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  1. CubinNY
    Don't take this the wrong way, but six commas on one sentence has gotta be some sort of record. ;) Quite a nice rate stat BK! :D
  2. CubinNY
    I will believe it when I see it. This is one of those too-good-to-be-true info-mercials. "I made $345,000 last year buying and selling realestate with no money down". No offense, but this guy's first post here and he posts this. Yeah right. Then again I was poo-pooing the Nomar trade up until it actually happened, so you never know. I vote to ban him now and if the trade happens unban him and make him king of transactions usurping Hoops. The king is dead! Long live the king!
  3. CubinNY
    Faith no. Hope yes. At best he has a mixed track record so I sit and hope.
  4. CubinNY
    If that is the deal I'd say the Angelos is grasping for this year badly. Ward is not that good and Burnett although a better than average pitcher is injury prone. On the other side they give up some pretty big upside potential guys in Bigbie and Penn. I feel bad for Lowell he grew up in Miami and went to FIU. Now he goes to Pittsburgh. I think the Pirates got an ok deal, turning Redman and Ward into Lowell and Reed. Obviously I think the Marlins did pretty well in this deal. Although it appears they are looking to the near future now. Oh well, at least they got something for Burnett. If this deal goes down I wouldn't be surprized to see McKeon shown the door too.
  5. CubinNY
    Well they make a good comparison to Raffy's swing vs. Sosa's. No they don't actually. That article is a piece of drivel worthy of wrapping fish and not much else. Sammy is not getting the job done, end of the story. I don't know why people feel the need to vilify the man too. Same goes with Patterson. It wasn't enough that he was mired in a season long slump, people had to make him out to be a terrible person too. But hey, if it makes you happy....
  6. CubinNY
    Just to clarify. I agree with Rocket Sauce. I don't know what Roast thinks. Thanks :D
  7. CubinNY
    Roast.... you are aware that Cincinnati has outscored us 458-427 so far this season ?? Like I said before. The Cubs lineup + Dunn > The Reds lineup + Dunn The Reds have scored exactly 458 runs The Cubs have scored exactly 427 runs Dunn has 54 RBI you do the math I agree with Roast.
  8. CubinNY
    Patterson is 25, twenty-five. Through no fault of his own, he has had to learn the game at the major league level. He may never live up to his potential, but right now in AAA he is a better center fielder than Pierre.
  9. CubinNY
    jjgman21 your logic is fascinating.
  10. CubinNY
    Ha! :P My wife just asked me what I was laughing at.
  11. CubinNY
    Ugh! If Mo came back we'd all be subjected to endless, "he's on a break posts". They were funny for about 2 minutes and then just became annoying. No Mo no more, that's my mantra. The guy was the king of GDIP and ran the bases like a directionally challenged 6 year old. Did I mention he was terrible in the OF too?
  12. CubinNY
    One more time for those that missed it. I think I'll post it on each new page. Pierre's CS more than negate his OBP % and he does not play a good CF. His one talent is bunting.
  13. CubinNY
    This reminds me of the "We need Kenny Lofton back" threads. The Cubs scored no more runs after they got Loften then before he came. The Cubs don't need Juan and his crooked hat wearing self. His OBP is negated by his CS and he doesn't play "smart" baseball. His one talent is bunting, and that talent is not worth his salary or the prospects it would take to get him, IMO.
  14. CubinNY
    I heard alot of this at the end of May before the Cubs went to the west coast. back then, the Dodgers were considered an upper echelon team. we swept them, and a couple weeks later, we stopped counting them as one of the good teams. now the same thing is happening all over again. two weeks ago, many here would have considered the Marlins an upper echelon team. they had won 10 of 15 entering the Cubs series. we sweep them, and all of a sudden they are considered not so good. whether a team is upper echelon or not and how we play against them is too fluid to use as a measure of how good the Cubs have/can play. plus, by most definitions, there aren't any upper echelon teams left on the Cubs schedule besides quite a few games against the Cards and a Braves series. unless by the time we play the Dodgers, Astros and Marlins again, they'll be back up to upper echelon status? I guess what I am saying is there is alot of discounting how good a team is when we beat them, and alot of inflating a team when we lose to them. The Cubs are 13-18 against .500 and > teams in the NL*. That is not so good. They can beat up the Pittsburgh and Dodgers of this year, that doesn't make them good, only medicore. Note: I didn't include Bos, NY, or the W. Sox (if I had the numbers would be much worse)
  15. CubinNY
    The Cubs have 13 days to show if they are for real. They cannot count on Nomar or Williamson to help much. I'm not saying Normar or Scott can't or won't, I'm saying the Cubs shouldn't bank on it. That means between now and two Sunday's from now Hendry has to make a trade for an impact bat and maybe some bullpen help if he thinks the Cubs have a real shot. Both of those comidities are in short supply. I hope Hendry can pull it off without gutting the farm. At the same time, I don't know that he should even try given this team's terrible play against better than mediocre teams.
