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we get it.

and hill gets screwed out of another win. hendry better do something about this pathetic offense in the off-season.

you say that like it's surprising. he's one of the best pitchers in the league.

another great start by the cubs' best pitcher. it'd be nice to get him the win...he should have about 13 right now. 10 k's puts him in the top 5 in the NL.

ugh...i can totally see this coming back to haunt hill.

jake fox should not be playing. leave hill in, please.

when you have good minor leaguers, things like that happen. cub fans whining about other teams luck is even more typical, by the way.

not the best park to throw a very inexperienced right fielder out there.

he was 8th in the nl in k's before the game...could move up to 5th the way he's going tonight.

Slugging Percentage: Floyd .380 Murton .371 I'm just saying. yeah, and there are a bunch of threads about how murton sucks.

yeah, floyd looked terrible last night. i'm happy for him that he got the big hit, but he's going to have to slug at a better-than-juan-pierre rate for me to give him any love.

whatever. he may have been consistent for stretches, but looking at the season as a whole, he's been inconsistent.

cubs are so lucky!

somewhere there are brewers message board posters whining about how LUCKY the cubs are...i mean, seriously, ryan theriot??!! cliff floyd??!!

both those teams suck...it's not like they're 30 games over .500 or something. quit whining...it's pathetic. not whining at all - it's true... see: braun, ryan, gross, ankiel and all those guys are to blame for the $100 mil cubs being three games over .500. Exactly. If we were in another division we'd be in much worse shape than we are now. imagine the woe-is-me-ing that would be going on if the cubs actually played in a division with real teams. I didn't say anything about those guys being the reason for the standings. I simply stated how annoying it is that the Cards/Brewers prospects immediately become all-stars upon reaching MLB. Add Gallardo to the list as well. poor you.

both those teams suck...it's not like they're 30 games over .500 or something. quit whining...it's pathetic. not whining at all - it's true... see: braun, ryan, gross, ankiel and all those guys are to blame for the $100 mil cubs being three games over .500. Exactly. If we were in another division we'd be in much worse shape than we are now. imagine the woe-is-me-ing that would be going on if the cubs actually played in a division with real teams.

both those teams suck...it's not like they're 30 games over .500 or something. quit whining...it's pathetic. not whining at all - it's true... see: braun, ryan, gross, ankiel and all those guys are to blame for the $100 mil cubs being three games over .500.

both those teams suck...it's not like they're 30 games over .500 or something. quit whining...it's pathetic.

thankfully marquis' complete inability to strike batters out doesn't hurt him there.

they're substantially better than the cubs. yet they cant beat the brewers joke you're right...the brewers should just lose every game from here on out so the cubs can play .450 baseball the rest of the way and coast into the playoffs.

they're substantially better than the cubs.

it's pretty sad to watch the cub fans and their typical woe is me crap.

isn't that, like, the definition of inconsistent? Like, no it isn't. Telling me a player has been consistent doesn't tell you anything about his production because you could be consistently good or consistently bad. All that matters is that your performances don't fluctuate. A pitcher who allows six earned runs every single time he takes the mound is a consistent pitcher. A pitcher who allows 1 earned run every time out is also a consistent pitcher. I would classify an inconsistent pitcher as one who has two bad outings followed by a good outing followed by a bad outing followed by three good outings, etc. Because Z was bad for two months and then good for two months means he has been, for the most part, consistent. His good outings were mostly lumped together in June and July whereas his bad outings were lumped together in April and May To use some of the stats that Lord of Khemennu used: Z's average game score on the year: 53.9 Z's standard deviation of game scores: 19.3 But to look at it further: Z's average game score in first 12 starts from 4/2 - 6/1: 44.2 Z's standard deviation of game score over that time: 16.7 That shows that he was still a bit inconsistent but no more so than Marshall or Hill and I believe LoK said that "People should shut up about Hill's inconsistency" which would lead me to believe that a StDev of 16.7 isn't too bad. Now let's look at Z from 6/6 - 8/3 Z's average game score in next 12 starts from 6/6 - 8/3: 68.25 Z's standard deviation of game score over that time: 9.95 Yes, 9.95 which is far better than any starter on the Cubs. That is what I would call consistent. sorry, but being really good for a while and then really bad for a while is being inconsistent. i don't know what else you'd call it.

Yea I know, I mean his .820 OPS in August is killing the club. but what was his ops yesterday? exactly.

isn't that, like, the definition of inconsistent?