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  1. CubinNY
    Yes, with the pitchers jogging in the outfield, the manager signing autographs, and 1/2 the ball club there I could see how the pressure could get to a kid. Every game I've evered played whether it be a playoff game or beer league softball I've tried my damnedest. I really don't think guys who've played the game their entire life and are getting paid are any different.
  2. CubinNY
    I'm still pretty pissed off that they stayed with Hawkins even though he just sucked as a closer. That team had one hell of a rotation and Prior was really coming on at the end of the year. Thanks Latroy/Dusty. In 2004 I was at two of the memorable Hawkins's efforts. Eric' Milton's near no-hitter, then near loss after Patterson roped a double. LaTroy loses it in the bottom of the 9th. The final week in Shea when Victor Diaz went deep. Both times Prior started the game and pitched very well.
  3. CubinNY
    Hendry subcribes to the "earn it" policy. Some guys don't get it done in ST, others step up. Pagan stepped it up bigtime. If what you say is true, Hendry is a worse GM than anybody realizes. Spring training is about the absolute worst time to be making decision about your 25 man roster. A great amount of the time teams are playing people who won't even make the 25 man roster and might never make it for even a cup of coffee in MLB, not to mention the limited number of ABs in the six weeks of get in shape, golf after the game, don't go on road trips, split squads, get in to get some work done baseball. Shoot, I've already mentioned some of the myraid problems with evaluating talent during ST. One last thing, if what you say is true Brandon Sing should have been on the 25 man roster out of spring trainging last year. And the year before "Die Hard" what's his name should have been on the 25 man roster.
  4. CubinNY
    The Mets version of Larry Anderson for Jeff Bagwell, or Doyle Alexander for John Smoltz. Doyle Alexander helped Detriot get to the 84 WS and win it. I'd say that wasn't such a bad trade for Detriot. If Kazmir get healthy, and reaches even some of his potential the Kazmir for V. Zambrano trade has to be one of the worst trades in recent memory. I have no idea what the Mets were thinking.
  5. CubinNY
    He looks like Beltran. Looks like Beltran, hits like Beltran's grandfather.
  6. CubinNY
    I thought Hendry use to be a scout? What has Angel Pagen ever done to warrent a roster spot, let alone be considered for a starting postion?
  7. CubinNY
    I bet the Padres sign him I do too. Hendry is taking a huge gamble with DeRosa. I hope he pans out.
  8. CubinNY
    It's the silly season. Bruce, One question. Do you know if the Cubs have any interest in upgrading at either SS (Izturis) or 2nd (DeRosa/Theriot)? There is a rumor that Marcus Giles might be non-tendered. The Cubs will not look into Marcus Giles if he's non-tendered. They're happy with their infield, as you heard Mr. Hendry say. I kind of figured that. Thanks Bruce!
  9. CubinNY
    It's the silly season. Bruce, One question. Do you know if the Cubs have any interest in upgrading at either SS (Izturis) or 2nd (DeRosa/Theriot)? There is a rumor that Marcus Giles might be non-tendered.
  10. CubinNY
    Then according to Chris Carpenter's "past performances", http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/carpech01.shtml he would had continue to be a talented, but crappy pitchers. "Past performances" is not the best predictor, because doesn't take into account different variables. It's a definition. You cannot predict by things that have not happened yet. I think what you mean is that there are things beyond stats that can be used to predict, but those are most assuredly still past performance. There is quite literally nothing aside from past performance and wholely irrational beliefs that can be used to predict future performance upside? tools? makeup? what do your base them on? your crazy imagination, or his past performance? What if you're a scout, and a guy has great past numbers, but you go out and see him play somewhere and talk to him and it becomes painfully obvious the man has suffered a mental collapse? Do you still sign him because of his past performance? Or let's say there's a guy who has been pretty mediocre all his minor league career, and you visit him, ask him to get an eye test and he comes back with 20/200 vision? Do you write him off because of past performance? Everything is relative. A player needs to be compared relative to his age and level of compitition.
  11. CubinNY
    Mostly because he was injured and missed most of last year. I think it is way, way too early to write off Dopirak. Maybe it's too early, but it's definitely not way, way too early. He turns 23 in a week, and he's had an atrocious minor league career. It would be passable for a slick fielding middle infielder, but he's had only one good season, and that was in low A. He sucked in high A and sucked in AA. It's hard to defend the claim that it was mostly because he was injured last year. His completely healthy FSL numbers would not seem to indicate he was ready to do anything in AA, even if he was healthy. - one way then. I'd like to see him get healthy and see what he can do in Severville this summer. If he posts good numbers I'll be on the Dope dealing bandwgn.
