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  1. CubinNY
    Done and done. My parents happen to be in Vegas this week. I just put a Benny on the Brewers.
  2. CubinNY
    Sutter should check the back of his baseball card.
  3. CubinNY
    He will get in but if I'm a voter I'd never vote him in, never.
  4. CubinNY
    To me the bolded part is where the Cubs have to invest more in. I don't know if it is dollars or people or both.
  5. CubinNY
    It's okay to look at your own organization to see where it needs improvements and examine what mistakes it has made in the past. Give it a try sometime, Jim. I know that part really got me. I was going to post something about scapegoating but I didn't want to get into another Patterson is stupid debate.
  6. CubinNY
    If I had my choice it would be Larry Deriker.
  7. CubinNY
    No by defienition he set the market. If someone else signed them then that someone else would have set the market. The "market value" is what the player got, not what the palyer is worth. Hendry set the market by being the first to sign theses two mediocre middle releivers who were coming off of career years to bloated contracts. I am pretty sure there was a quote by either one of those two to the effect of, "after I heard the offer I didn't need to talk to other teams". I think the quote was from Howry. That leads me to believe that Hendry did not just out bid every other suiter he out bid every other suiter by a considerable margin. ADD:I think Hendry needed to do sometihing to upgrade the pen so I don't think the signings in themself are bad things, but the money and years given to these two are a huge risk. It is not out of the realm of imagination to say that those two positions couldn't have been filled by farm hands, but that might have been a bigger risk then the signings. To me the performance of the bullpen from year to year is among the hardest things to forcast in baseball.
  8. CubinNY
    Giles would have been ideal. Perhaps that wasn't feasible, but the Cubs apparent disinterest was disappointing. The overpay for Neifi was unfortunate. I would have looked for some cheaper bullpen options, but I'm optimistic about Howry and Eyre. Giles was never an option. That one isn't on Hendry. And the market for middle relievers was high this year, and Hendry knew it. He paid the market price for 2 of the best. They were good acquisitions at this point. Neifi is overpaid. Giles was never an option because Hendry never targeted him or because you say so? Hendry was the first to sign middle relievers to bloated contracts, he set the market. Saying Eyre and Howry are two of the best middle releivers is like saying the Ford Focus and Chevrolet Malibu are two of the best small size passenger cars made in America. It might be true but that doesn't make them good. Middle relievers are middle releivers for a reason.
  9. CubinNY
    http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/images/2006/01/10/wS72X42T.jpg Why did I take that bet with Jockerty?
  10. CubinNY
    I cannot express in words how much the though of Dusty Baker's contract extension pains me. I am not pleased with Hendry's personnel moves the past two off-seasons, but what Baker has done with the talent given to him should have warrented a firing at the end of last season. Talk of an extension seems ridiculous to me.
  11. CubinNY
    My only hope is Dusty does not try and sandwich Jones between them whatever order they bat. That would be bad.
  12. CubinNY
    Given Pie's injury and his terrible Winter I hope the Cubs are not banking on him anytime soon. I don't think they are though, given that Hendry handed out a mulit-year contract to Jones and has talked as if he'd like Slappy to stick around for a while.
  13. CubinNY
    It's not hard for me to argue he should be a Cub. He had his best years with the Cubs and played more seasons for the Cubs. The same argument goes for Maddux only in the opposite direction. He played more seasons for the Cubs but had his best seasons with the Braves, he should go in as a Brave. If Sutter goes in as a Cardinal it would be a travishamokery. :x
  14. CubinNY
    Or maybe as an adult he knows what is best for himself. The coaching didn't seem to help last summer so why would it over the winter? I can see him thinking he needed to get away from baseball and clear his mind. I agree. If it were me I'd think two things. 1. I am done with this club 2. I need to find someone to help me that I can trust I am sick of reading the posts saying Corey is hard headed, dumb, or doesn't care. Think about it. If you were playing and getting paid for a living would you care? After Corey got hurt he spent the whole off-season in Arizona. After 2004 he reported early so he could get in extra work. To me that does not sound like a guy who does not care.
