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  1. Jehrico
    Fixed. Just wait until the first designated fielder, who stands behind the pitcher until the ball is thrown, gets hit by a line drive after the pitcher ducks out of the way. He'll then be petitioning for a screen like the batting practice pitchers use. Soon enough, the Yankees will be seen taking the field in 10 man-sized hamster bubbles.
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    As far as I know, Penny has not looked anywhere close to right this year. Nope. he's been terrible and now has shoulder problems. It would be best to stay away from him. Agreed. His best days are behind him.
  3. Jehrico
    Bedard's numbers over his career have always dropped in the second half. He's been worse in the first half than he was before. Plus, his innings in the second half are down sharply from the first half due to injuries. I don't have confidence that he'll be healthy. If he does happen to be healthy, I don't have confidence that he won't decline in the second half as his career splits suggest. If he's not as good in the second half as he is right now, then there's no reason to predict he'll be amongst our top three at the end of the year. That's not loony at all.
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    or their players are actually good. no no, you're right, it's magic and pixie dust Please explain Tony Womack's 2004 season. Go ahead, try not to use pixie dust. I don't think any team has ever done as well as the Cardinals while having a quality starting rotation on the DL: Carpenter, Mulder, Wainwright, Clement, and Wellemeyer. If all of those guys are healthy, that's a mighty rotation. I doubt they'll ever see more than a handful of quality starts out of Carpenter, Mulder, and Clement though.
  5. Jehrico
    Dos Equis, green bottle.
  6. Jehrico
    Actually they had one in the mid 70s (Bill Madlock), but they were too stupid to keep him.I liked Ron Cey, but only because I was too young to realize he was mediocre at best by the time he played for us.
  7. Jehrico
    http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/story/10875177 First slam by an AL pitcher in 37 years, off of Santana no less... Unfortunately, he sprained his ankle covering home on a wild pitch in the 5th. Hopefully he'll be back quickly.
  8. Jehrico
    I'm stunned a Sox fan knew what OPS was. Many of them know what it is. It's figuring out that a higher OPS is better than lower is what gets them. They keep getting OPS and ERA backwards, they like higher ERAs too.
  9. Jehrico
    They're only 4.5 games out. I'm not sure why people think they want to trade their best pitcher. I'm also not sure why we'd be willing to give up much of anything for a guy who has averaged 15 starts per season over the last four years. Beane was burned on the Giambi deal, and he hasn't let another player walk via FA since. If he doesn't think he can afford to resign him in the offseason, he'll be dealt, unless they're looking like strong WS contenders, and not just a borderline playoff team. Zito walked via FA. Obviously Beane hasn't gotten burned in that deal so far but he still let Zito walk. He had no intentions of tendering him as he wasn't good at the end. Not the same.
  10. Jehrico
    I think the fact that he entered his prime in over the past 2-3 years has more to do with it, especially since his home/away splits over that time are very similar. Yeah, could be. But he only had one season of +.800 OPS before the Cubs, and since he's been there he's never been below .912 We got him when he was 24. He only had two seasons with over 300 at bats as he was just breaking into the league. He already had an .800 OPS season is a better way to look at it. Most players don't even get regular playing time until they're 24-25. Saying he only had one season with an OPS over .800 before he was 24 years old is kind of like bashing the Marlins organization in 1998 for only having one championship in their history.
  11. Jehrico
    I don't think it was Wrigley. He had an excellent year for Pitt when he was 22-23 (2001). The book got out on him and he was slow to adjust the next year. We picked him up late the next year after he had turned 25. I think he just matured and hit his prime years, and would have been good no matter where he was. As far as his home/away splits go, he was actually considerably better on the road in 2005, a little better in 2006, then changed to better at home in 2007. The phenomenom of his splits being better at home has only held true for a season and a half now.
  12. Jehrico
    He had to stop taking them for awhile, as witnessed by his horrible beginning last year. He fought it and won, if I recall correctly and started taking them again. He's been pretty solid ever since. I'm recalling this from memory, so someone correct me if I'm mistaken.
  13. Jehrico
    It's not that people were unhappy with drafting Cashner, they were unhappy with the strategy of taking a reliever with our first round pick, regardless of how close to MLB ready he is, when our overall farm system sucks right now.
  14. Jehrico
    I looked it up. It was a three year deal. Jocketty must really be hating Krivsky right now.
  15. Jehrico
    Me too. I was born & raised in the Chicago area (and as a Cub fan), but I guess now that I live in Texas I am nothing more than a tourist when I go back to Wrigley for games. Yep, me too. Just remember, you know nothing about baseball and just come to Wrigley to see women and drink beer. I was also born and raised in the greater Chicagoland area...I had no idea I'm now a tourist because I live elsewhere these days. What a joke...this is why it is impossible to pull for the other team in Chicago. I dealt with the same stuff growing up. It never changes Could it be we're all "tourists" now because we were part of the generation that grew up watching the Cubs on WGN, and now we're all grown up with jobs living in other places?
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    How long of a contract did he get? If it's only one year, I'm surprised there's no rumor of him being on the hot seat. If I'm Jocketty, I didn't hire him and I don't want him around my kids. He'd be gone already. There would have been four managers canned last week. He may be under instructions to allow him to last the year since they don't have any expectations of competing this year anyways. The Reds have enough pieces in place to be scary in another year or two, so I'd like to see Dusty keep hanging around there in the mean time.
  17. Jehrico
    It's amazing that 114 runs nets us only 6.5 games in the standings over them.
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    That, and you have a few teams that should be doing better. Philly, for example, is 2-7. Florida and AZ should be doing better as well. But yeah, the rest of the NL West accounts for almost all of that. The Pads and Giants are a combined 5-19.
  19. Jehrico
    If Hill has concentration problems, then maybe he needs ADD meds like Eyre. They turned Eyre's career around.
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    Consider what team's fan base he's talking about, and I'm quite certain someone will take it seriously.
  21. Jehrico
    Scuba Steve, damn you!! If that's the answer, then the question was worded wrong.
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    I looked it up.
  23. Jehrico
    I'm going to guess Pie and maybe a pitcher. How about Marshall? He hit one in '06 or '07 if I recall correctly.
  24. Jehrico
    Back to the original post (will anyone on the sox ever shut up?), the answer to that question is either "today" or "never."
  25. Jehrico
    I was looking forward to interleague play this year, as I thought the NL had a pretty good chance at beating the AL and proving the belief that the AL is the superior league wrong. I totaled up the interleague records, and the AL is up 96-71. I can't see the NL closing that gap before the end of interleague play. Maybe next year...
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