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Total gut feeling here, but it looks to me like they're setting things up for major off season changes. I almost expect Hendry to be gone. This whole first year of ownership really looks like an evaluation period to see where everything/everyone is and then this winter, they make changes based on how they feel things are going and where they need to go. I was also going to bring up McNutt. Is it possible that the Cubs and Angels got a bit of a different look at the kid than everyone else based on when they saw him? Wilken does have a pretty decent record of finding guys nobody else was real high on and getting the to the bigs.
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I will be at this crapfest today likely watching the Cubs score a negative number of runs and give up about 2 touchdowns worth. Fortunately for me, the tickets were free and they include unlimited food and drink. If it gets too bad, I won't care because I'll be smashed.
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A-Ram to the Braves?
mul21 replied to d_money's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Glaus is much worse than Chipper when you take into account the fact he probably can't make most of the throws from 3B any more. His shoulder is trashed and just not strong enough to play 3rd, for sure right now and probably ever. -
I don't hate him, he's a fan of his team. I just don't get why he hates us. We've been awful for about 50 years really, give or take a season or six. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to hate the Cardinals? Yeah, but unlike the Cardinal fans, Cub fans have most/all their teeth and money to travel to Cincinnati and take over their park every time we play them.
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The $200K figure isn't in the article anymore.
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Apparently Childress just said the "situation is fluid" in his press conference. What a total d-bag Favre is.
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I don't think it's nearly enough of a no-brainer. Personally, I think the absence of uppers is having much more of an impact on the offense over the years than cracking down on steroids. I don't think this could be more accurate. I can't imagine the wear and tear the travel and every day grind puts on you body. That's true, but if you're taking them day after day, they're still going to be in your system and with the random testing that's done, the chances of getting popped would be pretty high.
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Kerry Wood to the Yankees
mul21 replied to Outshined_One's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
It pained me a bit the other day when I saw him in a Yankee uniform and then throw that frisbee like slider up there and just completely buckle Longoria's knees. So unfortunate the guy hasn't been able to stay healthy. -
I think one of the bigger upsides of this trade for the Cards is saving their pen a bit. With Garcia's innings being limited and Suppan and Hawksworth just bad, they really needed another guy to eat some innings to allow them to have a chance late in the 2nd half instead of a completely gassed pen. I'm not saying this is a great, or even good, deal for them, but it's got some merit.
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Yes, very good. So, he's Adam Everett. Except he can actually hit a little bit when his brain doesn't get in the way. Really, he's kind of Theriot with a little better speed and a lot better defense. He's just not having a very good year. He's probably not as good offensively as I remember him being last year, but he's not nearly as bad as he's been this year
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Sort of OT, but I'm listening to these guys (ok, meatheads) on the St. Louis ESPN radio affiliate and they're talking about how Theriot and Lilly would be a good fit for the Cards. The funny part is how one of them just said Theriot is a better defensive player than Brendan Ryan or Tyler Greene and hits as well as either one. The guy who said it is also the same guy who thought the Alex Gonzales that the Blue Jays just traded was the same one that booted the ball in the 2003 NLCS for the Cubs. Giant moron.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-27-10
mul21 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
i'm sure the pointless 2 or 3 week shift to the bullpen benefited him greatly. At this point I have trouble believing that's all that's wrong. Is he nearing a new high in innings pitched? -
To add to what has already been said, international doesn't mean just the Pac Rim kids. The Cubs haven't signed a big money guy from Latin America in a while and that potential savings may allow them to try to make a splash on one or two of the wunderkinds from that area as well as the apparent success they're having in the Far East.
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There have been reports out that Oswalt will restructure his deal so they are able to pick up the option and not kill them payroll wise. But yeah, that doesn't take into account they don't have the prospects to pull off the deal unless Houston is brain dead, which I guess isn't out of the question.
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The Cubs are still on my TV, more than 150 times a year because I HAVE DIRECTV i honestly don't understand why anyone who can get it doesn't. Because I don't feel like paying $180 to watch maybe half the games. There's so many on during the day that it's hard to justify paying that much for really so few games. My cable bill is way too high already.
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He has to fear for his life everytime he comes to Chicago. It would've been nice, but there's no chance that was going to materialize. Haha oh yeah. That. Enlighten me????
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Ricciardi was on ESPN Radio gushing about the 2 prospects the Braves got back. I don't know if they're as good as he was saying or if he was just pumping up guys he helped draft, but he really made it sound like those guys were a more important part of the deal for the Braves than Gonzales.
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I get that, but I'm more inclined to give credit to the actual coaching staff over Jordan. I think there's a lot to be said about competition every day in practice. Jordan destroyed other guys who couldn't handle it (Rodney McCrae), but Pippen took on the challenge and became a great player. Was Jordan solely responsible? Absolutely not, but providing daily competition certainly played a big part in it. Pippen had the physical tools and the mental toughness to become what he did, but without the daily challenge from both Jordan and the coaching staff, he probably doesn't reach his potential. It's the same reason a guy who's drafted from a small town in Idaho takes longer and may not ever develop into a great baseball player, he didn't face high level competition early on and may suffer long term from that.
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So you think the lack of rebounding and defense provided by Grant had nothing to do with the Bulls losing to the Magic? Also, how do you explain the Bulls, with Grant and without Jordan, losing to the Knicks only because of a crap call the year before that? Grant was hugely important to those teams and they wouldn't have gotten the second 3 if they hadn't gotten a defensive and rebounding guy to replace him at the PF spot.
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Not that it doesn't indicate Miami, but I'd think even if I signed a 120 million dollar deal with the Wolves, I'd want to celebrate on South Beach. No, if you signed with the T-Wolves you'd get that hooker boat the Vikings had a few years ago.
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The city's biggest sports icons will now be umm Grady Sizemore and Joshua Cribbs? Mike Holmgren? Pretty sure at least a couple of the offensive linemen are bigger than him..... :hello:
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If Lilly will be a Type A, shouldn't he be looking for more than one guy at that level?
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The 6th year he doesn't get from the Bulls he'll be paid for in the first year of his next contract. Like he said, it may only be $15 million at that point, but he'll still get a chunk of it back. Even without the CBA/extra year gamble, the AAV of the contract is higher, right? He can't get that money back. Yeah, but again, he'll get a chunk of that money back. And if the option is Chicago with Rose, Bosh, Deng, and Noah along with being around your kids a lot more vs Miami with Bosh and 2,00 miles from your kids, I don't know that the ~$15 million difference is all that much when you're already guaranteed over $100 million. But that's just me, and I'm not sure I can even fathom what $30M would really be like, let alone $100M.
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The 6th year he doesn't get from the Bulls he'll be paid for in the first year of his next contract. Like he said, it may only be $15 million at that point, but he'll still get a chunk of it back.
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Well, this thread has drifted far away from the fire sale talk, but I was just told by a guy who I believe to be reliable that if the Cubs don't take 3 of 4 from the Reds this weekend that the fire sale will commence. No idea if the information is accurate, but he's not a guy who has any reason to BS about it. I guess we'll see what happens next week after they give away another series.