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  1. George Hayduke
    I used to be staunchly of the puritan mindset that pitchers need to bat because "that's the way the game was meant to be played." But over the past few years I've come to realize that there's little value in sending guys with a .100 BA to the plate, for the team or for the fans. The game is meant to be fun and pitchers batting is not fun. DH needs to come to the NL, IMO.
  2. George Hayduke
    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.
  3. George Hayduke
    i should have stated in this i'm overly confident Turner and Straily will be at least league-average the new inefficiency can be a staff full of #3s sure, that's an inefficiency, but once you hit the playoffs, those guys are facing off against aces. So? then you lose. Unless you have above average hitting to combat that good pitching.
  4. George Hayduke
    :yahoo:
  5. George Hayduke
    What exactly am I looking at in this chart? a 30-year old pitcher coming off shoulder inflammation being abused by his meatball manager. I gathered that, but specifically how is the "Total PAP" stat calculated? Or at least what does it represent?
  6. George Hayduke
    What exactly am I looking at in this chart?
  7. George Hayduke
    FTFY
  8. George Hayduke
    Wow, does my gameday have a lag right now....hey everyone, first pitch to Starlin just now was a ball in the dirt, just so you know...
  9. George Hayduke
    IN YOUR STUPID FACE, ADJUSTMENT PERIOD!
  10. George Hayduke
    :lol:
  11. George Hayduke
    WikiPedia has him as a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, which is as official as the last guy who updated Jacob Turner's WikiPedia page says it is. Someone wiki all of our minor leaguers until they figure out which one is now playing for the Marlins.
  12. George Hayduke
    Or like, 2012. I also understand you were exaggerating, but it hasn't been THAT long, considering the teams they've been fielding.
  13. George Hayduke
    Or like, 2012.
  14. George Hayduke
    http://wlth.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/hangover.gif
  15. George Hayduke
    FORMER ROTY THO!
  16. George Hayduke
    Good stuff, welcome!
  17. George Hayduke
    Typical, too lazy to run out balls hit inside the park. Yep, he thought about all the effort it would take to be a baserunner and was just like, [expletive] that.
  18. George Hayduke
    And yet Vitters isn't our style. "Oh, you don't like this diarrhea sandwich? Here, try this poop enchilada instead." Well, I was kind of hungry...but this visual took care of that.
  19. George Hayduke
    It's really amazing the turn around Coghlan has made the past two months.
  20. George Hayduke
    Holy [expletive].
  21. George Hayduke
    I saw the headline on mlb.com this morning and my first thought was, "did Rondon fan somehow hack into the mlb website just to troll all of us who went to bed after the 10th?"
  22. George Hayduke
    JAVY!!! This day is off to a great start! http://replygif.net/i/1492.gif
  23. George Hayduke
    Blargh.
  24. George Hayduke
    Javy go ahead homer coming up. Let's do it.
  25. George Hayduke
    http://replygif.net/i/1490.gif
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