Long absence, many thoughts
First time I've felt like posting in a while:
1. I heard other teams did this, and in fact I've seen it done to the Cubs a number of times, but this is the first time in quite a while I've seen a Cub team execute a squeeze plaay as well as they did against the Sox on Saturday. If they keep this up, they could start looking like a real major league team.
2. At this point, the season appears to be over. It's hard to imagine the Cubs coming from 8 1/2 back to catch Milwaukee. According to my Cubs calendar at work, they did go 44-4 in 1906 between mid-June and mid-August. Maybe history can repeat itself. They would be about 75-43 if they did that now. Who am I kidding though? They're more likely to go 24-24 than 44-4, or 20-28.
3. I am amazed at the outcry about the Barrett trade. It is funny reading some of the douchebag posts at the 4 letter website about Hendry trading low. I swear, those jerkoffs over there seem to want to trade every player that does good for tomorrow's promises, and think that they should have held on to Barrett until he started playing better. Who knows how many losses he would have caused by then? What those puds don't seem to realize is that while statistics are key to a player's performance, there are things that don't show up in statistics that you can measure a player's value by. They seem to think fundamentals are only sacrifice bunting. They are also throwing to the cutoff man, not getting caught off base on a line drive, not trying to steal 3rd with your best hitter up, executing rundown plays, and many other basic baseball plays that Barrett and many other Cub players have consistently failed at over the years. If Lou Piniella can get them to play winning baseball by yelling at them and calling them out in the media, I'm all for it. Barrett wasn't the whole reason the Cubs were a bad team, but you have to start somewhere. I liked Barrett, but I like to see the Cubs win even more.
4. I still won't watch a full game until they either get over .500, or the Cubs get into first place.
5. I won't buy a ticket to a Cub game until they play consistently good baseball.
First time I've felt like posting in a while:
1. I heard other teams did this, and in fact I've seen it done to the Cubs a number of times, but this is the first time in quite a while I've seen a Cub team execute a squeeze plaay as well as they did against the Sox on Saturday. If they keep this up, they could start looking like a real major league team.
2. At this point, the season appears to be over. It's hard to imagine the Cubs coming from 8 1/2 back to catch Milwaukee. According to my Cubs calendar at work, they did go 44-4 in 1906 between mid-June and mid-August. Maybe history can repeat itself. They would be about 75-43 if they did that now. Who am I kidding though? They're more likely to go 24-24 than 44-4, or 20-28.
3. I am amazed at the outcry about the Barrett trade. It is funny reading some of the douchebag posts at the 4 letter website about Hendry trading low. I swear, those jerkoffs over there seem to want to trade every player that does good for tomorrow's promises, and think that they should have held on to Barrett until he started playing better. Who knows how many losses he would have caused by then? What those puds don't seem to realize is that while statistics are key to a player's performance, there are things that don't show up in statistics that you can measure a player's value by. They seem to think fundamentals are only sacrifice bunting. They are also throwing to the cutoff man, not getting caught off base on a line drive, not trying to steal 3rd with your best hitter up, executing rundown plays, and many other basic baseball plays that Barrett and many other Cub players have consistently failed at over the years. If Lou Piniella can get them to play winning baseball by yelling at them and calling them out in the media, I'm all for it. Barrett wasn't the whole reason the Cubs were a bad team, but you have to start somewhere. I liked Barrett, but I like to see the Cubs win even more.
4. I still won't watch a full game until they either get over .500, or the Cubs get into first place.
5. I won't buy a ticket to a Cub game until they play consistently good baseball.
posted by buck at 1:09 AM
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