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    RynoRules replied to DivineBovine's topic in Other Sports

    What method are you using to evaluate these players? Good, okay and not good strikes me as incredibly simplistic. Kobe and Iverson are HOF players, but they rate the same as Peja? I don't think you can just throw something like this together and expect it to carry any significance. I gotta go with 1908 here. It looks like you are judging some of these guys based on whether their teams have won, which really isn't a way to evaluate their individual abilities. For example, you have lumped Kaman in with Reece Gaines, Darkp, and Banks. Meanwhile he is one half of one of the best C-PF combos in the league, on a team that is going to the playoffs. Another example is Childress - do you follow hoops? He has been very good this year, yet you lump him in with scrubs. And you lump Marbury in with Samaki Walker? Odom, Magette and Andre Miller with the likes of Avery and Langdon? That makes absolutely no sense.
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    I dunno - they both appear to favor putting their left hands on the small of their backs...
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    CUBS WIN!!!!! \:D/ \:D/ =D> =D> [/i]
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    I thought I heard it, but wasn't sure. It was Randy Hundley. Apparently he is to radio as his son was to catching for the Cubs.
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    He's comparing him to every person that has ever played baseball at any level. I'll give Ron a break - he's essentially "player emeritus" for the org. and is beloved by most fans that I know. He's a terrible color man...which is why I keep the NSBB game thread open while listening on the radio.
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    That's an ironic sentiment - which one did Tavarez punc a few weeks ago?
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    I put Mabry up for consumption b/c of the Dust Man ain't likely to go with three youngsters.
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    Me too - and three of my buds. Interested in meeting up for a mini-NSBB get together?
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    Here's a depressing question: Mabry or Jones in RF?
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    The ball was fair but rolled foul on the first base line. Thanks. I love Ron, but everytime something exciting happens he screams and I can't hear a thing Pat is saying.
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    Can somone exlpain what happened on the attempted squeeze play prior to Pierre's single? Ronny is stepping all over Pat and has been all game long!
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    Wow, I hate arguing with people who don't read. Let me put this in a bigger font... He's technically right, they led the NL in 2002. They were 7th in the NL in 2000. In 2002, Baylor was fired halfway through the year. I can't give him credit for any accomplishment in a year he didn't fully manage. Fair point, but that was a team built to Baylor's specs (at least initially), no? The difference maker in that team leading the league in HR versus the previous years were McGriff and Bellhorn. One could argue that McGriff was a Baylor kind of guy, but Bellhorn really did most of his damage under Kimm. Without Horn's 27 HR at the second base position, the Cubs wouldn't have been near 1st place. I guess I see 'Horn has a "Baylor-type", but that's just me. Its difficult o quantify what a Baylor type is. As you correctly pointed out, his teams had power and lacked plate discipline, yet they bunted like they were the 85' Cards (i.e., powerless). Hard to quantify what Don was trying to do. Guess that's why most of his team stunk.
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    Must include playoffs.
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    Wow, I hate arguing with people who don't read. Let me put this in a bigger font... He's technically right, they led the NL in 2002. They were 7th in the NL in 2000. In 2002, Baylor was fired halfway through the year. I can't give him credit for any accomplishment in a year he didn't fully manage. Fair point, but that was a team built to Baylor's specs (at least initially), no?
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    My huge problem - besides the fact that few of them work the count - is that they don't "shorten up" with 2 strikes. This allows you to get some wood on the ball, and may be foul a few off until you find that "good pitch". Grace was one of the best I ever saw at doing it.
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    Save Matt Murton. Get a new RFer.
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    You heard right.
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    I'd send Rusch to FL if it meant getting Girardi. I love that guy.
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    The original claim was that nobody knew who he was. That's disingenuos. And who cares how many fans knew, they still gave him up. People want to applaud him for getting Matt Murton, who was a relatively unheard of prospect (and I think he does deserve praise for that). But then you also have to criticize him for giving up Willis. It doesn't matter if fans knew him, or if we thought well of him. Jim had the inside info. That wasn't the point of the convo as I remember it. In any case, you have to give value to get value. Clement was good during his stay with us. Willis has been for the most part better than Clement was (Willis' 2004 was, at best, average), but I for one won't kill JH for taking that risk. I am mainly upset with JH for the things he has failed to do.
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    No kidding. His catching ability is just bad. He sets up too late, he hops around before the pitch, and he has a tendency to lunge instead of block. That said, the Cubs need all the offense they can get. ----------- Yup.
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    Alfonseca sucked. He had one year where he racked up 45 saves, but didn't pitch great at all. He was a closer in name only. And Clement, was, remained and still is a walk machine who cannot be counted on. I used to follow the minors more then and was starting to like Dontrelle around that time. I didn't predict he'd be a Cy Young candidate by now, but I sure as heck had no interest trading away young talent to add those marginal veteran (expensive) upgrades to what was nothing more than a mediocre team still a couple years away from potential greatness. And I thought he had a very good chance to be a valuable major leaguer. Yes, I knew who he was, and no I didn't "know" he'd make it, but I liked his chances. While it's revisionism to say you knew Willis would be great, it's just as revisionist to suggest nobody knew who he was. I don't think its revisionist - its probably an overstatement though. Accordingly, I think you'd agree that few knew who Willis was prior to the trade. I'd also add that he jumped from AA; I don't think he ever played a game at AAA. Few fans might have known, but that doesn't excuse the baseball people working for the Cubs for not knowing. The Marlins asked specifically for Willis. Somebody knew something. I really ddiin't think much about it at the time as I read that his winde up was hard to repeat and he was prone to arm injuries. But the numbers were there, and he appeared to be a pretty decent prospect. Maybe, but that is not what we were addressing above. My view is that we were talking about "we the critical fanbase", not the Cubs front office. Its disingenious, IMO, to assert that more than a few fans knew at that time Willis was a future Cy Young candidate or even knew that he existed.
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    Agreed. I think that is the part of this that many are discounting. I'd wager that he doesn't like it here.
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    Bone head move my Ronny. Gotta look him back. Rookie error. Pressure situation. Gotta live with it, I guess.
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    They certainly give us fits. They play into our staff's greatest weakness - terrible control.
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    Just my two cents, but I'd bet they have to make the playoffs, because if they don't, this will be far too hostile environment for Dusty to function in.
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