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  1. erik316wttn
    If the Phils think they can get Manny for Abreu, I don't really think there is much we can offer them.
  2. erik316wttn
    Where'd the Iceman go again?
  3. erik316wttn
    Where'd the Iceman go again?
  4. erik316wttn
    Lots of multiple posting. I think I'd do Patterson for Bradley.
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    Randel "I never saw a pitch I didn't like" Simon. Man I loved him. He would swing at anything...and make contact. He was a guy Hendry traded for and he was a decent pinch hitter. I wish Hendry could figure out how to get a quality bench guy via the free agent route. Maybe we can coax Glenallen Hill out of retirement. Damn, but I miss him.
  6. erik316wttn
    Randel "I never saw a pitch I didn't like" Simon. Man I loved him. He would swing at anything...and make contact. He was a guy Hendry traded for and he was a decent pinch hitter. I wish Hendry could figure out how to get a quality bench guy via the free agent route. Maybe we can coax Glenallen Hill out of retirement. Damn, but I miss him.
  7. erik316wttn
    Sutter invented the forkball, didn't he?
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    I think the Veterans Committee would have to vote him in. With the HOF, a player has to have 75 percent of writers vote for him in order to be elected. I think writers can vote for up to 10 guys, but don't have to use all 10 votes if they don't want. They have so many years on the writers ballot before they are kicked off. If that happens, then they would have to be voted in by the Veterans Committee. Santo's fate relies on them. I don't expect first-ballot guys in 2006. Sutter will be the only one to get in, if he gets in at all, IMO. Andre will get close, but I don't think enough people think he was an all-time great to get elected this year. 2007 will see Ripken, Gwynn, and McGwire all be voted in.
  9. erik316wttn
    Is Dusty one of those managers who thinks a rotation "needs" at least one lefty? If he is, pencil in Rusch. I'd rather have a good righty over a mediocre lefty anyday, but unfortunately there are very few in baseball who think that way.
  10. erik316wttn
    I remember that. Wasn't is because they wanted to make room for Delino F. DeShields? I think it was that they wanted to keep Augie Ojeda because the SS (whose name escapes me) was banged up and they felt that Ojeda could help the team more. The worst part of the move may have been that by releasing GM Jr. it necessitated promoting Patterson to rot on the bench instead of playing every day in Iowa. Could it have anything to do with the fact that Sarge Jr. couldn't hit for crap? Sure but at the time neither could Patterson. GM JR was a very good CF and the team's ERA suffered after he left. Given the choice, I would rather have GM JR riding the pine and Patterson in the minors. Defense helps, but if you have a team of 8 guys (excluding the pitcher) who are all gold-glove defenders, but can't hit for crap, you'll lose 95 games. A guy like that is ok if you have big bats in the lineup around him. But you can't have a bunch of guys like that as some people around here seem to want. Defense + hitting > hitting and average defense> defense alone.
  11. erik316wttn
    Can you give me your home address, Mr. Baker? I want to come, uh... shake your hand. Yeah. heh heh heh
  12. erik316wttn
    I remember that. Wasn't is because they wanted to make room for Delino F. DeShields? I think it was that they wanted to keep Augie Ojeda because the SS (whose name escapes me) was banged up and they felt that Ojeda could help the team more. The worst part of the move may have been that by releasing GM Jr. it necessitated promoting Patterson to rot on the bench instead of playing every day in Iowa. Could it have anything to do with the fact that Sarge Jr. couldn't hit for crap?
  13. erik316wttn
    Can someone please explain the Greenburg situation to me? Is he going to be traded or released? What's up?
  14. erik316wttn
    If Williams goes anywhere I'll be ticked. I really liked the trade that brought him here, and I think he showed a load of potential. I'm not saying he'll ever be a Z or Prior caliber starter, but I could see him being a very solid #3 guy. He's not someone you want to get rid of easily.
  15. erik316wttn
    And maybe scientists will find a way to clone Babe Ruth in his prime, and the Cubs will sign him to play right field.
  16. erik316wttn
    I don't think anyone here has anything against spending money to win, but when it's rumored that you're going to give a guy like Furcal almost double a contract that people were saying is far too much, it kind of makes you think. If true, that $50 million could be much better used for extentions to Prior, Zambrano, Lee, Aramis, etc, and some of it could be used to bring in other talented ballplayers. Why blow your whole wad with one guy when you can take that money and bring in 2 or 3 very good players? Simply spending money is not what it takes to win. It's how you spend it and who you spend it on that makes the difference. And I'll tell you right now, if we give Furcal 6/100, then nobody in management has a damned clue as to what is going on, and we won't win anything this year or the next, or the next, because we'll have so much damned money tied up in a B-level player.
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    Smells like BS to me. Incentives can't be based on on-field performance, so I don't think there is a stolen base incentive in there.
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    Assuming Dusty starts him.
  19. erik316wttn
    That is hilarious! Baldeli is my CFer and Harvey is in right. Caberra is in LF. I traded him for Wood in 2007. Pie is my 4th OFer. Which one is Ryan Harvey in the game?
  20. erik316wttn
    I concur with those who say the Cubs have GOT to jump into the thick of this. Now is the time for players like Pierre and Castillo to be had. If Hendry doesn't inquire, he's the biggest idiot there ever was.
  21. erik316wttn
    I don't think he's been promised a chance to start since he first came up with the Cards. Old worries die hard. I think either way it would be a good move, though, because in the end I think Murton performed well enough for Dusty to trust him unlike the other rookie players he's had on a shorter leash. Mabry would be a solid move for a solid amount of money. So, then our bench would right now be: Blanco Cedeno Mabry ? Fixed
  22. erik316wttn
    I hated that we traded Flash the first time.
  23. erik316wttn
    I know I'm in the minority, but I like the blue shirts.
  24. erik316wttn
    My guesses would be Indy, San Antonio, or Orlando. Maybe Portland. I don't see why NYC couldn't support another team. Brooklyn, maybe, as the Bronx and Queens already have teams. They were able to support 3 MLB teams with a population half of what it is now, they can support a 3rd now. No offense to any NSBB'ers here, but I was in Charlotte all of 1 time. I don't ever intend to go back. Maybe it's because my family stayed at a run-down Motel 6 in a very bad part of town, and that's most of my Charlotte experience, but I don't intend to go back. I don't think highly of the city.
  25. erik316wttn
    Isn't it hot in Vegas in the summer? Isn't that one of the excuses they use in Florida on why the fans don't go to the games? 1) Any Vegas stadium would have to be a domed/retractable roof stadium. 2) There will never, ever, EVER be an MLB team in Vegas in our lifetimes. Even if you ban gambling on the home teams games, there is still far too much room for funny business. You'd have to ban gambling on MLB, period, and that isn't happening.
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