Clem Fandango
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You're not very friendly, Tim
Clem Fandango replied to Ding Dong Johnson's topic in North Side Baseball Issues & Suggestions
This is more useful, because it tells you what you can do to fix the issues: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=northsidebaseball.com%2Fforum%2F&tab=mobile That said, I think the speed is fine. Every once in a while it hangs up for a bit, but it's generally pretty swift for me. -
Hard pass on Ventura. Velocity keeps dropping each year and, more importantly, he's a pile of horsefeathers.
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The regulars at NSBB are The Bobs
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I just don't see how someone can come to this site, lurk a bit, see what that status quo is, and then say something like "You know what, why can't we get a true lead off man who can steal bases?" and honestly believe that it would be well received by the group of us here. When I showed up a decade ago I was that guy. I jumped off the couch in sheer excitement when the Cubs traded for Juan Pierre. I wanted the Cubs to trade Kerry Wood to Texas for Freddy Guzman because he stole a lot of bases in the minors. Then I got schooled by people smarter than me, and I didn't let some jokes get under my skin because I'm not a petulant child and I learned to recognize advanced statistics and how valuable they can be to evaluating baseball. I still say some boneheaded stuff, and will catch some hell for it. So horsefeathering what, it's a message board full of people I've never met.
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http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/q/queveru01.shtml really? Yes his career was over after 24. I just remembered his career too well for it to be over that early. Should've said "It blows my mind that he only pitched an inning after the age of 24" http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=queved001rub
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Man the Dodgers fan base has to be one of the worst. I wonder how many of those 300,000+ votes for Adrian Gonzalez are from actual Dodgers fans and not just randoms who remembered Adrian Gonzalez was a guy they knew, considering that Corey Seager, he of the 2.8 fWAR (highest fWAR among all NL shortstops and #1 fWAR in the entire Dodgers lineup), doesn't even rank in the Top 5 in SS voting. Corey Seager is tied for the 6th most valuable offensive player in all of baseball... doesn't rank anywhere in AS voting. The Dodgers don't deserve nice things.
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Those 119 pitches was the first of only two starts this season in which Jake has thrown 110 pitches or more. In 2003 Mark Prior threw 19 games in which he had 110 pitches or more. 9 of those 19 games were 120 pitches or more. Even last season Jake only threw 11 games with 110 pitches or more. The 119 mark would be his 4th most pitches in a game since he donned a Cubs uniform back in 2013. He is not being abused. Also, you don't attain the self-proclaimed title of "Least Terrible Faction of Cubs Fans on the Internet" by coddling bad ideas.
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I'm still a little shocked that the Cubs haven't snatched him up, let alone anyone else
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And we are presently on pace to be considered one of the greatest teams of all time without his services. The Cubs success without Schwarber proves that they don't need him to win. Does it help? Sure, but if you trade him I suspect it would be for a guy (or guys) who will be WAR monsters in the future (or presently). He's a valuable asset. Could he play acceptable defense and put up great offense? Absolutely, but he could hold more value to an AL team. I also don't think his offense+defense will ever be good enough to warrant a 7 win season. A 6 win season maybe. 5 win season sure, but I don't think he's the sleeping giant people are making him out to be. He's a damn fine ball player and I'm perfectly happy with him on the team, but he is not a player we presently need, and if he can be used to shore up a weakness in the team elsewhere with other tremendous talents, so be it That said I'm not so sure he gets traded anyways, so it kinda doesn't matter.
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I'm not opposed to trading Schwarber at all, to be honest, but I'm not ever going to advocate trading him for a horsefeathering reliever.
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Javier Baez's Plate Discipline (Or Lack Thereof)
Clem Fandango replied to Aaron_Kennelly's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Good stuff, Duke. Nicely done! -
Fowler now has a 3.2 fWAR, which was his fWAR for his entire 2015. Once he achieves a 3.3 fWAR, it will be his career best.
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They've gotta be getting close to calling up one of Taillon/Glasnow at this point.
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Bolsinger was one of the subjects of my first ever game thread graphic... which I started prematurely because I didn't know what I was doing http://i.imgur.com/xdWnMs4.jpg
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Since this last post his batting AVG has dropped a catastrophic 44 points to .331. Fortunately his OBP went up a couple points to .421 and his SLG has gotten only slightly better by 120 points as it is now .566. He has an OPS of .987 compared to the .865 he had when he was hitting .375. He's okay, I guess.
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Go tell your pops and your momma. Shaq is the man.
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22 in 2001. Next most was 1999 with 16. TIL I should've known better than to discount the steroid era.
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This is the thread where we talk about how awesome Kris Bryant is
Clem Fandango replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
https://theathletic.com/2016/05/29/in-year-2-kris-bryant-shows-he-doesnt-want-to-be-the-next-kid-k/ -
Mookie Betts with 3 home runs. What's the record for most 3HR games in one MLB season? This is what now? The 5th 3HR game of the year so far?
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http://espn.go.com/blog/statsinfo/post/_/id/119152/chicago-cubs-jake-arrieta-doing-it-all-this-season Lots of crazy stats in there, but I enjoyed this one which doesn't get enough recognition, I think:
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I got confused by the Kershaw stat about being the only pitcher in the modern era to reach 100 K's and have as few as 5 walks. I wanted to call BS because I knew Carlos Silva went a full year with only 9 walks, then I looked it up and forgot he also doesn't know how to strike anyone out and he never made it past 71 K's that season in 188 innings pitched. Man he was a horsefeathers pitcher.
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It should also be noted that Simon was the third batter Anderson had hit that day. I get if Simon wants to hit Anderson in retaliation but there's no need to go up an in. Just plunk the guy in the ass and be done with it. Of course, Simon might have been trying to him Anderson in the ass but he sucks at pitching and might have just missed his spot. My best friend is a Reds fan and when I told him about the incident his response was "I'm surprised Simon actually hit something he was aiming for"
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So in the Reds/Brewers game, Chase Anderson was pitching to Alfredo Simon and a runner on third was attempting to steal home. During his wind up he noticed it and tried to rush his delivery and slipped in the process to try and get the runner, but the ball got away from him and hit Alfredo Simon, and as a result it was a dead ball and the runner had to go back to third. It was CLEARLY not intentional. He even fell to the ground after his follow through if that wasn't enough of an indicator that he didn't do it on purpose Alfredo Simon drilled Chase Anderson up and in when he came up to bat in retaliation and got tossed because Alfredo Simon is a fat idiot.
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A-Rod with a sad droopy bat flip, but a bat flip nonetheless... http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/0/v744386483/nyytb-arod-connects-on-a-tworun-homer-to-center
