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  1. USSoccer
    Reverse jinx wasn't much help last week. True. Bears 27 Giants 10 reverse reverse jinx
  2. USSoccer
    Giants 31 Bears 17. reverse jinx.
  3. USSoccer
    Cubs.com has a rumor that Cobs made a 4yr $60m offer to Drew at 12:01am. Source was an LA radio station (grain of salt)
  4. USSoccer
    Great deal for all involved. WTG Wood and Cobs.
  5. USSoccer
    Drew Soriano Igawa Advil
  6. USSoccer
    :beer: :wynar: :pint: :compress: \:D/ =D> :thumleft: :thumright: :cheers:
  7. USSoccer
    It's the only thing. Just about.
  8. USSoccer
    I don't dislike Soriano. I would be thrilled if the Cubs had Aramis and Soriano. I just don't think Soriano is a good bet to live up to a giant contract.
  9. USSoccer
    Steve Karsay? or Kyle Farnsworth? Carl Pavano. His contract is a nice bargaining chip. You win. That's an even better joke. I'm serious. Offering to take back Pavano's entire contract along with ARod could signifigantly reduce the player cost needed to trade for ARod. It's one of the only cards in our deck. We don't have enough tradable assets to compete against the other teams likely to want ARod. The ability to take on salary is one thing that we do have.
  10. USSoccer
    Steve Karsay? or Kyle Farnsworth? Carl Pavano. His contract is a nice bargaining chip.
  11. USSoccer
    The only thing notable about this is now there is only one overpaid crap pitcher we could offer to take along with ARod.
  12. USSoccer
    That's why your GM needs to be able to sell the heck out of your team and force him to want to stay. You would need a gun (or some other credible threat of force) or a contract stupidly large to force me to want to stay without checking the FA market if I was in his position. There are simply no adequate words EXACTLY!!! You could always prevent it from getting to this point by being proactive. This situation was 2 years in the making. I will not accept that there was nothing poor Hendry could have done in the past 24 months to prevent this day from happening.
  13. USSoccer
    -Where was Lee April and September of 2004? -Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez are both slow, too. Would you pass on them? -Aramis had the best defensive season of any NL 3B this season. -God forbid someone jog out a fly ball. It negates all their skill and talent.
  14. USSoccer
    Not at all. It's the GM's job to make sure players of Aramis' caliber don't walk.
  15. USSoccer
    That's funny. You'd rather give the big money long term contract to the guy who's not as good and it 3 years older. Ramirez was the only FA worth Beltran money. And MLBtraderumors is garbage. This rumor is as valid as any of the other ones concerning Ramirez. Can you imagine Hendry finally caving in to the 6yr/$90M demand at the last minute and Kinzer telling him that it wasn't enough all the sudden? I think other reporters like Bruce will have the inside skinny on what happened. But this story, is the first to actually provide some insight on Hendry's thinking. Not that I agree with it. If that happened or not doesn't change the fact that giving Soriano a Beltran-like contract would be historically dumb. He's exactly the type of player Hendry would over pay for. Hendry is a historically terrible GM.
  16. USSoccer
    I know..we barely sold out last year. How are we supposed to come up with that kind of money?
  17. USSoccer
    That's funny. You'd rather give the big money long term contract to the guy who's not as good and it 3 years older. Ramirez was the only FA worth Beltran money. And MLBtraderumors is garbage. This rumor is as valid as any of the other ones concerning Ramirez. Can you imagine Hendry finally caving in to the 6yr/$90M demand at the last minute and Kinzer telling him that it wasn't enough all the sudden? I think other reporters like Bruce will have the inside skinny on what happened. But this story, is the first to actually provide some insight on Hendry's thinking. Not that I agree with it. If that happened or not doesn't change the fact that giving Soriano a Beltran-like contract would be historically dumb.
  18. USSoccer
    That's funny. You'd rather give the big money long term contract to the guy who's not as good and it 3 years older. Ramirez was the only FA worth Beltran money. And MLBtraderumors is garbage.
  19. USSoccer
    That's why your GM needs to be able to sell the heck out of your team and force him to want to stay.
  20. USSoccer
    You're right. It was 1.026. As far as "Gold Gloves" adding $2-3m onto the contracts...whatever. Palmiero won a GG. Aramis should have won the GG this year.
  21. USSoccer
    Player B is Errormiss Correct. Players A and C are both players everyone on the planet wants on their baseball teams and who made a lot of money on the FA market. Player A I've just realized is Beltran See how much better Aramis is than Beltran giong into their FA offseasons? And Player C is awesome, but his own fans hate him.
  22. USSoccer
    Player B is Errormiss Correct. Now, doesn't Aramis compare pretty darn well to the other 2? Players A and C are both players everyone on the planet wants on their baseball teams and who made a lot of money on the FA market. Player A was one year younger. Player C was 3 years younger. Both play in the same major market.
  23. USSoccer
    Player A and his lines 3 years before FA: .273 .346 .501 OPS: .847 OPS+: 108 .307 .389 .522 OPS: .911 OPS+: 126 .267 .367 .548 OPS: .915 OPS+: 136 Player B: .318 .373 .578 OPS: .951 OPS+: 136 .302 .358 .568 OPS: .926 OPS+: 137 .291 .352 .561 OPS: .913 OPS+: 126 Player C: .310 .360 .560 OPS: .920 OPS+: 135 .285 .357 .586 OPS: .943 OPS+ :133 .316 .420 .606 OPS: 1.026 OPS+ :167 Guess the players. When you've figured out which are which, jam a pen into your eye because that's how stupid Hendry is right now for offering 5/$73m and letting Aramis walk.
  24. USSoccer
    Thanks for the reward, bub.
  25. USSoccer
    I agree with respect to the GM, but not the ownership. The problem isn't the amount of money the Trib is willing to spend, but rather how Hendry uses it. You don't think that there's some organizational root to the fact that we refuse to pay market value for anyone? Could be, but if the Org itself is to blame for anything its horrendous hires, not an unwillingness to spend money. Sigh. I guess it doesn't matter. We're going to be terrible either way.
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