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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    Patterson walked 45 times last year. He's walking at a good clip in AAA this year. Before this offseason when they tried to change his swing, his walk rate had increased in every MLB season. I don't know how you can make the claim that he has no walk potential, or was not improving in that aspect of his game. He still has never walked more than 45 times. And I don't really care how many walks he seems to be putting up in AAA, because he's batting like .200. Anyone can decide not to swing as much and increase their walk total, the challenge is doing that without screwing up the other aspects of your game. That's what CPatt just plain lacks. "Talent". This is what I call talent, not speed or power. He is not talented in terms of the ability to make contact or in terms or reaction time. Patterson is 1 for 2 again tonight. As others have said, he started off hitting well, then went into a funk that culminated with him having to take off a few days with some chest illness, which possibly contributed to his funk. Since coming back he's been hitting well and still walking, and he's up to .253. I don't think his lowered average is due to him trying to walk more, in fact, I'd bet that his walks have come in games where he has had the most success.
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    Daytona rain delayed after 3, 2-2. Moore has a 2 run HR for the D-Cubs.
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    Minnesota thanks us in advance for when we sign Jacque Jones for 3/25. not if we get down to one of the first 15 picks! Wow, that really is a bright side! We're 13th right now!
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    Minnesota thanks us in advance for when we sign Jacque Jones for 3/25.
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    Patterson walked 45 times last year. He's walking at a good clip in AAA this year. Before this offseason when they tried to change his swing, his walk rate had increased in every MLB season. I don't know how you can make the claim that he has no walk potential, or was not improving in that aspect of his game.
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    You know what? You're right. You would know better than professional sports trainers with years of experience and firsthand knowledge of Nomar's swing and step. This isn't basketball, Nomar's not exerting himself the entire time he's in the game. He has just as much chance of re-injuring himself in the 1st as the 9th. If you can play 7 innings of baseball, you can play 9. What reasons are there for him not to play everyday? It's not the swings I'd be worried about. It's more the quick, lateral movements of playing SS and the starting/stopping of running the bases. (He didn't get hurt swinging, he got hurt coming out of the box -- which I saw in person, unfortunately) I'll admit I really have no idea what I'm talking about, but days off would seeminly reduce the risk of re-injury. Today wasn't the difference between playing 7 or 9 innings -- which I would agree is pointless -- but between playing and taking the day off. But it's not like the risk builds the more he plays. Isn't he just as likely to hurt himself at SS tomorrow, whether he played today or not? I say yes, which is why not playing him because of the injury is dumb.
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    Maybe I'm naive, but I don't see how the Cream of Wheat comment can be taken racially, unless you just say "he said that because I'm black/hispanic/etc.". Cream of Wheat use to have an elderly African-American man who was serving Cream of Wheat to little white kids on the front cover. Did not know that. Thanks.
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    Maybe I'm naive, but I don't see how the Cream of Wheat comment can be taken racially, unless you just say "he said that because I'm black/hispanic/etc.".
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    A team can expose anyone they please to waivers, I'm pretty sure of that.
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    Why would you say that? Prior and Zambrano would pitch 4 of 7 games in a series, if not 5. No one has that type of pitching one two pitching punch in the NL save Houston, and it's nearly impossible for both of us get in.
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    You know what? You're right. You would know better than professional sports trainers with years of experience and firsthand knowledge of Nomar's swing and step. This isn't basketball, Nomar's not exerting himself the entire time he's in the game. He has just as much chance of re-injuring himself in the 1st as the 9th. If you can play 7 innings of baseball, you can play 9. What reasons are there for him not to play everyday?
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    From today: Maddux pitched well Ohman pitched well(he's been a nice surprise this year) Murton and Cedeno didn't overexert themselves Dusty didn't stupidly pitch Wood or Williamson on consecutive days There weren't a lot of positives today.
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    For reference, Patterson has a .075 IsoD at AAA.
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    Crimeny Dusty, you love the L/R so much, LAWTON IS HORRIBLE AGAINST LHP!!!!! You know you're putting in Hollandsworth next inning anyway, let Murton hit!
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    PINCH HIT WITH MURTON PLEASE.
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    There is a rumor here in NY that Brian Schneider is interested in reuniting with Omar Menia. I don't know what his contract status looks like though. It would take a trade. Schneider isn't a Free Agent until after the 2007 season.
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    We all wanted to get Beltran/Drew/Maggs. Well, Maggs got injured, Drew got injured I believe, and Beltran sucks this season. Burnitz, surprisingly is better than all of them this season. I wanted Jose Guillen. :cry:
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    Thanks for the welcome. :-) Yup, this next year will be my first year as a grad student. I'm studying meteorology. Cool, myself and Cubbies75 are incoming freshman at Mizzou, and the guy who goes by Mizzou is a student as well.
  19. Transmogrified Tiger
    When he was interviewed on WGN the day before the deadline, Hendry said that Pie would have been called up. Here's the link to the game thread.
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    Welcome to the Forum! Are you a student in Columbia?
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    how? didn't he just say he was close to being recalled? because he was - had he not been on the DL, he would have been recalled with murton. According to one of our NSBB Correspondents there was absolutely no truth to that whatsoever. Maybe there's since been a quote saying that he was going to get the call, but people in the Jaxx organization said that wasn't an option. I'm pretty sure Hendry himself said that Pie would've been up or something to that effect.
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    He's also no guarantee to be better than Walker, who we have a very cheap option for next season.
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    good lord man, do you make a serious effort to post the most pessimistic things you can think of? he's been on the team for less than a week. Wait a second man, everything that is a so called pessimistic view has been right on since the beginning of the season. So just because you have optimistic views dont rag on me because I have different ones. Pessimism is fine, just have a reason for it. Calling Lawton worthless based on his first 4-5 games as a Cub is most certainly not a good reason.
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    I don't know why I'm interested in this game. We are the inferior team today talent wise, we should lose. We can only hope for the unlikely.
  25. Transmogrified Tiger
    The boos are much more rhythmic, I agree.
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