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i love it when ryan loses his mind

i think a team that was fun bad would hit a lot, play terrible defense, and have an awful bullpen. lots and lots of leads blown in the late innings in comical ways. "oops we lost 2-1 to paul maholm" is not fun bad.

i see the cubs less as "fun bad" and more as "stop paying attention to the team and don't watch the games bad." i'll probably be mad at myself for tuning out on this season come january, but it's really not even a question. this team isn't fun at all.

You kind of proved my point. Strasburg has been fantastic since he's been up. So has Boesch. Of course Strasburg has the higher career ceiling by far, but if you're going to put him in after only 7 career starts, how can you pass on Boesch after 60-some career games when he's been great, too. For those who don't know, through 53 games Boesch is .330/.389/.621 with 12 HR and 43 RBI. "For those who don't know" illustrates perfectly why he's not a candidate for the ASG. So even though he's put up really good stats in the 1/3rd of a year since he's been up, as has Strasburg, Boesch shouldn't get in because he doesn't have the hype or the media following? Welp, I guess that eliminates Gallardo and Greinke. if you took 11 OF or whatever, I'm sure they might be able to find a place for Boesch. AND NOW STARTING AT LEFT BLIMP, BRENNAN BOESCH

After his move to the bullpen, I don't think I'd be surprised with anything the Cubs tried to do with him. So, Steve Stone is saying that Zambrano sucks as a pitcher and has no more value (which is close to being accurate), so you might as well get the most out of him by letting him try to hit on a team that can't drive in a run to save their collective lives? I'm not sure I have a problem with that. I think Steve is trying to take a little jab at the organization, which it deserves. come on, there are tons of problems with that. ONE there's no reason to write zambrano off as finished as a pitcher. his era in games that aren't the first game of the season this year is 4.49. he'd be right in line to have a fairly typical (if slightly down) carlos zambrano-type year if we'd just be smart enough to let him pitch every fifth day the rest of the way. TWO turning pitchers into position players is going to make our team hit less, not more. THREE you don't "get the most out of him" by forcing him to make bizarre and drastic position changes after he's been in the league ten years. that's how you guarantee you never get anything worthwhile out of him again. FOUR shut up

if the cubs were cool they'd fire piniella and bring up sandberg right now. burn through him this year, say it didn't work out, and then move along to someone reasonable for next year. let's get some good out of this terrible team. although, now that i say that, he'd probably pull a tyler colvin and be good in a season that doesn't matter for exactly as long as it takes to get us to make him a major part of our future plans.

zambrano yells at people in the dugout like three times a year, who cares. i won't try to justify his hr/9, but i don't really care too much about this sort of thing.

that was not the game for everyone in america to be watching if soccer wants to catch on here to a greater extent. holy god is watching people fall down for no reason annoying. and the extra time thing is a mess. i thoroughly enjoyed my world cup experience, but there's little doubt that i won't watch another soccer game in the next four years.

that's a relatively inexpensive team you have there. i really hope the budget doesn't go that low.

strike 3 is better

used to rake in april now it's june, so not

he posts on the board the right way. and he always shows up, he's so consistant

onion news network (soccer is a joke) (double on tondra)

Len and Bob said in tonight's game that A-Ram will be back Friday. He will be working with Rudy Jaramillo in the meantime. WHAT! Noway! Everybody has told me that ARam is above working with Jaramillo, so that can't be true. he probably meant to say "working over," in the sense that aramis will be fighting him to make sure he never tries to coach him again

you're about to become a spectator

How could one accurately say they KNOW they are not? But yet you are saying just that. All I know is the pressure on the Cubs is a) different, and b) probably greater than that faced by a "typical" team/player. How that does or doesn't impact play is impossible to know. Common sense dictates otherwise. Baseball players on playoff teams are under enormous pressure regardless of what team they're on. It's ridiculous to think that in the split second a player has to deal with the play at hand is more likely to fail because they're playing for the Cubs and are inexplicably going to be overloaded by the pressure of playing for them more so than playing for any other team. But it's reasonable to think that in the split second a player has to deal with the play at hand is more likely to fail because they're playing in October and are inexplicably going to be overloaded by the pressure of playing then more so than playing in June? Basically you're dismissing the notion that pressure of any kind influences on-field play. You could be right but it's the minority opinion. If, on the other hand, one believes pressure can impact play, then it stands to reason that the Cubs players are impacted more than a typical player because of the 100+ year thing. tim's a busy guy so he probably won't be through here to post it, but he used to have a well-phrased reply to this sort of argument about how the real pressure in baseball is in high school and college and the minors when you're trying to establish yourself and scouts are watching. if you do well, you get to be a millionaire; if you do poorly, you get to be a mechanic's assistant. he said it a lot better and more convincingly, but the gist of it is there.

I'm sure you feel you've got a good reason to dislike Manute Bol, but why would you wish a heart so large that it constituted 3/4 of that person's body weight on anyone? Maybe it's because I've seen too many people die with the disease, but I don't find any kind of "humor" in this. Dislike someone all you want, but don't wish Overlarge Heart-to-Total-Body-Weight Ratio Syndrome on anyone.

this guy here is dead

those ucla uni's suck

oh no, don't sterilize the fratty douche bars in wrigleyville WHERE WILL I LISTEN TO JAY SEAN

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=388443&src=152 apparently heavily relying on scouts doesn't produce players that perform in a pennant race either. this is the smartest move hendry's ever made. we're not going to be in a pennant race before like 2015, so the guys the stats guru finds us should fit in nicely for the next few years.

i honestly wish colvin had gotten off to the bad start we all know he should have. this is entirely predicated on my belief that he's no good, but man is it annoying to listen to people who think he's amazing. if it turns out this is the real guy and i'm wrong, fantastic, but if it's not, we'd all be a lot better off if he wasn't hitting in this waste of a season.

colvin needs two platoon partners

Haha, I love how Lou says "notice how when Wells gets into trouble hes pitching from the stretch". Well Lou, its hard to get into trouble while pitching from the windup when nobody is on base...... He jut means that Wells has pitched much worse with runners on than nobody on. Nobody on: .256/.304/.375 Runners on: .353/.389/.496 Kind of a chicken and egg thing going on there, no? If a guy's pitching well, his slash stats will be good and consequently there won't be many guys on base. The slash stats aren't good because nobody's on base though. Nobody on: .256/.304/.375

Haha, I love how Lou says "notice how when Wells gets into trouble hes pitching from the stretch". Well Lou, its hard to get into trouble while pitching from the windup when nobody is on base...... He jut means that Wells has pitched much worse with runners on than nobody on. Nobody on: .256/.304/.375 Runners on: .353/.389/.496 Kind of a chicken and egg thing going on there, no? If a guy's pitching well, his slash stats will be good and consequently there won't be many guys on base. The slash stats aren't good because nobody's on base though. Nobody on: .256/.304/.375