Baseball

Cubs lost in the bottom of the ninth. Wood couldn't get out of a bases loaded jam. Ankiel hit a single to score two. Cards 5-4  *sighs* Cardinal nation is happy tonight.

Cubs 7-1 over the Cards today. It wasn't a good day for Cardinal nation.

So what's the deal with C.C and the Brewers. Good or Bad trade. I hear that the Cubs and making a play for Rich Harden or the A's.

Am I the only one who's pissed about Varitek making the All-Star team?  The guy has been absolutely horrendous at the plate this season.  In sabermetrics a common measurement of a player's value is the Value over Replacement Player, where a "replacement player" is defined as a hypothetical AAA call-up at that position.  Varitek is currently 2.4 runs WORSE than the replacement player.  Maybe they should put a catcher from the Red Sox farm system on the All-Star team. 


Edited by rileydog22 - July 08 2008 at 00:27

rileydog22 wrote: And as awesome as Harden is, he's just too fragile.  He's made like 4 starts in each of his last two years.

It wouldn't be anything new with the Cubs and what they have dealt with Prior and Wood.

Not to mention the fact that Zambrano was near the top of the list in "Pitcher Abuse Points" (the statistical measure of the degree to which a pitcher has been overused) when he hit the DL.

YES! Yanks beat the Rays 5-0. Deff an important game.
And a great one, Pettite pitched 8 full innings, 0 runs.
Yanks got alot of hits, AND with people on base.
Good game for them.

Yanks win both games of a two-game series against Tampa.  Now we're rolling!  

I just got back from the Tigers game against the Indians.  The Tigers were down 6-0, but scored 1 in the 6th, 5 in the 7th, and a walk-off 2-run homer by Miguel Cabrera in the 9th inning to win the game 8-6.  To top it off in the top of the 9th inning the Indians had a guy on 3rd base with 1 out, and Carlos Guillen made a heck of a play at 3rd base to rob the Indians of a base hit, and then threw the guy on 3rd out at the plate.  The Tigers are 3 1/2 games behind the Twins for 2nd place, with a huge 4 game series this weekend going in to the All Star break.  Unfortunately, the Royals played favorites with the White Sox over the Tigers, by allowing the Sox to come back and win both games this week so the Tigers are still 7 games behind the Sox. 

Turn Ankiel back into a pitcher