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No but I did hear he almost never signed autographs as a Cub, so its kinda weird. he signed all the time when he was on the cubs. i got him four spring trainings in a row, and no one signed more than him.

also forgot to mention that corey had his right hand taped at the iowa game. doesn't seem too serious, as he still played the field and signed autographs w/ it before the game, which was weird because i heard he hated people and spat at babies.

sweated through five innings of the i-cub game tonight. patterson's first inning single was an 0-2 high fastball that he lined hard up the middle. stole 2nd easily after that. dubois reached on an E5 after that...if the 3b would have had his wits about him, he possibly could have nabbed corey, who had strayed a bit far from 2nd. dubois was promptly picked off 1b by the catcher during mcclain's ab. mcclain tripled off the cf wall to score corey. corey popped to the pitcher in his 2nd ab, as he was sawed off badly...he broke two bats in his first two ab's. dubois flew out to medium deep cf in his 2nd ab. patterson got up 3-0 in his 3rd ab, took a strike, then flew out to right...not the best at bat. koronka's a bad guy to be pitching when the heat index is 98. he nibbles so much that he goes to two balls on just about every guy, and each batter hits a couple foul balls per ab. kelton continues to impress me. i'm convinced he could be at least a serviceable backup of. seems like he always hits the ball hard when i'm there. i'd like to see him play some cf when corey comes back up/is traded. also, frese was playing 3b...has he played there before?

1. pie 2. hill 3. dope 4. marshall 5. murton 6. harvey 7. patterson 8. cedeno 9. pawelek 10. gallagher pinto, moore, petrick, nolasco, jvb would probably follow... never really been on the marmol bandwagon...

are they signed? they had an auto'ed hill bat for auction tonight, and i was going to get the jersey and the bat, but then my $125 bid for the jersey suddenly jumped to $200. :-k i put the $125 bid in during like the 5th inning, and it stood until the top of the 7th (auctions ended at the end of the 7th). this guy had bid $135, so i topped it with $150. then he looked at me and said, "if you want this, you're gonna have to bid pretty high" and put down $175. i'm thinking, oh crap, this dude's gonna drop five hundo on this. then i wrote down $200 and he bailed. weak! talked all that crap like he was in it for the long haul, then i sent him walking after ONE more bid! umm....no. i had to sit in some hot freaking weather to get this thing...i earned it! i'll try and get a scan up of it tomorrow. Yes they are signed. They are having an unreal auction tomorrow night. They have all kinds of stuff from the Jaxx and the Cubs. I've put in a request for game used baseballs, lineup cards, etc. $200 is cheap for that! That's cheaper than the Murton jersey Vance got! dubois (who is #44...not a fan of that) and kelton's jerseys went for quite a bit too...both were around $125 when i looked in the fifth inning. they had dubois, wellemeyer and kelton bats as well. they had much better stuff at the winter fan fest auction. if i'd have missed out on the jersey tonight, i'd have you try and nab me those cleats...but i think i've spent enough on a guy who has less than 10 major league innings under his belt. :D

by the way, this jersey stinks BAD. i have it hanging in my den, and it's smelling up the whole room...any ideas on how to tame this beast? washing it is not an option since it's signed.

are they signed? they had an auto'ed hill bat for auction tonight, and i was going to get the jersey and the bat, but then my $125 bid for the jersey suddenly jumped to $200. :-k i put the $125 bid in during like the 5th inning, and it stood until the top of the 7th (auctions ended at the end of the 7th). this guy had bid $135, so i topped it with $150. then he looked at me and said, "if you want this, you're gonna have to bid pretty high" and put down $175. i'm thinking, oh crap, this dude's gonna drop five hundo on this. then i wrote down $200 and he bailed. weak! talked all that crap like he was in it for the long haul, then i sent him walking after ONE more bid! umm....no. i had to sit in some hot freaking weather to get this thing...i earned it! i'll try and get a scan up of it tomorrow.

