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  1. CubmanPi
    ^^^^ What everyone else said ^^^^ That's so awful :(
  2. CubmanPi
    I haven't dug around to see if this has been pointed out already, but this brings the Bears' September win total to within one game of the Cubs'. Sundays are way too far apart. :(
  3. CubmanPi
    What's lost in the shuffle is that the Astros pitcher that day, Shane Reynolds, pitched an 8 inning CG with 1 earned run and 10 K's. The 30 combined strikeouts that game might just be a major league record. Great thread. I haven't googled this yet, but my instinct tells me that the record is 33, and that Randy Johnson was involved. I'm pretty sure he was in AZ, so this could have been a record at the time. I remember watching a little bit of his ML debut in Montreal (was this the same game that Kent Bottenfield beaned Andy Stankowiecz (sp?) in the face?) and wondering if he was going to be any good, then coming home from school on May 6 and seeing him being interviewed after a game in which he apparently had 15 Ks thru seven. I was always a very openly stated Cubs fan, but this was the exact day I bacame the hopeless mess I am today. EDIT -- I still haven't found anything definitive on the combined Ks in a game. There was a game in 97 in which 33 people from both the A's and Angels K'd in a 15-inning game (this tied a record, one which I again couldn't find), but that's not quite the same thing. I'm very curious now. I'm also hoping that the number 33 didn't come to mind because of Kerry Wood's 2-game K total thanks to striking out 13 in his following start.
  4. CubmanPi
    If buying the ring is what it takes, do it. However, the Yankees and their $200M payroll haven't been too successful in obtaining a ring the last few years, so "buy a ring" doesn't really sound like surefire bet, particularly when considering the guys calling the shots around here.
  5. CubmanPi
    You just made my day.
  6. CubmanPi
    Well, they just said Robinson was named the best defensive catcher in the Tigers' organization last year. So he probably can't hit, but hey Blanco won't be here forever. 319 AB, 92 H, 22 2b, 1 hr, 47 rbi, 6 sb, 72 so, .338obp, .367slg, .288 avg OK........ So then Detroit's insane. The guy has good D and at least passable O, and they handed him to us for the human no-playoff guarantee. :lol: hey hey hey, Neifi was CRITICAL in getting the Cubs into the playoffs! He was just playing for another team when he did it. So now he's where he's most useful to the Cubs - on another team!!
  7. CubmanPi
    Also remember that Hendry payed WAY over market value for Neifi, so the odds of his departure before his contract ends after next season are slim to none.
  8. CubmanPi
    Cool, thanks for clearing that up. I asked the guys who worked in the office how it worked, and they had no clue. Moving the entire roster and team seemed like the only logical way to fit the scenario, it just seemed to me like minor league affiliations change frequently enough to make the effort somewhat impractical, so I wasn't sure. Apparently it's not so impractical.
  9. CubmanPi
    I live in Augusta, GA, and I have seen at least 10-15 Augusta Greenjackets games every year for the last five years. Until this season, they have been the Class A affiliate of the BoSox, but now they are a Giants affiliate of the same level. I was in the team office buying group tickets today, and I learned that they were affiliated with the Pirates before they were a Sox team. They had little figures around the office of known active Major Leaguers who have played for them in the past (Tony Womack, Jason Kendall, Moises Alou, Tim Wakefield), and seeing these figures got me wondering the question I'm getting at with all this: How does a change in minor league affiliation affect their rosters and the affiliations of the players on those teams that change? If Jason Kendall played two years for Augusta, and the second year he played for them was the year that Augusta's affiliation changed from the Pirates to the Red Sox, would Kendall still play for Augusta and become a Red Sox minor league prospect, or would the Pirates organization move him to the equivalent-level affiliate with which Pittsburgh replaced Augusta? If the Pirates move Kendall to another team within their organization, do they do that for the affiliate's entire roster, or just the ones that are important to them?
