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  1. SouthSideRyan
    I hear Kansas City might have an opening.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    Hmmmmm to convince K-Town, I have to think like K-Town! I think it's obvious to everyone that it's much more difficult to pitch in clutch situations than in easy situations. Since Carpenter has had such run support all year he's been able to relax while pitching and not have to deal with high pressure situations. Clemens on the other hand has nearly every game be a near shutout for his offense and therefore needs to step it up in the CLUTCH!! Additionally, Carpenter hasn't been in a race for a playoff spot in 2 months. Clemens's starts MATTER more becuase his team is fighting for a playoff spot the whole year. I once again revert to my trained monkey factor in that a trained monkey could have made some of Carpenter's starts this year and they could still be in the playoffs easily. A trained monkey making Clemens's starts would sink the Astros for good. Clemens > Carpenter
  3. SouthSideRyan
    Piniella's career winning % pre-Tampa is lower than Dusty's career winning %. That's slightly scewed by the fact that Piniella has been managing quite a bit longer - six seasons longer, actually. My point (again) is that Piniella wins in the playoffs, where Dusty has had his most embarassing moments. I do not think it is fair to compare the two simply on the basis that they both prefer vets over younder guys. You never hear Piniella making excuses for his guys like "its hot", or "we had to play a lot of games in a row w/out a day off". He does not suffer that nonsense. I'd say not making the world series with a 116 win team is pretty embarrassing.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    So you can recognize that a guy with 19 wins and a 4.50 ERA doesn't deserve the Cy Young award over Clemens. Even though 19 is more than 14? Even though UNLESS YOUR TEAM WINS, then your start means nothing? Even though your trained monkey factor is still higher for the 4.50 ERA guy than Clemens?
  5. SouthSideRyan
    According to the smear campaign by the Sox after he was dealt.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    I heard the Rockies have an elaborate cheating system too.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    Dubois for Gerut for Lawton for Berg. Hendry sure took the roundabout way of getting this guy. Perhaps this was the master plan all along. I believe Berg starts tomorrow in Peoria. No, he won't. Angel Guzman will start with Berg piggybacking in Beloit tomorrow. This will happen again on Sunday in Peoria. I thought it was a doubleheader.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    Piniella's career winning % pre-Tampa is lower than Dusty's career winning %.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    WE HAVE A QUALITY LEADOFF HITTER. HIS NAME IS TODD WALKER.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    The HBP record will always be stupid to me. Who cares about who's the guy who stuck his arm or leg out to get hit the most. For all the high ground that certain media types like to take about steroids and corking, they sure do love it when a guy is gritty enough to cheat and lean into a pitch.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Rothschild ruined him so much that it carried over to his next team!!
  12. SouthSideRyan
    Bobby Abreu and Johan Santana suck.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    Glendon Rusch, Kent Mercker, Ryan Dempster, Joe Borowski, Matt Clement, Mark Guthrie, Todd Van Poppel, Alan Benes, Ron Mahay. LaTroy Hawkins, Francis Beltran, Matt Clement, Kent Mercker, Alan Benes, Phil Norton, Pat Mahomes, Jeff Fassero, Ron Mahay.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Horrendous.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    Latest News Aug. 18, 2005 - 3:22 pm et The Giants are planning to activate Moises Alou (hamstring) prior to Friday's game.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    He's not treated as what he is. He isn't treated as a guy to fill in in emergency situations. Instead, he's the first [expletive] bat off the bench in crucial situations, not to mention spot starting EVERYWHERE.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    It wouldn't be worth it. The Cubs are still 5.5 games behind Houston, with several teams to pass. They are a longshot at best for the playoffs. If the Cubs aren't likely to make the playoffs anyway, I'll take my chances with Burnitz (or Murton) for the rest of the year and take my chances to get Giles in the offseason rather being stuck with Alou. it would be worth it to burn the 'stros If you want to burn the Astros, let them take him. Yeah, that .328/.418/.507 line will burn them good!
  18. SouthSideRyan
    And 4 of those losses the Astros scored 0 runs. What exactly did you want out of Clemens? A 10 inning (or more) shutout so that the Stros could finally score a run?
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Everyone keeps talking about ~92 wins getting the wildcard and how impossible it looks for us to get the record to get there. That's a 28-14 finish for Philly or Houston. I think people are underestimating how much the wild card teams have plateaued.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    Marquis has been abused. I won't argue with that. It's a struggle just for him to get thru 6 innings, because he's constantly in and out of jams. Carpenter hasn't been abused. He's just been good. Carpenter is simply mowing hitters down late in games (.416 OPS against in innings 7 thru 9 is simply incredible). If a pitcher has thrown 90 pitches in the 8th inning, and is dominating, and isn't the least bit tired, then why would you pull him out? What's the value in leaving him in? So he can pile up on the CG stat?
  21. SouthSideRyan
    He's an awful center fielder these days. Maybe 5 years ago, but not now. Rowand has him in every single department. Well he's not an awful CF, but Rowand is definitely better out there. Griffey is still a better fielder than Podsednik or Everett. But of course you've gotta keep Everett's 317 OBP in there. It kept a superior player out in Frank Thomas who had been with the team for 15 years. So why move him for Griffey?
  22. SouthSideRyan
    This really seems like the same argument back and forth, so I stopped reading on page 4. If this point was made I apologize. 11.57 That's the ERA whoever relieved Clemens for those ~16 innings has to have in order to match Carpenter's ERA.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    Or maybe he's just older? Questec started in '01 I believe.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    The problem is that 3/4 isn't good enough. The Cubs need to play .800 ball in order to win the 93-95 games it's going to take to win the WC. I'm not sure if any team has ever maintained that level of play for that long of a stretch. The 1906 Cubs went 50-8 to end the season, a .862 winning %. On July 24th the Cubs were 61-28 at the end of the season they had 36 losses and had another 55 wins. that's an absurd comparison. You can make a legitimate case that the 1906 Cubs were the greatest baseball team in history (taking into account eras and all that stuff). Of course they would have been able to go on such a streak. the "unprecidented" part of what would be necessary this year, is a team playing less than .500 ball, suddenly turning it on and winning 33 of 44. It's not going to happen. How bout 34 out of 44? Is that unprecedented? Cause it's what the Astros did last year. Likely? Not at all, but certainly not unprecedented.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    See, that's why they don't have a playoff in college football. Isn't it more fun to be able to debate who the real champion was? There's no debate. Notre Dame beat Florida St.
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