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  1. Rob
    Does Sammy Sosa strike you as being smarter than all the people who have been caught? It's obvious that there's a huge incentive for all of these journalists to dig up dirt, but Sammy flippin Sosa is the one criminal mastermind devious enough to not leave a papertrail, or a witness, or any physical evidence at all behind that one of the dozens of journalists hasn't been able to track down? Is he really that lucky? Or should we maybe start think about cutting him a break?
  2. Rob
    don't be absurd. Bonds only made $188,245,322 in his career.
  3. Rob
    And a WHIP of 4.58 anytime your whip is higher than your era, you're a complete failure. Well that's not true. I'd be pretty happy to have a pitcher with a 0.00 ERA and a WHIP of 0.01.
  4. Rob
    There is no climbing out of Lou's doghouse. I still wish we'd hired Freddi Gonzalez.
  5. Rob
    Except that job way way way beneath him. Yeah. Better than unemployment, right? Wow, I had no idea no one had picked him up. He works "free-lance" and has started an academy. I think he's too smart for most managers to handle. You do realize that he was the driving force behind the Kazmir for Victor Zambrano trade, right?
  6. Rob
    I wouldn't go that far -- bottom 5 GMs don't pull off some of the good moves Jimbo's gotten done. This one is confusing though. Any chance Heilman has a bounce back season in '09? He wasn't too bad in '07. I'd say there's a very good chance of it. I'm a big Heilman fan.
  7. Rob
    Knowing Wilken will pass over one of my favorites in the first every year is starting to get to me...
  8. Rob

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    Rob replied to TommyJohn's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Until Fontenot's first 0-fer.
  9. Rob
    Even without assuming a Peavy trade, this makes the Cubs better. They got probably as much value out of Pie as they possibly could have. Now, you're probably right. But if Lou had given Pie a real shot last year, maybe we're pretty happy with our OF and don't need to sign Bradley. Maybe his 10mil goes better elsewhere. Lou bungled the situation and refused to ever give Pie a shot. Hendry did the best he could with that... I'll grant him this is about as good a trade as we were gonna get at this point.
  10. Rob
    If Pie had ever gotten a real shot and fell on his face, I wouldn't mind this trade so much. As is, I'm pretty pissed at Lou.
  11. Rob
    So you're saying we should go for Pedro instead?
  12. Rob
    You're right. There are no reclamation projects. Formerly good players never recover a bit of the magic for a season. And we certainly can't let them be replacing JOEY FREAKING GATHRIGHT as our 25th man. Just out of sheer morbid curiosity... let's say the Indians come to you and say that they want to get rid of Travis Hafner. They'll pick up his whole contract and you don't have to give up anything even resembling a prospect. Do you let him take Micah Hoffpauir's spot on the bench?
  13. Rob
    I don't see a problem with taking a chance on him... just so long as it's at league minimum. His skillset might still be more useful than Joey Gathright.
  14. Rob
    "New" UZR likes him. The DT's hate him. PBR has him right around average. And if memory serves, Dewan's +/- has him making a lot of plays out of his zone, but being somewhat shaky inside of it (a la Ronny Cedeno). So call him average-ish, whatever. Funny - that sounds like what would happen if the Indians did a lot of over-shifting. Do they? I don't get much of a chance to watch them.
  15. Rob
    "New" UZR likes him. The DT's hate him. PBR has him right around average. And if memory serves, Dewan's +/- has him making a lot of plays out of his zone, but being somewhat shaky inside of it (a la Ronny Cedeno). So call him average-ish, whatever.
  16. Rob
    this is absolutely one of the dumbest, most indefensible things you've ever said Our CF last season put up a .290/.374/.484 line. Sizemore put up a .268/.374/.502 line. He's pretty bad defensively too... so all he's really got is a tick extra power and some speed. It's not a terrible comparison.
  17. Rob
    I sure hope Miles is part of a platoon... but that looks an awful lot like starter-money.
  18. Rob
    Exactly. That's $75 mil right there... they don't need to hike their payroll at all to afford Sabathia, Burnett, and Teixeira. All this talk about the Yankees ruining baseball by spending this money is absurd when their payroll still might go down.
  19. Rob
    Oh, and somebody with an account at Orioles Hangout needs to copy and paste some of the more hilarious reactions in here.
  20. Rob
    Keep in mind how much money they had coming off the books this year... Giambi - $21 mil Abreu - $16 mil Pettitte - $16 mil Mussina - $11 mil Pavano - $11 mil Their annual payroll might actually go down for 2009.
  21. Rob
    BR can get better?
  22. Rob
    I for one am going to laugh my ass off if Teixeira spurns one of the winningest and highest profile franchises in MLB in favor of spending the rest of his career in baseball purgatory so he can add an extra $10 or $20M to what is already guaranteed to be a contract that will put an end to all of his monetary needs for several lifetimes. Something tells me that the Nats offer is probably gonna have an opt-out clause. So he'd probably be taking it with the hopes of pulling in an extra 2 or 3 million annually for 3 years, and then head back out on the market if he's still healthy after that.
  23. Rob
    ***FTH? 4 EVA***
  24. Rob
    I'm not a big fan of trading Vitters for anything short of a perennial allstar. Vitters is probably the most overrated Cub prospect since Bobby Hill. Why? Because he is. He had good high school stats with the caveat of Mono (or whatever) his senior year, so that makes 3 good years @ high school. He had a good cape league and viola the "scouts" love his tools. He's not done anything in high school or elsewhere to justify an elite draft status. Then somebody here says they wouldn't trade him for anything less than a perennial all-star. So far the only thing going for him is that he's from SoCal and he'll still only be 19 next year. At least Hill was a great college player. Vitters tied the NWL hit streak record last year, at the meager age of 18. Maybe its a bit early to be writing him off simply because being contrary makes you look cool.
  25. Rob
    Maybe my memory is clouding my judgment, but he took terrible routes on balls. We don't even need to discuss the guy's arm. The only thing he had going for him in the OF was that he was fast and could make up for his bad jumps and routes with his speed. I hated Juan Pierre. As did I. It doesn't change the reality that he was more than fast enough to make up for his bad routes in our tiny CF, though.
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