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Does anybody know if they plan on having condensed games this season? So far they aren't showing up.

1. 87 wins +50 2. 9 wins +150 3. 770 runs +25 4. 707 runs +150 5. 1st +200 575/1300 1. 35 +10 2. 14 +40 3. .372 +30 4. 97 +30 5. 14 +20 6. 3.42 +10 7. 186 +0 8. 127 +0 140/400 1. Innings Pitched +30 2. Starts +0 3. Pie +0 4. Fukudome +0 5. Lilly +30 6. Ramirez +0 60/180 1. Soriano +30 2. Lee +0 3. Zambrano +0 4. Wood +30 60/120 Tiebreaker: None TOTAL: 835

The only reason I posted the thread under the different name is because that's the name it logs me in with when I'm using the mlb.tv account on my friend's email address.

Well played.

I guess the Cubs are the only team to live by that theory. So you think Joe Borowski is a better pitcher than Rafael Betancourt? Yeah, I didn't think so. What seperates a closer from other relievers are save situations. Was today a save situation? No. What if Wood pitches a scoreless 9th and they go to the 10th or 11th still scoreless? Then another reliever is pitching in the exact same situation. Are they ore likely to fail in those situations because they aren't a closer. Wood came in because he was thebest pitcher available at that time, at least in LOu's mind. Also, why do you assume that since Wood blew a tie game that he's more likely to blow a save? Those are completely different situations. For example, have you seen Dempster's situations in save on non-save situations from last season? Probably not, because you're a Reds fan. Why don't you stick to the Reds?

i hope that was sarcasm. Well...he hasn't... Neither has Tom Gordon. And why exactly are people against Marmol closing? Marmol and Wood were used in the exact same situation today. Ok? So why are you talking about Marmol being a closer based on what happened today? Wood still has to pitch somewhere. Wood pitched in the 9th today because he is the closer. Umm, that makes no sense. Wood pitched in the 9th because he is a reliever. Anyways, what difference would it have made if he gave up those 3 runs in the 8th instead of the 9th?

i hope that was sarcasm. Well...he hasn't... Neither has Tom Gordon. And why exactly are people against Marmol closing? Marmol and Wood were used in the exact same situation today. Ok? So why are you talking about Marmol being a closer based on what happened today? Wood still has to pitch somewhere.

i hope that was sarcasm. Well...he hasn't... Neither has Tom Gordon. And why exactly are people against Marmol closing? Marmol and Wood were used in the exact same situation today.

You're an idiot. Again, this should help you out: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Sarcasm Based on his overreactions in the other thread I'm not so sure it was sarcasm. Well...then...I don't know what to tell you, but it obviously was. When people are posting the same types of things and actually meaning it, then it's hard to tell when someone is being sarcastic.

With the ridiculous posting that's been going on today, it's hard to tell what is sarcasm and what's not.

You're an idiot. Again, this should help you out: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Sarcasm Based on his overreactions in the other thread I'm not so sure it was sarcasm.

How can you possibly trash Piniella when you have a picture of Ryan Theriot in your sig? If it wasn't for Lou, your golden boy wouldn't even have a job.

You're an idiot.

Yeah, that .913 OPS last season really needs to go. You say things like that and expect to be taken seriously? It's one game in. The problems we saw today were the same types of problems we had last season. Nothing is "going downhill". We're pretty much the same team as last season, so if you're going to complain just complain about this team not being great.

If they were resuming the game from where it left off, it would have been suspended, not postponed.

You realize that the situation was the same for both Wood and Marmol today, right?

What's funny is that his OPS would still only be .29 higher than Bonds' 2004 OPS. That fact makes me feel a little sick. Bonds your a scumbag. I mean .029. And yes Bonds is a scumbag.

joh Not really. Johnson takes a decent amount of walks and doesn't steal many bases. To be honest, I'm shocked Hendry didn't get Crisp. Before the Crisp rumors even started I thought he'd end up on the Cubs. Fast- Check Doesn't take many walks- Check "Athlete"- Check Bad contract- Check That has Jim Hendry written all over it.

You've got some pretty stupid priorities. Your [expletive]. This HAS to be a joke, right? Yes, I know I should have put "ur" Or you could have just spelled "you're" properly. Ur works also though.

What's funny is that his OPS would still only be .029 higher than Bonds' 2004 OPS.

Sorry, I didn't even think about it.

I think it's funny that you guys just ruined any chance you had of keeping this thread open past opening day.

"How can you look at those numbers and say he's not more or likely to suck in clutch stats than a guy like Franceour?" Um... because I know about probability distribution? If you dig around long enough, you will find players with split stats that would seem to indicate that there's some sort of effect going on - clutch, unclutch, or any set of things you can look at with splits. But given the size of the population you're looking at, you would expect there to be some unlikely/unexplainable outcomes in the data set. One player's splits don't prove anything, not even about that player. It's not enough to know whether or not your sample is significant, but whether or not your measurement is significant. When you look at major league players as a population, "clutch" tendencies don't seem to persist from season to season, the way that, say, platoon tendencies do. haha, dextermorgan just got struck down out of nowhere, by a power greater than we could know. oh, the humanity. "did you want to talk about the weather or were you just making chit-chat?" No, not really. I understand what probability distribution is, but I don't buy the fact that Casey Blake sucking year after year after year after year after year in those situations is due to the fact that it had to eventually happen to somebody and he's just the unlucky one. Poor Casey Blake, he can't be blamed for him being a choke artist, he's just unlucky! Every year! Yeah, that's [deleted]. I really don't understand why people can't accept the fact that the mental aspect of the game sometime results in players reacting differently in important situations. Why is that so hard to believe? They aren"t robots, they're humans. Some people can handle the pressure, some people press and try to do too much. That's not probability distribution.

You obviously aren't familiar with Manny's work ethic. He's a douche but he probably works harder than any player in baseball. That guy doesn't take his hitting lightly by any stretch of the imagination.

.289/.375/.500- 28 home runs