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3/27: Cubs battle Brewers on WGN - 2:05CDT
abuck1220 replied to Derwood's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
this post reminds me of the people i sat near when i was at ST. people got sooo worked up about hustle and diving and all this other stuff nobody does in ST. the crowds at ST games really care if their team wins...it's weird. -
3/27: Cubs battle Brewers on WGN - 2:05CDT
abuck1220 replied to Derwood's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
comcast has an HD channel on directv, but wgn does not, if i remember correctly. -
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he's a younger, corner outfield version of theriot.
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saw that earlier. i can think of 50 guys within that age group that i'd rather have than melky.
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poor murton is wasting his prime years being the 5th OF/shuttle guy to iowa. is there anyone who truly doubts he could be a starting major league outfielder?
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TCR Gives Update on Minor League Rosters
abuck1220 replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
this may be old news, as i haven't been keeping up with the minors like i used to, but i was somewhat surprised to see fox taking infield at 3b and drew rundle taking infield at 1b last week. also, jose ceda likes to yell really loud and dance a lot. and he's huge. -
technically i was stalking fukudome, wood and dempster before accidentally stumbling upon a stalking of hill.
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i think the cubs are (were?) a bit concerned about hill. he threw in the bullpen for quite a while after his last terrible outing, and they had a guy stand there like he was a hitter, which seems a little strange. also, i was walking to my seat yesterday at hohokam when i walked by an open door to the cubs' weight room. i stood there and watched fukudome, wood and dempster (who did a LOT of stuff considering he was pitching that day) do their exercises for a while, then hill came in and went through his pitching motion a bunch of times while looking in the mirror. ps - he also pulled himself up on the pull up bar and hung by his knees like a monkey for a second, and i really wish i could have gotten my camera out to catch that moment because it would have made a great avatar.
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can't wait til the cubs sign brian roberts.
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3/25 ST: Cubs (Hill) @ Giants (Sanchez)
abuck1220 replied to woodchip2153's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
i wonder how concerned the cubs are about hill. after he came out the other day he went out to the pen and threw for 10 minutes with a guy standing in the batter's box. -
i mean, maybe they got screwed, but they'd lose in the first or second round anyway. that's why i really don't feel too bad for bubble teams that don't get in. which is why two bubble teams should have to play the tuesday play-in game to get in as the 12 seed or something Yeah, they just said that on Mike and Mike. What do you guys think about Bobby Knights idea of having 128 teams? It is just one more game. that would take all the excitement out of the conference tournament week. every big east, acc, big ten team with a winning record would make the tournament.
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i mean, maybe they got screwed, but they'd lose in the first or second round anyway. that's why i really don't feel too bad for bubble teams that don't get in.
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You can move him to the DL right now to avoid dropping players knowing he won't be on the DL. This way you could have a legal roster, and avoid making cuts. well, i'm assuming he would have to be injured and not playing in spring games to be put on the DL. you can't just randomly put some dude on the DL. are there non-injured players on teams' DLs?
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where's the gray area? if a guy on your DL doesn't start the season on the DL, you lose him.
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i thought they could still be on the DL (if they're hurt and not playing and likely to be on the DL), but if they end up not starting the season on the DL, they had to be dropped.
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they have to win some of those games against tough competition for SOS to matter. playing a bunch of good teams and losing doesn't help your cause.
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exactly. hard to feel sorry for a 19-12 team or whatever. and yeah, asu may have been ariz twice, but it's not like asu didn't have a bunch of bad losses. i maybe can understand some of the whining about seeds for teams that just want to win a game or two. but i don't feel sorry for unc having to play in a tough region. i mean, isn't their goal to win the whole thing? then what does it matter if they have to play tennessee to get to the final four? if they're the best, aren't they going to have to beat the second best anyway?
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what teams do you have an issue with? just seems like they dismissed conf. tourney results in some instances and regular season in others (more in terms of seeding than who was in our out). Tennessee should NOT be in the same regional as UNC. Kansas shouldn't have to potentially play Texas in Houston in the Elite 8. Arizona St. got shafted. also, does anyone else think the play-in game should be between two at-large teams? i think that if you earn an automatic bid to the tourney, you should be in period. or eliminate the play-in game, which is altogether lame to begin with sounds like you only have a beef about one team not getting in -- arizona state. your original post sounded like you had more issues with the teams that got in/didn't get in more than seeding, where teams were playing, etc.
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what teams do you have an issue with?
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get your [expletive] together, people.
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drake should have been a four, but i guess it doesn't matter that much. can't believe butler is a seven.
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zing.
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like i said, i'm fully aware of the fact that my pitching may drag me down. and i don't disagree with your assessment of ubaldo, wang, liriano, dempster or villanueva in the slightest. but there's a hell of a long time between now and the end of the season, and if my rotation as it sits now is my rotation at the end of the season, i'll be shocked. have i ever stood pat at the trading deadline?? again, it's not like my rotation is dempster, suppan, marquis, glavine and doug davis. the guys i have are tradeable even if they are underperforming.
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i would love for that to be your 10 keepers going into 2009.