We’re now four weeks into the season and the Cubs’ offense is in the lower third in runs scored. To give you some perspective on it, we’re tied with the Padres. The Fathers are better than statties expected them to be this year, but still, they do play half their games in PetCo.
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Archive for April, 2009
Are We As Good As The Cardinals?
April 26, 2009You Might Be A Redneck
April 23, 2009If you’re a regular contributer to ACB, you probably look like this:
If you believe defense is ‘borderline irrelevant’ in baseball, you might be a redneck.
If you believe the NL Central was over before it started, and that the Cardinals hadn’t a prayer this year, you might be a redneck.
Derrick Rose: Off The Fuckin’ Chain
April 18, 2009Derrick Rose: Off The Fuckin’ Chain
They Were Strikes Against Milton Bradley
April 16, 2009If you have eyes, watch baseball, and aren’t biased emotionally, you know that Wainright threw strikes to Bradley today. The low strike was at the knees as the replay indicated. The curve definitely grabbed plate even though it reached the catcher’s glove inside. It was a perfect curveball. You have to [...]
Moving The Goal Posts | The White Race Police | Small Sample Sizes
April 15, 2009I’ve endured endless ridicule from the idiot statheads around the Cubs blog world. And yet, on the ‘baseball insight scorecard’, it’s clear that I’ve been proven right on pretty much every account. Complete vindication. Let’s look at a checklist:
Defense? Check.
High Leverage Value / Clutch Hitting? Check.
Baserunning? Check.
Importance of catcher? [...]
Is It Lou Or Theriot?
April 7, 2009I’m a big Theriot fan. Everyone knows that… and I’ve been a fan from day one. But this stealing bases shit has to stop.
Is it Lou telling him to go? Does he have a green light and is making the choice?
Whatever the fuck it is, it has to stop. [...]
Heavy Favorites? Creepy
April 5, 2009A lot of statheads have forgotten that the Cubs are the Cubs. This is what made them think we were favorites to beat Arizona two years ago. It’s what made them think we’d breeze past the Dodgers last year. And now? The Cubs should run away with the NL Central in [...]
