05-09-2009, 06:11 PM
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Well, that's ridiculous. Even if we lost him for the season we could win this division. Look how we've done with guys out left and right, plus a few All-Stars doing very little with the bat. Guys just have to step up, and history's said that they'll do much better than they have, even if they don't perform up to expectations.
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He's our best hitter, by a pretty wide margin.
Lee, Bradley, and Soto (or at least two of the three) are going to have to step up in a really big way to even come close to making up for this loss. I worry about the psychological impact this is going to have, as well.
Who is going to play 3B now? Fontenot? 2B? Miles/Freel? And then who will play RF when Bradley hits the DL again? Hoffpauir? Oh, man...this is a nightmare.
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It's bad news, no question. But even without Ramirez this team still has the most talent in the division.
Well, that's ridiculous. Even if we lost him for the season we could win this division. Look how we've done with guys out left and right, plus a few All-Stars doing very little with the bat. Guys just have to step up, and history's said that they'll do much better than they have, even if they don't perform up to expectations.
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He's our best hitter, by a pretty wide margin.
Lee, Bradley, and Soto (or at least two of the three) are going to have to step up in a really big way to even come close to making up for this loss. I worry about the psychological impact this is going to have, as well.
Who is going to play 3B now? Fontenot? 2B? Miles/Freel? And then who will play RF when Bradley hits the DL again? Hoffpauir? Oh, man...this is a nightmare.
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It's bad news, no question. But even without Ramirez this team still has the most talent in the division.
The thing you need to remember is that all Cardinals fans and all White Sox fans are very bad people. It's a fact that has been scientifically proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Being a Cubs fan is the only path to rightousness and piousness. Cardinal and White Sox fans exist to be the dark, diabolical forces that oppose us. They are the yin to our yang, the Joker to our Batman, the demon to our angel, the insurgence to our freedom, the oil to our water, the club to our baby seal. Their happiness occurs only in direct conflict with everything that is pure and good in this world.
-Dirk
-Dirk