Transmogrified Tiger

The Yanks have cut Quantrill, Karsay, and Stanton recently. Gordon's their 8th inning guy right now, I doubt they move him unless overwhelmed.

One million. He makes 7.67 mil this year, 8.67 next year.

I think this is what BurntOutCubbieFan was talking about: "Corey is such a hack! "Corey,Neifi & Sosa (3 easiest outs in baseball excluding C's,of course)" "Good to hear the Cub fans Booing Corey. He deserves every bit of it!" "Why on earth is Neifi swinging at a first pitch curve on the outside corner?" "He must have been behind Corey in the batting cages before the game." "Who wants to bet that, with the warm and windy day, the Cubs will be swinging at the first pitch all day long and Miller will throw a 90 pitch CG?" "I will guarantee Corey will be first pitch swinging!" "or 2nd pitch. Way to work the count Corey!" "uh what the heck Hollandsworth? What a dumb play that was." "Hey, Holla Was that a Corey or Neifi impersonation? "this situation corey has to be patient." "He doesn't listen to his coaches why do you think he would listen to you? " All of those quotes followed this series of quotes: "Bashing management or other Cubs players is something I felt Trolls do." "We're the worst running baserunning team the last two years in the history of baseball! How can a team NEVER make the right choice. You'd think they would get one right at some point. :lol:" "Never? you may want to tone down the pessimism or just get off the bandwagon." "he problem is is that Hendry will probably lowball those guys too and we'll be stuck with Macias and Burnitz starting next year..." "Pessimism at it's best! [-X " "I'm off to work.I fear Ill come home to see a loss on the board like yesterday though.Have a nice day guys." "Can you tone it down with the pessimism? Pointing out postives & negatives is one thing, to just focus on the negative gets very annoying." "Since we're all complaining about this pathetic lineup, you know what that means. The Cubs will go out and score about 10 runs!" "shhh!! don't tell the pessimists that, they won't know what to do with themselves if they can't complain about something!" "Pessimists like Don & Cal Raisin are getting more noticeable everytime I read one of their posts in this forum." "Enough with the negativity!!!! If the Cubs suck so bad, how the hell are they even in the WC race? YOU ARE A COMPLETE MORON!!!!"

Good for him, hopefully his success can continue and he can work his way out of bust-dom

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Ongoing joke. Once Roast started the Game Threads saying that the team is awful, they started winning. Not wanting to mess with a good thing, he continued to do so, and others joined in.

Go go fantasy team.

I'm pretty sure that it was only for last offseason, but not 100% positive.

Nah, lefty starting today. Wait til we hit a stretch of righties. Murton will be glued to the bench same as Cedeno, who is in a really bad situation, as he's getting skipped even vs. lefties That's too bad for Cedeno too, because about the only time that Neifi even resembles a useful offensive player is when he's facing lefties. He's got a .480 SLG against them this year, as opposed to a .350 range against righties. Against lefties, he's actually borderline useful, since he definitely has proven himself defensively with his great range. Against righties, Neifi is beyond helpless. Too bad Ronny doesn't bat lefty. Actually, even as a righty, he can't be any worse than Neifi right? Not that Dusty would be astute enough to even notice Neifi's splits... Neifi vs. Righties April: .367/.392/.490/.882, 51 PA's May: .258/.280/.348/.628, 92 PA's June: .224/.239/.282/.521, 87 PA's July: .194/.188/.226/.414, 31 PA's Neifi vs. Lefties April: .375/.412/.813/1.225, 17 PA's May: .263/.263/.474/.737, 19 PA's June: .250/.250/.417/.667, 24 PA's July: .286/.333/.387/.720, 15 PA's While he has been better against lefties, I'd still say that Cedeno could at least produce the low 700s OPS v. LH that Neifi is likely to put up the rest of the season.

Wow, how is that a hit? nevermind.

Hollandsworth in for the 9th :roll:

Was that booing after Murton's pop out? Murton was booking it around the bases.

You're probably going to offend some people with this statement.

In the game thread they are saying that Blanco wore 24 in Winter Ball and had success with it, so he changed to have a change in luck. Seems to be working so far.

Yes Okay, so I'm not losing my mind. Thanks.

Seriously though, is that Clooney's voice in those Bud commercials?

people (not bob or len) think that it means we are getting an incoming player, probably via trade. there is a list of current players with the #9 on page 15 of this thread. :D Pat and Ron said something about 24 being his winter ball number. I know people are kidding around, but if somebody is going to give up his number to a new acquisition, they are going to wait until that player gets here and offers them some sort of payment for the jersey. Pfft, Carlos Guillen requires a one week waiting period of no one having his jersey before he can take it.

haha

No DP por favor.

Blanco changed his number from 9 to 24. So it's painfully obvious to anyone that knows anything that a trade for another 9 is in the works. Duh. Or Todd Hundley is coming back. :o That was also mentioned. We chose to ignore the possibility.

Blanco changed his number from 9 to 24. So it's painfully obvious to anyone that knows anything that a trade for another 9 is in the works. Duh.

Yay, we're getting Carlos Guillen.

? I don't follow. I just expect too much from him I guess. He has 5 Ks, so that accounts for a larger number of pitches. But, at the same time, I'd like to see him go as deep as possible and with his elbow still being injured, high PCs don't really allow for that. 16 pitches per inning gets him thru 6 easy, it only takes one short inning to stretch that further. He hasn't really been wild, his excess pitches have been foul balls mostly. Hard for me to blame him for that.

It's no guarantee he gets a hit. Its good, aggressive baseball with two outs and the pitcher's spot up. It took a perfect throw to get the out. Bingo, it took two perfect throws to get Neifi, and he was right at the plate when the throw arrived. I'd rather try to get the run and risk leading off with the pitcher than count on the pitcher to drive in that run. WALKAH!

? I don't follow.