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  1. UMFan83
    We just don't think highly of him because he could barely crack our lineup for 3 seasons, and he was cast off by at least one other team before finding a spot in your lineup. Chris24Young, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts about this series. Obviously we are all mentally thinking the Cubs are better. I'm sure you are thinking the opposite. On DBacks boards, they are probably saying stuff like 'they only won 85 games...they barely won the central...they had a shot to lock things up really early and got swept by the marlins....their closer is awful....other than the big 3, they have an over the hill former slugger, a of that was benched for 2 months and almost traded, a catcher who cant throw out runners and hits .240, another catcher that was in AAA 3 weeks ago, a SS with a .670 OPS....etc,etc.etc.
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    These position by position comparisons mean nothing, but I think they are fun to make anyways. 1B: Lee over Jackson 2B: DeRosa over Ojeda SS: Drew over Theriot 3B: Ramirez over Reynolds LF: Soriano over Byrnes CF: Young over Jones RF: Floyd/Murton over Upton C: Soto push Snyder (I know I know, but with such a small sample size its really hard to judge) SP: Webb over Zambrano SP: Lilly over Davis SP: Hill over Hernandez SP: Owings over Marquis 7th inning guy: Marmol over Pena 8th inning guy: Lyon over Howry 9th inning guy: Valverde over Dempster Bench: Ward Kendall Fontenot Murton/Floyd Cedeno Pie over Montero Clark Quentin Cirillo Salazar ???? My prediction: Cubs in 4
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    How many months of premium are you willing to bet on that? None. I'm not really interested in making bets this postseason, I just want to enjoy the ride. After looking at the Diamondbacks roster and the pitching matchups, how can you not see a sweep? The only game that we might not win is the first one, just because Webb is so good. But with the way Sori, Lee, and Ramirez are hitting, I think we'll take that one too. We should easily win game two with Lilly going against Davis. And Livan Hernandez just isn't a good pitcher at all, so if Rich has his curveball going on Saturday, that should be an easy victory. I could be wrong, maybe it will take four games to win the series, but I think we're going to sweep. The DBacks just aren't that good. Sori, Lee and Ramirez are going to ground out a lot against Webb. They can't really hurt him consistantly. The only way we win game 1 is if we see good Z and we can get a couple of timely grounders that find holes. We beat Webb this year at Wrigley (against Marquis no less!), but watching that game, he was dominating us. We had a lot of dinky hits, for instance Jacque Jones who blooped a opposite field hit on a pitch he was looking to hit to right. Then again, at this point of the season, Mike Fontenot was our third hitter as Ramirez was injured.
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    But if a team can play 162 games, win 90 of them and have a run differential of -30, why can't they pull off that same magic for 5 games in the playoffs? DBacks record by month: April: 16-11 May: 16-12 June: 14-13 July: 12-13 August: 16-12 September: 16-11 That's pretty consistant baseball. For awhile in June and July they had some big losing and winning streaks, but overall, this is not a team that started out strong and held on with .500 ball, nor is this a team that started off poorly and saved their best baseball until the end. This is a team that played good baseball every month of the season pretty much.
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    Owings would pitch game 4? Might just be me but he seems better than Davis and Hernandez I read on the DBacks website that is the order that they want to go in. http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070930&content_id=2240908&vkey=news_ari&fext=.jsp&c_id=ari
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    Just an idea. I guess we could put a gamethread up, but I would like to start discussing now. Just piecing this together, but this looks like their lineup that they have been trotting out: Chris Young, CF - .237 - 32 - 68 Stephen Drew, SS - .240 - 12 - 60 Eric Byrnes, LF - .286 - 21 - 83 Conor Jackson, 1B - .285 - 15 - 60 Mark Reynolds, 3B - .281 - 17 - 62 Chris Snyder, C - .252 - 13 - 47 Justin Upton, RF - .221 - 2 - 11 Augie Ojeda, 2B - .274 - 1 - 11 Yes Augie Ojeda. Cubs catch a huge break having both Orlando Hudson (who in theory makes Brandon Webb that much better) and Chad Tracy out for the series, forcing them to be replaced with Juston Upton (one of the top prospects in baseball but producing like Felix Pie right now) and Augie Ojeda. Pitching matchups: Game 1: Carlos Zambrano vs. Brandon Webb Game 2: Ted Lilly vs. Doug Davis Game 3: Rich Hill vs. Livan Hernandez Game 4: Jason Marquis/Carlos Zambrano (on 3 days) vs. Micah Owings Game 5: Ted Lilly vs. Brandon Webb DBacks pitching matchups confirmed on DBacks website
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    This is awesome. Playoff baseball tomorrow is looking very likely
  8. UMFan83
    What is the playoff order? I had a pretty good run, I am hoping to be on the list of playoff starters! Man I hope Z is on Wednesday
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    Steve Bartman Also Cardinals and White Sox fans all over
  10. UMFan83
    Because we got into the playoffs with Sori batting leadoff haha. 435 feet on that blast.
