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  1. Jehrico
    We still have a tendancy to play down to our competition at times, let's hope they've put most of that behind them. Not more than any other of the elite teams in baseball. I don't care about the other good teams out there. I don't want to see our guys get shut down again by John freaking Karstens or anyone like that.
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    Just do what I do and stay pessimistic. It's more familiar, and not only will you not be surprised if the collapse comes, but you'll be pleasantly surprised if the crash never happens. Win/win. Exactly. Stay in your comfort zone.
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    We still have a tendancy to play down to our competition at times, let's hope they've put most of that behind them.
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    Please tell me you can appreciate the difference between someone setting the all-time record for hits in a season and Juan Pierre scratching out 200 hits. Those two feats are nowhere near comparable.
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    Great find! I hope he updates it for the NL OF/1B soon.
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    I really doubt the Pirates are sitting around plotting to sabotage the Cubs. The Cardinals and Cubs have such a rivalry, fine, maybe something between them in such a situation, but such a thing doesn't seem too likely here. I don't think they're doing that either. But that was still the first thought that came to my mind...
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    Doubtful Lous not that dumb when it comes to the linuep. Once we clinch then yes you will probably see more Hoff, until then you wont. Lou is pretty big on giving guys rest from time to time, especially down the stretch. He isn't enamored with Ward as an option to give Lee some needed rest, and Lou does like Hoff. He would have been recalled already if there was an easy answer of who to send down for him. I think we'll see some of Hoffpauir when he comes up. Lou even got him time in RF when he was up here before, that should tell you what Lou thinks of him. I know he's not a .951 OPS guy, but putting that up in the limited time he got means he didn't do anything to lower Lou's opinion of him. Yea Lou is big on rest, but hes also big on letting his veterans play thru their slump. During the middle of a playoff race he isnt going to bench Lee in favor of Hoff. Its just not going to happen, nor should it. There's a difference between benching and resting. Lou won't bench him. My best guess is Hoff will get 2-3 starts (maybe not all at first) before we clinch, and half or more after.
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    Howry was. The others were worse, but he still let them score in his one inning of work.
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    I was a little irked when I saw they were throwing him against us and Gorz against Milwaukee. The first thought that came to mind was in '03 or '04 when some of the Cards players were saying they were rooting for the Stros to make the playoffs over us. CCP, thanks for the info, that's some good info there. I wonder how it's going to affect their use of their pen playing it that way.
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    Doubtful Lous not that dumb when it comes to the linuep. Once we clinch then yes you will probably see more Hoff, until then you wont. Lou is pretty big on giving guys rest from time to time, especially down the stretch. He isn't enamored with Ward as an option to give Lee some needed rest, and Lou does like Hoff. He would have been recalled already if there was an easy answer of who to send down for him. I think we'll see some of Hoffpauir when he comes up. Lou even got him time in RF when he was up here before, that should tell you what Lou thinks of him. I know he's not a .951 OPS guy, but putting that up in the limited time he got means he didn't do anything to lower Lou's opinion of him.
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    Gorzelsucky was recalled from AAA and inserted into the rotation today, getting the start instead of Karstens. Karstens is being pushed back to Monday to throw the opener against us. Anyone have an inside scoop on why they decided to throw the inferior pitcher today against the crew and are bumping Karstens back to face us (not that he's any good either, but he did have a good start against us last time...)?
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    imb?
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    Anyone want to change their vote?
  14. Jehrico
    One comment to add on Josh Hamilton...the real complaint here is that we didn't take the flier on him in the draft (which should be the real complaint, not the part about him getting traded to Cincy, as we wouldn't have traded him if Jim ever thought about drafting him with that pick in the first place), then this falls into the category of every other draftee. Every team has passed on guys who eventually became great players in favor of busts in every draft. It's like crying over split milk. You can't really complain about individual draft decisions, you have to look at them in aggregate over several years and see if you're behind the pack or not. I won't complain about Hamilton based on that one move. It's even harder to complain about the Rule 5 draft, because you have to put the guy on the 25 man roster, so there's little room for error like the regular draft.
