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  1. David
    I thought Ronny had it....
  2. David
    Is this gun slow? I thought Johnson was working in the low 90s this year, and Harden hasn't broken the 90's that much yet...
  3. David
    Seemed like he missed his spot pretty good on that last pitch. Looked like Geo was set up for the high fastball.
  4. David
    I like it. It's perfect. Pinstripes at home and no ugly grey road jerseys.
  5. David
    Nice. Harden is a blue jerseys on the road guy. Perfect.
  6. David
    The Cubs have outscored their opponents by 111 runs, the widest margin, by far, in MLB. The Cardinals and Brewers have outscored opponents by 33 and 27 runs, nice, but good for 8th and 12th in baseball. The Cubs are pretty clearly the most talented team, by a significant margin. They have the highest Runs scored in the NL and highest OPS, with the 2nd best ERA and best BAA. Neither Brewers nor the Cardinals are capable of matching up in both the pitching and hitting categories. :banghead: Things like run differential (and other far more complicated statistics) can be used to tell you how much better at baseball one team is than another beyond what simple W-L totals can tell you. The desired end result is more wins. But actually evaluating these things beyond that shallow surface is what can tell you what is most likely to happen before it happens. If two teams are .500, say, two months into the season, but one of these teams is outscoring opponents by several runs while the other has a fairly even or negative run differential, which of those teams do you think is likely more talented and therefore more likely to win more games going forward? If what, exactly, is the case? Nothing I said could logically lead anyone to the conclusion that division titles should be handed to the teams with the best run differentials at the all star break. What a dumb post.
  7. David
    The Cubs have outscored their opponents by 111 runs, the widest margin, by far, in MLB. The Cardinals and Brewers have outscored opponents by 33 and 27 runs, nice, but good for 8th and 12th in baseball. The Cubs are pretty clearly the most talented team, by a significant margin. They have the highest Runs scored in the NL and highest OPS, with the 2nd best ERA and best BAA. Neither Brewers nor the Cardinals are capable of matching up in both the pitching and hitting categories. :banghead: Things like run differential (and other far more complicated statistics) can be used to tell you how much better at baseball one team is than another beyond what simple W-L totals can tell you. The desired end result is more wins. But actually evaluating these things beyond that shallow surface is what can tell you what is most likely to happen before it happens. If two teams are .500, say, two months into the season, but one of these teams is outscoring opponents by several runs while the other has a fairly even or negative run differential, which of those teams do you think is likely more talented and therefore more likely to win more games going forward?
  8. David
    We tried pretty damn hard in Harden's last start. Couldn't quite get there, though.
  9. David
    5. Mark Prior 2003, until Bob Gibson gets reincarnated, is likely to be the standard by which I measure all successful seasons by a Cubs starting pitcher. Hopefully Harden is as masterful as he was a week ago. Same. I remember thinking of Prior as some kind of dominant pitching machine that was just completely flawless.
  10. David
    I can't wait to see Harden pitch again... I haven't gotten this geeked about watching a Cubs pitcher take his rotation turn in, oh, 4-5 years or so.
  11. David
    http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3499320 Are you still a de facto Bears fan? Was it the Falcons you gave up on?
  12. David
    Still haven't signed Williams, right? After he was drafted he said we could count on him not holding out at all. I guess we'll see. Do we still have to wait to see how his salary is gonna slot? Good to hear on Urlacher, although I was never really that worried about that situation because he's under contract. Nice to have it resolved, anyway.
  13. David
    Its the same comments, year after year. Like last year when they finished under .500? Prior to last year they weren't a roster of scrap heap players, they were damn good. Eh... 2006? Maybe they were somewhere in between, I guess.
  14. David
    Guys, I'm not really banned, guys.
  15. David
    Well, there you go. Shouldn't even be on the list.
  16. David
    So much for that. That would've worked much better right under E.J.'s post.
  17. David
    Dick Harden
  18. David
    I think almost all of them are. Off the top of my head, the only one I'm really doubting is the 06 Marlins. Maybe the 03 Angels, too. I remember them having a sort of a disappointing year after the WS.
  19. David
    Actually, it was 5.5...which is actually one of the bigger leads any first place team has held in any division all season (outside of whatever huge April/May lead AZ had on the west).
  20. David
    DLee!
  21. David
    Kosuke with the 1 out double
  22. David
    Why would he get a day off? He just had the All Star break.
  23. David
    congrats http://static.flickr.com/72/175995087_edd1f77f57_o.jpg
  24. David
    I wish we had Chris Gomez instead of Cedeno.
  25. David
    Join the party. At least Brewers and Cubs fans can agree on something. I have no problem with the Brewers making the playoffs as long as the Cubs do. The Cardinals are that common threat that won't go away. I'd MUCH rather the Cardinals win the Wild Card than the Brewers, but that's just me. *shrug*
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