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  1. johnnyba99
    Maybe that's why he asked him. Like when I was a kid and not paying attention in school and the teacher would ask me something and I would at least pay attention for the next hour.
  2. johnnyba99
    Vance, I'm actually surprised they're covering baseball at all. I thought if it didn't involve LSU that paper didn't cover it. :D
  3. johnnyba99
    Excellente! I have several friends in the Monroe/West Monroe area that are White Sox fans, so maybe this will piss them off!
  4. johnnyba99
    I sent an email to vote.
  5. johnnyba99
    Am I doing something wrong here? I have about 90 windows open and can't get through. Do you keep getting the "we don't know what team you want" error? If you do, restart your windows using this url http://frontline.purchasenow.tickets.com/buy/MLBEventInfo?trxstate=8&agency=MLB&orgid=5 if i paste that url into multiple tabs in IE will it work?
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    Did you just copy & paste the URL into the new tab address bar?
  7. johnnyba99
    and here: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-nlmvp&prov=ap&type=lgns
  8. johnnyba99
    Igawa was posted today. Beacuse of Thanksgiving bids aren't due until the 27th according to rotoworld.
  9. johnnyba99
    Maybe pitchers weren't even tempting him in 2006 due to the rest of the Washington lineup being so bad? Guess I'm a true cub fan who sees the most negative option first.
  10. johnnyba99
    Blanco was signed the day after DeRosa, so does that count? :lol:
  11. johnnyba99
    I think there has been plenty of money to spend in the past few seasons, the problem lies with how it was spent.
  12. johnnyba99
    What do you like about Francona? Francona was on the Discovery Channel's show about the science of baseball (i.e., sabermetrics) and talked glowingly about the *new* types of analytical analysis. I don't know if affects his management though. That he had Youkilis as his leadoff hitter most of the season would make me believe it does affect his management.
  13. johnnyba99
    well the MacDougal part of this is official: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/07/24/whitesox.trade/index.html
  14. johnnyba99
    But STL and NYY are willing to add Jeff Weaver and Sidney Ponson? I think Maddux will be traded, I don't think we'll get much in return but if he wants to go to LA and try to win then by all means go for it.
  15. johnnyba99
    Since Adam Everett has a 605 OPS, and Houston's relief pitching ERA is ranked 10th in the NL, why not trade them Scott Williamson and Neifi Perez (hitting very well in July) for a prospect? Houston selects any prospect to trade if they pick up Neifi's salary in 2007; the Astros select one prospect from a group of 10 specified by Cubs scouts, if the Cubs pick up Neifi's 2007 salary. Can we change it so that the list of 10 is determined by another team's scouts? I don't think we'd make out well if the Cubs scouts pick 10. :lol:
  16. johnnyba99
    Is Varitek done or what? He's been awful all season. Should I dump him for Napoli or McCann?
  17. johnnyba99
    Disagree. How many less of their 26 championships would the Yankees have if they didn't have the highest payroll year after year. I would guess it would be quite a few. It's not a coincidence that the next highest # of WS championships is like 9. Increasing the payroll doesn't guarantee a WS but it does increase your margin for error and with the right GM can help teams remain competitive year after year like the Yankeees and Red Sox. How many of the 26 World Series have the Yankees won with the highest payroll? Obviously you're right that the higher payroll increases flexibility and margin for error, but I think as it pertains to the Cubs we're in more need of better decisions with the money than more money itself, though both are plenty useful. All 26. I doubt it. In the mid-to-late 90's, Baltimore had the highest payroll. I'm pretty sure that for at least one, and maybe two or three of those titles, the Yanks were not the highest payroll. And I'd bet they didn't have the highest in some earlier seasons either. The Orioles payroll was $7M more than the Yankees in 1998. Not sure about early seasons, but from 1977 on they had the highest payroll for 4 out of the 6 world series titles and the other two they were the second highest payroll (1998 & 1977).
  18. johnnyba99
    Might be crazy enough to work. Hendry gambles on all types of pitchers injuries why not something like this. Besides if the Cubs have Johnny G(o)umms and Razor Shine on their team theys be soundin like ganstas. How do you pronounce Gomes anyway? Long O? Call me crazy, but I don't think the D-Rays are the "blue light special" they once were for shoppers. I think with the young crop of talent they have, new ownership, and management, they are really looking to build and win. Schilling himself said yesterday, "This ain't the expansion Rays anymore, this is a very strong (offensive) team." That said, I'm sure anyone can be had for pitching...! I didn't mean get him for nothing, just that this might be the time we can get him less expensively considering he can only DH and as someone already said they have a crowded OF/DH situation already.
  19. johnnyba99
    Would you give them Dempster for Freel? Gives them a "proven" closer. Or do you think they'd want more?
  20. johnnyba99
    Call me crazy, but now may be exactly the right time to trade for him. Maybe he'll come cheaper since he's injured. Get him to have the surgery now and start his rehab. By next spring he'll be ready to go. It's not like we're competing for anything for the rest of this year anyway.
  21. johnnyba99
    If you look at all the teams in the National League offensive stats. Figure out what percentage of the baserunners scored for the season you'll see that the 29% is the lowest and 33% is the highest. The Cubs are the lowest, but if they only score 4% fewer baserunners than the best team why do they score so few runs? The Dodgers lead the NL in runs scored and their % of runners scored is 33%, they've scored 108 more runs than the Cubs because they've had 205 more baserunners. The average number of walks per team in the NL is 277, the Cubs have 199 walks. The second worst walk total is 247. Somebody may be better at this stats stuff than I am, but these numbers seem to show the problem fairly clearly. NOT ENOUGH BASERUNNERS.
  22. johnnyba99
    Who? :lol:
  23. johnnyba99
    we always give up 2 out hits to guys who are terrible, uribe in this case.
  24. johnnyba99
    No, just finding holes. ozuna's ball was very hard hit, konerko's was a bloop. dye's hit wasn't a dribbler or anything, but it was hit in the right spot. same w/ aj's. i'm concerned that marshall is going to fall apart as his innings add up. thanks for all the eyes. there is no reason if marshall starts to struggle that he should continue to pile up innings this season.
  25. johnnyba99
    have they hit a ball hard yet? on gamecenter it says single to shallow center, strikeout, single to shallow center, single to shallow left.
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