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so when cub management goes down to iowa or tennessee to see how guys are playing and evaluate whether they might be able to make a positive contribution to the big club, what is that called? "watching"?

would it? all it means is that you need one interleague series at all times. if you spread out the interleague play so that you don't have those two blocks where all the games but one are interleague, it could easily be done without adding any additional interleague games.

right, but you seem to fancy yourself as kind of an expert scout, with opinions like moustakas is going to have serious contact issues even though he's basically struck out at the same rate as vitters for the past 5 years. i also have no idea how you've watched all these cub prospects play to have scouting opinions on them.

how is that possible given my homering on this website over the past 8 years?? i just got low on time and started going through the various nfl teams trying to think if i'd gotten their starter yet. never made it back to the giants. i was convinced that i'd forgotten the jaguars; should've just searched to see that i already had them. and yeah, a lot of those starters are [expletive] terrible. i almost didn't enter rex grossman even though the school and year fit because i didn't believe that an nfl team would be starting him again.

i got 31/32 and missed eli manning, wtf

pujols' numbers in the second half: .313/.381/.626/1.006 overall he has a .916 OPS, and that's with a babip (.267) that's 45 points below his career babip. i'd still take him over prince, easily. hopefully the cardinals [expletive] up and let him get away.

home run for juan pierre jr.

I beg to differ. I don't see how he's better than Hendry. That's my read. At first glance it seems crazy that LaMar could even be considered...but the timing of him resigning, the connection to Gillick, who probably hired him with Philly and would certainly recommend him to Ricketts, the Wilken connection to both Gillick and LaMar, and last but not least....the Sandberg connection. This...really...could...play...out. the sky is falling! look, most of the candidates that ricketts would want to talk to are probably off limits right now. epstein's team is going to the playoffs, friedman is still under contract as his team's GM, and several other assistant GMs are still working on the 2011 season. the cubs are a bad team, the trade deadline is past and realistically there won't be a waiver deal at this stage. so there's no urgency whatsoever to replace randy bush in the next month. why the crap would they just go out and hire chuck lamar as their GM in early september? not to mention the part where you don't fire jim hendry, who wasn't good but also wasn't a disaster, to bring in a guy who had a .400 winning percentage during his tenure as GM. it makes way more sense to hire an up-and-coming guy that it does to hire a guy like chuck lamar. ricketts wants to make a splash, not hire some crappy retread.

top notch work as always

what about the guy who had -9

You know the Brewers are on pace for 96 wins and hold a ~10 game lead in the division right? 96 win pace? I had no idea. When I checked before I think they were something like 5 games over .500 and led the division by a couple games. I knew they had grabbed a pretty solid hold on the division, but didn't realize they were playing that well. don't feel bad, i didn't realize it until a couple of weeks ago.

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i'm sure i've heard worse ideas, though i can't think of any off the top of my head. that kevin stocker for bobby abreu swap sure was a masterstroke on lamar's part.

wow boise just decided to not show for the playoffs... yuck

Glad he recovered, but I just don't see why you bring him back to pitch in a month of meaningless games. ](*,)

Yup, 15 people are wrong and 1 person is right.

you would think that when 100% of the arguments start with one person, that person might realize that he's in the wrong or at least needs to relax a little bit.

it is. and unlike illinois basketball games, most of the scores get out of the 40s.

finals (playoffs to you yanks) start this week - first round is geelong (2) vs hawthorn (3), collingwood (1) vs west coast (4), st kilda (6) vs sydney (7), and carlton (5) vs essendon (8). the top four seeds play each other; the winners move through to the semi-finals while the losers play home matches against the winners of the 6-7 and 5-8 games. collingwood are favored to win the title, having only lost two matches all year, but both losses came to geelong and they just got pounded by geelong in a match where they dressed most of their top players. they did have some injuries to contend with, but the result was shocking. collingwood, geelong and hawthorn are the top threats to win the title. then west coast, and then st kilda and carlton are probably stronger than sydney or essendon (st kilda played in the grand final last year, and have been very good after a slow start.) my beloved west coast eagles went from last place and 4 wins in 2010 to 4th place and 17 wins this year, one of the biggest turnarounds in league history. i think it goes: collingwood over west coast hawthorn over geelong st kilda over sydney carlton over essendon west coast over carlton geelong over st kilda collingwood over geelong hawthorn over west coast collingwood over hawthorn

yeah i didn't actually think georgia's unis were bad the other night. but these, these are terrible.

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I'm in! Do we have 10? only 7 right now and 24 hours to draft time... not sure if this will get off the ground.

ozzie as manager, ned coletti as gm and fleita as player development director would probably be enough for me to give up on the cubs and just become a phillies fan.

make sure to also post the photos where the team dresses up as construction workers, indians, police officers, bikers, and military members.