Cubswin11

Yeah I can't stand him. Was he seriously rounding the bases with his fist in the air? Sweet dude.

This is major league baseball, not an RPG where it's a matter of hitting him fungoes until he's an awesome defender. It would help if they were doing it pretty much daily and working on his technique and studying film to identify what he is doing/should be doing. I am not saying he's going to turn into an awesome defender. Maybe they do work on stuff and it just doesn't stick with Soriano or he just doesn't want to work on it. Again, it's not as simple as "you're bad at this, just spend time practicing it and you'll be better". Major league players are pretty much finished products in all facets. And besides, last year was the only year Soriano hasn't been an asset defensively. His arm covers for the occasional misplay, and players test the arm because of those misplays and his reputation as a poor defender. I understand, but Soriano should be able to improve his routes and technique to getting to flyballs. I understand some of it is instinctive and guys either just kinda have or don't, but being able to get better at running routes in the OF and working on changing bad habits you have is something a player at the ML level can do IMO. You see guys improve on things all the time in MLB. Clearly it's not just sitting Soriano out in LF and hitting fungos to him all day without any sort of coaching/analyzing him in which he would just continue to repeat his bad habits and techniques and not improve.

This is major league baseball, not an RPG where it's a matter of hitting him fungoes until he's an awesome defender. It would help if they were doing it pretty much daily and working on his technique and studying film to identify what he is doing/should be doing. I am not saying he's going to turn into an awesome defender. Maybe they do work on stuff and it just doesn't stick with Soriano or he just doesn't want to work on it.

Who is in charge of the OF defense? The fact that Soriano hasn't improved in LF since 2006 should be pretty indicative of their abilities as a coach that he can't even get Soriano to start showing minimal improvements.

Runs, score them Cobs

Just run to the [expletive] spot and catch the ball Soriano, stop backpedaling and twisting around like an ass.

Sweet inning boys

He's a [expletive] idiot. He knows nothing about the Cubs or baseball and I don't know how he has a job where he is considered a primary authority on the Cubs, it's sickening.

Yeah the Cobs wasted 3 very good starts by the rotation the last 3 games, sad we only got 1 W out of it.

Let's go you Schmuck's (I mean Cubs) get a W

This is a .500 looking team so far

Sweet, Soto better be sick or hurt because there is no excuse not to use him there

A bases loaded walk would be about right here

HAHAHAHA

Come on Adalpho

WOW! Lee murdered that thing

Out

Hey Caridad, stop acting surprised you don't get that outside pitch called a strike after you have thrown in 20 [expletive] times in the inning and the ump hasn't called it a strike

Get em' tomorrow. Can't say we didn't have our chances we should have scored over 5 runs with the way Bailey pitched tonight.

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Strikes Please

Don't know if I like bunting 2-0 there, :-k

Carlos Silva OWNS Joey Votto

"National League Central" might be the key phrase here. Dusty Baker's Reds is an acceptable response as well

The Reds just keep rolling the gems out there. We better get some runs off of Micah freakin' Owings