriano. He's been awful all season so far. Complaining is more than justified.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Halfway? at least halfway decent I mean Depending on what you mean by right now: Pie in May .333/.385/.417 Fontenot in May .417/.588/.750 Theriot in May .333/.400/.370 Fukudome has been mediocre Ramirez has barely played. Lee has been awful. Johnson and DeRosa have done nothing. It's not exactly the entire team, but it is the most important hitters.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I think every time you post an opinion on something I'll do this to you. You don't understand. Your opinion on whether or not females should be allowed in the lockerroom does not matter in this discussion, because the powers that be, who don't care what you think, have allowed it. Women are allowed there, and that is only one reason why this is a story. Whether men should be able to look at WNBA boobies or women should be able to see guys change is an entirely different topic. There's a lot of people who think the trading floor is no place for a woman, but that doens't change the fact that they are allowed, and if boys will be boys traders wanted to shove their phones up a blow-up dolls vajayjay there would likely be consequences.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Halfway?
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Well, Marshall, who has been a loogy all year average under 10 pitches per outing was perfectly fine through 2, but since the started sucked so bad he was forced to go longer, pushing his pitch count to 4 times his average, and that's when he struggled. Plus, Gallagher isn't a reliever, he's been a starter all year. If guys were in the roles they were supposed to be in, perhaps the bullpen would look better. But when your 4th best starter from 2007 becomes the longman (in name only, in actuallity a loogy), your 2nd best starter is treated like a 19 year old on a tryout, and your most inconsistent veteran starters are given jobs they do not deserve, things are going to be messy.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    That's not what I said at all. It was talked about forever on Cardinals forums. This is a Cubs forum, and I don't care if people here or anywhere want to pick on players for whatever. But lumping in people that used HGH at one point or another with players that used steroids or actual performance enhancers is a pet peeve, like I said. That's all. Carry on, and mentioning Soto was a poor way to make a point. It (hopefully) obviously had nothing to do with him per se. It's a pet peeve because your guy did HGH, what a surprise.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    He replaced Theriot, Cedeno moved to SS.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Fontenot has been swinging a pretty hot stick this season. And the Cubs only have about 2 other bench players.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    THG (the clear) is a designer anabolic steroid that's incredibly potent I believe. If Soto was on the Cardinals people here would've accused him of that already anyway. Because people pick on the Cards player that actually did get busted?
  18. jersey cubs fan
    It's chess man, you don't understand. He needs CHANGES.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Hopefully soon. I know theriot is doing well but I'd still trust Fuku more in the 2hole According to some, the only way that happens is if they find a LH 5th hitter to "protect" Ramirez.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    He'd started all but one game this season at several positions. He's not an everyday player, and he's been struggling for about a week. He needs rest, and the fact that the Cedeno needs to play, it makes perfect sense to give him 3 days off in a row (counting the off day).
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Players? Yes. Coaches? Yes. Trainers? Yes. Staff? Yes. Media? No. The media is not employed by Major League Baseball or it's teams. The media are guests in all clubhouses. IMO, they shouldn't be allowed in. That's what post game press conferences are for. Your opinion on what it should be like doesn't matter. The precedent is longstanding and clear. Media is allowed, as are others guests. This isn't some privately owned fraternal clubhouse.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Your opinion on what it should be really doesn't matter. The major league clubhouse is not for players only, it's for players, coaches, trainers, staff and media.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    I am appreciating more and more the option of DVRing the beginning of the games and then fast-forwarding up to real-time and missing most of the clutter.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    it's not at all. what's terrible logic is assuming that because some other hitters improved a lot, then so can cedeno. in the cases of the players discussed in this thread, they showed in their first full seasons that they had some of the skills - be it patience or the ability to pick a pitch and drive it for doubles/home runs - that are required to become a good major league player. cedeno showed none of the batting attributes needed to become an average or above-average player at the big league level. saying "hey mike schmidt sucked at 23 and he got good!" is a lazy argument. you're comparing apples to oranges. since i'm so wrong, there should be plenty of examples of guys who were God-awful hitters in their first full seasons, but became average or better. i'm surprised that you guys haven't found all these examples to put me in my place once and for all. The examples have been given before. You just insist on ignoring them. That bolded part is so incredibly dumb. The fact that others hitters have improved a lot is exactly the type of logic that makes sense when saying Cedeno can. Not that he definitely will, or obviously will, or will clearly be great. But he can. That's the whole freaking point that you've so blindly ignored.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Brenly has a strange hatred for Felix also. He's bashed him consistently for the last week and a half in the games I have seen. I feel like that's been a trend all year.
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