7/3 Cobs (Gallagher) @ Giants (Lincecum) 6:05pm CDT, CSN

[Joe_Cub]

if bad drafts keep happening, they keep hurting the cubs.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Targeting the draft is fine. But it's more like "If we had drafted Travis "Bad Body Awesome Bat" Snider instead of Tyler "I'm from the Southeast and I have tools in a vague way but they don't manifest themselves in a manner that actually helps me succeed in baseball so of course the Cubs will draft me even though Baseball America has Sir Colvin going more in 50 pick area, because the Cubs know more than Baseball America when everybody else on the planet knew you pick Snider, bad body and all and to hell with Colvin and his mediocre 5 tools" Colvin.

 

This isn't hindsight. WE ALL KNEW on the day it happened Snider was a better pick. Go look up the damn topics. TRAVIS SNIDER GETS YOU C. C. SABATHIA. TYLER COLVIN GETS YOU A LUMP OF COAL IN YOUR STOCKING.

 

Sorry, but I get angry people still defend Saint Wilken.

 

You're becoming a caricature when you do stuff like this. Saying that Vitters is not a wasted pick does not mean that they are defending Wilken at all costs. We get it though, you're still really pissed that they took Colvin over Snider.

[badnews]

It's strange. Over the offseason certain people will harp again and again on certain mistakes and it's no problem. But this, everyone wants to give it a free pass.

 

Nobody seems to care about accountability in this case. People will scream bloody murder about, oh no, somebody's batting one slot off where they should be, and who is paying attention to the fact that that was an inane choice by an organization that makes them too often.

 

This is compounded by two annoyances, to me:

 

#1- A bunch of obnoxious loudmouth types on here simply would not stop going on about the 2004 Devil Rays draft when it now looks obvious that that was more Tampa than Wilken. So people say all this stuff but then there is no accountability about it.

 

#2- Wilken gets all smug about people doubting Colvin and says he's the next Alex Rios and people didn't like the Rios selection either. Which is a disgusting amount of arrogance.

 

So yes. That decision may be one of the most important affecting the course of the 2008 season and it deserves more attention than we've gotten. Why can't the Cubs trade for the players people are advocating?

 

Mentioning the state of things now without talking about how the Cubs bungled the bonus money and bungled their first pick is like talking about the current state of Afghanistan with no mention of 1979.

 

Why don't the Cubs have a Travis Snider to trade? Because Wilken and Hendry blew it.

 

Why don't the Cubs have a Lars Anderson, Jordan Walden, or Matt Latos to trade instead of nobody Chris Huseby? Because Wilken and Hendry blew it.

 

This is not hindsight. Go back and look at the topics at the time.

 

But I guess we'll pretend some nickel-and-dime nonsense issues are more important than who we are capable of acquiring. Instead of, I don't know, placing blame where blame belongs?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Who are you arguing with? Did you just see that a recent draftee was mentioned in a positive light and started in on this diatribe?