This Week In Baseball 9/3-9/9

[EVIL~! alkeiper]

Q: What is worse than earning a save for protecting a five run lead?

 

A: Earning a blown save, same situation.

 

!#$%^

[Spaceman Spiff]

Fucking Chris Roberson.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh]

Seriously, fuck white trash Brett Myers and this team. Blow an 8-2 lead to a bunch of dead dogs that look like they don't want to be there in the Braves? Pathetic.

 

Bye, Charlie.

 

See y'all for baseball next year, I'm done.

 

E-A-G-L-E-S, Eagles!!!!!!

[EVIL~! alkeiper]

Seriously, fuck white trash Brett Myers and this team. Blow an 8-2 lead to a bunch of dead dogs that look like they don't want to be there in the Braves? Pathetic.

 

Bye, Charlie.

 

See y'all for baseball next year, I'm done.

 

E-A-G-L-E-S, Eagles!!!!!!

You want abuse of power? I've suspended UTSU for an hour for the Eagles chant.

[Smartly Pretty]

That's awesome.

[EVIL~! alkeiper]

Now back to the Phillies game. I'd like to say I'm done as well. I don't want to discount their chances of making the postseason or count them out of it all. But this is an incredibly frustrating team to watch. Their bullpen is abysmal. Quite frankly, it's not fun to watch a game. And if I'm not enjoying the games, what the heck am I doing watching them? Sometimes it's better to take a step back from things.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Bullpen wasn't really the #1 problem. Tom Gordon pitched fine. Brett Myers was a little shaky, yes, but if Chris Roberson catches those 2 bloops in the 8th like any competent RF would have, the Phillies walk out w/ an easy win. He then has a chance to redeem himself in the 9th, and botched that, too.

 

So, to reiterate, fuck Chris Roberson.

[EVIL~! alkeiper]

Bullpen wasn't really the #1 problem. Tom Gordon pitched fine. Brett Myers was a little shaky, yes, but if Chris Roberson catches those 2 bloops in the 8th like any competent RF would have, the Phillies walk out w/ an easy win. He then has a chance to redeem himself in the 9th, and botched that, too.

 

So, to reiterate, fuck Chris Roberson.

What's odd is that Roberson is usually a perfectly competent outfielder.

[mike546]

Washburn continues to dominate the Yankees.

[Bruiser Chong]

Having Craig Monroe start his first career game in centerfield in the heat of a pennant race may rank up there with Lou's idea to have the bullpen start the game.

[mike546]

The Mariners took september callups to a new level. Watching them use their bullpen makes my head hurt.

 

edit: And another change.

[Smartly Pretty]

is that two homers in the same inning for A-rod? only paying attention through gamecast.

[KingPK]

Jesus, FIVE pitching changes in an inning? What is this, Little League?

 

And it looks like Baltimore is taking their weekly double-digit beating tonight.

Edited September 6, 2007 by KingPK

[Cheech Tremendous]

I really wish the Red Sox would have hung on to Carlos Pena. He would have solved that whole corner infielder/power bat dilemma they are facing next year.

[Dandy]

Brandon Phillips is two homers and three stolen bases shy of becoming the second 30-30 player at second base. Alfonso Soriano did it before he moved to the outfield.

[MFer]

Curtis Granderson is one stolen base and one homer away from being the 2nd player to have at least 20 HR's, 20 doubles, 20 triples, and 20 SB's in a season (Willie Mays was the 1st). Jimmy Rollins is 3 triples away.

[Dandy]

The article I read about Granderson the other day said he would be the third. Willie Mays and Frank Schulte or something like that.

[MFer]

Maybe so...still, it would be a great accomplishment.

[Guest]

FUCK YES!

 

ANDRE FUCKING ETHIER!

[EVIL~! alkeiper]

Frank "Wildfire" Schulte, a right fielder on the last Cubs dynasty. I never would have guessed he hit 20+ home runs in the dead ball era. If you ever want a fluke season, Schulte set career highs in doubles, triples, home runs, RBIs (not an official stat at the time), walks, OBP and slugging percentage. He's one of only five players who hit 20 home runs in a season before 1920, and didn't play on the 1884 Chicago White Stockings*.

 

*That club played in a park with an extremely short porch in left field, I believe in front of a lake. Balls hit past the fence were considered doubles except in 1884, when they were home runs. Cap Anson, Fred Pfeffer, Abner Dalrymple and Ned Williamson all hit 20+ home runs. No wonder the rule change only lasted one season.

