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you know, the casual cub fan may not remember the alex gonzalez error in that inning. myself, however, being probably the best cubs fan ever, knows that was the real reason the cubs lot. now excuse me while i go eat my pregame taco bell (no lettuce).
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i love how pointing out all the other bad stuff that happened in that inning/game/series has become the measuring stick as to how good of a cubs fan you are.
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well, the reason he failed isn't the reason you said he'd fail. i guess that's my point. you seemed to say he didn't have the stuff to succeed and that doesn't appear to be the case.
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7 out of 8 pitches were for strikes, also. I've heard things about Atkins for awhile now, let's just see what he's got. i think his 5,000 minor league innings have shown us what he's got.
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i'm sure bradley would take this platooning very well and not let it effect his play or demeanor at all.
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You don't get credit for an I told you so, as there was nothing to say this was coming. That's kind of a silly attitude, imo. Obviously he thought there was something. was it his 1.19 whip in '07? his nearly k per inning throughout 06-07? him being in the top 10 in the NL in h/9, k/9, k's, whip, etc in 2007? which of those are indicators of a future collapse? This is just my opinion, but for me it was really a lack of a 2nd quality pitch (no one pitch rich jokes please). He had an average fastball combined with a very good curveball. On days he didn't have his curveball there was not another pitch he could go to. He couldn't challenge hitters with his fastball and that led to a lot of nibbling and control problems because he couldn't get hitters out with it on a consistent basis. even if all that is true, why would you think he would lose the ability to throw his curveball? sure, he may not have it from start to start, but he obviously survived pretty well for 50 starts, and i'm assuming some days he didn't have it. people didn't like hill before his great 2007, and then continued to be skeptical about him based solely on the fact that they didn't like him pre-2006 or whatever.
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None of them. But it's a bit of a circlejerk to insist that stats are the only possible projection tool, and that anytime the stats are wrong it must be a fluke and there was no way anybody could have predicted it, and that anybody who did predict it wasn't really right. i don't think that's a circle jerk at all (whatever that means). just because people were right about him collapsing doesn't mean they were right for the correct reasons. he was a well above average pitcher for two seasons and nearly 50 starts, heading into his age 28 season. people who predicted his failure were taking stabs in the dark and got lucky.
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You don't get credit for an I told you so, as there was nothing to say this was coming. That's kind of a silly attitude, imo. Obviously he thought there was something. was it his 1.19 whip in '07? his nearly k per inning throughout 06-07? him being in the top 10 in the NL in h/9, k/9, k's, whip, etc in 2007? which of those are indicators of a future collapse?
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abuck told me that this is all Larry Rothschild's fault and that Hill would be straightened out as soon as he escaped Larry's evil spell. OH SNAP.
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enough about this stupid dropped third strike. it popped out of his glove for one second and he threw the guy out. stop making it sound like he kicked it around like benny hill and then threw it into the left field bleachers or something.
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Re: Who is the most underrated player this year?
abuck1220 replied to javy knows my name's topic in General Baseball Talk
you stop thinking impure thoughts about iowa's lil' sweetheart RIGHT NOW. -
this is your dream come true.
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the timing of that trade worked out pretty well for me.
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yeah, he sucks. i'm not arguing that. he should have been able to get the bunt down. but him not being able to do it really isn't any worse than lou asking him to do it when he must not be very good at it.
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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.
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i hate this argument. you know, the one that assumes getting down a squeeze bunt is just as easy as putting the bat out there and viola the run scores. Not at all...but it should be pretty reasonable to ask for some contact... why? i'm sure it's not easy to get down a bunt when 1) you don't bunt very often 2) the opposing pitcher is jose valverde who is wild, throws hard and has tons of movement on his pitches and 3) it's a suicide squeeze in the 9th inning of a 1-1 game. i say fontenot gets the job done with that bunt maybe 50% of the time.
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Soriano=Back in Business and AINT IT GRAND!!
abuck1220 replied to CubsnClippers_1's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
a buddy told me that soriano should have shortened up and hit a fly ball and pretty much implied he was a bum for hitting a grand slam. -
another important component of the argument is "BIG LEAGUERS SHOULD KNOW HOW TO BUNT."
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i hate this argument. you know, the one that assumes getting down a squeeze bunt is just as easy as putting the bat out there and viola the run scores.
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that makes no sense.
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Soriano=Back in Business and AINT IT GRAND!!
abuck1220 replied to CubsnClippers_1's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
i'd like to see you defend garrett atkins' performance this year. check AND mate. -
Hoffpauirs the one who should be sent down. I know, hes our lefty power that gets ahold of 1 once in a blue moon between awkword looking strikeouts, but he has options and other than being lefty, he serves the same purpose as Fox, maybe a bit better defensively but a lot worse offensively. The problem is, who is this mythical replacement catcher who can hit? I guess we could bring up Robinson and hope for lightening in a bottle until Soto returns, but his AAA numbers dont look like theyd traslate into big league succes. I guess we could just trade for Greg Zaun or something of the like. dude, i don't mean to be a jerk, but didn't you want Hoffpauir starting over Derrek Lee like six weeks ago?. Yeah, that change of heart is hilarious. If your refering to May when Lee was hitting in the high .100s/low .200s and everyone and there mother was shouting Free Micah Hoffpauir, then yeah, guilty as charged. Bsides, you cant deny that none of us thought that wed ever see this side of D Lee again. doesn't mean i wanted 36 year old career minor leaguer micah hoffpauir to take his place.
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Soriano=Back in Business and AINT IT GRAND!!
abuck1220 replied to CubsnClippers_1's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
other than hitting the game-winning extra-inning grand slam, he didn't have a good game. -
I don't either. But I don't get all the hand wringing and apocolyptic forecasts for his defense. Teams regularly have to play guys out of position for a game or two. It happens. Koyie's actually at the 17 consecutive game mark, including 1 DH and the ASB. The heat is starting to play a factor, and I would think just for the sake of keeping him alive for the next week+ until Soto comes back, they would want to give him a day off. also, koyie hill can't hit.
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jake fox is no worse behind the plate than koyie hill is as a batter.