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  1. CubinNY
    My word the home plate umpire is bad.
  2. CubinNY
    Defense is important at every positon. I don't know where you come up with this stuff. The days of all glove, no get-on-base middle infielders are pretty much over. The questions are can the Cubs upgrade at SS? And if not, who is the better player going forward between Cedeno and Theriot? I suspect that baring a trade Theriot will start next year. I hope the Cubs/Lou will give Cedeno a chance, but I don't think the team is good enough as presently constructed to let either one struggle on a long term basis.
  3. CubinNY
    What is an "extended look". I really cannot understand the mentality. Cedeno will likely not be an all-star, however he's much more likely to improve than Theroit. But really, that is beside the point. It is not very wise to expect all-star level production out of a first or second year player, most of the time. The problem with the Cubs is that they are constructed so poorly that they need a higher level of performance out of the rookies in order to compete. At least that is the only explanation I can come up with why some of the posts in this thread are so crazy. And Murton? give me a break.
  4. CubinNY
    Murton, like Choi before him, was the golden child of this board. I have never quite figured out why either. Murton G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG *OPS+ 51 140 19 45 3 2 7 14 2 1 16 22 .321 .386 .521 135 144 455 70 135 22 3 13 62 5 2 45 62 .297 .365 .444 103 94 235 35 66 13 0 8 22 1 0 26 39 .281 .352 .438 100 Theriot G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG *OPS+ 53 134 34 44 11 3 3 16 13 2 17 18 .328 .412 .522 134 148 537 80 143 30 2 3 45 28 4 49 50 .266 .326 .346 72 You two do the Math. It is completely foolish to cast aspersions on the entire borad. But it is doubly so when the ignorance of the posts containing the statements are at such high levels.
  5. CubinNY
    Typical Cub fan. Greg Maddux's first year W L G GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER HR BB SO HBP WP BFP IBB BK ERA *lgERA *ERA+ WHIP 2 4 6 5 1 0 1 0 31.0 44 20 19 3 11 20 1 2 144 2 0 5.52 4.06 74 1.774
  6. CubinNY
    Hahahahahaha
  7. CubinNY
    It is pretty bad, but you have some real delicate sensibilities.
  8. CubinNY
    My word, that is funny
  9. CubinNY
    Does Blanco just play for the money? Seriously, he must really love baseball. Or his hometown. It's really something. He plays every year. He takes almost no time off. I loved playing baseball, but if I make 2,000,000 a season in MLB, I'm not playing in the winter.
  10. CubinNY
    Does Blanco just play for the money? Seriously, he must really love baseball.
  11. CubinNY
    Throw the kitchen sink at him?
  12. CubinNY
    How is he an upgrade over Murton in RF? Come on, you guys no better than this. In the last three years Church has had 268, 196, 470 ABs respectively. In the year he had 470 ABs he posted his worse numbers and he doesn't walk. Besides the salary savings I really don't see the benefit of Church. I just don't get the fascination.
  13. CubinNY
    This is exactly what I worry about with a "local" owner. Especially a local owner who is acceptable to Selig and Rinsedorf. This could turn out real, real bad.
  14. CubinNY
    I did look at his stats, and no he's not much better than Jones. http://www.fangraphs.com/comparison.aspx?playerid=735&playerid2=2106&playerid3=&position=OF&page=1&type=full I'm all for getting rid of Jones but Church offers not much more except for scrappy whiteness and anti-semitism. I don't care that he is cheaper (marginally), he isn't aprreciably better. The Cubs need to get appreciably better.
  15. CubinNY
    If we could get Church I'd be happy, if we can also get Renteria, I would be very happy. This would definitely be a fairly cheap upgrade of the offense. I would probably keep Jones for the first half of the 2008 season, unless a team really, really wanted him, which I don't see as being realistic. Maybe this offseason, Perry and Jones can help him find the power swing he somehow lost. It will be a contract year for him. Another season like this one, and he'll find himself unemployed. A good first half might improve his trade value a bit. Pie could probably use some time in AAA again, after sitting on his butt most of the 2007 season. The only problem is that Church is no better than Jones.
  16. CubinNY
    Posada will be 36 next season and coming off of a near career year. Can the Cubs please not sign another aging vet hoping to get lucky?
  17. CubinNY
    Small White Cute as a button I want to pet him and hug him and love him and hug him some more.
  18. CubinNY
    And would St. Louis find a way to cough up money for ARod? Torre managed in St. Louis before and it didn't turn out too well. I think he was right before Herzog.
  19. CubinNY
    It's almost like proclaiming there is a lot more to winning the lottery than luck. In the modern era only one other team who have scored less runs then they've given up has won a series in the post season. Miracles happen, just not very often. Eric Byrnes is a flipping Moron.
  20. CubinNY
    So in total so far the Cubs have 1 MWL Jose Ceda 1 AZL Larry Suarez 2 FSL Jeff Samardzjia Tyler Colvin 1 SL Tyler Colvin I am I pessimistic or is this a bad showing for our minor league prospects. I looks real bad to me.
  21. CubinNY
    That's because those 50 points are always better, regardless of what the other teammates did. in a vacuum they are. but the goal of baseball is to score runs, not have the highest OPS And you score more runs by having guys with higher OPS. roughly speaking, yes. there are plenty of exceptions No, not really. sure there are. Tampa Bay out-slugged an out-OPS'd Anaheim this year but scored 40 fewer runs. I found that in about 10 seconds. I'm sure I could go on and on. as I said, those are the exceptions, but it's not a straight OPS=runs relationship I think you are missing the forest through the trees. No statistic will capture all that is important, but some statistics will capture most of what's important. The point being, that decision making is best done based on objective measures.
  22. CubinNY
    Gee, I wonder how that happened? Perhaps we should go check where it seemd to get derailed.
  23. CubinNY
    I doubt you get toasted for that. Theriot's really not good, despite whatever "grit" he may possess. If the Cubs can't land a big-time SS, I'll hope for Cedeno to figure things out and supplant Theriot. I hope Cedeno can figure out things too, but so far he has looked like the epitome of a AAAA hitter. In which 1/16 of the season are you talking about? I really am sick of this crap. Most every player has an adjustment period when moving up but somehow the Cubs and their fans expect the player to put up exactly the same numbers they have in the minors right away. It doesn't happen very often. Yeah, it would be different if the Cubs had given Cedeno over 500 AB's in a season and he still had wound up with a BA of .245, OBP of .271 and SLG of .339. Oh, wait a second... Sorry, but the idea of not upgrading SS so they can potentially waste another year like they did in 2006 hoping that Cedeno figures it out at the big league level doesn't seem all that great to me. Because we all know that at age 23 he will likely never get better. But anyway, who said that they weren't for upgrading? It never ends with some Cub fans does it? Really, really, myopic.
  24. CubinNY
    And let the wild speculation begin. I don't think he leaves the Bronx, but if Torree goes who knows.
  25. CubinNY
    Jones has a fivehead. I can't stand the balding look on a girl.
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