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+1 Absolutely. Agreed. Vince McMahon agrees too.

TM REC WIN% GB RUN DIF MIN 22-37 .373 -- (-71) HOU 23-37 .383 0.5 (-57) CHC 23-35 .397 1.5 (-58) KCR 26-34 .433 3.5 (-40) WAS 26-34 .433 3.5 (-10) SDG 27-34 .443 4.0 (-22) OAK 27-34 .443 4.0 (-10) LAD 28-33 .459 5.0 (-27) BAL 27-31 .466 5.5 (-43) CWS 29-33 .468 5.5 (-13) COL 28-31 .475 6.0 +9 NYM 28-31 .475 6.0 (-25) PIT 28-30 .483 6.5 (-2) LAA 30-32 .484 6.5 (-3) The Dodgers moved up four spots, and the top is getting pretty crowded with Minnesota's 5-game winning streak.

If God cared about the kittens, he'd lift the photobucket block at my work.

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Tyler Colvin's OPS: .375 Cubs' win pct: .397

I'm watching the Reds' broadcast. I feel like the last time the Cubs' broadcast wasn't available was also against the Reds. I don't think this is the first time this season I have suffered through the Brennaman headache.

RF Fuke, 2B Barney, SS Castro, 1B Pena, 3B Ramy, LF DeWitt, C Soto, CF Colvin, P Garza

Ricketts - rhymes with "No one's buying tickets'' Awesome.

The point I was trying (unsuccessfully) to make was, maybe this IS a rehab start.

I don't know, but based on the Wells treatment, they should have him rehab in Iowa and let Russell/Coleman start this one instead.

More triple A teams should be angry with Z.

TM REC WIN% GB RUN DIF MIN 21-37 .362 -- (-73) HOU 23-37 .383 1.0 (-57) CHC 23-34 .404 2.5 (-52) KCR 25-34 .424 3.5 (-41) WAS 26-33 .441 4.5 (-9) SDG 27-33 .450 5.0 (-19) OAK 27-33 .450 5.0 (-8) BAL 26-31 .456 5.5 (-45) CWS 28-33 .459 5.5 (-15) COL 27-31 .466 6.0 +6 LAD 28-32 .467 6.0 (-25) NYM 28-31 .475 6.5 (-25) PIT 28-30 .483 7.0 (-2) LAA 30-31 .492 7.5 (+1) Cubs didn't get any help from San Diego this weekend, so Houston is still strong. If the Cubs want to overtake them, they may have to do it themselves. Twins have won 4 straight, so the top got bunched up a lot more. Considering where Baltimore started the season and where they are now, they could be a dark horse in this race. The Pirates almost pulled off a sweep of Philadelphia, which would have put them at the .500 mark.

I'm assuming the thread isn't up yet because no one cares. The WCIU broadcast won't help that, I'm sure. Garza (2-4, 3.72 ERA) Leake (4-2, 5.03 ERA) Full fecal league standings will be up in a bit, but the Cubs are charging hard. Twins are still in first, but Houston is 1.5 games out, and the Cubs are in third and only 2.5 out. It's getting good in a hurry. ETA - My turn in the rotation already came up again, so this thread wasn't up yet because I didn't start it. Oops. I wonder if this is anything like the Pirates pitcher who didn't realize until after he dropped acid that he had to pitch in LA that night. Except, minus the acid part.

This time in 2002, Cubs were 22-35 with a -49 run differential, en route to a 67-95 finish, and Sammy's numbers that year were at the top end of what we can reasonably hope for from Pujols. Baseball boners that year were pretty scarce. I don't understand your point, unless you think I expect that the Cubs will only sign Pujols and do absolutely nothing else. Pujols is only one part of the baseball-boner. Granted, he's a big part, so he'd be the turgid shaft. The point was, this team+Pujols =/= perma-rager. I don't expect them to do much else right, but maybe apart from staying healthy, they wouldn't need to do much else right to at least be relevant to post-season discussion at the beginning of August. Definitely no less than conspicuous chub.

This time in 2002, Cubs were 22-35 with a -49 run differential, en route to a 67-95 finish, and Sammy's numbers that year were at the top end of what we can reasonably hope for from Pujols. Baseball boners that year were pretty scarce.

There are plenty of other reasons to discredit him.

TM REC WIN% GB RUN DIF MIN 20-37 .351 -- (-79) HOU 23-36 .390 2.0 (-52) CHC 23-33 .411 3.5 (-51) SDG 26-33 .441 5.0 (-24) KCR 25-33 .431 4.5 (-35) WAS 25-33 .431 4.5 (-14) LAD 27-32 .458 6.0 (-28) OAK 27-32 .466 6.0 (-5) BAL 26-30 .464 6.5 (-42) NYM 27-31 .466 6.5 (-27) CWS 28-32 .467 6.5 (-11) COL 27-30 .474 7.0 +7 PIT 28-29 .491 8.0 +2 Twins-Royals and Padres-Astros are playing each other, so there's two guaranteed losses for the 13 sub-.500 teams. Of the 9 who played above-.500 teams today, Cubs were one of only 3 to lose (Nats, A's). They gained quite a bit of ground today.

The Giants-Rockies will be on out here instead. My apathy is coming in handy this afternoon.

That would be the logical next step in fecal league competition.

What a stupid post, on several levels.

That run differential is intimidating. The Twins are for real, and the Cubs have their work cut out for them. Good thing Houston and SD are playing each other. It always helps when the competition is busy beating each other up.

That's quite an impressive sample size for the first week of June.

If my post above isn't the way to go, then count me in the FDB/Meph re-instatement camp.

I don't think peoples' feelings need to be coddled or protected. If something mock-worthy gets mocked, accept it and deal with it as you wish. I agree with the premise that concentrated ridiculousness needs to be subject to some form of backlash from peers. The problem is drawing the line on when it's okay and how much. Too often it turns into a pissing contest and things get derailed. I'll use the Carlos Pena thread as an example. It's cherry-picking one of many threads, but I think it's a good microcosm of a lot of thread derailments that happen here: He still sucks. Hard-hitting analysis there. Vinestal made a worthless observation that contributed nothing (but was still on topic), and Rob's mockery used equivalent effort and board space to address the ridiculousness. The response Rob gave may not be satisfying or full of the right jokes or snark that some other posters may think vinestal's post deserved, but too bad. It was a three-word, harmless post - pointlessness addressed, time to move on. Rob even tried to accelerate the discussion back in the right direction by using the very same post to expand on his defense of Pena (I edited out the rest of the post). It was helpful and constructive, but not necessary. But the mockery and ensuing bickering went over the top in a way that did much more damage to the thread than the original post did. Wow you guys are awesome, this is the reason these boards are a ghost town and there are like 8 people that post here on a regular basis. I never said Barney is the 2b of the future I said I liked what I saw from him so far. Christ learn to read and stop talking for other people. If you run off everyone with an opinion sooner or later you'll be the only ones here left to listen to yours, of course that may be the way you want it and maybe its better that way. Hey, davearm got a sidekick! Now a Carlos Pena thread is picking up an argument from the Darwin Barney thread, davearm is brought into the discussion from nowhere (bad on a few levels), and the defensive backlash to these reactions only makes the threadjack worse. There's no need for warnings or bannings or further clarification of rules or anything like that. I think the mods should just delete this group of posts and call it a day.

I'd actually prefer if there were more topics. Same here. Likewise.