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  1. UMFan83
    Pat thinks Ronny saw the opportunity and went on his own. If so that is absolutely moronic. With 5 outs to go in the game down by 1, I wouldn't want Ricky Henderson himself taking third, much less Ronny Cedeno. Guy has no brains. At least it worked out....
  2. UMFan83
    Someone had to screw up there. Did Ronny mistake a hit and run?
  3. UMFan83
    OMG!
  4. UMFan83
    I bet Soto will take a few pitches in order to get into a hit and run situation.
  5. UMFan83
    C'mon, you guys really thought that he'd use Pie with Ward and Soto on the bench?
  6. UMFan83
    Since 2002, the Cubs are 27-54 against Arizona (14-26) and Philly (13-28) 453-450 against everyone else.
  7. UMFan83
    I would not be opposed to this Marlins too.
  8. UMFan83
    I can't stand Ramirez so far this season. He's generally not getting himself into good hitter's counts. Although strangely he has been walking a bit.
  9. UMFan83
    Man, the Tigers are awful, and I guess the White Sox might be good this year. So after a 1 year reprieve from our rivals being good, so far it looks like its back to Cubs hating by the baseball gods.
  10. UMFan83
    Why not? We did this last year too. He'll get the last out here and pitch the 7th. Sure I'd like to save him for the next time we face the 3-4-5 hitters, but A) the next time might be the 9th inning, and B) who would you honestly want here? Howry and his flat fastballs vs. Burrell?
  11. UMFan83
    I doubt if we came back to win you'd feel that way. C'mon, we're in the bullpen already for them. As long as we get Burrell here, we have a decent shot.
  12. UMFan83
    Of course Milwaukee is winning 8-6 and about to take 2/3 from the Mets in NY. Our whole team (offense, defense pitching) has underperformed this weekend.
  13. UMFan83
    I don't know what it is about the Phillies. I'm not saying that they aren't good, but c'mon this is ridiculous.
  14. UMFan83
    Not good. Sweep is looking likely
  15. UMFan83
    Niiiice Lee. Good to see the offense brought their bats to at least one game this series.
  16. 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.
  17. UMFan83
    fixed See, this is why no one likes Duke fans. Because they are realists?
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. UMFan83
    CT just got ejected.
  22. UMFan83
    Blah
  23. 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
  24. UMFan83
    We're running out of seats out there!
  25. UMFan83
    Cardinals win. Brewers win. White Sox win. Cubs losing :(
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