  15. CubinNY
    Exactly. It is foolish to take a kid from high school who relied on talent alone and rush him to the bigs. Patterson has relied on what got him to the big leagues, talent. It appears to me that no one tried to coach him until he struggled in the bigs. Whose fault is that? The organization's fault.
  16. CubinNY
    I have been one of Hendry's harshest critics this offseason. However, I will say this: He has drastically changed the team from the version in 05. I applaud the effort but the results have been much less then I expected.
  17. CubinNY
    I don't think Patterson's troubles are Dusty's fault, totally. But he is a guy who preaches agressiveness at the plate. He is a guy who tried to make Patterson a leadoff hitter becuase he is fast. He is the manager of the team and as such bears some responsibility. IMO, Corey's problems are a symptom of the overall problems of the Cubs organizational philosphy (that stuff does matter). He's a kid with all the talent one could want and hasn't developed that talent. Whose fault? I'd lay most of the blame on the organization.
  18. CubinNY
    Are you forgetting Pujols, Rolen, and Maybeline? You have to parden me if I don't buy what you are selling. The Cubs don't have the run producing capeablilities of St. Louis and don't have the overall pitching of Houston. The real dark horse is Millwaukee. They have good starting pitching, Kolb has to show 2004 wasn't a fluke and the youngsters have to hit around Lee and the Cubs will be sucking their exhaust too.
  19. CubinNY
    I'm not as up on the prospects as you guys so I ask this question out of ignorance: What has Stephen Drew done in the minors beside be JD's yournger brother?
  20. CubinNY
    What kind of change do you have in mind? Well, firing Hendry and Baker would be a good start. Trading Neifi and Jones at the trade deadline would have to be near the top. Finding out which minor leagures can pitch and play a position is up there too. Not letting a starting pitcher with a bad shoulder pitch relief in meaningless games is certianly a change I'd like to see. Getting some control of the clubhouse would be good. So would learning to take a pitch or two to see if the pitcher can work himself into a jam, it seesms to work for other teams. I would like to see the Cubs bring in more foreign prospects. I would like to see a switch from "tools" analysis to "production" analysis. Those are a few.
  21. CubinNY
    The Cubs are banking on what they've been banking on since 2003. A heathy rotation and luck. It hasn't gotten them too far and I'll wager won't get them very far this year. It is time for a change.
  22. CubinNY
    The Twins won back-to-back-to-back division titles in 2002, 2003 and 2004, and in each of those seasons, Guzman, Jones and Rivas had 1,500 combined at bats. All I'm trying to say is that if the Cubs pitching staff remains healthy, and the re-vampled bullpen is productive, the Cubs are going to be fine. All that remains to be seen Hoops. But the Twins weren't in a division with St. Louis, Houston and an improving Millwaukee. If the Cubs don't make another major deal I am predicting 4th place. On the bright side, that will likely mean Hendry and Baker are fired.
  23. CubinNY
    Great idea, except for the fact that Floyd and Heilman are each worth more on their own than Soriano. Maybe to you, but not to virtually every GM in baseball. There are very few 2nd baseman with the offensive production of Soriono.
  24. CubinNY
    So is the thought, there is average then sucky? Again, someone would have to define what situations would qualify as clucth situations. Then the performance would have to significantly varry from the norm (probably as much as two standard deviations) for anti-clutch to have any relevance. It would be an interesting study, I wager one might find a very, very small number of anti-clutch players if any at all.
  25. CubinNY
    If there is such a thing as momentum in sports I would think it would player a larger role in the timed sports like football, baskettball, and socer then in baseball. Interestingly enough, there is a phenomenon known as behavioral momentum. It deals with inducing a low probabliltiy response to occur by interspersng it with high probability responses. Here is one to try on your friends that is kind of related to behaivoral momentum. you have to say this in a rapid fire fashion How do you spell roast How do you spell most How do you spell boast What do you put in a toaster 9 times out of 10 they will say toast. You put bread in a toaster
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