Transmogrified Tiger

He was clearly just clarifying who he was.

Pointless. Fontenot should be playing there everyday, McGehee can play there plus if they wanted to Coats and Montanez are going to be hankering for playing time at AAA, and they're both (former) IF. And of course, you have to know that he'll be up with the major league club before long.

Can you not say "The pitcher is going to dominate tonite"? Obviously he's talking about using it incorrectly, like if someone said "Zambrano was absolutely dominate last night".

EPatt's heating up again, got that OPS pushing .825.

We fixed the leadoff spot?

We are awesome. Bullpen Rest Dempster Eyre Williamson Howry Ohman Novoa Rusch Ryu May 17 DNP 1IP/14p 1IP/11p 1IP/10p DNP DNP DNP DNP May 16 1IP/9p DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP May 15 DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP May 14 DNP DNP .2IP/17p 1IP/17p DNP 1IP/23p DNP 1IP/27p May 13 1IP/20p .2IP/6p DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP May 12 1IP/17p 1IP/10p 1.1IP/15p 1IP/19p DNP DNP 1.2IP/40p DNP

He's doing alright. Did you see that barehanded play he made in left field to totally save a game? Yea...I kinda wish defense actually mattered in fantasy. Okay BigSlim.

Good thing, we're totally hurting for 2B in the higher minor leagues. Please don't be true.

Thanks for the pbp, Fred. I hate living in St Louis so much. Try Maryland, I only get WGN, and somehow I don't get a single game of this series, as they are all on MASN, and I don't get it. I'm in the same boat, plus I have to deal with cardinal fans. MLB EI

Olin Wick cardholders everywhere rejoice.

And it came in his last inning.

Can I laugh at you for Phillip Burrell?

Correct, unless something has changed since the beginning of the season.

Are you serious? I sort of stopped paying attention to the Cubs for the past week, aside from SportsCenter highlights and box scores in the newspaper, so I'm asking because I don't know. Did that really happen? What was thrown? And did the guy get his *** kicked by the other fans? Yeah, some woman threw something at him, Jones got an umpire and she was thrown out of the stadium.

That's a ridiculous philosophy! Let's tank the year to get better for the future? Haven't we tanked enough years in the past 97 years? What makes you think that giving up on this year will make us better for next year? Makes no sense. I would rather see all the players have good years and that will bold well for next year. I want to see Cedeno, Murton, RAM, Lee, Marshall, etc. excel and get better for next year. If you watch the Cubs hoping for them to lose, why watch them?

Well Badger i am sorry. First the "arbitrary" 145 number if you do the math is exactly 89.5% or 90% rounded up. When i sign someone to a multi million, multi year deal, they sure as heck better play 90% of the time for me. That is where that number came from. Not sure what you are talking about manipulating numbers on ARam. You can find any of the splits above at Yahoo sports or ESPN if you would like to go and see for yourself. I was just saving everyone the time from having to dig them out and put them together in order so that everyone could see the trend for themselves. And i will make sure i send in a request to Baseball Almanac on your behalf to delete any baseball records for when people didnt start a game or werent a full time starter. I dont know what i was thinking when i included his whole entire career stats. Must not have been aware that some stats are good and some are bad and you only get to count the ones that are good. But i will make sure they are aware of it. It's not a difficult problem to diagnose. His peripherals are similar if not better than past years, he's just getting pretty unlucky with BABIP. Some of it you can blame him for a poor approach, trying to pull outside breaking pitches and popping up, but he's been absurdly unlucky thus far. Add in the fact that he has been a slow starter in the past, and there's no reason to think why he won't improve. In regards to other underperformers, Jones is producing near his career norms, there's little reason to think he'll improve offensively. Pierre has a very low BABIP, but this is into the second year in a row he's put up a lower BABIP, which has to lend questioning to if it's a fluke or not.

And we finish the season at .500. I don't even want that, I'd rather we tank the season and have Dusty fired. I don't want him coming out smelling like roses because the team banded together and overachieved. Some of you fans amaze me. You are hoping that the Cubs tank the season? Sorry, I never like to see teams give up on season. We have been doing that far too long. losing breeds losing with or without Dusty. It's not hard to grasp. If the Cubs aren't going to be successful, it'd be best for them to be horrible so the appropriate front office changes are more likely to be made, in order for them be successful in the future.

Scherzer had an injury plagued season, only threw 52.2 IP this year. He was good when he did pitch though. 5-1, 2.22 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 10.00 K/9, and 3.05 K/BB for a Big XII team. I wonder if he'll still come out this year. He's a max effort guy who pitched out of the pen earlier in his college career, he may be fast mover through the Minors as a closer.

Wow.

When you lay back when a guy gets too close like that, then you're asking to look foolish. Normally a keeper would be sliding to meet him in that situation.

Is that really him? Where is this game being played? At halftime it was, and Paris. Poor goalkeeping there, should've challenged him and gave it up near post, a big no-no.

Fascist.

does this refer to my saying rectum? Nope, colorful. Who says that?

Well as long as your consistent....

I'm loving the Without A Trace dude doing analysis.