cubweiser03

My 2 Dime philosophy will be tested tonight :)

AWESOME!

none of those penalites were necessary

Big Poop

Gro$$man

pass to Gilmore was.....$

Disappointed he didn't do that with two more navy jerseys right there. yeah i was yelling..cut it! cut it! to no prevail. beautiful int though.

if he cuts that its 6

Holy SMokes!!

Thats 2 BAD calls. These guys are suckn

McDonough?? I dont know what to to think of this yet. Right now im not digesting this well and am reaching for my tums. Dude better stay out of baseball and focus on business. Bring on the right baseball guys and then i will be happy.

Bo Hart? Cmon guys...thats not fair... Minors (Career) .....Ave.....OBP.....BB/K Bo.270....339......189/444 RT.271....355......260/264 Bo Hart was a weak hitting 2b 'with' a TERRIBLE BB/K ratio, not a good combination. Year of callup bb/k: 15/55, year before 43/82. Bo goes to bigs and hits .277 in roughly 300 bats and gets blow away even further with a 12/64 BB/K ratio and his OBP *shockingly* drops to .317. No one is surprised Bo got his ass handed to him because he couldnt cover the plate all that well to begin with in the minors. Ryan's AA and AAA are were way better than Bo's before they each went into the majors. Ryan as SS would be pretty awesome for this team. If the Cubs didnt land Soriano to play 2b i wouldnt feel so bad about Theriot playing second next year. I know this, i feel 10X better with The Riot at 2b next year than i did about Ronny as SS this year.

Only if i was 100% guaranteed that his coming back brought Bonds to Chicago. ***Ducks for cover*** And no, i dont believe my scenario is a legit scenario either.

Things are shaping up for a big showdown for the Michigan/OSU game. OSU has gone through the heart of their schedule with only MSU truly remaining. Michigan has the heart of their schedule with MSU/@PSU/Iowa in the next 3 weeks. IF...Michigan can make it through this (wont be easy) it will potentially be 1 Vs 2 matchup or at least determine who is going to play for the BCS championship in that final game. Michigan better not screw this up. MSU....cmon was the loss to ND that devastating that you lost to Illini? You know whats funny is i wouldnt be compelety suprised if they ended up beating Michigan this week and then beating OSU later in East Lansing. MSU really gets up for UM (they are going to have a lot to prove after losing to Ilinni too), i hope i see the MSU we all make fun of next week. Henne to Manningham 8)

If the Bears win sunday night are we going to have to dust off that old album collection and play that damn song? 8) This sunday night is going to be so crazy. The sunday night game last year with Atlanta was awesome. This is going be off the charts. IF the Bears win sunday the town is going to turn upside down monday.

From that article... "Defensively, we're a lot better," punter Brad Maynard said, comparing this year's Bears to last year's model. Whoa. To get an opinion on the Bears defense, im going to talk to the authority on that subject himself and get a quote from the punter Brad Maynard. Is it really a good idea to try and spread the Bears out? If they are going to try this Hasselback will be on his back all night.

It's the HR's that are skewing his SLG. He's hit one every 42 at bats, compared to once every 410 in the minors. Yeah right. How did i miss talking about that? I was overlooking that knowing those were higher than normal, i didnt translate that into slugging subconsciously. Haha. Take the 3HR's away totally and you got .404. Turn those 3Hrs into Db's and you got .454.

This week is kinda boring. Only thing that is interesting is OSU/Iowa. Ive watched a lot of CFB this year but probably not that much this weekend.

Obviously. That's not the freaking point. You can't just take a short time frame and multiply it to determine what a guy will do. When's he going to cool down, my man? Maybe, just maybe, we might have something here. With all the numbers being thrown around here, why not just look at what he has done in the Minors, and accept the fact that the Cubs may just have a pretty decent ball player? Except what he did in the minors isn't even close to what he's doing in this short stint. And I don't think I can emphasize enough how different his minor league career is from this stretch. How about his BB/k ratio though? He is maintaing this ratio at the MLB. I think this is really important # when looking at his comparables. Im not going to say he is going to keep batting .322 but if he bats say .290 its not crazy he can have an OBP of .360-.370 because of his steady bb/k ratio. His slugging % is probably a little over-inflated by his avevage. He may not be a huge power threat but he seems to hit for a good amount of doubles. In the minors last year he hit 2bs at 1 per 16 AB, in the majors he is hitting them at 13.5. The doubles are another indication that what he is doing isnt a fluke when it comes to his average. Getting cheap doubles is a different story than cheap hits. FWIW its taken Eckstein 4 times as many bats to hit almost twice the amount of doubles Theriot has.

