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I said the Marlins are currently on pace for 60 home wins. I never said anything about actually getting 60 home wins. You also said: That mean's if we could get a measly 30-35 wins (last year we had 26), which is under .500 for the road, the team would finish with 95 wins and a good shot at winning the division for first time in franchise history and the most wins in a single season in franchise history. Which is still a little ridiculous. A far more likely road to the playoffs, if one exists, is continuing to have a winning record at home while going .500 or slightly less, away for the rest of the season. But we're not even a month from the last 8 game losing streak, so let's not count our chickens just yet.
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Worth the wait.
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Thank you umpire. That wasn't even close But consistent.
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Been watching the Padres broadcast. Their two keys of the game: 1) Keep it clean (no errors) 2) Keep Stanton quiet. How about that for a one-two...
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Don't mind the Braves that much, but really, really despise the tomahawk chop music. At least there'll be none of that this series.
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Cards stinking it up against the Mets Still four months to go!
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Zambrano for Volstad. Best trade ever? Only in hindsight -- it was quite a gamble, albeit a low risk one given the Cubs are paying most of his salary. The Marlins were willing to take a chance, but had no idea if Zambrano would turn it around this quickly and this well. I've seen a lot of Cubs fan bitterness about the "Zambrano for Volstad" thing, but that's not really what happened. The Cubs just wanted to get the problematic Zambrano out of there, and decided, for whatever reason, that they would try to make a project of Volstad in return -- they weren't really look at it as an equal value trade -- Volstad was just a freebie the Marlins tossed in there. BTW: Here's a nice column on what Volstad is up to these days: http://cubbiescrib.c...-not-mlb-ready/ Same old, it seems. How was it a gamble? There was no sign of Volstad improving, Big Z's worst season ever was basically as good as Volstad had ever been from his first full season, and Z was only one year removed from a 3.33 ERA. Not mentioning the salary thing. That was about as low risk-high reward as I've ever seen. I said it was a low risk (at least from the money side), but it's easy to forget that Zambrano was such poison in the Cubs clubhouse that they were willing to dump him *and* pay most of his salary for 2012. If the Cubs had known he was going to "find God" in the off-season and become an exemplary citizen, they wouldn't have paid the Marlins to take him off their hands. It's turned out to be a great trade only because Zambrano himself -- well away from baseball -- decided it was time to wise up. This was not a genius move by the front office -- they took a calculated risk and got lucky with the timing. It was clearly worth a shot, given that the Volstad experiment had run it's course, but people are painting this as the Marlins getting one over on the Cubs, and that's not what happened. Both sides agreed to take a chance on a problem child from each other, and the Marlins were the ones it worked out for -- that's it. (I'm extremely happy it did, of course.)
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Zambrano for Volstad. Best trade ever? Only in hindsight -- it was quite a gamble, albeit a low risk one given the Cubs are paying most of his salary. The Marlins were willing to take a chance, but had no idea if Zambrano would turn it around this quickly and this well. I've seen a lot of Cubs fan bitterness about the "Zambrano for Volstad" thing, but that's not really what happened. The Cubs just wanted to get the problematic Zambrano out of there, and decided, for whatever reason, that they would try to make a project of Volstad in return -- they weren't really look at it as an equal value trade -- Volstad was just a freebie the Marlins tossed in there. BTW: Here's a nice column on what Volstad is up to these days: http://cubbiescrib.c...-not-mlb-ready/ Same old, it seems.
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Braves beat the Nats, so we are now tied for 1st! Well, if you want to split hairs, the Marlins are still 0.03 out of first place in the "percentage wins" column -- having played two more games than the Nationals. None of the Standings will list them in first place tonight. Nice win though -- could have so easily have been a sweep too, which bodes well going forward.
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What are the chances Heath Bell walks someone and then gives us a home run, I would say pretty high. That's one thing he hasn't been doing -- giving up the long ball.
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I see a complete game. I don't think so -- he's already at 99 pitches.
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If Reyez had not made that stupid brain dead run to home, we could have been 6-0 now Not brain dead at all. With his speed, he was going on contact -- just unfortunate that it was an easy play for the fielder. It happens.
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Phew. Thought that was gone Sounds like that would have been out a couple of innings ago.
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Forecast isn't that bad -- the game will be played in full.
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Terrible time to start hitting with the rain and the game not being official yet... How many innings til it is? Bottom of 5th completed Unless the home team is in the lead after the top of the 5th -- then, of course, the bottom doesn't need to be played.