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Booing an opposing team is about the dumbest thing that fans do. Walks are good! You fans seem to think your team could better score by letting the guy hit. Thus, how can you blame/boo the away team for walking him? Dumb :D I see what you mean, but booing is fun 8-) BOOOOOOO!

Booing an opposing team is about the dumbest thing that fans do. Walks are good! You fans seem to think your team could better score by letting the guy hit. Thus, how can you blame/boo the away team for walking him? Dumb :D

i don't like this move -- even with it being bonds...

duh. fake rally.

I was ready to reply to this comment with a "using what metric" . . . then i gave the number a closer look, and sure enough, not a tough argument to make. yay rich! :)

two outs now, man on third

Not as much as the O's, I'd guess :)

hahahahahahahaha!!!!

Fantastic book. The pace certainly wouldn't be good enough for someone wanting a true fiction book, so approach it as NF. It really is entertaining and well-written/researched.

September 2? Where did you hear this?

If there's such a thing as being due for a bad outing, Webb is as overdue as they come. :D

My experience with Baseball Mogul is that, eventually, anybody who's anybody hits 700 HRs :) OOTP is where it's it.

but didn't morgan invent the way a 2B flips the ball to the shortstop on doubleplay? :roll:

Nah, it's actually Cliff Robinson's nickname. I just lifted it and used it for Floyd. ah, i've heard it multiple times for floyd too. the guy on MLB.tv's intro the other night did it a couple times.

where'd this "uncle" cliffy thing even come from? some pop culture reference?

them ones wif duh fancy pop-ups. fairly evenly divided, actually. There's plenty of great stuff in each category, but it's usually easier to pick up and read fiction, IMO.

What a friggin waste of an asset that would be. Err, what SSR said. Asset? What exactly does Cedeno bring to the table? 24 year old who has torn up AAA. Could be valuable in a trade if we find a gullible GM...so basically if we try to make a trade with ourselves. But has been nothing short of pathetic at the big league level. His career OPS+ is lower than Neifi's. That should tell you all you need to know about the guy. Career OPS+, seriously? Does that really bring value to the discussion? No one has argued that hes been great over the entirety of his major league career. Interesting note...in Neifi's 24 yr old season, he had an 85 OPS+, his career high. The only other season he had an OPS+ over 70 was (you guessed it) 2005 with the cubs (77). If thats not an idictment as to how idiotic baseball GMs are, I don't know what is. His 23-games of 137 OPS+ are what earned him that ridiculous contract. What a stint he had for us that year, though, starting with hits in each of his first 6 ABs... but this is really starting to derail the thread :)

If RF is the big bat acquisition, then Pie plays CF everyday. With Pie's range, the RF doesn't need anything better than average or even slightly sub-average defense. I think possibly he meant the OF's are all CF's (Hunter, Jones, etc.), correct? Kind of. Even via trade, try to find someone that you think would be a big offensive upgrade in RF who wouldn't make you cringe every time a ball is hit his way. I've done a fifty-yard dash through MLB and there aren't any guys like that. I suppose you could sign one of the veteran CFs and play Pie or Jones in RF, but that doesn't appeal to me. Dunn-Pie-Soriano Burrell-Pie-Soriano Sounds like you're strictly talking FAs, otherwise you're then saying there isn't a RF upgrade in all baseball. I'm advocating the Cubs deal from farm strength (pitching) to get an OF (either CF or RF), then plug Murton or Pie in the remaining spot. Or include Murton in the deal and plug Pie RF if the target is a CF. There are quite a few options out there, and they don't have to be over the hill. A team stocked with young OF (say TB), but short on pitching might be willing to deal, even if the Cubs have to overpay a bit. Hell, I'd offer Hill and target Crawford, for example, then run Soriano, Pie, and Crawford as the fastest OF in baseball (with 60+ HR expectation). I'm all for going for Crawford. He would without a doubt be an upgrade. I just don't know how you would set up a lineup with him and Soriano. To me they seem to be very similar players. My preference is to trade for Burrell who will only be 31 next year. I'm pretty sure a deal of Murton and Marshall could net us Burrell. Then we would have an ideal lineup of Theriot, Soriano, DLEE, Burrell, Ramirez, DeRosa, Soto/Kendall, Pie. In my mind the mistake we made this offseason was signing Soriano over Carlos Lee. I would have much preferred a lineup of Theriot, DeRosa, DLEE, CLEE, Ramirez, Floyd, Jones, Kendall over a lineup of Soriano, Theriot, DLEE, Ramirez, DeRosa, Floyd, Jones, Kendall. But hindsight is 20/20. really not an issue... if you have a good player and a similar player is available, go get him: then you'll have two good players :) But seriously, lineup construction is not a big deal, at least not to the degree that it should affect out interest in Crawford. Hell, look at Pierre. JH went hard after him because he went after players based on what he expected a lineup to look like.

who knows, maybe he could put together another month like June '06 (.365/.382/.673/1.055, with 3 HRs) :D

Pretty sure it's more than that... thought I heard we were at six earlier... lemme thing about it. 6 catchers - 5 combos For a little while it was just Bowen/Hill that's correct - my bad essentially the same, really. But thanks, cubsin03, now i don't feel crazy for feeling so sure i'd heard something like "6 combos" already.

Pretty sure it's more than that... thought I heard we were at six earlier... lemme thing about it. edit: maybe not, can't remember what i heard or was thinking of... :)

Cedeno's 24. And started 9 games this season. He'll probably never be more than a utility IF, but to write off a guy as CLEARLY having no future as a major leaguer is nuts considering his minor league record since '04. Koyie Hill worked well with Zambrano too, and he had about as many big hits in his time up as Blanco did in his last 3 seasons. Koyie: .161 .231 .269 OPS+ 28 "Hank": .251 .302 .395 OPS+ roughly 70 I can't believe I'm saying this, but Henry Blanco is a major upgrade (assuming he doesn't take PT away from Kendall or future PT from Soto, which may be a stretch). edit: anyone know an easier way on BR.com to total a player's stats with a certain team? I'm obviously not going to argue that Blanco isn't an upgrade over Koyie, but if they were just gonna friggin DFA the guy, then DFA the guy 3 weeks ago and let Soto get a few starts. completely agree. But i was talking about your last statement, which -- intentionally or not -- implied that you thought Koyie's and Henry's offensive abilities were a wash, which would be giving Koyie WAY too much credit.

No, I wanted Blanco's career stats as a Cub, not cumulated stats in auear in which the player was traded . .

Cedeno's 24. And started 9 games this season. He'll probably never be more than a utility IF, but to write off a guy as CLEARLY having no future as a major leaguer is nuts considering his minor league record since '04. Koyie Hill worked well with Zambrano too, and he had about as many big hits in his time up as Blanco did in his last 3 seasons. Koyie: .161 .231 .269 OPS+ 28 "Hank": .251 .302 .395 OPS+ roughly 70 I can't believe I'm saying this, but Henry Blanco is a major upgrade (assuming he doesn't take PT away from Kendall or future PT from Soto, which may be a stretch). edit: anyone know an easier way on BR.com to total a player's stats with a certain team?

be sure to tell us what you'll be wearing so I can tell people I know that guy from a message board, and be villified for it. :)