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  1. UMFan83
    What do the last 100 years have to do with this one?
  2. UMFan83
    Why are you even here? It's really unfair for so many of you to claim to hate/not care about this team and then not follow through. This team has lost 9 of 11. Those 2 wins were a 5th inning rain shortened game and a 8th inning win against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Doesn't change the fact that your presence isn't adding anything positive. What's there to be positive about when your team has lost 9 of 11? Assuming a sweep after the first game, a really close game at that, is beyond just negative.
  3. UMFan83
    This game is just payback for all the 9th inning nailbiters that we won against LA last year.
  4. UMFan83
    fixed.
  5. UMFan83
    Shades of that game against the Orioles last year. Frustrating but we'll get em tomorrow hopefully.
  6. UMFan83
    Big leaguers get on base, minor leaguers fail. Cubs lose.
  7. UMFan83
    Well that sucks. Can't even put a bat on the ball. Argghhh
  8. UMFan83
    First time Cubs baseball has been fun for me in awhile
  9. UMFan83
    C'mon Scales.
  10. UMFan83
    Wow, ok I'll take it. Same as a bunt.
  11. UMFan83
    How do we blow this fake rally?
  12. UMFan83
    Wow, I'll take it.
  13. UMFan83
    I'm pretty sure it's a given.
  14. UMFan83
    Negotiation tactic. The Cubs will be sold to Ricketts and no one else. i know but i figured id just post it in here instead of making it a new thread. Yeah, it was a good piece of info to post, that's just my comment on it. I really hope the sale unexpectedly gets done in time to make moves around the trading deadline.
  15. UMFan83
    Well I mean they can't just lob the ball over the plate. There is some science to it. But it is frustrating to see how poor their control is when we need to throw a strike.
  16. UMFan83
    Interesting. Guess I'm wrong, although some of that can be from IBB's, but either way, theres not a huge difference there. Is that career or this year or what? I'd be interested to see if he's gotten better or worse at walking with RISPs as his career has progressed. You and your stupid stats.
  17. UMFan83
    What I'm worried about is that the delayed sale of the team is really going to handcuff the Cubs from being able to do anything at the deadline to improve the team. That said, there are still a lot of reasons we can make the playoffs as is. If we can't come around, this might just be a lost year. If this is the case, whatever. We've waited 100 years, what's a few more ( :( )
  18. UMFan83
    At least it wasn't Lee? Doesn't Lee only have 1 GIDP this season? It's time to drop the Lee GIDP jokes because of one outlying year where he hit into a bunch of them.
  19. UMFan83
    I've always had a hunch that a majority of his walks are taken when there aren't RISP's. He doesn't seem to mind working the count and taking a walk in those situations, but when there are RBI opportunities, he gets super aggressive and swings at horrible pitches. He will still sometimes take pitches, but only to get ahead in the count in order to increase the probability of him getting a hittable pitch. If he gets a 2-0 count, he'll just start flaling away at anything to avoid walking.
  20. UMFan83
    When is Soriano due for a hot streak again? What a promising inning just shattered in a span of 2 pitches.
  21. UMFan83
    Negotiation tactic. The Cubs will be sold to Ricketts and no one else.
  22. UMFan83
    Uhh Blanco is 0-2 tonight with 2 Ks and has a season .167 I meant yesterday buddy. Because his 1-4 really really helped yesterday, buddy. He did have an RBI double that gave the Cubs an insurance run and extended the inning so another insurance run could happen. But yeah other than that, he has been pretty bad.
  23. UMFan83
    We need to give Fox some starts before he loses his momentum and cools off. He looks locked in.
  24. UMFan83
    When you *have* to play Mike Fontenot against an extremely tough lefty, and have to play, or even call up Andres Blanco, your team has some problems. There are several glaring holes on this team that keep them from being last year's team. That said, they can still contend for the playoffs with some smart moves and a bit of luck. Also, we can't have almost half the lineup hovering around .200. This is what i think is unbelievble. Its unreal. It's pretty unreal that we are relying on contributions from Bobby Scales, Jake Fox, Andres Blanco, Micah Hoffpauir among others. That's almost 20% of our lineup that at this time last year you would think would never be called up to the Cubs that are playing supporting roles for this team. I don't think they are all destined for failure or anything....so far they've all contributed somewhat, but its just odd for a team with a payroll this high to be playing these players. Did you know that the Cubs have FIFTEEN pre-arbitration players on their 25 man roster right now?
  25. UMFan83
    Nice job Scales! Turns an 0-2 count into a HR
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