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  1. David
    The Cardinals are charging, I know that. I would bet almost any amount of money that the Cardinals don't win this division. It'll be either the Brewers or Cubs. You want to make a wager? You seriously want to bet on the Cardinals?
  2. David
    The Cardinals are charging, I know that. I would bet almost any amount of money that the Cardinals don't win this division. It'll be either the Brewers or Cubs.
  3. David
    The Brewers' next ten games are against the Pirates and Reds. This season is OVER. I know. We still have to play the Padres, Mets, Phillies, D'Backs... Nevermind. We play the Pirates and Reds too. Cubs record against the Reds: 5-7 Cubs record against the Pirates: 4-5 Yeah, that's a playoff team right there, folks. You should change your name to Pollyanna. It would suit you. LAWLZ you should change yours to Chicken Little, it would suit you..111!! OMGZ so funny
  4. David
    It's funny how some people just don't realize that this is what it looks like when 2-3 mediocre teams are battling it out to win a bad division. But yea, the season is over with a month to go. Those other teams just got a whole lot better because we lost today.
  5. David
    Seriously? Would you really rather waste Marmol's amazing effectiveness on coming in for the 9th inning with a lead and nobody on? I know I'd rather use him in the situations he is already being used in. So Anaheim is screwing up by not having KRod in middle relief? I don't even want to get into the whole closer debate...but IMO the need for a "closer" is vastly overrated and teams throughout baseball are wasting their best relievers in situations that are relatively easy. If you know you're going to encounter both of the following situations in a game, and you have a pitcher like KRod, Wagner, or Marmol at your disposal, would you rather use him in.. A) 8th inning, men on 1st and 2nd, no outs, tie game or B) 9th inning, nobody on, nobody out, 2 run lead If you can get past the conventional wisdom, the answer is fairly obvious to me...
  6. David
    The Brewers' next ten games are against the Pirates and Reds. This season is OVER. Wow. I thought it was over a month from now. My bad. Oh well, at least the Bears start playing on Sunday.
  7. David
    Seriously? Would you really rather waste Marmol's amazing effectiveness on coming in for the 9th inning with a lead and nobody on? I know I'd rather use him in the situations he is already being used in.
  8. David
    I disagree. Most of the players on this team should be boo'ed constantly, and even the good ones should be boo'ed when they screw up. He's done a fine job, but he just blew a big game in an embarrassing way. BOOOOOOO!!! Yea, that makes a lot of sense. Particularly in a game where even the greatest players fail 3/5 of the time. Even the best pitchers are going to give up runs sometimes. His overall performance this year doesn't justify booing.
  9. David
    Yeah, until he blows a save. Then let's go back to Dempster. Marmol rarely gives up hits in his innings, Demp gets into jams every 2 or 3 save ops. That's why you want Marmol coming in in actual pressure situations (i.e. with the team tied or losing, with runners on, etc.), and not for an easy 9th with the bases empty. Today's game aside, closing is overrated. You want your best relievers doing what Marmol does. Do you want Demp coming in to pitch in a jam in the 7th or 8th??
  10. David
    Lineup Soriano Theriot Lee Ward DeRosa Jones Kendall Fontenot Marquis
  11. David
    Don't know about that strike call.
  12. David
    Riot!
  13. David
    So weird seeing Trachsel pitching for us again. It's an odd blast from the past/my childhood. Are we going to bring Brian McRae out of retirement as a backup OF?
  14. David
    Oh, come on. Now you're just letting emotions cloud your logic.
  15. David
    I just came to point out that I don't care about all this crap with Zambrano and his attitude and I understand that he struggles at times like all pitchers do. He's a good pitcher and he's struggling lately. That said, he has always walked way too many batters for my taste and I've never been a big fan because of this. Just as much as I love hitters who take walks, I hate pitchers who give them. His control is incredibly erratic and he has a bad tendency to let his emotions impact his pitching (yea, I know, "duh"). And this is almost completely irrelevant, but it's something that's on my mind right now. It's a damn shame that, between Prior and Z, if it had to happen to one of them, the guy who had to break down was Prior. Prior was a damn good pitcher (I'll keep my fingers crossed that he still will be, but I'm sure as hell not holding my breath). Just our luck, though.
  16. David
    Of course not. If Tim Lincecum threw a 22 K perfect game, it wouldn't have led off Sportscenter. I was not aware that Lincecum was now a Devil Ray. :roll: :?: I don't think he said he was... But he is on a team that is neither the Yankees nor the Red Sox.
  17. David
    I think he just means that Murton's biggest strength is working counts. He's one of the last guys you should worry about working deep into a count.
  18. David
    Why are you citing what is essentially a meaningless stat? It has no predictive value and only tells you how lucky the hitter has been in the past. Meaningless to you, not to me. I like guys who hit well with men on base. Murton's BA with RISP has been much worse than his BA for his entire MLB career. That siad, I support Matt to play in front of Floyd. I like his hot bat now. It's meaningless because all it tells you is that that player has happened to have runners on base when he's gotten his hits. On top of that, rarely do you ever have enough of a sample size with RISP stats to conclude anything meaningful.
  19. David
    Why are you citing what is essentially a meaningless stat? It has no predictive value and only tells you how lucky the hitter has been in the past.
  20. David
    what are the sample sizes here? comparing murton's handful of plate appearances to floyd's wealth of them doesn't exactly paint an accurate picture. 190 ab's for Murton and 243 for Floyd. that's what i get for speaking without looking. It was actually only 118 ABs for the stats (righty splits) he cited on Murton. ESPN doesn't list PAs and I don't feel like checking another site right now, but it certainly wasn't 190. Floyd has 213 ABs vs. righties.
  21. David
    Sweet...
  22. David

    90 wins?

    David replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    22-7 right? After today's game, ya.
  23. David
    For the love of God...has ANYONE heard ANYTHING about Greg Olsen's knee yet???
  24. David
    Trachsel is a useful arm for unloading groceries or laying sod. As a pitcher, he's one of MLB's worst. You've heard of addition by subtraction? Welcome to subtraction by addition. This isn't terrible: His ERA+ is 99 which makes him an above average starter. He's pretty useful. Wouldn't that ERA+ make him just a hair below average (or basically average)? I was under the impression that the ERA+ scale was similar to an IQ scale in that 100 = average. How wrong was I?
  25. David

    90 wins?

    David replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Totally forgot about this thread...but updated 90 seems mostly out of reach now...but it's not 100% unrealistic. It'll definitely take a 5-6 game winning streak, or an 8/10 or so stretch to really put it into the realm of possibility, though. 87-88 seems like the high end of what we can reasonably expect at this point. We'll see, though.
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