I think this guy is the WORST CLOSER in Baseball! and Worst I have seen in sometime.

Please feel free to check many of my earlier posts about this team, I felt they would come around! But this guy would be the problem!

He holds the ball up for a long period of time giving the hitter more time than mosts to focus on the ball, so who cares if it come sin at 89 or 99, any good ML hitter can time it.

The pitching is fine, the hitting is getting better and better everyday, than can go to the playoffs, they can go 8 innings in a 1 run game with anyone, then this shlubb walks in and blows it!

Please save me the "He has been doing better crap!". Closing a game for a pitcher should be a dominance statistic, as you already have a great advantage as any piotcher entering a game. YOu should win any matchup 2 of 3 times, even against the best hitters. 4 of 5, against most. Thus to allow teams multiple hits in a sva esituation basically means YOU SUCK as a closer.

Every closer will have a good streak just because the stats are so overwhelming in their favor! But when I kept hearing how he recently was doing better it makes me sick!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

oh, i totally agree. Throw a god damn strike already and preferably one that is not going to get hit. Also, why the hell is fuko playing so shallow. The runner is only on first, play no doubles.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Hmmmm. That seems like it's a lot easier to say than do. Just throw strikes that don't get hit.

I'm not sticking up for the guy (especially tonight ) - but he throws strikes. They just go real far the other way after he throws them.

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I dont disagree with you that Gregg sucks ass, but what is your alternative? Marmol cant throw strikes as a setup guy, how is going to do with more pressure as a closer? Wood was too expensive and look at his 5.35 ERA.

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from watching him it seems like he can get ahead in the count, but then he dicks around way too much outside. His out pitches start outside, they don't seem to start over the zone and break away like you would want them to. However, this has allowed the fun to begin as I can not wait to see who lou puts in the infield now that aram is down.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Soon as Bob & Len mentioned "The Village People" & a big Fireworks show was waiting to begin after 2 were out,I smelled another Cubs collapse. Amazing how quickly a game can change. Gregg looks like he is all arm. No leg kick to bring it. Maybe Dempster can teach him the "glove wiggle" to distract the hitter. Seriously, what makes me sick is when a team designates a closer which means its beyond the realm of possibility for him to get pulled in the 9th if he sucks. Cubs had no one warming up and left it in his hands,that's BS. With the game on the line,there should always be "Plan B".

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

When was the last time the Cubs had a closer who was actually feared around the league?

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that's true. let's give gregg some human skin to wear and a sawed off shotgun.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Yeah, Lee Smith and Bruce Sutter were probably the best in team history. Rod beck SOMEHOW got the job done in 89 and got 50 saves, but he always made it a tightwire act. Myers was pretty good at times, but Smith and Sutter were the only ones that really made you feel like the game was secure.

Bigfan...what would you do about the closer now? Put Marmol in that role? he's been pretty darn shaky of late too, with lots of control issues. Not a lot of options. I agree about Gregg, but what change could be made to improve the situation?

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Go Cubs!!!!

I know people are being stupid because of one game but actually to the intelligent Gregg has done a decent to good job all season.

Intelligent fans who follow the team are saying he blew the lead but has been doing well all season. Stupid fans say he sucks. He sucked last night no question. But nobody with a brain says he has sucked all season.

I know let's replace Gregg with Marmol, Lee with Hoffpauir and Soriano with Fuld.

How stupid can some fans get?

And while we're at it fire Hendry and hire Stone as GM.

Last night is a game that seperates the meatball fan from the intelligent fan.

Meatball fans see the game and say he sucks shoot him get a new closer.

Intelligent fans say he sucked LAST NIGHT and has done a good job overall.

Meatball fans want to dump a player because of one game.

Smart fans know the difference between a game heck even a week and a whole season.

Meatballs = Gregg Fastballs

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Proud to be UNVERIFIED.

intelligent fans look at the numbers:


2009 CHC 51 0 4 2 21 4 0 0 0 49.1 44 23 21 8 21 51 3.83 1.32 .230
G GS W L SV BS HLD CG SHO IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP BAA
Bases Empty 50 0 0 0 0 25 0 0 0 26.0 28 4 2 6 13 26 0.69 1.58 .262
Runners On 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23.1 16 19 19 2 8 25 7.33 1.03 .190
RISP 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13.0 4 14 14 0 8 13 9.69 0.92 .103
RISP w/2 Outs 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.1 2 12 12 0 6 8 14.73 1.09 .083
Bases Loaded 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.1 2 5 5 0 1 0 33.75 2.25 .400

while i understand the closer's role in all of baseball is somewhat suspect around the league, gregg is awful when it comes to just closing the damn game. he doesn't have an out pitch. his fastballs are a joke. he somewhat reminds me of dempster when he was a closer. at best, he could get the job done, but it would be a tightrope act a lot of the time. at worst, he looked like the ultimate asshole giving up the lead and blowing the saves, and blowing the games.

I love how you call out people for being stupid, yet you repeatedly have trouble putting together a fucking sentence.

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

whoa that thing, crosscheck; didn't you realize she's an award winning fan fiction writer?

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

1989 ChC 76 0 0 0 81.2 71 27 24 6 52 67 4 4 36 saves 0 -- 2.65

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Mitch Williams??? No one was afraid of him, not like they were Lee Smith.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Mitch was much more of a threat to hit someone in the head!
That is where the fear crept in as he had a mean fastball.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Well Gregg is bad, but hes not the worst closer in baseball. Thats a meatball statement. Hendry will have to find a closer in the offseason somehow, since Marmol has shown hes not ready for the job yet.

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Fuck Edwards and Zobrist

Crosscheck I know you are a moron but anyone with an IQ above 2 knows what that sentence means.

And of course you used the f word which when used shows the user is a complete idiot.

The best thing about the f word is the second anyone uses it you know they have the IQ of a turnip unless it's used appropriately.

But it's the idiot generation. Whenever I meet anyone under 25 I fear for the future. Braindead people who would die in an hour if they lost their cellphone.

How has how you write Award Winning fan fiction about how Law and order would be if it were some how written by you changed as a result of Kevin Gregg's suckititude?

Quit telling people theyre meatballs. By your defintion of meatball...you are a meatball the size of those giant balls they used on American Gladiator.

Gregg sucks. He's a decent seventh inning guy. Thats it. Check my boy Keith Law he had it before the season.

FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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You ever get tired of being wrong?

Agree yet Schmitty??????????????????????

Back to Back to lose the game!!!!!!!!! THE WORST! WWORSTTTTTT

He throws strikes like he is the pitching coach throwing Batting Practice holding the ball up for an extra second or two so the batter can focus on the pitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

And Angel Guzman is who I want to close games!!!!!!!!!!

He has a great slider and can throw just as hard!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I didn't say that you don't know what a sentence means, I said you don't know how to write one. But since you have an IQ larger than a turnip, you already new that.

Remove the f word form my post and the criticism still stands, you criticize people for being idiots because they don't believe what you do; yet you do it in an unintelligent fashion.

Oh, and nice generalization, is that what everyone with an IQ larger than a turnip does? You rip me for being stupid, yet you use generalizations based off of nothing... hmm I'm starting to see a pattern here.

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

Just getting more and more pissed as I watch every facet of this team get better and better except for this guy!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”