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We've scored a week's worth of runs.
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ballgame
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That's dirty sanchez.
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http://api.ning.com/files/ogyu77IHfwV1x4FxfTPAVksrH*SOEKIWKgDp49ctVq4_/MR.T.jpg You better not trash my hat!
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http://usversusthem.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/mrt_ba_2.jpg Stop walking fools!
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http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j82/al8587/mr-t-sombrero1.jpg Those red hats look almost ridiculous as mine!
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http://movies-by-actor.com/mr-t.jpg Score some runs, fool!
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http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/108164315/mr-t_bigger.jpg We gonna win this game, fool!
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WE SCORED A RUN!
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It's not surprising that half the team is sick. They've been making me sick for a week now.
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That problem should now be fixed. :wink: I'm full of great ideas. Just ask me sometime. :D
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Wish I could use them, Fred. The Cubs haven't won since I left town. I tried telling the wife that meant I needed to go back and spend the summer in Chicago attending every game. She didn't go for it. :| I'm telling ya..... girls just don't have no sense of humor, at all !! The last time the CUBS won a game.... you and me were in the stands !! We know what we gotta do !!! It started with a mean look and then some rant about a baby coming any day now....but I tuned her out. 8-[
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Wish I could use them, Fred. The Cubs haven't won since I left town. I tried telling the wife that meant I needed to go back and spend the summer in Chicago attending every game. She didn't go for it. :|
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Before you LOL, today's MLBTR suggests the Giants might have to give up Cain or Sanchez for Uggla!!!!! Giants Inquire On Uggla By Eddie Schmid [May 24 at 7:21pm CST] Juan C. Rodriguez at the Sun-Sentinel says the Giants have had preliminary discussions with the Marlins about second baseman Dan Uggla, "though they are not believed to have reached general manager level." This jives with reports that Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria wants "substantive changes" for his team. Rodriguez says the Giants would almost certainly have to part with Matt Cain or Jonathan Sanchez if such a deal were to go through. Rodriguez also speculates that the Giants might be kicking the tires on Nick Johnson and Mark DeRosa in their quest for a bat. But if the Giants are giving up Cain, they would just leave us out and get Uggla or Cantu and forget about Lee with his NTC, large contract, and declining production.
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Actually the only Cub fans who could have seen a team that was as strong as the 97 win team (602 winning %) would have had to be alive in 1910. That was the last time a Cub team posted a regular season winning percentage greater than the 602 of last year's team. I'm not happy with the early exit either, but we've seen different Cubs teams than we have in the past. The playoffs are a crap shoot, but if management continues to put together 90+ win teams that make the post season, chances are we will see a championship, and likely more than one. The reason we're at 101 years of futility has nothing to do with fans being happy with teams that win 60 percent of their games, because frankly they Cubs haven't done that. Had they consistently been winning 58% or greater of the games over that span, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion. So, while I want the championship. If they continue to win divisions, we'll have one. Maybe not as soon as we'd all like, but it will happen. On the other hand, if we get antsy and begin to run off the architects and players from teams who win 60% of the games in the regular season, we're likely going to wait even longer.
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That was Major League 2. We should do a casting call for that sucker to fill out our team that way. Kosuke Fukudome can be Isuro Tanaka and Carlos Zambrano can be Rick Vaughn. Who gets the honors of Jack Parkman, Jake Taylor, Rube Baker, and Willie Mays Hayes? We had Willie Mays Hays, but we sent him to Baltimore for Ryan Freel.
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Oh...and I love how his "real world" clip is from a fictional movie. I think from now on, I'm going to use for my "real world" example of how to build a championship baseball team the "real world" model from major league. Get an assholish owner who wants you to lose, find a manager from tire world, sign a catcher with bad knees, and then get a bunch of guys who have talent but could never make a major league roster, including a flamethrowing ex-con...and viola! World Series baby!
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I'd take any of those Braves teams 10 times out of 10 over the most recent 80-something win Cardinals WS team if I was trying to win a title. I agree. The best you can do is build for the regular season and then hope the players perform on the bigger stage.
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They didn't fail, they didn't even show up. It's not like they won a couple games and lost on a bad call, or even put up a fight for one game. They played the exact same two NLDS's back to back. They imploded defensively, the starting pitching was mediocre and the hitting non-existent. This is all true. They played awful for three games. But they also played terrific for 97 games. Which is more indicative of success? Sorry, I don't remember the teams that lose NL/ALDS's. You not remembering them doesn't mean they weren't great teams. They were. You aren't implying that the Cubs are 0-6 in the NLDS because they didn't catch any breaks, are you? Because that had nothing to do with it. I'm stating they the Cubs went 0-6 in the playoffs because they hit a cold streak at the wrong time. It happens. The Braves won 14 straight division titles and 1 World Series title in that stretch. They did that with Hall of Famers in the rotation (Smoltz, Maddux, Glavine), a Hall of Famer on offense (Chipper Jones) and other great players on offense (Rafael Furcal, Andruw Jones, Andres Galarraga, David Justice, Ron Gant, Brian McCann, Ryan Klesko, etc.). Those weren't great teams? Apparently not. All those guys need to enjoy the steak knives.
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So, in your mind this team wasn't good enough because they failed in the post season. To remedy the problem we'll make a team of post season heroes. We should then trade Theriot for David Eckstein. Get rid of Dempster and replace him with Suppan, because he was so good in the post season. Trade Soto to the White Sox for A.J. He played well in that one series. Continue to take that mindset...and you won't have a 97 win team. Which is good, because that doesn't matter. You'll have a team full of "play-off performers." The only problem is that none of those guys will get to the post season because the 97 win team will now be an 84 win team and miss the playoffs by 6 games.
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Good teams are best proven over 162 games, not six. No one here is happy about how last season ended, but to call a 97-win team not good is being obtuse at the best and mentally handicapped at the worst. They were a good team that failed when it mattered most. I'll agree with that. But frankly, over 162 games they were the best team in the National League. Build the best team over the long haul is about the only thing you can do. You cannot determine when the hot streaks will come or not come. Just take this season as an example. If you judged who was better between the Cubs and Padres at this time last week, the Cubs had just finished a three game sweep in which they manhandled the Padres in every way imagineable. Fast forward to today, and everyone would say the Padres are the better team. You have to take a season in its totality. The Cubs were a very good team last year. The failed at the wrong time, certainly. But stop saying they were a bad team, because you're wrong there.
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Anything is possible. Sometimes the end isn't a bad thing. The Cubs can turn it around, but they do not seem to be a team capable of competing for a world series ring at this point. Around this time last year, neither did the Phillies.
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They simply didn't get it done. In the context of 101 years of no WS ring, last season was a failure. Same for 2007. Those were not good teams. I'll agree that they didn't achieve the ultimate goal of a championship. That part is true. Howver, you don't win 97 games not being a good team. That is probably the most asinine statement I've ever read on this board, and that's saying a lot since I probably read every post baseball#### made.
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I have no work to do for the next 3 months. I can fight the good fight.