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Is Colin our new Bob's Keeper with a more promising frequency of posts? Please let it be true!

Correct. The power that Cedeno has shown thus far makes him the clear choice. Besides the bomb he hit tonight, he has hit some really deep doubles that Theriot can only dream about doing, and hasn't even come close to doing in twice as many PAs. Eff Theriot's .893 OPS right now

Fred - while we have seen lots of lefties and beat them handily so far, Morales is not "another left hander." We haven't seen anyone who throws 100 mph and certainly not someone who does so from the left side of the plate. I (almost) hope Pie sits this one out because Morales might make him look silly. I do have confidence in the rest of our guys. Lets take this series before the Rockies realize that they are actually a really good ballclub. Go Cubs!

He'll hit more than 20 2Bs but other than that I would be really happy with that production

Did we manage two trolls in one thread here?

Man, we are a bunch of masochists!

Ooh, Derwood jumped the gun just a little bit

Can we please stop doing this? It's really confusing. I'm not sure who started it, but I would like to stop it. Such a line goes BA/OBP/SLG. So your line looks like this - .230/.300/.300 Your above line would be an interesting, and favorable, line for Felix but I know you didn't mean Felix would OPS .900 at his floor. Let's also assume that all of us here can add OBP and SLG for ourselves. I'm sorry for the mini-rant, and I don't mean to pick on you, but you are the latest culprit. Back to the hyperbole!

Are you sure you aren't thinking of Mike Greenberg?

Not necessarily true. Respectfully disagree. Major-league pitchers are better, but they aren't 120 points of batting average better. If Pie tanks completely this season, it'll be because he tanked, not the jump from AAA to the majors. I disagree with you. ML pitchers are miles better. Ever hear of Roosevelt Brown? Julio Zuleta? Trenidad Hubbard? Those are all guys who at completely ripped AAA pitching for multiple years. None of them amounted to anything in the majors. Triple A is full of journeymen who will never be major league pitchers. Though, ML pitching is watered down, most of the league isn't Les Walrond. There is a huge difference in being able to hit an average ML pitcher and being able to hit a AAA pitcher. We all hate Jason Marquis, but he is so much better than your run of the mill AAA pitcher that it's not funny. What's really not funny, though, is that he makes like 20 times more money than those guys

All I'm paying attention to is the number of productive pa's we're getting from him. Today I saw him coax a would-be Adam Dunn-esque walk that ended up being an Adam Dunn-esque k. His biggest problem last year, IMO, was his p/pa and if he can fix that this year, there a glimmer of hope that he can turn it around.

If he's carrying 14 pitchers...he's already messed it up.

Seriously.

-Are you implying that Ryan Theriot was ever good? -He is a below average player and should not block Pie and absolutely should not lead off. -Yes, he looks very good -I believe it has. I hope he keeps walking, as well -See Marquis last year -Nothing Murton does will keep him out of Iowa this year. -They have caught the "patient" bug. I hope it reaches epidemic levels. Edited for truth purposes

tight strike zone for D-Ro there

Fred, would you care to dig up a similar stat for the Brewers? It would make me smile.

Dear New Cubs, I love you. Please don't change. kthxbye

I have an idea: Let's overpay for a guy who performed terribly in a marginal role in an excellent bullpen and make him our closer!

How are they any less racist than references to Pearl Harbor? I keep hammering this point, but racism is the belief that some races are inherently superior than others. Neither a plane nor the slanted eyes shirts are racist. They are insensitive, rude, offensive, stereotypical and wrong, but not racist. And how is making a product that highlights consensus negative stereotypes about a particular race not suggesting that that race is inherently inferior? Pronunciation differences are negative? Guess you aren't part of the consensus

Gameday is an idiot. It had Lee advancing to first on an error by Sanchez. Can't assume the dp, numbnuts!

How are they any less racist than references to Pearl Harbor? I keep hammering this point, but racism is the belief that some races are inherently superior than others. Neither a plane nor the slanted eyes shirts are racist. They are insensitive, rude, offensive, stereotypical and wrong, but not racist. And how is making a product that highlights consensus negative stereotypes about a particular race not suggesting that that race is inherently inferior?

How are they any less racist than references to Pearl Harbor?

:shock: You're right

Me likey #'s 3-8

i disagree. telling people that they shouldn't be offended by something clearly offensive and based upon an offensive stereotype is tantamount to telling black people that they cannot be victims of racism because it doesn't exist. I'm not even saying people can't be offended by this, just that expressions of outrage aren't useful on this, especially when they aren't genuine. Let's face it, when you are threatening violence against large numbers of people for wearing offensive t-shirts, you are putting on an act or you are imbalanced. Every time something offensive (though not always consequential) happens, people feel a need to take their reaction to extremes to demonstrate how much they are offended. When the story about the Yale art student hit, people wished she would be barren. Everytime some perverted criminal commits a horrendous act, people talk about sending him to jail to be repeatedly anally raped. This acting is not helpful. There is still damaging racism in our society. If you want to combat it, do that instead of making a big deal over an idiotic but ultimately unimportant racist t-shirt. i didn't say anything about people being offended to the point of violence. i didn't know that that was the case. in the case of threats of violence, i'd say those people are much more likely to be unbalanced than faking. you simply cannot tell people that they aren't offended by something. I'm not so much saying that people aren't offended as I am saying that their being offended is partly a result of feeling expected to be offended, and offended in a grand way. Threatening violence is sometimes just a way to up the ante and prove how offended you really are. And sometimes it is just a bad joke. I think people can genuinely be offended by this. It certainly is stupid. But expectations muddy the waters and blow inconsequential issues out of proportion, making it harder to talk reasonably about more consequential unspoken problems. Hence, the outrage over t-shirts not being useful. I don't know, this train of thought has gotten away from me. I'm sorry for the pile-on, but I agree with Sully. There is just no way you should feel qualified to decide this for someone else. And Snood was right, as well. A violent, over-the-top reaction to racism is MUCH better than ignorance of it or even complacency in the face of it.