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  1. jersey cubs fan
    It is a very strange situation. They talk about Tampa similarly to the way somebody would talk about Washington when referring to anything to do with the US government. And you hear more about the Tampa team, in high A than you do any of their other affiliates. You rarely heard anything about Columbus, and never hear anything about Scranton now (their former and current AAA teams).
  2. jersey cubs fan
    His ERA went from terrible to awful with those starts. There's no point in taking them out.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I'm failing to see what the issue is with this article.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Backup beat writer to boot.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Depth isn't really an issue with me. The 13-15 best players on the team are really the ones that make all the difference.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I caught that too. Since when is a 2.82 ERA merely decent? Since it was printed in an SI article. You're talking about a publication whose writers still generally refer to pitchers' records as the end all be all in defining who is good and bad. Exactly. SI holds less credibility with me than ESPN, and that's saying alot. SI is the stodgy old school the only things that matter happened in the 1960's entity, while ESPN is the showy new school all style no substance, give me the next highlight and yell really loud behemoth.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    *raises hand* me 2 Not sure which broadcast I'll see, but MLB Extra Innings is awesome Do you get that with your regular tv provider, or did you buy that channel separately? My local package is for middle Tennessee news networks. With the MLBEI package I get the games, but can't guarantee which broadcast I'll get. For example, I may get 2 games of a series from different broadcast teams. I'm almost positive you'll see the Pittsburgh crew. WCIU games don't typically pop up on the EI.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Their schedule has looked a lot like the Cubs' so far, and it's going to be similar to the Cubs in the near future.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    That's the key. I think some people were happy with a .500 type team based on the Cardinals success with an 83 win team last year. There was never a guarantee that 83, or even 85 would win this division, and there still isn't. Likewise, there's no guarantee the wild card will come out of the east or west.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    We lucked out there. Since the Pirates don't televise all their games sometimes a Cubs/Pirates game doesn't even make the Extra Innings lineup. Tonight it's on 741.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I caught that too. Since when is a 2.82 ERA merely decent? Since it was printed in an SI article. You're talking about a publication whose writers still generally refer to pitchers' records as the end all be all in defining who is good and bad.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    It is hard to tell, but I have to assume the Braves will be in it, and at least flirt with the 90 win plateau. And you'll probably see an NL West team stay in the race as well.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    you better run while you have the chance, as the pro-murton freaks are sharpening their pitchforks and lighting their torches I would just say that Murton has shown enough to be every bit the everyday player Jones is, and probably better. There's really no justification for your claim, other than the fact that Lou isn't using him as an everyday player. Unfortunately that's the type of tag that can stick on a guy for his career.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    i don't understand why it's a big deal if the cubs have three lefties in the rotation. teams have 4-5 righties in the rotation all the time and no one says anything about it. There are more right-handed hitters in most (all?) lineups than there are left-handed hitters. The NL hit .265/.340/.426 against LHP last year, and .264/.332/.428 against RHP. What matters is who is the better pitcher, not if you have too many LH, or not enough.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Troubled? Of course. Surprised? Not at all. This is the type of hitters these guys are. Ramirez is talented enough to be productive despite a questionable approach. My impression of Barrett is that whenever it's anybody but early in the game without men on base, he goes up there hacking. His isolated patience goes down with men on base, while guys like Lee and Ramirez, and in fact, the league in general, sees their isolated patience go up with men on base. I'm not saying he's a choker, but rather that he epitomizes the "it's called hitting not walking" mentality that Hendry espouses, especially when runners are on base. It's stuff like this that makes the Cubs such an incredibly easy lineup to go through sometimes and contributes to the feast of famine situation. Sure, they have the talent to pour it on when they are rolling. But if a pitcher is in the slightest bit of the a groove, the Cubs go down in no time at all. It's annoying as hell, but apparantly not anything the GM cares about.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Huh? I remember the day the world came to an end. I saw all this violently bitter hatred directed at Jim Hendry and I'm like, "Whoa, he musta got caught raping a baby or something." But no, he just had the audacity to sign Jacque Jones. Some people are genuinely astonished when he plays well. It's hilarious. Jacque Jones was exactly the type of player this team didn't need and exactly the type of player Jim Hendry would sign and try to pass off as a great addition. This team was desperate for OF production, and had been for a while. They were also desperate for OBP help, and the Cubs went out and got an impatient unproductive OF bat. He's not a blackhole type hitter, and occasionally does well, but he's not what this team needed if they wanted to start contending for championships. To top it off he started his Cubs career terribly, threw like somebody who picked up a baseball for the first time and got picked off the bases repeatedly, with no repercusion because of his veteran status. Frankly I don't understand why people don't understand the argument against Jacque. If this was a 95 win team he'd be a wonderful space filler. Unfortunately the 2006 Cubs desperately needed some big time production, and just like he always has, Jim Hendry got the wrong man for the job.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Guys have slipped through such cracks in the past before going on to contribute to a major league roster. This isn't a perfect market.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Starters in the bullpen should never be considered an ace in the hole. It's an awful idea and a clear last resort that shouldn't need to be used until at least the 15th or 16th inning of a very long game.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    "Maybe a few years ago, I would have thought, this isn't supposed to be happening," said Hill. "But now, with a positive mindset and a positive thought process, you have to think that, this is the way it should be happening." If they did anything, it sounds like Hill used these books to get a little more positive attitude and to expect success. I don't see how that is something that would benefit Zambrano. He's got all the confidence in the world. His problem is consistency, which may or may not be related to health.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Because the locals papers said that when the weather warms and off-days start to disappear, he's going to have to start giving guys like Lee a day off here and there, which would mean Ward plays. It's just ESPN taking local news, twisting the headline and trying to make it look like their own. I believe the quote was: ''I have to get him in there once in a while,'' Piniella said. To me that's just a manager talking about a guy who hasn't been playing much in the midst of all sorts of questions about playing time for outfielders.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    He'll be 2 months late when he actually does anything.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Of course not. But that wasn't the point. The point is that there's still 4/5ths of a season to go, and so it's rather illogical to declare one team definitively better than the other based on current records. The Brewers have been better to date, of course. The rest is yet to be deterimined. Yet to be determined, but not subject to some random selection process. The Brewers have a huge advantage. They started the season as the favorite according to many, and at the very least along the same lines as the Cubs. They'd have to fall back to a .527 pace (85 win season) to only finish with 90 wins, and .489 (79 wins) to win only 85. Comparisons to last year's Reds are pointless and completely invalid. This is a deep, quality team that is winning everything they should win and not giving away anything. The Cubs may be just as deep and talented, but their losses are in the bank and they can't get them back.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    It's not just you. I feel he goes through the bench/bullpen far too early and quickly. I think it's probably related to the fact that he's been an AL guy for most of his career, and hasn't managed an NL game in 15 years.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    You're acting as if that was a standing agreement the Cubs always had to be in-line with. They didn't have to come to that agreement. And they could have done a better job scouting him, to find out themselves that Hamilton was ready to turn things around. Knowing how early their pick was, they could have done so on their own. Why would the Cubs be scouting an OF in the Rule 5? Edit: And when Hamilton puts up 2 full years of decent numbers, then I'll call him legit. Because their OF has sucked for many years. Scouting is more than just watching a guy play in games. Scouting can tell you if a guy is signable, if a guy is a douchebag, or if a guy is ready to turn the page on past problems. I don't think it makes any sense to say that a team got extremely lucky to have an extremely talented player play well. If they had good reason to believe the drug issue was under control, there was no reason not to take a chance on the kid.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I assume you are talking about Von Joshua. He is at Iowa.
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