Derwood
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no to bad geography
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I hope this goes without saying, but can people please put results in spoiler tags if it hasn't been shown on TV yet. I know some of you watch the lvie feeds online, but for those of us who are watching in prime time, we'd rather not have the results before we see the events
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Bob Costas: "They should retire the trophy for best Opening Ceremonies" It was pretty unbelievable, and Vancouver/London have no chance of matching it. FYI, the stadium floor had a 500' x 70' LED video surface
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8/8/08 -- Natspos at Brewers and Other Games
Derwood replied to weatherdood's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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We won the first game, Houston won the last 3. That was the series with the ball that supposedy hit off Berkman's helmet. I was at whichever game Corey Patterson lead off with a HR but the Cubs lost like 11-1
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I'm nervous about this series. I remember 2004 when there was an August series against the Astros. If the Cubs had swept (or won 3 of 4), it would pretty much have put Houston to bed, but I think Houston won all 4 games and we know how the rest went.
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I vote no to any "balanced" schedule idea. I think you should heavily play your own division
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wrong weekend for me to have 6 guests in the house :evil:
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viewtopic.php?f=29&t=50396
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I think you have to use the DFA method and expose him to waivers in order to get him to the minors. Eyre will be traded, probably for a PTBNL in the next 10 days. If not, somebody will claim him in the waiver process. Zero chance anyone claims Scott Eyre off waivers. 100% chance someone does. Shall I say it again for emphasis? No one is going to take on a $1+ million commitment for two months of a mediocre (at best) relief pitcher who has a very real chance of being horrible. sure they will looks like someone is taking on that salary. see, i'm not wrong all the time ;)
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nothing like gaining ground on an off day
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http://sportscomplex.blogs.citypaper.net/blogs/mu/2008/08/07/scott-eyre-is-a-phillie/ Brian Schlitter that's an unfortunate name
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i don't know what in Cuban's NBA history would make you think he would be bad long term. He took arguably the worst NBA team (at the time) and made them perennial playoff contenders. I haven't seen any backlash and it's been 10+ years.
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26-25 when Soriano doesn't start. I know that, and I'm not saying we aren't much better with him in the lineup. I'm just arguing with the idea that he needs to be hot for the lineup to produce. Plus, giving me the W/L record isn't really telling me much about how many runs their producing, although I'm sure it's less with Sori out. the rest of the team seems to believe in some mystical mojo that Soriano brings to the lineup.
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when you're on a WS contending team, the goal is to have everyone on the 25 man roster above average. Is that really ridiculous to you? The thing is come October Jason either A. wont' be on the WS contending team's roster, or B. will fill the role of 11th pitcher, in which case he'd be above average. C) won't be on the playoff roster at all Which is A on his list. http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Literacy/images/RIFLogo2.jpg :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
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when you're on a WS contending team, the goal is to have everyone on the 25 man roster above average. Is that really ridiculous to you? The thing is come October Jason either A. wont' be on the WS contending team's roster, or B. will fill the role of 11th pitcher, in which case he'd be above average. C) won't be on the playoff roster at all
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Assuming he stays healthy, I think the difference between going far in the playoffs and another first round burn out may rest squarely on Soriano's shoulders. He seems to be a guy who picks up the team offensively, but when he's scuffling, the rest of the team tends to scuffle with him. I know, I know, it's not much of a limb to climb out on
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not unless we see a serious upgrade in the OF. Fukudome is certainly capable of 80 next year, but there is no obvious 80+ guy for CF Even then, Theriot isn't going to be eclipsing 80 RBI anytime soon and Soriano will be doing it out of the one spot. Seemed to me Ping was pointing to the batting order part of it too (the fact that all of 2-7 did it)... Otherwise there'd be no point to pointing that out, since what this year's team is doing is better.. *shrug* If you bat theriot 1st and Fukudome 8th, then I could say 2-7 gets 90+ RBI this year. It's just semantics. Either way, this team sure beats those "Sosa gets 135, Grace gets 85, everyone else has 40" teams of not so long ago
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when you're on a WS contending team, the goal is to have everyone on the 25 man roster above average. Is that really ridiculous to you?
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not unless we see a serious upgrade in the OF. Fukudome is certainly capable of 80 next year, but there is no obvious 80+ guy for CF
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According to the ESPN.com projections, Soto, Lee, DeRosa, Ramirez, Soriano and the CF platoon (Johnson/Edmonds) all project to 90 or more RBI. Fukudome projects to 60 and Theriot to 45. When was the last time that happened on the Cubs?
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Rays acquire Bradford
Derwood replied to Post Count Padder's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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Same league first, then opposing league. If thats the case, then the Cubs passed on him, right? yes, because the Cubs don't think they need to upgrade in the OF.
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again, you can't have odd numbered teams in each league without an interleague series being played all the time And there's no good reason why you couldn't do that. i haven't done the math, so I don't know if that would mean more interleague series or not. I certainly have no problem spreading it out rather than having this weird chunk of the schedule that's suddenly all interleague (minus the one NL series). If each team played 4 interleague series per year, you could. that sounds about right. That's 30 weeks worth of interleague series. The season is only 24 or 25 weeks, right?
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i always love the pro-Marquis arguments. seemingly because the team is winning and Marquis is the #5 starter and he "eats innings" and doesn't have an ERA of 37.84 I have no right to complain, and if I do, my expectations are too high and I want a staff of ace pitchers. Did I miss anything?
