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  1. SouthSideRyan
    Ahh, good times. Was that the day Rob Mackowiak's kid was born and he celebrated by beating the Cubs to death? That sucked. I was at Game 1 of the Cards DH in 2003. Sosa with a walkoff. I think 90% of the Cubs team almost hit walkoffs in that game. I got home just in time to see the Alfonseca belly bump in the 2nd game. That bad call prevented a 5-game series sweep by the Cubs. Wasn't Sosa's HR in like the 15th. I seem to remember an exuberant Chip Caray talking about how things were just getting started.
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    Go Cards If this is anyone but Steve Allen you're stealing my bit.
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    Better, but I'd still take the draft picks. Really all depends on if Owings was hurt, which is a double edged sword. It would explain him sucking, but then hes hurt. Not when you figure in the other 2 prospects, alogn with the fact that those compensation picks aren't as likely to have a career as good as Owings will, plus the bonuses that have to be paid to the comp picks.
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    Is this officially the first proclamation of this for 2009? This would make it 8 years running that everyone needs to watch out for the up and coming Reds.
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    What's weird? The fact that double headers are swept like 49% of the time. The fact that it's so far from 50 percent, or so close? I think it's about where it should be. It shows that it's slightly harder to win a doubleheader than to win 2 in a row, but not as much as conventional wisdom would believe. Well, before any games are played (or coins are flipped) the odds of a 50/50 (which these games more or less are) going the same way twice in a row are 1/4 or 25%. ...and now that's causing me to confuse the hell out of myself trying to figure this out. It's 48% for either team to sweep. Think of it as 24% chance Braves sweep, 24% Cubs sweep. 52% split.
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    The percentages probably change slightly for doubleheaders due to bullpen usage. The winning team of game 1 is more likely to use their good bullpen arms while the losing team would be using lesser arms. That leaves the winning teams arms either tired or unavailable.
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    Only if they say that Dunn is a bad player because of it; which I don't think anybody has said. I don't think anyone has suggested Dunn should change his approach - at this point his game is what it is. He hits a ton of home runs and walks a lot which are fantastic. He strikes out a lot and is a terrible defender which is bad. The good outweighs the bad at this point and he is a very productive player - but that doesn't change the fact that SO's are bad and should not simply be dismissed, especially in the quantities in which Dunn accumulates them. wrong dead wrong absolutely positively wrong no where near correct, rather, you are wrong If another player were to duplicate Dunn's numbers and strikeout 100 times less that player would be a more productive player (Again no one is saying Dunn is NOT very productive) So in fact you are wrong...and I will leave the obnoxious arguments all to you for obvious reasons. But Dunn doesn't have the option to strike out 100 times less and be as productive of a player. If Adam Dunn struck out 100 times less he would wind up being a worse player. It's a tradeoff based on a guy's talent.
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    As long as the Cards and Brewers dont take any flyers. Let the Brewers have him. He doesn't have a place to place with Braun, Hart, and Fatty playing LF, RF, and 1B. He is likely to just hurt their team I'm kinda guessing Sheff isn't welcome back in Milwaukee.
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    . :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
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    .270/.403/.545 Thanks Jersey...Not bad. So he's making something good happen 40% of the time, is this a big difference over the average of all players in this situation? do you really think that the league averages anywhere near to a .948 ops in any situation? Why not? I'd love have seen your face after you read that. I was just talking about the 40% IMB, not the .948 ops. i really, really doubt that the entire league averages a .400 OBP in any situation, too. go look if you think otherwise. I was just curious on what the league average was. O_O just showed me a brand new site called Baseball Reference so now I can look up all this info. Seriously? How have you survived? Abiskis and a slide rule. Search, explore, enjoy. You'll be occupied for the better part of the next month.
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    .270/.403/.545 Thanks Jersey...Not bad. So he's making something good happen 40% of the time, is this a big difference over the average of all players in this situation? do you really think that the league averages anywhere near to a .948 ops in any situation? Why not? I'd love have seen your face after you read that. I was just talking about the 40% IMB, not the .948 ops. i really, really doubt that the entire league averages a .400 OBP in any situation, too. go look if you think otherwise. I was just curious on what the league average was. O_O just showed me a brand new site called Baseball Reference so now I can look up all this info. Seriously? How have you survived?
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    Re: The rivalry I didn't hate the Cardinals til I went to Champaign. It's a non-Chicago thing. Although, I think it's growing in Chicago due to Cardinals fans coming to games at Wrigley and being all St. Louisy.
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    It's how he rolls. I don't care that a bunch of other people used that line already. It's how I roll.
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    It's how he rolls.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    Al Trautwig with just an awful China syndrome line.
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    May have just saved the bronze.
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    Argh, that's a bronze at best.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Holy crap, that's Justin Spring!! I know that guy!!!
  20. SouthSideRyan
    Ok, that high bar was pretty cool.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    I tell you what, that Knight Rider series looks pretty awesome. No.
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    It seems that Jockety's hands were tied since there wasn't much interest. So, he got some minor league talent which I think is a good way for the Reds to go. The compensation picks would've been better. I do not know how the PTBNL works out, but is there any chance that the 2 PTBNL are whoever the DBacks pick with the compensations picks? I'm guessing not since you can't trade a drafted player until a year after they sign but I'm just trying to figure out a way this makes since for the Reds. It makes sense if it's Jarrod Parker or another good prospect that is being waited on depending if the D-Backs make the playoffs. It probably won't be though.
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    Turned out it was left leg, left arm.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    Phelps is going to swim this semi with just one arm and one leg. But he refuses to reveal which ones.
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    Booyah 1-2.
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