from what i've seen, ryan is much better defensively at ss or 2b than he is at 3b. and offensively, both branyan and ryan are better than either eck or miles. i'd rather have branyan in as the full time 3b with ryan starting 5-6 days a week split between the two mi spots.

Even when the Brew-Crew or Cubbies beat them, I can't help but smiling at the sadness felt by Berkman or Lidge or Oswalt....or Burke!

*The one where Newman steals a sample of Jerry's hair, thus getting Jerry busted by his barber.  In fact, he was saying "Newman," as I read this.

wheather he needs more innings or something else, i think this was a crap shoot to begin with. they had to see what they had. and now they know. Marky Mark needs more work.

A guy still learning to be an OFer does not benefit by that sort of treatment.

he's 2nd on the team in WPA, Win shares, VORP, and 3rd in WARP1 (among hitters).  His OPS is almost 70 pts. higher than Ludwick's.  There's something to be said for people who hit for a lot of power, defensive shortcomings notwithstanding.

He's 11 for his last 50.

According to fangraphs, he is 10.25 runs BELOW average for the year and has a -0.96 WPA.  In other words, he's hurt us more than helped us this year.  He is clearly one of the biggest disappointments of the season.  He probably shouldn't be starting and, almost certainly, shouldn't be hitting 4th.

It explains everything.

That wasn't meant to be a shot at you or your spelling ability, just a joke.  I swear, I read incorrect spellings more often than correct spellings on this blog!

If you have a well-reasoned critique of VORP as to why it's not a great measure of a player's offensive ability, that might make for a decent argument.  But simply calling it the "stupidist" w/o explaining why it's the "stupidist" doesn't add a lot to your critique.

I chuckled, shrugged, and then moved on.

This afternoon at work, while rereading yesterday's gameday post for the new comments, I noticed the width of the frame was completely FUBAR thanks to the long string of "!!!!11!1oneonesix" from our newest VORP fan.

I use Mozilla FireFox at home.  At work we have to use Internet Explorer.

So there you have it, kids.  As if there weren't enough already, here's yet another good reason to use the FireFox browser.

Honestly, this is a very forgiving forum with lots of thoughtful posters.

Someone earlier asked about the Cards owning the Pirates at some point. Here's the win-loss records for our Redbirds versus the Buccos (cribbed from retrosheet.org)


Year    W-L (H, A)
2007    8-5 (4-3,4-2) through Tuesday night
2006    9-6 (5-1,4-5)
2005    12-4 (7-3,5-1)
2004    12-5 (5-2,7-3)
2003    10-7 (5-5,5-2)
2002    11-6 (4-3,7-3)
2001    14-3 (8-2,6-1)
2000    8-4 (3-3,5-1)
1999    5-7 (2-4,3-3)


1999 was the last time we finished behind them in the standings. 2007 is jaded by recency (our road trip through Pittsburgh and Washington and this home series). Except for last season, we were rocking in PNC Park.

Next time I would just suggest explaining why you don't like VORP or whatever rather than just blasting BUT

it's ridiculous to suggest that you're a Cubs fan or anything else just b/c you don't like it.

It's time for everyone to LET IT GO!

Give it a try tomorrow.

through 8 and we haven't even picked up the three runs we dropped in the second.  at this rate maroth could throw a 2 hitter, and we could lose.

meanwhile the brewers trashed a pitcher that blanked us last week, and the cubs are crushing the dodgers.  close, but no cigar.

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