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  1. abuck1220
    umm...he's two for two so far. plus 4 1/3 no hit innings vs mil...i'd say he's three for three. but since you warned me, i won't count on any more. :roll: who hit his curveball yesterday? in all his major league outings and the times i've seen him in AAA, i dont' think i've ever seen his curve get hit hard. on a board that has overrated every prospect that comes through (sergio mitre = greg maddux!), i'm really surprised that everyone is selling hill so short. everybody keeps ragging on his fb, but i've seen him get some pretty nice swings and misses from some pretty good hitters off his fb. his success is all dependent on spotting his curve, which he has been able to do. the only time i've seen him struggle was in his last AAA start where he couldn't throw it for a strike. they just sat on his fb and teed off on him. but if he throws his curve for strikes, his 'average' fb is fine.
  2. abuck1220
    the walker reference is based on the fact that you seem to be looking for sympathy for all the injuries the cards have suffered when it was pretty obvious that larry walker was an injury risk...so was rolen for that matter. the cardinals made their own bad fortune (w/ regard to injuries) when they traded for/signed guys that had an injury history. and, while i haven't heard it from you, enough with people crying about losing molina. i think it was jon miller who said how rough things have been for the cards since they lost their 'stud' catcher yadier molina. just because he plays for the cardinals, doesn't mean he's a stud. he's got a sub-.300 obp for crying out loud. also, it's gonna be tough getting too much sympathy when you have two arms fresh off surgery combining for nearly 30 wins.
  3. abuck1220
    i'd like to see those x-rays.
  4. abuck1220
    yeah, derrek lee's breakout is real similar to abraham nunez's. they're practically the same player...always have been. and who would have guessed that walker would be injury-riddled when the cards traded for him? he's a young, spry guy who's always been a picture of health. mind-boggling.
  5. abuck1220
    good comeback by iowa in the 9th. frese got called out on a borderline strike three, and then murray, corey and mcclain followed w/ singles. patterson had some good/daring baserunning to get himself to third on mcclain's single. but then he got thrown out at home on a grounder by lewis. then fontenot hit a two strike pitch up the middle for a clutch, game-tying single. corey went 2-5 with a double, single and no k's. another good outing out of the pen by brownlie. if the cubs somehow traded jvb, i wonder if brownlie would get a shot to close....
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    or just once...like the pitch right before glaus hit his homer. another horrible call. i know it wouldn't do anything, but would it kill dusty to get up and argue once in a while?
  7. abuck1220
    this home plate umpire has been horrendous.
  8. abuck1220
    dusty -- it's not that hollandsworth is pressing, it's just that he's not very good.
  9. abuck1220
    you're not going to make it to post 50 talking like that.
  10. abuck1220
    why walk glaus? hasn't it been established that he can't hit a belt high fb???
  11. abuck1220
    come on...where was that???
  12. abuck1220
    [-X Hey, if he could net the Cubs a franchise-level LF, I'd be all for it! :D maybe...but w/o him, the back end of the cubs' rotation looks a little iffy.
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  14. abuck1220
    i agree w/ him. the 11-5 motion (as opposed to 12-6) make his curve very tough for righties to hit. they usually top it foul down the third base line. he doesn't hang many because of that motion either. sit on that, troy!
  15. abuck1220
    cintron missed strike two by 19 feet. and strike three by 26.
  16. abuck1220
    Perez 9 Murton 6 Macias 3 sad.
  17. abuck1220
    let's have that zone in the top of the next inning, blue.
  18. abuck1220
    does murton have more walks than neifi and macias combined yet?
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    yet he got two k's w/ it that inning.
  20. abuck1220
    one more k for rich. good job of pitching around ramirez's blunder. looks like he has pretty good command of his curve today, and that's always the key for him. hill swung late at a 89-90ish fb because it looked like he was waiting for it to drop to his ankles.
  21. abuck1220
    Yay... I think I'll just forget he ever said that. agreed. sit down, koyie.
  22. abuck1220
    well, that was stupid, aramis.
  23. abuck1220
    hill should be kept over murton, in my opinion. i like murton too, but he's a corner OF w/ little power and average speed. hill, on the other hand is a left-handed SP, which is a lot tougher to come by than a mark grace-lite in LF. like i said, i like murton (and he should be playing over hollandsworth), but his .500ish average is a product of a lot of bloop hits, infield dribblers and pop flies lost in the sun. i like soriano as well, but i don't know if i'd do patterson and hill for him. mainly because he's going to command a fortune in arbitration, and the cubs need all the $ they can get their hands on to keep zambrano and prior, who will break the bank when their times come. if you trade hill, lose one of those two guys to FA and never see wood in the rotation ever again, awesome young pitching is just a distant memory for the cubs.
  24. abuck1220
    no kidding, you'd think the sky is falling Yeah. Who'd have thought you'd run into despondence on a Cub board when things aren't going well for them. Kooky stuff. wait a second...i thought this was a sewing message board!
  25. abuck1220
    you were a fan of the sac bunt and run to set things up for macias?
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