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  1. Rob
    Jesus... He performed like a league average RF. I understand the desire to have something to point at besides your own personal feelings about the guy, but continuing to bitch about his production like it's a good reason to hate him is absurd and just makes you look like an ass. It's completely offbase and if you'd read any of this thread, you'd know that.
  2. Rob
    I need to learn to stop clicking "show this post" when I know I put these people on my foe list for being idiots...
  3. Rob
    No. Jake Fox is a horrific outfielder. I'm all for making him work his ass off out there to see if he can become passable enough that his bat can cover him... but I'd be shocked if he ever manages it.
  4. Rob
    And to the idea that speed somehow better suits a player to the top of the order, that's backwards as well. Stolen bases are actually better utilized at the bottom of a lineup, where the batters are less likely to hit for extra bases.
  5. Rob
    That's not really true. But the idea of acquiring a top of the order hitter is working backwards. Find the best 8 hitters you can, and then tweak the batting order to maximize value.
  6. Rob
    JD Drew's is a horrible deal? He's been worth over $18 mil each of the last two years in Boston. That deal is actually looking like a bargain.
  7. Rob
    i won't speak for him or the other fans who didn't like him because he's a dick, but in my opinion, it matters because i find it a whole heck of a lot easier to root for a good human being who plays for my team than a dick who plays for my team. for example: i can root for a good story like bobby scales very easily this season even though he has a fraction of the talent that milton bradley has. i would like for my team to be a bunch of good guys who can play ball. if we had a bunch of players who had world class elite level talent but acted like (synonym for donkeys) who made up the entirety of the cubs roster for the year, i would openly be an indians fan until the roster turned over to get those bad attitudes out. i won't trade a championship for a bunch of 5 cent attitudes. And you know what? That's fine. If you decide that his personality is so bad that it makes it hard for you to root for the Cubs, that's your call. What I have a problem with are the people who are pretending this is somehow good for the Cubs, instead of just admitting that they want him gone purely for selfish reasons.
  8. Rob
    The fact that this is emotionally charged for you reveals a lot. Unless I'm mistaken, you have no personal stake in Milton Bradley's particular brand of crazy... he doesn't key your car every night in the parking lot, refuse to pick up his dog's leavings on the sidewalk, or make lewd phone calls to your wife. He plays for a team you root for. A team you want to win. And he's part of the solution to that. You're letting guys like Paul Sullivan dictate your emotions. Their job isn't to make the Cubs better... it's to move papers. And the fact that you'd let them put you in a situation where you're rooting for our team to get rid of a useful player... I just can't fathom that. I mean, if he was breaking the law or something, sure. But he's just a dick. Why on earth does that matter to you?
  9. Rob
    All that said, if Ricketts bumps our payroll to 170 million, I'm fine with eat Bradley's contract and signing Holliday or Bay. The trick is that I want an upgrade... not a more expensive lateral move or downgrade.
  10. Rob
    You don't know that. Give me one realistic option to put out there that's likely to outproduce Bradley. One. I've been asking for quite a while... haven't seen anybody come up with one. Why don't u give us one then? I'm pretty sure that his right fielder would be Milton Bradley but I may have missed that. At this point in time, the best move the Cubs have to make for 2010 is to do everything in their power to get Milton Bradley into therapy. And even if we can't, we'd be better served to spend what little available funds we'll have elsewhere... rather than replacing a player we already have who can produce adequately. He's a jackass. I don't particularly like him as a person. But from both baseball and business perspectives, we're best served trying to salvage what's left of his contract.
  11. Rob
    Given the full-blown mental retardation of our organization, you gotta figure he's being replaced with a speed player. And given the financial constraints we're in, you gotta figure we go cheap. Even if we do go after Figgins (which again, stupid idea), I still think they plan on him at 2B. Some options: (in no particular order) Sam Fuld David Dejesus Coco Crisp BJ Upton Scott Podsednik Endy Chavez Chris Young Eric Byrnes
  12. Rob
    Yes, poor Milton Bradley is the victim. Everybody is conspiring against him, just like they did in Montreal, Cleveland, LA, Oakland, etc. etc... free Milton Bradley!!! Wow... more willful distortions. I never said he handled it well and didn't say things he shouldn't have. I just said that he was telling the truth. But of course, in your bizzaroverse, that was somehow equated with me shedding tears for this fragile ebony god.
