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  1. UBlink
    The fact that Piniella actually accepted a job offer from the Chicago Cubs organization calls his judgement into question.
  2. UBlink
    What organization does "our" refer to?
  3. UBlink
    Just checked to see if anything dramatic happened since yesterday - the Cubs still have the best avg. in the NL with RISP. Link For what it's worth, looking at different situational splits the Cubs are only 7th in close and late, but their avg is still .007 above the league average.
  4. UBlink
    Am I missing something? If Wood pitched enough to earn $4MM wouldn't he most likely be worth it?
  5. UBlink
    Same link, Scoring Position 2 out Cubs rank 5th. Just Scoring position Cubs rank 1st Link
  6. UBlink
    Knoxville News Sentinel Additional quote: Additionally, I believe Matt Craig (.346) would have been 5th except for being a few PA's short because of his stint on the DL. Cortes, Kroeger and Craig all have OPS over .900, and after Tuesdays 4-4 with a HR Fox is probably over .900, too.
  7. UBlink
    I don't have statistical support, but I think the image of Arlington as a HR park is based on prevailing summer winds (not unlike a certain field in Chicago). And the right field porch is in, well, right field.
  8. UBlink
    If I continue to invite you over every time I invite my friends and you do the same thing each time I think I have to share in the blame, and I wouldn't blame my friends if they passed on my invitations.
  9. UBlink
    Pierre's OPS in 2006 was only 6 points lower than his career numbers. His hitting performance was pretty much what one could expect.
  10. UBlink
    In fact it is that simple. If you throw in all the BS excuses people like to give Hendry, you complicate the story. The fact is Hendry has done a poor job. I don't mean to be flip, but you just restated your opinion without providing any reasons why it should hold up under logical scrutiny. I can make an argument why it is fair and accurate to take into account the state of the team at the time the GM takes over and why it is hard to fault a GM for catastrophic injuries. Can you make an argument for why it is more fair and accurate to judge a GM on one statistic? In the long run, I think it is fair to judge a GM strictly on on-the-field performance. Sure, state of the team at the start and injuries will happen along the way to all teams but they can't obscure the results in the long run. The only excuse I can imagine is sample size, and my question is how many years do we have to give him before the noise is filtered out? Personally, I'm of the opinion that the sample size is large enough to judge by on-field results, and the overall results are unacceptable.
  11. UBlink
    Congrats on the grad! And if she has gainful employment hallelujah and double congrats. :D
  12. UBlink
    Since when is awful worse than terrible?
  13. UBlink
    I'd say the actual numbers say he's doing quite well, period. Especially with a 2007 Salary: $500,000.
  14. UBlink
    Wow this was an incredibly stupid post. If what Sammy is doing is looking bad, I'd love to see some Cubs outfielders do that. Agreed. Watching the Rangers this year seeing Sammy come up is always a delight. Just went to MLB.com and looked at some of Sammy's highlights including opposite field doubles as well as HRs. If that's looking terrible...
  15. UBlink
    Kroeger and Craig .380/.426/.600/1.026 are both tearing it up offensively for the Smokies.
  16. UBlink
    That's great, rub it in some more. Wonder what great advice we're getting from Izturis?
  17. UBlink
    There should be a requirement that there be a day game somewhere in the minor league organization on any day the parent team has an off day.
  18. UBlink
    I don't see that so much. At this stage I see them as a pretty average team - not great, not bad. 6th in the NL in OPS, 4th in ERA - seems to me they could be (and have been) a lot worse.
  19. UBlink
    I'm pretty sure those of us who are also Rangers fans are in that category.
  20. UBlink
    Maybe if we didn't have DeRosa Theriot could play 2B and SS and get twice as many AB's.
  21. UBlink
    This isn't about demanding certain things from the hitters. I'm not suggesting that our players suck because they can't hit in a timely fashion. I'm merely saying that we're losing some games because we don't get the hits when we need to. I'm not blaming the players for this necessarily. It's just one of those things that hasn't been going our way lately. That's all. Alot of timely hitting is just luck. We've been terribly unlucky so far this season. Again, not blaming the players for it....except Izturis, he's just awful. Am I the only person here who has heard the term "timely hitting"? I've heard that from every coach since little league it seems. I've heard it a lot and I'm trying to understand it. I would think if coaches are talking about it they might have provided some hints on how to do it. "Johnny, you're hitting for good average but we're not getting timely hitting - here's what you need to do..."
  22. UBlink
    How does a player go about improving the consistency or timeliness of his hitting? Is there a way to somehow say this AB isn't really important so I'll save some for when it would really help? Or that this AB is really important so I'll give it a little extra knowing that it is coming at the expense of some future AB? Is there a way of changing your hitting approach so you hit .310 spread consistently over several games instead of .320 in streaks? What exactly are we asking the hitters to do?
  23. UBlink
    Use the code tag
  24. UBlink
    :hail:
  25. UBlink
    That's morbid.
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