TruffleShuffle

let's trade for him... fontenot, marshall, eyre and jones for brandon webb.

no he's not.

can't believe the cubs are in first place with a record 3 games over .500... in mid-August

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4340964.html And here's one from San Fran: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/20/SPGINMGE7R1.DTL From Baltimore: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103000899.html I think you can see that the Cubs were not bidding against themselves whatsoever. There were several teams willing to give Soriano 7 years, 120 million. The Cubs decided to go 8 in order to make sure they got him, and they impressed him enough that they did. Those articles say what Soriano wanted.... they don't say what it is that other teams were offering. In fact, the WaPo article states that the Orioles were "floored" by his contract demands.

yeah i don't have a problem with the time, but why are we doing it at 10 PM (11 for us easterners)? Can't we move it up to 7 or 8?

i wouldn't either. Maybin could be Soriano at a very cheap price for the next few years. Maybin reminds me more of V. Guerrero than Soriano. okay.... my point was that Maybin could match Soriano's level of production for about 4% of the price.

I'd also like to nominate motor"sports", David Beckham and Michael Vick.

I also wonder where they'd be if he hadn't crapped the bed the entire first half.

his K-rate of one per game in the FSL doesn't bode well for immediate success at the big league level

Lots of unusually debilitating injuries to major stars for a few of those seasons make looking only at the team's won-loss record an obviously overly simplistic way of judging the job Jim Hendry's done. That said, over simplify away... Excuses excuses excuses. Record vs resources. It's simple because that's all that matters. Excuse away, and you'll just keep getting the same results. So what kind of job would you say Dave Dombrowski has done with the Detroit Tigers? I would take Dombrowski as GM of the Cubs any day of the week and twice on Sunday, but if we judged him the same way you are judging Hendry, our analysis would tell us to stay far, far away. Never mind that Dombrowski took an organization that was losing terribly and turned them into a team that went to the World Series last year and is currently leading their division this year. His won-loss record during his tenure at Detroit is 403-527. That's 124 games under .500!!!! OMG!!!! Simple and ridiculous. Detroit was a train wreck and they're now a very good team that's well-positioned for the future. Hendry took over a team that had won 88 games the previous year. Since then he hired Dusty Baker, who was an outright disaster and who was at least partly responsible for major injuries to two very good young pitchers. He's built a team that is 3 games above .500 in a terrible division, in a weak National League. He's also got several very large contracts which may hinder the options available to the team in the future. Dombrowski inherited a team that had lost 106 games, had bad players and little promise for the future. He's turned them into a very good team with some of the best young talent in the game - a team that should be playoff contenders for years to come. They're 13 games over .500 in a pretty good division, in what's considered by just about everybody to be the superior league. The very large contracts that the Tigers have are Mags - that one expires in 2009 if the Tigers choose not to exercise his options, Sheffield (expires in '09), Carlos Guillen (expires in 2011, but $12M a year for his production is probably a bargain) and Bonderman (4 years, $38M - who wouldn't take that?) So Dombrowski has taken a worse product and turned it into a better team with a better outlook for the future. Simple and ridiculous.

You say this as if it's a good thing, but given the Cubs ineptitude in identifying talent in previous years, I'm not willing to give them and their scouts the benefit of the doubt. I'm sure their scouts know more than us I bet I could do just as good a job of never developing a good position player.

People criticize Hendry because the only thing that counts is the team's record and then there's an article listing the top GMs and it doesn't include Schuerholz. Just goes to prove that it depends on who is doing the rating. As for Hendry, he could trade for Arod, Cabrera, and Santana during the off season and some posters would complain because we had to give up 3 good prospects to get them. Oh that's my favorite, people criticize Hendry for legitimate reasons, so you think up some outlandish scenario and say that we'd all criticize Hendry for doing something great.

i wouldn't either. Maybin could be Soriano at a very cheap price for the next few years.

he still needs to get better at getting run support.

You say this as if it's a good thing, but given the Cubs ineptitude in identifying talent in previous years, I'm not willing to give them and their scouts the benefit of the doubt.

i can't believe there is a jim hendry appreciation thread

ryan harvey was a batting practice monster

i can't believe the cubs are tied for first... the nl central is clown shoes

urgh the hated jim edmonds

Yep horrible, lol. Throw strikes Demp. hey a sub-900 OPS is pretty bad for him. I'm hoping that the dumpster image doesn't make an appearance in this thread.

Alex Rodriguez says hello. What am I missing here? AROD>>>>>>>>PUJOLS no way. Pujols had a better VORP in 2006, 2004 and 2003, and in 2005 they were basically even.

Are you really confusing Spiezio and Ankiel or are you just typing things for the hell of it? What's the cocaine/Ankiel connection? he used it

no kidding, if pujols is 27 then my grandfather is 40

whoa i just passed out what happened

preparing for massive disappointment in 3, 2, 1...