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  1. It was a bunt hit that he used his only tool, speed, to beat out. I understand crticism, but these game threads are ruthless.
  2. Have you collected your award for "Most optimistic poster" yet? :wink:
  3. Even our forfeit lineup look pretty good. Theres nothing wrong with Ramirez is there? He's 0-10 against the starter, so it's a nice day to give him a break. Except that past performance in 10 at-bats has absolutely no predictive value. I used to give the benefit of the doubt to managers who made lineup decisions based on past batter-pitcher performance (Brenly goes crazy over those stats), but the research of Lichtman/Tango/Dolphin pretty much squashes the idea that certain pitchers own certain hitters and vice versa. I think it has to hold some value in certain situations. Whether it be a tought LH against a fellow lefty which is not as common as the R/R matchup. Obviously 0-10 is a very small sample size, but I don't think you can completely disregard it in other instances. Some guys, for whatever reason, hit well against certain pitchers.
  4. I think he'll be fine. Obvioulsly you don't want to see him do this every time out, and he hasn't. You can't just look at pitch count either, it is too simplistic. There are other more imprtant things involved, mechanical issues, etc. It isn't the number of pitchers, its how you are throwing them in most cases.
  5. I guess Cedeno does too since he made an error the other night also.
  6. The Cubs have now won at least 15 games in April and May. Winning 15 games a month will give you 90. Keep it up!
  7. Haha. Left-handed batters hit 100 points of OPS better against Lowe, but Fontenot and Edmonds are on the bench. Johnson's career numbers against Lowe probably have zero predictive value according to the research of Tango, Lichtman, and Dolphin. Edmonds is sitting because of his career numbers against Lowe. 5-30 .167/.194/.300
  8. Hehe... Gotta love the Cubs. Brant Brown-esque.
  9. The Brewers are 6 games behind the Cubs. Cubs were 8.5 behind the Brewers last June. This cubs team is way better than last years team that was able to run them down. The point is that being 6 games up right now doesn't really mean all that much. It's nice, and anyone would rather be 6 games up than 6 games back, but it doesn't guarantee you anything. Which is why paying any serious attention to the standings right now is pretty useless.
  10. Its May... The Cubs keep winning and playing well and there will be nothing to worry about. I cant get upset about a Mil-Was score right now.
  11. I love the 12 hopper to CF for an RBI single.
  12. Nice hustle by Lee. Have to go for two on that.
  13. Did I miss the announcement? Is this (Insert announcer name here) is a jerk.douchebag/idiot day?
  14. Which is why I don't really care right now. Its May, the Cubs just need to keep winning and play a little better on the road. The standings don't mean a lot to me until post All-Star break.
  15. I don't think he had a lot of choice. Those guys didn't have the grades. Probably, but usually they try to get them up through summer school. In these cases, they were either too low to bring up or he just didn't want to deal with them. He picked up a pretty good PG for 09 last week, local boy Jordan Hulls.
  16. It might be ugly for a while in Bloomington but I expect Crean to do a good job. I think it says a lot that he is willing to kick off half the team and just deal with the losses.
  17. Is this really necessary? I love sitting by people like this at games. Makes it so enjoyable.
  18. The SD broadcast just put up a photoshop of Edmonds in a Cubs uniform. Weird.
  19. I just seems that there is one guy every year that takes a lot of undeserved crap. I know the historical numbers for Theriot, but its hard to complain with what he has done this year. I'd be thrilled if Cedeno could do what he has done so far. Play whoever is producing, so far Theriot has done nothing to lose his job.
  20. Has Theriot's play changed anyone's minds yet?
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