[Guest Soriano's Torn Quad]

from North Side Baseball:

The good news is that I need a save and a few K's for my fantasy team, and Saito is on my fantasy team...

 

Chicago sports board:

I'm pissed because I had Derek Lowe in fantasy and I need a win.

haha

 

Oh well. Dempster is bad. 6 hits and 7 walks over 14 1/3 innings. Hey, Bears on Sunday.

[CanadianChris]

Frank "Wildfire" Schulte, a right fielder on the last Cubs dynasty. I never would have guessed he hit 20+ home runs in the dead ball era. If you ever want a fluke season, Schulte set career highs in doubles, triples, home runs, RBIs (not an official stat at the time), walks, OBP and slugging percentage. He's one of only five players who hit 20 home runs in a season before 1920, and didn't play on the 1884 Chicago White Stockings*.

What was he on?

[Guest Soriano's Torn Quad]

I will be physically ill if the Cardinals win this division with Pujols crippled, Rolen out for the year, Encarnacion being decapitated, Edmonds unaware of which city he's in, a rotation featuring Kip Wells, and Tony La Russa threatening to assault reporters with weapons. Last year, I gave the Cardinals the benefit of the doubt, that they weren't as bad as the record indicated, but this year, they're really bad. If the Cubs don't win it this year, they're sunk for, well, possibly the next five years, at least.

[Dobbs 3K]

Brewers are in first place once again. Woooo!

 

Did anyone see the controversy about Ryan Braun watching his homer last night, in the middle of that 14-2 victory? I thought it was pretty amusing.

[MFer]

I saw Braun doing his posing on the highlight. For once the team (in this case Houston) didn't throw the beanball though.

[Guest Soriano's Torn Quad]

I look three weeks into my future and I see myself curled up in the corner of a dark room, rocking like Leo Mazzone, writing "Rick Ankiel" on the wall five hundred times.

[EVIL~! alkeiper]

If the Cubs don't win, at least they can point to a much improved winning percentage. I think it was a successful season either way.

[Guest Soriano's Torn Quad]

With the amount of money spent on the team in a division of this dubious calibre, anything less than first place is abject failure. I think I picked the team to win 77 games, right? Yeah, that would be an improvement over 66, of course, but it doesn't matter. Too much money spent on this team, and with the sale of the Chicago Tribune in doubt, it's possible that the club will be almost completely handcuffed this offseason, with very little to add to the backloaded contracts of Alfonso Soriano and Mark DeRosa. Jim Hendry is almost certainly out the door, though, so I guess that's good.

 

The Cubs' farm system is scary bad, by the way. Our #1 prospect, Felix Pie, has proven to be a Mendoza Line hitter and baseball stupid. (Meanwhile, Rick Ankiel is Babe Ruth. Cardinal Magic, indeed.) The system is so bleak, we couldn't even get rid of failed prospect Will Ohman, who had almost certainly punched his ticket with the "you can't demote me, I'm injured" stunt. Eric Patterson isn't as baseball retarded as his older brother, but struggles with basic fundamentals like "arriving at the workplace." There's nothing in the pipeline and no money to spend. The future is grim for this organization.

[cabbageboy]

You know what's truly hilarious about the notion of the Cardinals making the playoffs? I bet they would at least win the first round and make the NLCS.

 

I think the Cubs will likely be screwed when they have to go to STL for a 4 game series. For what it's worth the Cardinals have 13 road games and 11 home left, the Cubs have 16 on the road compared to 7 at home, and the Brewers have 10 at home and 13 on the road.

[EVIL~! alkeiper]

The Cubs' farm system is scary bad, by the way. Our #1 prospect, Felix Pie, has proven to be a Mendoza Line hitter and baseball stupid. (Meanwhile, Rick Ankiel is Babe Ruth. Cardinal Magic, indeed.) The system is so bleak, we couldn't even get rid of failed prospect Will Ohman, who had almost certainly punched his ticket with the "you can't demote me, I'm injured" stunt. Eric Patterson isn't as baseball retarded as his older brother, but struggles with basic fundamentals like "arriving at the workplace." There's nothing in the pipeline and no money to spend. The future is grim for this organization.

 

Pie's young yet, don't count him out. They have a few good prospects, enough that they don't rank in the bottom third as an organization. The only problem the Cubs have is that their starters are nearly all 30 or older. No one looks ready to drop off a cliff though. Given the Cards' relative dearth of prospects, I wouldn't sweat it.