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  1. 17 Seconds
    I could have stopped reading after this- so instead of trading him to the cubs a year ago, they wait....sign him to an extension, then less than a year later they trade him to the cubs for a lesser package AND have to eat an enormous chunk of salary righhhttt
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    He could stop bringing in Samardzija, for one thing. Shark is the worst reliever in the pen and by bringing him in it allowed the Marlins to immediately get right back in the game.
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    http://www.mouthpiecesports.com/blogmedia/2009/03/dustybaker.jpg
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    if the cubs miss the playoffs hopefully they just tank so lou will hang it up. he is atrocious. excellent bullpen management again tonight, lou
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    Even if Bartman doesn't attempt to catch the ball, it was a difficult catch and there's no guarantee Alou comes down with it. He may have caught it, but if you look at the tape is glove is just above the top of the wall. He could have hit the wall on the way down and the ball could have been knocked loose. Alex Gonzalez booting an easy DP ball bears 10,000 times more blame than Bartman. Alou wasn't mad that he didn't make the play. He was attempting to cheat once again by pretending like he had even a remote opportunity of going over the wall to make that catch when he probably would have realistically gave up about a foot or two before the ball hit his glove. He was trying to con the umpires into believing he was going to catch that ball. I'm not buying his act, and neither did the umpires who were standing right on the line of where the ball was coming down. seriously? he had no chance of making the play? how can you poissibly say that? it would have at the very least hit his glove. he was in perfect piosition. all that stuff that you say he couldn't possibly do because he was a horrible defender.... well, he did it. he jumped high enough. he timed his jump. he had his glove positioned perfectly. i'm not blaming bartman and i couldnt care less about him, but let's be honest. that ball was going right into his glove.
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    I suppose it would be easier if I believed that. I don't. He had it. yeah, he did all the hard stuff. he was there, he times his jump perfectly, the ball was going right into his glove.
  7. 17 Seconds
    MLB Network is just a PR machine. and worse than BBTN
  8. 17 Seconds
    yea to be fair, he probably would have caught it. the replay very clearly showed the glove right under where bartman touched the ball. it would have gone right into his glove.
  9. 17 Seconds
    Man, I was hoping the left handed reliever we were going to get would actually be good. Grabow sucks.
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    [expletive]
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    Not a good trade for the Giants at all.
  12. 17 Seconds
    I'm interested to see how Lee will do in CBP
  13. 17 Seconds
    Good now Lou can't bat him leadoff against RHP anymore.
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    That's about all he's worth when you consider the 8 mil option next season. I don't know if I'd even take him for free.
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    Agreed. He's really not that great.
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    I don't know, but I find it reeeallllyy hard to believe it would be close to 200. Seriously, we're talking about the difference between a crappy hitter and an elite hitter. If defense was worth that much, teams would just be stacking their team with cheap, light hitting, defensive players. Also if Morgan is that valuable, why does nobody here want him? If he's worth that much defensively, then we could have just put him in center and moved the Johnson/Fukudome platoon to right.
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    It shouldn't matter. You are either getting a good deal or a bad deal. What the fans know before or after a trade is made should have no bearing on whether the deal gets done or not. It's absolutely ridiculous. And if you really don't like it, do what others have suggested and keep the talks more private. Is it NSBB or GRB's fault that you had 75 some odd people in the war room listening to trade talks and now you don't know who leaked the info? I think not. But, if you really want to come off looking like an absolute idiot, be sure to let the whole world know that you canceled the deal for the sole reason that everyone already knew about it beforehand, and not because it wasn't going to help the team. :thumbsup: C'mon now. You're too bright to think that's what really happened. Like TT said, it's way more likely the deal didn't get done because Towers was asking for the sun and the moon, and finally Hendry told him to stick it. I agree. This seems more like Towers running his mouth and trying to take the heat off the fact that he passed on a good package while he had the chance, and now Peavy is injured and untradeable until the offseason... at least.
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    Good. I'm glad it ended up falling through.
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    God you're a troll. So after a couple good weeks from Soriano, the guy starts a thread made to throw it back in the faces of people who thought Soriano was fine batting leadoff the past couple years, and I'm the troll? Nice. I'm not even saying I think he should be moved back. I'm fine with him batting in the middle right now. I just thought it was pretty obnoxious to act like we were all idiots for thinking he was fine batting leadoff and to try and throw it back in our faces, like something had been proven.
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    Huh? Raving Lunacy? Care to explain that? I guess I'm a lunatic for not buying into a stat that had Willie Harris being worth 15 million last season. Or not buying into Morgan being more valuable than Dunn this year even though Dunn has like 200+ OPS points on him By the way.. you know the girl in your sig is 17, right? If you're older than like 20, you're a creepshow
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    Yes, that has been proven by the last couple of weeks. Absolutely. No small sample size here. The fact is Kosukes doing fine at leadoff. Sorianos doing great at the 6 spot. More importantly, were winning, and as long as it stays that way, lets not disturb the formula. I never said we should change it. And how many times as Kosuke actually hit leadoff in the last week? Seems like johnsons has done it more often and has been horrible while there.
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    This quote is from today's USA Today article on trade rumors:
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    Que? So far he's had 3 starts. They go as follows: 5 innings pitched - 1 ER - Credited with a LOSS 5 innings pitched - 2 ER - Credited with a WIN 6 innings pitched - 1 ER - Credited with a WIN Granted - as others have alluded to he has walked quite a few guys (11 over the 3 games, which isn't bad, except he had five in each of the first two games). However, he hasn't allowed a home run yet as a starter and he's been able to pitch out of most of the jams he's gotten himself into. Like I said before, he hasn't been stellar - but to say he's been terrible is quite an overstatement, IMO. Why are you only looking at IP/ER (ERA) and not the stats that actually show how effective he's been? 5 IP- 9 baserunners, 5 BB, 3 K 5 IP- 10 baserunners, 5 BB, 1 K 6 IP- His good start Like I said, he's had one good start. In his other 2 starts he was terrible, he just didn't give up many runs because a ton of guys were left on base. That's luck. As a reliever, he was even worse. On the season he has a 1.52 WHIP On the season he has 16 BB and only 9 K's (wow) Outside of that one start, he has been terrible. Edit: BTW, in what world is 11 walks in 16 innings "not bad"?
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    mercy
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    He had just walked the bases loaded, there was a force at home, etc. etc. Does anybody have the percentage of times an attempted suicide squeeze actually works? I'd like to compare that to the average percentage of success an MLB hitter has at scoring a runner from 3rd with less than 2 outs. I bet the latter has a bigger percentage. It just feels like you're taking the game out of the hitter's control. If he throws a ball way out of the zone, there's nothing you can do. You have to rely on the pitcher to throw a strike. In the situation he's in, you shouldn't have to be rely on the other team doing something. You rely on your hitter to do his job (hit the ball out of the infield and on the infield in a good spot) and the game is over, period. There's nothing they can do. Also, STOP [expletive] DOING THE HIT & RUN. This is twice now he's put on the hit and run with Soriano at the plate and Bradley at first with a full count. I'm trying to think of a worse hit and run combo on the Cubs than Bradley at first and Soriano at the plate and I can't really find one. Seriously, how many times do you think a Cubs batter has struck out on ball 4 this year because he was trying to protect the plate too muchon a hit & run? Sorry, but a panicky manager like Lou is not the correct fit for this organization.
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