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  1. Derwood
    ha ha. Pitch him on Saturday, then Monday, then Thursday, then Sunday. What? Cy Young would've done it (while pitching out of the pen inbetween starts). Today's pitchers are girls.
  2. Derwood
    I guess I'm just splitting hairs betwen admitted steroid use (which MLB can't prosecute) and a positive drug test (which they can). either way, I hold by my argument that steroids or not, he has the best eye at the plate I've ever seen. If steroids added to his HR totals, fine. I think he would still be great if all those HR's were 2B's instead.
  3. Derwood
    stabbing the first base ump and urinating on the mascot isn't illegal under baseball rules either...but you can't do either of those things. steroids are illegal (by america rule book standards), and they gave him an unfair advantage over other players. he probably would have been a HOFer w/o the steroids, but we can never know for sure. if he took them. Which hasn't been proven. Innocent until proven guilty He admitted taking them. He said he just didn't know they were steroids. He was told it was magic pixie dust. Was this part of the leaked testimony? I honestly don't remember. I believe it was. Except for the Pixiedust. So, to be technical, everyone is indicting him on a piece of testimony that wasn't meant to be made public, and which the courts have chosen not to act on to this point. MMMkay.
  4. Derwood
    The best would be a game with not game thread. "If a game is played but not game thread is made, does it make a sound?"
  5. Derwood
    stabbing the first base ump and urinating on the mascot isn't illegal under baseball rules either...but you can't do either of those things. steroids are illegal (by america rule book standards), and they gave him an unfair advantage over other players. he probably would have been a HOFer w/o the steroids, but we can never know for sure. if he took them. Which hasn't been proven. Innocent until proven guilty He admitted taking them. He said he just didn't know they were steroids. He was told it was magic pixie dust. Was this part of the leaked testimony? I honestly don't remember.
  6. Derwood
    duh
  7. Derwood
    stabbing the first base ump and urinating on the mascot isn't illegal under baseball rules either...but you can't do either of those things. steroids are illegal (by america rule book standards), and they gave him an unfair advantage over other players. he probably would have been a HOFer w/o the steroids, but we can never know for sure. if he took them. Which hasn't been proven. Innocent until proven guilty
  8. Derwood
    BTW, I would have gone with this lineup: 1. Bullett - LF 2. Rhodes - CF 3. Timmons - RF 4. Zuleta - 1B 5. Buechele - 3B 6. Servais - C 7. Martinez - 2B 8. Sanchez - SS 9. A. Young - P
  9. Derwood
    Cubs need to go 7-3 the rest of the way for a .500 record, 8-2 for a winning record. ALRIGHT!
  10. Derwood
    Despite the mountain of evidence that seemingly links him with steroids, he still hasn't tested positive. Additionally, steroids weren't illegal in baseball until the 2003 season. If people want to get all "asterisky" about his numbers, you'll have to keep the single season HR record intact, as that happened before he broke any rules (by the MLB rulebook's standards)
  11. Derwood

    So, Bruce...

    Derwood replied to JC's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Of course. What wasn't fun about this year?
  12. Derwood
    I think his address is: winnineezfung@ozzieball.gov
  13. Derwood
    I'm not going argue any more on this subject until/if he actually tests positive for something. Specualation makes my pockets hurt.
  14. Derwood
    Joe Torre still doesn't crack my top five. If he can't win with the talent he has this year, I'm not sure why we would want him other than the "name" factor. Other than managing the Yankees, has Torre ever won? Torre has won a heck of a lot more games for the Yankees the past decade than the Cubs have. And the fact that that team is in first place despite long term injuries to Pavano, Wright, Mussina, Brown, and to a lesser extent, Johnson. That's incredible. Given those injuries, the Cubs would be a 4th place team. Oh wait....
  15. Derwood
    Wow, go Nomar! 2 feet from a Granny!
  16. Derwood
    FSN North announcer: "...and Patterson continues to disapoint the Cubs." ](*,)
  17. Derwood
    Here's my argument against Bonds and steroids: Bonds hasn't made a career of hitting 500 ft. homers. It's not like he's putting Adam Dunn swings on these pitches. He hits so many homers because he has the best eye at the plate i've ever seen, has a lightning quick bat (he chokes up too), and he NEVER misses a mistake. The argument for him taking steroids would be his enormous head.
  18. Derwood
    Less than a page per inning on this thread. It's official: NO ONE CARES
  19. Derwood
    how the writers will vote: NL MVP - A Jones NL CY - Carpenter AL MVP - whoever has a better final series in BoS vs. NYY head to head AL CY - I have no idea, but can't imagine them giving it to a guy who currently has just 14 wins (over ones with 20, 17, etc.)
  20. Derwood
    Wouldn't you rather have him strike out a little more over grounding into double plays? 21 is downright pathetic. Especially considering the amount of times he actually comes to the plate with runners on. 326 at bats this year, Neifi has come to the plate with no one on. 202 times, he's come to the plate with runners on, 21 of those times have resulted in a GIDP. That would have been 21 more opportunities for Lee and Co. to drive in 21 more runs. Give Neifi 21 more outs to put towards his OBP for making two outs instead of 1. Now his OBP looks even worse. But, let's keep batting him at the top of the order since it's worked out so well this year. :wink: he should bat no higher than 9th
  21. Derwood
    Neifi starting is the wrong spot. The only reason he didn't strike out was the same reason he didn't walk. He swung at everything. At usually, early pitches are pitcher's pitches. Which is why he leads the team in GIDP. I don't dispute that at all. But RBI is a real stat that can't be discarded. Same with Burnitz. People like to decry him as a terrible outfielder. I lump them into the same boat. Both are above average defensively, and both have given more RBI than expected. That's not to say I want either back, but no one here likely believed that the two would combine for 135 RBI and 133 runs scored? Compare that to last season, when the primary RF (Sosa) and SS (Nomar/Martinez) combined for 130 RBI and 119 runs scored. Sadly, Neifi and Jeromy have been a slight upgrade offensively and a big upgrade defensively. Probably why management defends them so much.
  22. Derwood
    Neifi was never batted in the right slot. But though he has just 17 BB (thus the .301 OBP), he has only struck out 43 times in 528 AB's. Plus who thought he could get you 52 RBI? That's just 5 fewer than Barrett, who was also batted in the wrong slot. Baker don't know slots.
  23. Derwood
    No offense, but where the heck is KEVIN ORIE? :wink:
  24. Derwood
    I don't know about the rest of you, but the things that are really upsetting to me are: Top 5 payroll, bottom half of the league results. 1908 - the drought, not the moderator. The lack of attention to the lack of walks taken by hitters and excess of walks given by pitchers - by far, the two biggest reasons for lack of team success. 74-77. Don't forget: could finish behind the brewers could finish behind the expos/nationals will finish behind the white sox
  25. Derwood
    The Cubs magic number to be eliminated from playoff contention is 4. #-o
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