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Everett back up to .259 and now 38 RBI, pretty good all-in-all

81 pitches through 4 for The Duke, given the start of the game, 2 more innings from him would be pretty good in the end.

QUOTE(JimH @ Jun 8, 2005 -> 10:04 PM) It's 4-3 going into the top of the 3rd. Is it possible you people can climb in off the ledge? It was a bad inning, that's all. It will happen. Good call, it's a baseball game, lots of funny things happen in baseball games. Pablo's single-handedly tried to F the entire night, but there's still 7 innings left and we're down ONE WHOLE RUN. Stop b****ing.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 7, 2005 -> 06:04 PM) But have you seen those? They are red, and the S is all jacked up Is it the fourth one on my sig?

"Wide back" I don't know about you guys, but that sells me, LOL.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 7, 2005 -> 05:06 PM) Well, it's worked out pretty well for Chris Young of the Rangers, even though Young was a much bigger prospect. Yeah, I wasn't meaning to say Venable had a chance in the NBA, not many 6'2" shooting guards from Princeton do, but I was saying the few times I'd watched him on TV he was a pretty good ball player.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 7, 2005 -> 05:02 PM) Didn't Will Venable, of Princeton, play basketball in college also? He was just picked by the Padres. Yea, that's him, he was a damn good basketball player too.

"The Cubs ask for time."

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jun 7, 2005 -> 06:21 AM) Umm. No. He knows what he is talking about. Old Comiskey Park used to rock to the Go Go chant. I can still hear it .... Aparicio takes his lead off first .... and the crowd "Go Go Go Go Go Go" I've heard about this, from my dad. It sounds as if it would be really cool (and loud) if you got everyone doing it in the stadium. No other park in the league does anything like this and it's certainly simple enough that it would catch on throughout a stadium. Plus anything to intimidate a pitcher a little bit and get Iguchi, Thomas, and Konerko one or two more fastballs.

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Jun 6, 2005 -> 08:11 PM) "We'd have to get a sports package, or something, to see other teams..." Oh Dusty.... :headshake LMFAO! - MLB Extra Innings? Too expensive for that little Tribune Co. - MLBTV? Far too complex for Dusty I'm sure. - Tapes? Well if you can't figure out or afford a satellite dish, maybe a VCR is too tough too? - Dozens and dozens of scouts? Apparently inept, they do work for the Cubs. - Doing your job as manager? Nah, whining's easier. - "Or something?" That sounds like a plan to me,

Bobby Howry?

I love Shingo, but for his good he needs to be sent down to Charlotte for 2-3 weeks with the expressed purpose of pitching in as many games as possible during that 15 or so game stretch. If he figures it out and gets his confidence back, bring him back up and let him usually set-up, and occasionally close (ie if Hermy's gone out 2 or 3 games in a row) If he can't figure it out down in Charlotte, well that hasn't hurt the big club and we can figure things out about Shingo from there. Bring up Baj for a couple weeks and send Shingo down.

QUOTE(qwerty @ Jun 6, 2005 -> 01:39 AM) How about you look at how they hit at home as a whole and then compare is to how they hit away as a whole. Coors has a pretty powerful effect for such crappy beer. Rockies at home - .324 BA, .507 SLG, .382 OBP (all 3 are best of any NL team at their home), 513 TB (the best), 174 RBI (the best by 37 over the next best, and despite that 5 other NL teams have more home games so far), 66 2Bs (2nd best), 10 3Bs (2nd best), 33 HRs (3rd best). Rockies away - .225 BA, .345 SLG, .283 OBP, 307 TBs, 78 RBI, 38 2Bs, 3 3Bs, 21 HRs (in 1 less game, not that it matters) Rockies pitching @ Coors - 5.61 ERA (last in NL), 306 hits in 252 IP, 7 for 15 save opps, 34 HRs in 28 gms (which actually isn't as bad as one'd think), but 20 HBPs and 129 BBs (far and away worst in the NL, which I guess shows, that even when they aren't getting ripped, all the COL pitchers are still shatting their pants having to pitch in Coors)

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jun 4, 2005 -> 06:11 PM) Aaron walks, junkballer Matt Miller in, Aaron will prolly try to get a jump and go here. I luuuv it when you analyze.

Aaron walks, makes 101 pitches for Davis, gotta be near done EDIT: and is done

11 pitch AB, and then YARD! HELL YEAH PAULIE! 4-2

FWIW, in Cotts' last 7 outings (from 5/15 - present), here are his stats: 6 2/3 IP, 1 ER (1.35 ERA), 3 H, 2 BB, 8 Ks At the moment at least, he's the least of our bullpen concerns.

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QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 2, 2005 -> 07:43 PM) There's a statistical reason for why Chavez has more errors than Crede: he covers a larger range than Crede. Chavez had 1 more error than Crede in 03 and they had the same number in 04. However, both years, Chavez had a higher fielding percentage than Crede? Why? Well, either their pitching staff is such that Chavez is getting more ground balls hit to him overall, or he covers more ground. For that, we can look at the range factor, where Chavez clearly wins 2003 2004 Chavez 3.16 3.10 Crede 2.56 2.43 Chavez clearly has more errors because he covers more range, and therefore has more chances to field the ball. OK, good call. If the choice was Crede or Chavez, I'm all for Chavez, but not if McCarthy's gone too. The suggestions of Anderson/Sweeney/etc I'd go along with. McCarthy's my real sticking point.

