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  1. David
    For some reason, the name Ben Van Ryn just popped into my head out of nowhere. Remember him?
  2. David
    Kosuke hits for the cycle. Top that. Ronny Cedeno goes 5-5 with 5 grand slams, closes the game pitching 3 perfect innings, shakes his fist in the general direction of Milwaukee, causing the Brewers to lose, and later declares himself the King of the World, a nomination the United Nations quickly approves. I still think Theriot homering is more bold.
  3. David
    Good thing its a night game then. They should be nice and full by 7:05 Prince doesnt get full. Yea, but he doesn't eat meat.
  4. David
    I have to believe that was the plan until we tanked 3 in a row. Nah. This was decided before they lost yesterday. And it could be argued, lately, that pitching Zambrano isn't exactly the way to preventing a 4 game skid.
  5. David
    Ryan Theriot will homer tonight. How's that for bold?
  6. David
    At least it'll be the weekend games this time.
  7. David
    Screw that. I'll drive down there, pick him up, spring for the gas, and drive him back home.
  8. David
    No, it's definitely not. Last year, IIRC, they started selling them well before the Cubs had clinched. I think it was like mid-September... NLCS tickets went on sale before the NLDS even began. I would guess we'll hear something within 7-10 days about when they'll go on sale. You think it'll be that soon? I certainly hope so. I need to know with as much notice as possible so that I don't schedule anything for that morning. I think so. I'm guessing they'll go on sale in 2-3 weeks, in which case we'd have to hear pretty soon.
  9. David
    No, it's definitely not. Last year, IIRC, they started selling them well before the Cubs had clinched. I think it was like mid-September... NLCS tickets went on sale before the NLDS even began. I would guess we'll hear something within 7-10 days about when they'll go on sale.
  10. David
    Lefty
  11. David
    I wish they had skipped him altogether like they did Harden, but whatever.
  12. David
    I'm going to New Orleans, golfing, and then to see Georgia @ LSU October 23-26th. I can't believe I may be skipping a very expensive trip to Louisiana. What the hell? When did you plan this?
  13. David
    Thanks. Looking forward to coming in hungover (good hungover, not bad) to work in about a month.
  14. David
    ha I beat raisin to something for once
  15. David
    Kerry's so dumb. It was Orie who should've had that damn ball.
  16. David
    Crowd was definitely singing Livin on a Prayer during yesterday's game. Maybe it's just a thing they do when they're losing late at home. In that case, I'd rather not hear any more of it this year.
  17. David
    well, considering he thought the cubs weren't hot in august, my guess would be that, no, he doesn't realize that.
  18. David
    Yea, I saw that. I was shocked to see vance in 3rd place. I'll take it, though.
  19. David
    Amazingly, I seem to have picked up a 1st round bye, bailing me out of my predicament with Beckett and Harden.
  20. David
    Obviously, it does nothing to breakdown individual players, but my comment was in response to the general statement of "once again, the underachieving offense..." That statement wasn't any kind of breakdown of the players. I'm not even talking about individual players. The pythag does nothing to tell you about whether the offense is over or underachieving. It tells you if the team is over/underachieving based on its ability to score runs combined with its ability to prevent them. It doesn't in any way tell you if the offense is scoring more runs than it "should" be.
  21. David
    I don't see how the pythag says anything about the offense over/underachieving. It tells you if the team is underachieving given the ability it shows over a given season to score and prevent runs in terms of wins, but it does nothing to tell you if players x, y, and z are performing over/under expectations. That said, outside of SS, I don't think this lineup is overachieving that much. We've got a good platoon going in CF. Hopefully, Edmonds picks it back up, but, yea, that's a sort of questionable area in our lineup too. Like UM said, though, once the playoffs roll around, it doesn't really matter. Either the team is going to be hot and tear through the playoffs like the 05 white sox, or it's not.
  22. David
    Going from getting zero production from a position to getting top 2 or 3 in baseball is a significant improvement. So is an up and down the lineup improvement in plate discipline, which is why this offense is so good. Can you honestly not see the huge difference in approach from last year's team to this one and why it makes this team so much better than last year's? There is nobody on this team doing it all and that's why I'm not concerned about our lineup being unproductive for any prolonged stretches of games. They're all decently productive hitters, 1-8. No one player is carrying a ridiculous/disproportionate load of the weight. 8 pretty good hitters is better than 2-3 great ones and a bunch of crap. And, no, 5 or 6 games is not a prolonged stretch. Especially, when two of them were against Cole Hamels and Roy Oswalt.
  23. David
    Oh, and Reed Johnson isn't really overachieving all that much getting the vast majority of his PAs vs. LHP.
  24. David
    What does an overachieving fofense have to do with their pyth record? Not sure what you're talking about Ryan Theriot Derosa Edmonds Johnson Fontenot All key contributers who are playing wayyyy above expectations. If those guys return to where we expected them to be, how much better is this offense than last year? Better,m but not significantly better. How about if Lee and Fukudome perform where we expected them to be? And you're overlooking a huge upgrade to the offense at catcher. It went from being a complete black hole last year to being one of the top 2 or 3 in baseball, and it wasn't totally unexpected.
  25. David
    I can't bring myself to putting anyone on my foe list. It's like I need to see every single annoying post out there.
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