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  1. Ding Dong Johnson
    Meh, Mora will be 34 next year, and Aram > Tejada, so I don't think that's terrible for them. Aram > Tejada Based on? Please factor defense, attitude and durability into your criteria. Tejada has an attitude factor of .76, ARam is at .82. Seriously, how do you account for attitude?
  2. Ding Dong Johnson
    Looks like the Dodgers are at it again. :roll: If they sign him, their payroll is going to be about eleventy billion this year.
  3. Ding Dong Johnson
    I'll be damned. I voted for "pop" prior to seeing the map, and I'm smack in the middle of the green. I'm so predictable...
  4. Ding Dong Johnson
    Sign Burnitz again if he did not have a plan. I thought we would at least be getting someone better than Burnitz since they did not opt to sign him. Which we may still get someone better but I'd rather have Burnitz in RF than Pattersion. That's exactly why I'm still holding on to the idea that Hendry is up to something. If he was completely fooled or just lost, re-signing Burnitz was something that we have grown accustomed to expect for him. He let the arby deadline pass without giving him a look, so I'm thinking he is set on making an improvement there. Hendry's been in baseball long enough to know that most of the names being thrown about are just Burnitz clones. Do I have too much faith right now?
  5. Ding Dong Johnson
    I know one nickname that doesn't fit that mold; Dusty (and others) call Glendon Rusch "G-Unit." :lol: Does he hang with 50? :lol:
  6. Ding Dong Johnson
    It makes me feel dirty to think that...
  7. Ding Dong Johnson
    No, you were fair to Rich Hill. It's just that you were the pot calling the kettle black.
  8. Ding Dong Johnson
    Why does everyone assume Murton will struggle? He put up some less than spectacular numbers in his brief stint with Daytona, but he's lit it up everywhere he's gone since. 301/372/452/824 - Sarasota (BoSox A, 2004) 342/403/498/901 - West Tenn 353/421/500/921 - Iowa (granted, only 34 ABs) 321/386/521/907 - Chicago Is it at all possible that he is actually a pretty good player?
  9. Ding Dong Johnson
    That sounds eerily like what Mr. Hendry was saying roughly a year ago about someone who played in Baltimore last year...
  10. Ding Dong Johnson
    I'm not opposed to not opposing your non approval of not non-tendering him. I have no idea what this actually means. And I second that. (the part about not knowing what that means)
  11. Ding Dong Johnson
    They haven't exactly been setting the league on fire in the entire history of the franchise, especially in the past few years. Katrina had very little to do with the fact that they're not putting a whole lot of talent on the field. They just plain suck this year.
  12. Ding Dong Johnson
    He often gets frustrated when he can't find the secret passageway, ultimately leading to his failure to catch the ball. http://www.newsday.com/media/photo/2005-07/18571733.JPG
  13. Ding Dong Johnson
    Huh? Are you doubting Corey can hit 21 HRs? Cuz he hit 24 in 2004.
  14. Ding Dong Johnson
    Hendry looks like he has something up his sleeve in that pic. Forget it, I think it's just constipation...
  15. Ding Dong Johnson
    I agree, and I'm not saying he is the next coming of God. My point is simply that luck and luck alone is NOT the reason the Sox won it all. He deserves credit, not to be vilified, for taking some chances that paid off in a big way.
  16. Ding Dong Johnson
    In 2005, there was Ken Williams then the rest. 2004 was Theo Epstein then the rest. 2003 was Larry Beinfest then the rest and so on. He outperformed every other GM this past season. Give the man some credit. You can't seriously believe that a team can win the WS based on pure luck, can you? It's like I pointed out in my last post -- finishing 2nd or last really is no different. Winning it all is what's important. If that "stupidity" brings a World Series to the Northside, call Aaron Brooks ( :wink: ) and offer him the GM job. We'll all be dancing in the streets next October.
  17. Ding Dong Johnson
    How 'bout the one in Des Moines? A season there would do him good.
  18. Ding Dong Johnson
    Did I mention Dallas Clark??? :lol:
  19. Ding Dong Johnson
    What do the O's think of Gibbons? Looks to me like he's not too far from becoming a consistent 850-900 OPS guy. Judging by his K numbers, he makes a lot of contact. If he'd just be a little more patient and pad that BB total, he would become a very nice part of this "package". Not to mention it would keep Jones/Encarnacion/Wilson away from Wrigley.
  20. Ding Dong Johnson
    At what point do these events become more than just coincidence? Where do we start giving credit where credit is due? When is it more than just a little luck? I listened to an interview with KW the other day that actually made me take notice of him for the first time. He mentioned most of the moves you did as part of his high risk, high reward category. He went balls-out trying to put together a winning team because he didn't care how the team finished if they didn't win it all (2nd or last is the same). What happened? He was right, and the WS champs are the South Siders. I call that a good job, not good fortune.
  21. Ding Dong Johnson
    Looking at these numbers, what did we ever see in Nic? He was a 3rd round draft pick in 2000, put up weak numbers that year in Eugene. Didn't play in 2001 (is that right?). In 2002 (22) he was okay in AA in very limited duty and stunk in 2003. Felix put up far better numbers in AA at 20. And has the benefit of being a CF, while Nic was a corner OF. Your source is not correct, because it omitted 2001, which is the season that established him as a top prospect. I looked him up in one of my Baseball America Prospect Handbooks, and in 2001 he played for Daytona. In 503 ABs he hit .296 with 19 HRs, 85 RBIs, 24 SBs, 96 Ks, and 39 BBs. It looked like he had the combination of hitting for average and power and stealing bases; that's why everybody was so high on him. Omitting that season gives an entirely different picture. Actually, Nic played a lot of CF with the I-Cubs the last I saw him play in 2003. He was starting to show some of the promise that he had in 2001 again. He didn't post great numbers (253/315/384), but it wasn't bad for a 23 year old at AAA for the first time. Then, of course, the injury bug came and kicked him in the pants again...
  22. Ding Dong Johnson
    Tejada making like his remarks were misconstrued makes him seem like a better employee, and may make more teams interested in him as well. That doesn't make sense to me. If a team inquired about Tejada and found he was still available, wouldn't they know that his remarks were just a ploy? Its about the desperation of the club that goes to the value you can expect in return. It has a very real effect on negotiations. But how is another team going to value Tejada more when they know that his comments were just for show? I think in this case, it's more about saving face than trying to drive someone's value up.
  23. Ding Dong Johnson
    A "Where Are They Now?" would actually not be pretty with that group...
  24. Ding Dong Johnson
    YES!!!
  25. Ding Dong Johnson
    That still leaves enough money to sign someone like Washburn, no?
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