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QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 27, 2010 -> 09:24 PM) He was so obviously down. I don't even know how you could miss that. I heard a whistle, Kuhn just had another idea of his own I guess.

He was clearly down by contact on that.

QUOTE (Gregory Pratt @ Sep 27, 2010 -> 07:23 PM) All those advanced metrics are wrong. Eh, believe whatever you want I guess.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 26, 2010 -> 03:22 PM) Teahen is going to be taking his spot as corner utility guy and lefty bat off of the bench next year. He'll be the next Mark Kotsay.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 26, 2010 -> 02:06 PM) Ozzie didn't call a press conference.He's just too honest for some of your tastes. I like the honesty. He was in the dugout for the pregame interviews. He talks. That's Ozzie. I guess he could have or should have ripped the Cubs, but that's one job that's available. Why would he rule it out if he leaves here? s***, he could manage their forever like LaRussa in St. Looie. I think Ozzie wants that meeting with JR which he keeps mentioning and he wants his ego to be stroked and maybe he'll stay. I do also think he would love to be Florida manager. I'd say it's 50/50 what he wants. Of course he cares most about himself, family and money. Most former ballplayers who made a buck in the game do just that. So he doesn't bleed White Sox, he bleeds money and Guillen...

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 26, 2010 -> 09:46 AM) He's never been a good defensive player. I don't think the Cubs screwed him up. He hit pretty well with them. When they traded him, he did nothing but hit his way to Japan. I don't know how many games they have left, but don't they usually hold the foreign guys out if they can if they are about to break a Japanese player's record? All those advanced metrics say otherwise.

Matt Murton's always been a pretty good ball player. He plays good D, gets on base, has a bit of power. Thing is, the Cubs totally screwed him up.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 26, 2010 -> 01:07 AM) How can you guys listen to that interview and not love Ozzie? I don't get it. Ozzie can do anything and you'd love him. Just curious, what does he have to do for you to not love him?

I want the Yankees, or any other team playing the Twins to humiliate them. My hate for that team has just built up far too much over the years for me to root for them.

He's the next Joe Crede, only without as much power.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Sep 21, 2010 -> 04:48 PM) He'd still be behind CarGo, Votto, Pujols IMO. He may not be as good as those guys on offense, but he's a SS and plays a very good SS. That's a huge reason why his WAR is actually pretty close to the likes of all those 3 (and higher than CarGo's), even though he has almost 150 fewer PAs.

If Tulo keeps this up, he can actually win the MVP.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 19, 2010 -> 03:23 PM) I don't think it's possible to play better than Cutler did today. Big credit to Martz for adjusting to the first two possessions. That first TD drive was a thing of beauty, the Cowboys looked so damn lost.

Great showing today by the entire team. Obviously, there were some mistakes, but the execution was very good, unlike last Sunday.

I just can't seem to grasp how this sounds right..."His war is 3.0..." Now if you say he was worth 3 wins or 3 wins above the replacement player, that seems to give people a better understanding of what you're trying to say. I've also heard people say things like, "He's OPSing .856". That just makes it sound like that guy has some weird condition going on or is on some type of weird menstrual cycle for men.

I don't know if you can call this Ozzie's greatest managerial effort ever, at all. 2008 might have been his best, but this year has been downright awful. First off, the team underachieved in April and May, way underachieved. It doesn't matter what you blame it on, everything went wrong. Pitching sucked, hitting sucked (Jim Thome would have been nice, yeah...), and I'm sure Ozzie didn't help any of it by bunting with Gordon Beckham like he's Juan Pierre. Then, you know what happened? The law of averages came into play. We went through a easy part of the schedule, our talent started showing up, our luck began to turn, and our team confidence went through the roof. But as always, you can't play .750 baseball, nobody can. So we started to fall, now whether or not that's Ozzie fault is debatable, but you know, having Jim Thome hitting home runs as opposed to Mark Kotsay grounding out to second helps. And come September, what do you know? The team's tired, plays like s***, gives up, and falls out of contention with half the month left to go when they were within striking distance at the start of it. It's the same damn saga almost every year. When Ozzie's your manager, your team will suck late in the year, even if the rotating DH is in effect. We're like the anti-Rockies. Maybe Ozzie should ask Jim Tracy how he keeps his guys so fresh in September.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 07:39 PM) First he disses the fans and now he s***s on Nancy Faust. Why do people love this guy so much? He's not even a good manager. lol, what Ozzie said about Nancy can be said about himself. He was once considered a pretty good manager, but now his act is getting old.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 07:55 PM) I know it's kind of a silly question but I'm curious since in regular offline conversations I don't usually talk to people in much depth about baseball stats. In my head I read it as a word that rhymes with "cops." Also when I see OBP I say out loud "on-base percentage" and not the three letters. I was watching a broadcast of a game and the announcer made reference to it which was a pleasant surprise since they usually don't reference advanced stats, even OPS, and OPS and WHIP are probably the easiest to understand. Anyway the announcer said the three letters O-P-S. The second time he said it he said "on base plus slugging." Do most people just say it as a word, like I do? I always say OPS, as in the three letters. Same with OBP, but for SLG, I just say slugging or slugging%. As for the even more advanced stuff, I'll say stuff like UZR, cause that sounds like the three letters stand for something. For things like wOBA and WAR, I say the whole word out.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 03:58 PM) No s***, Larussa has 25 more years on him, if you look at their first 7 seasons, Ozzie's are more impressive. You also have to consider that LaRussa managed in a completely different era in those first 7 years. He had to be the best of 7 teams to make the playoffs. Had Ozzie been in that generation, he might have gotten to the playoffs once, not so impressive now, is it?

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 03:54 PM) If you are comparing a man with 32 years experience to a guy with 7 years, then its really only fair to look at their first 7 seasons and Ozzie's are much more impressive. Ozzie Guillen has nothing on LaRussa's resume as a manager.

My Cardinals fan friend always b****es about how La Russa loves to use crappy players like Stavinhova, Mather, and Schumaker. Looks like every manager has a certain obsession with grindy players... Plus, he tends to overmanage the bullpen a lot.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Sep 18, 2010 -> 02:24 AM) after reading the article, i think a good reclamation project would be Joba Chamberlain. This guy has the so called "Chicago tough" Kenny is looking for, and is going the adversity of failing in a big city media right now. Peripheral wise, he gave up 21 homerun and 76 walks in 155 innings last season, If Coop can get him to throw a cutter and reduce his HR rate and walk rate like his work with Ejax, Joba can be scary good, can be sort of like the Josh Johnson of AL. Only Coop can fix him.

So Joe Torre's time is done in LA. I wouldn't mind seeing him as our manager.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 16, 2010 -> 07:17 PM) Hawk's idiocy has rubbed off on Steve Stone. "Carl Povano has been the ace of this staff." No, Steve, that would be Liriano. Stone's logic: Pavano has more wins, thus, he is the ace...

I like how we hit Cuddyer, but not Young. So of course, Young single anyways.