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  1. UMFan83
    Niiiice Lee. Good to see the offense brought their bats to at least one game this series.
  2. UMFan83
    I hope you're joking about the bolded part. As of right now, Hill should be lucky to call himself a major league starter. Umm, why? He had 1 bad start. ONE. As well as a horrible spring, and even his one decent start he was on shakey ground a lot of the game. I'm not going to go as far as saying he's lucky to be in the bigs, but I don't believe his is this number 2/3 starter like most people here think. He's a solid 4/5, and theres nothing wrong with that.
  3. UMFan83
    fixed See, this is why no one likes Duke fans. Because they are realists?
  4. UMFan83
    No I agree, and I'm not proposing to pull Lilly from the rotation at all. I am more worried because I thought the rotation was going to be awful coming into the season, and so far it has been. I think Marshall and Lieber from the start were better options that Marquis and Dempster. Dempster has pitched well but I am still not sure I am close to trusting him.
  5. UMFan83
    Do Marquis and Lilly still have options? How will we get Veal on the 40 man? I like where you are headed but you need to think through your solution.
  6. UMFan83
    It's still early but I think most of us here are concerned about the performance of our rotation thus far. I kind of expected the rotation to be a problem spot this season, hence the reason I projected the Cubs to win 83 games this season, but its still disconcerning to be proven right so far. Take a look at some of the performances we've gotten so far: Lilly: 4.2 IP, 4 ER 3.2 IP, 5 ER 4.1 IP, 5 ER Hill: 6 IP, 2 ER 3 IP, 3 ER Marquis: 5.1 IP, 4 ER Zambrano: 6.2 IP, 0 ER 7 IP, 2 ER 6 IP, 5 ER Dempster: 6 IP, 1 ER 7 IP, 0 ER Thats a grand total of 2 starts over 7 IP all year, 4 starts lasting less than 5 IP, and 4 quality starts out of the first 11. So what do we suggest is done. We have 7 "starters" on our team if you include Lieber and Marshall. We also have Gallagher who is sitting in Iowa waiting for a game to not be rained out. How do you propose the rotation is fixed? Fill one of the other guys in there? Just keep it as it is and let the pitchers settle down and work itself out? I lean towards change, but I thought the rotation was pretty awful before the season. Basically you have an ace (Z), a #3 starter (Lilly) and three #5's (Hill, Dempster, Marquis) in there.
  7. UMFan83
    CT just got ejected.
  8. UMFan83
    Blah
  9. UMFan83
    I can't stand that I know that Soriano is looking fastball on 3-1 and will swing at it no matter what. He'll do it again on 3-2
  10. UMFan83
    We're running out of seats out there!
  11. UMFan83
    Cardinals win. Brewers win. White Sox win. Cubs losing :(
  12. UMFan83
    When was Lilly's last good start? The time we started him on 3 days rest?
  13. UMFan83
    Sad, The Cardinals are 9-3, the Brewers are 7-4, the White Sox are 6-4. Rivals all doing well. I can't stand it!
  14. UMFan83
    At least we are getting solid contact off Cole. IIRC, we were frequent strikeout victims against him last year at Wrigley.
  15. UMFan83
    Kinda weird, I remember Len and Bob saying that Utley doesn't strike out very much at all, yet hes struck out 3 times in like 6 ABs this series.
  16. UMFan83
    I briefly got excited when I noticed the Giants heart of the order was due up in the 10th....until I realized that the heart of the order is Wynn, Molina and Castillo
  17. UMFan83
    Man I get scared anytime there is a runner on for the big 3. Kinda like how I get scared anytime there is a runner on in front of the Cubs big 3, but I'm mostly scared they are going to hit into a double play.
  18. UMFan83
    Hopefully we will be laughing about this when the Cardinals lose like 15 of 20 games or something. I really hope that's the case.
  19. UMFan83
    The Giants have only hit 4 home runs all year, so don't expect one here
  20. UMFan83
    Oh and the Brewers and Cardinals beat some pretty good pitchers today in Santana and Cain. Interesting to see if the Cubs follow suit by beating Hamels soon.
  21. UMFan83
    Again, still the second week of the season, but Cardinals are 9-3 and Brewers are 7-4
  22. UMFan83
    Can't win em all (although I was hoping we would!) Good luck tomorrow with Hamels vs. Lilly..........
  23. UMFan83
    Cmon Soto.
  24. UMFan83
    Anyone whose watched Fuku's ABs lately see a difference from the first week of the season? Have the pitchers figured out a way to pitch to him? He seems to be swinging and missing quite a bit as well as putting it on the ground a bit too much.
  25. UMFan83
    Soriano is a terrible hitter.
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