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With that Alfonsolo homerun, 8 of his 10 homeruns this season have come with no one on base.
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Two more Alfonsolo homeruns tonight. 7 of his 9 homers this year have been solo shots. But that's cool, Quade, no reason to move him up in the order at all.
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One good thing you can say about Dempster: He always does a great job of backing up the catcher when he gives up all these runs.
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Another Alfonsolo homerun.
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Get your Starlin Castro t-shirt here! http://www.three60gear.com/mlb/national-league/central-division/chicago-cubs/starlin-castro.html *Note: This is not spam and I am in no way affiliated with this website. I just find the shirts to be hilarious. And ridiculous.
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Not really, he was a product of Rothschild. Since Larry is no longer here he's now going back to what he was without Larry, Is that a joke?
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Soriano has already hit his solo homerun for the game. No chance he does anything here. Hope I'm wrong.
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Is this a rhetorical question, or do you really not know? I'd like the physics behind it. Or a simple "because Blake DeWitt isn't good at baseball" would suffice. The physics behind it? Batter swings and makes contact with the ball that causes it to be popped up in foul territory, where it is then caught by a fielder for an out.
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Another Alfonsolo homerun.
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It's correct to give him an error. If he would have caught the ball, Young would have not been able to advance to 3rd. The ruling is correct. No. It's a bad call. The ball landed right in front of his catcher's mitt while he was in need of performing a sweep tag. Asking a catcher to field that ball cleanly with a catcher's mitt while also trying to make the tag is not an error. You can give Soriano an error for not catching the ball or Castro on the relay or thowing it at all before you can blame the catcher for trying to perform a miracle. Well I see it differently. It should have been caught by Soto. The official scorer agrees. But whatever, doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. It was bad all the way around.
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It's correct to give him an error. If he would have caught the ball, Young would have not been able to advance to 3rd. The ruling is correct.
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Jim Hendry on the broadcast this inning.
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Good. That's what the Ricketts get for setting 1,000 pricing tiers, not generating much excitement, and having a generally crappy team. As fans, let's hope this doesn't bite us in the ass when they cry poor and don't sign Pujols. QFT.
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Hey, look at that. Another Alfonsolo homerun.
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Put on waivers according to Sullivan. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-spt-0329-cubs-bits--20110328,0,5658997.story Okay, that's a huge difference... not if another team claims him of course, but at least we're trying to keep him in the system rather than cutting ties completely. It's actually not a difference at all, in baseball. The terms are used interchangeably. If a player has been placed on waivers, he has been "waived." You may be confusing the term with a different sport: football. If a player is "waived" in the NFL, he becomes an unrestricted free agent (if he is not claimed by another team). Therefore, the term "waived" has the connotation of being released, in that sport. In baseball, "waived" = placed on waivers.
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From Ken Burns' Baseball: "It is played everywhere. In parks and playgrounds and prison yards. In back alleys and farmers' fields. By small children and old men. Raw amateurs and millionaire professionals. It is a leisurely game that demands blinding speed. The only game in which the defense has the ball. It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime, and ending with the hard facts of autumn. It is a haunted game, in which every player is measured against the ghosts of all who have gone before. Most of all, it is about time and timelessness. Speed and grace. Failure and loss. Imperishable hope. And coming home."
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As opposed to a blogger without a site.
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Will the Cubs Opt out of Spring Training in Mesa?
justin23iu replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
As a veteran of 3 spring training visits, Arizona is such an awesome place for for baseball in March. Mesa, however, is a dump. Going to HoHoKam is almost as scary as it used to be to go to Comiskey. -
Cardinals Youtube Guy returns for the Taguchi signing.
justin23iu replied to cubswin2009's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Well at least I know I have something in common with him now. Seeing So Taguchi as a Cub is also a very painful thing for me. -
Wow I've found my new favorite channel. I just turned it on for the first time to see what kind of programming they're running, and I already can't stop watching. Even the preview show is interesting. It looks as if they're really trying to make Harold Reynolds the face of the network, though, which could really annoy me. Other than that, MLB Tonight will be an 8 hour nightly show with live look-ins and analysis. I can't wait.
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If he didn't pump 10 times he might have had him by the way, in looking at his minor league stats this Murphy will be probably be not as special as Sutt thinks. Suttcliffe is probably the worst announcer this side of Joe Morgan. He talks too much and says almost nothing at the same time. That's a rare combination. Everybody is his "good buddy" and he'll tell you what. He's been rather insightful tonight, actually. He pointed out that Koyie Hill is tipping pitches to the 2nd base runners, and then he pointed out that the Cubs outfield was too shallow when Murphy batted, saying that Murphy was a line drive hitter who could shoot one right past them. Sure enough, he hits a liner into the gap that Fukudome can't cut off. Is he the best broadcaster ever? No. But he does have some insight.
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Wow!! Is this really happening????
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I hadn't heard for Chi-ball before this week, but they've been the leaders on the Mariotti-to-the-Tribune story, so they seem to have some kind of connections.
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As a fan who's been tormented at a few games by Ronnie's constant Woo-Wooing, count me as one of the certain people who hate him. The only time I like him is when he occasionally goes missing.
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Unfortunately it's really tempered my enjoyment of the season. I, too, only have WGN, and I usually work during Cubs games, so I simply DVR them in hopes of watching the game later. Inevitably someone tells me the outcome of the game, and when it's a loss I obviously don't feel like watching the game any more. And when they lose so often on WGN, it makes me miss out on a lot of games. It seems like the last month has been exceptionally terrible on WGN, it's really inexplicable.