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Uh, no they wouldnt. I think you're confusing stats with money. and what does that statement mean, really? Know how to win? Yeah, I know how to win too; score more runs than the other team.

There's a whole lot of good mojo in that rotation and the spot guy. Plus, you can re-charge a lot of mojo in disney land.

Like I said, people always look for reasons why a certain team may be an exception. I look at that lineup and pitching staff, and I don't see a 90 win team. Just cause you don't "see" one, doesn't mean they aren't one. You obviously for a fact haven't seen this team. They are the only team in the MLB to play over .500 EVERY MONTH. Go ahead and look at their run differential, if being 19 games over .500 and having the best record in the NL is "lucky," I'll take it every year + the doubt by everyone. The D'Backs have great chemistry, that wins games, not always talent. The offense may be bad, but it comes through in the clutch situations. Sure we don't blow teams out, cause really, we don't have that type of offense. I don't think we'll really have to worry about getting blown out in the series seeing the main culprits of us being slaughtered, Nippert and Gonzalez, may not make the post season roster. These are the exact types of things that people say about lucky and flukish teams. Just sayin.... Now, Davhern..... Dont be so mean. Don't you remember the 2005 cubs? They chemistry'd their way all th way to the...oh wait.

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. as opposed to physically thinking?

Wow. Here are some stats to back up what we already know. When Z is good...god is he good. When he is bad....well... I Split G GS GF W L S CG SHO IP ERA H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP +-+------------+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+------+------+----+----+----+---+----+---+----+---+ in Wins 82 81 0 82 0 0 5 2 583.2 1.62 379 120 105 29 228 5 501 26 in Losses 55 54 0 0 55 0 2 0 306.2 6.63 341 252 226 35 168 15 246 25 in No Dec. 64 45 4 0 0 0 0 0 303 3.59 266 134 121 34 152 9 295 15

That ERA is probably skewed pretty heavily by that terrible start he had there on opening day a couple years ago. Oh, thats true i'm gonna shmooze around baseball-reference for a while and see what he did in other starts. God that site is awesome. Just looked, and yeah, that's definitely the case. he had a 14 point era in that game.

That ERA is probably skewed pretty heavily by that terrible start he had there on opening day a couple years ago. Oh, thats true i'm gonna shmooze around baseball-reference for a while and see what he did in other starts. God that site is awesome.

I'm supremely confident going into this series. The first game scares me a bit, but if I'm not mistaken, doesn't Z usually pitch really well at Ari? I think one of his 8th inning no-hit bids was there a few years ago. Plus, while Webb is an absolute stud, we have shown that we can beat him in the past. And right now our offense seems to be firing on all cylinders. The way I look at it; if we can take game 1, we sweep. If not, I think we win it in 4. Regardless, I just REALLY REALLY hope that we win this thing at Wrigley. God that would be so much damn fun. Also, poking about baseball reference.com, they've got some interesting stuff as far as "days of rest" goes. Here is how Big Z does on different days of rest between starts I Split G GS GF W L S CG SHO IP ERA H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP +-+------------+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+------+------+----+----+----+---+----+---+----+---+ 0 Days 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 0.00 1 0 0 0 2 0 5 1 1 Day 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1.2 0.00 1 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 2 Days 6 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 9.2 7.45 17 13 8 0 11 1 4 1 3 Days 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 8.1 5.40 9 5 5 1 3 1 3 1 4 Days 100 99 0 49 25 0 7 2 671.1 2.65 493 230 198 48 298 15 593 33 5 Days 60 59 0 22 21 0 0 0 365.2 4.70 362 205 191 35 166 9 319 21 6+ Days 24 20 1 10 7 0 0 0 131.2 3.42 103 53 50 14 64 3 117 9 Oh, and apparently i'm wrong. Z is 1-2 with a 4.88 ERA at chase field in 24IP

hahaha, awesome.

Bullcrap, you don't know that. You're making a totally uninformed guess. In fact, if anything, you should be giving lou CREDIT for soto. As soon as he was called up, he played him. Soto got hot, so he kept playing him. You can't ask much more than that. As for letting Soriano lead off, he tried batting him fifth a few games, he sucked. And the whole "leadoff" man thing gets blown out of proportion sometimes. Outside of the first inning, it really doesn't man much, except that the person in that spot is almost guaranteed at least one more at bat than those lower in the lineup. Isn't it a good idea to give him more AB's? Especially when he's hitting like this. ignore him, please. the number of his opinions that i don't agree with is off the charts :lmao:

I'd go for this, only i'd also give Bhogg the nod in any game that would let us clinch.

Bullcrap, you don't know that. You're making a totally uninformed guess. In fact, if anything, you should be giving lou CREDIT for soto. As soon as he was called up, he played him. Soto got hot, so he kept playing him. You can't ask much more than that. As for letting Soriano lead off, he tried batting him fifth a few games, he sucked. And the whole "leadoff" man thing gets blown out of proportion sometimes. Outside of the first inning, it really doesn't man much, except that the person in that spot is almost guaranteed at least one more at bat than those lower in the lineup. Isn't it a good idea to give him more AB's? Especially when he's hitting like this.

Oh god, that would be one incredible night.

Damnit, looks like he'll finish with 667 :( SO close.

1 game cant count tho. We had scrubs out there on the field for most of the game. Bhogg gets in just cause he's TGTP (the game thread pimp)

Is it safe to use bhogg...we did lose today. I think we should, obviously, go with the guys who had the best records in the regular season. The list looks something like this: Playoff Options: -Bhogg (obvious) -UMFan (8-3) -Southpaw19 (7-1) -soccer10K (7-3) -Flames24Rulz (6-4) -Cubbies75 (4-1) People who should not be allowed within the first five posts of the thread: -CT Cubs Fan (0-5) -Vance the Cubs Fan (0-3) i was also 4-1. Best by winning%: -Southpaw18 (.875) -Derwood (.800) -Cubbies75 (.800) -UMFan (.727) -soccer10k (.700) -Flames24Rulz (.600) -bhogg (???) My bad, I didn't catch you. As for best winning %, there are lots of folks who were at .600, but with only 2-1 records. I think .700 should be the minimum. Bhogg Southpaw Derwood Cubbies75 UMFan Soccer10k That might be too many tho.

no, because even if it hasn't happened in forever, someone else did it before he did http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/grandcu01.shtml Awesome. Curtis Granderson is from around the area too.

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I CANT WAIT. Me neither. Already started on the match-ups. BHOGG. GET THAT GAME THREAD UP! have the game thread starters been determined? i don't think they have. no, actually. I thought we had decided upon bhogg but i was wrong. I posted the guys with the best records in the starters thread.

Is it safe to use bhogg...we did lose today. I think we should, obviously, go with the guys who had the best records in the regular season. The list looks something like this: Playoff Options: -Bhogg (obvious) -UMFan (8-3) -Southpaw19 (7-1) -soccer10K (7-3) -Flames24Rulz (6-4) -Cubbies75 (4-1) People who should not be allowed within the first five posts of the thread: -CT Cubs Fan (0-5) -Vance the Cubs Fan (0-3)

I CANT WAIT. Me neither. Already started on the match-ups. BHOGG. GET THAT GAME THREAD UP!

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I CANT WAIT.

1. Ron Santo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Me Really, ron deserves this more than maybe anyone ever.

Lou should win Manager of the Year, but I think the voters will look at the money Hendry spent this offseason and say we should have won, with or without Lou. LOU???? I can't even imagine a justification. Granted he didn't blow it, but damned if he didn't try. ? His team came from 8.5 back two months ago to winning the division.