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  1. I don't know about the rest of you. But it occurs to me that other teams sometimes win when the opposition scores more than 3 runs. More than 4, even! Heck, the Cards won semi-regularly last year with their opponents scoring more than 5. So here comes Captain Obvious: why can't we be more like those other teams, instead of constantly complaining when a pitcher doesn't have a Cy Young type outing?
  2. Alrighty Lou, they're struggling. Time to wack 'em over the head a little...or something.
  3. Now 3-0 Will he take a walk? Doubtful. :twisted: Reverse psychology. It works. :wink:
  4. It wasn't that way pre-TJ surgery. I didn't think it was this bad post TJS. I remember it being much better than this. Pre-surgery he was flat out amazing, like Vizquel in his prime. Our scouts botched this one big time. Average fans knew it though. Inexcusable for pro scouts to botch something laymen all know.
  5. I hate losing during that day, not being able to scream at my TV, then going home and having nothing to yell at because the game is over. DAMMIT! ....just doesn't work as well on a message board.
  6. and it won't make a difference because you can't yell someone into not making fielding errors. True. But if I have to watch sucky baseball then I'd prefer a few Lou blowups just for the entertainment value. I hope he doesn't keep that stuff in the locker room.
  7. No, seems like it happens all the time. I'm sure the stats show it isn't the case, but it still seems that way.
  8. Eat the children! Carlos Lee burger.
  9. Settling down after giving up 3 runs in the first still doens't help us much. We should be able to win when the starting pitching gives up 3. /cosign
  10. Someone wake me when it's feast time.
  11. Installing a rubber room? It's too expensive. A lobotomy will work just as well, and can be self-administered.
  12. I don't know how high any team's winning percentages are when they go down 3 runs in the top of the 1st and they have Jason Marquis on the mound. :? sure, for this game, but people are writing off Marquis for the length of the contract because of one bad inning I think people are writing off Marquis because of one bad career. Wow, joined up yesterday and already picking iFights in every thread you've posted in. Great job. You're a welcome addition here. Isn't that Goony is disguise? :? What's going on here? Well, color me totally confused. Goony's login went kaput post-hack, so he made a new profile. That's him. Wow, that sucks. Sorry to attack goony, I didn't know. go ahead and attack him. he likes it.
  13. You are all delusional. The Cubs game was canceled due to snow. No baseball at all. None. Don't touch me.
  14. Let's have a look at this pitching line: 160.7 IP 7-13 W/L record 4.82 ERA 1.512 WHIP 82 ERA+ Age....25 1st full year of starting. Should his team have relegated this pitcher to the bullpen in favor of an aging vet with no velocity who is coming off arm surgery? In short, should this have been enough to determine that this pitcher wasn't going to be a good starter? BTW, Guzman hasn't even had the benefit of a full season of starting, so even this is skewed against Angel. Hope you didn't say yes, this pitcher is Randy Johnson.
  15. If he goes for that all or nothing shot, and somehow comes up short, then forces the team to cut back the way Arizona has had to do, it will cause a lot more pain. Given the revenues the Cubs generate compared to the Diamondbacks, I find this unlikely though obviously nothing is impossible. He did run the Suns much better.
  16. The Cubs don't have any deferred contracts. They have locked in contracts for the next several years, but that's not the same as deferred. Arizona is STILL paying for guys who played on the 2001 World Series champion team and are not and have not been on the team for several years now. Randy Johnson is still receiving deferred payments from his previous stint with the D'Backs and he's back with the team again this year. Arizona is still in a financial mess from Colangelo. Yes, but he had a much smaller fanbase, far less revenue, and was starting from scratch. He did mortgage the future to get a World Series win, but I think it's most important that he actually got the championship. It wasn't just spending money -- it was spending it on the right players to win. I'd rather have Cuban because I'd love to see that kind of shakeup, but I wouldn't be upset with Colangelo. In my mind it would sure beat a big corporate owner, even though he'd need financial partners to pull it off.
  17. I think the overall point is valid in that it would be nice to see more of our relievers come from within.
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