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  1. USSoccer
    Pretty hard to bitch about the Camp Cupcake roster: We finally get to see John and Gonzalez. Also love me some Teal Bunbury.
  2. USSoccer
    For a fraction of the cost, no less. This signing sucks no matter how it's spun. It's exactly what people got pissed at Hendry for doing-overpaying for mediocrity. If we're so damn broke, why are we paying him $1.5m for bad production when we can pay league minimum for bad production? Is the faint possibility of a fractionally higher WAR worth it if we're so broke? Conversely, if we aren't broke, why are we wasting a roster spot on utter crap? If we are trying to compete, parallel fronts, etc, why sign this pile of suck? There's no defense of this. It's terrible.
  3. USSoccer
    What the crap is this signing about?
  4. USSoccer
    It's more than just about him being fat. It's about trying to match up his best years when we're going to be competitive. If we're signing him while accepting the fact that we still won't be much more than an 80 win team next season, then likely his best season as a Cub was just wasted. Also, a lot of posters seem okay with the thought that the end of the contract won't be great for Prince personally, so there's 2-3 wasted years of a huge contract. It's just a bad time. But yes, fat players have shown more of a propensity to decline sooner. It'll continue to be a bad time if they continually talk themselves out of singing impact FA because the first year they'll likely only be around .500 at best. No, no. Let's let perfect be the enemy of good.
  5. USSoccer
    It's more than just about him being fat. It's about trying to match up his best years when we're going to be competitive. If we're signing him while accepting the fact that we still won't be much more than an 80 win team next season, then likely his best season as a Cub was just wasted. Also, a lot of posters seem okay with the thought that the end of the contract won't be great for Prince personally, so there's 2-3 wasted years of a huge contract. It's just a bad time. But yes, fat players have shown more of a propensity to decline sooner. Well, then, by all means, lets suck for three years. You've convinced me.
  6. USSoccer
    No one is being mean, come on. If people can't handle their arguments getting some scrutiny, then their arguments probably should be better.
  7. USSoccer
    So you'd be okay giving a 31 year old Ethier a 4 year deal? Dude, you don't understand; HE'S NOT FAT. You're getting me confused with someone else. My position on Prince has changed somewhat because Rizzo may be available and I really, really like his chances. And because we missed out on a bigtime pitcher. If Rizzo becomes what he's capable of, we'd have that much more cash to spend elsewhere. Along with I'm really starting to think Prince is getting 200 mill. I think he's an impact guy for sure. But I think Rizzo will be and obviously would come a hell of a lot cheaper. And if I had $500 every time someone here ridiculed a finished product in favor of some prospect who's incredibly likely to not be anywhere near as good as people think, I'd be a hell of a lot richer and happier.
  8. USSoccer
    So your plan is to be the mid 90's Cubs?
  9. USSoccer
    So you'd be okay giving a 31 year old Ethier a 4 year deal? Dude, you don't understand; HE'S NOT FAT. Well, hell, sign me up twice then. Good thing we didn't waste money on a fatty
  10. USSoccer
    So you'd be okay giving a 31 year old Ethier a 4 year deal?
  11. USSoccer
    Unless the defense has an enormous game, or someone else comes up huge. this is likely to be a gigantic feast of a beating. Green Bay is like a 400lb monster taking on a high schooler. There's just such a massive gap in talent between these two teams.
  12. USSoccer
    theo is going to hold out for his non-union mexican equivalent (senor kurodo) and pay him 900 dollars to pitch for us next season and give us -4.5 war while sneaking the payroll in just under 100M. Exalt
  13. USSoccer
    You can also rebuild a organization by not spending willy nilly on a uproven player or giving albeit market value but way too long in contract length. I was never sold on Darvish, but the point I'm making is the larger one of this offseason being a giant crap sandwich. We're going to replace Aramis with something called an Ian Stewart, we have no 1B, and haven't upgraded anything other than replacing actual Fukudome with cheaper, just as good probably Fukudome.
  14. USSoccer
    Hahahaha, Rooney. Yeah, Santos looked really bad in comparison. Like, really, really bad.
  15. USSoccer
    I still find this way of thinking very entertaining. We didn't need to bring Theo and company in to sign the most expensive of free agents. Anybody can do that. They brought him in to start building an entire organization that had been torn down through years of bad choices. That work sometimes doesn't look real exciting or create the headlines some need to feel satisfied. But they are doing their thing, and I trust them 100 percent. You can rebuild an organization without punting on an entire year by putting out a roster that looks like crap.
  16. USSoccer
    So your goal is trying to win in 2020 (maybe)? How could you possibly come to that conclusion from what he posted? He's sacrificing 2012 to get a boatload of young guys and free up payroll to add significant pieces in the off season next year and be relatively competitive in 2013 with a lot of upside going forward. -Young guys don't always pan out -The FA class next year sucks offensively
  17. USSoccer
    Kelton/Choi/Hill/Montanez are the infield of the future Prior/Cruz/Brownlie/Wood/Sisco are going to be dominant for years Pie is going to be awesome. CPatt is the next Mays. That's why big market teams shouldn't just blow ish up and rebuild. Because it's a complete and total crapshoot and you're far more likely to end up in the Kansas City Royals wilderness than you are with some badass homegrown team like Tampa Bay, and even they took a decade of drafting competence to become good. A major market team should have the resources to carry a couple of large longer term contracts without it being crippling, not to mention the fact that we now have this supposed badass front office capable of properly coordinating the roster so you can do both.
  18. USSoccer
    That's fantastic
  19. USSoccer
    Getting clowned
  20. USSoccer
    Because there wasn't much else to do at that point except have some kind of blind faith that Hanie would not suck too badly. Presumably he knew the entire playbook and would be able to execute at a half decent level. Which is not what has happened obviously. Yeah, except there was all of one quarter of meaningful sample size to go on there and even in that sample size he threw two INT. He's the worst quarterback we've trotted out since the pre-Grossman era of Quinn/Krenzel/Etc You honestly think that Hanie is worse than Collins? I dunno about that. 6-16, 32 yards 0 TD, 4 INT against the 2-14 Panthers It's shades of crap. What does it matter if its brown or yellowish?
  21. USSoccer
    Because there wasn't much else to do at that point except have some kind of blind faith that Hanie would not suck too badly. Presumably he knew the entire playbook and would be able to execute at a half decent level. Which is not what has happened obviously. Yeah, except there was all of one quarter of meaningful sample size to go on there and even in that sample size he threw two INT. He's the worst quarterback we've trotted out since the pre-Grossman era of Quinn/Krenzel/Etc But not as bad as Burris He's bad. Just as bad.
  22. USSoccer
    Because there wasn't much else to do at that point except have some kind of blind faith that Hanie would not suck too badly. Presumably he knew the entire playbook and would be able to execute at a half decent level. Which is not what has happened obviously. Yeah, except there was all of one quarter of meaningful sample size to go on there and even in that sample size he threw two INT. He's the worst quarterback we've trotted out since the pre-Grossman era of Quinn/Krenzel/Etc
  23. USSoccer
    He's seriously the worst.
  24. USSoccer
    Jesus he's awful. Why on earth was anyone trying to rationalize Hanie keeping this team afloat?
  25. USSoccer
    City and Arsenal has been a fantastic game, ruined only by how terribly awful Andrei Arshavin has become. He's terrible. Like Robbie Rogers terrible.
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