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  1. illiniguy
    Koyie already paying off. Lol.
  2. illiniguy
    Cobs.
  3. illiniguy
    Ryan Theriot playing everyday at this point is a joke.
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    I disagree. I'm curious as to why given how drastically different the baseball draft is from football or basketball in terms of how "necessary" it is to have early picks to typically walk away with the best or most useful players. Baseball teams can easily end up with good or even great players very deep into the draft. Well it seems to me in the past 5 to 6 years with more extensive scouting, most of the top players are more likely to hit than they were in the past. I'm trying to think of the last huge name to flop. I would have to guess Alex Gordon, but even then, that's more because Dayton Moore refuses to give him 500 at bats. Well, I'm not talking about flops; my point is that the draft is typically relatively deep in terms of being able to get useful or better players. A good baseball organization can field both a good team and draft well. It's not as necessary as it is in some of the other sports to be a bad team to have good drafts. Agreed.
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    I disagree. I'm curious as to why given how drastically different the baseball draft is from football or basketball in terms of how "necessary" it is to have early picks to typically walk away with the best or most useful players. Baseball teams can easily end up with good or even great players very deep into the draft. Well it seems to me in the past 5 to 6 years with more extensive scouting, most of the top players are more likely to hit than they were in the past. I'm trying to think of the last huge name to flop. I would have to guess Alex Gordon, but even then, that's more because Dayton Moore refuses to give him 500 at bats.
  6. illiniguy
    Maybe not if we get rid of Hendry and actually make a good hire.
  7. illiniguy
    I disagree.
  8. illiniguy
    The good news is we are gonna get a nice draft pick out of this year. And if we actually offer arbitration to Lee we could have a ton of picks next year.
  9. illiniguy
    The 1985 St. Louis Cardinals make me disagree. Make them replay the game with the original players. They kind of did a couple weekends ago here. By"kind of", I mean they played softball at the K. Jack Clark is in fine shape these days.
  10. illiniguy
    you got me there. but even without mitchell you guys are okay I've read Mitchell might not be the only one from the class with eligibility issues. Who else? I've heard there could be issues with one of the juco kids, but it was from one of the scout boards. i.e. Phog.
  11. illiniguy
    you got me there. but even without mitchell you guys are okay I've read Mitchell might not be the only one from the class with eligibility issues.
  12. illiniguy
    Lol at people pretending like MLB cares about all of its fans and thus they would reverse the call to make everyone happy.
  13. illiniguy
    jigga wha? computer is loading this site slow for some reason and it does that. when Rick Sutcliffe is what I meant to put there.
  14. illiniguy
    I've never seen that debated call in the Pappas game, but from what I hear it was a borderline pitch that could have gone either way. This one was a clear blown call, plain and simple. Oh, it's ok, he will apologize and nothing will happen to him. Meanwhile Armando Gallaraga got cheated from his career highlight.
  15. illiniguy
    I seriously wanna be deaf wliffe is doing games. His constant slurping of the Cardinals and Chris Carpenter is ridiculous.
  16. illiniguy
    Nice work Jim.
  17. illiniguy
    Only about one guy from each team Thom.
  18. illiniguy
    He didn't have the authority to fire Dusty in '96, though. :wink: D'oh. '06. Point remains though.
  19. illiniguy
    Oh, if only. I would love it if they fired Lou, let Trammel finish the year and then signed him up for at least one full year with Sandberg as the bench coach. I've resigned myself to the inevitability of Sandberg as manager at some point, so at least with that outcome he spends some time with the big league club under someone else as opposed to jumping right in. That's been my hope, and given Ryno's good soldier status maybe he'd go along with it. But then would Trammel? Would he take a gig where he's essentially a lame duck already just keeping the spot warm for the chosen one? Possibly, if it was done with some kind of understanding that Trammel wouldn't be fired since it was just a one year gig. I've been asking for interim Trammel for weeks now. But I'm resigned to the idea that we will be subjected to Lou for the duration. If Jim didn't fire Dusty in '96, no way is he firing Lou now. It just isn't his m.o.
  20. illiniguy
    Prolly a guy who wanted Jason Kendall, Yuniesky Bettancourt, and Scott Podsednick. We gotta try and make that trade before KC gets rid of Moore.
  21. illiniguy
    He's daring Jim to fire him. jimmy doesn't have the stones to do it though. if that's the case then Lou doesn't have the decency to retire, either Why would he? He doesn't want to walk away from that kind of money.
  22. illiniguy
    He's daring Jim to fire him. jimmy doesn't have the stones to do it though.
  23. illiniguy
    Yeah I know, we should have spread those runs out a little bit. Those 2 runs could have got us 2 wins against a lesser team! I've been for firing Jim Hendry since like 2 years ago. Maybe we could hire someone who understands how to use $140 million to make an above .500 type team.
  24. illiniguy
    Man we had an offensive explosion today too.
  25. illiniguy
    I love having Cashner up and not using him. Makes a lot of sense.
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