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  1. soccer10k
    Just as an FYI, I won't be able to get the next thread up until I get off work around midnight.
  2. soccer10k
    CUBS WIN!!!
  3. soccer10k
    Guilty as charged. :oops: Sort of guilty. It would have been miserable sitting through those first eight innings.
  4. soccer10k
    I like batting around in the ninth.
  5. soccer10k
    CLIFFY!!!
  6. soccer10k
    I have no problems with Lincecum's theatrics on the mound.
  7. soccer10k
    Thank you, sir.
  8. soccer10k
    COME ON DLEE!!!
  9. soccer10k
    Thank goodness I'm not at this game.
  10. soccer10k
    That's because Armando Benitez is not a very good pitcher.
  11. soccer10k
    He has the potential to be very, very good on any given night.
  12. soccer10k
    Lincecum just smoked DLee there.
  13. soccer10k
    Not anymore. :wink:
  14. soccer10k
    Holy crap the bottom of the second was quick.
  15. soccer10k
    Fontenot doesn't have a prayer against Lincecum.
  16. soccer10k
    This is awesome. I love it when our pitchers can't throw strikes.
  17. soccer10k
    Marquis is not off to a good start.
  18. soccer10k
    Stellar inning by the Cubs.
  19. soccer10k
    Pie is not allowed to bat anymore apparently, but Fontenot and his sub .600 OPS since the break gets to. Hell I would have been happy with Floyd Pie Ward in the OF if it means DeRo is at 2nd and not Fontenot. Yeah, I think Fontenot has long passed his useful period. But since he was hot 2 months ago, Lou is overlooking the fact that he has been awful for well over a month. Players do slump. Surprising, I know. He's been slumping since the beginning of July. He put up a .480 OPS in July and has a .592 OPS in August.
  20. soccer10k
    I really need to get to SF for a game at AT & T. my best friend went and was thoroughly unimpressed I've lived within a couple of hours of SF for 3 of the last 8 years and this will be my first trip to the park. I've heard nothing but good things, and I'm pretty pumped to see it firsthand. I heard it's pretty sweet too. I've only been to Candlestick. Candlestick is a horrible stadium.
  21. soccer10k
    Like I posted before, Marquis was even better with the Cardinals his first two years that what he has been with the Cubs this year. The Cardinals are too lucky to have him struggle that badly for a year with them, though. There would have been some sort of divine intervention that helped him right his path. They already had turned him around. He posted ERA+ of 82 and 75 in his final two years with the Braves. 2004 and 2005 have nothing to do with it. Marquis having a down year in 2006? Possible. But being the worst starter in the NL? Very unlikely. And for the Cardinals, no less? Inexplicable. I think you're missing the point, man: the Cards are protected by a magical aura that prevents them from suffering from the problems and distractions that normal, mortal teams are exposed to. Marquis 2006 season defies logic. Is this even debatable? Why do 04 and 05 have nothing to do with it? The Cardinals took a well below average pitcher and turned him into an above average pitcher for two seasons.
  22. soccer10k
    Like I posted before, Marquis was even better with the Cardinals his first two years that what he has been with the Cubs this year. The Cardinals are too lucky to have him struggle that badly for a year with them, though. There would have been some sort of divine intervention that helped him right his path. They already had turned him around. He posted ERA+ of 82 and 75 in his final two years with the Braves.
  23. soccer10k
    Like I posted before, Marquis was even better with the Cardinals his first two years that what he has been with the Cubs this year.
  24. soccer10k
    They are an average team when Barry is playing. The rest of their offense isn't all that special.
  25. soccer10k
    It's sad to us because it's so ridiculous how this keeps happening. You can feel free to come up with counter-examples from our own team though. :wink: Matt Clement, Joe Borowski, Sammy Sosa, Jon Lieber, Mark Bellhorn, Ryan Dempster, Michael Barrett, and I'm sure many, many more. don't forget aramis ramirez And year one of the Glendon Rusch era. More than cancelled out by Years 2 and 3. (That's our own fault, by the way. Stupid Hendry.) Ok, Derrek Lee, Ted Lilly, JASON MARQUIS, Matt Murton, Jacque Jones, Eric Karros, Mark Grudzielanek... Ted Lilly went from the AL to the NL so his ERA was expected to drop. Jason Marquis should be an example about the Cardinals. He put up ERA's of 5.04 and 5.53 his last two years in Atlanta before putting up a 3.71 and 4.13 his first two years with the Cardinals which were also his first two full years as a starter. Matt Murton is still young and has an OBP over .400 and OPS over .950 in his career at AAA. Jacque's slugging was a bit up last year and his OBP was right about career norms. He wasn't that much better than he was in Minnesota. Eric Karros was only a bit better in Chicago than he was in Los Angeles the year before. You're really reaching with some of these examples.
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