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  1. Mugged By Fluffy
    Haha. The Mets giving Dempster a big contract sounds like an absolute disaster. let's hope that happens. What's more likely to happen? The Mets... A) Give Ryan Dempster a ridiculous 5 year contract B) Give Francisco Rodriguez a ridiculous 5 year contract C) Give both players ridiculous 5 year contracts I choose C. Anything over what Hendry has already proposed to Demp is overpaying since Dempster can't hack it in pressure situations. I can't imagine him faring any better in NY with the way things have gone over there the last few seasons. He'd have to be nuts to sign with the Mets. I was with you right up until there. Last I recall he couldn't handle 9th inning closer pressure in 2007, You mean when he saved 28 of 31 opps? Yeah yeah...that's the year. The one in which he also lost 7 games and had an ERA of 4.73(and a whip of 1.33).
  2. Mugged By Fluffy
    Haha. The Mets giving Dempster a big contract sounds like an absolute disaster. let's hope that happens. What's more likely to happen? The Mets... A) Give Ryan Dempster a ridiculous 5 year contract B) Give Francisco Rodriguez a ridiculous 5 year contract C) Give both players ridiculous 5 year contracts I choose C. Anything over what Hendry has already proposed to Demp is overpaying since Dempster can't hack it in pressure situations. I can't imagine him faring any better in NY with the way things have gone over there the last few seasons. He'd have to be nuts to sign with the Mets. I was with you right up until there. Last I recall he couldn't handle 9th inning closer pressure in 2007, and he got humiliated at home in Game 1 of the playoffs. He's proven himself a non clutch performer. I doubt NY is going to save him. We can pretty much figure out what is going to happen when he is called upon to pitch against the Phillies in a big(and possibly deciding) series next September.
  3. Mugged By Fluffy
    Haha. The Mets giving Dempster a big contract sounds like an absolute disaster. let's hope that happens. What's more likely to happen? The Mets... A) Give Ryan Dempster a ridiculous 5 year contract B) Give Francisco Rodriguez a ridiculous 5 year contract C) Give both players ridiculous 5 year contracts I choose C. Anything over what Hendry has already proposed to Demp is overpaying since Dempster can't hack it in pressure situations. I can't imagine him faring any better in NY with the way things have gone over there the last few seasons. He'd have to be nuts to sign with the Mets.
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    Steve Phillips actually had something worthwhile to say regarding Longoria's hitting, on Baseball Tonight before the game. Everything that Longoria was hitting in the ALCS from Boston pitchers and White Sox pitchers was belt high and up, or on the inner half of the plate. Philly pitchers have been been pitching Longoria low and/or away and Longoria hasn't made the adjustment. Take a look next time EL comes up to bat. It brings back some bad Soriano memories.
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    Supposedly it is down to 3 candidates, but can anyone really see Willie Randolph being offered the job with how he has managed the last two seasons? The Brewers would be getting another Ned Yost.
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    Is the bottom of the second inning of game 1 too early to start complaining about the broadcast? Whats with the primary up-high far away camera angle from behind the pitchers mound instead of the standard zoomed in view from left-center field? Pitcher on the left of the screen, batter on the right . It wasn't bad like this during the ALCS. It's driving me crazy--you cant see the pitches break and you cant judge the top or bottom of the strikezone.
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    Same here. I like the fact that there are no old, tired stories going on here(Manny, Clemens, Jeter, Yankees,Yankee Stadium, RedSox, Veritek, Mariano Rivera, long WS droughts,etc..) that McCarver and Fox Sports will cram down our throats each and every game. With the exception of this 9=8 stuff, it seems like it should just be about baseball.
  8. Mugged By Fluffy
    I realized yesterday evening as the Rays were beating the RedSox that soon ALL of the recent expansion teams(what's it been now, 13 years?) will all have made it to the World Series before the Cubs have. With the DBacks winning it, and the Marlins winning it twice.
  9. Mugged By Fluffy
    I still think it's highly unlikely the Yankees are going to get Peavy. They don't have enough to give up for him. SD is not going to take on the overvalued contract the Yankees gave Cano Cabrera is a worthless CF and Cashman isn't going to give up Chamberlain. Kennedy isn't worth anything though Phil Hughes might be. , Also keep in mind all the money that is coming off the Yankee books this season. Easier for the Yanks to throw money at Lowe, Sabathia, etc.... than to trade their prospects that Cashman covets so much. I do think the Cubs have a shot with Vitters as the centerpiece, along with Theriot, Castillo, Pie and Marshall. I think that Austin Jackson, Phil Hughes, Delin Betances gets it done. The Yankees have some good pitching in the system. I don't know. I don't see Jackson doing it. He looks to be your ordinary average outfielder. Late pick in the draft, isn't anything special in the minors right now. Betances though? Good point I forgot about him. Still it makes no sense for the big spending Yanks to drain their farm for Peavy when all they have to do is go hard after Sabathia, Lowe, Sheets, etc...
