Bote McBoteface

Oh my god, that was the worst call I've ever seen. Now a homer, cool.

They weren't nearly as good.

I've been very excited about this series ever since I saw it on the schedule. Can't wait.

I haven't watched him play much at all, I'm sure based on what I've heard of him that he'll become a damn good player. I was just pointing out that it was a small sample size.

I would not trade away superior hitters for the sake of adding crappy hitters to our lineup just because they happen to bat from the other side of the plate. But I mean, that's just me.

That's in 32 at bats. I am capable of going on a 32AB hot streak. His May stats are pretty fugly...though granted, also in limited at bats.

MLB.com seems to be having...some sort of a problem. I can already assume that we're losing, but what's the score?

Ok, I agree with most of this thought process. But the Cubs have shown they aren't good enough to pull this off. There's nothing about this team except for the SP that indicates they have any chance of reaching the world series. I would love to be proven wrong. Right. But I don't think firing the GM is giving up. I think it's working towards a WS end result. It's not like there is a surplus of smart GM's just waiting to be hired. I mean there are several complete idiots with GM jobs who would make us long for the glory days of Hendry. While hiring nsbb.com's 20 smartest people to GM by committee for $50K each would be a way, way better option than any "baseball guy" for $1MM to manage or GM, this is about as likely as every message board poster understanding that little can be learned from small sample sizes. If we hired nsbb's 20 smartest posters to gm by committee, we would lose 110 games. This is incredibly wrong even by internet standards. Hilarious. It really isn't, no. 110 games might be a bit of an overstatement, but we'd certainly be in the cellar. Look at all of the moves that have worked out very well for Hendry. The Karros/Grudzielanek trade, the Aramis Ramirez/Kenny Lofton trade, the Sammy Sosa trade (got Font out of it), Ted Lilly signing, Mark Derosa signing, etc. All of these moves were opposed by many of NSBB's "smartest" posters. Christ, we'd probably be stuck with Ivan Rodriguez at catcher, Sean Gallagher in the rotation, Bobby Hill somewhere in AAA rooming with Hee Seop Choi, Jim Thome at first, we'd be paying Kerry Wood 10 mil a year...because we think he's a cool guy. We wouldn't be good. NSBB's smartest posters aren't nearly as smart as they like to think.

Ok, I agree with most of this thought process. But the Cubs have shown they aren't good enough to pull this off. There's nothing about this team except for the SP that indicates they have any chance of reaching the world series. I would love to be proven wrong. Right. But I don't think firing the GM is giving up. I think it's working towards a WS end result. It's not like there is a surplus of smart GM's just waiting to be hired. I mean there are several complete idiots with GM jobs who would make us long for the glory days of Hendry. While hiring nsbb.com's 20 smartest people to GM by committee for $50K each would be a way, way better option than any "baseball guy" for $1MM to manage or GM, this is about as likely as every message board poster understanding that little can be learned from small sample sizes. If we hired nsbb's 20 smartest posters to gm by committee, we would lose 110 games.

So we're really getting owned by Russ Ortiz, huh? He wasn't even good 5 years ago when everyone thought he was good :/

wrong topic

Baseball is the only sport I really like that much. Football is just...meh. Basketball is ruined for me because over half the teams make the playoffs, which (usually) means that the regular season is a pushover and teams that have no business being contenders wind up in the playoffs. Then the first two rounds of the playoffs are matchups of one team that is insanely good vs a team that sucks. They need to cut off the first round of the playoffs in the NBA and/or shorten the first round to a 5 game series. Then the NBA playoffs wouldn't last longer than a lot of marriages do, and the beginning of them wouldn't be so boring. I realize there are instances like last year where the western conference is stacked and good teams miss the playoffs. NBA also could use a realignment. EDIT: I also realize that there are instances where a No. 1 seed falls to a number 8 seed. And while upsets like that are exciting to watch, if that's what the NBA is going for by having that many teams in the playoffs, they need to have it not be a 7 game series, since the best team wins a 7 game series like 95% of the time.

Because on the Cobs, you're not allowed to have a bad game unless we're paying you 6 million or more. Or your name is Aaron Miles.

Don't think Marquis would be an upgrade over anybody in our rotation.

Watching the highlights on MLB.com made me remember how much I hate the 7th inning stretch guest composer BS.

6 games sounds about right to me. Although Z is not appealing it, I'd like to see the Cubs ask MLB to look into the actions of the umpire. Purposely bumping a player then ejecting him for it is not something I'd want my Umps doing.

What the hell is the ump still doing back there? Z clearly threw him out.

Not sure that was really meant to be a sac bunt.

Well, you have to remember that all of New York would explode in a fit of rage if Jeter was left off the list.

Yeah, that was the first one I disagreed with. i would have put him down around 30th or so.

fairly certain that Swensons is Ohio only, but it is delicious.

I watched the highlight, thanks. It certainly wasn't momentum that made him roll on his back, spread out his arms and legs and lay there for a while. It was showboating and it was pretty obvious. I'm not saying its a huge deal. I'm not saying that it deserves any retaliation. I'm just saying that he's is a douche's bag.

I know Zambrano, Soriano, and Aramis showboat from time to time. But seriously, Braun just showboated after making a catch. What a douchebag.

So who's gonna pitch the 3rd inning?

Not sure if this is a joke or whatever, but no.