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  1. TruffleShuffle
    YES, amen to that. i got really sick of watching hendry become infatuated with one type of player because the cubs didn't hit righthanded pitching in a 3 game series, or didn't steal enough bases, or made a few too many errors. or trying to mimic what some other team did to win a world series (especially if it's some team that's not even that good, like the 2005 sox) The scouting structure will interest me, the player development will interest me more. It will be nice to see prospects not over their heads b/c of a hot month and a new level. yeah certainly it's not bad to address problem areas on the team, but hendry just seemed to do it in such a dumbassed way. like the 2005 were slow and didn't have a "traditional leadoff hitter," so he goes and gets juan pierre. great, now we have a guy who can hit leadoff and steal bases, but unfortunately he also makes truckloads of outs and can't throw. instead of improving the team hendry usually ended up cutting off his nose to spite his face.
  2. TruffleShuffle
    and then ricketts goes on a 6-month safari
  3. TruffleShuffle
    YES, amen to that. i got really sick of watching hendry become infatuated with one type of player because the cubs didn't hit righthanded pitching in a 3 game series, or didn't steal enough bases, or made a few too many errors. or trying to mimic what some other team did to win a world series (especially if it's some team that's not even that good, like the 2005 sox)
  4. TruffleShuffle
    This is why Wikipedia is wayyyyy worse than Twitter. Twitter is awesome. i'm waiting on conservapedia for confirmation.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    i don't want our manager checking his smartphone from the dugout to keep up with his world of warcraft game.
  6. TruffleShuffle
    well considering that randy winn was compensation for lou piniella going to tampa, this traditional precedent really is not set in stone.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    wow hard-hitting report there carrie, woodward and bernstein got nothing on this girl's inside scoop.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    what do you not like about crane kenney? please be specific.
  9. TruffleShuffle
    i'm not sure that two of his klan buddies qualify as impeccable sources.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    That would be make sense, considering what the Sox got for Guillen. I'm kind of expecting that we've seen the last of Josh Vitters once this deal goes through if that's all they want, super-awesome. i'm going to throw a random guess out there and say that the cubs give up cashner.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    or with epstein like 5 years ago when he resigned as GM and then came back on board a couple of months later.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    i died a little inside when i saw mike richards playing for the kings. they're definitely my western conference team now, with richards and gagne at forward and terry murray behind the bench. entertaining game between the caps and lightning last night... 11 goals scored, and no points each for ovechkin, mike green, semin, backstrom, st louis, stamkos or lecavalier.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    alfonso soriano was a better example, but he was (a) 5 years older than castro and (b) traded for the player regarded by pretty much everybody as the best in the game.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    tomorrow i think we should all argue that the cubs should trade castro for votto and see if kyle argues that it would be crazy for the cubs to do that.
  15. TruffleShuffle
    and again, since when do big market teams exploit their payroll advantage by dealing away established good young players? i can't think of a recent deal where a player with a pedigree similar to castro's was dealt. sure, sometimes the team ends up giving up a future star like hanley ramirez or ian kennedy, but when those guys were dealt they weren't known major league commodities. you don't see teams like the yankees, red sox or phillies dealing a cano, buchholz or hamels just to upgrade at some other position.
  16. TruffleShuffle
    3.5 wins for $10 million seems like a pretty good value to me. The issue is, of course, the extra two-cost controlled years from Castro. well there's the issue that you're assuming no improvement from a player who's currently 21 years old.
  17. TruffleShuffle
    ok so we gain 3.5 wins a year for over 10m a year and don't have a shortstop, and after this we're paying votto $30m a year or whatever instead of having more cost-controlled years from castro. if you only care about next year then go for it; otherwise it's an extremely dumbassed move.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    Sure. But what if Pujols re-signs in the World Series glow, and Fielder just decides he wants to go somewhere else for some reason. In a vacuum, if Votto were available for a trade, I'd see no reason to call Castro untouchable. because teams don't trade really good, really young, established major league players for stars. when the red sox traded for adrian gonzalez, who's a good comp to votto in just about every way, they gave up prospects. same for when the tigers got miggy cabrera, the red sox got beckett, the mets got santana, etc. the idea that there's no way to get votto without giving up castro is nonsense. and if the reds are holding out for that simply because they play in the same division as the cubs, then you tell them to [expletive] off and go get matt kemp or whatever.
  19. TruffleShuffle
    how is a team with jerry hairston batting 6th in the nlcs?
  20. TruffleShuffle
    i'm not convinced that marcum is healthy... his K rate has really dropped off since he suffered some kind of injury (forget what it was) in the second half, and he's been pretty lousy in sept/oct.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    seems to me it would make a lot more sense to just dump a truckload of money on fielder or pujols than to trade away one of the best players in the franchise for a guy who's going to be making pujols/fielder money in a couple of years.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    yeah site seems pretty fucked today, worse than it's been during the past month or so of sporadic errors.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    must be those lax new york gun laws that are attracting him :^o
  24. TruffleShuffle
    he didn't have TJS. broxton would be a decent buy-low candidate if (a) he's healthy and (b) he doesn't show up with the physique of a manatee.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    i've been a big andy reid defender, but he might have to go. the team doesn't seem to be responding to him and they're clearly underachieving. he's the one who made the decision to move the offensive line coach to defensive coordinator, and the D has been much worse than it should be. there are good coaches out there (gruden, fisher, maybe cowher) and while i'm not a fan of firing someone just for the sake of change, he's been the head coach for a long time and maybe things have just gotten stale.
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