yeah, so i got to meet him briefly after the game, as they were doing the 'jerseys off our backs' thing for MDA. i won the auction for his jersey (one of the more expensive ones thanks to this guy that bid me up from $125 all the way to $200... :evil: ). they have you go on the field afterwards to get it from the guy...just talked to him for a second, told him thanks for driving up the price of his jersey by pitching so well...and thanks for sweating up the jersey real nice. i was gonna start in on him w/ the questions, but i figure we'll have our chance w/ the chat. i've met him briefly a few other times in ST, and he has always been a cool guy. patterson's jersey was up to $300+ when i last saw it. oh, and for the record, the guy who bid me up on the hill jersey told me that corey was signing autographs before the game. he wears #11, which is weird. his ab's were nothing special. he reached on an error in the first...may have been a DP ball had the 3b not booted it. made a catch on a deep fly to cf, threw a gun to 3rd, holding the runner at 2nd. the crowd practically gave him a standing O...kinda sad, actually. dubois' single was an absolute laser off the very, very top of the rf fence...probably two feet from being a line drive homer. he got gunned trying to stretch it into a double. the guy can hit. made a nice running catch in lf as well. it surprised me because i was told he sucked on D.

rich hill = good at baseball went to the iowa game tonight...hill looked pretty good. man, does he NOT give up ground balls, though. if he gets traded to cincy, i'm gonna feel bad for him. when he did give up grounders tonight, die hard screwed em up anyway. the home run pickering hit was a bomb...hit the light pole next to the scoreboard in right. i'm not so sure hill liked his mosey around the bases, as he plunked the next batter with the next pitch. :D the second run scored on a infield dribbler that should have been an out. fontenot fielded the little nubber and threw in the dirt to first. should have been an easy dig for mcclain, but he booted it. the guy who scored got on when he swung late on a hook and looped it to right for a double. hill got into a jam in the 3rd (bases loaded, no outs). struck out gemoll, pickering (twice really...he was getting squeezed early on), and got the next guy to ground out (after he should have struck him out...squeezed again). people talk about his average fb, but he gets some pretty sad looking swings with it. he was hitting 89-90 on iowa's slow gun in the 7th. the hook was snapping real nice tonight as well. also of note was the fact that he was hitting some 84's during the 7th...possibly his cutter, as i could tell that it wasn't a breaking pitch. :? thanks to the stupid i-cubs, i didn't see much of the radar gun (which is crap anyway). they said the only available seats were general admission, which is basically hell on earth...fat, sweaty, BO toting drunks...the wife and i sandwiched in the middle of the row. needless to say we sat there for three outs and went to sit beyond the rf fence in the aluminum bleachers. from there you can see that probably 50% of the entire crowd is concentrated into three small general admission sections...while 50% of the reserved areas are empty. wow, was that frustrating. oh yeah...one more thing...i'm not going to say i didn't come home with a wet, stinky, game-used autographed rich hill jersey. and i also won't say that i didn't come home $200 poorer...but it was worth it. :wink:

criticize corey for things like plate discipline, mental lapses, etc, but this crap is getting tired. just because corey is quiet, people assume he hates his teammates, fans and coaches. have you ever heard a teammate say anything bad about corey?

why? they're both young, toolsy, raw cf'ers who lack plate discipline and will both be rushed to the majors and yanked around in the batting order. it's actually a pretty good comparison, and you'd think the cubs would have learned from the mistakes they made w/ patterson.

patterson finished 1-4 w/ 2 k's and a hr (off a lefty). dubois was 3-4 w/ a double and an rbi.

I agree he's been hypocritical but I'm glad that you (a well long standing member of this board) would go against the board's policy. Kudos :roll: sorry, but i've had more than enough of that type of crap.

