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  1. sherwood921
    True, but many of the players they've dealt in the past have been from their organization.
  2. sherwood921
    Wow, talk about running away with it. At least I have Howard on my fantasy team...
  3. sherwood921
    Unless you can get back someone who's able to help the offense a ton, there's no point. We have below average offense at almost every position. Losing Barrett would leave us with an even worse offense (unless he brought you back a stud hitter, which doesn't seem very likely IMO).
  4. sherwood921
    I remember when I traded Todd Jones for Howard less than a month ago...
  5. sherwood921
    And Prior and Wood are hurt, although technically that's like falling out of a boat and hitting water though.
  6. sherwood921
    I remember the 1-game playoff. I had hockey practice and I listened to my walkman the whole time in the locker room. I made my mom stay and hand signal the score from the stands. I also recall the 2003 Atlanta series. My brother was an assistant coach and at one point flipped out during out practice(he was wearing headphones) because of a bad call on a Lofton diving catch. I also remember my brother's friend leaving him a voice mail going into the third period of a big game of ours. The voice mail said "you are going to be sick when you get home and watch this game (game 6)."
  7. sherwood921
    Good one.
  8. sherwood921
    One more time...why is Roberto Novoa on our club? Everytime I see him pitch he gives up a rockets.
  9. sherwood921
    Good thing speed never slumps.
  10. sherwood921
    I'm just catching the end of the game. Who got hurt, and how bad is it?
  11. sherwood921
    I'm just frustrated, because not only is it idiotic, it contradicts what he says about his pitchers giving up walks. It's one thing to be stupid, it's another to be stupid and ignorant.
  12. sherwood921
    Even better than that is "Dusty Baker You Must Get Fired" played on WLUP a few weeks back.
  13. sherwood921
    Isn't there some way that we can raise a flag to someone within the organization or someone who can convert the casual fan. It's just unfathomable for someone to be so thickheaded. He says walks are bad for his offense unless you're fast, but you need homeruns(which are worth more if the bases are "clogged"). Does he also think a slow, singles hitter is bad, since they're clogging the bases too? I can't wait to read Bruce's next article. I just don't get how the correlation between walks and runs doesn't hit Dusty. His pitchers walk too many and give up runs. His hitters don't walk and get no runs. I really wish we could hold a rally, or picket, or something.
  14. sherwood921
    I have always been a big fan of Giles. He does always seem to be dinged up though, I'm not sure if that's because of his style of play or what. I definately think now would be the time to go for him as he's having a down year. I wouldn't mind Theriot backing him up either.
  15. sherwood921
    He wouldn't be playing for a contract though.
  16. sherwood921
    Shoulda pinch hit Izturis...
  17. sherwood921
    Yeah, he's such a team player that he moved to 3B when the Yankees signed the best defensive SS in the AL...wait, that never happened. Jeter, through his service in NY, should hold the preference of position played. Again, you're making something out of nothing. You're saying that he should get to play whatever position he wants out of deference to his tenure, regardless of the fact that it's detrimental to the team? No, I'm not saying whatever position he wants. Jeter has developed as a SS and deserves to play that position until his skills dictate otherwise; another player acquisition should not be the reason of a position shift. Who says Jeter's defense is detrimental to the team anyway? He may not have A+ range but he turns the DP and fields balls that should be made. The Yankeee's infield defense is definitely not a problem of the squad. If he's such a team player he should recognize what would have been best for the team.
  18. sherwood921
    I think defense grows less important as you reach higher and higher levels of baseball. When you're a little kid, not many kids are very good at fielding. Often a ground ball is an automatic hit and if it gets into the outfield it's at least a double. As you move along through high school, the teams that play good defense are generally better teams, because at that age the guys that play better defense are generally better all around (played longer, more athletic, etc.). There are many more errors at those lower levels of baseball. However, as you get into college, minor league baseball, and eventually the majors...the different levels of defense are not nearly as noticeable, because the overall number of mistakes is way down. Essentially, I think the whole concept of defense being the most important is stressed to the extreme at a younger age that it sticks in everyone's head. I know that's what all of my teams practiced and stressed the most.
