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  1. CubinNY
    Samardjia (or whatever) important numbers aren't that much different than what they were in college. The difference is he's not in college. Perhaps he can learn to adjust and overcome. If he doesn't pan out he will be the best example of Hendry's tenure as GM. He's probably a great athlete but not a great baseball player.
  2. CubinNY
    Wow, if that's true, just wow. It's not like the Cubs are taking on 10M extra dollars of contract. They're paying Jones to play for another team. They pay his salary either way. What has debt got to do with anything? Not to mention Selig has no right to interfere in the finances of major league teams. The league has to approve all trades, but I don't recall a trade ever being vetoed because of some aspect of the team's internal finances. This is why baseball is so messed up. The owners keep trying to kill the game, but the game is too strong for them. Dumbest bunch of smart people on the planet.
  3. CubinNY
    Porn or baseball?
  4. CubinNY
    No way, he'd get sued for all he's got, and possibly face jail time. It's one thing to get pissed off over a few million dollars in overpayment for a draftee, but to counteract that with screwing around with something that'll amount to hundreds of millions, if not a billion dollars, would not fly. He needs to approve the sale along with the owners, he could at least threaten not to: Q: Ryan from Houston asks: What exactly happens to teams that sign guys for over slot value? Do they get punished or something by MLB? A: Jim Callis: You can't be directly punished if you go through the mandated process. If you want to sign a guy over slot, you have to tell MLB. You have to explain why it's a good move. Then MLB, much like David Spade in those phone commericals, says "NO!" Then you say you want to do it anyway, and MLB tries to lean on your owner. Now, if you're a small-revenue owner and you're hoping Bud Selig will give you an All-Star game or some discretionary funds, you might fall in line. Otherwise, MLB can't really do much to you. I smell a juicy lawsuit brewing. This smacks of price fixing.
  5. CubinNY
    I know about 650,000 Cardinal fans and a few Cardinal players who would disagree with you.
  6. CubinNY
    I really like Old Style beer. The Cubs? They suck. Every team makes mistakes the Cubs mistakes are magnified becuase they suck. The suckiest sucks that ever sucked.
  7. CubinNY
    And just yesterday I got word from Wriglievillesports/Cubword.com that the Ryan Theriot jersey's were in. Guess they'll be marked down.
  8. CubinNY
    I'd say that was pretty optimistic. Seriously, I thought they'd be a little better than last year, and I think so far my assessment is pretty close. They were/are put together wrong becuase of Hendry's fetishes. I will say I've been happy with DeRosa though. I didn't predict that.
  9. CubinNY
    http://www.daveyd.com/ludacris97.jpg That actually makes more sense than my poorly spelled word Ludicrous I curse my teachers, curse them all.
  10. CubinNY
    that lineup is pretty close to what they ran out there last nite...here is what they went with SS Cedeno 2B Patterson RF Murton 1B Hoffpauir C Soto CF Coats LF Kroeger 3B Moore Put Pie at the top of the order and substitute Lee for Hoffpauir and I'd almost take that over the Chi Cubs lineup.
  11. CubinNY
    Raisin, Rawaction, TT, any of our MiLB experts know when or if Soto is going to get the call up? Will we have to wait until Bowen and Hill have completely laid eggs?
  12. CubinNY
    O'Malley is really crapping the bed this year. Wow
  13. CubinNY
    Koye Hill Skip Shumaker
  14. CubinNY
    It's beyond absurd. It's ......... I don't know, what's a word for beyond absurd? Ludacris is the word you are looking for. Koye Hill Mike Fontenot Ryan Theriot Stellar.
  15. CubinNY
    With the way the Cubs played last night, this trade could be the spark of something big, like a 6-14 record in the next 20 games. That would be great.
  16. CubinNY
    yea Sammy!
  17. CubinNY
    They really look out of sorts. I wonder if the trade sort of shocked them.
  18. CubinNY
    That was Patterson. I was wrong. That was Barrett.
  19. CubinNY
    he should be honored to be leaving this franchise hahaha!
  20. CubinNY
    I sometimes just sit here and smile as I come home and read through the pages after an eventful day for our cubbies. i always just think to myself--man, I wish this board could have been here to hear what people said when the cubs got a terrible prespect named Sandberg and terrible hitting shortstop for Ivan DeJesus I'm getting real tired of this. Sandberg was never terrible and Greene knew exactly who he was getting as he worked for the Phillies for a number of years prior to cubs. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/S/Ryne-Sandberg.shtml Is it that hard to really try to think? Most of the people who have posted in this thread have been more than rational with good reasons why they think the trade was bad, good, or indifferent. What's the temperature up there on that horse of yours?
  21. CubinNY
    Speaking of... Where did you hear this as he hasn't pitched in the minors yet?
  22. CubinNY
    Bowen is a former good prospect out of the Twins organization who had an absolutely awful season at the age of 24 in AA and then a little better season in AAA in 05. He had a 733 OPS as the Padres backup catcher last year, and has an 810 this year (age 26). He is reputed to be a strong defensive catcher, although that is in great dispute. He is a low BA, high walk, with decent but not great pop in his bat. Burke is a 19 year old drafted in the supplemental round who has been absolutely terrible his first two years in the minors, but still has a lot of tools that could possibly pan out. Good synopsis. I don't really think all that many people are angry.
  23. CubinNY
    I'm no draft expert, but I don't understand that at all. It seems to me that a team would want to go with BPA AND need. To me that was clearly Weiters. Now if the Cubs have concerns that he won't stick at catcher, I could see drafting someone else. I just seems that a team would want to at least think about the mid term future of their ball club when drafting.
  24. CubinNY
    I don't know if I would call myself indifferent, but I'm not really upset. I wish they would have drafted Weiters if they were going to deal Barrett. That's my gripe. Truffle, I'm just trying to look at Burke and see what the Cubs got. Frankly, I don't see the ceiling being all that high. He is young though. I'm definately not worked up about it. How isn't his ceiling high? He's unlikely to come close to it but he has a high ceiling. Well, first I should say I don't exactly know what a ceiling is except for one that actually sits under my roof and over my head. I don't buy into draft slot, subjective analysis, and "dunking" ability. I go by numbers. The numbers say he is a terrible professioanl ball player at every level he's been. To me that means his ceiling is low. A player's ceiling and $2.02 will get him a Venti cup of coffee at a Memphis Starbucks.
  25. CubinNY
    I don't know if I would call myself indifferent, but I'm not really upset. I wish they would have drafted Weiters if they were going to deal Barrett. That's my gripe. Truffle, I'm just trying to look at Burke and see what the Cubs got. Frankly, I don't see the ceiling being all that high. He is young though. I'm definately not worked up about it.
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