Game 149 Thread / Brewers @ Cubs (1 of 3)
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SP | *C.C. Sabathia | SP | Ryan Dempster |
(NL) | 9-0, 1.59, 102 K, 21 BB, 102 IP | 15-6, 3.02, 173 K, 74 BB, 190.2 IP | |
CF | Mike Cameron | LF | Alfonso Soriano |
2B | #Ray Durham | SS | Ryan Theriot |
3B | Ryan Braun | 1B | Derrek Lee |
1B | *Prince Fielder | 3B | Aramis Ramirez |
SS | J.J Hardy | C | Geovany Soto |
RF | Corey Hart | RF | Mark DeRosa |
3B | *Craig Counsell | CF | Reed Johnson |
C | Jason Kendall | 2B | Ronny Cedeno |
P | *C.C. Sabathia | P | Ryan Dempster |
The last homestand of the regular season and the Cubs will be looking to clinch a spot in the playoffs in front of their home fans and secure their second straight division crown. Dempster goes tonight hoping to take sole possession of the Cubs win lead over Ted Lilly, who tied him yesterday with 15 (Zambrano has 14).
New Brewers manager Dale Sveum leads the troops into Wrigley and will get to send Sabathia and Sheets in the first two games. That should make him look like a geniuis. Sabathia has started 13 games for the Brewers, all good enough to be considered quality starts. The Cubs though are 28-14 versus lefties this year and 14-5 at home. My, how times have changed for our Cubs.
As I mentioned earlier, if the Cubs sweep the Brewers, they'll need the Marlins to win at least one versus the Astros over the next 3 games to clinch. If they can take two out of three, that'll give them the weekend to finish the job before they have to head out on the road again.
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just looking at the NL...
2004 Astros
2002 Giants
2000 Mets
1999 Mets (same # of wins as Astros but one more loss)
1998 Cubs
1995 Rockies
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that's also kind of the point of the wild card, to give one team a chance that had a better season than the other division winners but got stuck in a tough division. It sure would suck to have the 2nd best record in the league and not make the playoffs. So it being close to 50/50 is about right.
that all being said, they should scrap the inter-division rule and seed the playoffs by record with the small caveat that the Wild Card team cannot have homefield advantage.
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my bad, was on the radio and thought CC was out by the 7th. Not sure what the Aaron Harang comment means since his ERA is around 5.
Cy Youngs are Lincecum and Lee, not sure how you can argue anyone else this year.
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not bothering to fact check, that would give Cliff Lee a hypothetical 2.89 ERA vs Halladay's 2.77 ERA. That makes it more interesting, but still hypothethical.
and doesn't WARP-3 adjust for that? Lee is 10.8 vs Halladay's 8.3
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Back to the game..
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the answer I so often used with Dusty....anyone else.
Guzman or Samardzija would be my top choices...but honestly, anyone else. I don't give a fuck anymore. Howry's been shit all season, please get the Steve Eyre treatment.
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Sean Gallagher with a good start
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TRIVIA Question: Did you know that each NL City has 2 ....
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