  12. CubinNY
    Mostly because he was injured and missed most of last year. I think it is way, way too early to write off Dopirak.
  13. CubinNY
    Why are people not talking about Floyd taking ABs away from Murton?
  14. CubinNY
    My hope is that the Cubs can stay in contention until late June early July and look to deal some surplus pitching for a decent SS. They are going to have to find OBP somewhere.
  15. CubinNY
    What makes you say this? Rothschild hasn't gotten anyone into form on a consistent basis since he's been in Chicago. Dave Duncan and Leo Mazzoni couldn't get him into form, but Rothschild can? Lilly hasn't had a sub 4.00 ERA since 2002 when he only started 16 games. He's a fly ball pitcher in NL Central. The Cubs will have to have everything go right for them for a chance to win the NL Central. Right now they look like a .500 ball club.
  16. CubinNY
    Glad to have you on board. Whether I agree or disagree with your argument you always have an encyclopedia of stats to back it. Now give me the juicy numbers on why Marquis sucks, so I can use that in addtition to my "melodramatic posts" 8-) I'll just quote mitchell lichtman at btf. he works for the cardinals (at least i think he still does) yukie, yukie, poo-poo.
  17. CubinNY
    I think it was quite possible to go from worst to first. But in my mind we just didn't go about spending a fortune correctly. In fact, the four exact moves I called for in Sept were Soriano (for 2B), Drew, Daisuke and Schmidt. Admittedly, I don't know if was ever possible for us to get Schmidt, but we could have done the other three plus Lilly and not spent a whole lot more money (assuming you account for the posting fee in a different budget, that is). I think that would have put us pretty comfortably #1 in the division and serious WS contenders. Soriano Drew Lee Ramirez Jones Murton Barrett Izzy Z Daisuke Lilly Hill Prior/Miller/et al. I would be a happy camper if that would have happened. Real happy. The only thing I might quibble about is that I don't think the Cubs had the finacial wearwithall to pay the ridicilous posting fee for Daisuke.
  18. CubinNY
    Sorry if this has been mentioned already. I'm just back from an X-mas party. How old is Marquis now? He's not been outstanding for at least 5 years. Give me a freaking break. I guess it's fine to be a contrian but at some point it becomes absurd. I think that post of his was sarcasm. Sorry if it was sarcasm. However, Marquis is just another in a long line of "lightning in a bottle" signings by the Cubs. I'm tired of the Cubs mentality, to go with the least worst option. Soriano is not what the Cubs needed. Neither are Lilly, Marquis, Morindini, Blauser, Gieatti, Cey, Scott, and on and on and on.
  19. CubinNY
    Sorry if this has been mentioned already. I'm just back from an X-mas party. How old is Marquis now? He's not been outstanding for at least 5 years. Give me a freaking break. I guess it's fine to be a contrian but at some point it becomes absurd.
  20. CubinNY
    Cubs sign Maruquis, world peace brakes out all over the planet. Story at 11.
  21. CubinNY
    There can't be anymore pressure on Hill that what Dusty and Roschild put on him after he came back up from the AJP/Barrett punch. Hill got tarred, feathered, and sent packing after defending his catcher. Then once he got his chance again Dusty pretty much said it's now or never.
  22. CubinNY
    Good points. I have hope Larry will get him ironed out and Lou and Jason won't have a Lou/Dibble round two.
  23. CubinNY
    KW __________ JH
  24. CubinNY
    Especially if they are intent in signing the Marquuis' of the pitching world.
  25. CubinNY
    In this division, with the Astros regressing and the Cards not improving? No, the Cubs have as good a shot as anyone. In any other division you're right. I would agree. The Cubs may have plenty of question marks, but I can't see anyone in the division that I can point to as better than this team right now either. This is exactly how the Cubs seem to think. They want to compete within the division. I don't give a flying fig what Houston or the rest of the NL Central has done. Wining the divsion only means getting to the playoffs. I'd like for my team that has a top 5 payroll to be a lock to be above .500. I cannot understand how anyone could be happy with the Marquis signing when the Cubs have at least 2 guys under their control for the next two years that can be just as sucky.
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