QUOTE(sircaffey @ Jun 2, 2005 -> 07:22 PM) GG, All-Star 3B who's just entering his prime years or 27 year old 3B who's done crap and looks to have gotten worse. Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge upgrade. HAHAHAHAHA Offensively, no doubt Chavez is a better player, even given this year's abysmal early stats for Chavez. But on defense, laugh all you want, but in the last 2 years + 50ish games, Crede's made fewer errors in more games at 3B than Chavez, and no one in MLB makes the number of tough plays that Crede does. I fully said Chavez is better, but not so much so to sacrifice McCarthy.

Just for the sake of being on the record, I don't like this trade if it includes McCarthy. I don't think Chavez over Crede is enough of an upgrade to justify sending a guy, who for all strategic purposes this season, is considered in our starting rotation, and is 21 years old. Chavez and Crede are the same age, and I know four Gold Gloves (which are based just as much on reputation and offense as they are on defense) will be thrown at me for saying this, but defensively, Crede is at least a push to Chavez if not slightly better IMHO. Where's that Joe Crede Support Group that I signed up for? I feel scammed. Ok, I've made my contribution to the 800+ posts about Eric Chavez; thank God we had something to do on the off day.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Jun 1, 2005 -> 04:22 PM) Confirmed by ESPN 1000: * Timo at 1st base. * Willie at 2nd base. * Everett at DH. Ozzie wants to get as many lefties in the lineup against Byrd as possible. Timo at 1st base? :puke If Oz wants lefties, why not just play Timo for Dye or Rowand? Oh well, just sit back and laugh at it. Maybe Ozzie's doing it just because this game's on ESPN and he's gonna let National Commentator XXXXXX question him and complain ala Brantley style. I know it's a conspiracy theory, but it would be right up Ozzie's alley, right?

I and two high school friends went on a cross country, every stadium (33 games in 49 days, w/ 2 gms in ATL, NYY, and CHW) trip in summer 2001. So I've been to all the current parks except Philadelphia, Cincy, San Diego, and RFK (although I've been to RFK for soccer matches ). To keep it short, overall speaking, Camden Yards is my favorite. There is absolutely nothing to complain about whenever I see a game there, and I've been there probably 18-20 times. It's place in downtown Baltimore is perfectly situated, the food, beverage, and general atmosphere are all perfect for a baseball stadium. The ushers, vendors, etc, are all the best and most friendly in any other sports stadium (of any size or sport) that I've been to. There are very few bad places to sit in the stadium, and compared to all the other "most popular" stadiums (ie Fenway, Yankee, Wrigley, Pac Bell, SafeCo, Jacobs), the ticket prices are the most reasonable. Of the old 3, Yankee Stadium was actually my favorite. I expected I'd like Fenway more than Yankee, and while I liked Fenway a lot, I loved Yankee Stadium. True, the surroundings, transportation to and from, and area around the stadium are all wretched, but once inside Yankee Stadium, it truly is a cathedral to the game. Monument Park is a one-of-a-kind place and the whole time sitting in the stadium, I couldn't help but look around at the stadium instead of actually watching the game. I also really liked Pittsburgh, Seattle, SanFran, Cleveland, and Kansas City. KC was very surprising to me, and I can't really explain why I liked it so much other than to say it was like a super-sized minor league park with minor-league prices to everything, and if I lived in/around KC, I'd go there to watch games a lot, even if someone other than the Sox were visiting. PNC and PacBell are both similar in that no seats are bad seats in the entire park. The layout and design of the stadiums are both asthetically beautiful and perfect for the fans. Good food, good neighborhoods around the parks, lots to do and see inside the park without it being tacky or not about baseball anymore. Parks I considered bad/poor - Wrigley - everything is gross. Yeah the history I guess is cool, but that got old for me after about the first half inning. I'm sure I was a bit pre-biased, but my two friends (one a Braves fan, and one a Yankee fan) also hated Wrigley, with no encouragement or help from me. Interestingly, my friends liked Comiskey a lot better than the usual critiques of the park are. By no means was Comiskey their favorite, but they liked it quite a bit, and definitly more than Wrigley. (And both said, without my bias at all, that the food at Comiskey was at or near the best of any other stadium) Veterans Stadium, Olympic Stadium, Riverfront Stadium, Qualcomm Stadium - all gone and good riddance, so I won't say any more. Most domes, but especially SkyDome - the people working their know and care 0 about baseball, most of the seats are horrible for baseball, and they can have 25,000 people in it and it still seems like a huge, vacant, empty warehouse. Dodger Stadium - pretty crappy place. Seats are small and crampped, the place is pretty dirty, the employees at the park are all assholes that couldn't give a s***. The design of the park and the scenery are the only good things about the place. Miller Park - of the newer places, this was the most disappointing. The conveniences and good food are definite pluses, but it was a very strange place to me to watch a game. The outside of the stadium is ugly. The park to me, has no identity, it's like they took mismatched aspects of all the new parks (Camden, Seattle, Jacobs, etc) and crammed them all together.

QUOTE(Leonard Zelig @ Jun 1, 2005 -> 11:52 AM) Is Friday soon enough? Bring if Fatboy, he probably didn't realize it and/or is just really F'ing stupid and thought the Twins were in first place. Right after we get done sweeping Anaheim out of here tonight, we're gonna be putting you double digits games back. Fatboy will be done before June is done, and he won't even realize it.

1. Dye (even batting .230) >>>> Raul Mondesi 2. Dye has come up big a few times in the last couple weeks, his numbers (namely his BA) are going to keep improving. 3. when Frank returns regularly , we'll already have one too many DHs 4. The one huge thing this team has going for is its chemistry/unity/whatever cliche term you want. I'm not saying therefore KW should make no moves, but certainly Mondesi is not worth doing so. So basically, no.