I know we're not allowed to like Kyle, but some of the less-obvious ones are pretty good:

-- All of Bowa's emails are unread
-- Mendte "Checking emails"
-- Parveen's "Anyone been to Columbus?"
-- Bill Conlin is offline
-- the search for "reid brignac wife"

Who the hell is Andres Blanco?

It's not who but where, and why

Grotewold wrote:We host Boston next Opening Day, per Gelb, then go there in September

Following up on this one, we also have 2H/2A with Baltimore and Toronto, a 3-gamer here against the Rays in July, and a 3-gamer at Yankee Stadium (June 22-24)

OFF on Memorial Day
At the Braves on July 4
Home on Labor Day vs the Braves
Season ends October 4 vs the Marlins

BigEd76 wrote:

Grotewold wrote:We host Boston next Opening Day, per Gelb, then go there in September

Season ends October 4 vs the Marlins

Can't wait

gonna be awesome opening day 2015 with a 50/50 crowd

off memorial day is so fucking stupid

BigEd76 wrote:a 3-gamer here against the Rays in July

Hinskie and Lidge in a cage make it happen

Ace Rothstein wrote:gonna be awesome opening day 2015 with a 50/50 crowd

At least it'll be a sell out!

Todd Zolecki ‏@ToddZolecki
Howard not talking about not playing, possible platoon. "Talk to him," he said, leaving clubhouse. "Bye. Talk to the manager."

Bye.

Doll Is Mine wrote:Todd Zolecki ‏@ToddZolecki
Howard not talking about not playing, possible platoon. "Talk to him," he said, leaving clubhouse. "Bye. Talk to the manager."

Bye.

so mad but bye Ryan and buy! we won a game Fuck Amaro.

sydnor wrote:so i looked at Howard/Hudson post sucking - I'm defining 2011 as the start of sucking but an .835 OPS in 2011 isn't necessarily terrible.

Anyway

2011 - 3/12 with 1 walk, 2K, 1 sac fly gets
2012 - 5/14 with 2 walks, 3K, 1HR
2013 - 0/2

Gets you an obp of .344, slg of .500 and 3 walks and 5K. Clearly even in 2012 where he was terrible, he hit Hudson well, but is that because he "Sees the ball well against Hudson" or because he gets hot every once in a while and happened to play against Hudson. Won't we see for RH pitchers who have been around for more than 5 years stats that indicate that Ryan Howard terrorized those players? How relevant is what he did back in 08/09?

You're always dealing with uncertainty and small sample sizes when you're referring to batter vs. pitcher stats. But, given that you take sandberg at his word and Howard is being platooned, you need to find pitchers that Howard is expected to have success against. I'm sorry you're disappointed that the "Howard does better than Hudson than against other pitchers, even since he's been crappy" conclusion is not what you expected, but Howard is not terrible against soft tossing RHP.

BigEd76 wrote:Pap is sad that only half the stadium booed him today

nobodys going to trade for his shitty ass.

Werthless wrote:

sydnor wrote:so i looked at Howard/Hudson post sucking - I'm defining 2011 as the start of sucking but an .835 OPS in 2011 isn't necessarily terrible.

Anyway

2011 - 3/12 with 1 walk, 2K, 1 sac fly gets
2012 - 5/14 with 2 walks, 3K, 1HR
2013 - 0/2

Gets you an obp of .344, slg of .500 and 3 walks and 5K. Clearly even in 2012 where he was terrible, he hit Hudson well, but is that because he "Sees the ball well against Hudson" or because he gets hot every once in a while and happened to play against Hudson. Won't we see for RH pitchers who have been around for more than 5 years stats that indicate that Ryan Howard terrorized those players? How relevant is what he did back in 08/09?

You're always dealing with uncertainty and small sample sizes when you're referring to batter vs. pitcher stats. But, given that you take sandberg at his word and Howard is being platooned, you need to find pitchers that Howard is expected to have success against. I'm sorry you're disappointed that the "Howard does better than Hudson than against other pitchers, even since he's been crappy" conclusion is not what you expected, but Howard is not terrible against soft tossing RHP.

It was exactly what I wanted because I especially wanted to disprove the idea of him seeing the ball better based on walks vs. strikeouts (it was actually a 2 vs. 5 BB/SO when you remove the intentional walk). I didn't think it warranted getting upset about a guy with an .844 OPS in 30 PA getting sat down by the boss man. Since when is anything a strict platoon? Do you think if I went back over the past several months I could see Howard has also struggled occasionally against soft tossers? I sure do.

You're arguing for the sake of arguing. He sat, he's going to continue to sit more than a strict platoon would warrant, that's okay because we're more than a dozen games under .500 so playing a terrible player who is 35 is not important, and Ryne Sandberg and every manager in the history of the franchise shouldn't always be taken at their word.

But seriously, go ahead and argue against that.

Sandberg gonna be here next year? It was hard for this team to be worse than last year's but he's pulling it off

hopefully he drops a racial slur or something. Is there anything else that would get him booted

Barry Jive wrote:hopefully he drops a racial slur or something. Is there anything else that would get him booted

Join a gang.

calling chase utley a pussy

Unfortunately he's a robot and hatred is an emotion, which he is uncapable of experiencing