SouthSideRyan

Last time Pujols executed a sac bunt, Geo was 18. Kaplan is pretty much calling Geo mentally weak. Are you serious?? That's terrible. Soto was killing the ball tonight. Bunting with him was a terrible decision. Yeah, he said "hitter's talk themselves out of being able to bunt." "It's part of the game, everyone should be able to do it." Then some idiot called about Pujols and Rolen being able to bunt. Rolen and Pujols have a combined 2 sac bunts in their careers. But I know Scott could do more if he wanted to cause he's white.

138 million dollars!!

Haven't used it all year, but it's necessary. RALLY PICKLE

Without a doubt. I hope someone explodes at Lou for managing like Howry. Nobody's questioned Lou since they asked him about taking out Soriano 4 months ago. The media is scared of the crazy old man routine.

Fixed. OHHHHHHHHHHH HAAHAHHAHAHAHA EEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHH HEHEHHEHEHEHHEHE HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOHOHOHOHOHOH AHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Cardinals will win 1 game against us the rest of the season. And it won't be tomorrow. There, I said it.

If the Cubs locker room hasn't been trashed by Lou in a fit of rage, he should be fired. Rumors are that what he did in front of the microphone was not nearly as bad as what happened in the locker room. I hope somebody Dibbles his ass

why don't you marry him? I already married a carrot.

Nice running Escobar.

Last time Pujols executed a sac bunt, Geo was 18.

Something both Cards and Cubs fans can agree on! :) Cards choke jobs since 69: 85, 87, 96, 00, 04, 05 Yeah, but 1969!! In 1969, the Cubs were out of first place by September 10. You don't understand man. I lived through it. I've been through too many Cubs seasons dude. Fool me once!!! Another Cubs meltdown, just like every other year. Curse, goats, Bartman, argle bargle, robble robble.

4 fingers pointing back at yourself you hopeless drunk.

Something both Cards and Cubs fans can agree on! :) Cards choke jobs since 69: 85, 87, 96, 00, 04, 05 Yeah, but 1969!!

Seriously... that crap is obnoxious and lots of stadiums do it. And people complain about "Go Cubs, Go" If you had a stadium from this century instead of that dump, you would have fireworks and alot of other things that you don't have now. Wow, ten posts to reveal he's a dick. Is that a record? Jabroni.

Call up Dusty, order the bunt Lou!!

COULD WE SHUT THE F UP ABOUT 1969 F THOSE EFFERS THEY SUCKED AND THEY'RE NOT AS GOOD AS THIS TEAM. I CAN'T WAIT TIL ALL THE OLD FARTS STOP HUMPING THE CORPSE OF THOSE DO NOTHING LOSERS GET OVER IT, THEY SUCKED.

I hate bunting more than I hate pants.

Just awful. Once again bunting the best of the 3 hitters due up to get the guy over for lesser ones(Fontenot, and who knows probably Ted Lilly or something)

I've hammered the Cubs for their usage of Adduci, but good for him, happy to see him get a HR.

I feel bad this was glossed over. Discipline can be taught, but it's my opinion that it needs to be stressed early on in their minor league career. Granted, I think Von Joshua could get me to OBP 350 in Iowa, but that's the exception not the rule. When you have a guy whose able to get by on his raw ability through the lower levels, it's that much harder when he has to adjust to better pitching at the higher levels and come up with a completely new approach than the one that's worked his whole life. Partially pride, but you've also got the difficulty of trying to learn something new after being so familiar with an approach your entire athletic life. It's similar to why I don't like pitching mechanics being tinkered with at the big league level until forced to by injury/upcoming injury. Baseball is a game of repetition, and going ahead and changing things after you've been successful with another way is going to be difficult for anyone, let alone somebody who's been told their whole life how good they are at something. By all means, tinker with the guy when he's drafted, set him on the right path and re-teach him the game if you really need to. But yeah, this was a bit of a tangent wasn't it. As for Montanez/Colvin it's a tough comparison. Montanez struggled his first few years in the minors offensively and defensively. It wasn't really til he shifted to the OF that he started hitting. Because of this(despite coming out from high school) Montanez was ~2 years older than Colvin at the same level. The problem with Montanez was because he was so late to develop in the minors, he was pretty much sink or swim at Iowa in his 6th(and final before free agency) year in the Cubs system. After tearing up AA for 160 PAs, he was sent to Iowa and failed miserably. Totally defensible for the Cubs to let him go, as he still wasn't very projectable at that point. Even last year with Baltimore's AAA squad he didn't do much of anything. It was Montanez's 8th minor league season before he hit AAA pitching with any authority. Next year will be Colvin's 4th minor league season and hopefully he'll be up in AAA taking his hacks. I don't expect much better than Montanez's 2007 (~750 OPS), but doing that at 23 in AAA isn't awful. I think Colvin's definitely a 2 year AAAer, and hopefully that time spent with St. Von will turn him into a big league starter.

You all better have Kurt Warner as your QBs or something. This is ridiculous.

And to think I felt bad for Frank when he needed that kidney transplant.

What should we be thinking about? Hating our lives?

who's throwing dirt on him? i said IF Edmonds struggles. i don't think it's a foregone conclusion that he won't. But Fukudome HAS struggled. Why would you replace Edmonds because of a 2 week slump with a guy who's slumped the last 3 months.

~6 months.