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Please tell me you are joking. Why? The whole "they played so they know better" line is a bunch of bull-puckey. I have no doubt that Lou is probably better at managing a 25 man clubhouse, practices, and all the other crap that a manager has to do than any of us in here probably could. But when it comes to in-game moves, I can think of 5-10 guys here off the top of my head I'd rather have making moves than lou. Actually your first line is pure bull-puckey, because I never said or insinuated any such thing. Pure fabrication on your part. To assume that anyone on here knows any more about statistics than Lou, or anyone on the Cubs coaching staffs is just plain laughable. And to say that Lou is PROBABLY better at managing a 25 man clubhouse than anyone on here is even more laughable. In fact, if i were you, I would be embarrassed. This is really too far out there to even argue any further. Believe what you want. I can always use the laugh. so did you always agree with dusty baker then? was it okay for him to bat neifi and patterson 1-2?

roberts just signed an extension and sherrill is awful

Dempster and Heilman have been trash? Trash is be a strong word for those 2, but they have not been very good. Yeah today was the first time Heilman was actually charged with a run, vut he has a 1.42 WHIP and has walked as many as he has struck out. His main problem last year was walks, and that has continued so far. I had (asnd still have) hopes for him returning to his 05-07 form, but so far we're getting the 2008 Heilman. As for Dempster, yeah... he has a 1.50 WHIP and a 4.50 ERA (and only because of Reed). So far he has been exactly what I was afraid of. He's had terrible control. The main difference with him last year was he suddenly had better control. I was skeptical of howl ong that could last when he's had such bad control for his while career.

So far all of Hendry's offseason signings/trades have been trash. Gregg, Heilman, Miles, Bradley, Dempster...

that doesn't make any sense. if his bat was slowing down a lot he should go the opposite way a lot because he can't get around on a good fastball. see jim edmonds in 2007-08, he went oppo all the time, a lot more than he did earlier in his career. derrek lee is not jim edmonds as long as lee conntinues to try and pull outside pitches (like he has been for about a year now) he's not going to be that good

They offered CC 6/100 so if they like Peavy enough, they could afford him.

It's not his shoulder. It's his oblique.

His bat just looks reeeaallllyyyyyy slow, and that's not a good sign. He probably stopped going the other way because the slowness of his bat forces him to start early to catch up to fastballs.

This is pretty much what we should expect all season. Even when he stays off the DL, he's going to be in and out of the lineup like this all year.

This is why it would have been a terrible move to give Bako the job. Hill has hit well in AAA the past 2 years. Obviously he's not going to keep up this pace, but there's no reason he can't put up like a .750 OPS.

Damn... he was my favorite. RIP

Hawks in 6

So far this season mlb.tv and mlb.com in general has been awful. Thanks for the Pat & Ron clip. I wanted to see that but couldn't because of the ridiculous lack of controls on the new player.

What's the big deal? He's hit pretty well in AAA over the last 2 seasons and has a .691 OPS so far. He's a back up catcher

I wrote them off before the season started. Is that ok? So between them and the Cards, you think the Cubs are just going to coast to an easy division title, without question? Yeah, really smart.

Writing off the Brewers at this point is pretty silly.

I think we should wait until Bradley actually starts hitting before we start to blow him. Walks are nice, but he's always drawn walks. He hasn't always hit.

oh look another free pass. forget the fact that lou's in game managing was brutal last year also. "oh but we won 97 games, so he was awesome!"

You can actually look at is really only having one bat outing though. In his first save he gave up a single to the leadoff hitter. Then Bradley messed up and cost Gregg a run. So in all honestly Gregg pitched just fine in his first save chance, and should have only gave up on single and no runs.Then in the next game he came in with two on and no out. He got a fly out, intentional walk, then gave up a very weak single that just found the hole. Those two games wasn't really bad pitching at all. Yesterdays 2 walks, double that allowed two runs was really just one bad outing. The whole point is it's early, and very small sample size of struggling. Kerry Wood wasn't a whole lot better at this point, and he was just fine. By the way Wood gave up 3 hits, and 1 walk in his 2 innings pitched. So when you factor in that one of the 4 hits Gregg gave up was a misjudged flyball that Bradley screwed up on, and one of his walks was intentional. There honestly hasn't been much of a difference between Gregg and Wood after four games. I know you don't like Gregg, but I think fans are being pretty picky with his performance so far and being way to hard on him. It's been three games, so anyone calling him horrible right now is flat out overreacting. You can argue the overreacing point, but once again you're trying to make excuses. Don't try to downplay the fact that Gregg has pitched poorly so far. On opening day the leadoff single was decently hit and the hit that Bradley should have caught was hard hit. If Bradley caught it that would have been him bailing out Gregg. In his second game he looked alright I guess, but couldn't miss a bat against crappy hitters when he needed it. Then yesterday he looked like crap. How the hell are you going to walk Chris Duffy in a 1 run game in the 9th? That's inexcusable. Then of course he gave up the rocket to Weeks to tie the game and then once again couldn't miss bats when he needed it. So yeah, you can tell us to give him a chance. That's fine, and I kind of agree. But don't act like he hasn't sucked so far.

No, the difference iis that Wood is a much better pitcher than Kevin Gregg. I think people wanted Gregg to be in the closer role just because it allowed Marmol to stay where he is. I don't think anybody was excited about the idea of Gregg closing games. Nobody is overreacting I don't think. Gregg just isn't a great pitcher. He's really not much better than Michael Wuertz. It reminds of when I went to a Marlins game in Miami last season. Gregg was trying to close out the Cubs and the Marlins fan in front of me was like "Gregg might get the save sometimes, but it's never pretty."

Yes. They're 9 games worse per year since we got rid of Dusty. I never even said anything about the division. I said they're always competetive.

Derrek Lee has been awful since last April. How is it too early? Would a 3 run home run by him tomorrow suddenly make him good again?

We should slap the next person who says this. It doesn't matter. It's not Theriot's fault. The game was over when that ball came off Braun's bat, barring a miracle one way or the other. There's a solid dozen things to be legitimately pissed about after this game. Theriot's defensive error early in the game, Soriano misplaying Weeks double in the 9th, every single move Lou made after pulling Harden... Theriot's decision to throw home in the ninth is not one of them. Actually it is Theriot's fault, but not for the decision (although he still had a better shot at turning 2). He's at fault because his range is so poor that he was in awful position when he picked that ball up. A shortstop with better range turns 2 on that.

So you think the Cubs offense scores runs according to the score and situation? Because that's the only way blowing a lead in the 7th is different from blowing it in the 9th- if you think the offense becomes better when they're trailing. In reality, you get at-bats in the 7th, 8th, and 9th innings regardless of score. And ultimately, 2 runs scoring in the 9th inning count exactly the same as 2 runs scored in the 7th inning.

Huh? Why would you bunt with an insurance run at 2rd base with only 1 out? You only do that with a pitcher, if at all.