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  1. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Iunno, my post was supposed to show my sadness and stuff. Anything that even brings up the memory of 2003, the things scouts said when he was drafted, and then whats with him today is enough to piss any Cubs fan off.
  2. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    :( Saddest thing in the entire world for me to read anything on Mark Prior nowadays.
  3. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    If Pie ever grew into the player Mike Cameron is I'd be estatic. Unfortunately, I don't think he will. His plate discipline is trerrible, and everything about his game (besides his defense) needs to be refined quite a bit. He's not ready, and I don't even think the Cubs are the orginization I'd want him in to reach his potential.
  4. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Ah, hindsight, a non-believers best friend. Ramirez just a year or so ago was losing his shine after reports of bad makeup and horrible performance .271/.335/.385/720 in '05. Sanchez had never stayed healthy, and Beckett was already a very good young pitcher. Arroyo was a better pitcher than they gave him credit for, and they kinda treated him poorly. Didn't like that situation they put him in.
  5. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Wow, a couple days ago I thought Melvin was one of the up and coming GMs in the league. Still, i think he did that trade because Davis wanted 3 years 21 million when they thought he didn't deserve it. That quote is still dumb.
  6. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    True....Bill Shanks, Bill Plashke, Mike Vacarro, John Kruk... Unfortunately, Hendry is the GM of a Major League Baseball team. Not a guy writing about them. That's a monster difference.
  7. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    If Renteria hits like he did last year, I'd love him. But, I doubt that. I think Lugo and Renteria are similar hitters, but Lugo's glove is far better. They're the same age, and if Lugo hits for us like he hit for the D-Rays in '05 and '06 he's the far better player. Plus, Tim Hudson sucks now. He ate innings last year, but he was very hittable, not so homer stingy, and doesn't have great control while his K numbers decline. Plus the oblique injuries will get annoying fast. Lugo seems like the best option. I'd love to get younger and cheaper (I'm a big proponent of that if you read my other posts), but I'm not a big Theriot fan.
  8. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Yea, I remember just a couple years ago he was being called the best defensive SS in the AL. Jeter's first GG was stolen from Lugo. And his line in TB last year is sick for a SS. In 289 ABs he hit a very nice to see .308/.373/.498. He managed to suck in 146 ABs as the Dodgers utility guy. He's not a bad player, but I don't trust Hendry on contracts.
  9. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Are they really better than the pitching the Angels and Mariners have had the past two years? What about the fact that he moved from a park that doesn't like RH hitters to a park that loves any hitter? Yea, there are alot of managers like that. Thats more of a knock against Soriano, considering the amount of players with personal problems with someone somewhere that play well. He's now going to play under Lou Piniella? Think Lou is gonna baby him and treat him like the superstar he thinks he is? He was 28/29, thats pretty old for a professional athlete. And as a professional athlete I would expect him to not shed tears over what a meany his big, bad manager is. Hows about we go with actual production? The Cubs problem is OBP, Wilkerson has always had a good one. Soriano was a power hitter in a power hitters park, but still hit for meh average and had well below average OBP for a player with his percieved value. Thats probably why Wilkerson is getting a different treatment. He was playing with a hurt shoulder, and unlike Soriano has been an underrated not overrated hitter his whole career.
  10. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    TB_11...great post. Nice to see that I'm not the only one pessimistic about Z too...
  11. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Yea...that wimp.
  12. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Are there any POSITIVES Hendry has done for the long term? Any at all? I thought about that and there are a few. Wilken has a great scouting reputation, even though his first draft didn't impress me, it could look good in 2-3 years. Latin America scouting is back. We went and got a big name guy (Suarez), and maybe thats a sign of things to come.
  13. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Considering the amount of fans, scouts, old players, and just the games love of its tradition, I don't think its too extreme. And you know...actions speak louder than words. Unfortunately, it's not like Hendry never spoke the right words in the first place. His actions (especially lately) say alot more about what he thinks of the Cubs problems. He's SAID it himself, read my thread in the baseball discussions area. He really thinks our problem is clutch hitting.
  14. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Because you're making the argument that you want the optimal offense because that is the offense that gives you the chance to make it to the WS. The other side is arguing that most WS teams don't have that top offense, so you don't need one. I think you're right, and using the argument that a team made it to the WS with offense X is like saying: "It's OK for the offense to be mediocre, cause medioce teams have won the WS before." Sadly, the Cubs will ignore their biggest problem (OBP) while Hendry is around.
