Heyyyyy! The Fonz!
What a pleasure it's been to call a couple Cubs blowout wins the last
two days. Alfonso Soriano has sparked this club, going 10 for his
last 13 with 3 HRs. If you look at his rate stats, you'll notice
that his OBP and SL% are both above his career norms. He's getting
on base at a .362 clip (.327 career) while he's slugging .522, 11
points higher than his career average. Of lesser importance is his .
316 BA, which just so happens to be well above his .281 career mark.
I know he's been streaky, but that track record we often talk about
seems to be evening things out for a guy who will put up some big
numbers when it's all said and done.
Len
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no doubt fonzie is on fire,im gonna go out on a limb here and predict him player of the month in june,like i said before espn's jayson stark putting him on his top ten overratted players,eat your words jayson just watch soriano along iwth d.lee nad ramirez who has been consitent all year are gonna all carry this team along with key hits from dero,theriot,floyd among others,bottom line is we are playing and winning with a team effort,still lots of games left cub fans we are not outta this by a long shot,im gonna say we take first in the first two weeks of july and stay there....go cubs!!!
Posted by: leo s. | June 5, 2007 5:48 PM
IT IS SO GOOD TO SEE HIM DO WHAT HE HAS IN THE PAST....
EXCITING..................
Posted by: DON | June 5, 2007 6:04 PM
how can lou pinella watch these major leaguers being paid 10-15 million a year, not run three steps out of the batters box on a pop up and a fly ball to the warning track.?
Posted by: jim miller | June 5, 2007 8:51 PM
Bob and Len,
As the Cubs were rallying and had chased Vargas in the top of the eighth on Tuesday evening, the picture clearly showed Bill Hall out in Center pulling some king of lineup or scouting card from his back pocket and discussing something with RF (Jenkins?).
I have never seen position players do this before. Hall seemed to be looking in at Izturis warming up in the on deck circle and then glancing back at this card. Is this within the rules, and if so, how common is this practice?
Thanks for answering.
Kevin in Scottsdale
Posted by: kevin in scottsdale | June 5, 2007 10:52 PM
I'm not a big Lou Pinella fan but I still don't believe he made contact with that umpire. Please tell me what happened, if anything, to the umpire who put his hands on Lou. Doesn't seem fair.
Posted by: Barbara | June 5, 2007 10:52 PM