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  1. mul21
    I assume you'll be providing me with the funds for EI once that happens then? :twisted:
  2. mul21
    The big white kid (Maverick Morgan) they're bringing in next year looks slow footed. I wasn't too impressed with his footwork or agility in the video I saw. Anybody seen him on a more extended basis have a different take?
  3. mul21
    4 out of 11 is a miserable failure for this front office. Well, that's a pretty terrible way of looking at it but ok. That is just division titles, not playoff appearances though. I'd be disappointed if it was 4/11 in playoff appearances but if you're looking at getting into the playoffs in 7 of 8 years after the rebuild, I'm fine with that. I'm giving them 2 years of crap and then I expect to have a legitimate shot at post season in 2014. So if from 2014 until 2021 they make the playoffs 7 times, is it still a miserable failure?
  4. mul21
    I'm on the fence. They screwed the pooch hard in 2012. They're halfway to something not-awful in 2013, but we'll see if they have the will and skill to finish that job. If they don't make some very savvy moves in the remaining half-offseason, they are putting themselves in an awfully bad spot for 2014 as well. But they make enough good moves that I get the impression that when they decide they want to turn it on, it might be impressive. For 2015 and beyond, I'm sure we'll get to the point where the team is pretty good for an extended stretch. But I don't think the other teams in the division are going to just roll over and let us win six straight or anything, so I'm not sure we're actually going to get good bang for our buck ultimately. If you have something like 3 tanked seasons, then 4 division titles in 8 years, have you really come out ahead? Definitely, because you're giving yourself a legitimate chance every year instead of just hoping things work out. If they're in the hunt, they can add pieces each year and the 2 wild cards always gives you another chance even if you don't win the division every year.
  5. mul21
    Well, considering how few fans are there at the beginning of games, he probably feels like it's not a big market team.
  6. mul21
    Why is the Illinois game not on tv again tonight? So stupid. I'd be really pissed if I didn't have my dad's Comcast log in because my cable provider doesn't have access to ESPN3.
  7. mul21
    Yeah, but Rizzo had a pretty terrible contact rate in his debut and adjustments were made to fix it. Nobody's expecting Jackson to hit like Rizzo, but if he can even get the K% down to 25%, he's much better off than he was before.
  8. mul21
    The situations are not really comparable. How are they not? How are you even asking this question? I was hoping for a reasonable explanation not laced with Kyle-isms. I realize the contact rates aren't all that similar, but there's a whole lot of other things that are.
  9. mul21
    Your passion is comforting, Jo. It's also useless. As is your painting of my statement that a guy with an .800+ career MiL OPS is the same as any schmuck off the street trying to hit ML pitching.
  10. mul21
    Yeah, because when we had this *exact* argument last year, Ian Stewart went on to a 20 HR, 2.5 WAR season at 3b with a perfectly healthy wrist. I'm so wrong all the time. I'm sure they did find something different this time. So where does that leave us? With a guy who hasn't hit in years rehabbing a wrist with recent nerve damage and surgery. That's a *great* bet. And Wittenmeyer says the Cubs confirm he will be the starter going into the year. No competition. :banghead: No, it leaves us with a guy who was roping line drives with a ridiculously low BABIP the first 2 months of the year before he re-aggravated the wrist. I'm not saying he's going to hit 25 HRs with an .850 OPS. I'm saying he's the best option out there with the potential for success. I sure as hell don't want to see Valbuena get run out there 150 times next year.
  11. mul21
    Because hitting a professionally pitched baseball is just that easy. Anyone can do it once they make an adjustment. Yep, exactly what I said. :roll:
  12. mul21
    Well of course that's what they say now. When an oft-injured athlete finds some foolish team to give him yet another chance, they always find some reason to believe "This time, it will be different!" Considering he was under contract with the Cubs at the time of the surgery, I'm betting they have pretty good info on whether or not something different than had been repaired before was found. Man, you seriously have the biggest doom boner in the history of ever. And you're usually wrong too.
  13. mul21
    The situations are not really comparable. How are they not? When Rizzo was in AAA, he was mashing the living hell out of everything. When Jackson was in AAA, he had a flashing red light warning indication that he was having trouble with advanced pitching. So did Jackson when he made contact. You don't think an adjustment that improves his contact rate will make a difference?
  14. mul21
    The situations are not really comparable. How are they not?
  15. mul21
    Again:
  16. mul21
    I'm happy. He plays above average D and if he finally healthy, he can hit. Good patience too. The wrist that has been derailing his career since 2005 is *definitely* healed this time, unlike all the other times he thought it was healed. At least the surgery offers some hope. Had he gone that route before? I think he might have had surgery on the original injury in 2005, but that's it iirc. Of course, the fact that it's a rehabbing from surgery wrist doesn't really make me feel any better about it. Well, based on this: I think that there might be something to the actually being healed this time theory.
  17. mul21
    I'd be shocked by that because he's so bad at 3rd defensively. In fact, I'd go so far as to say no way that happens.
  18. mul21

    NFL Week 13

    mul21 replied to ctcf's topic in Other Sports

    That's awesome. Makes me despise Schwartz a bit less.
  19. mul21
    Brutal. Glad I didn't see any of this one. There have been a few ugly wins so far this season that they probably wouldn't have won in previous seasons. I'm worried Gonzaga's size is going to be a nightmare for this team on Saturday. I don't think that was nearly as ugly as most of the Texas-GTown game last night. Watched most of the first half of that one while on a treadmill and it was bad. I didn't think UI was that bad, just one of those nights they're going to have where the 3s didn't fall.
  20. mul21
    Great article on Majerus. It's from 2008, but has some really interesting stuff in it. It's a shame for him and the kids on the SLU team that they're not getting him as a coach. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/the_bonus/01/17/majerus/index.html
  21. mul21
    I don't know how anybody can pretend that is true. Yeah, this is just patently untrue. All you have to do is look at the 6 spots the final win last year cost them and the difference in the type of player that could have been picked at 13 vs. 19.
  22. mul21
    Oh, come on, I'm not WSR! I just looked it up and the numbers weren't as good as I remembered, but it was Carlos Penalver I was thinking of. http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/team.cgi?id=5222ed2a
  23. mul21
    I'm totally blanking on the other guy who was in the DSL at the same time as Candelario and hit really well but not quite as much as Candelario. Who was that? And where does he fit now?
  24. mul21
    Nobody, which is why my first thought of having him step down was that it would be really dumb. But I don't think Pinkel has done a good job building off of 2007 and if he's going to be one of the 20 highest paid coaches it's reasonable to expect better than the Holiday, Texas, Insight and Independence Bowls. Well, considering before he got there you went to one of those bowls every 5 years, I'd say he's doing something right. Also, the brutality of the schedule this year combined with the injuries gets him a pass in my book. 5 losses to teams in the top 10 of the BCS. Bama, Fla, A&M, Georgia, and South Carolina.
  25. mul21
    IMO, this is the single biggest factor in the improvement we've seen early on. I think they were all in their own heads a little too much and they're not only playing faster, but more instinctively because they don't have time to over think things. I'm really liking what I've seen so far. I have a feeling they'll lose a couple bad ones along the way but I also think they'll win a couple games they're not supposed to by 10-15 points because of really hot shooting.
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