5/29 Marlins (Willis) vs. Cubs (Marquis) 7:05PM CT CSN

[Soul]

When did Dusty Baker take this team over again?

 

He never left.

 

Mwahahahaah!

[Monco]

The 81% are like the ones who cheer every time the Cubs hit a fly ball.

[dalgreen]

ahahahaha game over, another loss to a team with about one-third the payroll of our beloved cubs

 

Fire sale. And I mean complete fire sale. We've got to get this noose off our collective neck.

We can't do that. We passed out NTCs.

 

Eyre, Soriano, Marquis, Lilly... they might as well have NTCs, nobody is going to take on those contracts. From this point forward, the Cubs have to start developing some players from within and stop impulsively spending money to fill holes.

 

Uh, you mean like Patterson, Dubois, Kelton, Harvey, etc.? We simply have bad people making poor personnel decisions who have no real clue how to develop a farm system and how to properly fill holes with right players. Why some people were okay with firing Baker and keeping Hendry is beyond me.

[JeffH]

When did Dusty Baker take this team over again?

 

The common thread is Jim Hendry, the worst GM in the history of professional sports.

[weis21]

well sometimes you just gotta tip your cap....

[TruffleShuffle]

i posted the same poll in the polls section. hopefully members of this board are a little brighter.

[Monco]

No but at some point the Brewers will quit sucking again.

When do they play the Cubs?

Edited May 30, 2007 by Monco

[illiniguy]

At this point I am thinking trade DLEE for Micahel Bowden, Clay Buccholz, and Jacoby Ellsbury. Aramis for Brandon Wood and ESantana. Just reload this mess.

[Omar]

The 81% are like the ones who cheer every time the Cubs hit a fly ball.

 

I remember when I went to my first couple Cubs games, every fly ball looked like a HR...

[bcruise]

nice 8 pitch inning from out 1-2-3 hitters.

 

Very appropriate typo. :(

[illiniguy]

i posted the same poll in the polls section. hopefully members of this board are a little brighter.

I am going with the cardinals.

[TMan92]

When did Dusty Baker take this team over again?

 

I gave up on blaming Baker about a month ago. These players and the GM are the reason this team sucks. Baker won everywhere he managed until this godforesaken team.

 

Our curse is a fat arsed GM and horrible ownership, not a goat or a toothpick eating manager. All I look forward to is someone buying this team that cares about winning and gets competent people to run the show.

[Omar]

The 81% are like the ones who cheer every time the Cubs hit a fly ball.

 

I remember when I went to my first couple Cubs games, every fly ball looked like a HR...

 

June 4-6... 3 game series.

Edited May 30, 2007 by Omar

[Soul]

No but at some point the Brewers will quit sucking again.

When do they play the Cubs?

 

I think its actually pretty soon. They'll get healthy against us and it will be adios muchachos, if it isn't over by the time the series begins anyway.

 

This club is as dead as dead can be. I've never seen such a soul-less team.

[Omar]

When did Dusty Baker take this team over again?

 

I gave up on blaming Baker about a month ago. These players and the GM are the reason this team sucks. Baker won everywhere he managed until this godforesaken team.

 

Our curse is a fat arsed GM and horrible ownership, not a goat or a toothpick eating manager. All I look forward to is someone buying this team that cares about winning and gets competent people to run the show.

 

Yup. As Moneyball said once, you can't teach patience.

[dalgreen]

When did Dusty Baker take this team over again?

 

The common thread is Jim Hendry, the worst GM in the history of professional sports.

 

I feel your frustration, but he's not worst than Matt Millen or Isaiah Thomas. Man, I wonder what the Cubs would be like had they not forced Dallas Green out (yes, my surname).

[TruffleShuffle]

Uh, you mean like Patterson, Dubois, Kelton, Harvey, etc.? We simply have bad people making poor personnel decisions who have no real clue how to develop a farm system and how to properly fill holes with right players. Why some people were okay with firing Baker and keeping Hendry is beyond me.

 

yeah that's the point... stop developing scrubs (note the common thread with those guys - horrible plate discipline) and actually get a minor league system that contributes talent onto the major league squad. Look at the team that's playing tonight, most of the players came from within or in trades for talent they developed (Beckett, Pierre)

[illiniguy]

Uh, you mean like Patterson, Dubois, Kelton, Harvey, etc.? We simply have bad people making poor personnel decisions who have no real clue how to develop a farm system and how to properly fill holes with right players. Why some people were okay with firing Baker and keeping Hendry is beyond me.

 

yeah that's the point... stop developing scrubs (note the common thread with those guys - horrible plate discipline) and actually get a minor league system that contributes talent onto the major league squad. Look at the team that's playing tonight, most of the players came from within or in trades for talent they developed (Beckett, Pierre)

Our guys are the ones who will pass on Wieters in about a week.

[Soul]

Well, time to bail on this bozo act and play some Oblivion. No sense ruining my entire night on this stupidity.

 

Night.

[JeffH]

When did Dusty Baker take this team over again?

 

The common thread is Jim Hendry, the worst GM in the history of professional sports.

 

I feel your frustration, but he's not worst than Matt Millen or Isaiah Thomas. Man, I wonder what the Cubs would be like had they not forced Dallas Green out (yes, my surname).

 

If the Knicks replaced Thomas with Hendry, their franchise would collapse on itself like a black hole and cease to exist.

[dalgreen]

Uh, you mean like Patterson, Dubois, Kelton, Harvey, etc.? We simply have bad people making poor personnel decisions who have no real clue how to develop a farm system and how to properly fill holes with right players. Why some people were okay with firing Baker and keeping Hendry is beyond me.

 

yeah that's the point... stop developing scrubs (note the common thread with those guys - horrible plate discipline) and actually get a minor league system that contributes talent onto the major league squad. Look at the team that's playing tonight, most of the players came from within or in trades for talent they developed (Beckett, Pierre)

 

It all begins with the GM. He loves "toolsy" players and his scouts love "toolsy" players. How a guy like Theriot is on the team is by pure accident.

[JeffH]

Another one of Uncle Larry's proteges who can't throw strikes to save his life.

[Wilson A2000]

The two are equally bad. Both spend big money on the wrong players and somehow manage to get extensions after mediocre seasons and extensions in the middle or beginning of the season when things are going good.

[Monco]

I feel your frustration, but he's not worst than Matt Millen or Isaiah Thomas.

 

Are you sure about that ?They may be taking different routes,but their ending up at the same place.

[TruffleShuffle]

Our guys are the ones who will pass on Wieters in about a week.

 

yeah i'm resigned to the fact that we'll be selecting another high school hitter who will flame out in AA