TCR Friday Vacation Notes

You may have thought I've been on vacation since May, but really just the last week and next. Hopefully I'll get back into the swing of things when I return.

In the meantime, the Mets visit Wrigley for this weekends exhibition. Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey and his surprising 2010 season start off the set against Randy "Sophomore Slump" Wells.

Fukudome, Castro, Byrd, Ramirez, Nady, Soto, Soriano, DeWitt, Wells

vs.

Pagan, Duda, Carter, Wright, Davis, Arias, Thole, Tejada, Dickey.

Gorzelanny has a hairline fracture in his pinkie and will miss his next start, hints are that he'll avoid the disabled list and pitch again this season.

Welington Castillo was called up.

The Cubs are currently tied for the 7th spot in the draft with the Nationals, a half game from the 6th spot owned by the Royals, 2 games from the 5th spot owned by the Dbacks and 3 games from the 4th spot owned by the Indians. I think the Pirates, O's and Mariners are pretty safe to take the first three picks. On the other side, it doesn't look the Cubs could do much worse than the 8th spot in the draft as they're 5.5 games behind the Astros and Brewers for the 9th spot.

Happy Weekend everyone.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 12:36pm
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Submitted by Paul Noce
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 1:15pm

David Wright's stats have come around, he's up to 22 hr and 87 rbi. The last time I checked (months ago) he wasn't hitting for any power.

Submitted by John Beasley
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 1:17pm

Who the fuck is Rob G.?

Submitted by Paul Noce
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 1:27pm

Soriano's "I'm afraid of the wall" dance cost Wells 2 runs.

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 1:28pm

soriano defensive fail...

2-0 mets...

wonder if he'll follow it up by turning a double into a single by walking to 1st on a few balls put into play...

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 2:23pm

soriano bat win...

3-4 cubs...

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 2:02pm

the high strike is being called liberally today.

Submitted by The Real Neal
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 2:03pm

No reason to bean the ump then.

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 2:10pm

...some seriously weird wind gusts going on, too. wind is constant, but there's a lot of gusts whipping through the trees/flags.

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 2:11pm

x.nady out of f'n nowhere.

unf...that was kinda awesome.

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 2:31pm

hope soriano just got a good look at d.wright turning a groundout to 3rd into a single by actually...oh...running to 1st.

if dlee is watching in ATL he might want to take note, too.

Submitted by navigator
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 5:14pm

So how is DPLee doing, you might ask, since he joined Atlanta?

Well, not so good... .214 .298 .310 .607

Braves are 6-6

Submitted by Rob G.
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 2:34pm

http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/4616

Iowa has to win 3 of 4 from Memphis(Cards affiliate) this weekend to make playoffs.

AA Manager Bill Dancy also took the MOY award for the Southern League.

fun fact:

Here are two interesting hitting lines:

.255/.313/.503 with 19 homers and 50 RBI

.260/.318/.507 with 21 homers and 69 RBI

Line A in 353 PA's, Line B in 457 PA's

(drumroll)

Colvin vs. Soriano

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 2:40pm

dcf has an expanded breakdown of sori/colvin in post #28 in the thread below this one.

Submitted by Rob G.
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 2:41pm

show-off

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 2:45pm

hurrah innerwebs.

Submitted by The Real Neal
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 3:29pm

Not to mention you 3/44'd the I-Cubs series.

Submitted by Rob G.
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 4:36pm

*knocks down a margarita*

*strolls back to the pool.*

Submitted by Rob G.
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 2:52pm

Clay Rapawada called up by Rangers...

1.82 ERA this year in AAA, .120 BAA vs. lefties

Rapada was the PTBNL sent to Tigers at end of 2007 for Craig Monroe.

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 4:15pm

heh...dewitt has hit 5 of his 16 career HR's vs. the mets (47ab vs. 727ab)

via ye olde world o' roto...

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 4:41pm

yee flipping haw...

mark prior signs with TEX (minor league deal)

basically, he wants to play AFL or similar under a pro team's umbrella in order to be properly taken care of. he's not expected to play this month.

http://twitter.com/Evan_P_Grant/status/229212...

(dallas sportswriter)

Submitted by Rob G.
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 4:50pm

http://deadspin.com/5629806/

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 4:55pm

oh, the plight of privileged fans who yell at people about shit they don't know about...but they spend some money so it's their right.

these are the people that end up getting their ass kicked by others like them at their kid's little league game.

btw, those jetblue jets don't look 1/2 the pain in the ass as some of the Delta and American jets i've been on.

Submitted by Rob G.
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 4:54pm

I had a dream last night that Hendry and some other Cub executive picked me up in a car to take me somewhere and during the car ride confirmed to me that they'd sign Kerry Wood to be a set-up man next year.

apparently this was the only question I thought to ask or remembered that I asked.

we'll see how my Carnac powers work...

Submitted by Old and Blue
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 5:22pm

I had a dream last night that Hendry's replacement picked me up in a car to take me somewhere and during the car ride confirmed to me that they'd sign Kerry Wood to be a set-up man next year.

Submitted by John Beasley
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 7:24pm

I had a dream that I was watching a baseball game at Fenway Park with Terence Mann.

Submitted by Old and Blue
on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 5:58pm

For anyone interested, the MLB.TV replay has Len interviewing Quade. If you can look past the obvious part where he's doing a little bit of pitching for the permanent job, for my money, he comes across as a pretty good dude.

Also, he said something interesting that I'd like to know if one of you can tell me more about. Len said Quade was a good listener and Quade said yeah even when I disagree with someone on stuff like sabremetrics. I almost said to myself "uh-oh" but then he said he is a closet numbers guy. Maybe Len's not? I don't quite get that. Does this mean he's a sabremetric guy or not?

I myself am not a sabremetrics guy at all but I feel like I want our next manager to be. The only real reason I'm not is that I'm too lazy to dig through stats and evaluate them, so as a fan I rely on my gut.

But a 21st century manager, in my opinion, should be a stats hound.

BTW, today was also Carlos Zambrano bobble head day.

There was a 7th inning ceremony where everyone placed their bobble heads on their seats to watch them explode.

Submitted by Paul Noce
on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 12:14am

Iowa Cubs win again, down 2-1 they scored a run in the straight innings to beat Memphis on Friday night.

Submitted by Tito
on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 9:47am

Len's a big stat guy, just doesn't see them as the be-all/end-all that a lot of people do.

Submitted by Rob G.
on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 1:05am

Ryan Theriot had 19 BB's with the Cubs in 412 PA's

already has 13 with the Dodgers in 128 PA's

309/384/382 line as a Dodger before Friday's game

Submitted by Rob G.
on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 1:18am

Castro with the 2nd best OPS for a shortstop since the break behind Tulo.

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