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  1. David
    a lesson learned by all touche
  2. David
    Kerry Wood will nail down plenty of safes in the regular season.
  3. David
    I don't really believe that clutch exists at all, although I do think that certain players' skills are more likely to diminish in high pressure situations than others. Clutch (in the sense that a player "rises" to high pressure situations)? No. Anti-clutch, yes. I guess that's just semantics though. That said, you would think that you would have to be pretty damn invulnerable to pressure in order to just make it to the Majors. Either way, IMB! is right. It doesn't matter much.
  4. David
    I'm pretty sure that, not only has the list been announced, but that they're down to the final two. Hell, they might even have a winner by now.
  5. David
    I'm not remembering that one, what was it? Hendry was rumored to be going after both Lilly and Meche at the same time last offseason. When he lost out on Meche, he went for Marquis (as I remember it). i don't think it was that; i think it was either lilly or meche. remember, meche got a 5 year, $55M contract. marquis' contract - while ridiculous - is just 3 years, $21 million, a much smaller financial commitment. eaton's contract, given that he's always been below average and has had a lot of injury problems, was inexcusable. I could be wrong, but I thought they were still going after Meche after signing Lilly. Then Meche ultimately chose the Royals over the Cubs. What you're saying would make sense, though, since Lilly signed and then Meche signed with the Royals the next day. Maybe Bruce could help us.
  6. David
    I feel bad for him (aside from the fact that he gets paid millions of dollars to play baseball). He probably is dying to get the hell out of there but doesn't want to ruin his image (or is just flat out too "good" of a guy to) by demanding a trade publicly. He was probably convinced that he'd be coming here and was likely pretty damn excited about it.
  7. David
    Defensively the argument is much the same, IMO. Theriot is bad to mediocre, Cedeno could be worse, but has the potential to be much better.
  8. David
    I'm not remembering that one, what was it? Hendry was rumored to be going after both Lilly and Meche at the same time last offseason. When he lost out on Meche, he went for Marquis (as I remember it).
  9. David
    I really wish we had just gotten Meche. And I wasn't all against the move when it was rumored, either. I actually liked his upside. I wasn't really excited about it, but I wanted it to happen.
  10. David
    Silva will start for the Mariners. And I echo UMFan's sentiment.
  11. David
    Heh, yea. Ronnie Fields had a 48" vertical. So did MJ. I think the world record is around 60" though.
  12. David
    Fixed. These are scientific numbers, people. Don't doubt them.
  13. David
    http://www.farfromneutral.com/exodus/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/o_rly.jpg
  14. David
    EDIT - Double post
  15. David
    Wow. That one at about 1:47 had NASTY movement on it.
  16. David
    Should we wait until the present round ends (or has it already, I'm not paying attention)?
  17. David
    I can grab rim just well enough to tease me into hoping I can one day dunk, even though there's no chance of that ever happening.
  18. David
    Hey, why don't I just go and eat some hay. I can lay by the bay, make things out of clay, I just may, whadaya say?
  19. David
    Um, no, sorry. Skin color has nothing to do with it. No, really, it doesn't. "Gritty" (usually white, fast, high-effort & smallish) players do tend to get a lot of fan-love.
  20. David
    It's not unheard of, but it's rare for a guy to come up at that age and perform well. The greats do it, but not many others. Orlando Cabrera hit .280/.325/.414 in his first substantial exposure to major league pitching at 23. But at 24 and 25 he hit: .254/.293/.403 .237/.279/.393 Before turning it up in his late 20's and becoming what I would assume people would call an above average major league shortstop. The bolded sparked my interest. Is it really that crazy to think that Theriot could put up the numbers that Cabrera has in most years (aside from his one fluke year in 2003)? Granted, defensively Cabrera wins, but it just got me thinking.
  21. David
    do you recall that the cubs went into the last weekend of 2007 without having the division locked up? we won 85 games and took the back door into the playoffs because milwaukee crapped the bed at the end of the year. they have a lot of good young players, and might be a few games better this year. losing a game or two because of poor personnel decisions could cost the cubs a spot in the playoffs. Floor and ceiling talk is nonsensical. It's meaningless scoutspeak and has no place in a rational baseball discussion. If either one or both of those two are playing poorly they should be replaced. It doesn't matter if its .290 OBP vs. 270 OBP or whatever numbers one wants to use. This just isn't true. There most certainly is such a thing as a ceiling and a floor. When projecting a player's production, there has to be some range within which you can reasonably expect that player to perform. Unless you think attempting to project performance and making decisions based on said projections has no place in rational baseball discussion, that is.
  22. David
    do you recall that the cubs went into the last weekend of 2007 without having the division locked up? we won 85 games and took the back door into the playoffs because milwaukee crapped the bed at the end of the year. they have a lot of good young players, and might be a few games better this year. losing a game or two because of poor personnel decisions could cost the cubs a spot in the playoffs. You're exactly right. And losing a handful of games in the first 2 months (or more than that over the course of the year) b/c we have Theriot's .330 OBP in the top spot is going to be a real issue in September. That is, unless we play Cedeno, hit him 8th and he puts up a .750 OPS b/c he's not as terrible now as he was when he was 23. I might be wrong here, but I really don't think any lineup order problem (even having your worst hitter at the top) could cause a team to lose a "handful" of games in two months. Maybe a handful over the course of the season.
  23. David
    I can come pretty close. I set up some boxes once at about that height (after i saw those videos), just knicked them with my shoe. I can also touch an 8' ceiling with my elbow (I'm 5'7"). /bragging about my short-guy hops
  24. David
    Yea, it'd be really nice if Harden's first start counted for me.
  25. David
    Fine with me, I guess.
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