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  1. Lefty
    Two quick rules. If the Wild Card and best record come out of the same division, the playoff matchups are the same. And if there is a division tie, there is no playoff if with the tied record is good enough for the Wild Card. There is an increasing liklihood that the Padres will have nothing to play for in Milwaukee next week. Considering we went 3-5 versus the Padres, that kinda stinks. We need Arizona to win, the Padres to lose. The Mets to lose and the Phillies to win. That makes the Padres strictly Wild Card contenders and bunches them up with the NL East also ran, whoever that is. But if Arizona opens up a little lead and the Padres stay up in the Wild Card, then the D'Backs will probably have home field and locking the Padres up against the NL East winner. At that point the Padres will have no incentive either. In such a close race the difference between the San Diego Padres and the Portland Beavers over four games is huge. Do any Bear fans out there remember the 1991 season finale as the Buffalo Bills second string lost to the Lions? I am getting that feeling.
  2. Lefty
    Good God keep Drew away....14 mill for 8 hrs and 52 RBIs....who is just as likely to get hurt as stay healthy...no thanks. I'll agree with your numbers on Drew. Obviously I think he would bounce back, and the BoSox would have to pay up, but the burden of proof would be on me. The injury criticism, however, is old and cold. Looked up Hermida's splits. No big platoon difference this year, and hitting almost 100 points higher on the road than at home. Thought I heard grumbling about him over the summer. He's probably too good to be true for us.
  3. Lefty
    I'd like Hermida in RF. I think he is exactly what we need offensively if he develops. While we could figure out what the Marlins get back, I don't know if they have soured on him enough to trade him. Would the Red Sox trade Drew? Would they pay some of his salary and dump him for little in return? I'm a romantic.
  4. Lefty
    They better win because no one can figure out who the Cubs have in the game.
  5. Lefty
    Cards have cut it to 12-11 in eighth.
  6. Lefty
    They're saving Ward so a homer would matter. Cart before the horse.
  7. Lefty
    I've already entered a Cub loss into my "common opponents" Excel Spreadsheet. Cubs now trail Brewers by 1 game. The Cubs big chance to make up ground will be if the Braves can kick the Brewers this weekend.
  8. Lefty
    The Reds have that effect on people Don't you mean the Cubs?
  9. Lefty
    I'd like to thank all of you following the game for posting. This must have been what the telegraph was like before radio.
  10. Lefty
    So much for checking the ESPN ticker three hours after gametime. Now I have to suffer some more.
  11. Lefty
    I think the Brewers are gonna win this thing. It's not like we didn't have chances though. The Cubs don't seem quite good enough to win even this lousy division. Just glad the Cards won't win it I guess.
  12. Lefty
    Tied for first, and in first by percentage points LOL Eh? Cubs and Brewers have the exact same record right now. First by way of head to head record LOL!!! If we tie there will be a playoff since the Wild Card ain't coming out of the Central.
  13. Lefty
    Is he this year's Gary Gaetti? Off-day at home on the 20th is my bet. Or maybe Hendry can announce it live on a game broadcast.
  14. Lefty
    No days off rest of the year. And the day/night DH against the Cubs. Roster expansion should help them at the margins, but isn't this good news for us?
  15. Lefty
    I believe Karl Pagel in 1979. That worked out.
  16. Lefty
    Bob Wickman? (I am not wishing, I am merely playing my drink-binge game "Think Like Hendry")
  17. Lefty
    You can still post links to old threads so people can go back and reread them. OK I'll do it after I Shop-Vac my basement. But the Cubs will non-tender Prior.
  18. Lefty
    That is interesting. I thought that the consensus around here was that the Cubs would surely keep him after his surgery to see what he still has. Is there a chance that Prior will get non-tendered? My theory is that we've thrown enough money his way, we might as well do it for one more year and see what he has got. No. I wrote months ago here that he would be non-tendered and took some guff. It's a shame all those old threads are locked. I don't want to go through my impeccable reasoning again.
  19. Lefty
    That's what the market is saying. But the company has already bought their chunk of stock back at $34. Will they let Zell take that much money off the table? I think Hendry is right at home with this company.
  20. Lefty
    The problem for the Trib has always been the huge Capital Gain hit it would take on a Cub sale. Now that the stock is below where it was before any talk of a sale, I wonder if they could "reissue" the shares they bought at $34 for $23-$25, book the difference as a loss, and then sell the Cubs in what would amount to a tax-free transaction. Would the new stock be "substantially similar?" I know there are accountants and lawyers out there who can answer this.
  21. Lefty
    But they are.
  22. Lefty
    I don't know. The point of the thread is that there might not be new owners.
  23. Lefty
    LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Tribune Co. (TRB: News, Quote) dropped another 3.5% in midday trading Tuesday as concerns mounted that a dismal ad revenue situation might thwart the deal to take the newspaper giant private. Shares fell 90 cents to $24.87 in recent action, now putting the company's shares at nearly $10 a share below the planned sale price of Tribune. Real estate mogul Sam Zell is supposed to close a deal to take Tribune private for $8.2 billion, or $34 a share.
  24. Lefty
    We are using 1998 for both, right? Olerud made 385 outs, creating 9.61 runs per 27 outs. Sosa 480 and 8.82. And Sosa's OPS was slightly higher. The runs created formulas are what should be used. But most of us don't tote those around with us or can quickly calculate them on the spot. When confronted with OPS your response must be quick. SLG*OBP is something most of us can handle.
  25. Lefty
    But OBP*SLG*ABs approximates Runs. So it would seem easy to compare two players by adjusting Runs for outs used. Two .800 OPS guys, one .400 OBP and one .300 OBP, the .400 guy would create more runs and would use fewer outs.
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