I think this is what BurntOutCubbieFan was talking about: "Corey is such a hack! "Corey,Neifi & Sosa (3 easiest outs in baseball excluding C's,of course)" "Good to hear the Cub fans Booing Corey. He deserves every bit of it!" "Why on earth is Neifi swinging at a first pitch curve on the outside corner?" "He must have been behind Corey in the batting cages before the game." "Who wants to bet that, with the warm and windy day, the Cubs will be swinging at the first pitch all day long and Miller will throw a 90 pitch CG?" "I will guarantee Corey will be first pitch swinging!" "or 2nd pitch. Way to work the count Corey!" "uh what the heck Hollandsworth? What a dumb play that was." "Hey, Holla Was that a Corey or Neifi impersonation? "this situation corey has to be patient." "He doesn't listen to his coaches why do you think he would listen to you? " All of those quotes followed this series of quotes: "Bashing management or other Cubs players is something I felt Trolls do." "We're the worst running baserunning team the last two years in the history of baseball! How can a team NEVER make the right choice. You'd think they would get one right at some point. :lol:" "Never? you may want to tone down the pessimism or just get off the bandwagon." "he problem is is that Hendry will probably lowball those guys too and we'll be stuck with Macias and Burnitz starting next year..." "Pessimism at it's best! [-X " "I'm off to work.I fear Ill come home to see a loss on the board like yesterday though.Have a nice day guys." "Can you tone it down with the pessimism? Pointing out postives & negatives is one thing, to just focus on the negative gets very annoying." "Since we're all complaining about this pathetic lineup, you know what that means. The Cubs will go out and score about 10 runs!" "shhh!! don't tell the pessimists that, they won't know what to do with themselves if they can't complain about something!" "Pessimists like Don & Cal Raisin are getting more noticeable everytime I read one of their posts in this forum." "Enough with the negativity!!!! If the Cubs suck so bad, how the hell are they even in the WC race? YOU ARE A COMPLETE MORON!!!!" wow, when you really lay it out like that, you can just see how foolish he looks. nice. kudos to corey...glad to see him get off to a good start. though, as someone else mentioned, i'd have rather seen him go to WT so he could work w/ joshua.

he sucks.

the i-cubs website says welly tonight, hill tomorrow. works out great for me since i'm going to the game tomorrow night. i may go saturday as well... rotation out of the break is welly, hill, koronka, leicester, valdez.

dunn's not slow. 6, 8, 19 sb's over the past three full seasons. and why would he all the sudden wake up with no plate discipline?

deal. :thumleft:

the potential difference between kearns and burnitz is not worth hill. and i doubt that you're going to get a prospect as good as hill in return for burnitz. off the top of my head, i can't think of any prospect from cincy that is exciting to me other than encarnacion, who would be blocked by ramirez. perhaps homer bailey, but he's in low A, and i doubt they would include their first round pick just to dump kearns.

Well, thePenguin isn't off-base with Hill's fastball as JJ Cooper of BA.com said about Rich Hill: So I do believe that thePenguin is OFF with his "scouting" of Rich Hill, maybe because he has delusions of trying to get the megaoverrated Austin Kearns. BUT, Rich Hill, IMO, does need a third pitch if he wants to become a starter, otherwise his stuff maybe that of a lefty setup. well, i saw a different rich hill than j.j. cooper apparently... iowa's gun is very inconsistent, but i've still found it to be slow (though to varying degrees).

man, dusty couldn't resist taking murton out last night against the righty. i heard murton has never faced a righty in his minor league career. and then, of course, he lets the pitcher bat. hairston and walker bailed baker out of that mismanaging debacle. and a great first ab for holla against leiter today. i have a feeling the dusty baker excuse-o-rama is about to shift from perez to hollandsworth.

Have you read this somewhere or is this your opinion? I've seen every major league pitch he's thrown. It's my opinion. His fastball is weak and he has trouble locating it. His curveball is easy to sit on from the right side of the plate. In order for a fastball to be considered a plus pitch it doesn't have to be hard. Hill's never reaches more than 91 on the gun, but it doesn't move and he can't jam major league righties with it. so you've seen him throw, what, five innings? his fastball is faster than the 89 you mentioned previously, as well as the 91 you mention in this post. kearns' value has plummeted since the beginning of the season, while hill's has skyrocketed. no thanks. if anybody thinks kearns is the difference in making the playoffs, they're kidding themselves.

where have you been? that's the cubs' philosophy on trading their players. see farnsworth, sosa, cruz, hawkins, etc.

and for those of you who couldn't watch the game...his sac fly was pretty deep. probably would have been out in a different park. and though cedeno didn't have much of a night hitting-wise, he put together a pretty solid ab when he drew the walk. was down in the count, but fought off a bunch of tough pitches before taking ball four. of course if he wouldn't have gidp'ed in the 9th, murton would have gotten another ab. or dusty could have batted murton and cedeno ahead of crappy ass, cheating, sausage legged neifi perez...

what do you know....guys under 33 can hit. should get the start once more this weekend against olsen.