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    Bigomy? Why does bigomy get such a bad rap? You're married, right? You should know firsthand why no man should have two wives. One is bad enough. Why we need a law against it is beyond me. Should be common sense.
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    NUN needs to get you to talk to his dad, you seem to speak his language, just with the opposite viewpoint.
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    I credit the rest of the division being horrible. 88 wins isn't really something to get impressed by, especially when that team was probably capable of better. Last night's game against the Reds reminded me of every reason I'm glad Baker is no longer here. Terrible fundamentals, over-management of the bullpen.....sorry Reds fans If you listened to Baker talk though he mentioned quite often on how he brought his "winning attitude" to Chicago. I suppose mentioning how bad of a manager he is like hitting a golf ball off of a ship and hoping it'll hit water, it's just too easy. Remember when he used to talk about how "fundamentally sound" his teams ALWAYS were? I recall Bruce saying that Lou's guys were out there working on stuff and are a hard working group of coaches while Dusty's did little or nothing, it shows in the results. Baker's teams were never ready coming out of spring training, and fundamentally sound are two words I wouldn't ever use to describe the 03-06 Cubs. But that wasn't because of Dusty. His teams are always fundamentally sound! That's because those Cubs teams were Hendrys teams, not his... :grin:
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    Bandwagon fans from after 2005 who haven't updated their accounts in awhile.
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    I credit the rest of the division being horrible. 88 wins isn't really something to get impressed by, especially when that team was probably capable of better. Last night's game against the Reds reminded me of every reason I'm glad Baker is no longer here. Terrible fundamentals, over-management of the bullpen.....sorry Reds fans If you listened to Baker talk though he mentioned quite often on how he brought his "winning attitude" to Chicago. I suppose mentioning how bad of a manager he is like hitting a golf ball off of a ship and hoping it'll hit water, it's just too easy. Remember when he used to talk about how "fundamentally sound" his teams ALWAYS were? I recall Bruce saying that Lou's guys were out there working on stuff and are a hard working group of coaches while Dusty's did little or nothing, it shows in the results. Baker's teams were never ready coming out of spring training, and fundamentally sound are two words I wouldn't ever use to describe the 03-06 Cubs.
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    If he played for a bunch of crappy Atl teams like they had throughout the 80s, he'd be Bert Blyleven.
  21. Jehrico
    Actually, there is no stalemate. It's been resolved. Some people just refuse to believe the truth. I guess I missed it, what was the resolution? I am right. :) Well I knew that from the beginning :-). Still confused from the other 20 posts that had nothing useful what so ever. There's like 10 people arguing totally different arguments against each other here. I was arguing with Ping about the absolute cost of Dunn's propensity to K, while he was talking about how being more aggressive early in the count would benefit him. There's a few other arguments taking different angles going on simultaneously. People are arguing, not always with each other. This has morphed into a very wierd thread.
  22. Jehrico
    Yeah, but what they gave up last time was addition by subtraction. They got Maddux to boot.
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    Or 2B, 3B, CF, or C. I'll take my chances with a few sluggers, a few of great hitters (by my definition), and a few singles hitters over 8 Dunns, especially if they have to play the field. The 8 Dunns would score 18 runs one game and score nothing for the next two games as they strike out 20 times in each game. i never get this argument that a lineup full of dunns (or whatever strikeout prone slugger) would be inconsistent. is it based just on the fact that he strikes out a lot? because that would be stupid. We'd probably see the first 21 K game pitched in a loss though. Dunn's 3 typical results are: HR, BB, or K. I think you'd see 27Ks, with about 6-7 runs scored on any given game.
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    He'd still kill every young arm he could, just for fun, dude. Give him a rotation with 5 Livan Hernandezes and see what he could do. Man, that would be ugly in a number of ways.
  25. Jehrico
    How many times have you encountered his niceness? Heh. Just twice. You've only met him twice? That sounds like a small sample size... ;)
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