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honestly...time for a mass suicide. who's with me?

i LOVE irony.

it's in the kendall trade thread...maybe around page 44 or so.

also, if barrett catching effected zambrano this year that much, it's as much zambrano's fault as barrett's.

i don't want aramis to do anything like jacque jones.

i've contributed more to the baseball portion of this board than that stupid little douche has to the whiny-college-freshman-who-has-the-world-figured-out portion of this board. well, maybe that's going a little far...

Except Kendall has a track record of being solid in the past and Izzy had no such thing and kendall's old and has caught eight billion games. i'm not up in arms about the trade or anything, i'm just not doing cartwheels. i'd have preferred to just let soto take over.

kendall hitting .297 over his last 25 games is the new izturis led the league in hitting for two months.

http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf Read the first chapter on plausible reasoning. Then get back to me on your unicorn argument. yeah, i'm gonna pass on that. guess i'll take an incomplete on this assignment. Thank you FergieJ31, the whole stupid unicorn bit was getting old. His whole bit is uh oh, looks like i hurt someone's feelings. :cry: When? Perhaps I just enjoy pointing out that you act like a troll 99% of the time you post and rarely contribute anything even borderline intelligent? that's true. thankfully we have your "beer thread" to keep this board afloat intellectually.

http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf Read the first chapter on plausible reasoning. Then get back to me on your unicorn argument. yeah, i'm gonna pass on that. guess i'll take an incomplete on this assignment. Thank you FergieJ31, the whole stupid unicorn bit was getting old. not as old as the catcher's winning % theory.

http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf Read the first chapter on plausible reasoning. Then get back to me on your unicorn argument. yeah, i'm gonna pass on that. guess i'll take an incomplete on this assignment. Thank you FergieJ31, the whole stupid unicorn bit was getting old. His whole bit is uh oh, looks like i hurt someone's feelings. :cry:

http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf Read the first chapter on plausible reasoning. Then get back to me on your unicorn argument. yeah, i'm gonna pass on that. guess i'll take an incomplete on this assignment.

and like i said earlier, since there is no proof that unicorns don't exist, you should assume that they do.

However you want to phrase it. Anyone still want to debate whether the picthers wanted Barrett to be traded? their performance says it doesn't matter. and if they wanted him gone just because they didn't like him then that's just as much their problem as barrett's. Look, I'm not saying it's the case, but is it really impossible that Barrett simply wasn't a good "fit," whatever that means, with this team at this point? Maybe his performance with the Padres is an example of the old hoary "change of scenery" cliche. Again, I'm not saying that this is at all definite, but you seem to respond to every idea that Barrett's time with this team had simply run its course as if they can't possibly be correct. that's because there's nothing to support that idea besides speculation.

However you want to phrase it. Anyone still want to debate whether the picthers wanted Barrett to be traded? their performance says it doesn't matter. and if they wanted him gone just because they didn't like him then that's just as much their problem as barrett's.

I'm coming to the conclusion Barrett was our biggest problem the past 2 years. Notice our record since Barrett departed and notice the Padres record when Barrett starts. It's not good for the Padres. my goodness, this is driving me nuts here lately. since barrett left the era has been the same. the catchers have obviously hit worse. how in the holy hell do you figure that barrett's mere presence alone was the difference between a team that was five games under .500 and a team that's playing like .700 ball? you have got to be freaking kidding me to even believe for one second such an idiotic notion. i mean, really, the fact that the cubs have improved so much has nothing to do with zambrano having like a 1 era over the last two months or marmol pitching like mariano rivera or soriano hitting like 15 homers in the past six weeks or theriot and fontenot taking turns being impossible outs or rameriz jacking game winning hits left and right or lee having like a .800 babip or bob howry deciding to stop pitching like total crap or ted lilly pitching awesome or kaz matsui bobbling that grounder or angel pagan playing out of his rear. no...it's all because the devil curse of michael barrett has been magically lifted by the swoop of harry potter's wizard wand and presto suddenly the team is better. he was such a terrible influence on the team that if he had been on the team yesterday instead of hitting a 3 run homer derrek lee would have been like, "you know what...i could hit a homer here, but michael barrett has been really mean to me lately, so i'm going to pop out instead." and just tonight, i heard ramirez say that koyie hill brought him a cup of chicken noodle soup when he had a tummy ache, so he felt strong enough to pelt one off the wall (barrett, of course, was known to kick ramirez in the face whenever he got tummy aches). the fact that there has been such a dramatic improvement goes even further to disprove such a stupid idea. i mean, seriously, is he such a destructive force that the day he left the team immediately improved from a .450 team to a .700 team? can you even wrap your head around how completely ridiculous that is? you'd have a better argument if they improved two games. as if the catcher's era crap we had to endure wasn't stupid enough, now we get catcher's winning percentage?

Yeah, because trading a crappy catcher and a minor league relief pitcher for a guy who has been solid in 11 out of his 12 MLB years is always a bad idea. what is your definition of "solid"? He's been a below average hitter in 5 of his last 7 seasons, including an awful year this year. By all accounts he's not very good defensively. Based on what, the almighty OPS+? If you look at his average and his OBP, he hasn't been anywhere near below average. He's not a power hitter... most baseball players aren't. yeah, OPS+ sucks...batting average is clearly where it's at. If you want to look at one stat to determine how good a player is, go for it. OPS+ says that Jason Kendall has been barely, just barely, above average during his career. If you really believe that... well, I don't know what to tell you. and if you don't, i don't know what to tell you. and if you believe that at his age and with the numbers of games he's caught kendall is going to be anything remotely close to the player he was six years ago, i don't know what to tell you.

Yeah, because trading a crappy catcher and a minor league relief pitcher for a guy who has been solid in 11 out of his 12 MLB years is always a bad idea. what is your definition of "solid"? He's been a below average hitter in 5 of his last 7 seasons, including an awful year this year. By all accounts he's not very good defensively. Based on what, the almighty OPS+? If you look at his average and his OBP, he hasn't been anywhere near below average. He's not a power hitter... most baseball players aren't. yeah, OPS+ sucks...batting average is clearly where it's at.

heh, ravech says, "i believe this was a 9-1 game earlier." unfortunately, we don't have to resources to check and see if that's correct. man, this guy sucks.

please stop saying the cubs traded marshall, BBTN.

good thing hill pitched well tonight...what with his career hanging in the balance and all.

go team. stephen drew sticking it to his old squad...

i've heard lots of people say that ravech is the only thing good on bbtn, but he's just as bad as the commentators, in my opinion.

good lord, sutcliffe, just admit hill pitched well...he gave credit to the "attitude," piniella, the middle of the order, and "team defense."

heh...sutcliffe finally says something good about hill, but follows it with "...his first win since june whatever."