  10. Mugged By Fluffy
    I still think it's highly unlikely the Yankees are going to get Peavy. They don't have enough to give up for him. SD is not going to take on the overvalued contract the Yankees gave Cano, Cabrera is a worthless CF and Cashman isn't going to give up Chamberlain. Kennedy isn't worth anything though Phil Hughes might be. Also keep in mind all the money that is coming off the Yankee books this season. Easier for the Yanks to throw money at Lowe, Sabathia, etc.... than to trade their prospects that Cashman covets so much. I do think the Cubs have a shot with Vitters as the centerpiece, along with Theriot, Castillo, Pie and Marshall.
  11. Mugged By Fluffy
    No Mariano Rivera, no Yankees, no Manny Ramirez and maybe even no Red Sox...........What will McCarver have to talk about?
  12. Mugged By Fluffy
    Jim Hendry will come to your house, hand you a check, and kick you in the nuts. You will then thank him and make an appointment for the same time next year. :-)) :lol: :-)) :lol:
  13. Mugged By Fluffy
    Hey! You makin' fun of me, man? You make fun that I want to train an army of leadoff hitters? If a scientist can take a bunch of body parts one Halloween and make a creature out of it, then why cant we build ourselves a leadoff hitter? :evil: :twisted: :evil:
  14. Mugged By Fluffy
    Get Soriano out of the lead off spot and do whatever they have to do to get a real leadoff hitter. If they have to train Fontenot or Theriot, or trade them for one along with some prospects, then do it. Unless he goes back home to Japan and falls on a sword, they are stuck with Fukudome for a while. May as well put him in CF and get a lefty hitting power hitter for RF. I don't know if Hoffpauir can handle it or not. What do you guys think? I would sign Wood, but not Dempster. Chances are good the Cubs will be in the playoffs again next Oct. Dempster just doesn't have the stomach for high pressure situations. We saw it last year when he was closing, we saw it this year in the playoffs. Send Aramis Ramirez to see a sports psychologist.
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    I agree. A crapshoot means two good teams play hard head to head, and any one thing can happen over the course of a series that helps or hurts a team. There was no crapshoot about this. From game one on, the Cubs truly blew it in a myriad of ways.
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    I'm a bit older and 1984 broke my heart. I remember my dad telling me (after game 2) "don't get too excited we still need to win one more". I remember telling him "Dad it's over we are going to the World Series!" He tried his best to keep my excitement at a reasonable level, and 3 games later I understood why. I was devastated! Took me a long time to get over. I still remember the back of the sun-times sports page with the headline EVEN STEVEN after game 4. I also remember the Chicago Tribune headline that read "Wait Till next" with graphic of a little Cub crying after game 5. KILLED ME!!!! I wasn't crushed again until 2003. 1989 didn't really bother me all that much. We just got beat. Nothing heartbreaking about it. Same story here. 1984 was devastating, with 1989 bieng somewhat upsetting. In 1998, much like last season(2007) I knew the Cubs did not have what it took to be WS winners and expected little from them. 2003 was a return to the 1984 heartbreak. This time, it is more pissed off devastation than the emotional kind of 2003. I am furious at these guys.
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    He's saving it for the local media. Any bets on who tonight's whipping boy will be? DeLuca perhaps?
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    It really does make one wonder if there really is something to this effing curse and whatnot. How do you be the best team in the NL, 97-wins, all those stats, etc etc etc and just completely wet the bed when it comes to the games that absolutely matter the most? This ain't just a mega-choke job. I freaked about curses a little bit last night, but at the end of the day its about players tightening up due to the added pressure. The second inning was the ultimate proof of this hypothesis. The reality is only a certain breed of professional athlete can perform when confronted with the stress of having to perform within a very small timeframe in front of a huge fan base in a major media market constantly reminding the that they are "cursed." To date, only the '04 Red Sox had the right mix of carefree, loosey-goosey guys to get it done. Maybe the '80 Phils too. The '05 White Sox? No pressure on them. They're the second team in this city and always would be whether they won or lost. Their fans only care about beating the Cubs. If the Cubs are ever to win anything, they need to model the psychological profile of their team after the '04 Red Sox. +1
  23. Mugged By Fluffy
    At least he is making adjustments. He isn't just swinging at pitches low and out of the zone.
  24. Mugged By Fluffy
    Every playoff appearance it is something. Every single one has some kind of disaster. I cant take this anymore.
  25. Mugged By Fluffy
    During the Sox/Twins tiebreaker he called the WhiteSox catcher A.G. Pierzynski. After Griffey hit the double, he says that Grif was taken out of the game by a pinch hitter.
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