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  1. BigbadB
    Agreed. Heh. I wonder if Beane sending Bellhorn to Chicago was his way of attempting to show Hendry/MacPhail that there are other breeds of cats worthy of some love? Mark Bellhorn, still to this day is the best lead off hitter the Cubs have had in the 2000's, and other decades as well.
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    At the time, Lugo was much better than Maddux. Not even a question. Hendrickson was better than Maddux that year. Dessens was more of a way to get rid of Perez. Argue who was better all you wish. I don't care about that. Trading Maddux for Izturis was absolutely stupid.
  3. BigbadB
    Almost any player would have blown up with the way the umpire behaved that day. It was a fluke he ended up getting hurt in the melee.
  4. BigbadB
    He'd already be signed if I was running things. He'll be relatively cheap for the value he provides. Get him now. Instead, Hendry will lose out on Fukudome like he lost out on Furcal and have no one else to go to.
  5. BigbadB
    Here are the Dodgers deadline deals in 2006. I would have taken any of the other deals over the one they made for Izturis. And Maddux was the best talent they received in any of those deals. Elmer Dessens: Odalis Perez, Blake Johnson, Julio Pimental Julio Lugo: Joel Guzman and Sergio Pedroza Mark Hendrickson and Toby Hall: Dioner Navarro, Justin Ruggiano and Jae So Greg Maddux: Cesar Izturis
  6. BigbadB
    No. It's because when you have given up hope on the season, you don't just trade the equivilent of a rent a player for a crappy shortstop. You hold out for something better, and if you don't get it, then you just keep the player. It looks like the Padres signed Maddux a day or two after the arbitration deadline, so I can't be sure whether the Dodgers got a sandwich pick for Maddux or not, but even gambling that they might get a supplemental pick would have been better than just giving him away for a player who had a ridiculous contract guarantee for the following year. If the Dodgers really wanted the pitching help bad enough, Hendry should have made them cough up a prospect or two. Especially considering how the Dodgers trumped Hendry on Furcal and Milton Bradley, and also snuck in and grabbed Nomar.
  7. BigbadB
    Anyone who could afford Lee's contract could have done it. Lee was on the market for a whole year prior to the Cubs trading for him, and yes, it was a shining moment for Hendry in a tenure that has featured way more poor decisions than moments of brilliance.
  8. BigbadB
    He also gave him away for nothing. How does that make it a good trade if you gave up nothing to get him and turned around and gave him away for nothing?
  9. BigbadB
    How did the Pierre trade end up being the "signature" bad trade? While that one was most certainly horrible, I like the Greg Maddux for Cesar Izturis one better. Not only did the Cubs just give away Maddux to a team in the hunt for the playoffs, but when they realized just how bad Izturis was the following year, they traded him AND cash for a PTBNL. And another one that some may like but I absolutely despise is the trade where the Cubs just gave away an outfielder (Jacque Jones) for crap, and paid cash to make that deal as well. What we end up with that deal is Jacque Jones and Will Ohman for a minor league reliever. Should I bring up the Steve Tracshel trade, or have I just pissed off the entire board for reminding them again that the Cubs actually made this deal? The Sammy Sosa trade still pretty much sucks, also.
  10. BigbadB
    Christian Guzman got a 4/16m contract. Can Eckstein get what he's asking for? I have no doubt. Jim Hendry outbid himself for Jeromy Burnitz after watching Burnitz put up artificial numbers in Coors Field. What we should all be real scared of is that Hendry would likely consider Eckstein an upgrade at SS.
  11. BigbadB
    This would be incorrect. Hendry is going to sit on his hands and everyone will be gone by the time he decides to fill the RF spot. I predict Hendry trades half the farm for Nate McLouth.
  12. BigbadB
    Or, the Red Sox are anticipating that Manny is playing his last year with Boston in 2008 and Ellsbury can ride it out in AAA while Boston fields a super team for a year.
  13. BigbadB
    Coats was likely traded from the Reds to Toronto, since that's the last organization he was with.
  14. BigbadB
    How is his name even remotely hard to say or pronounce? It's basically phonetic. It's phonetic, but the vowels are sounded out differently than the cologne of the same name. Ramirez is Uh-Rah-Miss The cologne is Air-uh-miss
  15. BigbadB
    I think Josh Hamilton will end up being better and at 1/5 of the price Fukudome will cost. Hendry has the talent to get a guy like Hamilton, and if I were him, that's where I would be spending my time. Or maybe a 3 way deal could be worked between Cincinnati, Baltimore and the Cubs where the primaries would be Bedard to Cincinnati, Tejada and Hamilton to the Cubs and everyone else to the Orioles.
  16. BigbadB
    :pig: We can't get this guy I have just master how to say Aramis's name. I couldn't even gues how to pronounce "Chone" is there an accent mark at the end? It's pronounced as "Shawn".
  17. BigbadB
    Royals are still in the mix for Kuroda as well.
  18. BigbadB
    You could also hope for a new ownership group that will come in and clean house.
  19. BigbadB
    Yeah, dislike how they do things all you want, but it has brought better results than what the Cubs have done. In 5 years when Lee and Ramirez and Soriano can't get out to field their positions without the use of a cane, Florida will still be sending some very talented YOUNG players out to field theirs. They probably will trade Hanley Ramirez when he becomes expensive. And I fully expect Florida to get at minimum 2 of the best prospects in baseball in return.
  20. BigbadB
    Wow. Another organization that would be better off firing their GM.
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  22. BigbadB
    Sounds like it could be a real circus show watching Braun play the OF. How much time has he even spent in the outfield?
  23. BigbadB
    Whoops. I guess I did miss Marquis. But, I tend to skim over anything Marquis anyway. It's my way of pretending like he was never a Cub.
  24. BigbadB
    Unfrozen caveman beat reporter? Celebrity gossip columnist? So, if I understand this correctly, Hendry will be going head to head with the New York Post for Damon's services?
  25. BigbadB
    So dumping Dempster's 5m will all of a sudden afford the Cubs Miguel Tejada, Brian Roberts, Raul Ibanez and a soon to be very expensive Erik Bedard? The Cubs decided to go big on Ramirez, Lee, Soriano and Zambrano. In doing so, they've made it pretty necessary to go cheap at many positions. There is no way the Cubs could afford to go big at every position unless they completely blew the budget out of the water.
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