Do you really think that this team, standing pat, is good enough to win the world series?
Good enough to hold off the Brewers and Cardinals? Good enough to beat the Brewers head to head?
Good enough to win the NLCS against perhaps a resurgent Met team, or Phillies, or Diamondbacks (who seem to have our number)?
Good enough to beat the American League representative in the WS? The Red Sox? The Angels? The White Sox?
Really? Do you really believe that?
I've been watching, too, and I am very skeptical.
Nice to get a win yesterday and hold off the Brewers for at least another day. They just swept the Cardinals, in St. Louis. Not easy to do. Scarelos Marmol was at it again. Loaded them up in the ninth to make it interesting.
Interesting story. Ryne Sandberg's team got into a brawl with the class A Reds yesterday and 17 players were ejected. Ryno was at a HOF ceremony and missed it. When the cat's away, I suppose. Good read if you can find it.
I like Reed Johnson and I have grown to like Jim Edmonds -- but I'd still figure out a way to get Nate McClouth from the Pirates. First of all, he's a Pirate, which means he is available, and second...he can play.
that's all for now. Surely I'll respond to some of your fascinating commentary later on.
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6 comments:
Yes...I do think this team is good enough...IF Lou and Chummers either wake up or are replaced. If Theriot and Fuko hit 1-2, then DLee, Aram and Sori hit 3-4-5...you hit Soto 6, and have fun rotating Derosa, Johnson, Edmonds and Fontenot though the 7-8 spots, and this team will start scoring a scary number of runs. The whole key is Lou getting Alf to check his ego and move down in the order where he belongs. No one with half a baseball brain sees him as a leadoff hitter. The Brewers still have precious little pitching after their 1-2, and the Cardinals quite frankly are just not that good. Z, Harden, Dempster, and Lilly are more than good enough to win a series against anyone.
Found some nice footage of the brawl. I gotta believe that the young Cub pitcher who threw the rising fastball into the stands, sending a fan to the hospital, will be missing some upcoming baseball.
First off -- the pitcher who threw the ball into the stands? Should be our first callup this September. I like his moxie.
I also agree with your fantasy lineup. Fantasy because we all know that it will never happen.
Our top four are good. Problem with a short series is that you never really need four. And the Brewers one-two might be the best in baseball, right now. We never beat Sheets and Sabathia is a nine inning pitcher while Harden is maybe 6. So even in a 0 - 0 tie going into the seventh, it becomes our bully vs their beefy and you have to like CD (roman for 400, as in pounds) better.
So who cares that Lilly and/or Dempster is better than the Brats three or four?
I for one, am on the record as worried. I'd like to see a deal that makes us markedly better. Markedly means blockbuster. I'm sorry.
At least as the wild card entry, we'll not have to play the Brewers right away.
Interesting point about "half a baseball brain". Sadly that is a common scenario among players. And Alf's half a brain says he must bat lead off. If placed in a traditionally more productive spot, he pouts. And slumps. Besides lead off only really applies in the first inning and I felt good about Alf coming to bat with men on last night, and following that RBI machine Ted Lilly the night before.
Is this line up good enough to win it all? Damn right it is. The examples you have sited recently (Teixeira, wright) are not players I would want to trade our corner guys for straight up. They may have better weeks, but not substantially.
And if I want to compare ball players to stocks I can. I can compare crop production to the penis size of the farmer if I want for I am a statistician (well I took a single stat course in college and hated it any way).
So your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries.
It's cute that you all think we can win it all with this team like it is. Shows a real sense of Cub Koolaid. It's a disease actually. Caught over team. Very hard to get rid of.
Half a baseball brain. The other half is in Dr. Hfuhruhurr's lab. Right next to Anne Uumellmahaye.
You see, I gave up the Koolaid a couple of days ago, and things have become remarkably clearer. For instance:
1. There is no Smitty. That's Mike DeCarlo's alter ego blog.
2. The Lou Piniella water commercial is a jinx. Every time they run it late in a game, the bullpen falters. This began late last year.
3. Fukudome quit the team and went home two weeks before the All Star break. That's his translator that has been playing.
4. When DLee was out with the wrist injury they accidentally neutered him. There went his game, his power and all clutch baseball hitting ability. Upside? He doesn't mark his territory with urine any more. Downside? He cries when Lou yells at him.
5. This team cannot win the World Series AS IS. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but that's the truth. We are good. Not great. We can be VERY GOOD, when every single thing is clicking at the same time. What are the odds of that happening RIGHT WHEN THE PLAYOFFS START? Not likely. We need another piece or two to be good enough to win it all.
Good Day.
previous post -- fourth sentence should have read "caught over time"
props for the Man With 2 Brains reference. Even after todays loss, I stick with my statement.
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