David

Umm, no. If you think it's a terrible one, you really haven't a very high baseball IQ. looooooooooooooool you're right... the Cubs are a .500 team without Soriano maybe if nobody plays LF and there's an automatic out in his lineup spot in his absence ....amirite?

did it take you an extra minute to think that one up?

and i'm not being toungue and cheak.

just admit that your argument for soriano being MVP is a terrible one and be done with it.

Outstanding logic :roll: Comparing a pitcher to a position player. LOL. it's hilarious watching everything blow right over your head

Yeah, lou is a idiot and a soriano is selfish hack. You're misinterpreting what he wrote.

Wow.. I can't believe it's been a year already

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/standings?date=20070912

huh I love it.

Okay, but that doesn't mean he's a better hitter. I agree that a HR is worth more to a team than a single, but that doesn't mean that a guy who hits 2 450-foot HRs a week is a better hitter than a guy who gets 8 hits in that same week. We're not talking about value to the team or runs produced, we're talking about being a great hitter. Baseball-Reference.com list of players most similar to Dunn as: Pat Burrell, Rob Deer, Richard Hidalgo, Henry Rodriguez, Gus Zernial, Bob Horner, Glenallen Hill, Wally Post, Pete Incaviglia, and J.D. Drew. I don't see a great hitter anywhere on that list. You mean other than Adam Dunn? Look, you seem to be saying that HRs are good, but only if you have a high batting average, as if getting a walk instead of making an out isn't also good. Dunn does a few things very well, 2 of those things are not making outs and hitting for power. Just so happens that those are two very good things for a hitter to do. No, he doesn't hit for a high average, but since he's good at not making outs and hits for a lot of power, the low batting average isn't terribly relevant except for fantasy baseball and old-timey baseball writers. I'm not sure, but I don't think that's really what he's saying. He seems to be saying that "hitting" does not necessarily equate to "run producing" and that, a good "hitter," by definition, is one that can get a lot of hits, while not necessarily having to be a good run producer or slugger or walker or anything else. I don't really agree with that, though. To me hitting = run production and I'll consider the hitters most adept at producing runs to be the best hitters.

I think it was largely a case of a team and a new manager getting used to each other. Don't forget they started slowly in 2003 as well (they were a game under .500 as late as July). From what I remember about that team, they actually got off to a good start and then hung around .500 for most of the year before making a late run in Sept to make the playoffs and finish with a less mediocre record.

No. Mauer was the catcher and Martin the backup. Do you have a link? It was shown on TV. Not sure if it's online anywhere.

Milwaukee would be losing right now if they had pitched to Jason Kendall.

Did Soto make Phillips's 25 and under team?

ummm i would not have IBBed Kendall to face CC

"he hit it over some fencing they had set up in the outfield!"

yea, i actually like the stupid sportscenter home run calls.. or at least, a lot of them.

i hope we get to face him in the playoffs, preferably at Wrigley.

thanks, i was awesome

Just seen on ESPN's bottom line

I, at least, wasn't talking about what you said SSR.

Just figured that out myself... looks like first week of September.. top two teams get a bye

When do the playoffs start? I see some of us have clinched spots already.

The argument is about Dunn as an offensive player. The "8 Dunn's" thing refers to an offensive lineup and obviously nobody is saying that actually putting a DNA clone of Adam Dunn at every position would be a good idea. Give me a friggin break. 8 hitters like Adam Dunn would be an extremely productive lineup.

...says the guy who has 7k more posts than me in almost 2 fewer years... then again, my post count really has picked up the pace since i got out of school and started working...