Who cares if they do? If we take the wild card and kick their butts in the playoffs it'll be sweet.
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Steve Stone: Cubs will run away with Central
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Posts: 192 February 20, 2008 4:16 PM |
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Posts: 28 February 20, 2008 4:47 PM |
I understand W's are a function of the team and shouldn't be the sole judge of a pitcher's merits.
However, what I think Stone was trying to say is that if you are considered an ace, you should have won more than 12 games at least once in your 7-year career. Sometimes an ace has to pitch when his team is struggling to score runs, so he has to put up a zero. You can't always pitch down to your competition. And you have to stay healthy. |
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Posts: 195 February 20, 2008 6:19 PM |
I guess Stonie either needs to be drug tested like the balance of the Cubs, or his last name is indicative of what is in his head. Lastly, ESPN must have had a
non-news day when they have to resort to Cub stories in Feb.
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Posts: 14257 February 20, 2008 7:46 PM |
If Sheets had even gotten average run support in 2004, he probably would have been a 20 game winner. Of course, why would that have any effect on his expected
performance in 2008, anyway? If Stone was really referring to Sheets' injuries over the last 3 years, fine. Anything else and it's just the same old
"analysis" I've learned to just ignore.
Also, predicting in February that any team will run away with any division race is pure fantasy. To me, a run away race is something like a 10+ game lead. Does he expect the Cubs to win 95 games or something? |
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Posts: 1 February 20, 2008 8:56 PM |
Hi. Long time lurker here. I want to offer this view on Steve Stone. I am a Brewer fan since 1975, grew up in Milwaukee, but now living in Chicago - and I
hear Stone on the radio here all of the time. I actually think he's very good - his analysis is more thoughtful than about 98% of what you hear especially
on sports radio in this town. Now as far as predicting the Cubs will run away from the rest of the NL Central. This is vintage Stone. He does that all the
time. Ever since he was, along with Chip Carey, essentially forced out of the Cubs' TV booth by a whining Dusty Baker and some of his idiot players like
Kent Mercker (who spent his time complaining about the content of Stone's broadcasts while the Cubs frittered away the division title in '04), Stone
has consistently held that the Cubs "should" win the division every year, given their large market payroll vs. the rest of the division, and that
management has no excuse not to win. This is Stone's attempt to put pressure on Cubs management, telling the fans that anything less than 1st place is a
failure. Since most years they won't finish first, he's basically making Cubs management look bad to the fans by telling those very fans they have the
right to expect a division champion every year. Its an odd form of revenge, but when the Cubs fail, like they did in '05 and '06, you could almost
hear the glee in Stone's voice when, at season's end, he reviewed the failure of the team to perform, indicting Cubs management, the same Cubs
management that ousted him. If you listened to him in '07, he did the same thing, especially early in the year when the Cubs were struggling and trailing
the Brewers, often saying things such as they have no excuse for being behind a Brewer team spending a lot less. He was fair in his assessment of the
Crew's good young talent, and was especially complimentary of Braun last year.
So yes it might sound like he's slighting the Brewers, but really is agenda is turning up the heat on his former employer by raising Cubs fans' expectations to a level that we all know is unrealistic. How is that not good? I like him.
Last Edited By: Sixto1979 February 20, 2008 9:02 PM.
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