January 2012
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July 2009
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Before We Get Ahead Of Ourselves
The Cubs completed a four-game sweep of a team that by all accounts will be lucky to win 65 games. Soriano has feasted on subpar pitching and it seems that he has broken out of the career long slump that he was mired in.
Great, now do it against Philly.
Look, I’m encouraged by a few things, the explosive offense of the last game, the pen buckling down in games 1-3 (especially game 3), Lou...
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How Bad are the Nationals?
Think about this, Carlos Zambrano walks 3 men in one inning, throws close to 40 pitches in that inning, has all sorts of control problems, has a misplayed ball (sorta) behind him, the ump is squeezing him a little, and the Cubs blew a chance at scoring runs in the first inning.
You’re saying meltdown?
I’m saying Nationals.
They are bad, and these two wins have been more about bad...
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Part One: Prince Albert's Hitting Domination
Babe Ruth
Ted Williams
Barry Bonds
Lou Gerhig
Rogers Hornsby
Mickey Mantle
This is the company that Albert Pujols keeps atop the career OPS+ stat for a career. The comparisons at this point aren’t with his peers. They are with the greatest players spanning 4 different epochs of baseball history. The debate isn’t whether there is another active player better than Pujols.
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The ASG
Once again, the American League has claimed home field advantage in this year’s World Series based on the smallest of sample sizes. Rather than take the data accumulated during a 162 game season, baseball would rather take one meaningless game and try to draw some meaning out of it. It was the most epic of overreactions to one game baseball has ever seen. Ever since that shameful tie in...
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The Magna Carta of this Particular Blog
It is my belief that baseball knowledge should neither be limited to insiders nor to baseball writers. I don’t think that numbers are for nerds, that you should tell someone how to enjoy the game of baseball, or that numbers are everything. Numbers are just what I make educated baseball opinions on, and something I want my team to heavily consider when they make major baseball decisions. The...
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Yep, ESPN Agrees, Albert is Better Than Everyone,...
“There are a lot of great hitters out there, but there’s only one Albert.”
-Tony Gwynn
ed. note, i almost NEVER agree with ESPN
Pretty interesting read, makes me feel like Tim Kurkjian and I are kindred spirts or something since I agree with his stance on the roids. Ole Timmy beat me to the punch breaking it down hardcore analytical style, but I’ll put the highlights in there.
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We are on the Precipice of Exploring Baseball's...
Baseball is a game that lends itself to comparing era’s. People will always do so because baseball is a game of repetition, not of brute strength or pure athletic ability. It is also a game of endless debate, one where numbers and anecdotal evidence frequently clash, both sides of the fight forever trying to silence the other. Well, here’s to the death of anecdotal evidence ala Joe...
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Era's Best Pure Hitter? Not Ichiro, More Like...
The first time I saw Prince Albert was back in ‘02, a year after the Cubs flirted with the playoffs and in the middle of being just plain BAD. I really can’t remember why he didn’t stick with me that season, I thought he was overrated, and naturally I thought that there were other players better than he.
Back in the infancy of my critical baseball mind, I thought Ichiro was a...
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Baseball Trades are Hard
No, Roy Halladay will not be riding a white unicorn to Wrigley any time soon. He might be on the market, but the Cubs aren’t going to get him. They won’t get Brian Roberts either, probably won’t land a big name bat, arm, or a big name anything really. The Cubs will stick with the roster they have most likely, with the ownership issue still up in the air and Jim Hendry without a...
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Be Twittering
Link
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Demp Injury Update
It appears that the Cubs have lost Dempster because he was too excited about his team getting a win. At the conclusion of his last start Dempster jumped over the raling separating the field and the dug out to celebrate the win with his teammates.
Yes, the fire and the passion have derailed a Cubs starter. Can we stop with the fallacy that athletes need to show fire and passion now? Please? The...
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Let's step back and appreciate DLEE →
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Who the Cubs Should Send Down
Here at Cubsmix.com
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All American Team
To honor the 4th of July, here is your 2009 All America team.
C-Joe Mauer
There isn’t alot that he isn’t good at. This year he’s hitting, hitting for power, playing excellent D, saving babies, all that good American Pie crap that writers pine about. He’s tapering off a little from his insane pace earlier in the season, but he’s still a great player in an era where...
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This is the Last Dance
I’m a big fan of the NCIS series that is on CBS and USA. The lead character is a former marine played by Mark Harmon. His name is Gibbs and he is the all-American badass with a legendary intuition. NCIS spun off of JAG, so at the end of the JAG series Gibbs is going after the lead man there, Commander, Rab. During interrogation Rab asks Gibbs if he can tell a man is lying just by looking in...
