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  1. abuck1220
    i'm getting so sick of baker's 'oh, it's a long season, there are a lot of games left' attitude. it seems to me that it's rubbed off on the team. oh, don't worry about making all these mental errors...every team has games like that...there is still a lot of baseball to be played...etc, etc. this 'we'll get it together eventually' crap didn't work last year, and it ain't gonna work next year. and just how BAD does hollandsworth have to be for murton to get a start? send him and cedeno down so i can at least watch them in iowa.
  2. abuck1220
    not the cubs' game, but... pujols OWNS farnsworth. just hit his fourth hr in 17 career ab's against him.
  3. abuck1220
    argh...i should have gone to the game...i haven't had a chance to get coleman's autograph yet... good to see the k's up for bobby.
  4. abuck1220
    i'm not a huge murton fan by any means, as he has been extremely lucky in both AA and with the big league club. that being said, it goes w/o saying that i'd rather have him out there than macias. move burnitz to cf and play murton in rf/lf... speaking of cox, they were just talking about how he handles young guys, and it made my heart pitter patter. francoeur says that when you're 0-20 he treats you like you're 15-20. he also said that anytime he's struggling cox takes the blame. wow, what a concept. on the other hand there's dusty who benches you at the first sign of trouble, and also takes the credit when you do well, saying that he put you in a position to succeed. there has been rumors of dusty leaving/getting fired lately, and i can't believe there's not more. one of the highest payrolls in the NL and you're behind the brewers? come on, what manager in that position wouldn't be on the hot seat?
  5. abuck1220
    the brewers aren't bad. everyone of their OF'ers is probably better than their cubs counterpart. overbay's hitting better of late, and weeks has been solid. bill hall's better than neifi, and sheets is better than anybody the cubs throw out there...and capuano's not too far behind. and turnbow's been fantastic. i'm not really all that surprised that they are near the cubs in the standings.
  6. abuck1220
    but you're up for another maddux or prior shellacking? people keep selling hill's first two outings short, but the way maddux is going, i'd be thrilled to get six innings of two run ball out of him. if rusch is moved to the rotation, that leaves the cubs w/ just one lefty in the pen...i'm not so sure they'd do that. and honestly, is the difference between hill and rusch going to help the cubs leap frog 5 teams (including the brewers :shock: ) to win the wild card?
  7. abuck1220
    hill got 'shelled' last night? i guess if a couple walks, a bunch of cheap singles and some of the worst defense i've ever seen = getting shelled, then you're right. getting 'shelled' is what golden boys prior and maddux did their last starts. now this hurts...i've been driving the hill bandwagon since before this board even had bandwagons!
  8. abuck1220
    i may be able to go to the sunday game as well. everybody send me a couple bucks, or i'm going to go and not tell anybody how he looked.
  9. abuck1220
    thanks for taking our questions... do you feel as though there is some over-arching organizational philosophy toward hitting? the last few years the cubs' on-base percentage hasn't been as high as some would like it to be...do you feel that there is a philosophy of 'aggressive hitting' that kinda comes down from above? if there is an organization-wide theory on hitting, does it mesh well with your ideas on hitting? also, i've been slumping pretty bad in slow-pitch softball...any advice?
  10. abuck1220
    thanks for taking our questions... are you guys aware of the devotion of cub fans to the minor league system? i think the interest among cub fans in the farm system has increased over the last couple years, and i was wondering if you guys noticed it. thanks again and good luck the rest of the season.
  11. abuck1220
    thanks for taking our questions, ryan. i know that you went to springfield sacred heart-griffin...did you play football while in high school? i know they have quite the tradition there...you guys beat us (canton) two years a row in the 4A playoffs in the late 90's. good luck the rest of the season and thanks again.
  12. abuck1220
    patterson is in iowa's lineup tonight, so he apparently hasn't been called up due to hairston's injury.
  13. abuck1220
    i see the cubs are carrying over their fundamentals clinic from last night.
