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zonersports.com - 3/3/2009
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Oh snap. Steve Phillips has done gone and
angered Sweet Lou. Not a good thing. I think...
I was one of two people in Chicago that didn’t lose patience with Fukudome. The other? Lou Piniella. He played Fukudome in 150 games.
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This Calls For a Fake Press Conference
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baseballreflections.com - 3/23/2009
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T o say that this is probably the
beginning of the end for Derrek Lee would miss...
the point – we have likely reached the end of the beginning of the end. The beginning of the end came in 2006, when he broke his wrist in a collision with Rafael Furcal. Lee has had two good seasons in 2007 and ...
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What to Expect From The Cubs in 2009
notqualifiedtocomment.com - 3/4/2009
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Gee, why did the Mets fire him? Steve
Phillips of ESPN has something stupid to say about...
everything when it comes to baseball. We can’t really fault him for talking about baseball, it’s his job. We can yell at him for not doing any research and talking out of his ass though. ...
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Steve Phillips Is A Moron, Just Ask Sweet Lou (And ...
mlb.fanhouse.com - 3/3/2009
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by Tom Fornelli Over the weekend, we learned
that Cubs manager Lou Piniella likes to hang up...
on Ozzie Guillen when the crosstown manager gives him a call, though Piniella maintains that it wasn't anything personal against Guillen as much as he just ...
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Lou Piniella Does Not Like Steve Phillips
mlb.mlb.com - 3/10/2009
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PEORIA, Ariz. -- Lou Piniella was happy to
see Kosuke Fukudome on Tuesday, and he gave him...
a heads-up that the Japanese outfielder will likely be batting second for the Cubs this year. Fukudome and Team Japan are in Phoenix to prepare for the second ...
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Piniella pencils in Fukudome at No. 2 | cubs.com: News
notqualifiedtocomment.com - 3/11/2009
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Wait, why am I batting 2nd? I just
spun around 360 degrees trying to hit a curveball!...
Fukudome hasn’t been playing with the Cubs this spring, since he has been trying to help Japan win some games in the World Baseball Classic. He has done ok, going 2-7 so far with the Japanese team. ...
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Lou Promises Fukudome 2nd Spot in Lineup
bleachernation.com - 3/17/2009
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Figuratively, of course. Mike Fontenot has officially won
the second base job, at least against righties. Piniella...
said Mike Fontenot would be his everyday second baseman, at least againist right-handed pitching, and would bat sixth in the lineup. That would give the Cubs lefties in the ...
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Mike Fontenot Slays Aaron Miles
jorgesaysno.blogspot.com - 3/3/2009
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For the first two months of the 2008
campaign, rookie Kosuke Fukudome was the talk of baseball....
The left hand hitting star out of Japan was drawing rave reviews from baseball people because of his ability to get on base, work deep counts, and hit for a solid average. Fukudome appeared to be ...
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Spotlight's On: Kosuke Fukudome
bleachernation.com - 3/13/2009
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The Chicago Cubs are turning Japanese again -
they took on the Japanese team yesterday. The Cubs...
lost by a run, but it was probably fun or something. Mike Fontenot continues to do nothing but hit. Another couple hits, and it’s starting to become clear that, at a minimum, getting the ...
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Spring Training Battlewatch: March 12, 2009
cubs.gearupforsports.com - 3/27/2009
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The 2nd World Baseball Classic has concluded and
once again Japan is the champion. The old saying...
of if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound applies here. I am a huge MLB fan but it is hard to get pumped up for the WBC when I am still in Spring ...
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What The Fukudome!!!!!
bleachernation.com - 3/3/2009
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Steve Phillips is a former, and completely unsuccessful,
MLB general manager. Steve Phillips is a current, and...
completely unsuccessful, ESPN commentator. Phillips recently picked the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series in 2009, but Cubs fans will forget that quickly now that he and Cubs ...
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Steve Phillips is an Idiot, and Lou Piniella ‘Bout to ...
cantstopthebleeding.com - 3/3/2009
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Having already wrestled one universally despised baseball commentator
(Rob Dibble), Cubs manager Lou Piniella (above) sounds itching...
to take a crack at former Mets GM Steve Phillips . Phillips questioned Piniella’s handling of Kosuske Fukodome last season, telling suspender-maven ...
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Piniella To Phillips : Come Over Here & Say It To ...
suntimes.com - 3/4/2009
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Lou Piniella has been doing a lot of
chuckling and joking around during a very quiet spring...
training, but comments made by ESPN analyst Steve Phillips struck a nerve. Phillips was being interviewed by Chet Coppock on WMVP-AM (1000) on Saturday and ...
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Piniella fires back at ESPN's Phillips over Fukduome
chicagotribune.com - 3/11/2009
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PEORIA, Ariz. — Kosuke Fukudome stopped by the
Cubs ' clubhouse Tuesday before working out with Team...
Japan in Scottsdale. Though ESPN analyst Steve Phillips recently said manager Lou Piniella mishandled the Japanese outfielder in his rookie season in ...
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Cubs manager Lou Piniella promises spot to Kosuke Fukudome -
chicagotribune.com - 3/12/2009
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MESA, Ariz. — When Carlos Zambrano saw Kosuke
Fukudome on Tuesday at HoHoKam Park, he told his...
teammate how he would pitch to him Thursday in the Cubs ' exhibition against Team Japan. Straight fastballs. No movement. That was Zambrano's way of saying ...
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Chicago Cubs hoping Kosuke Fukudome comes back strong -
suntimes.com - 3/13/2009
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MESA, Ariz. -- Outfielder Kosuke Fukudome , who
earned an All-Star start based on his sizzling first...
two months in the majors before spiraling the rest of the season, made his first stop in the Cubs' clubhouse Thursday before Japan's World Baseball ...
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CUBS IN BRIEF: Last season's fade not easy for Fukudome ...
bleachernation.com - 3/13/2009
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One of the few unsettled questions this Spring
is who is going to end up on that...
25th spot on the Chicago Cubs bench. The prevailing wisdom has the Cubs carrying a five-man bench, with one spot going to the back up catcher, one going to Aaron Miles (or Mike Fontenot, depending), one going to ...
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Cubs Still Looking for Another Infielder and What It ...
msn.foxsports.com - 3/16/2009
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The Cubs look like a good bet to
stay on top of the NL Central. But that...
isn't enough anymore these days. Can they do better?
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Cubs remain team to beat in NL Central
i94sports.com - 3/18/2009
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Ahhh…the platoon situation in baseball. Defined by me
as “The act of rotating players into a position...
based on matchups due to the lack of a definitive everyday player at said position.” It comes with a bit of a stigma to it and makes you feel like the guy in the picture, ...
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Platooning - Is it so Bad?
beyondtheboxscore.com - 3/26/2009
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Kosuke Fukudome's WBC Failures in PITCHf/x A little PFX
on plate discipline - or Fukudome's odd version of...
it.
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Kosuke Fukudome's WBC Failures in PITCHf/x