  16. CubinNY
    IMO, Dusty is managing himself right out of town. I don't think Hendry brought up Cedeno to sit. I could be wrong, but if Nefi and Hollandswroth continue to perform to their career numbers and Dusty does not replace them soon, he will be gone. Or at least I hope he will be gone. this is getting re-damn-diculuous.
  17. CubinNY
    I think there must be some kind of a snafu. I think that the webmaster switched the pictures of Thome and Dunn but left the write-ups the same and switched who was interested. I don't know, Makes sense?
  18. CubinNY
    It's really hard to give Dusty the benefit of the doubt and assume this is only a blip. I don't think I have to apologize for thinking Dusty will bench Murton and play Hollandsworth far too often. Baker has already said that Murton is going to platoon with Hollandsworth. This is for Murton's own good, says Baker, to protect him from tough RH pitchers and not damage his confidence. Seems to me we've seen this movie enough times now to know how it's going to end. I have no problem with this if, if, IF, IF Holla continues this little hitting streak he's on. But I believe he'll slump again. I know I tend to be an optimist, but I still believe that they'll platoon for the next two weeks (which will coincide with Holla's bad streak) before a deal for an everyday LF is made. See Dal that is the problem. If Hollandsworth continues hitting, great. If not the Cubs don't have two weeks to mess around with Dustyisms, like "Holly is hitting a lot of atem balls" or "boy holly is just unlucky he is really putting good wood on the ball". By the time the two weeks are up the Cubs could be out of the race. It probably won't be b/c of Hollandsworth only but...
  19. CubinNY
    Yes, it is a tragedy worthy of Shakespear
  20. CubinNY
    Eh, I'm not so sure... anyone who goes out and sign a Jose Macias, that's a problem, at least in my book. I'm just suprised that the ownership didn't do anything about the fact that Neifi just plainly sucks, and try to force the manager to play the young players. Oh well. *shrug* That is not ownership's problem, that is management's problem. There is a difference. Aslo, I would expect that ownership will be making some changes in management should the Cubs continue to be mired in mediocrity, given the money they have afforded management. At least I hope they will.
  21. CubinNY
    The guy Barry should be worried about is his friend the trainer. If they put the skrews to him and he talks Barry is up on charges.
  22. CubinNY
    That might have been a good comparison if we're talking about the April/May Holla. Bernie Williams doesn't have similar numbers over the past two weeks that Holla does. I don't know why people can't forget about Holla's horrible April and May but can't remember Holla's recent hitting/OBP. And I'm not a big Holla fan. How about Hollandsworth terrible June too. I don't give a frog's slimy ass about Hollandsworth's last two weeks. The guy doesn't deserve to be given the starting job. He has proved time and again he does not deserve to start. If that is the case why bring Murton up? Trinidad Hubbard was tearing it up in AAA before being relseased. Or how about Scott McClain? It make no sense to bring up a prospect to have a window seat, none!
  23. CubinNY
    I don't know if this is the proper place for this but here it goes: Yesterday on Mike and the Mad Dog (local radio show) Mike Francessa and Chris Russo were talking with Joe Torre and Mike who is a huge Yankee fan was raking Torre over the coals about starting Milky Cabrera in CF over Bernie. Torre patiently listened to what Mike had to say and then he said this (paraphrasing): We didn't bring him up here to sit on the bench. Milky is 20 years old and has played everyday, he is use to playing everyday. To sit him or use him as a pinch hitter or as a platoon player wouldn't do him any good. He also talked about the adjustment of having the upper deck when judging fly balls (something I never thought of). He said it will take a period of adjustment and that Cabrera cannot get that experience in AAA where they don't have the third teir. I wonder if that may have had something to do with Dubios's defense too??? This is Bernie freaking Williams we are talking about here, not a player of Hollandsworth's tallent. Anyway, the above is why, in my opinion that Torre is one of the best managers in baseball. And why Dusty must be shown the door.
  24. CubinNY
    You act as if the Cubs would have to approve the trade or something. the Cards have at least 2 major league ready pitchers who are argueably better than anything the Cubs have. If Dunn goes to the Cards it will be becuase the Cards provided better goods to trade. I don't see how Hendry can be faulted here.
  25. CubinNY
    You just want to keep going around in circles? You really think Cuban is the answer to Cubs fans prayers? This fascination with activist ownership is a complete joke. The Yankees of the 90's are the exception to the rule. George ran that team into the ground for 2 decades before his never ending spending finally started to pay off. Activist owners ruin franchises. Dan Snyder comes to mind here. Jerry Jones too. Although Jones did get lucky with Jimmy Johnson and the stupid Vikings (Walker trade).
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