vance_the_cubs_fan

Awesome! Are you going to the game tomorrow? Apparently, the Cubs wives are having an auction.

That can't be right. We all know that Wood doesn't want to get better. He's not a leader. He just wants to sit around in a nice house and cash a huge check. [/sarcasm]

Agreed.

I hate not having audio.

It is. Sharing the fact what wasn't what I took issue with. The commentary upon it was.

You actually have a problem with the Cubs having a new helmet design? Can't we find better things to bitch about?

Too early to worry about that. Yeah, I know. The Cardinals fans at school have me in a bad mood today. The Cardinals have had a worse spring,

Hey Beer didn't you used to post on ESPN message board many moons ago. I remember you. I haven't been on those message boards in a while. I got sick of the cubs.com board as well. Too many kids on there that don't know baseball. That was me but I haven't posted on ESPN in ages. You're right, too many ignorant trolls and people just looking for arguments. I haven't posted since I found NSBB. Didn't you get traded to the Marlins?

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For those interested, here's the Cubs press notes for the game.

If the players really are competing this spring, here's the numbers through yesterday's game: Walker 250/300/375 Hairston: 250/571/250 Perez: 200/250/200

I'll take that wager. PECOTA for Spivey: 248/322/410 WARP 1.7 PECOTA for Walker: 280/341/425 WARP 2.5 PECOTA for Hairston: 268/342/387 WARP 2.2 PECOTA for Perez 264/296/364 WARP 2.4 I like my chances that Walker and Hairston will play enough to have the Cubs 2b outproduce Spivey. Spivey isn't really that good. How about the loser buys the winner the cap of their choice? You initially said that you liked your chances Walker and Hairston will play enough. Another wild card in the equation is Spivey gets off to a slow start or loses his starting slot due to injury, no there's no telling if Luna or Miles will steal time from him. How about this? I'll take the wager with your injury caveat as long as the bet is cancelled if Walker is traded before the end of ST. OK, the above stats, BA, OBP, SLG? As long as you're open to addtl. wagers if the bet is canceled :D ? So we have deal is void if Walker is traded or Spivey is injured for longer than 3 wks. No other caveats, if it's close in the three stats, how do we decide? Prize is Cubs or Cards hat of choice. Sounds good. The above stats work. Tie breaker can either be VORP or WARP. Not to complicate matters, but are we just going off best 2 or 3 categories? Or look at all three stats and agree who was the best player? We can look at all three. Why not take BA and OPS (as OPS combines Slg and OBP.) If those are too close to call, we move to WARP. I'm not opposed to OPS, but I don't want BA to get too much weight (and it shouldn't anyway), as Spivey most likely will lose that category to any of your three. I'm fine with BA, OBP, SLG though. Ok. We can use all three categories. Deal Do I win this bet if Spivey is cut before Opening Day? :P So far, Spivey's line this spirng: 056/190/056. That's horrible!

Or...... it doesn't mean anything, other than the fact that he's trying to add to his arsenal. Or it could be his excuse why he got lit up by a split squad of Marlins who already don't have much fire power. Yup. Season's over for the Cards, clearly. :roll: Wow. I'm impressed. A Cardinal fan has learned how to use emoticons. I don't think I ever said season was over. I just implied that maybe Reyes got lit up because he pitched poorly regardless of whether he was trying a new pitch. What that means for the Cardinals season remains to be seen.

While I'd like to see both Sing and Pagan added, Sing would be a right handed power bat on the bench. That is something we lack and need more than Pagan's ability to play all the OF positions and his speed.

Maybe because Cintron isn't that adept at "catching the ball."

I can't see any US authority telling the kid no if he tried to... And yes..he looks amazing. Plug him into 2nd base for the next 10 years and I'd be happy.... The U.S. could refuse to grant him assylum and then deport him back to Cuba.

Wow...he sounds like an idiot. Please tell me he's a Cardinals fan. :)

Walker at 1b? :shock:

So, how long before Kenny loses it at another gathering of reporters, uses profanity, and calls Everett an idiot.

In the near daily speculation of what Clemens will do, he visited Rangers ST complex yesterday. Link.

Yeah. This is it. They also have a DVD out now.

This article discusses whether Bonds should be in the HOF.

In an article discussing Bonds's HOF chances, I found this quote of intention by Rosenthal to be informative. Link. This quote from the same article gives us more insight into the minds of the voters. And from Bill Platche:

I might be interested in those as that's a side of the game I haven't spent nearly enough time focusing on. By the way, have you read Cal and Billy Ripken's book. I bought it for my brother to use with his son and wondered if you agreed with the techniques and such taught in it.

According to Kiley, Sing and Dopirak are "destined" for the minors, but Theriot and Pagan have a chance to break camp with the club. Link.