Wilson A2000
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Except hit home runs and play average defense. Murton knows he needs to do this to play everyday in the bigs. Unfortunately he just can't. -
Is there a specific speed at which one crosses the line from "loafing" to "hustle?" Yes. It's like the difference in speed when you hit and home run and when you hit a double and run in to second. Soriano runs like he hits a homerun whether he hits a double or is running for a ball down the line or in a gap. Ramirez has this problem too. He started to hustle early last year, but then decided that he will get paid regardless. See his home run, I mean double last series.
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No, just run faster.
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I don't think I have once seen Soriano hustle. He lopes after everything in the outfield. He never hustles down to first base. What about that triple that occurred this year off the side wall that he defended horribly? If you are going to be lazy, you better put up monster numbers. If you are having a terrible first month, then hustle.
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He had a good OPS, but when you look at his numbers since he started getting 500 AB's, his home runs and RBI's were down a bit.
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Soriano's skills haven't diminished. Well then he has no baseball acumen. How about a diminished stats clause? 130 million just doesn't buy much anymore. Someone tell Soriano that just because the dollar buys a whole lot less doesn't mean that his play has to diminish in kind. The Cubs wouldn't have made the playoffs last year without Soriano's torrid pace in June when we coincidentally turned the season around. That's right. But he is too streaky. Way too streaky for 130 million. Not fundamentally sound enough for 130 million. Where was Soriano when it really counted, in the playoffs? I would move the right fielder to short center and throw him curveballs and watch him try to pull everything. I am just tired of this injury prone, fundamentally unsound, player who doesn't even give a ton of effort.
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Murton has no one to blame but himself. He can hit for average, but he doesn't have speed, and doesn't have power and is a butcher in the outfield. In order to be a corner outfielder, you have to be better. At best, he is a fourth outfielder.
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Looks like Derosa is going to left and either Patterson or Fontenot playing 2B. That's actually an upgrade considering how poorly Soriano has been playing. Time to move Fukudome to leadoff.
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Soriano's skills haven't diminished. Well then he has no baseball acumen. How about a diminished stats clause? 130 million just doesn't buy much anymore. Someone tell Soriano that just because the dollar buys a whole lot less doesn't mean that his play has to diminish in kind.
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Forget Coco Crisp, go after Kenny Loften. How much longer until the Cubs can activate the diminished skills clause in Soriano's contract and let him loose?
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The same reason they had such an easy ride to 16-0, they play in the pathetic AFC East. When the Bears went to the Super Bowl in 2006, they had the easiest schedule in the league that year I believe even though they had the first or second best record in the NFC the year before. The NFC Central/North was just plain terrible. But remember, although the Patriots have the easiest schedule based on last season's record, many teams improve from season to season which could mean they have a much tough schedule than was originally thought.
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That's because playing next to Jeter all season he absorbed some of Jeter's overflow clutchiness but by now it has all worn off. Then bat him next to Fukudome
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Seriously, do you think that it is possible that Fukudome's approach at the plate will rub off on Soriano?
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But Meek did inherit the loss. Very nice!
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Why is there an off day tomorrow? Because today was the Pirates' home opener?
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Crowd Control I was standing against the wall, facing the fans, in the isle that the HR flew right over. I turned around as soon as i heard the crack of the bat and saw the fans in my section get wide-eyed. I knew it was coming my way and I didn't want to get hit by a line-drive. Then I realized I would probably look like a clown in the replay - luckily for me you can't tell who i am in that video thanks to it being so blurry. How'd you get that job? How many games do you do? Can you watch the game, are are you told to constantly looking to see if there is trouble?
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I wouldn't mind that. Soriano has shown that he can't hit down in the order because he doesn't have any plate discipline. I am not sure if you want him running with Derek Lee batting anyway. Mike Murphy on the Score is proposing that Fukudome hit #3 because Murphy thinks he has power. But I bet Fukudome hits 20 homers max this year. 20 homers has pretty much been what most experts predicted. Guess who his lead-off man is? Derek Lee. Why? Because he has a good OBP. What! Your best run producer can't hit lead-off. What a joke this guys is. And he thinks of himself as some know-it-all expert on baseball. How does he have a job?
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Is the rooftop in question on the edge of the field? I guess it won't obstruct the other rooftop views?
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The 2003 team was overpowering for a time in the playoffs. That was the best Cubs team I have seen.
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Wow, I checked the video at chicagosports.com and yeah they forgot to put an apostrophe in there. I think they could probably chisel one in, but that is embarrassing. Front page article on http://www.chicagotribune.com now
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It has to be embarrassing for Zambrano and the medical staff for this issue to keep popping up. Why can't they figure this out?
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Dutchie Caray is furious with AT&T over television commercials featuring comic John Caponera pitching cable TV while impersonating the late Harry Caray. "I just get shivers when I even think about it," she told WGN-Ch. 9 on Monday morning. "I was gone the whole month of March and I didn't come back until a couple of days ago. ... It made me so sick and disgusted. ... What they did [was] so unprofessional, so jerky. ... I might make an AT&T commercial, wrap myself in telephone wire, ughl-ughl-ughl and act like an idiot dope."
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When Fukudome got in that rundown, you should have heard Ron. Man was he ticked. But he redeemed himself.
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You mean Billy Williams and Fergie Jenkins?
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How long of a rain-delay will make it that Z can't come back?