  11. UMFan83
    Nice to see Rich Hill and Z both get until 4 ERA in their last 2 starts. If you include Sean Marshall, 4 of the Cubs 5 starters have ERA's under 4, the exception of course being Jason Marquis
  12. UMFan83
    I never got that part of the movie. Why the hell does the Mets player just stand there. Try to dive or get back to the bag you moron. Don't look at the camera resigned to your fate. I guess it helped the fake Cubs, but still.
  13. UMFan83
    I wouldn't be surprised if players like Lee and DeRosa are in tomorrow for at least an AB or 2. They don't want to risk injury of course, but it couldn't hurt to get them a couple ABs so that they don't have 4 days off. We'll see though.
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    Dammit, I was hoping that they'd use Peavy for my fantasy team tomorrow.
  15. UMFan83
    The Padres are right on their pythag record. Fans of every team, every year, try and rationalize why it doesn't apply to their team, but there's probably not much skill to getting outscored and winning 90 games. There's no leveraging that accounts for that, and it's not out of the realm of possibility for a team to happen into a weird run distribution or just luck their way into a discrepancy like that. The 2006 Indians come to mind as a team that found themselves on the wrong side of the bell curve. Look at them now, four games over their pythag and clinched the division. DBacks fans should take solace in the fact that it really just doesn't matter. They have had a good year, and their young offense should improve. As for the playoffs, it doesn't really matter who's playing who in a short series. Enjoy the heightened atmosphere. But your saying with a team with a acceptable 1-2-3 rotation a horrible 4-5 and a great back end of the rotation cant win a bunch of 2-1, 4-3, 3-1 games and then lose a lot of 11-1, 8-2, etc. games. I'm not saying luck doesn't play a factor. It does. But without statistical research to back me up, it seems rather plausable that some teams are built to deviate away from the pythag trend than others.
  16. UMFan83
    Good with all the wins he's been jobbed out of before with pathetic offense, its nice that he can come in and get a W
  17. UMFan83
    Rich, where was this stuff when we needed you earlier in the month? OK, I guess I shouldn't be critical today
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    I'll be there. Right by my office too
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    90-70 isn't lucky. Best team in the NL, isn't lucky. People have said that for months, still wrong. Now, who is pitching for you guys Game 1, 2, 3? Assuming we meet up. 1: Webb vs -- 2: Davis vs -- 3: No idea vs. -- The DBacks have given up more runs than they've allowed. They're clearly a lucky ass team. Generally yes, but the DBacks are built to win close games. Probably the best 7-8-9 bullpen this side of the Padres (maybe better?). They have their holes (2-3-4-5 starters are not the best, but they mostly get the job done). Plus the backend of the DBacks rotation isn't even relevant in this discussion because I'm guessing it would be Webb, Davis, Livan, Webb, Davis. We beat Webb once this year, but hes still a tough matchup for our team. Davis is a lefty, and as you know you can throw stats away when we face lefties. Make no bones about it, the DBacks would be a very very tough matchup.
  20. UMFan83
    Lets finish the season with a 5 game lead and 10 games over .500!
  21. UMFan83
    Yup those are the 2. I'm in the light blue polo. Like I said, not the best pictures, but I love that I got in the paper! My friend JP (NSBB name: polosprt009) is the guy with the blue cubs shirt and blue hat thats on the left screaming in the second picture
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    You the guy in the blue polo? Yup
  23. UMFan83
    I just found out that I'm on the front page of the tribunes paper today and sunday. I'm the guy in the white hat and light blue shirt. Not a very flattering picture but WOW
  24. UMFan83
    OH MY GOD THATS ME ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE TRIBUNE thats me in the white hat and light blue shirt!!!!!!
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    me. Don't worry I'll meet up
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