  13. Rob
    The irony of it is that Bradley never said anything that wasn't at least partly true... it was just constantly distorted by the fans and the media.
  14. Rob
    I wouldn't even know how to. I'm not above wishing a bunch of the posters on here would though.
  15. Rob
    Here's the thing. We know Hendry probably wouldn't have made this move if he didn't already have a target in mind. Given the comments to the media, I'm convinced it's probably a speed guy. I'm hoping it's BJ Upton. I'm scared it's gonna be Sam Fuld. I'm scared shitless it'll be Chone Figgins.
  16. Rob
    Seth Smith is largely a byproduct of Coors. Luke Scott isn't a bad player, but last I heard MacPhail was asking an absurd amount for him. (as he does for everybody)
  17. Rob
    I can see the Cubs moving Fukudome to RF and doing something absolutely asinine like getting Chone Figgins for CF. That's a lot smarter of a move than making Milton Bradley the focus of your offseason plans. Figgins is basically the same age as Bradley and is way, way worse at baseball Figgins at his peak is an OBP machine who has no power... or what Bradley was in a down season. But if we're picking up Bradleys contract to go after Figgins, we're effectively paying Figgins $20+ mil per season.
  18. Rob
    Really simple exercise. Go to fangraphs.com. Look up a player. See how much money they've been worth. Subtract that number from the average annual value of their contract. I didn't feel like doing the guys making under one million, or trying to divide Grabow's contract between Pittsburgh and us, or dealing with Samardzija's contract, since that was a major league deal signed out of college and doesn't seem quite the same... but here are the results. Note: I could be intellectually dishonest and point out that Bradley's salary is only $5 million this year, and he's been worth six. But that disregards signing bonuses and backloaded contracts, so it's easiest to just do it with average annual value) Lee: + $7,400,000 Lilly: + $5,400,000 Johnson: + $1,500,000 Harden: + $1,400,000 Heilman: - $625,000 Dempster: - $1,200,000 Cotts: - $2,700,000 Fukudome: - $2,900,000 Bradley: - $4,000,000 Ramirez: -$4,600,000 Zambrano: - $5,100,000 Gregg: - $5,600,000 Miles: - $8,550,000 Soriano: - $20,600,000
  19. Rob
    You don't know that. Give me one realistic option to put out there that's likely to outproduce Bradley. One. I've been asking for quite a while... haven't seen anybody come up with one.
  20. Rob
    Good thing Bradley produced THIS YEAR for us. Almost exactly like a league-average RF, yup. Though I bet you'll either gloss over this post or refer to some absurdly bad statistic like RBI and pretend it proves a point.
  21. Rob
    That's not something the emotional people are concerned about. They hated Bradley, and they'll cross the bridge of who plays RF later. I've yet to see one reasonable suggestion from them about how to fix the situation.
  22. Rob
    Well he wasn't producing like he was getting paid for, how about that. Don't bother with that guy. He and the other Bradley defenders will defend him to no end even when his own teammates have now said he's basically an ass. I really wonder about some of the posters on this board. I'm defending him as a player, that doesn't mean I would invite him to my birthday party. You don't need to worry about me. I'm just able to rationally separate his personality from his production... It's called intelligent thought.
  23. Rob
    Well he wasn't producing like he was getting paid for, how about that. That's fine. But there are plenty of players who haven't lived up to their contracts this year. Soriano was worth less than a replacement player this year... with a difference between his performance and what we've paid him of about 20 million. That's hard to pull off when we only paid him 16 million. And I'd be shocked if Dempster and Zambrano have produced within 3 mil of their contract as well... hell, due to the injuries, Ramirez may not have either.
  24. Rob
    I don't think so. He wasn't producing worth squat and his teammates clearly didn't care for his attitude (and it's probably worse than what they admitted to in the article). Again, on a per plate appearance basis, Milton Brady was producing almost exactly like an average RF. He was average in the field as well. To say he "wasn't producing worth squat" is flat out wrong, at best. Hate Milton Bradley for being a dick all you want. Hate him for being worth about 3 mil less than his contract for all I care. But saying he wasn't performing is absurd.
  25. Rob
    ...so basically Hendry admits he made an emotional decision without thinking about how his action would affect the future. Who cares. This needed to be done. Right. Just because it was a rash decision doesn't mean it was a wrong one. It was wrong from baseball and business perspectives. Are you really going to argue the personal impact of making a few guys on a non-playoff team happy for the next few weeks is worth the cost?
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