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Cubs are 49-0 when they lead at the end of the 9th inning or later. :D You sure we haven't taken the lead in extra innings and blown it this year? -
Oh well, winning is fun whenever it happens, its just more fun when it means something. I'm excited to see how far we can take this streak.
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That is unreal. So you have maybe 30,000 people trying to drive in from the suburbs and when they get into the city have to fight off Lolla traffic, etc only to find out the park district doesn't care about probably their most important source of income. You are right this is complete incompetence and an embarrassment.
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Marmol is getting more efficient. Instead of taking a 5-6 pitch AB before walking the first hitter, just plunk him right away
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So Todd Hundley? Who was the fellow we got for Michael Barrett then later traded for Jason Kendall. That guy was bad. Rob Bowen
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TCamp a triple short of the cycle
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Koyie Hill at the plate is Paul Bako after getting him drunk and hitting him over the head with a bat a couple of times, then spun around in a circle for 2 minutes
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If we blow this one its from scoring a total of 1 run from back to back innings of 2 RISP and 0 out situations.
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August 5, 2011 is a day Tony Campana will tell his grandchildren about.
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OF looks a little dead in areas from the concert, but overall not bad at all. They've really mastered the process of keeping the field in good condition during a concert. I remember how horrible it looked after Jimmy Buffett and I think they waited a full week between the last concert and the first Cubs game. This time it was 4 days.
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LOL when I saw that Campana hit a home run, my first thought was "wow he hit an inside the parker at Wrigley?" First professional (minors or majors) HR for Campana. I would have put money on it being an inside the parker.
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A large part of the reason why the Bears special teams has been an advantage is because of their return game. The value of that has been decreased due to rules changes on kick offs and they are without Manning, one of their best returners who helped take the load off of Hester. They may have a better punter, but that improvement is going to be incremental at best, and I doubt it overshadows the relative decline in advantage they've had from the return game. IIRC, Knox made the Pro Bowl 2 years ago as a returner. But the rules changes are the biggest thing to hurt the return game
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Especially without our best walker in Fukudome. We need to overhaul the offense if we want the best chance to contend. Just for fun, here is our league ranking in walks during the Jim Hendry era: 03: 21st 04: 25th 05: 28th 06: 30th 07: 26th 08: 2nd 09: 9th 10: 22nd 11: 30th 7 out of the 9 years we've been in the bottom 3rd of the league, and 5 out of 9 years we've been in the bottom 5.
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8-5 in our last 13. That's actually kind of decent, despite the ugly 5 game losing streak.
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Thats a bad excuse though. They had 30+ million to spend in FA. The way the NFL works, you need as much talent and depth as you can possibly get because things change in a hurry. And lets not pretend the Bears were not without glaring flaws despite going to the NFC title game.
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If the Cubs play .700 ball for the rest of the season (36-15) they will finish 82-80! PS .700 baseball over a full season is 113-49.
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It's not like they spent their money on the players they got though. They still have a ton of it and there are still players out there.
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Can't disagree with that. And no excuse with plenty of options, money, and reasons to significantly upgrade OL and WR. Eh, a D seems a little low. I'd say a C/C-. The thing is, the Bears took a lot of high risk/high reward gambles IMO. If one of Roy Williams, Gholston, or Okoye randomly live up to their potential, or even turn into average starters all the sudden the Bears had an good offseason.
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I dunno, 900 seems a little high but wouldn't be floored if he developed into a player like that. I am trying to think of a comparable rise for a player who came in really young, showed great hitting skills but not a ton of power for his first couple of seasons and then developed into a .550 SLG kind of player. I think a better comp is still a more consistent, slightly better Renteria. From age 25-30 he was a .303/.360/.434/.795 hitter. Castro isn't far from that now, so we might instead see something like .300/.360/.500 as his peak. That's .860. It's not unreasonable to see him have a career year or two where he brushes with .900 if he can develop into a player who averages an .860 OPS during the later part of his 20's/early 30's
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Well it's not just that though. Osi is holding out because he wants to rework his contract. Yeah I obviously understand that. I'm surprised the Bears were in on the discussions because I'd guess if we traded for him Osi would get a contract similar to what Peppers got, and I cant see the Bears committing that much to the defensive line. But seriously, if they had Peppers and Osi on the same line, it would set the entire defense up for awhile.
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I would take Osi for a 2nd round pick. Hell I might take him for a 2nd round and 5th round...maybe. Depends on how much we'd have to pay him. Much more than that might be tough to give up. I think he's 29 right now and has averaged 10.5 sacks per season over his last 5 seasons. He's fairly durable too, playing all 16 games in 5 of the last 6 seasons. Him and Peppers on the same line wow.
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Nice. It's getting to the point where I can enjoy when this team plays well because I have such low expectations that it's nice when they play over their heads.
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LOL "Well we might as well put pitch trax away for the night with Bob Davidson behind the plate"
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There was a time with Marmol where having the tying run on 2nd with 1 out wouldnt really faze me at all
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What can you do when you throw it over the heart of the plate with 2 strikes and they call it a ball?
