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he was hustling, lol? he was trying to steal, he should've been "hustling". that doesnt mean it wasnt an idiotic play. It's not an idiotic play. Suppose Molina airmails the ball and Ronny ends up scoring. Who made the idiotic play Molina or Cedeno? I mean Molina threw the ball down to second when he shouldn't have. it was a freakish play with a bad result. Please, stop the nonsense. so if it wasnt stupid, what was it? unlucky? A mistake? I mean, it's not like the only 2 adjectives you can use to describe a play are "idiotic" and "unlucky". It's one of plays that sticks out in memory because it was weird and ended badly. I'd call it an error. The thing about Cedeno is that supposedly he liked the night life, missed signs, and made throwing errors. When you do those things you don't have a lot of room for freakish errors. Lou and Hendry are both old-school baseball men and stuff like this pisses them off to a much greater extent than the actual outcome of the play.
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he was hustling, lol? he was trying to steal, he should've been "hustling". that doesnt mean it wasnt an idiotic play. It's not an idiotic play. Suppose Molina airmails the ball and Ronny ends up scoring. Who made the idiotic play Molina or Cedeno? I mean Molina threw the ball down to second when he shouldn't have. it was a freakish play with a bad result. Please, stop the nonsense.
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is this is a competition of who made the most stupid plays? i think cedeno would blow the competition away if so. I think he was being sarcastic and saying that throwing errors don't mean a player is being dumb We are all arguing degree of deficiency here. Some say "idiotic", some say "dumb", some say "not the smartest"...... Its all a matter of the adjective that you want to use. And how many players in professional sports actually get thrown out sliding past second base on a walk? I'm guessing the odds of it happening during a ballgame are pretty astronomical. And then to admit that you didn't know there was a rule that you couldn't pass 2nd base? That is getting into Michael Barrett territory. How about, none of the above. He was hustling and overslid the bag. He slid without knowing the result of the pitch, If it's not ball 4 nobody remembers it even happened.
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If Heilman is the answer I don't want to know the question unless it is "Who did we trade to get Jake?" Hendry's infatuation with players is really, really, really, weird.
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Abolish FA Draft Pick Compensation?
CubinNY replied to Outshined_One's topic in General Baseball Talk
Abolish it. If the team is not intending to offer a contract, trade the guy or risk loosing him for nothing. I've never really understood it in baseball since the draft is such a crapshoot anyway. -
Aaron Miles, he saved them last year. That's a win/win in my book.
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Buy low on Ben Sheets?
CubinNY replied to JonnyRed's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Didn't that happen to Todd Walker a few years ago? Then he was cut in ST. sidebar: I will never forget auggiedoggie's irrational hatred for Walker and IMB's photoshop job. Those were the days. -
This became more true when they made the move to Petco. Qualcomm got decent enough attendance even when the team sucked. You're always complaining about Petco, but man, I like that place. No smoking rules. I liked Petco too. Great sight lines and mostly good seats anywhere. The gaslight district is nice, but pricey.
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What does the amount he paid have to do with his commitment to winning? Nothing. Too many people still equate size of payroll to commitment to winning. It's become kind of an outmoded idea, but one that lots of people still carry around. I guess watching lower payroll teams have success regularly just doesn't register. I think the sentiment has to do with the opposite scenario, where a lack of spending equates to a lack of committment. As far as our team goes, think of the 80s and 90s Cubs teams where the trib was making money hand over fist, yet they never would go after any high priced free agents, nor would they trade for any high-priced superstars. Nomar in 2004 was really the first time they went out after a premier player in a big trade, and Soriano was the first top-notch free agent they really pursued during the Tribs tenure. That's not necessarily true. Sandberg was the highest paid player in baseball for a time and Sosa was given a huge contract. That was kind of the issue, they would pay for one big celeb and surround him with caca while marketing "the Wrigley Experience".
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That's pretty ridiculous. What's so ridiculous about it? We are talking about profit not investment. You can't just decide that the money invested doesn't matter. It only matters from the standpoint of rate of return and not money in the bank.
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that's not true at all. you cant just assume that you'll make profit on the 80m that you're investing elsewhere. There is a definite value to the money not spent. I'm no finance or economics guru, but I'm pretty sure spending $40 million to make $60 million is much better than spending $120 million to make $80 million. just looking at that sentence, and not knowing anything else, spending 120 to make 80 is a great move vs. spending 40 to make 60. The idea is that the two are different and mutually exclusive. So you could spend 40 x 3 and make 180 vs spending 120 and make 80, but again it's just some hypothetical.
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That's pretty ridiculous. What's so ridiculous about it? We are talking about profit not investment.
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that's not true at all. you cant just assume that you'll make profit on the 80m that you're investing elsewhere. There is a definite value to the money not spent. I'm no finance or economics guru, but I'm pretty sure spending $40 million to make $60 million is much better than spending $120 million to make $80 million. It depends on how much money one has to spend.
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But as someone pointed out before, it's better to make $60 million profit on a $40 million payroll, than to make $80 million on a $120 million payroll because there is a value to having that $80 million difference in payroll to invest elsewhere. Ricketts may be a Cubs fan, but he's also a businessman. I have no doubt he wants the Cubs to win, but no one would risk $900 million just to try to break even. First, no it is not and second It's all hypothetical and probably does not work that way in the real world. It's an argument somebody made to be a contrarian. Edit: Of course it is better to spend less and make more as a percentage of the investment. However, from a purely profit standpoint it is not better.
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The Cubs make plenty of money, it just depends on the scale one wants to use. If I own a business and it makes $1,000,000 profit after paying all the bills, it doesn't matter much how much was invested to buy the business or how much was spent, a million dollars profit is a lot of money. As private owners Ricketts et al. aren't obligated to make any profit on the team so long as they can pay the bills, but they will. One more thing, baseball is very good at hiding how much money a team makes so I'd imagine the teams are making a lot more than people think.
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Bruce Miles (articles in DH) kind of has me fired up about Ricketts winning the bid. Hopefully he turns his passion for the Cubs into smart baseball decisions. I like it.
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perhaps with the bad economy people have decided to cut obscenely-overpriced athletic wear out of their lives. Under Armour first came out they pretty much had the "market" to themselves with that line of clothing. Now "Nike" is pretty much worn through-out the clubhouses. As previously stated by somebody else, I to had some under armour shirts and they were terrible after a few washes. How is Sean's shoulder?
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I hope you're sitting down, I have a McGwire update.
CubinNY replied to wolf stansson's topic in General Baseball Talk
No one who played for any length of time between 1988 and 2005 is above suspicion, so that's not saying much. -
Does anyone know if MLB has decided to alter the arcane territorial TV rights? The latest I could find was from last August http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080813&content_id=3302623&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb But if it was approved that is good news for us all.
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Weren't there some strange quotes about him wanting to leave the game or something and having his brother and/or dad talk him into staying? And wasn't there also a weight/health question about him? Or am I making this all up? He's the Hawaiian with the necklace right? No you are correct. He seems to have some mental issues.
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As O_O pointed out the lack of walks are a redflag. The time to develop plate discipline is at the lower levels where pitchers don't have as much command. If he doesn't walk it doesn't mean he's a bust, but it's another issue to deal with. If his k's increase significantly (and he's not taking walks) it's probably worse than not walking much. However, the thing I want to see is good health. Good health and decent number, in that order.
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I bet it's Joey Gathright. He's so cute.
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That's probably why no one's ever heard of him :D
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Data please.
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he does? about as frequently as Corey Patterson, no? Over the course of their minor league seasons, yes. But Pie also wasn't rushed to the majors.