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  1. champaignchris
    I want to ask all the would be gatekeepers, "Where the Hell were you when Steve Wilstein was being criticized for doing his job as a reporter? Were you one of the ones doing the criticizing? Or were you one of the many who were silent on the subject?" If the players who played during the era are barred from the HoF, the reporters who failed to cover the story and/or actively engaged in whitewashing the issue should be banned from voting on it.
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    If we're assuming Clemons' first year on the juice was 1997 and Bonds' was 2000, then I'm not sure i agree with his premise in Clemons' case. That would have been a pretty Albert Belle-like peak and flame out. But regardless, there's a major flaw in his reasoning - There's no proof whatsoever that Sosa was on roids from 1998 to 2001. There's also no proof whatsoever that Bonds wasn't on roids prior to 2000. It's all guess work.
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    There's an early Simpsons where Bart's teacher is handing back tests and Bart upon seeing his F starts crying. The teacher says that she thought that Bart should be used to failing by now. Bart responded by saying, "But this time I actually tried!" That must be what Pirates fans feel like. Of course, being a Cubs fan, I know exactly what that feels like.
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    The offense has been atrocious. The team's hitting a collective .170 during the losing streak and scoring 2.29 runs a game. Casto's 2 for 28 (.071) and Rizzo is 4 for 28 (.143). Ugh. How many more starts do you think they'll give Samardzija before shutting him down? 4? 5?
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    Also, Will Ohman pitched for the White Sox this year.
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    Not mentioned in this thread yet, but Xavier Nady actually has 109 PA for the Washington Nationals this year. He has to be the oldest 33-year-old on the planet.
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    Career ERA+: Shark - 94 Wood - 91 Volstad - 86 Germano - 83 Raley - 3.74 ERA/1.428 WHIP Jose Guzman - 102 Kevin Tapani - 101 Steve Trachsel - 99 Greg Hibbard - 98 Mike Morgan - 97 The fact that when putting together a 5 man rotation from 5 seasons worth of Cubs teams, and that's the best you came up with speaks volumes about the Cubs teams of that era. The actions of the Cubs front office from 1987 to 1994 under Frey and Himes were outright criminal. Undid everything Dallas Green built.
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    Sounds like a ton of sour grapes from the Dodgers. If you actually wanted Dempster, put up more than the the couple A-ball prospects that the Rangers did. If you didn't actually want Dempster, why do you care whether Dempster knew that fact? Comes down to the fact that they thought they could bend the Cubs over a barrel and it turned out they were wrong.
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    I want someone to claim Soriano on waivers. Then I want Jed, Theo, and Ricketts to go on a thirty-million dollar bender of a weekend in Las Vegas followed by a drunken, unshaven press conference where they're still wearing the same suits they were wearing three days ago and telling war stories about the weekend and bragging about how they still have 10 million dollars left to devote to payroll.
  10. champaignchris
    From June 10 through Aug 1, the Cubs are 24-20 (.545). It's not outrageous to think that if they extend Garza instead of trade him and pick up a decent free agent pitcher that they'll be about .500 next year.
  11. champaignchris
    Back to the original topic of the thead... Dempster's Harry Caray impression really isn't very good.
  12. champaignchris
    My first thought, too. "Can we still have Delgado?"
  13. champaignchris
    Cubs trade Len for Hawk. What do we get back? If we don't get the Sox top couple pitching prospects we'd be robbed
  14. champaignchris
    Trivia: Soto is 2nd behind Banks for the most home runs hit by a player who played his entire career as a Cub.
  15. champaignchris
    It looked like Sveum was going to murder Beliveau right there on the pitching mound. Bet he's on his way back to Iowa within 24 hours. Up by 11 in the 6th. Throw it over the freaking plate!
  16. champaignchris
    +1. I like Reed. He'd be welcome back at a reasonable price. He seems to play better in Chicago than elsewhere.
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    22 years old. 101 ERA+ in 24 career MLB starts. Under team control until 2018. For a 35 year old who is a fee agent at the end of the year? I'll take it.
  18. champaignchris
    Is it o.k. to cut Marmol yet... Oh crap! That was a great play! Never mind.
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    Because everyone wants his ceiling to be Derek Jeter, not Edgar Renteria. A few bad weeks has nothing to do with that, but to see limited amount of offensive improvement makes those scenarios go through your head. And its not like Renteria had a terrible career or anything, but, for me, the glimpses of what Castro may be able to do have endless possibilities and I think of a Jeter-like career. I still think that if Castro got 2,300 career hits and a lifetime OPS of .740 (Renteria), we'd be OK with that, but still a bit disappointed. If you adjust for era, Castro is having a season nearly identical to Jeter's 22 year old season both in the field and at the plate.
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    Nah.... he's the proverbial flash in the pan. Three years from now he'll be the answer to a trivia question that nobody remembers. [/greenfont] Clearly a flash in the pan. (Justbgot another hit.)
  21. champaignchris
    So does anyone else think this Rizzo guy might end up being pretty good?
  22. champaignchris
    Will be there. Clouds look ominous, though. Hope they get he game in.
  23. champaignchris
    No, he's throwing off a mound on Saturday and at best, makes one start before the ASG. So, another start for Volstad, or Coleman gets a shot, or do the off days make a four man rotation work for a week?
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    I assume this means that Dempster makes his next start.
  25. champaignchris
    Have you not heard about what is going to happen with IL next year? I knew IL play would go on year long. I didn't know each team would be playing 20 games. I was hoping there would be fewer not more IL games I'm hoping each team's IL games aren't bunched together. I don't want the Cubs spending a month playing IL games again. I suspect, as the Cubs are one of the few teams that have an actual IL rivalry, we'll be seeing a Cubs-WS series at the beginning or end of the season.
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