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  1. abuck1220
    i don't see what's so appalling about this.
  2. abuck1220
    actually a ground ball was about the last thing you wanted.
  3. abuck1220
    sorry...i don't take the time to craft a thoughtful response to a terrible argument. when evaluating his career as a starter, you're including the numbers he put up when he was a 22 year old rookie. when evaluating his career as a reliever, you're using one month. if you don't see the problem with that, i'm not going to take the time to explain to you why it's stupid. also, he now has a whip of 1.40 as a reliever...worse than what he's done as a starter (including his first three mediocre seasons). one night kinda ruined your argument.
  4. abuck1220

    Week 8

    abuck1220 replied to Tim's topic in Fantasy Sports

    Why is Myers benched? I didn't think you could change relievers in the middle of the week, only starters.???? he's hurt.
  5. abuck1220
    what's so impressive about where the cubs are now? i don't understand why people want to give hendry credit for assembling a giant, expensive failure. do you really, honestly think it takes some special skill to field a $95 mil team that loses 90+ games? seriously, thousands upon thousands of people could have accomplished what hendry has accomplished over the past few seasons...and the cubs certainly wouldn't be any worse off than they are right now.
  6. abuck1220
    at least if the cubs had signed drew or giles instead of soriano they'd have some extra $ to blow...probably on a middle reliever coming off his first good season, but still...
  7. abuck1220
    man, that would have been a good time to pinch hit their rh power bat off the bench. oh wait, they don't have one because this is the worst constructed team 100 mil ever built.
  8. abuck1220
    [wild guess]Torn labrum and he's lost for the season, Philly fans will bombard Manuel for his downfall just like they did Dusty for that of Wood, Prior, and to a lesser degree Zambrano.[/wild guess] and manuel would deserve it just as much as baker did.
  9. abuck1220
    To be honest, they were always around. Sucky Cubs just happen to be better than the Suckier Pirates and Suckiest Nationals. Not last year If last years team was an F, this one is a D+ at best. hendry would call that progress. next thing you know we'll be "competing within the division!"
  10. abuck1220
    wow, this team is bad. at least they don't have a bunch of money invested in long term contracts for mediocre players.
  11. abuck1220
    i predict a one arm swing at an outside changeup.
  12. abuck1220
    ph for a guy who sucks with a guy who sucks maybe a little less.
  13. abuck1220
    Here are your choices, also note that 6 of these guys are starters. Your GM is looking for a Closer, but so are half a dozen other teams and its April, so no one wants to really deal big pieces yet. Do you pick Myers and hope for Dempster/Eckersley or do you go with the 6 finger wonderkin and run or demote a starter to long relief. If you do which starter sits? 57 Alfonseca, Antonio 52 Castro, Fabio 55 Condrey, Clay 23 Eaton, Adam 34 García, Freddy 56 Geary, Geoff 35 Hamels, Cole 44 Hernández, Yoel 21 Lieber, Jon 50 Moyer, Jamie 39 Myers, Brett 54 Rosario, Francisco So it's better to get 75 innings from Myers than 200? Maybe it is. Unless you are the Great Kreskin, I don't see how you can so easily dismiss this possibility. Which would you rather have? (These stats are both for the same guy, btw.) 200 IP, 1.213 WHIP, 3.71 ERA, 5.8 K/9 OR 70 IP, .998 WHIP, 2.85 ERA, 8.8 K/9 Give me the second line, because this particular pitcher, while effective in the first role, is dominant in the second. I'm not suggesting that Myers is a dominant closer, but all his numbers are better as a reliever than as a starter. His WHIP, ERA, BAA, and K/9 have all improved- some of them significantly- since his move to the pen. which spans all of a month...and may have ended tonight with an arm injury. other than that, you're all over it.
  14. abuck1220

    Week 8

    abuck1220 replied to Tim's topic in Fantasy Sports

    i'm happy to say that he was all mine during the brief period of time when he was one of the worst pitchers in baseball. got him right after he was really, really good and lost him right before he got really, really good again. the cubs suck, by the way.
  15. abuck1220
    move looks faaaaaantastic right now.
  16. abuck1220

    Week 8

    abuck1220 replied to Tim's topic in Fantasy Sports

    i hope myers arm is broken because it couldn't take the move to the pen (not really, he's been pretty good for me lately) and they run charlie manuel's dumb [expletive] ass out of town for the stupid decision to make him a reliever.
  17. abuck1220

    Week 8

    abuck1220 replied to Tim's topic in Fantasy Sports

    holy [expletive]...on the next pitch myers throws one four feet outside and starts holding his arm. the only thing missing is someone assassinating cole hamels from the stands.
  18. abuck1220

    Week 8

    abuck1220 replied to Tim's topic in Fantasy Sports

    my goodness, what a collapse by the phillies. now they have hanley dead to rights by 20 feet at home plate and barajas blocks the plate like the littlest bitch i've ever seen. he practically tucked his dick between his legs, put on a dress, poured himself a cosmo and ran back to the dugout. i've seen one of the dumbest plays ever and one of the most cowardly plays ever this inning. i can only imagine what phillies message boards are like right now...
  19. abuck1220

    Week 8

    abuck1220 replied to Tim's topic in Fantasy Sports

    wow...7-5 phils, marlins batting, runner at 3rd, no outs, ninth inning. hanley tries to bunt for a hit, but bunts it real hard toward first. the [expletive] philly 1b throws HOME. the guy easily scores standing up, and the tying run reaches 1b. that's about as dumb a play as i've ever seen.
  20. abuck1220
    probably just a day off-he had started 9 games in a row prior to this-that's the longest streak of consecutive games started by anyone in the lineup except the big 3 (Lee, Ramirez, Soriano). It was coming one of these days that he'd get a day off. he should get a day off against a rhp. izturis shouldn't play against lefties.
  21. abuck1220
    yep...very baker-esque.
  22. abuck1220
    Jesus, this is getting annoying. He didn't suck? No he didn't. Losing a fly ball and making a bad throw doesn't mean you suck in the field. Murton is averageish in RF. Maybe you missed everybody and their mother taking the extra base on his arm. That's not "average" for RF. and of course you have no evidence of this 'cept that you saw it a bunch, right?
  23. abuck1220
    nothing like outhitting the opponent by two and getting outscored by four. cubs left seven on in the last three innings...hard to do.
  24. abuck1220
    if he pitches this well after one demotion, imagine what he'd do if they sent him to AA. crazy like a fox, that piniella.
  25. abuck1220
    at least he had a few k's. every mistake he made got jacked out of the yard. the two walks to start the game were obnoxious, but at least he didn't have any the rest of the way. i think he'll have a good one next time out...provided the cubs don't move him into long relief and put miller (because jimmy promised he would) or dempster (he really wants to start!) into the rotation, which wouldn't surprise me.
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