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  1. soccer10k
    Whoa whoa whoa. Back off the Hate Jacque Jones bandWGN. He went 2 for 3 last night and has raised that stellar batting average of his to .190. I'm just kidding. Go ahead and bash him.
  2. soccer10k
    If Pedro does that at a similar level of performance he's put up since the late 90s, I think he leaps past Clemens at that point. But that's a very big if. If Pedro pitches well and ends up with close to 300 wins, I think that could vault him higher in some people's minds. I don't think he'll get 300 though.
  3. soccer10k
    That's the first time I have actually ever seen his sixth finger. Thank you for posting that.
  4. soccer10k
    Zuleta steamrolled that guy. That was awesome.
  5. soccer10k
    Overall I'd put it Clemens, Maddux, Pedro. Clemens recent years of dominance in Houston and Maddux's recent years of average perforance put Clemens over the top. Side point #1: IMO, from his last year at Montreal until his near-4.00 ERA year in Boston, Pedro was the most dominant starting pitcher ever. Side point #2: This kind of surprised me, but of the three, Maddux has the best post-season ERA Clemens: 3.71 Maddux: 3.22 Martinez: 3.40 I didn't know Pedro had a better postseason ERA. I figured Clemens would have the worst of the three though. I don't know about most dominant pitcher ever, but his stretch from 1997 to 2003, like you said, was definately the most dominant stretch of pitching of our generation.
  6. soccer10k
    Fixed - I don't trust the Cy Young voters. Thank you. How about Maddux needs to have a Cy Young worthy season.
  7. soccer10k
    I like it.
  8. soccer10k
    Agreed. We did give Jacque a $16 mil contract. I think if Maddux gives us a hometown discount we should resign him. Like a couple other people said, 1 yr guaranteed with an option for a second year sounds good to me.
  9. soccer10k
    I agree with you whole point. He needs to be the ace that we expected him to be this year.
  10. soccer10k
    I love Wood. I hope that he comes back as healthy as ever and finally becomes the pitcher we all expected him to be. I'm just tired of getting excited about him coming back just to hear that he had a setback or got hurt again. He had two full seasons in 02 and 03 and he had two mostly full seasons in 98 and 01. But he missed the whole 99 season and good chunks of 00, 04 and 05. I've just come to the conclusion that if I have no hopes for him, then he can't let me down.
  11. soccer10k
    Hindsight is 20-20.
  12. soccer10k
    Even if Maddux does that it's still nowhere near what Clemens did the last couple years with Houston. Maddux is close to Clemens, but he would have to win a Cy Young to pass Clemens in my book.
  13. soccer10k
    He's saying that if you intentionally pitch around somebody then it isn't a bad thing whereas if you just can't find the plate. Whether or not you get burned is another thing entirely. Obviously if a guy is raking you and the next guy hasn't hit you well, then it might be a good idea to walk the first guy. If the second guy ends up getting a hit or a home run, then it's just bad luck because you faced the guy that, statistically, had done worse against you.
  14. soccer10k
    If you are going by best overall career up to this point: 1. Clemens 2. Maddux 3. Pedro Pedro hasn't done it long enough to warrant being ahead of Clemens or Maddux in terms of best career. If Pedro keeps it up for another 5 years, then I might put him higher. If you are talking about who was the most dominant and who the opposing team didn't want to face then I would say: 1. Pedro 2. Maddux 3. Clemens Pedro during the late 90's was the best pitcher in the league by far. He was downright nasty.
  15. soccer10k
    My dad is a Dodgers fan and every once and a while I'll remind him of the 20-1 beatdown we gave them in 2001. And I remember sending him a picture of a broom last year when they swept the Dodgers. But I'm not saying anything yet. I did that another time when the Cubs won the first game and then they lost the next two. Hopefully this will turn out like last year.
  16. soccer10k
    Let's keep you starting the game threads.
  17. soccer10k
    Here are the standings through the games on 4-17 48 TruffleShuffle 47 XZero77 46 sherwood921 RoastTheD---Goat 44 wade Mizzou 43 Serena Outshined_One J-Shils TheDude ndistops Garwilly TrueBlueCubFan 42 Jazz UMFan83 41 SeldomSeen jd6762 40 bukie DCNashville soccer10k 39 karenmac vance_the_cubs_fan Rocket Sauce IMB! srbin84 38 Transmogrified Tiger MrWood SouthSideRyan Bob's Keeper 37 Aramis Fan reggiemillerrules 36 sethuel1 Pistolcub42 35 CubsInNC rawaction 34 Scott G. F. 33 Treeman Derwood Cubbies75 32 Mark_R NCCubbieFan Marco4 31 Mark Prior's Calves sandberg23 otis89 tadowdaddy Joe_Cub 30 HHHBK21 DJAXXFAN 29 Dobson 28 Southpaw19 27 Flames24Rulz Vinestal 26 cubfanfromoz 24 Guancous 22 hawkcub 20 uBlink If I got anything wrong please let me know. Check yours against mine ndistops.
  18. soccer10k
    Maddux has been huge. Especially with Z struggling.
  19. soccer10k
    Happy Birthday Bruce
  20. soccer10k
    I was thinking if it would be worth it to manually go through the boxes and see if that was true, so I decided to do it. Gave up a run in the 7th inning of game #1 :D Wow. That is awesome. Hopefully we can keep it up.
  21. soccer10k
    I hope Z pitches like the Z we expected to see this year and not the Z we have seen this year
  22. soccer10k
    That is a vintage Greg Maddux performance and was extremely enjoyable to watch.
  23. soccer10k
    A Cubs win and a Guinness, how could life be better?
  24. soccer10k
    CUBS WIN!!
  25. soccer10k
    Nolan Ryan No, that was Robin Ventura stupidly chraging the mound and getting sufficiently pummelled by Nolan. Nolan Ryan took a Bo Jackson line drive to the face and continued to pitch. I'll find a picture of it. http://www.weirdpicturearchive.com/pics/nolanryan.html http://www.weirdpicturearchive.com/img/nolanryan.jpg Wow. That looks fun. Imagine looking at a pitcher who has blood on his face and his uniform and trying to focus on batting.
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