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The Legend of Sam Fuld
Sam Fuld had a great two games, keying Cub victories and playing a very impressive defensive left field. He showed that he was every bit as grindy as he was in 2007 and teased Cub fans with his ability to talk a walk, go the other way, and see lots and lots of pitches.
At the end of the day however he is still Sam Fuld, another 27-year-old career minor leaguer who failed to impress several times...
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“Ben agreed to come here knowing he would come off the bench,” the source...”
– random Piston’s source about THAT WHORE BEN JORDAN
June 2009
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Cardinals Get Mark DeRosa →
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“Look, I have smoked dope one time in my life, and it didn’t do a damn...”
– Lou Piniella on Soto’s Marijuana “controversy”
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Friday Fantasy Corner
GUYS PRIMED TO BREAK YOUR HEART FANTASY WISE
There is nothing worse than watching your fantasy stud who’d carried one aspect of your team for the whole season crumble in the latter stages of the season. You have to put him in there just because, but you know that it means damage to your chances to win a title.
Stop doing that. This is fantasy baseball, not real life baseball. You can...
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Well that explains it
Really Soto, weed?
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Still not time to jump off the ledge
as seen and read here
As the Cubs exit Detroit without a win many Cub fans have to wonder if now is the time to give up on this team. Mired in a funk, the Cubs are going to have to self evaluate where they are as a team. I still hold the position that this team still isn’t playing up to where they should be, and while it’s not right to say that they played well this series, they were...
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Let's be honest about Jake Fox
The sound of Jake Fox’s bat sounds crisp, and as old timey scouts like to say, it just sounds right. He’s fooled me plenty when it comes to figuring out if the guy got enough of a pitch to jack it out of the park, and he has a nice fluid swing.
As a prospect people were very excited about his power, and this year as a 25 year old he tore up the PCL hitting .421 in Iowa.
He’s...
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Fun with BABiP
The Chicago Cubs are hitting line drives, home runs, but no doubles. They aren’t as patient as they were last year, yet there aren’t any real statistical indications that the Cubs are doing anything drastically different. The LD (line drive) rate is the same, the fly-ball ratio isn’t crazy high…
Then you get to Batting Average on Balls in Play, which has been overall below...
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Missing Doubles to Blame for Cubs Inability to... →
It’s not DeRo, it’s the doubles stupid!
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Buyer Beware Pods Fans →
over at whitesoxmix.com I explain why all that glitters is not gold when it comes to Scotty-Po.
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After Detroit
I’m rooting for Jake Fox to have a big series against the Detroit Tigers for several reasons, the main one is that he is on the Cubs and him being extremely good in the series. More than likely it means the Cubs win it and answer a lot of questions about themselves.
The other reason is that I desperately want the Cubs to trade him and get optimal value for him while the proverbial iron is...
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CONGRATS TO THE BRAVES
ON BEATING THE IOWA CUBS!
JAKE FOX IS IN AWE!
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Webio's Hernandez in Custody →
The long drama keeps unfolding, and everyone is expecting Hernandez to talk. The Webio founder who bankrolled what essentially turned out to be a Ponzi scheme, is officially in custody.
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The One Where the Cubs Go After Alphabet King
Hendry needs to go after Aardsma.
Chicago or Baghdad?
jeffcagle:
At least 46 people shot. At least 6 dead (we aren’t sure if that’s in addition to the 46 or part of the 46). Someone can tell us if they count the “weekend” as Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, but the totals make the rate at either just under or just over 1 casualty per hour. Warm weather. And getting warmer.
Second City Cop dishes out the figures we won’t hear in the...
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Northside Southside: Both Teams Rising
Both teams helped eachother out over the weekend, the Cubs are starting to rise a little, and the Sox are looking to put together a run.
We’ll start with those Cubs:
The Good
Derrek Lee continues to rake at the dish, Geo Soto hit a homer, and overall this offense is looking like it’s clicking. Randy Wells got his first career victory, pitching extremely well into the seventh, and...
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Father's Day
Swoooooooossshhh…thwap!
I remember a small, white spherical object quickly moving towards me.
Swoooooooossshhh…thwap!
My father was launching heaters at me, full speed.
Swoooooooossshhh…thwap!
I remember being afraid, I was six then, you see, and something coming that fast and that hard with that type of movement was terrifying.
Swoooooooossshhh…thwap!
I didn’t...
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