Hairyducked Idiot
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When you take into account that it's his third start, the relative score, Marquis' suckiness and the number of family members he has posting on NSBB, this is actually a great start to the inning self-ban
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Throw strikes, Gallagher. Above all, throw strikes. Let the NL's best defense do its job and if they fall, so be it.
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Gameday has 27, although like was mentioned it wasn't exactly a beacon of accuracy this half inning. Fangraphs has 28. No matter what, it was high :)
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Edmonds could at least take three pitches and strike out instead of a two-pitch popup. I think I counted 32 pitches total for the inning.
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Sotodouble. 32 pitches and counting in the first. I love this team so much.
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Dayn Perry: "Are the Cubs for real?"
Hairyducked Idiot replied to ChiCubsfan0502's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
He's a bit more pessimistic than I am, but Perry hit it dead on. If anything gets the Cubs, it will be the pitching, especially the rotation. Rich Hill still had control problems at Iowa, and I think it's reasonable to say that it's a real issue at this point. Combine it with potential health problems now, and there's a very good chance we've lost our No. 2 pitcher. After Lilly and Zambrano now, we have a lot of guys capable of putting up ERAs in the high 4s (i.e. not good but not horrible). Ideally, two of them maintain that and a third takes a step forward. So far, Dempster has been the step forward guy, but I don't think any of us expect him to keep it up. Lieber, Gallagher, Marshall, Marquis, Dempster. I put them all in the same rough band of pitching, and we'd like to get overperformance and two adequate seasons out of the three. There is only one realistic path (outside of catastrophic injury problems) that leads to the Cubs losing the division or missing the playoffs: Mediocre back end of the rotation + CF never working itself out and SS regressing + bad luck/pythagorean underperformance + someone in the division getting lucky and overperforming. It's not a really likely path, which is why most projection models have the Cubs at 75+% in the playoffs. -
OMFG WE LOST TO THE ASTROS ALL IS LOST!
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DeRosa totally overmatched in that one. We've got to have someone better than Fontenot in a homer-or-nothing last gasp.
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DP taken out of order. That's good.
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Can we go one game without the entire fan base being convinced the umpires don't know what they are doing and we can tell much better from our distorting angle, flattened 2-D representation of the zone?
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Yep, that hot streak is definitely over.
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You were joking, but it might just be true :) He's ofer the series.
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Hoff is feared. Edmonds really killed this inning.
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I'll settle for a walk. Or a GIDP. He's doing his best to play himself out of a job.
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I'll settle for a walk.
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Your standards are quite high.
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There we go. Now there was a beached whale of a man. http://content.clearchannel.com/Photos/sports_photos/MLB/MISC/eric_gregg_GI3.jpg He made for some exciting, close, low-scoring playoff games. What's so bad about that?
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Sort of like how he was lucky in so many starts, it's sort of "unlucky" that the four of the baserunners he's allowed scored on one play. If Pence's liner is 8 feet shorter, it's a one-run Cubs lead and we're talking about how lucky Dempster's been again.
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http://www.fangraphs.com/lgraphs/280520118_Cubs_Astros_74573692_lbig.png
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Dempster had that coming.
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Off the corner. This camera angle blows chunks.
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Dempster getting walky.
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If it hits the runner, it wasn't a good throw.
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Dempster rocking a .222 BABIP by my quick math.