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Seriousl. And of course I freaked because my fantasy opponent in the championship has Prince Fielder. You'd totally lose the 6 run HR category. -
You'd have Hill and Marquis probably able to go that day too. I'd go to Hill for an inning, I'd hold out Marquis for extras. I trust our top 6 guys(7 if Hart is available) more than I'd trust Marquis pitching out of his element in relief. Again though, I'd be agressive with my relievers the rest of the way.
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Calling what DeRosa and Aramis did in the 9th "flipping out" is ludicrous. DeRosa argued briefly with the home plate ump for a strike 3 that wasn't a strike. Ramirez in frustration throw his bat on the way to first and then said something to the ump on his way back. Seemed pretty standard to me.
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This is embarrassing, and will be a disgrace if the Hall displays it with the asterisk.
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I would have had Hill starting Thursday all along. My only worry is that it throws off his throwing schedule if he was planning on pitching on Friday all along. You follow with Z on Friday. Then on Saturday you see what you have in your bullpen, and you go from there. Ideally you can hold out Hart from Thursday/Friday and you start him on Saturday. You have Marshall and Gallagher both ready to go at the first sign of trouble. Count on one of Wood or Marmol to go 2, the other going 1. Between those 2, Howry, and Dempster you're asking for 4 innings from 3 spot starters. Be aggressive with the pen, and use every last guy you have down there. If you run out of pitchers by the 10th, so be it, Trachsel is the long man who pitches til it's over. Then Sunday, you have Lilly on full rest, and haven't really burnt much of your bullpen as you'd have maybe 1 or 2 guys going multiple innings Saturday.
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Expecting the Brewers to win their next 5 is lunacy. It's possible, just not very likely. 3-2 takes the division.
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Dunn is Done
SouthSideRyan replied to Buford T Justice's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
You don't celebrate because it's an injury and celebrating an injury is bad. But you certainly don't fear his replacement more than he would. Even Jay Bruce isn't going to do what Adam Dunn would do to us. -
since we are determining this by edict, I have experienced momentum shifts in darts, foosball, billiards, horseshoes, poker, golf, tiddly-winks, quarters, and pong (of the video and ping varieties). I have witnessed it in tennis, hockey, soccer, Australian rules football, hurling and curling. so why does it exist in just about everything but baseball? I have experience momentum not happening in all those things except tiddly winks becuase I wasn't born in the 50s. Momentum as its been defined in this thread cannot be refuted. If a player carries over something from the past he had momentum and that's why he did it. If a player didn't carry it over, then there wasn't enough momentum to outweigh random chance and talent. We can't possibly refute you who say momentum is real and exists in baseball because it only exists when you have defined it to exist.
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This was the matchup I saw most in favor of the Brew. Go Cardinals, I won't reference Cardinals and illicit drugs for the rest of '07 if you win.
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Cards ain't laying down, they're just bad. Without any context, I'd take that more as a shot at the Pirates.
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Tell me why it exists in Football and Basketball and not Baseball? Because, as I said earlier, baseball is a series of individual events. Basketball is continuous. Football's kinda in the middle as there are a ton of individual events going on within one big event, but there is no continuous play.
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9/26 Cubs (Marquis) @ Marlins (Barone) 6:05 CT CSN
SouthSideRyan replied to Omar's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I hope Don Young doesn't choke down the stretch again. No wait that was 35 years ago, and he may very well be dead. The plight of the last 99 years has nothing to do with the current team. There aren't even many players left from the team that collapsed in '04, and most importantly there are no coaches or MANAGER left from that team. -
Was he the one who ordered Roy Oswalt's wife to go into labor? I think/hope that was sarcasm because of the Brew's griping during the last 2 days.
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I don't understand why something has to exist in baseball because it exists in football and basketball. This is what leads to a lot of poor analysis by mainstream media because they apply the principles of one sport to a different sport that is nothing like it.
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You did quote me faceman.
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My favorite part of the completely baseless speculation is that Geo lost weight before the season. The McCarthys will usually go with just a guy gaining 15 pounds as enough to say he's on roids, I guess, it doesn't definitively go the other way.
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9/26 Cubs (Marquis) @ Marlins (Barone) 6:05 CT CSN
SouthSideRyan replied to Omar's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Have a bizarrely good feeling about Marquis, big stadium should help him. -
What would you call it if he came up and struck out? A typical at bat for him. Obviously the player isn't going to hit a HR every time. He's human. But I don't see how, in that scenario, you can't see how momentum can be a factor. Bottom line... baseball players are human. People are affected by momentum. As a result, so are baseball players. I still find it funny that some people believe mometum is possible in basketball and not baseball. It's stupid. No its not Yes it is! Again if Micheal Jordan goes off and hits 50 points or ARAM hits 4 homeruns. Both are feeling it and have momentum. Why is this different? Again attributable after the fact, and your examples aren't even what I'd define as momentum. If you have a great game it's automatically momentum? What's enough to declare it momentum. If you hit 2 HRs to start the game, you'd assume you have momentum, why wouldn't you hit HRs in your next couple ABs then?
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What would you call it if he came up and struck out? That the momentum created from the diving play was not enough to change his AB. We look at baseball like it's all a science. With all the sabr-stuff, you like to think that if you have the better numbers, then you win. Baseball is very much luck, moreso than any of us would like. Momentum that causes the player to believe a little bit more cannot and does not always overcome a devastating 0-2 pitch. Isn't that agreeing that momentum isn't predicative, and is only attributable after the fact? If momentum gets the credit for that Jones HR, what gets the credit for the "meaningless" HRs Jones hits?
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What would you call it if he came up and struck out? A typical at bat for him. Obviously the player isn't going to hit a HR every time. He's human. But I don't see how, in that scenario, you can't see how momentum can be a factor. Bottom line... baseball players are human. People are affected by momentum. As a result, so are baseball players. I still find it funny that some people believe mometum is possible in basketball and not baseball. It's stupid. I find it funny that you see some sort of connection between basketball and baseball. Not all sports are the same. Is there momentum in anything that is some sort of competitive activity?
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What would you call it if he came up and struck out?
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Bases Loaded, 1 out, Cards fail to score. That's what I get for getting re-invested in this game.
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2006 Post-Season? What momentum did the Cards have? How bout 2004 ALCS. Yanks had a bit of momentum heading into game 4. How bout 2003 NLCS, I'd say we had a bit of momentum. Like I said, momentum's great cause it's like clutch, you don't have to say it happened until it after the fact. The Cubs didn't have momentum in '03, nor did the Yankees in '04, that's why they lost. However, the Red Sox and Marlins did gain momentum from coming back on the momentum-less Cubs/Yankees.
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I think the bigger question is why do you think it does for basketball and not for baseball? That makes no sense? Because baseball is a series of separate events. Basketball is a continuous game.
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Momentum is great because you can define it after the fact. The Cubs lost today, therefore they lost their momentum by having a day off while the Brew won. The Brew won on Monday because they had a ton of momentum from crushing defeats at Atlanta...
