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  1. SouthSideRyan
    I kinda like that brown hat.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    This is very wrong, a Yankees fan can't go 2 minutes without saying COUNT THE RINGZ
  3. SouthSideRyan
    which rules are you referring to? Probably the same rules that Brian Roberts and scads of others broke, yet people would have no problem with those guys on the team. Has anyone stopped being a fan of the Cubs because they didn't outright release Robert Hernandez?
  4. SouthSideRyan
    I think Burnett is our best case scenario. I just fear what Hendry considers a front-line starter, and he'll go chase Kenny Rogers. Then again, by July the Tigers will probably be within 2 games of 1st place.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    Lou, Marmol. 2nd verse same as the 1st.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    Oh, I totally agree that the Brewers making up ~8 games over 4 months is pretty unlikely, I'm just saying if you're gonna be worried about a team, at least worry about a team with a lot of high-potential talent with an actual chance to go off.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    The Mets really bent the Twins over in that trade.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    The Brewers will finish ahead of the Cardinals. The only reason to scoreboard watch the Cardinals is out of pure hatred for them. I still don't understand why people keep saying this. Kyle Lohse just shut down maybe the NL's best offense today, and the Cards are getting production from random scrubs like skip schumaker and brian barton and they still haven't "come back down to earth". I want the losers to fold as much as the next guy, but I don't see it happening. I just don't. More fun with arbitrary start points: Cardinals since May 6th - 19-17. They got out to a great start, they've come back down to earth now. And they get to play the next month without their best position player and their best pitcher. They're toast. (And as I'm sure most Cards fans would tell you, Brian Barton has been terrible.)
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Yes, because it has prevented guys like Braun, Dunn, and Soriano from playing big league baseball. I know the guy is a butcher in the field, but he will hit well enough to play no matter what. I'd be fine with them calling up Gamel and throwing him at 3B, it'd be hilarious. Throw LaPorta out in RF and slide Hart to CF while they're at it. Jeff Suppan would probably be siting in jail for homicide after a couple weeks.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    The Brewers will finish ahead of the Cardinals. The only reason to scoreboard watch the Cardinals is out of pure hatred for them.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    I was wondering what I was supposed to expect.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    This guy was 11 when Gaetti signed with the Cubs. I'm sure it really crushed his heart.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    Fun with arbitrary start points. Ryan Ludwick since May 24th: .243/.289/.471
  14. SouthSideRyan
    People keep saying this and it's not really true, I can't remember the last time I saw people freaking out because Lou wasn't using Marmol.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    Howry since April(including today): 3.13 ERA 20 Ks, 3 BB You sure thats right SSR? He had a 1.76 ERA in May, and so far in June he has a 6.75, that would be a 4.26 ERA wouldnt it? Howry was terrible in April, great in May, and so far terrible in June. I dont know what his deal is hes historically a slow starter, and right now he has no business in a close game, but that doesnt mean he shouldnt be used at all. Games like today are when he should be used for right now until he starts getting batters out consistently. Right now Eyre and Marmol should be the setup guys. It's not a straight average because Howry pitched 15 1/3 innings in May, and only 5 innings so far in June. I'm actually calculating a 3.10 ERA for him since the end of April. Thinking about it, I probably divided by 20.1 instead of 20 1/3 without thinking.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    Meatball.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    You're just combining his May and June ERAs and dividing by 2. He threw a lot more innings in May.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    Darrin Jackson is such a yes man to Hawk's hillbilly ramblings. It's painful.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    ??? i just watched both replays and they were normal home runs (i.e. over the fence) Yahoo gamecast has failed me. Sad, I was all set for another Tim Kurkijan freak out on baseball tonight.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    Howry since April(including today): 3.13 ERA 20 Ks, 3 BB
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Carlos Lee hit an inside the park HR in the bottom of the first. The next hitter made an out to end the inning. Alex Rodriguez then lead off the top of the 2nd with an inside the park home run.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    that's the thing - lou considers everything to be a disaster. after the bases became loaded, the blue jays' chance of winning the game was 7.1%. i'm well aware that marmol is the best pitcher in that spot, but lou seems to think that the only way to get out of that situation is to use marmol. pretty much any guy in the bullpen is likely to get out of that spot with the cubs still a heavy favorite to win the ballgame. sometimes you have to trust people other than your best pitcher to get outs. The only problem with trusting the other pitchers is that they need to prove they can be trusted. Even the last couple of weeks Lou has tried to rest Marmol and then the pitchers he uses end up imploding, in which case he uses Marmol anyway. I'm not saying I always agree with using Marmol for every single sticky situation, but none of the other guys, other than Kerry and Scott, have proven they can do it. Re-post from the game thread: ERA+ of our bullpen guys(coming into today) INF INF 201 178 161 137 89 We have a very good bullpen. They've all proven they can do it.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    Encarnacion isn't clutch.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    And round and round we go, this topic was addressed a long time ago in this thread. Willie Randolph's team tied for the best record in MLB in '06. He is widely regarded as a buffoon. The other manager that had the best record that year was Joe Torre, who had a below 500 record before being blessed with managing the Yankees. Art Howe in '02 tied for the best record in baseball (103 wins) Oakland allowed him to jump ship to the Mets, where the Mets were terrible for 2 years and Howe was fired. Lou Piniella had the best record in '01. 2 years later he was beginning a pathetic stint as manager of the Devil Rays where he put up a .412 winning percentage. The point in all this is that really bad teams are going to be bad regardless of the manager. Really good teams are going to be good regardless of the manager. Now to be fair, I think the work of Gerald Perry(who was brought aboard by Piniella) is a big reason the Cubs are a really good team. I just don't want to see this team suffer injuries late in the year, or lose home field advantage due to some dumb decisions due to Piniella's in-game managing.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    The only way that coulda been a catch is if the ump thought it bounced out of the glove. He obviously didn't catch the ball cleanly barehanded. The way he came in, I don't know how you could judge that as hitting his glove first.
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