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5/2 Cubs (Marquis) @ Pirates (Snell) - CSN/720
ToupeeOnFire replied to David's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Babe Doumit. :x -
Next game starts at 1 central / 2 eastern.
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I hope DLee is careful. http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/phd/PHD427/92041.jpg
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So, DLee has decided he's going to win the batting title this year.
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Damn, I was hoping they'd bat around twice.
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Can Jacque hit for the cycle in one inning?
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Alright Jacque, finish what you started.
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What is it, 13 on the year now?
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Time for DLee home run #2.
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Ummm...SWING HANK! Of course, it's HANK! He always gets the greenlight.
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Nice job, Jacque. I'll take a 12 pitch inning, thank you very much.
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I wonder if Lou will chew him out. I doubt it.
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You can't teach hustle.
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But the fact is Dusty abused his guys more than any manager abused theirs. Lots of them are bad. But Dusty is the worst. I'm looking through the game logs from 2003 and he has so many 100+ ptich outings. He had 2 stretches when he had a long string of starts with over 100 pitches. One stretch was 12 consecutive starts with over a 100 pitches and another was 10 starts. These streaks were separated by 2 starts. Unreal. It's often argued that 110-115 pitches is a good limit for most veteran pitchers. But Prior was just 22, and he shouldn't have been throwing 120+ pitches. He averaged more pitches per start than Livan Hernandez. That's always a bad sign. At least Dusty didn't leave Prior in for 140+ like he did Wood. Game two of the 2003 NLCS, in which Dusty had Prior out there to throw 116 pitches in a 12-3 game, pretty much sums up the entire Dusty era for me.
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I wonder if Gary Thorne is a "truther".
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Is he not?
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Wow. Where did that come from? Where did what come from? I just don't care for Goldstein's interpretation of the whole Prior/Wood dynamic. He's projecting, which I think, sometimes, particular stat-heads are wont to do. It's this whole us vs. them fallacy -- nouveau, enlightened, 21st century baseball paragons vs. old, crusty, chaw-spittin', flat-earth baseball men and the sychophantic sports reporters who suck on their every word. Sure, you'll find "old school baseball guys" that seem to live down to the stereotype; but in general, I find it to be a false dichotomy, both obnoxious and unhelpful. Yet there is always this temptation to set up this kind of fatted straw man and parade him around in all his backwardness and pig-ignorance as a means of derision and ridicule. I am probably (well, I know) I am giving way too much credit to these Prior-is-a-wuss critics, but since I tend to come from a stat-geek perspective (all the way back to the old Bill James Abstracts and, later, to the old rec.sport.baseball usenet days when Baseball Prospectus was pretty much birthed by a few newsgroup regulars), I find this kind of behavior annoying. Of course now I am projecting and have probably been just as guilty of objectionable snark, but I calls 'em as I sees 'em.
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=D> =D> =D> =D> [/i] You know, I'm not sure which I find more annoying...bufoonish idiots who proclaim that "Mark Prior is a wuss" or condescending stat-geeks who project their own sniveling insecurities onto others.
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Did he lose any teeth?
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They wouldn't be winning right now if it weren't for Theriot's base running blunder.
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I'll be happy with a strikeout here.
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I credit that run to Ryan Theriot's astute base running. I think he intentionally went to third because he knew Sheets would be covering and there would be a good chance he'd get hurt trying to make the tag.
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Here is where they get shut down by the great Elmer Dessens.
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the stooges are funnier AND better at their jobs. ...and they could beat the Cubs in a best of 7 series.
