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  1. XZero771679666304
    That's at least the third luck hit Theriot has the past 3 games, but I'll take it.
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    He couldn't pick up the ball after a double by Weeks which allowed a run to score, and he misplayed a ball off the wall badly, allowing extra bases to be taken. I am typically quick to criticize Soriano, but I didn't think today was a terrible defensive day by his standards. Sure he misplayed the ball off the wall, but that is a mistake that outfielders do make occasionally and it isn't on the same level as dropping routine fly balls. His being removed from the game wasn't a direct result of any defensive misplays. He would have been removed in the double switch whether he had made an error or not. Personally, the misplay off the wall didn't bother me too much, either. It was a bad play, but one you see fairly often. The ball can bounce in odd ways off the dead ivy.
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    He couldn't pick up the ball after a double by Weeks which allowed a run to score, and he misplayed a ball off the wall badly, allowing extra bases to be taken. Wait, wait, wait, wait...he didn't allow a run to score off the Weeks hit. Yes, it allowed Weeks to turn his easy double into a triple, but the two guys already on base were scoring based on where the ball was hit regardless of whether he picked it up right away. Yeah, I'm not so sure about that. Between how long he took to get to the ball and then dropping it once he did, I think he gave Bush a much, much better chance to score at the very least. IMO, if Sori gets to that ball quickly and gets it to the IF, the runner doesn't score from first. I'm not a Sori hater, but it was a bad play for multiple reasons.
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    He couldn't pick up the ball after a double by Weeks which allowed a run to score, and he misplayed a ball off the wall badly, allowing extra bases to be taken.
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    Well, I'd argue that the Cardinals are. I rank the Phillies #1 and the Cardinals a fairly close #2...and I think there's a pretty big drop-off after that. But that's a different discussion. What I was saying is that the Cardinals have about as good of a chance of winning the NL Central as the Phillies have of winning the NL East. I don't think any of the other 4 divisions have a clear favorite (of course, 2nd place in the AL East will still get you into the postseason). how many very good players do the cardinals have? 4? the cards are pretty much carp/wainwright/pujols/holliday and then a bunch of filler (though rasmus is looking pretty good so far). the phillies look pretty stacked to me. Yeah, on paper the Phils' roster is pretty convincingly better than the Cardinals'.
  6. XZero771679666304
    You realize there is something called a mental age and Bradley is literally still a 10-year old temper tantrum prone kid in that respect. The word you should have used is "figuratively". It's ok to admit mistakes. I didn't make a mistake you just took it wrong. It's obvious he is physically not a 10-year old anymore making it pretty obvious what I was talking about his mental age. Sorry next time I'll explain it clear as day so you don't get confused. Maybe after you win the Nobel prize for inventing the literal mental age deducing machine. As for the rest of us simpletons, we'll have to use chronology.
  7. XZero771679666304
    Maybe if you didn't comport yourself like a petulant three year old with no self control here, people wouldn't make assumptions about you. And the only conclusion I made was that you must piss and moan about the Cubs verbally (and that your family has to listent to it) quite a bit if you take the time to type out your asinine knee jerk reactions. Defensive, much?
  8. XZero771679666304
    Enjoy them again, my man. Go to your user control panel and put me on your "foe" list. There, I'm ignored and you can enjoy the game threads again. you're welcome. Except for times when he'd see what you wrote anyway because someone else quotes you. Well, I guess life sucks then, doesn't it? You could just limit the abuse to those in your home who no doubt have to listen to it, and not be completely redundant by inundating the game threads with even more useless crap that just irritates everyone even more than the games do.
  9. XZero771679666304
    The untuck 'em thing is utterly lame, but the Cardinals griping is becoming pathological.
  10. XZero771679666304
    you know what gets old even quicker? people who have no connection to duke or the ACC or the southeast hating duke with a passion for no reason. its like the freaks who hate the yankees, even though they root for an NL team that would only face the yankees in the world series. That's just stupid. There are myriad of reasons for anyone to hate Duke (and the Yankees for that matter). Not the least of which is the fact that the national media shoves them down our collective throats. It's overexposure. It would be freakish to hate some obscure team for no reason, but people hating teams that are virtually omnipresent shouldn't surprise anyone. Especially when that omnipresence encourages bandwagoning from people who have no connection to the team/school. The downside to being a true fan of a team that is the recipient of a disproportionate amount of media attention, bias and virtual fellatio is that a lot of people are going to get sick of it and hate your team because of it. Deal with it.
  11. XZero771679666304
    I'm really not mad. Disappointed and frustrated, but not mad. It was just a [expletive] day, full of [expletive]. What can you do about most of what happened early? As bad as Z's line looks, he wasn't that bad. I didn't see the second half of the game, but the first half looked like mostly a bunch of [expletive] luck to me.
  12. XZero771679666304
    Was that the last game of the 4-game sweep right at the end of July where the Cubs won in a blowout? my favorite regular season series of all time. it topped the 5 game set against the cards in 2003 That was a great series, but it doesn't top the 5 game Cards set for me. Agreed. 2003's was better. From Mark Prior dominating the crap out of the Cards in the first game, to Sosa hitting a walkoff in the second, to Alou getting screwed and Alf bumping the ump unintentionally because he didn't realize how fat he was, from coming down from 6-0 in the 4th game, to winning an Estes start in the 5th game, that was the ultimate series. The 2008 series was more of a smackdown, which was nice and had a lot of drama because the Cubs were in a big slump and allowed the Brewers to tie them in the standings 2 days before, but because it was a smackdown, it didn't have the drama of the 2003 series, plus it wasn't at the end of the season plus it wasn't against the Cardinals. What was it Stone said after that series? IIRC, it was "the Cardinals came into this series thinking they were the better team, and they left knowing they weren't." I loved that at the time.
