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  1. David
    I have about as much doubt that Soto will be the primary catcher in this series as I would that Kendall would be if this were Dusty's team. In other words, very little.
  2. David
    Of course, Levine asking about them manufacturing runs :roll: I can't think of many phrases that I'm more tired of hearing.
  3. David
    Well, first of all, the Cardinals WON the World Series last year. They weren't that good. Postseason success does not equal being good. It means that you got into the playoffs (usually that means being good, other times it means being the best of a bad bunch), and then got hot.
  4. David
    While maybe I buy the notion of bulletin board material in football. A little less so in basketball.... I DEFINITELY don't buy bulletin board material in baseball. Besides, I don't think Z had any intention for that to sound the way it did.
  5. David
    Neither time with a team that won 90 games So? So his teams ultimately might not have been that good, they were just the best of a bad lot. That's not to say that I don't think this year's team is better than its record. Just pointing out why his point is valid.
  6. David
    Why would you judge him against the inept history of this franchise rather than against his actual, you know, competition?
  7. David
    The only reason I didn't think that movie completely sucked was because I felt like I could relate to it so well. Now I just need season tickets...
  8. David
    Ronny Woo Woo's cousin? Also...anyone....plz... an online clip of CSN's coverage. I know I was at the end of it. And apparently I was on CSN Sports Night too cause a friend called me and told me he saw me. That was a great phone call by the way: *phone rings* Roast: Hello Friend: YOU $%^&* SUCK. YOU'RE ON SPORTS NIGHT NOW!? Roast: hahahahahahhahaha Between me being on the front page of the Trib, and you being on Sportsnight, us NSBBers are finally getting the recognition that we deserve. Don't forget Vance in the 7th inning stretch competition. My vying for Derrek Lee's home run ball on Friday went from the coolest NSBB poster moment of the month to a distant third on coolest NSBB poster moments of the last 4 days pretty quickly. :) I was interviewed one on one by Gail Fischer in the bleacher box seats before the first pitch of the 2006 home opener... She's a lot, um, bigger in real life than you expect, amirite?
  9. David
    Wasn't it the Yankess in 2003? Ya, and it was the Marlins, too. ;) It looked like it might the Red Sox for about the same while it looked like it could be the Cubs. Plus, I was just thinking in hypotheticals (obviously, Cubs in the WS, heh).
  10. David
    Lou will have the playoff roster announced after today's workout. So, sometime soon.
  11. David
    Wasn't Bobby Hill highly regarded? Yea, I included him.
  12. David
    True, but he got his first callup in 2000 and then had a decent amount of time in 2001, I believe.
  13. David
    I've said it before, I think Logan White is the best avail. GM. If you gave me the choice of the potnetial unknown of White and the expected results of Hendry, I'd go with White. Yes, this. As well as Logan White has done as a farm director, I'm not sure how well this translates into being a good GM. Our current GM who everyone bashes was hired when he was the farm director of the #1 farm system in baseball. I'm not sure how well these skills translate from one job to another. I don't necessarily disagree with your sentiment, but I don't think the Cubs ever had the #1 farm system in baseball. I could be wrong though. They were definitely considered one of the 3 or 4 best, at least, in the early 2000's when they had Prior, Z, Cruz, Choi, Hill, etc. There was a year or two where BA had the Cubs vs. the A's as their "future" WS matchup (based on their minor league systems).
  14. David
    I remember in 2003, thinking about potential WS pitching matchups, I was hoping we'd sacrifice Z in a potential game 1 against Pedro, so that we'd be more assured of wins with Prior and Wood in games 2 and 3. I figured if we were gonna beat Pedro, we were gonna beat him. I didn't want to see Prior get outdueled in a great performance or something like that. I wonder how sound my reasoning was, in hindsight.
  15. David
    Out of curiosity, how many of those non-division second half games came while Soriano was hurt?
  16. David
    It's more likely you'll find yourself in a game 4, for one.
  17. David
    That's true, but you don't think experience helps contribute to dealing with the pressure which, in turn, leads a team to score more runs? I do. Maybe not a huge factor, but a factor nonetheless. I don't. If it plays any role, it's almost 100% insignificant. Inexperienced teams go into the playoffs and have success all the time. Yes, but I'm sure there are teams who choke because of the pressure too. Just because inexperienced teams win, doesn't mean that don't lose either. Of course some of them win and some of them lose. Some experienced teams win and some lose too. I'm saying there's little to no difference in the rates at which they do. If we want to conjure up arguments like this, you could say that players who have failed in the playoffs before will feel more pressure than players who have never played in them and are blissfully ignorant to them. I don't buy into it either way.
  18. David
    That's true, but you don't think experience helps contribute to dealing with the pressure which, in turn, leads a team to score more runs? I do. Maybe not a huge factor, but a factor nonetheless. I don't. If it plays any role, it's almost 100% insignificant. Inexperienced teams go into the playoffs and have success all the time.
  19. David
    not much, if any. the small sample size doesn't really allow anything but luck to be much of a factor. I wouldn't go that far with the whole "playoffs are a crapshoot" thing. The better team usually wins in a given series, especially the further apart the teams are in terms of quality. The small sample certainly allows for a bad team to luck into it much moreso than a 162 game season, but to say that luck is just about the only factor is too far. It's not like every team goes in with a 1/8 chance of winning it all.
  20. David
    I'm not a big believer in anything having to do with experience at all. If the Cubs win, it'll be because they're more talented and played to their potential. Whoever scores more runs in these baseball games will win.
  21. David
    Get a TiVo and avoid all human contact (or conversation, at least) from the time the game begins to whenever you are able to watch.
  22. David
    Meh. They could've done the same with last year's Cardinals. Plus, the mainstream media, for the most part, acts like sabermetrics don't even exist. So that sentiment really wouldn't prevail among them, anyway.
  23. David
    I'd rather avoid all that drama and sweep in my fantasies. Kthx
  24. David
    Those players pretty much performed as well as you could expect them to this year. I mean, how much more can Braun and Fielder do (I guess people did say this about Pujols after his first year, too, though)? Guys like Hardy and Weeks and some of their other players might do a little better, but this'll be offset by the almost inevitable dropoffs in the guys who were awesome for them this year. On top of that, like you said, they don't yet have the starting pitching, and in a few more years, they will have to lock up guys like Fielder and Braun, and who really knows if they can afford that without the players taking a discount? I could easily see them performing the way they did this year for the next couple of years. It's up to the Cubs to fill some more holes this offseason (obviously depends a lot on how quickly the ownership situation is wrapped up) to try to take charge of this mediocre division.
  25. David
    Yep. And people have been pointing out this statistical anomaly for months now, saying it means the DBacks will fade (myself included). Yet they keep winning. It just means very little at this point. Sometimes teams can buck the probabilities, it happens. Doesn't change the fact that looking ahead, they should still not be as good as they actually performed. If you flip a coin heads 10 times in a row, the odds of flipping heads don't become any better or worse for the 11th. A long streak of bucking the probabilities means little in terms of predicting whether that streak will continue.
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