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  1. SouthSideRyan
    Laughable. Girardi was an excellent catcher. Posada isnt that bad. And Jeter is pretty good (although not great at SS). Girardi was the starter for one championship and Posada is a god at accumulating passed balls. You'd be hard pressed to find a non-Yankee fan call Posada anything better than average. Jeter's defensive prowess is in that big book of Lies Tim McCarver told me, but that's already been addressed.
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    The Cardinals are gonna wind up winning the division. It's very sad.
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    like i said, i appreciate aspects of both philosophys. While i understand the OPs approach used by moneyball enthusiasts in looking at talent, I dont think that everyone under 750 OPs should be sent to the minor leagues and that in certain positions (from the old school) defense is more important than offensive production. . Has it ever occured to you that maybe the reason teams go with defense over offense at C and SS is because its really hard to find C and SS that can hit? Can you think of a really good/ great team that didn't have either a good hitting SS or an offensive catcher? The Yankees of the late 90s had Jeter and Posada, the Big Red Machine had Johnny Bench, etc. And just for an added challenge the Yanks had terrible defense at both positions.
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    i never thought barrett's pitch calling hurt the team, or made the pitchers worse. but his ability to block pitches and throw out runners has been seemed worse this year. Are those actions not reflected in the pitcher's numbers?
  5. SouthSideRyan
    The Cubs must have the greatest pitching staff in the history of baseball to put up the numbers they have this year with Barrett as their catcher.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    I really dont like talking about OPS b/c it is 2 stats wrapped into 1 and isnt very specific. Is it the OBP or the Slugging % that is down, and what are the numbers? It makes a big difference. First you say which is more important to have behidn you.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    No way Miller gets cut, Hendry never admits his mistakes.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    Ain't no way Baker was better than Jim Lefebvre.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Don't worry finn, we're the 2nd best team in the Central.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    People keep saying this and it's not true. Neifi was dumped last year. Latroy was dumped. Remlinger was dumped. Borowski was dumped. Matt Lawton was dumped a month after he came here.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Ding Ding Ding we have a winner. Nope this is the winner: Even got the "couldn't care less" part right. dammit.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    I could care less if Zambrano knows whether wins are a good way to measure pitchers. It isn't going to change the way he pitches at all.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    Rob Goldman's a child molestor? Nevermind, found it on google. I miss Lance McAllister.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Soriano handles the bat against major league pitching like Ted Lilly handles the bat against major league pitching.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    Ted Lilly handles the bat against major league pitching like I'd handle a bat against major league pitching.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    Izturis got a hit too quickly before I could deliver my snark.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    Wouldn't trade Guzman alone for him.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    why are you going to non-Cubs games at Busch again? It's baseball in his back yard. I've gone to many Sox games when they're not playing the Cubs.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Cause tow truck drivers are gods down in St. Louis. They have nothing else to do but watch tow truck drivers down there so the police are more likely to help them out in these situations.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    Honest to God, I have no clue what you're trying to say here. And where did the 1990 cut off come from? Difference between the league and the record?? And looking back over things, it seems like you're (partially) blaming Wrigley for both the Cubs having a high disparity between home/loss record(cause they're too focused on winning at Wrigley) and a low disparity between home/loss record(cause they're not taking advantage of their homefield like a team should. There is not a single amount of statistical evidence that can prove to you that Wrigley isn't bad for the Cubs.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Cool but I'm pretty sure it'd be hard not to look like an ass with that giant bear face on my chest. Yeah. It'd be the giant bear face that's doing it.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    Get off my lawn!!
  23. SouthSideRyan
    Not even if he could get a guy who can score 50 points once a month and turn it over 8 times per game the rest of the time?
  24. SouthSideRyan
    But the Cubs haven't been much different than the rest of the majors. In that '56-07 span, teams won 53.9% of their home games and (obviously) won 46.1% of their road games. A 7.8% difference not unlike the Cubs's 7.7% difference.
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    Sunny, could I just clarify what you're arguing. Is it that Wrigley is such an extreme park that the Cubs front office focuses too much on building a team to fit that park and thus it hurts the team on the road, or is it that the front office does a poor job of using the home park to its advantage and thus doesn't gain from its home games as much as they should.
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