Transmogrified Tiger

wtg Antone How did he look aside from that misadventure? He was a high school teammate of mine.

because they aren't? really? because the standings say otherwise. unfortunately, the division winner is determined by the standings and not a position by position >/= contest. the brewers are going to have to completely collapse or suffer some serious injuries for them not to be in contention all season. Saying "the Brewers are not clearly better than the Cubs" is not the same as saying "the Cubs are clearly better than the Brewers".

I like visiting other teams boards and having intelligent discussions based on observation and statistical analysis. I have never been a troll and like to just talk baseball. If I feel that I can add something to a discussion, I might chime in, but not usually on another team's board. However, it is comments like these that I have a hard time with. The Brewers have been clearly a better team than the Cubs this year. The Cubs have won some games against weak opponents just like the Brewers have done lately and have climbed over .500 playing some good baseball. However, the Brewers have been and are the better team as of 5/6/07. Now could that change. Of course. I would hope the Cubs would be more competitive than they were to begin the season based on talent and payroll alone, but you have to give credit where credit is do. The Brewers are the better team right now. Now I will return to the woodwork. I think there's a distinction between saying the Cubs are just as good as the Brewers and saying the Cubs have won as many games as the Brewers(obviously false). For example, fan favorite Neifi Perez went 2 for 4 with a 2B and a HR today. Aramis Ramirez went 0 for 4 with a walk. No one questions Neifi performed better today, but to extrapolate that he's better isn't correct for a multitude of reasons. Likewise, the Brewers have won several more games than the Cubs to this point, but peripheral factors(run differential, analysis of the players/teams prior to the season) indicate they are very close to each other in overall ability. So while no one questions that the Brewers have won more games, that doesn't necessarily mean they've improved on the whole from where they were thought to be at the beginning of the year.

As long as there is more than on player on the team, it is a team sport, no matter how smart it sounds to argue the contrary. One player can only control so much of the game. For instance, take Ryan Theriot...he can get on base by a BB three times in a game. He isn't going to steal his way to a run. He has to hope that one of his teammates gets a hit or advances him into scoring position and eventually knocks him in. That's not what he's talking about. In the context of teamwork, or "gelling", your example(like the vast majority of baseball) is a sequence of individual events.

I never heard that stuff about Hill before, interesting.

Agreed, we should've beaten them so badly MLB would have no choice but to award us 8 wins for the last 5 games.

Bonds isn't playing.

This is 3 straight days for him though.

You tell Lilly, Hill, and Z the first one to 1st base wins

I would assume we would ph with floyd in that case We're out of infielders. Theriot would have to move to SS and DeRosa is already out of the game.

unless pie has a rocket launcher, he's not even thinking about throwing that runner out Hard to tell since he would've been about 10 yards closer to the plate to start with.

STOP TAKING OUT WUERTZ TO PUT IN OHMAN

Wieters had a big day today, 4-5 with a BB, HR, and 5 RBI. His up to the second line: .371/.500/.618

Count me in for trading Zambrano for a big bat(SS or OF) then dealing some combination of Jones/Murton and pitching prospects to get another starter.

Whoever thought of the "DEEEE - TROOOIT" "BASKET - BAALLLL" thing needs to get kicked in the throat.

Noone in our organization can compare with Pie. Chris Walker. Arm too?

I would think we should be fine against LHP. Soriano, Lee, and Ramirez are all good hitters who do slightly better against LHP(being RH hitters). Barrett, DeRosa, and Murton are okay to above average hitters who have fairly large platoon splits in that they all rake against LHP. That's 6 guys who put up at least an .850 OPS against LHP.

Holliman's not getting called up anytime soon. This is his first real success as a professional, and most importantly he's not on the 40 man roster. Didn't Holliman pitch very well in Daytona last season, then hit a wall? Or am I confusing him with someone else? That's right, I overstated. He did nothing like he has this year though.

Holliman's not getting called up anytime soon. This is his first real success as a professional, and most importantly he's not on the 40 man roster.

I don't see the problem in letting Santo doing the stretch even if he doesn't do radio anymore. In fact, it's a great way to keep him involved with the team he lives and dies with.

I missed out on him because I didn't have his name right. I thought it was LINECUM and so when I Yahoo searched for "line" I only got Steve Kline and Scott Linebrink, so I assumed Yahoo hadn't added him yet.

Wow, that was pretty neat.

You'd think we were facing the Rockies or something.

He ripped a line drive to the opposite field, I'll take that as a result of the approach. i won't... his approach is awful. He's been swinging early in every at bat and not coincidentally, he hasn't had productive at bats. How can you fault him for swinging at a good pitch and hammering it? If he pops up a borderline strike on the first pitch, then fine, but a good pitch to hit is a good pitch at 0-0 and 2-1.

He ripped a line drive to the opposite field, I'll take that as a result of the approach.