Hairyducked Idiot
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Arrgh! We NEVER get the run home from third with less than two outs. We must be the WORST TEAM IN THE LEAGUE AT THAT?!?!?!?!!!!!! Oops, sorry, channeled my inner sports radio fan.
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Double steal, throw goes into left. 5-0 Cubs.
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Hey, at least he's playing today. Funny thing is, I'd rather he not be. Theriot does a good impression of a lefty killer, and I'd like to see DeRosa at second and Murton in left.
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he shouldn't even be given a chance to keep it up god i hate his white ass so badly if i see him start another game for this team i am going to start bleeding out of my eye sockets We don't have any other options at this point. If only we had a young SS who tore the crud out of AAA last seaon and had a .385 OBP in the bigs this season going into today.
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I know I shouldn't be worried about the Cardinals, but I am. The sooner they revert to their level, the better.
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Is it only because I watch so many Cubs games that it seems that the Cubs are the worst team in the league at calling for popups? It isn't hard.
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The intention doesn't have to be malicious for it still to be stupidly racist. Yeah, it kind of does. That's what racist means. It was stupidly racially insensitive, but not racist.
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.288/.354/.424 coming into the game with plus defense at the SS position. Happy with the offense so far (in the "Hey, I'm up $50 playing blackjack!" sort of happy), but I'm not sure I agree on the defense.
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Has anyone else started to soften up to the DH?
Hairyducked Idiot replied to inari's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
They are real in the sense that they are bad arguments, yes. There is a reason they are listed under the classical logical fallacies: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html. The reason for the line between the DH and further specialization has been clearly laid out: There is no other position on the field where the balance between run prevention and run creation is completely ignored. -
Pie's had more than 200 PAs in the majors by now. The two-month adjustment period should be over, and I expect him to start hitting at any moment once he's put back in the lineup. You can't tell if a player is overmatched in just 28 plate appearances.
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Are there any lefty-heavy rotations likely to make the NL playoffs? Because I was looking at some of our guys' career numbers and thinking about how utterly and completely we can smash lefties with the lineups we can put out there. And how perfectly Cublike it would be to face a lefty-heavy rotation and choke.
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This. This x 2 - except that he lost me during the whole Merker vs. Broadcasters thing. He lost me when he decided to throw a live grenade at Chad Fox's arm. I can proudly say that I was never on the Baker bandwagon. His reputation with young players preceded him, and this proven "winner" had a funny knack for managing teams that fell apart in spectacular, come-from-ahead implosions.
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I keep hearing it repeated on message boards and in the media. Hill's start yesterday was supposedly a step in getting "back on track?" He had one bad start, and really only one bad inning in that start. His ERA is better than it was last year when he was a legit No. 2 starter. Why do people keep insisting that he was struggling?
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Has anyone else started to soften up to the DH?
Hairyducked Idiot replied to inari's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Slippery slope arguments make for poor logic. How so? Most of the pro-DH arguments on here are "pitchers are poor hitters. I don't want to see that, so to make the game more exciting, we shall have someone replace them at the plate." Pitchers do not have to bat. So then why not replace a poor fielder with a defensive wizard? Everyone likes to see great plays in the field, right? Wouldn't that make the game more exciting, rather than see someone make an error, or simply let the ball go past for a hit? Because there is a real, measurable difference in the gap between pitchers and non-pitchers hitting abilities and poor fielders and good fielders' fielding ability. Just because a line is arbitrary doesn't make it completely invalid. -
Has anyone else started to soften up to the DH?
Hairyducked Idiot replied to inari's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Slippery slope arguments make for poor logic. -
Has anyone else started to soften up to the DH?
Hairyducked Idiot replied to inari's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Let's say it's the bottom of the 6th, the game is tied 1-1. The opposing pitcher has been mowing down your offense all day. In the top of the 7th, 6-7-8 is due up in the order. 6 and 7 make outs. You walk the 8th guy intentionally to force the opposing manager to remove his pitcher. Then say your team scores some runs off the bullpen and wins the game. It was because you were able to force the other manager's hand and force him to act. There is nothing like this in the AL. First, I don't think there's much chance most managers pull the pitcher in that scenario. Second, there's no guarantee the pitcher pulled wouldn't have given up runs. Third, you might have won that game later anyways. Even if the perfect, imaginary scenario for the anti-DH argument, things fall pretty flat. -
Starters make the best bullpen pitchers
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Jon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Marmol is making Piniella really lazy with his pen use, and he's going to burn him out by mid August at this rate. -
I was intending to write this before the homer, but I'm concerned about overuse of Marmol. He's protecting too many 2 and 3 run leads, which is a bit overkill.
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Pickoff, made it to second but seemed to pop up off the bag into the air, and Theriot grittily kept the tag on.
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Hmm. Take a pitcher out of the rotation for one bad start, put him back in a week later, act surprised when his control is an issue.
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I'd love to see some study that shows whether guys who go 4-4 are likely to hit better than their normal numbers the next day. I know, for a sort of similar example, basketball players who have hit a high number of shots in a row are not more likely to hit their next shot than if they've missed a large number in a row.
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You'd rather have Pie? Yes, I would rather have the 23 year old kid get consistant playing time so come this off season we know if he is ready to be our cf of the future. As it is going now we are going to be in the same spot as we were this past off season. I'll take the wins now. This is the equivalent of trying to time the stock market or figuring out if a roulette wheel is due for black.
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The Corey Pattersonization of Pie is almost complete. Step 1: Fall in love with him for his tools. Step 2: Talk up his makeup and intangibles, make him an "untouchable" trading chip Step 3: Hand him the job. Step 4: Sign a mediocre vet for him to split time with. Step 5: Pull him at the first sign of trouble and give the vet more playing time. Step 6: Tinker with his swing, try to turn him into a different kind of hitter. Step 7: Spread rumors that he's uncoachable and has a bad makeup. Step 8: Dump him
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Tejada two years older than thought
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in General Baseball Talk
Yeah it could of been handled a better way. It was a total dick move by the ESPN guy. At first, I didn't agree. But now that I've seen it, it was handled pretty bush. They didn't just want to break the story, they wanted to get the big "gotcha" moment on camera. -
Maybe the White Sox are for real.
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in General Baseball Talk
they were 16 games over .500 in one-run games too? you're being intentionally dense. if you have a team with a good run differential and good execution of fundamental play, you probably have a WS contender. i can't believe this is so controversial, but the groupthink evident in this thread is that the 2nd aspect is simply BS. it's really a bizarre bias. You are being intentionally illogical. There's no evidence whatsoever that strong fundamentals equals one-run wins, but you assert it as if it is unassailable fact. If they were so good fundamentally in those games, shouldn't they have won by more than one run? Or is it non-fundamental to manufacture a run when you are already winning 4-3?