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Miles just tweeted that the first pitch of the Castro AB was the first time this season he has swung the bat without making contact. -
I think that's an unfair assumption. Don't sell Castro short like that.
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Ichiro is donating 100 million yen to the quake
CubmanPi replied to Northside Blues's topic in General Baseball Talk
A crapload of these? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dlAF3C8MtQU/Safrs-X5V8I/AAAAAAAAAh0/5PQaq9ZfEd0/s400/shamwow.jpg -
Stone spends half the year within arms' reach of Hawk for a living. He's completely off his rocker.
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Cashner leaves with tightness in shoulder
CubmanPi replied to JonJayCutler's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Trying to stay afloat by avoiding a key blow that could kill the team isn't the point. The point is that there's some serious upside there that won't get the chance to benefit the team if he misses any chunk of time. -
Did anyone ever figure out when exactly it was that this happened last?
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Someone said this offense reminded them 2008's. Not in the sense that they'll score 200,000 runs but in the sense that there are few serious weaknesses. In the normal lineup, I'd consider Barney to be the only hitter a team really doesn't have to be worried about. Everyone else is a threat to do something at some level. I know that a late inning lead is no time to bring this up, but this is also the type of offense that can congeal into one large black hole. It isn't at all inconceivable that Ramirez, Soriano, Byrd, and Pena all have overlapping heavy slumps. If that happens during a stretch of 3 games in which Castro does NOT post a 1.650 OPS, things have the potential to get frustrating in a hurry. I really hope it doesn't come to that. What offense would do well when three of the top hitters have heavy slumps? I wasn't saying that if our 3 top hitters went into slumps, we'd be in trouble. I was saying that our top hitters all seem to have a significant-enough likelihood of hitting a slump that, current success aside, season-long offensive stability doesn't sound very plausible.
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Someone said this offense reminded them 2008's. Not in the sense that they'll score 200,000 runs but in the sense that there are few serious weaknesses. In the normal lineup, I'd consider Barney to be the only hitter a team really doesn't have to be worried about. Everyone else is a threat to do something at some level. I know that a late inning lead is no time to bring this up, but this is also the type of offense that can congeal into one large black hole. It isn't at all inconceivable that Ramirez, Soriano, Byrd, and Pena all have overlapping heavy slumps. If that happens during a stretch of 3 games in which Castro does NOT post a 1.650 OPS, things have the potential to get frustrating in a hurry. I really hope it doesn't come to that.
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[expletive] Alfredo. Other than that clutch RBI single and those two clutch homeruns, he hasn't done crap ALL season.
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Hard to get excited about it when apparently he has said he doesn't like to walk (don't have a quote on it... heard it somewhere along the way in the ~50 hrs of sports radio I hear a week). That's because it's called hitting, Dude.
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Get that man some more playing time!
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IBB to get to Colvin. Are they bringing in a lefty too?
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Also, did Kosuke really strikeout without anyone saying Fukucopter?
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How did Baker get on base? Gamecast has been on crack today.
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Thai Hooker.
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Or let's just hope he's good with a towel amirite amirite!
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Dammit dammit dammit :banghead:
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Bruce Miles does pretty good in-game updates. Not regular score updates necessarily, but he's good with pitching performance updates and okay about scoring plays. If you find anything better, please let me know.
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And the Cubs are taking advantage of it. And an Aaron Heilman sighting. Apparently he was in the running to start for the Diamondbacks. Let that sink in. Mind-bottling.
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Monster seasons out of Colvin and Cashner could make this summer very exciting.
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Random observation time. Following Bruce Miles on twitter is amazing. If you don't have a Twitter account, create one and follow him.
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Nitpicking between Barney and DeWitt, especially when it's to determine which one bats in front of Hill and Cashner, feels like arguing over whether we should be letting a dog or a pig poop on our dinner plates.
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2011 Game Thread Starters
CubmanPi replied to Fred Hornkohl's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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A game-tying RBI, a game-tying HR, and a late-inning, lead-claiming HR. Dare I say.... Clutch?! :eek:
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But it was Kerry Wood. Therefore, Beast. The End.
