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Eastcoastfan

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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #735 on: May 20, 2011, 10:36:36 pm »
I have tickets for tomorrow and Sunday.  Do I have to go?

Seriously, it will be fun.  But I am thinking that these may be the only two Cubs games I watch from beginning to end all year.  That's never happened before.

I know the Red Sox make many of you sick.  But watch this weekend how hard they make the pitchers work.  I was talking to the middle school team that I manage last night about having a game plan for each at bat and letting the rest take care of itself.  The Red Sox are a model of this. They have a lot of guys who just battle and grind every at bat.
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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #736 on: May 20, 2011, 10:59:11 pm »
Quote from: Cactus on May 20, 2011, 03:03:42 pm
An Atlanta blogger thinks the Braves are interested in Aramis Ramirez

http://www.bleachernation.com/2010/08/17/rumor-atlanta-braves-are-trying-to-land-aramis-ramirez/

That was from last August. IMHO, posting it now was downright cruel.
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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #737 on: May 20, 2011, 11:39:40 pm »
True, east...the Red Sox hitters grind away EVERY AB...they'd be tough to pitch to!  Hats off to that crew and their mgmt!

brjones, the moves of GMs SHOULD be considered with the benefit of hindsight...that's the world we live in.   There's WAY too much subjectivity to do it otherwise.   Yet, i believe you are correct that Hendry would have been blistered by Cub fans had he let ARAM walk and/or not signed Soriano etc etc.   Of course, that's part of the problem.   Fans don't have the kind of baseball saavy or smarts that really good GMs possess...and neither does our GM.
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DelMarFan

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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #738 on: May 21, 2011, 02:08:55 am »
Quote from: Eastcoastfan on May 20, 2011, 10:36:36 pm
But watch this weekend how hard they make the pitchers work.  I was talking to the middle school team that I manage last night about having a game plan for each at bat and letting the rest take care of itself.  The Red Sox are a model of this. They have a lot of guys who just battle and grind every at bat.

That was one of my favorite things about the 2008 team--watching them take pitches and work counts and make pitchers work.  That we're back to the same old hackaway Cubs is just one of the things that makes this team practically unwatchable.
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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #739 on: May 21, 2011, 02:15:05 am »
Are there any rumors about Gorzelanny not being a Quality-quality guy?  Or being bad in the clubhouse or uncoachable or anything like that?  Pittsburgh had him buried in the minors, but wasn't that Littlefield Pittsburgh, so who knows? 

Without anything like that, trading him looks pretty stupid.
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StrikeZone

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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #740 on: May 21, 2011, 02:52:51 am »
Tom Gorzelanny got the Mike Wuertz treatment in Pittsburgh.  He got on the wrong side of the manager and/or pitching coach and they just kept him in AAA his final season with the Pirates to teach him a lesson.
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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #741 on: May 21, 2011, 06:52:04 am »
The Cubs traded him to save a couple of million bucks. 
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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #742 on: May 21, 2011, 09:06:33 am »
Alfonso Soriano on playing left at Fenway vs Wrigley

"Chicago, as soon as I hit the warning track, I start to get scared because I know the wall is not easy to hit"

At least he's being honest.
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CurtOne

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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #743 on: May 21, 2011, 09:15:05 am »
Whenever the ball is hit his direction I get scared.
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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #744 on: May 21, 2011, 10:19:03 am »
As a former OFer, I would think that the LF wall in Fenway would be scary only from the point of view of caroms.  You would play deep enough in general (relatively speaking) that it would be pretty unusual to have to race back and crash into the wall to catch a ball.  The concern is to get a good enough read on the ball to assess whether to prepare to play a carom or go for the catch.
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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #745 on: May 21, 2011, 11:51:28 am »
Or be Yastrzemski.
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craig

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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #746 on: May 21, 2011, 12:26:35 pm »
FDisk!  Woo hoo, good to see your name. 
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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #747 on: May 21, 2011, 01:26:06 pm »
Quote from: craig on May 21, 2011, 12:26:35 pm
FDisk!  Woo hoo, good to see your name.
Could be an imposter.
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CurtOne

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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #748 on: May 21, 2011, 02:04:02 pm »
Craig must have FD on Ignore.  All's he sees is his name.
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StrikeZone

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Re: Cubs in '11
« Reply #749 on: May 21, 2011, 02:47:19 pm »
Quote from: CurtOne on May 21, 2011, 09:15:05 am
Whenever the ball is hit his direction I get scared.

So does he.
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