CUBZ99

Defference and respect are intersections on a two way street. I fully agree. I personally enjoy being part of a community where Radio announcers, TV announcers, parents and spouses of Cubs players, reporters, and other front office people frequent. The easiest way to ruin that is to continue to post childish posts or attack them for every little thing you have issue with.

The problem is that your second paragraph contradicts your first. Also, your tone and attitude beg to differ. Great, you've sat down with players and talked with them. If anything, that makes any opinions you have of Cubs prospects and players biased because you have a personal history with them. At least with our posters here, we don't have any personal history with these players, so we have no biases in our analysis. It's strictly objective. For the record, you don't have to be an announcer, scout or former player to be able to correctly peg a major league baseball player. Thinking otherwise is incredibly arrogant. Ryan Theriot is an acceptable SS on a team with an above average offense. On this current team, he's replaceable. Not because people don't like him, but because his production at his position makes him a candidate to be upgraded. You missed the entire point of his post. Its amazing that any broadcasters, parents, players, reporters come on this site at all anymore. Ron does have some incredible insight that most of us aren't privy too, because he is a broadcaster and gets to see more games than we do. He is also closer to the players and gets to talk to people in different organizations to get their thoughts on certain players, etc. Does that make his opinion right all of the time? Of course not, but it makes his opinion more educated than someone with less information (you and me). There used to be a time when we afforded them some defference and respected their opinions, without piling on every aspect we disagree with.

:roll: The Reds announcers are becoming my least favorite announcers in all of baseball. They absolutely hate the Cubs.

I wonder why?

Can the Cubs just get a redo and let someone else hit instead of Soto? :lol:

Man Soto Sucks.

Bruno bashes Hill when he throws 7 scoreless, don't mind him. I do? Prove it. Thats a joke. I was very impressed with his outing in Houston. http://www.northsidebaseball.com/PremiumForum/viewtopic.php?t=43717&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=26 So now we can't criticize Hill's bunting abilities either?

I think they are both being paid US Dollars.

yeah damn you rich for giving up dink hits and getting boned over by the umps If Marquis did this everyone would be ripping on him. QFT

Who is Soto?

Well the Ump called a strike on a pitch that was a good foot inside to Floyd.

I hope you seriously didn't expect Soto to start tonight. I'm sure that he will get one of the starts this series, but if you are hoping for more, I think your going to be complaining the entire last 2 weeks.

So what are the criteria for being a thread starter on the "other games" thread? Do you get to keep starting the thread if the Brewers lose?

On the positive side, if the Cubs do make it to the playoffs, the tough pitching they will see in the next 12 days should be a good primer.

Larussa should be given a medal for taking the piece of crap team Jocketty gave him this year and even making the season exciting for the fans. Until recently, many of us believed the Cardinals could pull off another miracle season. While I don't really care for Larussa , I do think that he did a commendable job this year and always seems to get the most out of his teams.

yeah, but think how awesome it would be to see soto hit 400/500/700 at AAA for a full season. after a season like that, he'd almost certainly be a lock to be a backup for the major league team. that's a conservative estimate of his numbers Yeah, I think given another full year at AAA, Soto will cure cancer, walk on water and win a pulitzer prize.

Lets score some runs and get Hart his first W!

Looks like he has some good movement on his low-mid 90's fastball.

Jones is back to throwing terrible again.

Yeah I don't think his Pitch Count is going to matter.

Isn't Cedeno the only other shortstop on the roster? Fontenot has played 3 games there this year. Granted he's not a SS - but I'd still rather see him in there than Cedeno. DeRosa also played a game at short. Fontenot may be the easiest out on the team right now. What am I missing with Fontenot ???? 09/04 - 09/15 AB R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS BABIP Fontenot 14 4 6 1 0 0 7 1 1 2 0.429 0.438 0.500 0.938 0.500 Dunno, I just looked up his September splits and he has been red hot in September so far. His PH numbers are also very good.

Isn't Cedeno the only other shortstop on the roster? Fontenot has played 3 games there this year. Granted he's not a SS - but I'd still rather see him in there than Cedeno. DeRosa also played a game at short. Fontenot may be the easiest out on the team right now. You must have forgotten how bad Cedeno has played this year. Four of the starting pitchers (Z, Marquis, Lilly, Hill) have a better batting average than Cedeno. .127 BA .169 OBP :pukel:

Nice Lou is going for the throat. :D

Thats it? It seemed like he was really laboring. Is Wainwright hurt? Cards announcers were commenting on his 7 days off, how uncomfortable he looked and whether or not he is able to through a curve tonight.

Would be nice to stop giving away outs.