8/10/2005 Reds Trying To Sweep The Cubbies.

[CTA513]

Reds with a season high 9 walks today.

[kaldaniels]

He's batting seventh today, so they are all soft walks - only leadoff and second place hitters can get hard walks.

Please explain hard vs soft walks. I thought LaRue held back on some nice pitches.

[CTA513]

Olmedo flies out. 3 outs.

[redsrule2500]

AL will always have better offense...they have that stupid DH rule.

[LincolnparkRed]

Wade Boggs is either trying to channel Harry Carray or he is just an awful singer

[gm]

Wade Boggs does a pretty good Harry Caray imitation during the 7th inning stretch

[westofyou]

Hack gets no love, and what happened to Doggie in the 2nd half of '70?

One thing about RBI's in that era they were relativly new as a stat, they only showed up in the btoom of the box score and without a running total. Where they reside now in the current box scores resided "assists" instead.

Perez only 7 RBI in September in 1970.

perez's SLG by month in 1970

.870
.589
.678
.481
.610
.387

[westofyou]

Reds with a season high 9 walks today.

Only one yesterday IIRC

[SteelSD]

Wade Boggs does a horrible impersonation of Harry Caray during the 7th Inning stretch. Sung the song as Caray and wore the glasses too.

Sandberg looked like he wanted to run out of the booth and Cubs fans appeared to do everything they could to hold back boos.

Pretty funny stuff really.

[traderumor]

Please explain hard vs soft walks. I thought LaRue held back on some nice pitches.

It is an inside joke making fun of a poster that talked about hard and soft in the sense of situational hitting. Hard walks are "clutch," soft are received when it doesn't mean anything. I think the original advancing of that theory was relating to Dunn only hitting "soft" home runs, as in when they didn't mean anything or when no one was on base.

[Blimpie]

Ron Santo calling the Cubs out?

"No heart, poor effort."

You would think, with all of the intelligence accumulated over the course of human history, that every time a team goes through a losing streak, esp. in baseball, it can appear that the team is playing lackadaisically. However, it is most often due to the team all stinking at exactly the same time, as is the current case with the Cubs.

The amazing thing is that FO types, making hundreds of thousands of dollars, actually believe that it is lack of effort and not lack of talent. Boy this sounds familiar, just like there was another team that I'm familiar with who had the media types talk about "underachieving" in a sense of not reaching potential. Why can't they figure out its lack of talent and they are witnessing the cruel nature of the long season of things evening out to the talent of the players they have on the field.

Yet, it is likely the Cubs will continue to field a similar team, merely changing faces rather than realizing that the players that are attractive to them do not make up an excellent professional baseball team?

Ronnie better be careful with his criticism or he'll be on the next bus to Iowa. As we all learned last fall, Cubs players have skin about as thick as Saran Wrap...

[CTA513]

Ramirez flies out. 1 out.

[LincolnparkRed]

Only one yesterday IIRC

Big difference between the Rich Hill's of the world and Mark Prior, especially when umpires are calling close pitches.

[CTA513]

Garciaparra singles.

[westofyou]

Big difference between the Rich Hill's of the world and Mark Prior, especially when umpires are calling close pitches.

Yep, but it's nice to have the guys who can win both ways, the Cubs are hackers and if they were facing Hill they would have hacked at more of his stuff, thus cutting their own throats.

Of course they'd get praised for being "agressive" too.