  15. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    The Cubs options 3 years ago? Get better hitters. This spending frenzy wouldn't happen if the Cubs had done something about not being good enough three years ago. Now they suck, people expected more, now the Trib wants to shut people up. Pay a bunch of money. This orginization went backwards the minute Wood and Prior got hurt. We banked way too much on them, and look where it's got us. What I'm saying is that this orginization never recovered, we got worse, got caught unprepapred and now we're seeing the effects of that. Older, not good, expensive team without a farm system for the future. Making good moves could have saved that, didn't happen. Now it's getting serious.
  16. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Or Prior...remember he said he read baseball sites too didn't he?
  17. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Agreed. Great, he's thrown money at guys who want money and they joined the Cubs. Anyone of us given the money he has to spend could do what he's done. Hendry is not the long term guy for this orginization, I can't believe money being thrown freely is making people say "oh this guys growing a brain." He's not. Sucks, cause I realize he feels he HAS to do this to keep his job. Doens't mean he's doing whats right for the Cubs in the long term. He's going to be gone from the Cubs. The damage he's done because he wanted to keep his job? Not going to go away with him.
  18. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Agreed. The Trib has been a huge weight holding back this franchise for years now, and they should be the target for my little rant. But that does not mean that Hendry is a good GM and the right man for it. The fact that there have been other GMs making the same mistakes before him just means that there have always been bad GMs running the Cubs. We have heard how Jim thinks. We have heard how Jim thinks, this man seriously thinks the Cubs are a top hitting team and that we just don't have the clutch hitting. This man handed out an 8 year contract to a guy who is nowhere near the kind of player that gets that kind of contract. Yes, the Trib is full of a-holes and they obviously approved signing Soriano to that kind of contract. They have approved all of Hendry's moves, otherwise he wouldn't be here. But Hendry still has input, the Trib isn't a Steinbrenner who wants full control over all signings and trades. They want to make money and sign the big name players now, Hendry just chose the big name player to bring in. Both owners and GM are a problem, but the much easier problem to fix right now is GM, and having a GM with an actual idea of what to do could help with having a crappy owner. Look at what Cashman is doing for the Yankees, he's got a brain, he's being allowed to use it and the Yankees are slowly turning over. Owners can be a burden, and the Trib certainly is that. But seeing how Hendry thinks by his own words screams to me that he is just as large a problem.
  19. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Re-read my posts. My rant is not "farm system." My rant is is the lack of direction. More to the point, my rant is that the lack of direction is being covered with money.
  20. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    While I think DeRosa will be a solid player for us, he's not going to do any of those things for us. He makes too much money to be a "super utility" guy, and no team is going to consider him a great guy to trade for. Meanwhile Patterson and Theorit are demoted or stay right where they are. This team is sacraficing alot in the long term for the short team. Stupiditiy.
  21. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    I think he meant batting average. We were like 6th in BA this year, and in 2004. In 2005 I think we were like tied for second or third in batting average. He really thinks that makes us a good on base team. This man is...something else.
  22. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    He seems like a pretty expensive bench player. And where else would he have value if he doesn't play 2B and hit like he did last year? So because our terrible deal was not the worst terrible deal it makes it a good deal? Thats the kind of thinking that I throw down the toilet, along with stuff like "the Cubs can afford to do it." I realize I am a fan, not the man owning/funding this team. That does not mean I don't think whats been done so far is not a terrible waste of money and resources.
  23. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Guys. We set this market. The Cubs were the first team to overpay for a MIF. The Cubs were the first team to strike a deal with one of the career year or big name OFers. We helped make this offseason the joke it is. Sure, Soriano wanted 8 years in his deal so we gave it to him. Drew was rumored to be getting 4 at best, and is a far better player. DeRosa was barely needed. He's not a bad player, but he's not a good player either. And even more annoying is that he blocks one of our better prospects (Patterson) and a young guy who could maybe have been something (Theorit). The players have only so much control. At the end of the day its the owners who descides who plays and who gets paid. They write the checks. The Trib. descided to pay alot of money to a couple guys before anyone else, and now everyone on the FA market can look foward to cashing in on stupidity. We easily could have shunned Soriano and signed Drew for less years, less oney. We CHOSE to. That descision is going to affect the ENTIRE market, and it obviously has.
  24. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Serena made a post that just may needs it's own thread. It revealed alot of what is Hendry is thinking, and why I think that this orginization needs a new GM. This is a man running a major league baseball team in 2006. We are far past this kind of thinking in baseball, and this kind of rational is going to have a long term effect on this team.
  25. KingKongvs.Godzilla
    Wow. This is why right now, I can stand very little with this orginization. This is the guy in charge of who we sign? Thats his line of thinking?
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