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Time to rebuild
USSoccer replied to synergy's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Fair point. We had a good core of Ramirez/Lee/Barrett/Murton/Z/ We no longer have the best offensive player in said core. -
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?
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This shows that the Cubs will not do what it takes to retain a star. Why should we have any faith in them retaining Zambrano? If Pie becomes Vlad, they'll offer him 5/$75 and say they did their best. We will perpetually let star players go over a few million per. It's pointless to root for a team like this. It really is. They don't learn from mistakes, ever. They act like they are in Cincinatti and not in Chicago. We will not win a World Series under this GM and this ownership.
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Funny. Remember that when we're watching Geoff Blum hustle his way to hitting .263 with 11 HR's next year for a 69-93 team. OMG, you're right, now that I think about it I am afraid the Cubs could go 66 - 96 and finish with the worst record in the NL without ARAM! Oh wait... I would like to have ARam back, but just like the hated Juan Pierre he did nothing when the Cubs needed him last year. His stats were built up in garbage time when the team was hopelessly out of contention. It would still be nice to sign him because it is one less hole to fill, but if not then take the money and try something new. I guess Derrek Lee's 2005 stats meant nothing, either. We finished below .500. Did Ramirez vanish when his team needed him the most in October of 2003 or September of 2004? No? Were his stats those years built up in garbage time? How about his 2005 numbers? No? Whoops. There goes that argument.
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Funny. Remember that when we're watching Geoff Blum hustle his way to hitting .263 with 11 HR's next year for a 69-93 team.
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5/$73m??? Pa-freakin-thetic. Like I said, act like a major market team for once, losers.
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well, its midnight eastern. :soap:
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Things were once good? October 13th, 2003 If on that day, you told me everything that has happened to the Cubs since then, I likely would have died from laughter. That or accept it, knowing how the Cubs were involved. i don't think i could have dreamed it up.
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Things were once good? October 13th, 2003
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rationialize your failure?
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37 more minutes til the excuses officially begin.
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that avatar is hilarious.
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awesome. :protest:
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Ever sicne Hendry got divorced, he's been terrible at his job.
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I think Hendry refuses to go above 15 per season. It's over, IMO. I'm so completely convinced that it's an issue over a years and not the money. I'll bet Aramis wanted 6 and Hendry and the Cubs didn't want to exceed 5. When we're losing 90 games next season with a terrible offense, and he gets fired, I hope he's happy about the commitment he didn't make in 2012.
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Hendry and the Cubs are going to die by their flawed, idiotic principles of how to allocate resources in a budget.
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Any word from any other source other than Rosenthal?
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I will vomit if I read about how they made a competitive offer but felt like the price was too high. Act like a major market team for once, losers.
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Someone worse than the 06 starting 3B.
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?? How do you figure? I think most of the fanbase would be placated with Mark Derosa and Soriano. I think Aramis is wildly underrated by the casual fan.
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Sadly, us angry fans are in the minority.
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Right on. That BS about payroll and contending for a World Series was nothing more that lip service. There's no point in increasing your payroll if you're not going to resign your own FA, who just so happens to be the best available FA. I cannot wait for the smear job to really kick in, now that he's likely gone. :roll:
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Yup I agree. I hate every moment of it to a point that this news doesn't really bother me that much because I'm so bitter and just angry. Oh well, another long summer to enjoy without the Cubs. Good luck filling the seats at Wrigley this year Cubbies. I'll be going to a lot of Fire games. GREAT call. I really enjoyed the 3 games I attended this year. The one I went to was a blast. I'm happy to spend my time rooting for an organization that gives a crap about it's fanbase and actually contends.
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Yup I agree. I hate every moment of it to a point that this news doesn't really bother me that much because I'm so bitter and just angry. Oh well, another long summer to enjoy without the Cubs. Good luck filling the seats at Wrigley this year Cubbies. I'll be going to a lot of Fire games.
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I can't wait to see what that bumbling drunk of a GM we have says to try and rationalize this one. I can't wait to hear him sell me on Gary Matthews Jr and Geoff Blum or whoever. I cannot, cannot wait to listen to the idiotic-assed Barry Rozner tell me about how the Cubs did the right thing by not giving a loafer a big contract and then go back to worshipping his Greg Maddux statue.. And I can't wait for people on NSBB to back them up. I can't wait to listen to Mike Murphy and his nasally voice tell me about how Aramis is a bum. I really hate the Cubs and baseball in general. It's unfair. It sucks.