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When's the last time we won a game that he announced? Judging by his age, I am guessing it was one of the '45 World Series games. -
That's 5 of our 8 regular position starters with sub .600 OPS's over a week or more period. Lee, Fukudome and Baker are all still pulling their weights. Strangely enough they are typically positioned just far enough away from each other to make their individual contributions useless. Auto out, Auto out, Lee, Auto out, Fukudome, Auto out, Baker, Auto out, Auto out
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Soto hitting .118/.244/.264/.508 over his last 12 games.
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Theriot hitting .281/.303/.281/.584 over his last 7 games
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Soriano hitting .116/.133/.186/.319 over his last 11 games.
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Ramirez hitting .199/.272/.325/.597 over his last 12 games.
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Bradley hitting .121/.256/.242/.498 over his last 9 games.
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I've never rooted so hard for a Cub to get out as Aaron Miles. I'm really disappointed he just walked.
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That got me thinking. Who has come to play this year? I can only come up with a few. Theriot, Lilly, Lee, Guzman, Fuld, Fukudome, and Wells. Guys who have mailed it in? BRADLEY! SORIANO!, SOTO!, are the three worst offenders. You can include Dempster, Gregg, Heilman, Miles, Hoffpauir, Samardzija, and Fontenot. Marginal guys... Marmol, Marshall, Harden, Ramirez, Zambrano, Hill So if they did well this year, they came to play...if they did bad they mailed it in, and if they were mediocre or had a lot of injuries, they are considered marginal?
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That was a very nice hit by Soto. It almost dropped in there.
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hhhhhhhhhhhooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeee ruuuuuuuuuuuuun
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The Padres are still trying. Can all of our guys say the same thing? Yeah I think most if not all are still trying. They just suck. They are awful then. 3 runs against the three pitchers we have faced this series. That's pathetic. Yup, 3 runs in our first 22 innings of the series
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The Padres are still trying. Can all of our guys say the same thing? Yeah I think most if not all are still trying. They just suck.
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It reminds me of Major League II when everyone in the dugout is busy bickering and fighting and the catcher (Baker?) bunts for a hit, steals 2nd and hustles home for the tying run on a single (I think that's right) despite dealing with an injured ankle. The whole team is looking blah and he's flying all over the field making plays.
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Holy f...that was an insane catch. He faceplanted into a chainlink fence.
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Does that make Badley 2-20 on the road trip? Like the Chicago summer, Bradley's entire good streak lasted about 2 weeks.
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Can't wait to see us get knucleballed to death. I wonder when the last time the Cubs have gone against a knucleballer.
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Wow the players quotes seem like they are expecting another 06-07 offseason of free spending. Hope they don't get their hopes up...
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How to solve the Soriano dilemma?
UMFan83 replied to ER Cub's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Do you honestly think someone would claim him? You never know. The Jays probably didnt think that Rios would be claimed. The best bet would be a contending team atempting to block the team aboove them. I could see the Red Sox claiming him to block the Yankees or the Giants to block the Dodgers. Whatever happens, Sorianos on his way to being the most hated man in Chicago since Gacy. WSR listen to me. There is absolutely zero chance that any gm in baseball that would ever even consider claiming Soriano. Why would a contending team try to block Soriano from going to another contending team?you see how bad Sorianos hurting us, why wouldn't another team care if their rivals had his miserable bat in the lineup for the next 5 seasons at 18m per. Plus any team that sees Soriano on waivers knows what a miserable contract he has and claiming him is a really really bad risk. Not going to happen, plus I'd be pretty certain he's already been through and cleared waivers. -
How to solve the Soriano dilemma?
UMFan83 replied to ER Cub's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I still love the Zito for Soriano trade suggestion. I feel like Zito could hurt us less by pitching as a 5th starter or long reliever than Soriano could playing 150 games in Left Field. We're gonna have to pay all or most of the contract anyways if we do trade him elsewhere so whatever, just clear the LF position for an upgrade. -
Haha, we are proving this weekend that the strategy worked. The offense looks eerily similar to the one last October. No hope of anything, but you still watch hoping that your intuition is for some reason wrong. So we lost today on a Randy Wolf 2 run double. He pitched seven 1 hit innings, and provided all the runs scored by the Dodgers today. He also had as many hits as the Cubs did all game.
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Lou said before the same that he was getting Marmol into the game no matter what because he hasn't worked all week. So if anything Lou is showing a lack of faith in the offense if he's burning his closer in the 8th inning of a 1 run game.
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So...since Marmol is now the closer, he's gonna get shelled in non-save situations I guess.
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I love how Bradley slipped and fell right on his butt right after Fuld caught that. :lol:
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It's amazing how you just know with pretty decent certainty that the Cubs aren't going to score anymore runs at a certain point. Of course they've only got 1 hit so it doesn't look like they've brought their bats to LA.
