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  1. David
    So does Jones. Only Patterson is younger, faster, (outside of this, they're almost the same player) and isn't on a 3 year multi-million dollar contract.
  2. David
    Even if Prior and Wood were here and pitching at Cy Young levels, we'd be losing. The offense is horrific and is the main reason this team is so terrible. We'd just be losing 1-0 and 2-1 instead. Oh, and it's not Wood's fault he had to miss the first month of this season.
  3. David
    Seconded.
  4. David
    Bruce writes for the Daily Herald.
  5. David
    Jones : .311 OBP 5 Walks Giles : .401 OBP 28 Walks Slugging? Slugging > Walk If the OPS's are similar, the guy with the OBP that is 90 points higher is more valuable. OPS correlates lmore closely to runs when OBP is multiplied by 1.5. i can't see how that generalization is possible when you combine those walks with a bunch of singles hitters. now put the walks on a team w/ manny, ortiz, nixon and varitek or arod, giambi, matsui, sheffield, and posada and maybe so. Not making outs = scoring runs.
  6. David
    if jones was putting up walker's #'s the past 11 days, jones would be enemy #2 behind baker. I don't even know what Walker is doing, or Jones. I couldn't care less. They are losing everyday and I can't watch this mess anymore.
  7. David
    he should get a tons of credit for dealing off choi for lee. that was pretty controversial. Hendry isn't an absolute monkey. He has done some good with his trades back then. Unfortunately, he hasn't done squat recently. true. his last big strike was murton. i think gm's are more wary of him now & don't want their trade to be Lee or Aram for a pile of garbage part III. Funny how a similar wariness doesn't keep Beane from doing it.
  8. David
    I think it's quiet about Jacque because they suck. Nobody cares what Jacque is doing.
  9. David
    So Bob, it rained as hard as humanly possible, uh?
  10. David
    Perhaps but Juan almost lost it out of the glove and had that happened, it likely would have been over the wall for a Canseco-esque bounce of HR fortune. True.
  11. David
    Len, just say it already. That ball was not gone. A 2 run double off the top of the wall, maybe.
  12. David
    Man, I, unlike many others here, it seems, really liked that 04 team. They would've won well over 90 games if not for that terrible late collapse. All season was fun to watch and they played well most of the year. I was so looking forward to a potential Cubs/Cards NLCS. Plus, there was the Nomar trade. Who wasn't unbelievably excited that day? Man, what a fun season. BTW, to whoever said otherwise (I think it was GilesBros), Aramis had his best season as a Cub in 2004.
  13. David
    Eh? :? What's the "Eh?" about? :?: They play in an abortion? Yup. :wink: a·bor·tion 5. Something malformed or incompletely developed; a monstrosity.
  14. David
    Eh? :? What's the "Eh?" about? :?:
  15. David
    The terrible management of this team stems from Andy MacPhail on down to Hendry and Baker. It has nothing to do with the Tribune. The Trib spends more than enough to field a winner. The fact that we are this terrible with the payroll we have (admittedly, with injuries to key players) is just a disgrace.
  16. David
    Yea.. I'm pretty close to apathy, too, at this point. Not because I really don't care, but because I know that we can't expect much. No reason for hope. Who would've thought, back in late 2003/early 2004, that the Bulls would be looking more set for a bright future than the Cubs?
  17. David
    Does that make it ok?
  18. David
    Homer: Not a bear in sight. The "Bear Patrol" is working like a charm! Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad. Homer: Thanks, honey. Lisa: By your logic, I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away. Homer: Hmm. How does it work? Lisa: It doesn't work; it's just a stupid rock! Homer: Uh-huh. Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you? Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
  19. David
    The Cubs would never see the fact that he hits lefties well. They'd simply see that he's a lefty himself and move on.
  20. David
    Not the way Dusty did. At least, any intelligent manager wouldn't.
  21. David
    That's certainly possible, and he could very well have flamed out because of it. In the Cubs defense, I can't think of any top end pitchers that were abused in one year and had it cost them their career in the last ten years, and nearly all top pitchers are abused at some point if not all the time. I would have thought that month off would have given him time to recover. Name me one 21, 22, 23 year old pitcher that was abused like Prior and didn't suffer any consequences. Mark Buerhle Buerhle, at 23 in 2002, had one game over more than 120 pitches. It was the last game of the year. He had none over 130. He had 10 games under 100, and was almost always around 103-106. In 2003, at 22/23, Prior had 3 games under 100 pitches (1 of which was coming back from the shoulder injury caused by the collision with Giles). He had 10 games over 120 pitches, 4 of which were over 130. Buerhle doesn't even come close to Prior in the abused pitcher discussion. Thats called cherry-picking, look at his innings pitched. Are you kidding me? In terms of abuse, pitch counts mean a lot more than innings pitched.
  22. David
    :lol:
  23. David
    That was great. :lol: How about a bring Earl Weaver out of retirement BandWGN?
  24. David
    The turn this thread has taken is pure hilarity. CubbieRich's Wood bashing is approaching the ridiculous/legendary levels of ZZ Thorn's Dusty backing...
  25. David
    This is absolutely ridiculous. Even including his sub-par 2005, his career ERA is 3.67, and his career ERA+ is 116. He's had ERA+ seasons of 128, 126, 133, and 122, with 166.7, 174.3, 211.0, and 140.3 innings pitched, respectively. He's got a career K/9 of 10.436, which is second all-time, behind only Randy Johnson. When Wood is healthy, he is a sickeningly dominant pitcher. Exactly. I honestly can't BELIEVE that people are still genuinely using that tired (and astonishlingly weak) 15-win argument.
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