08-09-2009, 08:20 PM
<!--quoteo(post=56699:date=Aug 9 2009, 06:01 PM:name=ruby23)-->QUOTE (ruby23 @ Aug 9 2009, 06:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=56698:date=Aug 9 2009, 06:51 PM:name=Clapp)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Clapp @ Aug 9 2009, 06:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=56696:date=Aug 9 2009, 05:41 PM:name=ruby23)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ruby23 @ Aug 9 2009, 05:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I like Zambrano and all, but as long as this team needs to rely on him to be one of the top 2 pitchers on the staff, I don't see this team winning in the postseason. As a regular season staff, the Cubs have a good one. As far as a postseason rotations go, every team in the NL races sans the Rockies, has a better one.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The Dodgers don't.
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Billingsly and Kershaw are better than any 1-2 puch the Cubs have. Shit, Cook and Jimenez from the Rockies might even be too. You only need 2 pitchers in the playoffs, the Cubs don't have 2 clear cut choices to choose. Zambrano-Lilly, Lilly-Dempster, Zambrano-Harden, those combos aren't the type you win shit with.
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Billingsley has a 3.73 ERA and is currently hurt. Kershaw's been great, but is a 21-year-old pitcher, who knows how he'll do in the playoffs? The rest of their rotation is blah at best.
And again, Zambrano's been very good the last 2 years. It wasn't his fault we lost either game. We did jackshit against Arizona and the defense shit the bed for him against the Dodgers. If I remember correctly, at least 1 or 2 of those runs last year should've been unearned too.
Our rotation is plenty good enough to win in the playoffs. Scoring 6 runs in 3 games won't be.
The Dodgers don't.
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Billingsly and Kershaw are better than any 1-2 puch the Cubs have. Shit, Cook and Jimenez from the Rockies might even be too. You only need 2 pitchers in the playoffs, the Cubs don't have 2 clear cut choices to choose. Zambrano-Lilly, Lilly-Dempster, Zambrano-Harden, those combos aren't the type you win shit with.
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Billingsley has a 3.73 ERA and is currently hurt. Kershaw's been great, but is a 21-year-old pitcher, who knows how he'll do in the playoffs? The rest of their rotation is blah at best.
And again, Zambrano's been very good the last 2 years. It wasn't his fault we lost either game. We did jackshit against Arizona and the defense shit the bed for him against the Dodgers. If I remember correctly, at least 1 or 2 of those runs last year should've been unearned too.
Our rotation is plenty good enough to win in the playoffs. Scoring 6 runs in 3 games won't be.
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