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  1. nilodnayr
    HUGE
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    GO FOR IT
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    Nope
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    Ha-ha; thanks for the laugh. (Insert missing ROFL smiley here.) No Problem! But I didn't say the ONLY problem. Their pen is at the bottom of their problems. It can all be done in house no moves need to be made except re-signing Wood. Really? Other than Marmol and Wood, who do you trust? Maybe Howry. Dumpster is better as a starter just to get him out of the closer role. Neal cotts excites you? Lou obviously hates Scott Eyre. Howry Marmol Wood--if they resign him Wuertz Thats 3 currently, and possibly 4 very very solid relievers. Who is the closer? Is Marmol ready? Wood? And I am not sold on Wuertz. I worried about the pen last year and many times I wasn't disappointed. Any of them can close. The Cubs had an above average pen last year, I don't know what you are talking about.
  5. nilodnayr
    hell of a time to get your first penalty
  6. nilodnayr
    Ha-ha; thanks for the laugh. (Insert missing ROFL smiley here.) No Problem! But I didn't say the ONLY problem. Their pen is at the bottom of their problems. It can all be done in house no moves need to be made except re-signing Wood. Really? Other than Marmol and Wood, who do you trust? Maybe Howry. Dumpster is better as a starter just to get him out of the closer role. Neal cotts excites you? Lou obviously hates Scott Eyre. Howry Marmol Wood--if they resign him Wuertz Thats 3 currently, and possibly 4 very very solid relievers.
  7. nilodnayr
    Ha-ha; thanks for the laugh. (Insert missing ROFL smiley here.) No Problem! But I didn't say the ONLY problem. How is it A problem?
  8. nilodnayr
    Except of course that he already said he would have Kosuke on the back of his jersey.
  9. nilodnayr
    He killed my wife!
  10. nilodnayr
    Isn't the marginal expected revenue between a 91.4 win team and a 97.9 win team something north of $50M? Quite and ROI on ARod.
  11. nilodnayr
    My thoughts on a Jones trade ALL depends on what we would do with his salary.
  12. nilodnayr
    How do you propose Pie get ready? Going back to AAA? Sitting on the bench? And Randy Winn puts us in a worse situation than we have with Jones now.
  13. nilodnayr
    It just seems like Hendry once again is focusing on something asinine like getting a bunch of fast guys on the team instead of getting hitters who can actually get on base. It's either getting a lead-off hitter, or getting guys who can play multiple positions, or getting guys who can steal bases, or getting guys with "5-tools". It's never about getting guys who can actually hit and get on base. The key number is 400. That was Jacque's slugging percentage last year. Below average even for a CF. Who are you expecting us to be able to get for him?
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    Magglio is sorta good, they might think about keeping him in RF next year. Lets pencil him in. Left field right now is Thames (who the Tigers seem to not like) and Maybin/Clevlen who aren't ready to take over, and Rayburn, whos more of a utility guy. So, the Tigers want jones in LF.
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    Jones' 5M pisses you off that much? I would rather sit Jones on the bench and pay the 5M then drag Infante into your already overcrowded infield. If they wanted Infante, why not have kept Izturis? I agree that this is bad news for Cedeno. Maybe Cedeno slept with Sandberg's wife, that is why he must go!?! It doesn't piss me off at all, but if we have 8M to spend this offseason (which is what we've speculated) and for example, Tejada costs 13M, I have no problem getting rid of Jones to allow us the financial flexibility to improve significantly. Also, Infante costs nothing and will be a backup. Izturis cost 5M.
  16. nilodnayr
    If it allows them to do something with Jones' 5M and stops them from signing Matsui, I'm fine with the swap.
  17. nilodnayr
    That's exactly word for word something Jim Hendry wouldn't say. Or wouldn't understand.
  18. nilodnayr
    Interesting...sounds like a bad move for all of the teams.
  19. nilodnayr
    This qualifies for good news in the Giants world Nov. 10 - 3:40 am et Giants GM Brian Sabean is open to bringing back free agent Pedro Feliz, but he isn’t looking to lock his team into another long-term deal. Sabean believes Feliz may get a three-year deal. "If that's the case," he said, "it's not going to be something that we'll pursue, at least at this time." The Giants haven’t made any noise about pursuing Mike Lowell and they don’t appear to be in on Alex Rodriguez at the moment. If they don’t retain Feliz, they might go after Mike Lamb or Mark Loretta to play third.
  20. nilodnayr
    what have you heard? that we're going to jump at the chance to sign Kaz matsui? Ahh, so by "heard" he means he read the same article from the Denver Post that everyone else did?
  21. nilodnayr
    Whats that? The CUBS are going to move Dempster into the rotation? The very same brainstrust that gave Neifi Perez and Henry Blanco multi-year deals? Holy Jeez, I want to trade my first born for him!!! Maybe that will work on Colletti and Sabean.
  22. nilodnayr
    what have you heard?
  23. nilodnayr
    So you want the cubs to acquire left handed hitters AND improve against left handed pitchers. You do realize that for the most part those are opposing needs. I'd love for someone to tell me why we need left handed hitters.
  24. nilodnayr
    Not sure how a 3 way deal could be worked where the Marlins lose Cabrera and the biggest prize prospect of the other two teams in the deal goes to the Cubs rather than the Marlins. Highly unlikely. Why? The Marlins want quantities of young players they can afford. Would they take Pie, Marshall, Brian Wilson, Nick Pereira and Gallagher/Veal/Samardzija for Cabrera? The Giants give up Lincecum, Wilson, and Pereira for Cabrera, and we give up Pie, Marshall, and Gallagher/Veal/Samardzija for Lincecum. Starting pitching, 3B, catching, CF....these are the marlins desires. We don't match up that great.
  25. nilodnayr
    I guess people don't remember that when the Mets tried him at SS they quickly found out he didn't know how to backhand the ball and was an utter and complete failure.
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