SouthSideRyan

Great idea by Davis, Drake is gonna be bad next year.

He's only got a moped.

Which was at worst the 2nd worst Lenny Harris related move he pulled that season. I will never forgive that incompetent fool for what he did in game 1. Never.

It's becoming the twilight zone around here.

Because, as I was saying, a lot of the contact he's making isn't solid contact

Baseball players are dumb. It's why most baseball managers are dumb.

How do you have much more intangibles?

Even shortly after he took the job he mentioned about how people told him he shouldn't go to the north side, that they wouldn't treat him well, and that he was better suited to the south side because of his race.

IMO there is about a 0.001% chance of Crede coming close to maintaining his current level of play. This is the very definition of "time to sell high". Sure about that? His BABIP is actually lower than his average this season, which means he's getting unlucky. Through 12 games.

Dusty may not be the worst manager we've ever had, but that's more a reflection on our previous managers than it is on Dusty. Dusty is a pox.

Will this finally end the pointless complaining about threads about non-Cardinals/White Sox/whomever going in the Rivalries forums?

Honestly, I don't know how much I agree with the idea that a player with a high K rate has a lower chance of getting on base than a player with a low K rate. When you think of guys who K at monstrous rates like Ryan Howard and Adam Dunn, then compare them to the Juan Pierres of the world, that sort of data tends to run counter to the idea that strikeouts hinder your ability to get on base more than some other factor. no, i was just saying that if a guy strikes out a certain number of times, then manages to halve that rate while keeping all other things the same, he'll get on base more. but, that requires that all other things are the same, and i don't know if that is necessarily the case. When you dramatically lower your K rate, all other other things are never going to stay the same. Corey wasn't/isn't K-ing as much because he's slapping more.

This only would've been funny if he said he buried a shirt in there and actually didn't. This is all so stupid.

I don't understand how the Cubs organization deserves the benefit of the doubt in matters like these. I'm not going to pretend that I know the whole story, but it certainly seems like I've seen this story before.

I love when BK shows up. Was there ever any reason given for messing with Hill's mechanics? I didn't play close enough attention to notice if they were trying to fix something they saw that went wrong, or if they were just screwing with him to screw with him.

One problem with this point of view. They traded those guys for Josh Beckett in 2005 (along with Harvey Garcia and Jesus Delgado), the year after they won the World Series. In 2004, Ramirez mostly split time between A+ and AA and had zero chance of being called up to the team in 2004. Anibal Sanchez pitched 76 innings in short season ball in 2004. There was even less of a chance to see him get called up to the majors that season than Ramirez. Shh.............don't blow holes in arguement. How dare ya? :D My point is this, for yrs, the Red Sox made deals that were considered risky, and desparate. Picking up pre MVP candidate David Ortiz. Letting Mo Vaughn and Roger Clemens leave. Looking back, it was great decisions to let them leave, but 20/20 at the time, it was considered risky, and they took heat. That's where the Cubs are....at the "risky and desparate" stage. I don't want them to trade Pie, but if they are not going to play him, let him go. In what universe was letting Clemense leave after '96 a good move? Picking up David Ortiz for 2M was a risky move in the same way the Cubs picking up Dempster on his injury rehab was a risky move. None of those examples have anything to do with Pie. Letting some free agents leave because they thought they were entering their decline phase? Signing a low risk high reward contract? How are these examples of a team that desperately wants a world series?

To give Lou a little credit, NOT ALOT MIND YOU, but a little, once he did see Soto was the better player, he played Soto more. Plain and simple. Maybe Piniella wants Pie to show him he is better then Johnson, and Pie hasn't be up for the challenge. Now I understand the lack of playing, I really do, but there is more the "rising to the challenge" then what is on the field. Pie has to show he can play, so maybe the Cubs see something Pie they don't like, and are trying to correct the problem. Same goes with Hill. I'd love to ask him why Jason effing Kendall started Game 3 last year.

I hope you're joking about the bolded part. As of right now, Hill should be lucky to call himself a major league starter. Umm, why? He had 1 bad start. ONE. As well as a horrible spring, and even his one decent start he was on shakey ground a lot of the game. I'm not going to go as far as saying he's lucky to be in the bigs, but I don't believe his is this number 2/3 starter like most people here think. He's a solid 4/5, and theres nothing wrong with that. I'm not following you on him being on shaky ground during his one "decent" start (ERAs of 3 are just decent?) Other than the inning where he gave up the 2 runs, he was in trouble in one inning. It's hard to be on shaky ground all game when you only allow 8 baserunners through 6, and only 2 extra base hits.

I know you'd have to assume that Rich must've given up at least 4 runs in 6 innings with the way people are talking about him, but his actual line in his first start was 6 IP 2 ER.

Lou Piniella sucks.

Brett Myers still beats his wife.

I don't think Sandberg was a throw in at all. It may have been reported as such because he was just a prospect, but I think the Cubs wanted him more than Bowa IIRC.

Former Bradley and NIU coach Jim Molinari takes the Western Illinois job.

All non-US and Canada players(am i missing anywhere?) sign as amateur FAs. I figured, but Sosa and Ortiz were pretty bad/mediocre before breaking out and becoming elite hitters, were they not? Sosa was always highly touted as a 5 tool stud. Ortiz I don't know about, and there is a limit to how much I can dick around at work.

Mrs. Myers after a Phillies win. Celebratory wife beatings are the best kind of wife beatings.