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  1. UMFan83
    Knowing Z's history of short Opening Day outings, do you think Marshall prepared for today like a start?
  2. UMFan83
    Hey at least the White Sox and Cardinals both won.
  3. UMFan83
    all those seasons ended exactly the same way though False. In 2006 we ended the season with a win. 07 and 08 with losses.
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    Here come the steady flow of groundouts
  5. UMFan83
    No worries guys. If Z gives us a bad start, we still have Randy Wells, Tom Gorzelanny and Carlos Silva ready to go later in the week. That's the beauty of having a rotation that goes 5 deep.
  6. UMFan83
    Guess this won't be Z's Cy Young year either.
  7. UMFan83
    The range of this team in general is going to give us fits this year.
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    Boo
  9. UMFan83
    Same old Z
  10. UMFan83
    Bradley would have homered there if not for that racist in the third row. Also to blame are the Chicago media, the local iron workers 401, the philly fanatic and everyone who has ever been to Disney World.
  11. UMFan83
    I decided to wait until his BA was above his wait to continue that. Luckily this will be a lot easier this year.
  12. UMFan83
    I've been in the Navy for 13 years. Ive been stationed in various places in the US and out. I've met and befriended literally hundreds of baseball fans. Most fans only interact with people in their local area, or on boards such as these, but I work with and hang out with fans from almost every state on a daily basis. In my experience the Cubs-Cardinals rivalry is only relevant to Cub and Cardinal fans. The San Fran-LA and Mets-Phillies rilvary is much more acknowledged by the casual fan than Cards-Cubs. At least in my circles, but they are broader than the average. That's because the midwest is flyover country to most people.
  13. UMFan83
    Hopefully the Rox can get off to a nice start this season as well!
  14. UMFan83
    The Avs ended up winning in OT so SJ gets 1 point. How do the Hawks control their destiny? We are 2 points behind them but with a game in hand. I assume that we hold the tiebreaker, but I'm not sure what the tiebreaker is. Is it H2H?
  15. UMFan83
    You gotta think the Eagles either think that McNabb is gonna be done soon, Kolb is the real deal, or both to trade their franchise QB in the division.
  16. UMFan83
    P.S. Hey look its a should have been rematch of Game 1 of the 2008 NLDS.
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    First! Go Cubs!
  18. UMFan83
    Hawks clinched the Central when Detroit lost earlier, but they celebrated it with an emphatic victory over Calgary today. Niemi looked really really good in the third period as he had to stand on his head a couple of times. According to Foley, Niemi has allowed 2 goals in his last 9 periods. What a difference a week makes.
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    http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/38/flamesgoaliehawks.jpg Haha
  20. UMFan83
    I rather enjoy when the Blackhawks play Calgary.
  21. UMFan83
    Having the game start at 3:05 is such a tease. I'd honestly rather the game be at 1:05 PM, where I know I'd have no shot of catching any of the game, than 3:05 where I'm going to be frantically be trying to get all my work done and then every single obstacle that even momentarily delays my trip home is going to annoy the crap out of me, all so that I can get home and watch the last 1-2 innings of the game. Blah, maybe I'll just fake being sick and leave at 3 :)
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    i kinda agree with him on that, though. if it's one percent per OPS+ point - like the albert pujols example of being 44% better than the average player - then why not just have the average player be 0 and the OPS+ represent the actual percentage? seems like that's easier to understand than 188. Eh I don't know. Maybe it's because I learned it that way, but I feel like having 100 as a benchmark and rating them above or below 100 is a good way to make it understandable. Saying Albert Pujols is 44% better than the average player just doesn't really appeal to me for whatever reason. Maybe it's just me but it's more difficult for me to quantify that in my head than looking at 188 and comparing it to someone with 166 or 110 or whatever.
  23. UMFan83
    I'm not sure I buy it. I'm sure he's had a great spring but once the season starts and pitchers aren't working on perfecting their stuff and are more concerned with getting outs and winning games, if Colvin keeps up his insane BABIP, pitchers will stop pitching to him. And when they do that, will Colvin actually take a walk, something he hasn't done all spring?
  24. UMFan83
    I haven't spent a ton of time in Chicago, but from my memory those types of shirts aren't so widespread that you can find them in malls. That's the case in St. Louis. Good point. I haven't been to STL since I was a kid (and I'm a better man for it), so I have no frame of reference there. It's quite interesting over there. And yes they really really hate the Cubs. I was there in August 08 and I just so happened to pack a Cubs shirt and wore it one Saturday. Oh and it just so happened that the Cubs were playing the Cardinals but at Wrigley Field, and on that particular day the Cubs got blown out (but won the series anyways). I got approached by at least 7 St. Louis residents whose comments ranged from friendly banter, to assholes who told me I wasn't welcomed in St. Louis wearing that. Meanwhile, I see idiots walking around in Cardinals gear all the time in Lakeview and no one thinks twice. I mean part of it is that area of Chicago (and Chicago in general) being a transplant city, so its not unusual to see people in Chicago wearing Cardinals/Tigers/Brewers/Twins/Indians gear (probably the most common in that order).
  25. UMFan83
    Eh, it was okay. I like how he tried to dumb down the stats to the common fan, but some little things were stupid, like talking about how OPS+ is confusing, and should be used as Player X is Y% better than the average hitter, instead of saying 124. But good for him to finally embrace advanced stats, despite by his own admission being wary of them in the past.
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