Hairyducked Idiot
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Wakefield Me Jim Abbott as a righy.
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Yeah, Edmonds isn't even playing. I'm not sure Pie tracks that down, where they had Infante shaded. D'oh, my bad. I forgot we were playing a lefty.
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Reed Johnson. Felix Pie.
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Edmonds' complete lack of range costs us a leadoff triple. *sigh* This team would be less annoying if they weren't paying for their own stupidity all the time. It's no one's fault but their own.
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How on earth are we gonna get two? :) Just kidding. This offense can come back on a lefty starter. We aren't out of this game. I'm more annoyed by the Cardinals winning than anything.
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fortunately this is still the cardinals' roster That roster has produced a pretty darn fine record through almost half the season.
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Maybe Lee can keep fouling off pitches until the Braves give up and call it a draw...
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Because it was a fastball right at someone's head right after the pitcher threw a temper-tantrum about giving up a homer?
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*sigh* Cardinals will be 1.5 back after tonight. Our second-best pitcher fell apart, and our third-best pitcher isn't any better. Things are getting ugly.
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He's not going away, and neither are they.
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Nope, he's not even close, unfortunately. And every team within 10 games of the wild card will be looking for pitching at the deadline, so the market will be fierce.
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Hmmm, you suck at pitching, so you punish Atlanta by giving them a free ball and almost a free baserunner.
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Superballgame. Our starting pitching is officially a problem. And that sucks, because we'll be one of a dozen teams trying to scare up starting pitching at the deadline.
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It's fun to get big strikeouts in the first inning. It's not fun to need a big strikeout in the first inning, though :)
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Ballgame.
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Other Games 6/10
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
4-0 Cardinals. Projections, schmojections. -
I wouldn't trade anyone under any circumstances just because it's been 100 years, but I'd trade pretty much anyone in the Cubs farm system. There's certainly no one special down there.
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Johnson has some value becuase of his speed. Sure, it's frustrating to see him bone up a chance he could have put away with his lead feet and utter lack of a first-touch, but he also probably created that chance with his speed. Opponents have to respect that speed, and that helps take pressure off of our midfield. He's not good, I'm certainly not saying that. But we honestly don't have anyone definitively better yet. I still don't understand why we are so abysmal at developing forwards.
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Wainwright is hurt
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in General Baseball Talk
I'll believe Wainwright is done for the season when it's announced, or at least confirmed that it's a rupture and not a sprain. -
Russia's goal celebration was one of the most subdued I've ever seen.
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Wainwright is hurt
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in General Baseball Talk
and how does their success with Rolen, Edmonds playing at near MVP levels and Carpenter pre-TJS have any bearing on the present? if this was any other team, people could objectively realize that they're playing over their heads but the inferiority complex so prevalent precludes people from recognizing this. Because we keep hearing it and not seeing it. The Cardinals' management and coaching staff have proven that they are good at creating winning ballclubs. It's June, they still haven't faded despite continual predictions that it's impending. And Ludwick didn't just fade from his April start, he *improved* on it in May. -
Gallagher with Carpenter stuff? No. Not even close. His fastball comes in at about the same speed, but that's the only comparison I can even begin to see between the two.
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Wainwright is hurt
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in General Baseball Talk
Cubs last 11 seasons: 3 playoff appearances, no pennants, no 90-win regular seasons (excluding game 163), five losing seasons Cardinals last 11 seasons: 6 playoff appearances, 2 pennants, 1 World Series title, 3 90-win regular seasons, 2 100-win regular seasons (in addition to the 3 90s), two losing seasons. It's not their body parts we envy. And that's even with the timeframe (11 years) cherrypicked in the Cubs' favor and during the best era to be a Cubs fan in any of our lifetimes. -
Wainwright is hurt
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in General Baseball Talk
We've lost our second-best starter, too. It's not like we've been immune. -
Cubs still do have the best record in baseball. Screw jinxing. After a particularly bad week a few years ago, I went down to my cell phone provider to find out that I had to shell out a few hundred bucks (keep in my I was just out of high school, about to start college in the spring, so that was a ton of money) to get out of a bad cellphone deal I had picked up the month before and hated the service. Before I left, I muttered something about this being as bad as it gets to my father, who then warned me about tempting God and the fates. "Tell God and the fates that they can bring it," I said. I drove down to the cellphone place, and came outside to the parking lot to find my car's engine on fire. After popping the hood and frantically shovelling snow onto it to put out the fire. I turned my head towards the sky and yelled "IS THAT ALL YOU GOT? IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO?!?!? BRING IT!" at the top of my lungs. Nothing worse happened to me that week, though I did go on to college to get a journalism degree and live through the 2003 NLCS, which were probably about the two worst things God and fates could do to me.