  14. abuck1220
    another thing worth noting... young or old, the four guys that screwed up the worst last night are considered four of dusty's 'guys'. and, at least as far as i can tell, he hasn't really called them out in the media. on the other hand, when hairston missed signs earlier in the season, the media knew all about it. same when cedeno missed a sign on that bunt and run over the weekend. and dusty was never shy about discussing dubois' defensive shortcomings to the media. there are just certain guys that dusty likes, and i don't know if he's ever gonna get on one of his guys, publicly or privately.
  15. abuck1220
    i can't wait to go to fitch next spring and see how many hours/day the minor leaguers spend on covering first during pfp's.
  16. abuck1220
    lee was obviously not talking about himself. lee was also visibly upset at barrett's play at the end of the game last night. he was yelling at barrett as the play was going on, and then he put his glove on his head and just stood there after the game had ended...much like i do when our lf in softball misjudges a fly ball by 50 feet...and, yes, i AM fingerpointing/blaming when that happens. i told my dad last night that this was a game that can send your season spiraling into the toilet...i hope i'm wrong. obviously it'll be interesting to see how they respond today.
  17. abuck1220
    kudos to you for somehow finding a way to bash patterson when discussing a game that he wasn't in the state for. i've been trying to think of a way to do that because i too blame him for last night's loss. the negative energy he left when he was sent down to AAA is still having an ill effect on the cubs. damn him! I'm not just ranting about last nights loss. I'm talking about an organizational philosophy. I only mention Corey as the poster boy of the fact that potential does not make someone a good baseball player and this team needs to focus on baseball players that know how to play the game. you have no idea about how well corey focuses on the game. he's never made a mental mistake comparable to barrett's late inning buffonery. or failing to cover first base after two other guys had failed to do it just a couple innings before. to say corey is the poster boy for lack of fundamentals when he didn't even participate in last night's fundamental disaster is just you taking every oppurtunity to bash someone who you obviously don't like. it would be like me bringing up neifi's sub-.300 obp while discussing last night's west tenn game.
  18. abuck1220
    kudos to you for somehow finding a way to bash patterson when discussing a game that he wasn't in the state for. i've been trying to think of a way to do that because i too blame him for last night's loss. the negative energy he left when he was sent down to AAA is still having an ill effect on the cubs. damn him!
  19. abuck1220
    as i mentioned earlier, it's one of those things that dusty himself says so many times people start to believe it. like how larussa kept saying and saying and saying how great pujols is defensively. now every time you watch a cardinal game the announcers talk about how great he is at 1b. or how dusty talks about how he's not used to being home for the postseason, but in reality, he is.
  20. abuck1220
    wow, was THAT a fundamental disaster. has a big league team ever played so poorly fundamentally over the course of one game? three times the pitcher failed to cover first, a botched defense of a sac bunt, and then the last play. i guess when dusty says he always has a strong fundamental team, it's just one of those things that people believe because he says it a lot. barrett seems to tense up quite a bit in situations like that. remember when he threw the ball away on that crazy play in cincy?
  21. abuck1220
    K's are not the be-all-end-all. You can be effective getting grounders and pop-ups. i'm not going to get into the strikeout argument for the ten billionith time. more times than not, high k guys have more success than low k guys.
  22. abuck1220
    franklin says he'll never take a vitamin again. no word on whether he'll take steroids again.
  23. abuck1220
    good grief...borowski has given up a total of ZERO earned runs since being signed by tb. that covers ten appearances (counting tonight) and 9 2/3 ip. only three k's during that span, however.
  24. abuck1220
    i usually wouldn't pull my closer, but it was looking more and more like dempster just couldn't throw a strike. i'd leave him out there if he was giving up hits, but when he's nowhere near the zone, that's another story. then i remembered what the cubs' other options were and silently withdrew my request for him to be taken out. :D
  25. abuck1220
    good to see lawton up on the top step of the dugout pumping his fist on the bell k. one of these days dempster is gonna blow a really, really, really big game.
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