  10. CubmanPi
    I can't cheer against the cobs either, but I can't whole-heartedly cheer for them either, because I know that any wins they get will not be the start of their .800 baseball comeback they need to salvage the season, but rather the difference between an 8-12 stretch and a 4-16 stretch. This is why my extent of caring has evolved to complete apathy. I check Cubs.com once a day to see how many runs they lost by this time, then I lurk on the board to commiserate with the only community of people in this world who hates the Cubs as much as I do.
  11. CubmanPi
    If the Cubs get no hits he won't throw 97 pitches. I thought about that, but I figure the 13 Ks will run his pitch count up little. If he only Ks 5 or 6, then I predict his pitch count will be somewhere in the upper 60s or low 70s.
  12. CubmanPi
    If there were ever a time in baseball history where a pitcher hurling a perfect game were predictable and likely, this would be it. I'm guessing 9IP/0R/0H/0BB/13K/97pitches for Santana tonight.
  13. CubmanPi
    I think it'll take more than the Royals sweep to knock me off the wagon. The benefit of that series was, the only two teams in baseball worse than the Cubs combined to go .500 that series. (I'm rooting for both to surpass the Cubs as soon as possible.) At that pace, it'll happen in no time at all.
  14. CubmanPi
    We need more guys who can catch the ball.
  15. CubmanPi
    Very well put, I agree completely. Also, I spend enough energy hating the Cubs. This year has been particulalrly draining in that department, so I really don't have anything left for any other teams.
  16. CubmanPi
    I completely echo your sentiments. I do not want to see this pan out to be true.
  17. CubmanPi
    That's what I'm going to be looking for as well. No let downs please. If the offense scores four runs tomorrow, is that hiding? It's what they scored without the benefit of Monstrous Z at the plate. Shifting gears, can anyone find Z's career offensive splits batting in Houston vs the rest of his career? He has 5 career homers, and I know that at least two were in Houston. I'm curious to see what the whole line looks like. and because it wouldn't be a Big Z worship thread without the quote, I'll remind everyone that If Zambrano starts, your in trouble
  18. CubmanPi
    That's disgusting. It was a no-hitter. Yea, Z walked a guy and started having a little trouble finding the zone, but I think he needed to be allowed to stick around until he gave up a hit or at least walked one more in the inning. I can't fault Dusty here.
  19. CubmanPi
    That's easily the best one. Brilliant.
  20. CubmanPi
    Just keep waiting, they will even out! Cubs sign Dusty to a 7-yr extension, during which time the Cubs average 106 wins per season and win the World Series in each year. Take it to the bank.
  21. CubmanPi
    That picture is perfect. I love the dopey look on AJP's face.
  22. CubmanPi
    While it's always great to see anyone punch AJP in the jaw for any reason, Barrett just secured a week's worth of starts for Blanco. That won't be firing anyone up anytime soon, unless it leads to such god-awful playing that Dusty gets fired.
  23. CubmanPi
    At least Hill is keeping up with Garcia in the hits allowed category!
  24. CubmanPi
    Please. The ball was 10 feet away. Slide around him and touch the plate. How did AJ know the ball was 10 feet away (which it wasn't)? He can see that the ball wasn't there. And yes, the ball was about 10 feet away when he committed to train-wrecking Barrett and ended up hitting AJ about the same time as the collision. So you're only allowed to run over the catcher when he has the ball in his golve huh? Of course. Here's something. If Barrett, who had a better idea of where the ball was and if he was going to have it in time to get AJ out, knew that he wouldn't have it in time, why didn't he get out of the way and not black the plate? I'm very interested in your answer to that. As thrilled as I am with the fact that Barrett nailed the piece of crap in the jaw, this is the exact right point.
  25. CubmanPi
    When the score was still 0-0, we all knew the Sox had this game in the bag. I just wish more Cubs would have gotten into the fight and lost the game by forfeit due to not enough players remaining on the roster who haven't been ejected.
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