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  1. AlwaysaCub
    As Bill James pointed out somewhere, there are very few examples of players who were semi-regulars by age 20 who didn't become stars. If he makes the majors and plays next year...watch out. I think his ETA depends on how good the Cubs are next year, as well as how our 2B situation plays out. If we're in the running in June and Baker is struggling, no way they don't call him up a la Pie.
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    The ChiSox better play Teahen at third, where he's a league average bat and slightly below with the glove. Slide Beckham to the middle infield at either 2nd or short where his bat is a huge asset, hope (pray?) Ramirez rebounds, and you probably have a solid infield next year. Teahen has no business being in the outfield barring injury. Dude has a career .419 slugging percentage, which won't play in right.
  3. AlwaysaCub
    Feel free to merge this thread into the other Sporcle topic, but... I put together this quiz on Sporcle regarding every pitcher for the Cubs over the past decade. How many of the 104 total pitchers can you name? http://www.sporcle.com/games/thefinechi/2000cubpitchers PS let me know if you find any mistrakes.
  4. AlwaysaCub
    How about Ryan Dempster walking 4 straight batters with a 2 run lead and still getting the save, straight out of the Mitch Williams playbook? August 2, 2005 against the Phillies http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI200508020.shtml
  5. AlwaysaCub
    Thinking about Wood's game 7 LCS homer, on an 0-2 pitch, still gives me chills. And who can forget Randall Simon going deep in game 3? But I have to say that the moment of the decade has to be the Ramirez walkoff in 2007 against the Crew, when we all remembered what winning baseball was like after the '06 debacle.
  6. AlwaysaCub
    When Chirp quit out of solidarity with Steve Stone back in 2004 (seems like forever ago), did you ever think that, 5 years later, he would be the third most visible baseball broadcaster after Buck and John Miller? He's done pretty well for himself, to the detriment of all of our ears.
  7. AlwaysaCub
    Gotta be one of his top 5 games ever. 2 of our 3 RBI, 2 hit shutout only slightly mitigated by the pure stink that is the Giants lineup. Great job Z.
  8. AlwaysaCub
    I'm intrigued by the idea of Depodesta, but remember that he got run out of LA because of the Lo Duca trade. Columnists will have a field day with him. I'm not sure how good he would be for a big market, but who knows. Epstein worked for Boston.
  9. AlwaysaCub
    http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/stats?playerId=5641 Opponents are hitting .229/.308/.440 off of him. More specifically, he's given up 50 hits and 12 of those have been bombs. Youch
  10. AlwaysaCub
    Offer them Koyie Hill and go from there
  11. AlwaysaCub
    That sidearm fastball he threw to Cody Ross would have looked fat in BP.
  12. AlwaysaCub
    These idiots need to realize that the cubs have scored 332 runs, the Astros have scored 324, and the Padres have scored 310. So we are 14th in runs scored, not 15th.
  13. AlwaysaCub
    Really? Carpenter is far better than any pitcher on the Cubs Wainwright is as good as any pitcher on the Cubs Pineiro isn't as good, but is pitched as well as any pitcher on the Cubs Lohse is hurt, but he's a a solid 3rd, good 4th starter Wainwright would have the 4th best ERA on the Cubs. Carpenter would have the best ERA, but he's pitched a grand total of 65 innings. ow has Piniero pitched as well as any starter on the Cubs? Lshe is hurt? Go back to St. Louis.
  14. AlwaysaCub
    That's a horrible analogy. Jones didn't have anything like these attitude problems AND hit 27 homers his first year with the Cubs.
  15. AlwaysaCub
    Look, anyone who is an effective union representative is almost by definition an [expletive]. He did his job well and was reviled for it.
  16. AlwaysaCub
    I'm with you. The guy was a freakin' giant the second he came into the league. I'd be surprised if it came out that he roided. Thomas orchestrated the White Sox collective refusal to take the 2003 tests so they would count as positive to trigger the testing program. He's also the only player to cooperate with the Mitchel Report. He cares.
  17. AlwaysaCub
    The difference is that people actually care(d) about Sammy Sosa and Donte Stallworth is a slightly above average NFL wide receiver. That's hardly the difference. The NFL has multiple DUI killers who virtually skated free of punishment. They also have players who test for steroids routinely, and they never get anywhere close to the scorn that baseball players do. I blame the fans and media who decided that baseball was more than a game and needed poetry and mysticism to sell it. If those saps never over romanticized the sport people would apply a little more levelheaded reasoning to the issues. Also, this country has a very weak stance on DUI. For as puritanical as we can be about sex, drugs and drink, for some reason we don't take DUI seriously. I don't think the fans and media necessarily "decided" baseball is more than a game, it just evolved into this over time. Baseball is wrapped in its history (ref: 1908) and that is a big part of what it is. It's annoying, but I think romanticism is pretty inevitable. On the lax stance on DUIs, it is purely out of pragmatism. People in the suburbs have no way of getting home besides driving, and this is not going to stop them from drinking at the game or at a bar.
  18. AlwaysaCub
    This team is NOT harder to watch than 2004. We are all spoiled because the most recent teams for comparison, 2008 and 2007 from June 10th on were some of the most fun teams we've seen in a while. 2004 was worse.
  19. AlwaysaCub
    Did anyone mention HoJo, 1995?
  20. AlwaysaCub
    The Nats have a logjam at outfield/first. They have Dukes, Dunn, Kearns, Milledge, Dukes, and Willingham. They also have Dmitri Young who they can play at first. Trading Johnson allows them to get cheaper and pick up a pitching prospect while allowing all of these relatively young and/or productive guys, the latter mostly Dunn. They are pretty devoid of pitching and can use anything they can get. I see both sides wanting to do this.
  21. AlwaysaCub
    He'll be better than Braun I think, though how much remains to be seen. I'm reserving judgment.
  22. AlwaysaCub
    So we DLed Miles and sent Scales down? Who is our backup MI now? Am I missing something?
  23. AlwaysaCub
    Why did we sign Aaron Miles? He is a walking ground ball to short.
  24. AlwaysaCub
    +1. He needed TJ surgery all of last year (still does) and hit .357. Others for consideration who haven't been mentioned: Markakis and/or Adam Jones The Uptons (either one) It's pretty hard to pick a pitcher, any pitcher, to be your franchise player. Too much pressure and injury risk
  25. AlwaysaCub
    Flipping this around on you, what has Wells done to merit leaving the rotation after two starts? Not giving up a run? If the guy's doing well you stick with him until he proves otherwise. Lou may like Marshall in the swing role better because he's had success there before and its a demanding job.
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