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  1. bukie
    I cant remember the last good pitcher to stick with one team. It seems even less likely to happen with the arm injuries now and the fear of long pitching deals. I guess Mariano did it but I cant think of a SP. Glavine. Also Verlander so far.
  2. bukie
    The "Because I said so" reasoning is a non-starter. But not quite as much of a non-starter as Hinrich.
  3. bukie
    McDermott with his worst offensive game of the summer league so far, with just 1-6 on 3 pointers. He did make that following a sequence where he blocked two consecutive shots and then hit the 3 in transition, though. Bulls basically destroying the whole summer league right now as well, winning 4 games by a total of 88 points.
  4. bukie
    Every stateside Cub minor league affiliate is within 1 game of playoff contention right now. Boise losing tonight would put them in trouble, though.
  5. bukie
    Right here meaning netting (often significant) value in every deal, and hitting on all significant draft and IFA picks. Practically every deal they've made has improved the organization overall, and if you take into account the difference in player development, even the assets that were here have improved stock markedly.
  6. bukie
    Sure, Rumplestiltskin spun straw into gold, but that's easy to do when you have so much straw to work with and time to do it. We're not giving enough credit to the guy that provided all the straw. Yeah. That's totally what happened. Certainly closer to the truth than the handwaving you constantly do about how easy it is to do things right.
  7. bukie
    Sure, Rumplestiltskin spun straw into gold, but that's easy to do when you have so much straw to work with and time to do it. We're not giving enough credit to the guy that provided all the straw.
  8. bukie
    Newcastle, maybe.
  9. bukie
    If only they realized Ryan Dempster could close about a month earlier.
  10. bukie
    good for 1.7 WAR in 129 games Because he was bad defensively. 8 of the 9 starters had OPS+ of 109 or better (Patterson was 96). The Cubs got 9 starts all year from a pitcher that didn't finish with an ERA+ under 110 (Mitre pitched 9 starts and did terrible). LaTroy Hawkins had a 168 ERA+, Mercker, Remlinger, Leicester, and Wuertz all pitched at least 30 games in relief and posted above average ERA+. Basically Farnsworth got 72 appearances and wasn't that good, and Dusty had a bench full of Dusty favorites that he kept giving plate appearances to that had no business on a major league roster (Ordonez, Macias, Goodwin, Gonzalez).
  11. bukie
    Todd Walker led off and played 2B and hit .274/.352/.468.
  12. bukie
    The more I look back at that 2004 team, the more incredulous I am that Dusty couldn't win 100 games with them.
  13. bukie
    Man, after they traded for Nomar, I have no idea how they lost games. Lineup of 8 above average hitters, and a rotation of what should have been 5 top 50 starters had Dusty not broken 2 of them in 2003.
  14. bukie
    http://ocadvisors.com/assets/images/dart.jpg
  15. bukie
    Congrats, you like the Boston Red Sox of the premier league.
  16. bukie
    McDermott with 31 points on 12 shots today.
  17. bukie
    From the injury rates, that may have helped him as much as hurt him, considering he's been one of the 2-3 most durable starters over the past 10 years.
  18. bukie
    Kershaw Felix Jered Weaver Verlander Hamels Lester Buehrle Sabathia Greinke Cain But yeah, it's...pretty bleak And Sabathia's career is basically over at 33.
  19. bukie
    What? That's kind of absurd and a false equivalence. Alcantara gives you the best chance to know what you've got going forward.
  20. bukie
    Hey guys, how's the game goin... http://38.media.tumblr.com/6228573587d4ec5b83d10d8453176ee6/tumblr_mxwyznfaxF1rbjoeao1_400.gif
  21. bukie
    So today's starters are Travis Wood and Tsuyoshi Wada? Edit:TIL that Travis Wood is a year younger than Jake Arrieta.
  22. bukie
    I'm not sure I like anyone in the Brewers system enough that they'd crack the Cubs' top 10.
  23. bukie
    With Buxton's injury and depending on the flavor of SS prospect you prefer, there's a rational argument to be made that the Cubs have the top 3 prospects in baseball.
  24. bukie
    I'm going to have to give the voting public a pass on that one. Call it the "lifetime achievement award".
  25. bukie
    A number of middle relievers, Mark Buehrle, Scott Kazmir.
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