Interesting. Over this same period his K/AB jumped from 4.9 to 7.1. Not necessarily bad thing. Dude appears to be working deeper in the counts. (I couldnt find his P/PA split stats).

Paging Dustin Lyman...... anyone? Gilmore is ok in the red zone but doesnt do as much in stretching the middle of the field.

I like Kirk too, he knows his stuff. Seems like the only people that don't like Kirk are OSU fans who don't like that he isn't a homer. Indeed. Herbie is a first class talent. He use to get harrassed all the time by the local knuckleheads in Columbus when I lived there. I think if he wasn't an OSU alum the radio station would have fired him a long time ago. They fired his co-host in 1999 for giving "it" to one of the callers/listeners and then going off on a 5 minute tirade on what idiots/uninformed most of the listening audience was. Then shortly afterwords they hired Neanderthal Chris Speilman to do the show right before Herbie's. And its all Buckeyes all the time. Really? I knew OSU fans got upset sometimes because he isn't a blind homer, but I still would have thought he was somewhat of a hero out there. The deal about his co-host sounds pretty good though, I wish I could hear it. So many of the people who call into sports talk radio are just clueless. I guess one just has to live in Columbus. It's smack dab in the middle of the state with the only pro sports franchize within a three hour driving distance being the NHL Blue Jackets. A good majority of the people have never lived anywhere else and good minority of the people are OSU grads who have hung around. They eat, sleep, and drink Buckeye sports. I've never seen a place so obsessed with the local university and I grew up 8 miles north of the Golden Dome. The athletes at OSU are treated like demi-gods and Woody Hayes is god. Don't get me wrong, I got a first class education at OSU and wouldn't trade it for anything. However, while my car was parked in an OSU lot it was worked over pretty good ($4,000 worth of damage) by a drunk with a fire extinguisher. After knocking out all my windows and denting as much of the body as he could he set off the fire extinguisher in my car. His finger prints were all over my car in the dust. When I called the cops (OSU cops) he walked around my car looked at my liscence plate and shook his head. I asked him if he was going to take prints. He said "Naw. You know you are from Michigan don't you?" Well the idiot was later caught trying to break into the chemistry building. Of course he was covered in dust. So they asked him if he did the job on my car and he said yes, becuase I was from Michigan. I know becuase I obtained the police report. Some good came of it though. It's one of the reasons why I started dating my wife. She offered to drive me around while my car was in the shop. A Buckeye is a poisonenous nut! Good story. It pisses me off, but good story. Half of the joy when Michigan beats OSU is the joy of knowing people like this are going out of their minds when they lose to Michigan. I went to a small school in Michigan near the Ohio border in the early nineties when OSU was a perenial NC team. A lot students were from Ohio. They would get all worked up during the year and go crazy when Michigan was ruining there title hopes every year. I was more like a sideline fan until then, and never really felt the importance of that game until i lived through it with people from Ohio. I left college a different fan of Michigan because of that damn game. We all had good fun with it, but never to the extent of being jerks to others like your story.

I dont think Minnesota will be able to run the ball consistantly at all. Maybe a big run here or there but they wont be able to grind Michigan out on the ground. The front 4 of Michigan is there best ive ever seen (DL for them historically isnt all that great anyway, but these guys are good) and the LBs are solid. Caputo is a good Qb but he is going to need to carry them this week. Purdue can run the ball against ND. If they have to rely on painter too much in obvious passing situation or need to come from behind they will be trouble. ND cant run the ball and probably wont stick with it long enough to know anyway. Its all about Purdue's secondary, and they did ok against Caputo.

Is the Cubs clubhouse big enough for Bonds' Lazyboy? Id love it if the came to Chicago. No im not a fan of him personally but dude can still playball. I want ballers.

I would of liked to seen Seattle full force against the Bears. This is too bad.