javy knows my name

We'll miss your awesome contributions

What had they done two minutes before that? I turned it on just in time for Bynum to almost kill somebody

HOLY [expletive]

HOLY [expletive]

Just call him a dumb [expletive], Dew. You know you want to.

If you tell me the inning, situation, etc and what you were wearing, I can look it up. Bottom of the 7th, Colvin at bat, foul to the front of the upper deck on slight third base side. Section 417. I was wearing a black North Face jacket with no hat on. Thanks in advance!

Anyone know where I can get a recording of that game? I caught a Colvin foul ball in the upper deck and never spilled my beer. Perhaps you saw me?

God, I'm gonna miss this whole fuckin game, aren't I?

Clearly, you need to go to more games. I'm going again tomorrow, to stop the bleeding

OH GOOD LORD YES

Wow, this one hurts a little bit. First of the year, really

What a garbage call. Gameday has that 8 in off the plate.

Don't say that. I have tickets tomorrow.

I wish for him to fail unequivocally why? Maybe he doesn't want endless updates when Guyer starts 8 for 20. That, and I'm petty

beat youuuu

Bases loaded, no outs in consecutive innings and we get one run total

Oh Jesus, Cubs. Don't do it to me.

I wish for him to fail unequivocally

It's probably because he has a cool Hawaiian name. Or that he got on base like 80% of the time in the minors

To play where? 1st with Butler to DH?

Well, there's no shame in not being as good an ISO player as DWade. Lebron's fine in isolation, end game struggles this year be damned. Yup, I edited it a bit. And I KNEW there was a more concise way of saying that.

It depends what "creating their own shot" means. If it means that you can get the ball when you're not open, dribble around someone, and then make a shot, then Deng can create his own shot. If it means that you can give someone the ball in isolation and ask them to score a critical basket at the end of a game, then no. But there are just a handful of guys in the entire league that can reliably do the latter. Some might even argue that LeBron isn't one of them. It's somewhere between the two of those extremes. I think the general opinion is that Deng can't really create his own shot with any consistency because he's a (relatively) weak ballhandler. I would agree that Lebron would not be the best "give-me-the-ball-in-isolation" guy on his own team, much less in the top few in the league.

7.9

Yeah, I like how the evaluation of this move as bad "in hindsight" could be wrong in like 3 months.

Any reasoning behind you're assumption or is it just making an assumption for the sake of making an assumption? I haven't heard Hendry say a word about "getting more lefthanded" for at least a couple years now and probably more than that. Basically, you're saying that if Pujols and Pena were both available, the Cubs would only have pursued Pena? Do you have anything at all to back this up? I don't really feel like digging through old articles looking for it, but I could swear they were focused on getting a lefty power bat in the middle of the line up. If it was never, ever said this offseason, then I am wrong and will admit so. Can't say it would have even been the wrong thing to do considering that most of the best free agent 1b bats were left handed, and the Cubs line up was already dominated with righty bats in Castro, Ramirez, Soriano, Soto and Byrd. They couldn't afford Pujols, so it's not even worth discussing that. I was glad they signed Carlos Pena, so I don't even wish to continue this discussion, but unless he turns things around, we all end up with egg on our faces for thinking he still had something left. It would've been tough to sign Pujols last offseason. Don't know if this has been brought up, but speaking of the Cardinals. Lance Berkman signed a 1 year/8 million dollar deal for 2011. Ouch. I think the Cubs might be in first place if we switched the 2. No, it's a good thing you brought that up, because we weren't talking about it anywhere else on here.