  19. sherwood921
    Don't kid yourself, he strikes out too much to wear Cubbie blue
  20. sherwood921
    Add that to the pile. Of course, there's no way a GM can know something like that. But it's [expletive] to go after a FA full-bore and then just give up inches before the finish line-------which is how I interpret what happened. Hendry gave up inches before the finish line? No, he decided not to try to top Ned's insane offer. We already offered him more than he was worth. You can't just say that if you really go after a free agent, you have to top the best offer no matter what. Poor argument...so we couldn't offer 3 more million for Furcal? WHy not? I didn't realize there is a salary cap in baseball? Why not just give the 3+ milion to Furcal keep Nolasco and not give 6 million to Perez Rusch No-Arm Wade how are the dodgers looking in the standings btw? Looks like Ned did a good job. So you're arguing that we should have overpaid even more for Furcal, because if we would have gotten him we would still have Nolasco and wouldn't have paid so much to Perez, Rusch, and Miller. None of those are directly related to not signing Furcal. As goony has argued very well...not signing Furcal did not force Hendry to trade for Pierre(maybe in his eyes it did), and it didn't force him to re-sign those guys way above what they're worth. . The Furcal siging was related to the Pierre trade. Had Furcal been in place I don't think Hendry would have given up Nolasco and Pinto for Pierre. The Rusch, Perez, Miller signings are not related to Furcal directly...I was just mearly using them as an example of how Hendry couldn't pay extra 3 mil for a player that could help us..yet flush 6 million down the toilet on three worthless players. You're probably right, but that doesn't mean what he did was justified. It didn't force him to do anything. The best case scenario would have been to look within the organization (Walker) or elsewhere, not overspend on Pierre. You're making a strong point of Hendry being incompetent, not that Furcal was necessary.
  21. sherwood921
    That game was one of the wildest games I've ever seen. Baker actually snapped in that game as well as he couldn't execute a double switch properly. I wish he would do that more often. Get in an umpires face. Throw things. Go on a profanity laced tirade in the media. He won't do it b/c of his 5-year old son. Does anyone else think the age of his son is why he doesn't do these things like Ozzie?? B/c Ozzie's kids are all grown-up. I don't think it has anything to do with his son. Are there no crazy people with young kids? Are all people with young children perfect role models? All people are different, if he didn't have any kids he'd still most likely act the same. I think it does, for the only reason being that Reds game where Baker got tossed a couple years ago and went crazy (the game where Martinez got called out for batting out of order). The story in the paper was that when he got home, his son was scared to see him and called him something like crazy daddy. Baker apologized, and said he would control himself better in the future-and he has, to the detriment of some. I remember that. That's probably just him trying to sound like a good dad. He was probably just trying to cover up his double-switch blunder.
  22. sherwood921
    That game was one of the wildest games I've ever seen. Baker actually snapped in that game as well as he couldn't execute a double switch properly. I wish he would do that more often. Get in an umpires face. Throw things. Go on a profanity laced tirade in the media. He won't do it b/c of his 5-year old son. Does anyone else think the age of his son is why he doesn't do these things like Ozzie?? B/c Ozzie's kids are all grown-up. I don't think it has anything to do with his son. Are there no crazy people with young kids? Are all people with young children perfect role models? All people are different, if he didn't have any kids he'd still most likely act the same.
  23. sherwood921
    Add that to the pile. Of course, there's no way a GM can know something like that. But it's [expletive] to go after a FA full-bore and then just give up inches before the finish line-------which is how I interpret what happened. Hendry gave up inches before the finish line? No, he decided not to try to top Ned's insane offer. We already offered him more than he was worth. You can't just say that if you really go after a free agent, you have to top the best offer no matter what. Poor argument...so we couldn't offer 3 more million for Furcal? WHy not? I didn't realize there is a salary cap in baseball? Why not just give the 3+ milion to Furcal keep Nolasco and not give 6 million to Perez Rusch No-Arm Wade how are the dodgers looking in the standings btw? Looks like Ned did a good job. So you're arguing that we should have overpaid even more for Furcal, because if we would have gotten him we would still have Nolasco and wouldn't have paid so much to Perez, Rusch, and Miller. None of those are directly related to not signing Furcal. As goony has argued very well...not signing Furcal did not force Hendry to trade for Pierre(maybe in his eyes it did), and it didn't force him to re-sign those guys way above what they're worth. Hendry's mistake was not missing out on Furcal, but rather trading for Pierre and signing those contracts. None of those moves had to be made. The fact of the matter is not that signing Furcal would have prevented those deals from happening, it's that those deals should not have happened no matter what the circumstance. We shouldn't have had to severely overpay for a player to prevent our GM from making stupid moves.
  24. sherwood921
    You're pulling away. I need Beltre, Helton and Huff to pick it up...oh who am I kidding.
  25. sherwood921
    So...lately I have been fortunate enough not to catch many of the games. How many games has Izturis won us with that dandy glove of his?
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