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  1. Bull
    A-Rod recognizing Rizzo going to bended knee on defense.
  2. Bull
    Do the cardinals still have a negative run differential?
  3. Bull
    Easy there, bud. We’re still getting around 6 pages on these babies. Come see me when the thread doesn’t make page two. Let me tell you a srtory about 2014.....
  4. Bull
    I think we can use Monty as a guide to suggest that not much would have changed.
  5. Bull
    Don’t poke the troll.
  6. Bull
    Everyone knows teams do that. It's widely considered to be dumb and meaningless when you're talking about things like a dozen AB or less. It's old timey meatball horsefeathers. Why do all these teams who spend millions on analytics do it if it was totally meaningless? You would think Theo or Jed would say something when they go over things with Joe everyday. Theo and Jed will say something to Joe about it. "Thank you or your services." Also, they did recently say something about redistributing the at bats so that the better hitters get more chances. That's as close to "stop playing Almora" as you can get without damaging morale.
  7. Bull
    In summary: baseball is awesome. Everything else ranged from not awesome to not tolerable.
  8. Bull
    I was at the game last night and will be there again. I guarantee a win. Cubs fans around me (cf) were hailing the virtues of Albert almora. I said he was slow and bad. When he made the average-ish catch they wanted to know what I thought of it. Surely no one else on the team could have made that catch. I didn’t want to argue so I didn’t tell them it was probably an 80% probability catch and that A real defensive center fielder would have been camped under it. They gloatingly let me know as they left that Almora hit .400 on the game. I didn’t tell them that 2 for five with two singles and no walks was only about league average ops and still was a great night for Albert. My poor wife had to hear all of it on the way back to the hotel. Edith Cox is a typical Cubs fan. Today I will not have to look at almora’s stupid curly hair and stupid face. Go Cubs.
  9. Bull
    Regardless of the person I cannot stand either variation of the shortened name. "Javi" is the only one of those types of nicknames that I don't mind, and even that bugs me a bit (though at least it's an actual damn name) because of the context when a dunce like Maddon (or any of the other managers who have done it) says it. It sounds like someone talking about a 5-year-old. Like, get out of here with that "Stropy" horsefeathers. I generally agree, but I’m pro “Rizzy”
  10. Bull
    Has to be satire.
  11. Bull
    It has to be satire. Edit: on second thought: do you remember tom29 from ten years ago or so? This person sounds like Tom studied sabrmetics at Phoenix College and came back with all the necessary skills to put us all in our place.
  12. Bull
    Fouled a ball hard off his shin. Javy out. All Cubs are broken.
  13. Bull
    What happened? Javy ded too?
  14. Bull
    Not to mention us sending down useable players, huh? Yeah Russell had 2 more hits today with a double, had 2 hits a HR a couple days ago. Maybe its bad Karma leading to all our bad luck with the way some of the fans refuse to move on like his ex-wife does. That’s the opposite of how karma works.
  15. Bull
    Confirmed: Cishek ded.
  16. Bull
    I was just saying the same thing. Without looking at the brewers' lineup: "If he leaves him in to face a righty, he's an idiot." Then lefty after lefty comes up and cain sits on the bench.
  17. Bull
    Makes sense. Kyle's only been slashing .286 .474 .714 1.188 over the last week. Can't have too much of a good thing! But seriously, who gives a horsefeathers if it's a LHP starting? Yeah, Schwarber is only hitting .203 .296 .362 .659 against them this year. But Almora is even worse with an abysmal .202 .237 .281 .517. I'd rather chance Schwarber having a good day against a southpaw, and forcing the Brewers to potential have to make real bullpen decisions, as opposed to Almora, who can't horsefeathering hit ANYBODY. That small advantage to schwarber on offense is probably balanced by better defense with this lineup. It’s a meh for me.
  18. Bull
    Maddon not returning confirmed.
  19. Bull
    Tony Kempana I wonder if they thought they had a deal for Caratini when they traded for Maldonado and that plan fizzled.
  20. Bull
    I feel like if anything, he would use a non-LOOGY as a LOOGY, rather than use a LOOGY in a role that LOOGY can't handle. He settles into the obvious, this lefty should be able to get out a lefty because he's a lefty mindset, and in this case, it could work. Completely agree. Hasn't Maddon even done the cutesy "have the lefty go play a position for a hitter in between lefties" thing the Rays did the other day? I'm thinking Travis Wood? This is something that was pretty iconic to the “Maddon is crazy/eccentric” mythos. Something that should have been recalled without question marks. This what Solid state drive degradation looks like. Time for a backup, buddy.
  21. Bull
    are we sure Russell can read? Only if the words he's reading are not on a sign. He can't read signs.
  22. Bull
    The obvious solution is for other teams to hit him every game using a tube sock full of quarters.
  23. Bull
    A more important factor is Hader’s deal with Baalzebub
  24. Bull
    Racist.
  25. Bull
    That is being exceedingly harsh to Corey Patterson, who put up a 2.5 WAR in half a season followed by a 5 WAR season, and then another 3.8 WAR season for the Orioles. The odds of Almora ever reaching Patterson's 10.9 career WAR is like 100 to 1. 100 to 1 seems like a bit of an over-exaggeration considering Almora has produced more WAR on a per PA basis so far in his career (3.0 in 1203 PA) than Patterson did in his (10.9 in 4499 PA). Not to say that he will keep up that pace for his entire career or even that he will get enough playing time in the majors to eclipse his WAR but its not unreasonable. How did I not realize that Patterson had nearly 2500 PA after the Cubs traded him?
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