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  1. abuck1220
    hill is #8 on BA's hot sheet. i certainly agree that he is an enigma. veal is in the team photo.
  2. abuck1220
    It's too bad that the Cubs are the only team in baseball to not develop players capable of playing 1B. If we would we wouldn't have to play veterans we have no intention of keeping while the team is 20 games under .500 man, that is just utterly ridiculous. put mabry at first, call up hoffpauir, give a turtle a glove and put him at 1b, whatever. who the hell cares whether the cubs' 1b hits .240 or .220 the rest of the way? this is the same logic that's going to "force" the cubs to keep maddux, thus squeezing guzman/hill out of the rotation when marshall and marmol comes back. i've never seen a team pride itself so much on trying to maintain a .380 winning percentage.
  3. abuck1220
    it doesn't really matter at this point, but if it were ronny cedeno dogging out there, you can bet your bippie that he'd hear about it. or if rich hill said something about how nice jones' double was, he'd probably be cut.
  4. abuck1220

    week 17

    abuck1220 posted a topic in Fantasy Sports

    sorry, but i'm not bothering w/ all the matchups. if anybody wants to bare knuckle box me on the issue, you know where to find me. i just wanted to start the thread to point out cole hamels' line tonight... 5.1 INN, 6 HA, 2 BBI, 12 K, 7 ER
  5. abuck1220
    BA chimes in...
  6. abuck1220
    it's called sample size.
  7. abuck1220
    so the white sox can compete with the cubs' news that lee's going on the DL.
  8. abuck1220
    OPS Home/Road - 1.042/.879 Doesn't seem to be bothered by the size of his home park. exactly. imagine how he'd be doing if he was hitting in a good park.
  9. abuck1220
    If a corner OF w/ an .835 is a Superstar, you can have all the Superstars you want. At 2B, that's good; for corner OF, it's nothing special. I want good baseball players, hype or not. Soriano's all hype. Thats a little over the top. Has he been overrated in the past? You bet. This year he is hitting almost .300, OBP over .360 and he is on his way to 40 HR's, 40 doubles, and 40 steals. I don't think it's fair to say he is "all hype" at this point. Will he do it again next year? I have no idea. He is doing it now though. Will he do it for the next 3 months? I don't have any idea about that either, but his career numbers suggest otherwise (esp if you put him back in the AL - the NL East isn't exactly full of dominant pitchers). If Soriano's 400 ABs this year make him a Superstar, that's just insane. His career numbers, esp w/ that .325 OBP, are nothing special. it's full of huge ballparks, though. especially the one he plays half his games in.
  10. abuck1220
    soriano's putting up a .361 OBP this year.
  11. abuck1220
    two straight seasons of rushing a star player back from injury for no reason...i love this team!
  12. abuck1220
    Soriano for McCarthy would decimate their bullpen. He's their long guy and one of the only reliable relievers they have. Tribune was suggesting that the Sox will get Soriano and play the triangle defense game so the Twins and Tigers don't get him. i think getting a hitter of soriano's caliber would more than offset the loss of their long man.
  13. abuck1220
    Point blank in the 4 starts he looked over matched in the big leagues. He didn't look comfortable on the mound and showed no presence what-so-ever. It was a good move by the Cubs to let him work on whatever was wrong in AAA. Hopefully it pays off for him or maybe he's suited for the pen. Who knows? but if the "whatever was wrong" was getting used to pitching in the big leagues, sending him down would not help him work on "whatever was wrong." How do you know that? i don't. that's why i said "if." i disagree.
  14. abuck1220
    well, they did win the world series last year by bunting, so...
  15. abuck1220
    yeah, i'm concerned that the injuries to marshall and marmol will prevent a maddux trade, which is, of course, idiotic.
  16. abuck1220
    Point blank in the 4 starts he looked over matched in the big leagues. He didn't look comfortable on the mound and showed no presence what-so-ever. It was a good move by the Cubs to let him work on whatever was wrong in AAA. Hopefully it pays off for him or maybe he's suited for the pen. Who knows? but if the "whatever was wrong" was getting used to pitching in the big leagues, sending him down would not help him work on "whatever was wrong."
  17. abuck1220
    i don't think it's fair to equate hill's 8 starts (which have been spread out over two years and each one had do-or-die pressure attached to it) to 8 starts that make up 1/4 of a regular rotation guy's season. if hill had started the year in the rotation and gone 0-7 (or whatever he is on his career) and posted a 9 era in his first eight starts, i'd think different of him than i do now.
  18. abuck1220
    i'm assuming the trade deadline is still the 31st? also, are we doing waivers as we have in the past, which would allow post-july 31st trades?
  19. abuck1220
    I find this quote amazing coming from the same guy that has made sure to point out time after time that he has had rookies playing as well as players on the DL. yeah, for someone who is constantly nay-saying excuses, he sure makes a lot of them.
  20. abuck1220
    While I agree with your thought process, I find it hard to lump Maddux (a hall of fame 300+ winning pitcher) in with the rest of those scrubs. Pierre has been playing really well as of late and Maddux numbers aren't bad for a projected 5th starter. pierre was absolutely worthless the first three months or whatever of the season. it's so nice of him to turn it on now that the cubs are 25 games under .500 so he can salvage a nice contract out of the whole ordeal. maddux is not being paid like a 5th starter, and his performance over the past three months has fallen below what you'd want out of a fifth starter. no matter how you slice it, those two have hurt the cubs this year much more than rich hill has. yet baker is acting as though he's at the end of his rope w/ hill.
  21. abuck1220
    as i said in another thread, baker's comments about how hill has to just "do it" when he gets here cracks me up. he acts like his patience with hill, after all of four starts, is just at the end of the line, and he's so fed up with hill ruining his season. meanwhile, he seems pretty content with the failure of pierre, maddux, rusch, neifi, etc to "do it" over the course of an entire season and at 20 times the salary.
  22. abuck1220
    I think every single Cubs fan in the world know about Hill dominance in AAA. That doesn't help the Cubs in anyway unless Hill steps up. and sending him down after two bad starts doesn't help the cubs in any way either.
  23. abuck1220
    funny...the failure of guys like rusch, perez, pierre, maddux, etc to "do it" doesn't seem to bother baker that much. i just love how he acts so fed up with how these kids are just dragging the team down.
  24. abuck1220
    yeah, that's nothing close to irony.
  25. abuck1220

    WEEK 16

    abuck1220 replied to cbbryan's topic in Fantasy Sports

    damn, i thought the three-way tie at the top was going to be broken this week. maybe the ol' nccubbies can get HBC next week!
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