Transmogrified Tiger
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Conjecture my foot. Try running in sub 50 degree weather opposed to 80 degree weather. It's a big difference, especially when you are standing in the field all game or sitting in the dugout. If you don't move around a lot, your muscles tend to get tight. Tight muscles slow you down and increase the chances of an injury. What about nilo's point about the fielder? By the same logic isn't his arm colder and tighter, leading to slower throws? We're talking about 1/2 a step or less from home to first. That's well within the realm of influence. Substantially changing Pierre's arm speed to a noticeable level b/c of weather is a pretty tough argument to make. They don't exactly keep radar gun readings on centerfielders. I would guess his velocity does suffer some small amount in cold weather unless his arm is nice and warmed up. It's just not a noticeable difference. Why do they keep track of temperature and weather conditions in track? Because it affects results to a measurable level in those cases. I'm talking about the fielders throwing out Pierre at first.
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It's most likely irrelevant since this is bogus, but I'm not sure if the no trade clause extends to the option year. -
Conjecture my foot. Try running in sub 50 degree weather opposed to 80 degree weather. It's a big difference, especially when you are standing in the field all game or sitting in the dugout. If you don't move around a lot, your muscles tend to get tight. Tight muscles slow you down and increase the chances of an injury. What about nilo's point about the fielder? By the same logic isn't his arm colder and tighter, leading to slower throws?
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None of those other guys saved their nephew from an alien though.
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Will Cub fans ever be happy?
Transmogrified Tiger replied to atcfootball's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I disagree about both of those. In short, Pierre's season may not have been a fluke and I'm not sold on the "pure speed and energy" aspect. Jones is just bad. This is the point though. People disagree. When people complain about this sort of thing I don't really understand what they want. Should we have 5 page threads commending Barrett for his double? A "Congrats on fielding a groundball correctly" thread? This is a place for discussion, and inevitably disagreements and therefore debate will happen, and happen often. No, but should you have a 10 page thread about how bad someone sucks because of a strike out, passed ball, error, etc? They happen. Threads don't go to 10 pages because of a specific incident, they extend to people's views of the parties involved on the whole. -
in june, juan pierre is going to be so fast that he'll beat out routine groundballs to second twice a game Why are you exaggerating? In 650 AB, the difference between a .280 hitter and a .300 hitter is about 13 hits. Just missing an infield single every couple of games b/c your legs are cold/cramped/tight makes a big difference for a guy like Pierre. The Cubs have played 4 games this year with a temperature below 50 degrees, only 1 below 40.
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Will Cub fans ever be happy?
Transmogrified Tiger replied to atcfootball's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I disagree about both of those. In short, Pierre's season may not have been a fluke and I'm not sold on the "pure speed and energy" aspect. Jones is just bad. This is the point though. People disagree. When people complain about this sort of thing I don't really understand what they want. Should we have 5 page threads commending Barrett for his double? A "Congrats on fielding a groundball correctly" thread? This is a place for discussion, and inevitably disagreements and therefore debate will happen, and happen often. -
Will Cub fans ever be happy?
Transmogrified Tiger replied to atcfootball's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
When people see Derrek Lee hitting home runs they say "that's really good", and everyone agrees so there's not much discussion. If someone says that "Juan Pierre is a terrible player", there's going to be more disagreement, and therefore more discussions. -
Yes, it's probably some sort of an anomaly considering how far we're into the season. This also ignores the fact that Pierre has been beyond terrible at getting on base thus far. It's been what, 5 games since Lee got hurt? And again, Pierre isn't getting on base to wreak havoc and distract pitchers or whatever. And what's the deal with the condescension?
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cubs as a team, home= 323 obp/420 slg cubs as a team, away= 317obp/415slg educated. I don't see what that proves. Pierre's legs are what gets him a lot of infield singles. Cold weather hurts that aspect of his game, big time, which isn't the case for the majority of the team, which doesn't largely depend on speed to get a base hit. I don't get it. Pierre's not getting thrown out by half a step in half his at bats, he's just making outs all over the place.
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Another blown save for Brad Lidge
Transmogrified Tiger replied to soccer10k's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Relievers are wildly unpredictable. -
Why would the weather have a tremendous impact on Pierre's game? He beats the ball into the ground the majority of the time, and hits very few flyballs that would be significantly altered by the wind.
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Down to a .285 OBP.
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Looks like the under by an hour.
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He's a left handed hitter, there's no outs, stop plz
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It's true.
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Bunting with Barrett? Seriously?
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He beat Restovich in an arm wrestling match for the spot in the lineup. He cheated though, forced it to be a left handed fight.
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Pujols' "bat-throwing" incident (explanation)
Transmogrified Tiger replied to K-Town's topic in General Baseball Talk
Lost in all of Pujols' celebration was Edmonds diving (unecessarily?) to stop the bat, then beating said orphan boy with it before breaking it Z-Style and handing him the knob end. -
Strikeouts, it's the only reason. EDIT: I shouldn't say only, but it's the biggest reason by quite a bit.
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What a huge save on that PK.
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Looking at his game log it looks like it came in AB #33.
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never
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The Importance Of A Quality Bullpen
Transmogrified Tiger replied to soccer10k's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
They are both bad, but having played sports all my life, I disliked leading the whole game only to lose in the last few seconds more so than playing the giant with no expectations to do well. That's different than what's being talked about. Tim's talking about if your own team is bad, not if the other team is very good. To attempt to compare across sports, compare it to having a very poor goalkeeper in Soccer or hockey, not going up against a juggernaut. -
Pujols' "bat-throwing" incident (explanation)
Transmogrified Tiger replied to K-Town's topic in General Baseball Talk
If the situations are comparable, let's reverse them. Pujols hits a home run in a game he's losing, and pumps his fist as he leaves the batters box. Zambrano K's the last hitter of an inning in a game he's losing, then tosses his glove into the dugout and walks/jogs off the mound.
