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  1. abuck1220
    Yay... I think I'll just forget he ever said that. agreed. sit down, koyie.
  2. abuck1220
    well, that was stupid, aramis.
  3. 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.
  4. 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!
  5. abuck1220
    you were a fan of the sac bunt and run to set things up for macias?
  6. abuck1220
    Yes. Example: Zambrano hitting for himself in Houston. or like in florida when he ph hollandsworth for murton (holla k'ed), let wood bat (wood got out), then hairston doubled and walker homered.
  7. abuck1220
    doesn't it always seem like the cubs pull out miracles when baker is at his worst strategy-wise?
  8. abuck1220
    macias has played two different positions this week...and he's made errors at both. how is his 'versatility' a plus again?
  9. abuck1220
    see, i was thinking that with his strikeouts and DP yesterday that cedeno had learned all that he could from watching the vets. his apprenticeship is complete!
  10. abuck1220
    it should be easy to trade wood since he doesn't have a no trade clause. great article!
  11. abuck1220
    i didn't realize that the dbacks called up conor jackson. sucks for me because i was looking forward to seeing him when tucson came to town in august.
  12. abuck1220
    that was a pretty dirty play by sosa. real dirty, actually. if jim edmonds had done it, the board would be up in arms.
  13. abuck1220
    The strength and conditioning coach wears #31. :-k You know, I wonder if buying a jersey through the silent auction will let you meet the player after the game. I loved the Boy Scout jersey auction in that once you bought the jersey you could go and meet the player to receive the jersey and get it signed. I enjoyed getting to visit with Murton and Shipman! This is probably completely irrelevant, but at the 45 jersey silent auction the Chiefs did, the winners went down to meet the players and get the signed jerseys from them. If these jerseys are to be signed, I'd guess it would probably be done the same way. that's how they did it at iowa.
  14. abuck1220
    I'm not going with a plan for any one player. I do have some cash from someone to make a push for Sing's jersey. I'll just hang out and hope to get one for the opening bid ($50-$75). weak! :D
  15. abuck1220
    who are you hoping to get?
  16. abuck1220
    i suppose there's a chance that he got called back up with hairston hurting. a crappy patterson is certainly better than macias.
  17. abuck1220
    big surprise...dusty taking credit for murton's success.
  18. abuck1220
    delmon got called up to AAA.
  19. abuck1220
    baker's just bitter because he had to spend like 18 years in AAA before he got his shot. so now he thinks everyone else should have to do the same. this is why he was a terrible choice for this job given the group of players he inherited.
  20. abuck1220
    heh...now the pads are playing him at catcher for the first time in five years. if his heart keeps from leaving san diego, maybe his knees will think otherwise.
  21. abuck1220
    patterson 0-4 so far...average down to .185.
  22. abuck1220
    if all hill can do is bounce the curve, he's never gonna make it. in his last AAA start, he couldn't get the curve over, and they ripped his fb. he has to throw his curve for strikes. i would venture to guess that i've probably seen hill pitch more than anybody here, and i can't think of one occasion where a guy hit his curveball hard. not one. and nobody hit it hard last night either. when he did miss with the curve last night, it was waaay up and away or down and in. those are great spots to miss with a curveball. because his curve has more of an 11-5 motion than a 12-6, it seems like he hangs it out over the plate less often. so, long story short, i'm going to have to vehemently disagree w/ you when you say that his curve will get hit hard by righties more than not if he leaves it out over the plate. that just hasn't been the case in the 30+ innings i've seen him throw.
  23. abuck1220
    that's what the cubs thought they were doing when they signed remlinger and hawkins. neither of those signings worked out very well. relievers' (especially 7th-8th inning guys) performance just vary too much from year to year for anybody to be a sure thing. i'm not saying the cubs shouldn't ever sign a guy like that again, but there's a decent chance that it will end up backfiring.
  24. abuck1220
    man, you people are harsh on hill. mitre has a couple decent starts, and people are deeming him the second greg maddux. hill does well, and people are comparing him to estes... by the way, hill is the second oldest guy in the rotation now, behind only maddux. weird.
  25. abuck1220
    yeah, he keeps getting hurt because he's not mentally willing his labrum not to fray. that's definitely it. matter of fact, the coaching staff told him a way to throw that would make him 100% healthy and the most dominating pitcher in mlb, but he said, 'no way, suckers. you guys are stupid, and i'll do things how i want.' that was right after the cubs told patterson how to turn into willie mays, but he ignored them and then went out to not sign autographs for little kids and swing at high fastballs. Very clever. I keep reading that his mechanics are a problem. and you somehow know that it is a problem that someone has the answer to, but that wood refuses to change?
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