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who does anymore?

Prior bears an eerie resemblance to my brother in that picture. :? That is Prior, isn't it? Seen your brother around?

Where's the hindsight being applied? I still haven't any valid comparison between the two pitchers, the #1 thing they have in common besides being a RHP SP is they both played for the Cards. thus the "When in Rome" and "catch-22" comments that followed

I'd like it.

Stop undermining me. that was my bargaining chip. Sanders, your daughter can have $100k if she wins a Gold Glove.

ooo yeah i forgot about that one. good call. It keeps that scalpers from getting all the bleachers, in case you guys were wondering. Or, it tries to.

closer to a thousand, usually. Last year I was ~750 away and I was done at 9:40 If your wristband's been cut and put back on, they'll kick you out of line. If you don't have a credit card with your name on it, they'll kick you out of line. Even if you are paying with cash? I don't remember them checking my credit card, but I could be mistaken. You can use cash too. If you're using a credit card, they'll want to see it and sign off on it before they let you go to the window, though.

Christ, he's got the form of my 4 year old daughter. I would like to offer your daughter a 3 year contract for $11.5 million

While there's a likely chance that Marquis will improve over his '06 numbers, it makes no sense to include Carpenter as a point of reference. Marquis has been healthy his entire career unlike Carpenter and Marquis doesn't have the FB, curve, control, or command of Carpenter. check out cc's walk totals with toronto. And look where he's at now. Carpenter gets healthy and goes to one of the best pitching coaches in the game and finally gets to the point where his production matches his stuff and excels. Marquis doesn't have the stuff and has already been through 2 of the better pitching coaches over the last 20 years while healthy and producing flucuating results. Different styles of pitchers with different talent levels under different circumstances of trying to rebound. I don't see any similarity that has value. hindsight is a wonderful thing. When in Rome... catch-22

well.....tearing down the manual scoreboard and putting up a jumbotron would be a big step in the "ruining the mystique" direction. I think i would be more pissed if they replaced the organ with obnoxious piped in music than anything else. Penn State football games are nearly unbearable during pregame warmups, etc. The music is SOOOO loud. I'm pretty sure it's on some sort of historic register and can't be torn down.

While there's a likely chance that Marquis will improve over his '06 numbers, it makes no sense to include Carpenter as a point of reference. Marquis has been healthy his entire career unlike Carpenter and Marquis doesn't have the FB, curve, control, or command of Carpenter. check out cc's walk totals with toronto. And look where he's at now. Carpenter gets healthy and goes to one of the best pitching coaches in the game and finally gets to the point where his production matches his stuff and excels. Marquis doesn't have the stuff and has already been through 2 of the better pitching coaches over the last 20 years while healthy and producing flucuating results. Different styles of pitchers with different talent levels under different circumstances of trying to rebound. I don't see any similarity that has value. hindsight is a wonderful thing. Well that statement didn't make any sense

No, the difference between the two extremes is half a run, it appears. So compared to average he lowered his ERA by ~.25

You disgust.... Tim Hardaway

That's true-and there was an article lately that had the difference between a good hitting pitcher and a poor hitting pitcher as something like .4 ERA, right? I think that was about the difference-it was somewhere in between .3 and .6 extra value that a good hitting pitcher brought to a team over a really poor hitting one. I'm interested and would like a link.

Well colour me upset.

"Arching back, the leftfielder can only stare from next to the Under Armor sign as the ball CLEARS the Bud Light Bleachers and HITS THE BUDWEISER HOUSE. Oh my goodness! I haven't seen a homer hit that far here at Wrigley since before the Sears videoboards went up! I hope he doesn't just sit down next to the Walter E. Smithe signs in the dugout, and comes back for a curtain call! Southwest Airlines measures that one at 510 feet."

I edited my post-I didn't read your post on DERA or NRA until after I had finished my post, and as I said in that post, I'd need to know the exact calculations that went into it before attaching the credibility to I that it probably deserves. Which means you'll be coming back to admit he's not a league average pitcher in 3...2....1...

I had no idea you were British/Canadian

Jason Marquis's sinkerball is carried to the plate by fairies 45% of the time.

closer to a thousand, usually. Last year I was ~750 away and I was done at 9:40 If your wristband's been cut and put back on, they'll kick you out of line. If you don't have a credit card with your name on it, they'll kick you out of line.

Can we get a picture of Kerry lying crumpled in a grotesque position next to a hot tub please?

i think we have a pretty good idea of what wrigley used to look like. And there weren't ads? Maybe, maybe not. But there definitely weren't lights. Or luxury suites. Or electronic scoreboards. Or TV's in the grandstands. I guess Wrigley has been ruined for decades now. the "good old days" had a bunch of games with 8,000 people in attendance with games being called due to darkness Oh, how I wish I could go back and live in those days. The bathrooms were probably pretty close to the same though

\ i'm guessing bruised ribs is pretty common. Collisions, bean balls, falling out of hot tubs, and such. fixed

well, no, no it isn't. because, see, when you step into Wrigley, it's still actually 2007, not 1933. It's not a museum. The truth is, the Cubs have been extremely great about not simply tearing it down and building a luxury-suit riddled throwback park in Naperville, as that would actually keep them up with the other teams (as far as park revenue). let's not act like the cubs are doing us any big favors. these ads are embarrassing. our pristine ballpark is becoming a parody of its former self, and people like you are stepping up and telling others the cubs are being nice to us. as soon as the cubs figure out a way to swing it so that people won't get mad and they won't lose money, they'll start working on a new ballpark. I guess you haven't noticed how just about every other team in baseball has built a new ballpark, including the recently announced plans for a new yankee stadium. The Cubs are indeed doing us a favor by only putting Under Armor logos on the doors and not building Tribune Park out in Batavia As soon as they figure out how to move without losing the Lincoln Park beergarden crowd and pissing off half their fanbase , they will. These ads are just little steps towards that day. That's going to be pretty tough to figure out. They've already laid the groundwork with their contentious relationship with the neighborhood. The city isn't helping much either by declaring Wrigley a land mark, making any renovations more burdensome. The Cubs have had a contentious relationship with the city and neighborhood for years. This is nothing new. How are you going to turn Cubs fans against Wrigley? People are saying "as soon as they can figure out how to not piss off the fans." How exactly are they going to do this? The fact is, if you put last year's team in some new ballpark in the burbs, the Cubs probably cut their attendance by a third. The Tribune company knows this. They put an ad on the outfield doors. Let's not lose are mind about how the park is now a parody and this is the first step in moving the Cubs. True, the attendance would have been down last year-the attendance would probably be up overall if they went to a new ballpark though. I'm not advocating them going to a new ballpark whatsoever, but it probably would improve average attendance numbers. I don't think it would. The Cubs are perennially 6th in total attendance. It's not because they are good. If they built a larger stadium in the burbs and have teams as bad as they recently have had, I doubt they would match Wrigley's attendance numbers. the Cubs are 6th in attendance because they sell out a 38,000 seat park. If they had a 45,000 seat park, the % of tickets sold could go down but the overall attendance could go up Agreed, but you'd be losing a ton of people that live in the city and go to games due to the location of the park. a TON. Plus all of the pilgrimagers

Within 15 minutes of UMFan83 making this post, it has been announced that Kerry Wood fell out of a hot tub and bruised his ribs and is out 4-6 days