southsideirish71

Another example of a guy who is about to get sent down, or outright released pitching a workman like gem around our inability to hit and our stupidity on the basepaths. We are efficient at one thing, generating outs quickly and quietly.

Maybe second time around against someone featuring absolutely nothing in his arsenal. You know, if this was just line drives that were snagged I would understand. But there is no reason we are dribbling ground balls out to various infielders. You know I am used to the crappy offense until summer, and then we ride the home run express for a few months to pad our numbers. I am not used to the crappy all around offense.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jul 3, 2011 -> 01:28 PM) 1-2-3 inning for probably the worst ML starting pitcher. Lopez is serving up meatballs. We should crush him.

Another year comes and goes and we spend nothing in international free agents. So we don't go over slot and we spend nothing in international. Then get confused when our minor leagues are a bit thin.

1-0 in the bottom of the 8th and we have Dunn lumbering around out in RF. Don't we have a better defensive guy to play RF this late in the game.

Maybe we can see another replay of the neighborhood play. We see this all of the time, however Karros can't let it go.

2 outs man on first and another coach picks Guillens pocket.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 2, 2011 -> 04:46 PM) Jesus, the broadcast and the crowd makes it seem like the Cubs just took the lead that inning. Wrigley Field is a goofy place. Ball goes up in the air, the drunks start acting like they just hit a 900 foot homer.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Jul 2, 2011 -> 04:38 PM) Pierre will be our leadoff guy for the next 2 seasons. I hope not. I am glad he is having a nice week, but he should not be getting the most ABs on this team. The only people who believe Pierre should get the most ABs is Ozzie and the twitter duo of Oney and Cowley.

I love how slappy guys are the only leadoff alternative. Yet you don't see slappy guys leading off a lot in the AL.

7 pitch inning. At least they are making him work.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 2, 2011 -> 12:07 AM) What's gotten into Juan Pierre? Did he swallow Adam Dunn's appendix? Maybe he figured out the magical service time formula for Dayan and figured that while he has the undying love from Guillen, Kenny might not be so enthralled.

Who cares if Wood or Marmol is closing. They could get Ronny Woo in his cub pajamas and we would have problems squaring him up with our rotten hitting team. If we can't hit against crappy NL pitchers in the middle of summer then we are going to have a hard time hitting anyone.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 1, 2011 -> 12:28 AM) I don't understand how these writers can be so shortsighted. Adam Dunn is owed approximately $49 million for the remainder of his contract here. But yeah, he's struggled terrible for 80 games, so let's just bench him permanently. Makes a ton of sense. These guys are absolute fools. If it were up to them, we'd have half the payroll spent on paying players in other organizations because we DFA'd them after 30 games. Take a look at Oney's twitter timeline. He commends Theo for releasing Cameron. As a GM who admits and owns up to his mistakes. Then makes a comment that the Rockies are not a contender because they don't have a leadoff hitter. Then we get the twitter bomb from the guillen mouthpiece following this up.

Who really cares about the opinion of the Guillen family biographer.

Nice win. Hopefully we are on countdown to games supplanting the Viciedo service time. We need that bat in this lineup everyday for a good run. This pitching staff is definitely good enough to win this division.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 05:37 PM) this team is SNAKE BIT Pulling sinkers low and away is not snakebit. Its a great player not executing in that particular AB.

Hey their defense takes the decision out of Guillens hands.

Now here is where Guillen bunts, then we have Paulie IBBed to allow Pierre to be the guy. I rather let Beckham swing away.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 05:29 PM) Ah watching our silver slugger follow that up by doubling off the wall. Much better use of the silver slugger.

Ah watching our silver slugger who can't bunt wasting a strike on a bunt attempt.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 05:26 PM) The guy fell, and AJ still only had him by a step. JK. Great throw by AJ. It also is a novel concept that a pitcher was quick to home and gave him a chance. That and he actually threw it to the correct side of the bag

NL baseball is funny. The Swiss army knife of generating outs.

Extra Grindy. Thats awesome. The shortest path between two points is a straight line 97%of the way, the slide and allow drag to speed you up.