2008 Chicago Cubs Season

[Ubiquitous]

Still think they won't win 100? All they have to do is go 15-12 the rest of the way.

I guess it is my turn to ask you.

[rockin500]

at least i didnt get any chance to see baseball from thursday until today, as i was in atlanta at this thing called dragoncon. lets just say that i didnt have much time except to catch a few highlights here n there

[kanderber]

Bob -- where do you get those numbers in your sig from?

Soooo did you just make them up then?

[Bob Sacamento]

Soooo did you just make them up then?

No, I already replied to your "vistor message" on my account. But since you didn't check it, here it is:

Those numbers come from the 2006 Hardball Times Annual in an article written by David Studenmurd entitled "What's a Batted Ball Worth".

As for the strikeout being worse than any other out, this data doesn’t deal in results, with the exceptions of walks and strikeouts. It deals in batted ball types. You can look at this data and clearly say that a strikeout is significantly worse than making contact. But you can not look at this data and say that a strikeout is significantly worse than a groundout to second base.

My own opinion is that a strikeout is the worst kind of out, but not by that much. Still it's not really what this table is talking about.

[Rennie Stennett]

MRI for big Z

They said on the broadcast that Zambrano didn't make it to his scheduled MRI. Is the clubhouse blowing up ?

[Ubiquitous]

Because Zambrano missed an MRI?

[sopclod]

Holy crap - is it me, or is NOTHING going the Cubs' way lately? This is starting to suck.

[Rennie Stennett]

I thought that Zambrano took himself out of the ball game in the fifth. I could have my facts wrong.

[Ubiquitous]

Tendinitis and inflammation

[nightotter]

9-1 Cubs are losing somewhere in the middle of the game. Could this be The Great Meltdown?

[Ubiquitous]

3 homers and counting for Soriano tonight.

[otis89]

Welcome back, offense! We've missed you! 11-1 in the 8th!

[sopclod]

This is a little more like it.

[rockin500]

This is a little more like it.

itd be nice if the bullpen didnt give up 8 runs in the 8th/9th innings, though.

[sopclod]

It'd also be nice if Kerry Wood didn't give up three runs in the bottom of the 9th.

Is it just me, or does it seem like Howry's era should be about 7.00?