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  1. RynoRules
    Fair enough re SS and (to some extent) re CPatt and the bench, but every team has some issues; I challenge you to find a perfect one. The 04' team should have won big with what Hendry put out there. Baker and the players fouled it up. Every year since has been a steep step down for Hendry.
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    And you'd be wrong. Look, I don't agree with his style or approach. I make no bones about that. But, I notice that you don't dispute the facts I set forth. Instead, you just want to assume I have a vendetta against him. Show me where I'm wrong and I'd be happy to discuss it. I just ask that the debate remain civil instead of foisting assumptions around. For instance, I didn't call him a fool. I gave him credit for the Hawkins deal, just not a huge amount. Show me results. He set this team up in 2004 to be succesful and they blew it, and in a big way. I don't blame him for 04'. I do agree that in 2005 and 2006 his foresight and approach have been very bad, bordering on awful. I guess I didn't like the way you approached your argument. For all intents and purposes you argued that he lucked his way into every good deal, a sort of Forest Gump among GMs. Beyond having no proof of this assertion, it also makes no sense that other GMs would be taken so easily.
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    He is a fool. 2003 was a long time ago and with an expanded payroll we still haven't been into the playoffs since then. He has done some good trades but overall most of his FA signings have been questionable. It seems like every year we go into the season with question marks and some of them aren't corrected the following year. This years debacle takes the cake and as fans I believe we deserve better than Baker and Hendry. I don't think we went in 04' with that many questions. That team was the best in the game on paper and folded like a cheap tent. Every year since has been a different story, I agree. He isn't a fool, but he's done a cr*p job the last two seasons.
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    I really don't get what you have agianst what he has done or is doing. Everytime he is quoted in the paper he makes it clear that losing makes him sick, that he and his mates are to blame, and that the fans have every right to be peeved. What is wrong with this? Don't overreact to everything I type for Pete's sake. I don't think I am overeacting. How come I am overreacting if I have an opinion that differs from yours? You are critical of him - what is your solution? How should he act?
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    I really don't get what you have agianst what he has done or is doing. Everytime he is quoted in the paper he makes it clear that losing makes him sick, that he and his mates are to blame, and that the fans have every right to be peeved. What is wrong with this?
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    JC: Didn't want to requote all of the above, but it sounds to me like you just don't like JH and are spinning everything he does or has done into a negative. Your argument that timing and context allowed JH to pull these deals off is illogical, IMO, because it applies to every deal ever made. This is not to say that JH does not deserve a heaping share of criticism - he does. But he isn't as much of a fool as you make him out to be.
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    I understand how people feel about Cards fans rubbing it in on our bd., but I pretty much know all of the Cards fans who post here and like them, so I guess I don't worry about it. Moreover, the fact that we stink has nothing to do with the Cards, so I can't be upset with their fans. I save my angst for the Dusties and JHs.
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    :?:
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    Hendry should take a cue from Kenny and build a lineup that isn't paper thin. I think Williams understands that the Sox were fortunate to get what they did out of their pitching last year. Instead of resting on that and hoping lighting strikes twice, he brought back all the key players and added studs in the lineup and starting staff, giving him six solid to front-line SPs (including McCarthy) and a middle of the order that all of a sudden is the envy of baseball. Great foresight and great job.
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    Fearless prediction: If Cubs swept by Pads, Dusty will be unemployed by sun-up on Mon.
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    I would love to divest ourselves of Jones and have this OF in 07': Pie (RF) - Murton (LF) - Montanez (CF)
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    I don't think its as premeditated as you say. Look at his quote in today's paper. Kudos to Mike for giving a hoot while his mates continue to go through the motions. To be clear, I didn't say it was premeditated. I presented options for discussion. OK. I am not sure the signfigance of picking on a big guy versus a smaller one then. Who cares, as long as he acts like he gives a you-know-what.
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    I don't think its as premeditated as you say. Look at his quote in today's paper. Kudos to Mike for giving a hoot while his mates continue to go through the motions.
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    Good one.
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    On the road?
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    Yum That was the part that cracked me up.
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    Me too. Me three.
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    I agree. Things will be ugly at home.
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    I usually don't indulge in picking apart everything Dusty says, but did anyone see his statement in today's Trib about throwing tantrums and flipping the clubhouse spread? It was classic Baker. I would post it myself, but I read the Trib on the "L" in the morning, so I do not have a password to the online version. Perhaps someone else can post it.
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    Well said.
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    Weather update: Its 8:45 am, its bloody freezing here (the Loop) and raining steadely. I'd be surprised if they play.
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    Obviously Walt Jocketty and the rest of the front office thought they would perform well. Query: Is it possible that the Cards have developed a system like the one the 90's Bulls had or the recent Pats did where you take unremarkable players (like Miles, Rodriguez, and Nunez of last year) and plug them into a methodology that allows them to be significant contributors? I don't buy this theory. Baseball is baseball, and the objective is always to get on base. There really aren't that many different ways to do it. In basketball and football, you can plug unremarkable players into "systems" to maximize their strengths, but there's really nothing similar in baseball. After all, only one person in the Cards' lineup can hit in front of Pujols. Its not my theory, its my query. I guess you do not think it is possible. I was wondering if anyone else thinks it is, and if so, what are the mechanics.
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    Agree in part - Stone would not be a good manager, largely b/c his players would dislike him greatly. I do think he would be a good GM, but he has virtually foreclosed that possibility as well.
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    But Vance, if you give them Pie, who is the Cubs CF for the next generation? Please don't say JP. I wouldn't be too concerned about it. The line-up for the next couple of years would have: 1b Lee 2b ? 3b Ramirez SS Cedeno C Barrett LF Murton RF Cabrera CF? I wouldn't be too concerned about CF. Buck Coats might could play it. We could look outside the organization for a CF. With Cabrera added to a core of Lee and Ramirez with solid hitters in Cedeno, Murton, and Barrett you could conceivably shift Jacque Jones to CF. Agreed - who cares who plays center? Bring Lofton back for another one year deal, and resign Walker for 2B. We have EPatt on the way as well. I'd gladly give up Marshall, Pie and Ryu/Aardsma/Wurtz for Cabrera.
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    If the Yankees agree to that trade, I'll change my name to DouchebagMcGee. Until then let's put away the drugs and stop proposing Jones + Guzman/Hill + Novoa/Ohman for Giambi + cash trades. Well played.
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