Random Cubs Musings

[OleMissCub]

Did some quick math and we paid Fukudome $111,100 for every hit he had.

 

arod got paid 124,378 for every hit he had in 2001

 

Yeah well he had an 8.3 WAR that year

[Guest]

But we got a better value on our hits. Especially when you adjust for inflation.

 

Win.

[Banedon]

But we got a better value on our hits. Especially when you adjust for inflation.

 

Win.

 

The new market inefficiency....sign/trade for all the guys with the best per hit value.

[treebird]

man I wanted kosuke to be amazing

I was so excited when we brought him over with the Ichiro/Hideki Matsui hybrid comps.

 

pecota promised me he was going to be a .300/.400/.500 guy. i'm still bitter.

 

That was meph

 

i am pretty sure you are joking but this still made me question my memory so i had to check.

 

http://viewfromthebleachers.com/blog/2007/12/15/projecting-fukudome/

 

pecota had him at .289/.401/.504.

[imb]

man I wanted kosuke to be amazing

I was so excited when we brought him over with the Ichiro/Hideki Matsui hybrid comps.

 

pecota promised me he was going to be a .300/.400/.500 guy. i'm still bitter.

 

That was meph

 

VORP YOU!

 

ahahhaha i need to go back to nsbblol and read all that weirdness. what a god damn freak that guy was. Ask Dew about the weird PMs Meph sent him.

[Banedon]

ahahhaha i need to go back to nsbblol and read all that weirdness. what a [expletive] freak that guy was. Ask Dew about the weird PMs Meph sent him.

 

Oh geez, that never got taken down? Excellent.

[Guest]

 

ahahhaha i need to go back to nsbblol and read all that weirdness. what a [expletive] freak that guy was. Ask Dew about the weird PMs Meph sent him.

 

I made a post once when he tried to come back as Kosuke1 or something pointing out that it sounded like him and he sent me some PMs about how he thought I liked him.

[Banedon]

ahahhaha i need to go back to nsbblol and read all that weirdness. what a [expletive] freak that guy was. Ask Dew about the weird PMs Meph sent him.

 

"I'm not Meph, but since they won't let Meph back in, I have no reason not to post crazy [expletive]"

[Little Slide Rooter]

Kosuke gave us 4 amazing April-Mays, 3 decent Augusts, and a forgettable AAA relief pitcher, and can't nobody take that away from us.

[Sammy Sofa]

man I wanted kosuke to be amazing

I was so excited when we brought him over with the Ichiro/Hideki Matsui hybrid comps.

 

pecota promised me he was going to be a .300/.400/.500 guy. i'm still bitter.

 

That was meph

 

i am pretty sure you are joking but this still made me question my memory so i had to check.

 

http://viewfromthebleachers.com/blog/2007/12/15/projecting-fukudome/

 

pecota had him at .289/.401/.504.

 

It seemed like he got favorable projections and comparisons left and right; I remember being so damned excited when they got him and watching clips of him playing in Japan. Boo.

[Guest]

 

It seemed like he got favorable projections and comparisons left and right; I remember being so damned excited when they got him and watching clips of him playing in Japan. Boo.

 

And then him doing what he did in that video I posted

[Sammy Sofa]

man I wanted kosuke to be amazing

I was so excited when we brought him over with the Ichiro/Hideki Matsui hybrid comps.

 

YES, THIS. That's remember hearing more than once; I think SI did a pretty big write up about him basically saying the same thing, too.

[Guest]

man I wanted kosuke to be amazing

I was so excited when we brought him over with the Ichiro/Hideki Matsui hybrid comps.

 

YES, THIS. That's remember hearing more than once; I think SI did a pretty big write up about him basically saying the same thing, too.

 

And then Tanaka gets labeled a mid-rotation starter.

[Sammy Sofa]

 

It seemed like he got favorable projections and comparisons left and right; I remember being so damned excited when they got him and watching clips of him playing in Japan. Boo.

 

And then him doing what he did in that video I posted

 

Oh, I was there and it was glorious.

 

Man, I moved here in early 2007, so those first two years I went to a ton of Cubs games and thought I was in for a ride of awesomeness. Since 2010 I've been to like 10 games and I live like 20 minutes away.

[Guest]

 

It seemed like he got favorable projections and comparisons left and right; I remember being so damned excited when they got him and watching clips of him playing in Japan. Boo.

 

And then him doing what he did in that video I posted

 

Oh, I was there and it was glorious.

 

Man, I moved here in early 2007, so those first two years I went to a ton of Cubs games and thought I was in for a ride of awesomeness. Since 2010 I've been to like 10 games and I live like 20 minutes away.

 

I, too, was there.

 

In 08, I was cursed for the first like 6 games I went to. They were 1-5 when they basically had lost like 6 games (and probably won around 25) at home all year. Then as the year went on I don't think I saw them lose again for another 12.

[Sammy Sofa]

 

It seemed like he got favorable projections and comparisons left and right; I remember being so damned excited when they got him and watching clips of him playing in Japan. Boo.

 

And then him doing what he did in that video I posted

 

Oh, I was there and it was glorious.

 

Man, I moved here in early 2007, so those first two years I went to a ton of Cubs games and thought I was in for a ride of awesomeness. Since 2010 I've been to like 10 games and I live like 20 minutes away.

 

I, too, was there.

 

In 08, I was cursed for the first like 6 games I went to. They were 1-5 when they basically had lost like 6 games (and probably won around 25) at home all year. Then as the year went on I don't think I saw them lose again for another 12.

 

Got to be there when they clinched at home in '08; easily the greatest game I've ever been to.

[Guest]

I was in the neighborhood for that but watched from a bar.

[SouthSideRyan]

I got to be there when Mark DeRosa grounded into 8 double plays in NLCS Game 3. So that was pretty sweet.

[Guest]

I got to be there when Mark DeRosa grounded into 8 double plays in NLCS Game 3. So that was pretty sweet.

 

oh if only

[Sammy Sofa]

I was in the neighborhood for that but watched from a bar.

 

Cubs dugout side, like 10 rows back behind it.

 

*SIIIIIIIIGH*

[Guest]

I was in the neighborhood for that but watched from a bar.

 

Cubs dugout side, like 10 rows back behind it.

 

*SIIIIIIIIGH*

Brighter times await us

[ConstableRabbit]

I got to be there when Mark DeRosa grounded into 8 double plays in NLCS Game 3. So that was pretty sweet.

I've been to several home playoff games, including NLCS game 6 in '03 and the '98 Wild Card clincher.

 

The moment when DeRosa stepped up to the plate is the loudest I've ever heard Wrigley while in attendance. I couldn't hear my own yelling.

 

And when he GIDP, the silence was deafening.

[Sammy Sofa]

I was in the neighborhood for that but watched from a bar.

 

Cubs dugout side, like 10 rows back behind it.

 

*SIIIIIIIIGH*

Brighter times await us

 

Yeah, but, fingers crossed, I'll be moving back east before next season. Oh well.

[RynoRules]

Meph's real legacy is JR Towles.

[mul21]

I got to be there when Mark DeRosa grounded into 8 double plays in NLCS Game 3. So that was pretty sweet.

I've been to several home playoff games, including NLCS game 6 in '03 and the '98 Wild Card clincher.

 

The moment when DeRosa stepped up to the plate is the loudest I've ever heard Wrigley while in attendance. I couldn't hear my own yelling.

 

And when he GIDP, the silence was deafening.

 

It could not have possibly been quieter than it was when one pitch Rich gave up the HR to Chris Young on the first effing pitch of the game. That place was a graveyard after that the rest of the night.