Hairyducked Idiot

He doubled his HR allowed today. It just got warm *today*.

Garza's problems were bound to happen once the weather warmed up.

They seemed to me to be mostly our "best" by default. The really good ones had already been called up.

Not necessarily. The Cardinals also have to lose tomorrow. If they and the Cubs both win, the Cubs will still be 10 out. "it" was "how many games we are behind the Brewers." Or so I claim retroactively.

Shoot, someone beat me to it. Only 10 out. Win tomorrow and it's single digits.

That's not what I had in mind, but yep.

This lineup is worse defensively than our cheap lineup, and also can't hit.

its this. this has happened to me too often here. This is why I feel I have to be painstakingly clear and put more time/effort than I want into posting. And so I lurk, appreciating the great content and humor that is available here and dismissing the petty arguments since I'm no longer in them. Keep it up boys, you have a fan. I agree with that. Certain people here thrive on weeding out that one part of an argument or point that doesn't agree with them and then just go to town on it. I can't count how many times I've seen a long, well thought out, bold (aka going against the popular opinion) argument presented and the response is a 4 word sarcastic response or a one sentense reply where one point of the article is exaggerated beyond belief as a way to mock the argument. I can understand the frustration of having to discuss a topic that's been beaten to death 1000 times without sarcasm and humor, but some of the scenarios I can think of weren't overly discussed. I guess I just wish if people were going to be sarcastic, that they are sarcastic and then post their beliefs on the topic. Some people live for jumping on other people's arguments, and yet I notice they themselves almost never initiate a discussion topic themselves. They'd rather hide in the corner and popout to interject sarcasm from other people's opinions than put themselves out there for others to possibly disagree with. My guess is that this is partially why there are so many 5 word sarcastic mocking responses out there because its hard to ever be on the defensive end if you never give people something to disagree with. Wah, people are mean.

That's giving them too much credit. They are writers.

Okay, let's go over the link you posted. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2011/33/baseball-valuations-11_Chicago-Cubs_335092.html The Cubs are valued at $775 million by Forbes. The final price of the deal Ricketts paid was $845 million. That deal included Wrigley Field and the Comcast share, which combined are valued at *at least* $75 million, but it's hard to say for sure. So how, again, did he massively overpay?

It's like you are intentionally trying to side with the people who know the absolute least about business.

If you weren't promising to do another player next, I'd accuse you of being Mrs. Klafczynski

UNTUCK'EM!

Vitters watch: Already has a double

Why would one think that? It seems entirely made up. If he had sources, he'd list sources, and he didn't.

They've underperformed their pythagorean wins by 18 the post-winning era. I wonder if that means anything one way or the other.

So if the owner had only fired the management, hired someone to get better players, made the tickets super cheap, that would have proven they were smart. That was a whole lot of words just to go down the perfect generic laundry list that fans make about sports teams.

You are asking an unanswerable, and meaningless question. Beane was in charge. He's been in charge since 1997 and his results blow away Jim Hendry's results. Fuson and Ricciardi were gone for a long time. Oakland won a hell of a lot of games long after they left, at a better rate than the Cubs. "Better than Hendry" is not a valid reason to hire a guy, although looking at his record the A's have been better than I thought in recent years.

Cubs were flirting with winning this one, but they really buckled down and are looking like they will come through with the clutch loss.

Bases loaded, one out, and can't get another run in. Only the Phillies.

When it's all said and done, I bet they are outside the top 5 unless they do a huge firesale at the deadline. There are enough useful parts here to pull another late fake rally if they get reasonably healthy.

As a franchise. Apparently, after last night they are 9,982-9,982, the first time they've been back to .500 since 1923. Although this is apparently what they are considering the franchise lineage, which seems a bit of a stretch to me: http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ATL/

I was late getting to the TV. I swear to dog that Starlin Castro can only get hits when I'm not looking.

Name these actions. 3...2...1... go!

We have numerous guys faster than that. Daaaaang.