George Hayduke
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8/16 Cubs (Straily) @ Mets (Niese) 6:10 WGN
George Hayduke replied to sweetpeteman's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I thought that was off of his face at first. -
8/16 Cubs (Straily) @ Mets (Niese) 6:10 WGN
George Hayduke replied to sweetpeteman's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Castillo with a pretty nice bat flip on the infield single there. -
8/16 Cubs (Straily) @ Mets (Niese) 6:10 WGN
George Hayduke replied to sweetpeteman's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Straily's done. Seems like he pitched better than what his line says. -
8/16 Cubs (Straily) @ Mets (Niese) 6:10 WGN
George Hayduke replied to sweetpeteman's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Nice catch by Alcantara. -
That was like a high fly ball that just never ever stopped.
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I don't get what the average-to-good eye versus extremely aggressive approach dichotomy is? He swings at pretty much everything, but he has a fairly normal balance between the times he swings at strikes and the times he swings at balls. Basically, he swings at both balls and strikes at an extremely high rate. so how does that equate to a good eye? If he swings at balls at an extremely high rate he does not have a good eye. Basically the ratio of his swings at strikes vs swings at balls is fairly average (his eye) but the number of total swings vs total pitches he takes is terrible (his approach)...and of those swings, his number of misses is "disasterously" high. In other words, when he does take there's an average chance that it is a ball he's taking...but he's not taking anything too often, and when he does swing he's very likely to be swinging and missing.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-13-14
George Hayduke replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Man, that's some scary [expletive]. -
You heard it here first, Kids:
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surprised it didn't get you fired. By "ridiculed," he means arrested.
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RIZZOOOOOO!!!!!!! \:D/
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Well, okie dokie.
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Hey, come on..... the CUBS have never lost a game to the Rays on a Sunday !! KEEP THE STREAK ALIVE!
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Yargh.
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Stewart's going to issue a statement today at 1:00 before the race in Watkins Glen. NASCAR and Stewart's spokesperson have already made comments framing it as a "tragic accident". I read one article that said police were investigating but that the investigation was not criminal in nature and that they were not planning on pressing any charges at this time. Pretty crazy. I doubt he was trying to run him over, but it certainly seems like he intentionally throttled his engine to swerve towards him. Maybe just an aggressive gesture and he thought Ward would move or he accidentally got closer than he intended or something. But either way...if that's the case then his carelessness killed a man and he shouldn't be able to just walk away from that.
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There's no magic formula. Winning is a combination of run scoring and run prevention. The favored team is going to be the one with the best net combination of pitching, defense, and offense. That principle doesn't change in October; if anything, the comparative quality of each becomes less important in the postseason because in a short series anything can happen. If the Cubs fielded a team with top notch offense and shut down defense and were able to make the playoffs with a rotation full of Kyle Hendricks' who will keep you in most games but rarely be absolutely dominant, I'd have no reason to believe they wouldn't have as much of a chance in the playoffs as anyone. That said, any team that's good enough to contend is probably going to have at least league average pitching. But a rotation jam packed with aces isn't necessary for a successful playoff run. If we are talking about pitchers of Hendricks talent level I agree. However I do believe in pitcher variety. I wouldn't want to throw 3 RH in a row that all threw 90 MPH. Yeah, I just meant 5 average quality starters (not necessarily 5 with exactly Hendricks' profile).
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Is this true? I thought it had been pretty well disproven.
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The best team had a chance to advance by winning the division. Nobody cares if the best team advances in the wild-card round. Right. Usually the two teams battling in the wild card round are both marginal and fairly evenly matched anyway, so a one game playoff doesn't let in that much more variance than a three game.
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Exactly. The games are already bloated with dead time. There's no point in adding anymore when you basically gain nothing because most calls are either moot to the outcome or inconclusive on replay or both. I'm willing to endure the occasional waste of four minutes if it allows for the obviously incorrect call to be overturnable whenever it does occur. You shouldn't be. Logic* says you're wrong. (using the definition of logic previously established in this thread). Man, the Cubs went from fun to stupid really fast. I'm just thinking of the obvious Armando Galarraga types of situations where even the guy who made the call reviews it afterwards and immediately admits, "yeah, I totally fucked that one up." Four minutes seems like a long time when you're just staring at the umps reviewing video, but it really isn't that long considering the alternative.
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Exactly. The games are already bloated with dead time. There's no point in adding anymore when you basically gain nothing because most calls are either moot to the outcome or inconclusive on replay or both. I'm willing to endure the occasional waste of four minutes if it allows for the obviously incorrect call to be overturnable whenever it does occur.
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That was an exceptionally long review and it added four minutes to a three hr game. It's all good, brah.
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That cubbie bear in center field is pimmmmmmp. Petition to keep it forever.
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These sorts of opinions are everything that's wrong with baseball fans. If your going to let half the teams play in the playoffs what's the point? It's incredibly dumb when the playoffs are already a crapshoot, now they mean next to nothing since so many teams are in it. Logic is hard to see for some people. I get where you're coming from, but you could also ask, what's the point of having a 162 game season if 80% of the teams are out of it by the ASB?
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Do you like home runs? They used to be taboo in baseball 100 years ago, but the reason the rules were changed is because excitement. That's also why a wildcard was added. And a 2nd. Isn't excitement reason enough?
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I'm waiting for Javy to come out with a New Era sticker on his flat bill, just because he's not a team player.