Comments on FIRE JOE MORGAN: Joe Wants to Chat.

So, just so I'm sure I get this -- if Pat Burrell ...

2007-05-02T16:39:00.000-04:00

So, just so I'm sure I get this -- if Pat Burrell refuses to give a post-game interview and instead runs out of the clubhouse at to the top row of the bleachers just to be alone, you might say he was silent upon a park on Darien?

Just to make sure we don't get too far off-track, ...

2007-05-01T16:28:00.000-04:00

Just to make sure we don't get too far off-track, reader (and dude we may have met once ) HHD points out that Citizens Bank Park is on Darien St. in Philly.

In a baseball-related note:Reader Thomas takes me ...

2007-05-01T11:42:00.000-04:00

In a baseball-related note:

Reader Thomas takes me to task about my anti-Cubs sentiments.

Hi,

You said

And as for the Cubs: everyone who thinks about things (a subset of humanity that does not include Joe, apparently), came to the same conclusion about the Cubbies' spending spree: they didn't get that much better. $136m for Soriano was insane. They still had massive pitching problems. They gave $40m to Ted Lilly and $21m to Jason Marquis. Exactly why did you think they'd be so much better?

In fact, PECOTA calculations show that were/are expected to improve about 20+ games going into the season. Also, if you look at baseball prospecutus's expected wins you'll see right they are drastically underperforming and will most likely pick things up and we'll see a correction in their record.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/standings.php

Well-argued. I would only say that the Cubbies may have benefited, early on, from Lilly's first (meaningful) tour through the NL. And Marquis will no have a 1.17 WHIP for very long. Nor will Lilly's and Rich Hill's stay below .80.

Which Josh Bard in Bobby Kielty to Apollo Anton Oh...

2007-05-01T01:58:00.000-04:00

Which Josh Bard in Bobby Kielty to Apollo Anton Ohno hold...

Maybe stout Cortez (Kennedy) was born in Darien (C...

2007-04-30T19:30:00.001-04:00

Maybe stout Cortez (Kennedy) was born in Darien (CT).

A new planet just swam into my Ken (Tremendous).

2007-04-30T19:30:00.000-04:00

A new planet just swam into my Ken (Tremendous).

Not even deep-browed Homer (Bush)?

2007-04-30T19:29:00.000-04:00

Not even deep-browed Homer (Bush)?

I was disappointed to find that no Major League Ba...

2007-04-30T16:10:00.000-04:00

I was disappointed to find that no Major League Baseball player, from any era, was born in Darien (Connecticut).