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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I wouldn't feel better unless it was something like best of 41. Otherwise, it's all a coinflip anyways.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Dodgers, Mets, Phillies are my preferred opponents. Diamondbacks have insane starting pitching, Brewers are the second-best team in the NL (though if we play them, that means we are in the NLCS), and seeing the Marlins in Wrigley for a playoff game would make me vomit.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Most Epic. Inning. Ever. I also just got a job offer and accepted in North Dakota at the same time all this was happening.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, at least today the Marquis hate will be justified.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Even by the standards of all starters, he's about average.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Pretty sporting on the Cubs to give away a free out, seeing as how the pitcher couldn't seem to get one on their own.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hitting better than normal with RISP will get your team more runs, though, it's just not a predictable skill. I'd like for the Cubs to hit better with RISP, win a flukey share of one-run games and have every draft pick work out.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yet he's one out from a quality start. I can't say that I'm happy with mediocre pitching. I'm just not mad about it either. That's kind of what mediocre is. In a pennant race, mediocrity steams me up a little. I guess we're just different like that. He's a 5th starter... Jeff Karstens is out pitching him. Good for Jeff Karstens. Not necessarily bad for Marquis.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yet he's one out from a quality start. I can't say that I'm happy with mediocre pitching. I'm just not mad about it either. That's kind of what mediocre is. In a pennant race, mediocrity steams me up a little. I guess we're just different like that. The list of teams, even among pennant contenders, that have five non-mediocre starters is pretty small.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yet he's one out from a quality start. I can't say that I'm happy with mediocre pitching. I'm just not mad about it either. That's kind of what mediocre is.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    [quote name="Banedon" And so you see no reason that we should be unhappy that Marquis with his $6.75 million salary is not performing better than Marshall and his salary? (I couldn't find Marshall's salary' date=' but lets agree it's significantly lower.)[/quote] Unhappy with Hendry for giving him the contract? Sure. But Marquis is exactly who he's always been, it's not like he was a great pitcher who got worse with his contract. And 90% of the comments (and not just in the GDT) aren't saying Marquis is an overpaid pitcher. They are saying he's a horrible pitcher, which he's not.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    You know better than to use 32-inning stats. This is exactly what I'm talking about. People seem completely incapable of intellectual honesty with regards to Jason Marquis. Ok then...show me how Marquis is a better option than Marshall. I said they were roughly equal. Marshall's career ERA+ is almost identical to Marquis' ERA+ for this season and career (and Marquis' FIP clearly indicates that the ERA has reflected his actual pitching this season). PECOTA found no reason to project much improvement into Marshall this season, and nothing he's done this year indicates he's made any major step forward (though granted, he hasn't had much chance to show anything at all). So I see no reason not to consider Marshall and Marquis to be roughly equal pitchers.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    You know better than to use 32-inning stats. This is exactly what I'm talking about. People seem completely incapable of intellectual honesty with regards to Jason Marquis.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    WHIP is a bad stat. I'm far from a stathead, but it seems an incredibly good stat. Higher WHIP = higher pitch counts, more pressure on defense, and usually more runs. Please explain... It treats all hits and walks as equal, which they clearly are not.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    WHIP is a bad stat. So is ERA. Agreed. How about FIP?
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    WHIP is a bad stat.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah everybody, quit being so mean to the big money pitcher who absolutely sucked in the second half last year and is well on his way to repeating that feat this year. I mean, it makes no sense why Cubs fans with dreams of glory would be upset with a pitcher putting up a 7 ERA so far since the ASB with an OPS against over 900. Smart fans would applaud this effort. Smart fans wouldn't arbitrarily pick out the portions of the season which prove their point, they'd look at the bigger picture.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm beginning to wonder if this is some kind of board-wide joke on me. "Hey, guys, let's take some average starting pitcher and rip him mercilessly as if he were Rueben Quevedo or Shawn Estes. It'll totally confuse KyleJRM"
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Is Marquis really that much worse than a pitcher that clears waivers? No, but half of Cub fandom will never believe that. He's the worst pitcher in the rotation, so it's fated that he must be ripped mercilessly.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Meh, I consider them pretty close to equal.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    How would you expect an actual AAA team to do in the majors over 162?
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    On the bad side, that was actually a legit hit, not just a groundball that happened to find a hole.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    OMG JASON MARQUIS YOU ARE THE WORST PITCHER EVER I WISH WE HAD 2003-ESTES BACK!!!?!?!?!?one
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    pretty sure the stat is grounding into dps. Signs you might be playing too much world of warcraft: If you read that and wondered what Derrek Lee's damage per second is. Guilty.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    ? I'll give you that last play (although it was a hard hit ball and the OF got rid of it quickly), but what else? He's shown a lack of hustle a few times, but not any lack of fundamentals imo. He's missed several cutoff men, and I consider hustle a fundamental.
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