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Everything posted by bukie
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Best part about tonight: the WS will still be going on when it gets upstaged by the Theo press conference Tuesday.
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3 games lead with the tie breaker. Do we ever consider the 49ers a legit threat to win the NFC? I haven't seen them play once. Of course it is a 3 game lead that is what I was trying to imply but I screwed it up. And I don't. Sorry to all 49er fans out there. You can expect a sternly-worded letter in tomorrow's Williston Herald.
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I spent the post-2003 offseason arguing that aramis ramirez actually sucked when he came over because of his lackluster OBP. I was in favor of the Choi for Lee trade, even though I liked Choi a lot. 2002 Aramis Ramirez was the worst cleanup hitter in modern history. He was also playing on one leg, but that didn't stop Lloyd McClendon. He needed that bat in the Pirates' lineup if they were going to get a playoff spot.
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My son is 4, and his favorite Cubs are Starlin Castro and Theo Epstein.
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How happy were you when the Cubs got Dusty Baker?
bukie replied to Banedon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I was in the "Hey, he's got to be better than Don Baylor/Bruce Kimm, right?" camp. I guess that's 5. -
I was pretty focused on winning the WS that year, at least early on. Then [expletive] started to go really wrong and dimmed the my long term view quite a bit. Yeah, same here. By the end you had the health issues with Wood and Prior seriously rearing their heads and they were my main reasons for the confidence before the season started. I was still pretty confident that they'd be in the mix in 2005. Hell, even after that mess of a season I still had hope because of Lee's monster season and thinking that at least one of Prior or Wood would bounceback and anchor the rotation. 2006 smashed a lot of hopes, but then they bounced back so dramatically for 2007 and 2008. I guess it really wasn't until after 2009 that I was finally like "OK, they're toast for the time being". I was pretty optimistic in 2008, because the team was pretty clearly the best team in the NL, which was the first time that had happened in about 25 years (and only the second time in 60 years).
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Whatever you believed about Tebow coming into this week, you still get to believe it now.
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If the playoffs started today, believe it or not, the Bears would be in.
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That's two big NFC wins against likely the two next best contenders. The Philly game coming out of the bye is huge.
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Nah, run it again.
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Ok, now run it in.
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Forte!
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Do we have the best front office in the NL? MLB?
bukie replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
The Mets actually have a good front office now with Alderson, DePodesta and Ricciardi. -
Who will be the manager? Quade Fired (pg 15)
bukie replied to Magnetic Curses's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
To all those who don't care, I respond with Dusty Baker and Don Baylor. I care a little. However, I also trust the front office to make the right choice, and it's been a long time since I thought that. -
They will predict that this being a done deal means that the Red Sox have humongous leverage on the Cubs and will begin to extract major talent. They think the way this worked out is somehow embarrassing to the Cubs, and the Red Sox won the stalemate simply by stalling until after the World Series starting. As if not having Theo in the mold for a week has held up any other moves the Cubs would otherwise have made that they somehow can't make anymore.
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LOL at this part. Ricketts will throw a die into the air, and the prospect assigned to the number that lands goes to the Red Sox.
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Romo/Stafford. Although, I'd probably use Terrelle Pryor if it was against STL.
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It appears Ricketts' assassin got to Lucchino, then.
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Um, what's the other 13%? Margin of error.
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Basically, it boils down to this: Because it's Pujols, everyone will want him. However, nobody is in a better position to sign him than the Cubs, who have both the funds and the need at the position.
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we've made a huge mistake. I think I've said it before, but that was a time that Eckstein was actually really underrated.
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The current story on their website hedges. It says source reported Friday, Cubs are "prepared" to do it Friday, but it may not happen Friday. Which could also mean they have no [expletive]ing idea what the Red Sox brain trust will do between now and then.
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Your timeline is broken. You must return to the prime timeline and stop CC from finishing his tech hard-on. It is the only way to save this thread.
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Jed Hoyer recently did a GM panel at the SABR 41 convention with a couple former Dodgers execs, and moderated by Rob Neyer: http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-41-general-managers-role-takes-total-dedication
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fth is that expletive supposed to be easy there, jaydee
