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Is it possible that the light has come on for Hendry regarding OBP? If we're throwing around the #'s, surely someone, somewhere, has called them to his attention. Please God, let this be the case. It's weird, I read the exact same column and came away with the exact opposite impression. I take that to mean it was injuries and bad luck. In context, Hendry is responding to a comparison of the seasons between the Cubs and the Sox. I think that informs a bit as to what he's talking about. He's also saying that the Sox success won't make him do anything different that what he's already doing. In other words, the cubs would be making the same sort of moves or changes regardless of the success of the White Sox. Maybe so Vance, but he goes on to say... To me that means no philosophical changes b/c it was bad fortune. Damn that fortune.
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Is it possible that the light has come on for Hendry regarding OBP? If we're throwing around the #'s, surely someone, somewhere, has called them to his attention. Please God, let this be the case. It's weird, I read the exact same column and came away with the exact opposite impression. I take that to mean it was injuries and bad luck.
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Spiderman in a romp. The guy has superpowers. Batman has a crappy utility belt and some gadgets. Even if Batman had his slave boy gay lover with him (Robin) Spidy would wipe the floor with the ambiguously gay duo.
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I'll go first. White Sox in 5. Then we will all be grossly sick for the next 4 months. JR may just up and die.
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After two games of the NLCS...
CubinNY replied to Jimy is a misspell's topic in General Baseball Talk
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I knew the 2005 team was done the first week of the season.
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I said 2005 only because I choose not remember 2004.
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GMs partially operate through the media. It is no secret that Hendry is interested in Furcal. Why is that? Becuase he or someone in the organization let it be known to the media.
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I asked my wife for a 1914 Cubs jacket. For Christmans.
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I'd probably perform more like George Costanza.
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Hendry, Huges, etc., have a different conditioning history as it releates to baseball then we do. They also operate in a completely different environment. Needless to say they see things differently. To understand Dusty you have to understand the organizations he played for. Rule 5 was practically invented b/c the Dodgers would stockpile young talent in the minors. In Dusty's playing days people didn't talk aobut OBP or SLG. They didn't talk about WHIP or k:BB. It is like a different language to them. However, I don't think I could do Hendry's job and I certianly know I couldn't manage a professional baseball team.
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The Cubs record at home and the road are well within the margin of error. What that means is that they are functionally equivelent. The record shows that the Cubs were a mediocre team, that is all. It really is that simple.
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I'm going to call you Treebeard deux.
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I agree. But I'm going to wait and hope Hendry has a better off-season then the one he had last year. This season was perfectly predictable once ST was over and Dusty was talking about 400+ AB for Hollandsworth. It was perfectly predictable when Hendry had to over bid for Jeromy b/c he was the last body standing. Now the Cubs are at another choice point. As others and myself have pointed out numerous times, it wasn't injury, bad luck, and chemistry that was the downfall of the Cubs. Let's see what Hendry does. If he is hot and heavy over Furcal, look out b/c Hendry just doesn't get it. If he goes after Wilson without also going after Giles, he doesn't get it. I hope Hoops grain of salt rumor is true. But given Hendry's track record I'm not so sure.
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No, but the fact it would pretty much clinch the division for them is reason to sign him. (Assuming my previous exception of Ramirez, Abreu or Dunn playing in the OF for the Cubs, Giles to the Cards cements them as the best team in the NL, if not baseball) I don't know about that, but they would be one helluva offensive force in the NL. I'm still waiting for the Cards pitching to come back to earth. It looks like I'm wrong but I don't fear that staff.
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Right! The first step in solving a problem is realzing you have a problem. I don't know if the Cubs have made that step although Baker and Hendry have at least discussed it. I could see a line up: Furcal SS Cedeno 2nd Lee 1st Rameriz 3rd Floyd Rf Wilson CF Barrett C Murton LF Likely, a little better than this year, but I don't think it is a playoff calibur everyday line up.
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What leagues are the toughest to move between?
CubinNY replied to badger1679666666's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
That's what I've heard as well. Most of the people who I know that played minor league ball all said it was the hardest, most didn't make it out of AA. However, a couple of guys who pitched and made it to AAA said the bigest jump was from AA to AAA. -
Much ado about nothing, IMO. I cannot see him working for the Boss.
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The Cubs make out like a bandit there. The Cubs give Walker and second teir prospects for: Bradley Lowe Castillo What happens to Patterson?
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Well written Rocket!
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I think it will matter more to the fans then to the organization. It will be fodder for internet message boards. The media will ask stupid questions and the Hendry and Dusty will give some innocuous comments. That will be the extent to of it.
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If I were a betting man I'd bet that the Giles brothers do end up playing on the same team... in Atlanta.
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Rumor in NY is that..
CubinNY replied to Rusch33's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Kelly is still in the front office as an advisor. Walker blames him for the knock on his defense among other things. Regardless, he has no say in who he would get traded to. I wasn't thinking well when I made that post. It was not clearly thought out. I am still wondering who the Cubs would want from the Yankees given that I guess that Walker would be traded for Hunter. -
Rumor in NY is that..
CubinNY replied to Rusch33's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Not much new news, but is there an opportunity for Hendry to insert himself as a middle man here? If he's so set in going another direction at 2B, what kind of interest would Minny have in Walker? What could the Cubs look for from NY or Minnesota? I've said it before, but I have a strange feeling that Soriano may be the Cubs 2B next year (not that it is what I'd do necessarily). Thoughts? Edit: because I'm dumb. The Cubs would trade Walker for whom (I'll take Mauer)? I would assume the Cubs would want someone from the Twins. In addition Walker already played for the Twins and hated Tom Kelly. I can't see him wanting to go back to Minn. He may like the Yankees though. But I don't know if the Yankees have anything the Cubs want. -
The same way guys like Piazza and Grace went really low. Scouting is an inexact science. Some would say it is not a science at all but an art. There was a good article about Pujols in last week's ESPN the magizine. He was a little pudgy comming out of junior college and I think he had a bad senior year. The article made it seem like he is an even better person than a ball player. It is hard not to like the guy. In all of sports the worst I've ever seen is Dan Marino going in the fifth or six round. Marino went in the first round. It was just late in the first round. My memory was pretty bad there. I think he was like the fourth or fifth quarterback choosen that year. But there were a lot of good QBs in the draft, if my memory is still not bad