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  1. CubmanPi
    Am I reading gameday right in seeing that the Cubs were up and down on 6 pitches on their next trip to the plate?!
  2. CubmanPi
    The lineup looks alright, in terms of what's available to us, so I would say it's not at all out of the realm of possibility for the Cubs to come up big and only lose by a score of 5 or 6 to 3.
  3. CubmanPi
    I don't blame Neifi for the team's woes, rather I think he is the poster child example of the mentality that causes them.
  4. CubmanPi
    :shock: :shock: Great point. They won't get a chance to use ANY of their speed with all those people getting on. And here I was, worried that the Cubs might not be able to lose this game by less than ten runs.
  5. CubmanPi
    Ladies and gentlement, your $5 million backup shortstop. No way that quote is real.... please reassure me Neifi did not really say that... Go to Cubs.com and read the game wrap. Sorry to bring it up, but I could never be creative enough to make that up myself. Good God Almighty....unreal... and as expected, there's Dusty backing him up. Unbelievable.... While I definitely get pessimistic, I'm usually pretty slow to jump on any "Fire (name of choice) now!" bandwgns. However, Every day starting now that Neifi is a Cub and Dusty is a manager should result in an executive getting fired. Or deported.
  6. CubmanPi
    Ladies and gentlement, your $5 million backup shortstop. No way that quote is real.... please reassure me Neifi did not really say that... Go to Cubs.com and read the game wrap. Sorry to bring it up, but I could never be creative enough to make that up myself.
  7. CubmanPi
    He was also getting squeezed badly. The homerun to Zimmerman should have never happened as Wood had him on strike three that wasn't called. Even though the numbers don't look good, I was overall pleased with how he did, and what you say just adds to it being a good sign. I didn't get home from work until the bottom of the sixth (8)), so I missed his entire start and only had the numbers to go from. However, what you say doesn't surprise me. Just from the few innings I saw, the strike zone seemed pretty inconsistent, particularly the low end. Murton got called out in the ninth on a pitch that was lower than several pitches that were too low the inning before.
  8. CubmanPi
    Ladies and gentlement, your $5 million backup shortstop.
  9. CubmanPi
    I left my jaw on the living room floor. I'll get it in the morning. Unreal.
  10. CubmanPi
    He ended up with 4ER on 5IP and ZERO walks. It stinks he gave up the taters, but I think the no walks is very encouraging. If Woody keeps placing pitches where he wants them to go, then he just had his worst outing of the season by an inning and 2 runs.
  11. CubmanPi
    4.1 IP, 83 pitches, 5 ER, 6K, 5BB
  12. CubmanPi
    Thank you. A very good defensive catcher would have prevented both wild pitch runs from scoring the other day, but all that means is that we would have lost 7-0 instead of 9-0. We already have guys who can catch the ball. That's how our offense got here. I'll take someone who can hit it, please.
  13. CubmanPi
    I think there's a silver lining to this. If the Cubs hold this pace and win 6 games a month through the end of the year (no, I really wouldn't be surprised at all if that's what happened), then maybe someone above Hendry will finally wake up and see what their staff has done with the $100M payroll and clean house, top to bottom. The one thing I don't want to see is the Cubs rattle off 8 or 9 in a row to finish out the end of May, only to play barely sub-.500 ball the rest of the year, leaving the door open to talk of bad breaks, injuries, goats, getting baffled by 50-yr-old ladies in opposing bullpens who just so happen to have found their groove when they got to Chicago, etc.
  14. CubmanPi
    Being in Atlanta last year for games 5 thru 8 of a losing streak and effectively sealing the deal on another season of wasted potential now seems to carry only a fraction of the craptacular sense of loathing I feel toward this season now. I can't watch.
  15. CubmanPi
    No, you're not. Terrible is coming into town tonight. what happens if terrible beats the Cubs once or twice. Cubs would continue to suck. Bigtime.
  16. CubmanPi
    They should sit him against the Dodgers though, just in case.
  17. CubmanPi
    I think an equally bad sign is that we managed to walk the Marlins 14 times in this series (4, 2, 8 ). Given season-long trends, the Cubs drawing the walks seems to be the spike that will level out soon.
  18. CubmanPi
    So wait, you mean to tell me that a team was leading by a very convincing 3-0 margin in the 8th inning, only to have a complete collapse with 5 outs to go and blow the ballgame? Holy crap, sucks to be THAT team. Good thing it wasn't during a more important game like in the playoffs or something - i can only imagine how terrible that would be...
  19. CubmanPi
    Welcome to the forum!
  20. CubmanPi
    As far as the #2 spot thing goes, I wouldn't be surprised to see Dusty go with the hot hand and switch it up based on trends and mathups. Neifi at the bottom is definitely nice, and for an order that is minus DLEE!!1, this doesn't look half bad. I am actually sort of (gulp) pleased with the job Dusty has done so far this year. My number of gripes with his choices this year is limited to a very reasonable number, and I don't cringe at the prospect of him being around the rest of the season.
  21. CubmanPi
    I seriously think that enough pieces of this Cubs TEAM have shown up strongly enough that, while being minus our best offensive player and two top starting pitchers, there's really no need to panic. The approach to this season so far has been really good on all fronts, and I have even had a hard time complaining about Dusty so far. It won't be pretty, but I expect to see the Cubs in really good shape when Lee returns.
  22. CubmanPi
    So far this season, Greg Maddux of his late 20's and an unbelievably good bullpen have accounted for a pretty good chunk of our pitching. If they continue to hold up the way they have, they should have no trouble hanging around the top of the division while Lee is out. However, there have been some uncharacteristically good performances contributing to the observed trend so far, and it's no guarantee that Prior and Wood are just going to slide right into that level of performance upon their return, so my confidence in the pitching staff maintaining that level is a little shaky right now.
  23. CubmanPi
    I think I want to give Dusty the benefit of the doubt here. Ohman didn't have too much trouble getting the first two outs of the inning, and with the lefty-lefty matchup, it's hard to bail midway through the AB and take your chances with another at least equally threatening bat in the lineup. Granted, Ohman's ERA is like ten thousand, but it's a small enough sample size that the first two outs of the inning should also count for something.
  24. CubmanPi
    Id like to see Houston and StLouis post 95 wins each, as long as the Cubs win 98. I think the Brewers will hang around a little closer than years past, but I think they will still remain at a bit of a distance.
  25. CubmanPi
    With the calender still stuck on mid-April, the tiebreakers aren't the most meaningful yet, but something that is striking me so far about our division's standings is that, as of today, the NLC has 5 teams within 1 game of first place, all of which are at least 2 games over .500. Composite division record is 7 games over .500, which ties our division (6 teams) with the AL East (two teams tied for last at .500) for the best division record. Can we expect to see all but the Pirates hang around and be competitive all year, or are one or three of the top five off to a misleading start? Which one(s) will fall away, and when? What about the AL east - other than the DRays, will they all remain competitive in a 4-way division race, or do they have flukes as well? How long would you laugh if the Yankees finished the year tied for last with the Blue Jays, BEHIND the DRays?
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