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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    redszone.com. It's not too bad today.
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    That can't be correct. The Giants went to the World Series under Baker (i.e., won two playoff series clinching games in the NLDS and NLCS) and the Cubs won one playoff series in 2003. Maybe it's elimination games (Games 5 and 7)? It's not his career, it's just his last 11 games in which either team could be eliminated (not necessarily both, i.e. a Game 5 or 7): 0-2 against the Angels in the World Series 1-1 against the Braves in the 2003 LDS 0-3 against the Marlins in the 2003 LCS 0-1 against the ... whoever in the 2010 LDS 0-3 (prematurely including today) against the Giants in the 2012 LDS
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://www.redszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98931&page=25 Reds much more entertaining than the Orioles last night. Lots of blaming Latos and one "I wish we'd been swept."
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Oh, look, a Dusty Baker-led team is going from an extremely advantageous situation to utter collapse. That never gets old.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Another data point in the ever-shifting defense of Ha, whom many fans seem to insist is the best defensive CF in the system.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Apparently, Baez was upset because he was playing 3b and kept looking sullenly over at SS or something, and he botched every ball that was hit to him.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    In fairness didn't almost every D'back hit like crazy in that series?? Even Augie had a few hits I remember. @#%!$ Ojeda put up a 1.101 OPS in that series: 4-for-9 with a BB, HBP and 2b. Just for fun, I calculate the Diamondbacks as having a .358 BABIP and 20% HR/FB ratio for that series. The Cubs were .257 and 3.8%. Combining 2007 and 2008, the Cubs hit 60 fly balls and had 2 home runs to show for it, a 3.3% ratio.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Orioles fans are kind of boring when disappointed: http://forum.orioleshangout.com/forums/showthread.php/127338-ALDS-Game-3-A-New-Hope-Orioles-amp-Yankees/page112 http://forum.orioleshangout.com/forums/showthread.php/127338-ALDS-Game-3-A-New-Hope-Orioles-amp-Yankees/page161
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, that was cool.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    A Dusty Baker team getting an advantageous position in the postseason and then coming from ahead to lose? Doesn't sound like something that would happen...
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    We have a DH controversy in New York.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Attendance went up 200k, plus they are getting another year of playoff revenue, and it looks to me like they left at least $10 million or so on the table this year for whatever reason. I'm sure they could handle $125 in payroll if they wanted to.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sometimes I wonder if those lists don't say more about whose scouts talk to the scouting pundits, especially on the back end of the big lists.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    It was, and so was the Ichiro call last night. This playoff season has been great for bringing some of baseball's most misunderstood rules into the spotlight.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    What was that? The allegedly late/too-far-out infield-fly call.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Came to post the same thing. WTF A guy taken 15 picks after Josh Vitters in 2007, with considerably less offensive success since. Until the Cardinals needed him for a late-season run, of course.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    When you think about how many prospects they missed out on by not trading their good players, not to mention the opportunities to test out scrapheap players with minute upside, you almost feel sorry for them.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Still think the Braves have to balk at that, or at least get a better offer elsewhere. Soriano for Uggla is basically a wash, value-wise, before salary is factored in. So it's Delgado for Barney + salary relief? They have to be able to do better than that for young MLB pitching.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Uggla is a solid value at $13 million a year. You would have to give up something useful to get him. You certainly aren't getting something awesome just for taking his contract.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Justin Bour was robbed. Hak-Ju Lee continues to fade after some brief overhype.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's a major league pitcher, albeit not a great one.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Awesome call by Matheny to pinch-hit there. If that were the Cubs, Descalso would have jogged home and failed to score when Jay was thrown out at 2b.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    "Doesn't throw hard" already for Blackburn? That's disappointing. Phil said he's struggling to reach 90. Despite coming at the end of a long season, that's concerning.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    And as I said, only one of those three is worth being upset about losing out on in the pursuit of actually winning baseball games. (And no, there's absolutely no reason why we'd have to give up on trading Cashner for Rizzo). In the meantime, a few of the improved MLB players we fielded in this imaginary 2012 would have miraculously managed to be useful in 2013 and beyond, so we'd be set up better on that end.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes. Our only choices were emptying the bullpen without replacements and tanking, or signing Prince Fielder to a $200 million contract. If you really think those were our only two choices, I understand why you prefer the former. The Cubs would have still had an entire young, cost-controlled middle infield. They still would have had that catcher everyone is pencilling in for 2013. They still would have had the 2011 draft class that everyone is excited about, including the skyrocketing Javier Baez. It's not like all their young players and farm system would have just shriveled up and died.
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