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  1. MWV
    I remember Brenly complaining about Soriano's hustle last week vs. the Nats. He was upset that Soriano didn't run hard out of the box on a pop-up with one out and men on 1st and 2nd. That pop-up fell in and Sori wound up on 3rd. Apparently, Brenly wanted to see him thrown out going for an inside-the-parker. Brenly gives a voice to the least informed, scapegoating element of the fan base.
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    No stopping the Quade-Squad.
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    Having lived ~6 years in Milwaukee and ~5 years in St. Louis, I would place Milwaukee above STL. Milwaukee is by no means perfect, but it has a lovely lakefront and a number of neighborhoods in which one can live reasonably and safely without owning a car. St. Louis, on the other hand, offers all of the unpleasantness of an urban environment with very few of the perks. By comparison, the public transit is awful in St. Louis and the downtown is a husk of its former self (and by former self I mean circa the 1904 world's fair). St. Louis is less a city than it is a collection of suburbs clustered around a lifeless urban core that would be entirely abandoned were it not for a baseball park.
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    NL MVP is Votto. When was the last time a league MVP didn't start the ASG?
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    The Reds are visiting LA this weekend. Don't discount the possibility that Brandon Phillips sasses them back into the playoff picture.
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    It would still be quite a feat: They'd have to play like .250 ball the rest of the way to do it. They're in a terrible streak right now, but I'm sure they'll have a streak yet this year where they win 4 or 5 in a row and foul it up. Considering that the Cubs have enjoyed 4 consecutive wins only twice this season (most recently May 16-19) and 5 consecutive wins are yet to occur in 2010, I think it entirely reasonable that this Cubs team can be the first since 1966 to lose 100 plus games.
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    Hendry has Colvin in a keeper league. He's just trying to expand his positional availability.
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    Too late now. Felipe Alou will never forgive you.
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    Meanwhile, among everyone else there is profound disappointment with a front office that blew $146 million on a team that may well lose 95 games.
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    Cameron is done for the season and Ellsbury may be as well. While Kalish may well a long term OF solution, I wonder if the Sox might have renewed interest in Fukudome? I assume he has cleared/will clear waivers?
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    If the Cubs sign Dunn, I'll be willing to overlook that the move was predicated upon an irrational fascination with "handedness".
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    My brother goes to school at UW and is holding down a summer job at the Rathskeller. He just called to tell me that he is tapping pitchers for Burish and Co. who are drinking them from the cup. 10 feet from the immortal Lord Stanley. I'm a little jealous.
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    Following up on an earlier fangraphs post regarding Castro, his 111 OPS+ currently places him 3rd on the all-time list for age 20 seasons from a SS behind ARod and Arky Vaughan. Thanks for giving me a reason to remain interested the 2010 Cubs, Starlin.
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    John Rooney was acting like they won the World Series because he's a Cardinals fan. That may be the case, but its not my point; my point is that over his 20 plus years of broadcasting, Rooney has called pretty much every home run hit by his employing team in such a manner. Case in point, the 2005 White Sox winning an actual World Series game: "A swing, and a high fly ball, deep right center field. This is way back in the gap. And it's a goner! A White Sox winner!" Rooney has always had the same obnoxious, adenoidal homerun call irrespective of who he's working for, which is to say that I don't think he was intentionally trying to be antagonistic towards Cubs fans. He's just an awful announcer that's been brutal to listen to for decades.
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    Tell you what, the next time there's a Cubs walkoff HR I bet that the Cubs player gets mobbed at home and Santo goes nuts on the radio. Would you like to bet against that? One minor quibble with your Santo/Rooney comparison: Rooney has been screaming "It's a goner!!!" and/or "That's a Cardinals/White Sox winner!!" for decades (the former often emphatically exclaimed irrespective of game situation) and regardless of his team affiliation. Ron Santo is a huge homer who gets excited when the Cubs win, while John Rooney is a terrible baseball announcer who gets excited when he is given the opportunity to spout one of his trademark catchphrases, which he presumably thinks are witty. That having been said, Rooney was "acting like they won the World Series" because he's an obnoxious broadcaster, not because he's part of some organization-wide effort by the Cardinals to be arrogant.
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    Solid 1st start from Tom Diamond: 6IP 7H 3R 3BB 10K. I'm somewhat shocked that Lou allowed him to throw 122 pitches, though.
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    Fits the Cards M.O. Pick up a guy who's putting up pedestrian numbers immediately following major arm surgery.
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    If this should be farewell, thanks for everything Ted Lilly.
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    No. I think you're mistaken in what you think you're seeing since the ball hits the wall well below the foul below the foul pole and the HR line. I figured as much. Thanks.
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    I didn't get to see last night's game, but I had a look at a few replays this morning. Was the question ever raised as to whether Geo's 2R double was in fact a HR? In the replay footage, the ball appears to collide with the base of the foul pole: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=10292845&query=%26game_pk%3D265297 Was this reviewed/discussed?
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    Rumor has it the Cubs would be willing to eat part of Fukudome's contract in a trade: http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/07/cubs-willing-to-eat-part-of-fukudome-contract.html
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    Nady's K rate at 24% and rising.
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    Youth movement, baby!
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    Two excellent ABs from colvin. Keep proving me wrong, jerk.
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