Careless

Meh, what's one more title for the Yankees? I'm no Yankee fan but it's not like them winning another one's going to make me hate them any more. Just takes 1 to send them into full on dynastic boasting mode. I'm having fun watching the playoffs so I can root against certain teams... Unfortunately, 1 of those teams will most likely wind up winning the WS.

Naw, this will be a long game because the cards will score 10+

the winningest manager in padres history is well below .500?

You don't see that sort of hate directed at comedians every day

Unsurprisingly, it seems the only people who want the sox to win are living outside of chicago.

I looooove those sac bunts!

When I lived in Dallas, I went to a the Stars games. I had a good time, but really don't enjoy it on TV. I don't follow it enough to care. Yeah, hockey is one of those sports that doesnt translate to TV well. Not a hockey fan, but I disagree with you. I think that televised hockey is nearly everything that televised soccer should be but isn't.

Or you could let vlad get on 1st then get himself thrown out stealing with his team losing by 4

go back more and it gets funnier " I did my first leveraged buyout when I was about that age. Young people can kind of do things in this life."" edit: and this guy looks younger than 28.

there was simply no way the cubs were even considering matching what the yankees paid leiber to rehab. They gave him what, $7 million for the 2 years? a year of rehab and the year coming back from rehab, and he wasn't a young man at the time

I bet Vlad took off on his own accord. I hope so. I'd hate to think another team has someone in a management position dumb enough to do that.

Yep, terrible day of baseball. So what the heck was whoever it was that told vlad to steal thinking???

which was both funny and accurate btw.

Sullivan wrote that, did he not? By Paul Sullivan Tribune staff reporter Published October 3, 2005, 8:57 PM CDT

iI'd rather not have the cubs be the only example of such monumental managerial incompetence in baseball especially when it would allow a portion of people in this city to harass me mercilessly.

What about now? ](*,)

At this point it's pretty much a given that the yankees will win

I remember when Depp was doing the movie "Ed Wood" and Sarah Jessica Parker said how depressing it was to be a woman and not be as attractive in a dress as Johnny Depp was. She should be used to it, she's downright ugly.

Only thing to blame peavy for that inning was the WP. real nightmare inning for a pitcher

They're a bad team. No way they break 500 if they're playing in another division.

Hey, dusty does a lot of managing. Think of all the glorious double switches!

Given that the season is over, I'll assume that we're talking about next season, so I'm voting Z

using "Corey" means both that you're aware that "Corey" is against the rules and that you're intentionally violating the rules of the board.

I've been wondering for a while now, even though the Cubs probably won't fire dusty after this season, has he been clearly bad enough to utterly destroy the positive aspects of his reputation and ensure that his next job will not be heading a ML team?

As has been said enough times on this board that I'm sure you've seen it: he got the cubs offense so hot that they scored fewer runs with him around than without. But, was that really Lofton's fault? He provided a .327 AVG, .387 OBP from the lead off spot with the Cubs. He scored 39 runs in 56 games, with 20 XBH's, 12 stolen bases and 20 RBI's, all from the lead off spot. If the Cubs scored less runs with Kenny, the blame falls on the other players in the line up, not Kenny. Kenny's good OBP this year is exactly what this team needed this year. I'm not saying it has to be Kenny. Any good OBP will do. Sosa's OPS dropped 150 points in the 2nd half of the 2003 season. Alou's OPS dropped more than 50 points in the 2nd half of 2003. Lofton, Grudz and Ramirez basically carried this team into the playoffs in 2003, outside of the starting rotation. Without Lofton, I'm not so sure the Cubs are in the 2003 playoffs. I will agree that he didn't get the "line up" going. He just provided the spark that was missing from Sosa and Alou. Wait a second. You're applying logical analysis and using stats that make your point stronger. Thats no fair! Derwood said that he "really got that lineup going". To me that implies the team having more success than previously. It's not ambiguous, derwood stated that lofton improved the entire cubs lineup. The statistics do not bear that out. I'm not insulting his performance. He did a great job for us. But there are only 3 possibilities: 1: he made the cubs lineup worse with his presence 2: he had no effect on the lineup (beyond his own hitting) 3: he had a positive effect that was neutralized by negative effects from elsewhere, in which case we'll almost certainly never be able to sort out who did what I just don't see how you could be justified in making that claim.