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  1. 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.
  2. 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?
  3. CubinNY
    Small White Cute as a button I want to pet him and hug him and love him and hug him some more.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
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    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.
  7. 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.
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    Gee, I wonder how that happened? Perhaps we should go check where it seemd to get derailed.
  9. 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.
  10. CubinNY
    And let the wild speculation begin. I don't think he leaves the Bronx, but if Torree goes who knows.
  11. CubinNY
    Jones has a fivehead. I can't stand the balding look on a girl.
  12. CubinNY
    Well...since we're forgoing the don't attack the poster attack the post rules... soap drop you. I was there, they said it to me, I thought some in this forum would find it interesting. I attacked the ridiculous nature of the post. The Cubs lost on Saturday, a few guys bought tickets that day and flew out Sunday. Big freaking deal. People who can afford it by last minute tickets all the time, including open-ended refundable tickets. This is an absurd rant. What do you want him to do, sit around and hold hands with crying fans? I thought it was pretty bad that he bought the ticket before they'd even lost the game. Other than that I'd have agreed with you, well, except for the way you go about saying it...but I should know by now that's just the way you do things. Not to pile on, but I don't get why you think that is bad. These are multi-millionaires we are talking about. Hell, they probably had someone who worked for the Cubs purchase the tickets the day off the game with an open date that could be stamped at any time. They don't operate like middle class people.
  13. CubinNY
    The owners of the Cards, Reds, Pirates, and Astros? McLane, maybe. I don't know anything about the other owners. Can I make the assumption that generally speaking, owners votes should be independent of competitive balance? In other words, did Steinbrenner vote yes to the new Red Sox ownership? Or does that only work in theory, since some guys have petty personal vendettas? I would think so. Otherwise, how did John Henry get approved? John Henry owned the Marlins after Wayne Huizenga sold them, but before that he's been an owner of several other sports franchieses and was an investor/minority owner of the Yankees. The dude knows how to build a winner. The head scratcher is Jeff Loria. The guy is right up there with the Fords, and the dude who owns the Clippers as far a crappy ownership goes. He ran the Expos into the ground and now he is doing it to the Marlins. But Loria turns a tidy profit at a low cost and that's what MLB wants.
  14. CubinNY
    Who's this board person? What different would you have Perry do? He can't make Lou play Murton. He can't make Soriano not swing at crap and hit an occasional lead-off HR. I haven't been impressed but I don't get where you are coming from at all.
  15. CubinNY
    How's Soto's English? Guys who don't speak good English sometimes come off as jerks. Anyway, who gives a crap? I never got into the hero worsphip and my suggestion to any parent would be to try not to let your child get into it either.
  16. CubinNY
    Andruw shouldn't. He's a good player. He's put up a 121 or better OPS+ in 4 of the last 6 years, including his horrible 2007. The other year (2004) his OPS+ was 113. He's still only 30, so it's not even close to being out of the realm that he could produce like his 2005-06 seasons, which would make him the best offensive player on the current Cubs team. If you don't want to sign him because he'll probably get a Soriano-like contract that will bite a team in the rear near the end of it, then I understand, but to lump him in with Hunter, who is severely inferior, is wrong. Jones is so money he doesn't even know it, except he knows it. I'd trade Soriano's contract for what Jones will get this year, any day. Jones is the right player at the wrong time for the Cubs.
  17. CubinNY
    I'm thinking of the show Around the Horn. I think I've watched about 30 seconds of that show.
  18. CubinNY
    This is related to the fact that the awful Jim Hendry and most of his predecessors almost always assembled offenses that would be marginally OK as long as everybody in the lineup was contributing. If any one spot was a zero, the offense would collapse. That resulted in the manager never having the "luxury" of running a struggling rookie out there for three months straight. I think that is a very good point. Cedeno and Pie could very well turn out to be bench players, but I can guarentee anyone they WILL BE bench players if they never get a decent shot at starting without having to look over their shoulder after every miscue or strikeout.
  19. 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.
  20. CubinNY
    I assume the A-Rod to the Cubs rumors will start. Lou will not go to NY and manage and if Torre is fired A-Rod may reconsider his options. I know I wouldn't want to play for Joe Rah' Rah' Girardi who's likely next in line.
  21. CubinNY
    How in the wide, wide, world of sports can you say that? He's been given a handful of sporatic ABs while being a defensive replacement for almost the entire year. [this comment does not pertain directly to DKWG's post] It is the same crap again and again with our young players. A young player gets a handful of sporatic ABs during the year and "they can't hit major league pitching". Thank Soto has mashes the ball so far. I just don't understand the logic.
  22. CubinNY
    My highly uninformed opinion is that not much will change next year b/c the new owner will takeover in the winter. I imagine everyone will be retained unless someone really pees in the punchbowl at the Welcome New Owner Party. If big changes are going to be made they likely will be before the 2009 season unless the Cubs completely flop in the first half of 2008. I am really worried about who will own the Cubs. If the owner is "good for baseball" I fear he will be bad for Cub fans, b/c that will mean he's in tight with Rinesdorf and Selig. Which brings me to my next gripe/question. Why should Rinesdorf, Selig, or any owner have a say in who ownes the Chicago National League Ball Club? I mean, from a business standpoint Rinsesdorf is a direct competitor of the Cubs. I think he'd love to see a dip in popularity. Anyway, those are my 2 cents.
  23. CubinNY
    You're assuming the next ownership will be better? Be careful what you wish for. Exactly.
  24. CubinNY
    Ugly child phenomenon. They always feel unloved and resent that the pretty child gets all the swag.
  25. CubinNY
    I don't understand your point. I thought its a forgone conclusion that he'll opt out no matter what. Teams who are interested in him know the price tag will be $30M/year, and they probably wont put too much emphasis on his post season disappointments. FTR, I do not think the Cubs will pursue him (due to ownership change/hold up and overall payroll). It is not a forgone conclusion. A $30M/year price tag would pretty much put him out of any team's price range. I think A-Rod will stay in NY. The NYY fans may be schizophrenic, but neither A-Rod nor Cashman are.
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