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    Was that the last game of the 4-game sweep right at the end of July where the Cubs won in a blowout? my favorite regular season series of all time. it topped the 5 game set against the cards in 2003 That was a great series, but it doesn't top the 5 game Cards set for me. could go either way. i think the cards series was more dramatic and magical, but that brewers series was so [expletive] fun. we were struggling big time heading into that series, we had just blown a big lead in the division and let the brewers back to within one game, and most of us were hoping for a split. then they walk into miller park and just rape them for 4 straight games to push the lead back to 5. i still remember brian anderson saying "mercy, mercy" at the end of game 4 when the cubs were still hitting bombs all over the place. that was the most confident i've ever been about a cubs team in my entire life. I think it was "uncle", after Kosuke hit a second decker. Yeah, that series was bad ass. I thought it was going to be a tight series after the first game, but fortunately it wasn't.
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    I don't know, save Titanic, Driving Miss Daisy and maybe Braveheart, that's a solid list.
  15. XZero771679666304
    There sure is. Like racky-tacking.
  16. XZero771679666304
    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. I think it's some sort of Norse pesto. I think he's trying feebly to call Mac a Svengali, which is funny on many levels. Sad that I have to explain this simple joke...LaRussa is the Svengali...a literary and movie hypnotist from the '30s who controls his victom....replacing "garlic" for "gali" is a 3 Stooges malaprope for laughs, impuning the great mans breath. Can you put it all together now? Given the usual eloquence of your posts, I thought it more likely you didn't know what a Svengali was, or that you may have been one of the three stooges. If you want people to buy that you actually intended that obscure and dated humor, you might want to work on not expressing yourself with such mangled diction. And the Svengali character dates to the late nineteenth, and the use of Svengali as a term pre-dates the 30's, but I'm sure that's what you meant, and were just flustered at having to disseminate to the simple folk. But please, continue to enlighten and entertain us with your delicious brand of humor.
  17. XZero771679666304
    I'm not a big Frasor fan. Honestly, if they really feel like they need another reliever now, I wouldn't be opposed to David Weathers. We wouldn't have to trade any young players and could likely get him on a cheap, one-year deal. He is 40 this year, but he was excellent in 43 games for Cincy last year and has been good to very good fairly consistently. He did have a poor season in 2008 and wasn't very good for the Brewers in 25 games last year, but otherwise, since 2005, he's been a good reliever. I'd still prefer to stand pat or look into Heath Bell or Scott Downs, but Weathers would be a guy we wouldn't have to trade prospects for and could contribute. Yeah, if Hendry has to trade for a reliever, I'd rather pay more and shoot for a more known commodity like Bell.
  18. XZero771679666304
    Sad but true. The only guy whose presence on the floor gives me grief is Jordan.
  19. XZero771679666304
    I'd probably rather he not have grabbed him, but coaches let it fly and lay into kids in full view of everyone all the time. It's as part of the game as anything, and realistically, players only really are hurt by it when they know they didn't deserve it. The rest of the time, the get over it. It's just how coaching is. And Dmac will be back, and he'll be back because of the sort of things we saw out of him today, and anyone advising him with half a brain will make sure of it.
  20. XZero771679666304
    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. I think it's some sort of Norse pesto. I think he's trying feebly to call Mac a Svengali, which is funny on many levels.
  21. XZero771679666304
    He shot a crappy shot at a horrible time. Weber pulled him. He walked to the bench during the timeout and Weber grabbed him and yelled at him. Its hard to tell if DMac was pushing through him or just going to the bench. Either way I was hoping the 45 year old man would wait and handle it in private, but instead he was busy making a scapegoat out of his best player. To be fair, DMac was playing like an idiot. He was throwing crap up there, and after the shot in question, he outright mugged the Wisky player with the ball and compounded it. It wasn't just that one sequence, either, but a good chunk of the second half that DMac was playing with his head up his ass. I don't see where Weber was that out of line. I am not happy with how things have been going, but it seems like you want Bruce to coddle these kids. I am not a big Weber fan, but it's not a head coach's job to pamper and massage egos.
  22. XZero771679666304
    Either Ben is actually a rapist, or he really needs to hang out in different places with different people.
  23. XZero771679666304
    Yeah. I'd like to see him make the team over Fuld, though. I don't see him as anything more than a fourth OF anyway, so I don't think there is a lot to be lost by not leaving him in the minors for seasoning. Even if he tore it up in AAA and got called up, he's still be behind Nady even if something happened to Soriano. For him to get significant AB's, Soriano and Nady would have to go down, which is possible.
  24. XZero771679666304
    That would be a depressing, terrifying world. Why? Because it's tremendously unrealistic and dumping Soriano for "anything" is likely a scenario that the Cubs get shafted in. Not to mention that Colvin starting in LF would likely involve a prolonged stretch of Nady stinking and/or getting hurt before he'd get the chance.
  25. XZero771679666304
    I'm pretty sure there are quite a few more Iowa fans here, though they're not too vocal at the moment.
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