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  1. USSoccer
    Can you remember the last time when one of those players deserved a top flight contract on the open market? There's a big difference between Hendry wanting to keep Neifi and Glendon, and Hendry paying what Aramis deserves to be paid. He's going to let him walk. Granted he has re-signed most of his own FA's early, but he has a pretty good track record with Wood, Lee, Barrett, and others. Barrett's not as good, Lee had a career year and got resigned a year before FA, and Wood was also resigned a year before FA. If Hendry were truly serious about Aramis being his "#1 priority", this would have been done by now.
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    Can you remember the last time when one of those players deserved a top flight contract on the open market? Nomar. Though he had injury concerns. Nomar was a shell of his former self. Aramis is the best player the Cubs have had FA eligible since Greg Maddux.
  3. USSoccer
    Can you remember the last time when one of those players deserved a top flight contract on the open market? There's a big difference between Hendry wanting to keep Neifi and Glendon, and Hendry paying what Aramis deserves to be paid. He's going to let him walk.
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    Hendry has 2 weeks to sign him. If he doesn't, he should be fired 5 minutes after Ramirez signs elsewhere. That opt ot was stupid, and if Hendry is trying to get Ramirez below market value, he's stupid. Ramirez held all the cards. He deserves market value based on his play since he's been a Cub. He deserves it far more than Derrek Lee did, and yet here we are, no progress reported, and we're on estep closer to having Mark DeRosa hit .270 with 15 HR's in 2007 at 3B.
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    What a beating...
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    Were the fans grumbling after Rex's incompletion??
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    49ers win 13-10. Grossman has an average game, but fumbles by Hester and Benson set San Fran up for 10 of their points, and they control the 2nd half clock. Reverse Jinx
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    New England is a more talented team, but without Dempsey the Fire should have drawn this game. To lose in PK's and miss 2 of them is just...wow. That's England national team bad.
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    You should never miss a PK. Ever.
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    For some reason CSN thought it would be better to show the 18 Blackhawk fans left a home game instead of the Fire's playoff game.. :x
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    It will be interesting to see how Skiles manages his roster. There is a logjam at a couple different positions, and only a finite number of minutes to give.
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    Yep. I believe you and I were the torch bearers for Nomar. I said in August of last year, I thought the Cubs should re-sign Nomar, go out and get the best players available, and then figure out where to play Nomar. If you re-sign Nomar before the Furcal fiasco, he's the fallback option at SS. If you are in a spot where you are forced to settle for Jacque Jones, you try Nomar in RF. But that's old news. I am not at all stressed about Ramirez filing for freeagency. I'm more worried about the Cubs willingness to give him what he wants to stay. It would be very Cub-like to not offer him market value.
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    Yeah.
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    Bruce, do you think it gets done? Eventually, yes. The agent is doing a little squeezing right now. I really, really hope you're right on this. Tell me the organization values Ramirez as much as they should...
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    No kidding. Korver does bring outside shooting, which the team desperately needed, but his defense is awful. And it's not like he's dogging it - he really tries hard, which is pretty sad if you think about it. On the other hand, the Knicks won 23 games last year, which was 15 fewer than the Sixers, and that was with a very good head coach. Now Isiah Thomas, perhaps the most incompetent man I've ever seen in coaching/management, has the reins for basically the entire Knicks organization. He apparently has seen it fit to build a team of shoot-first, pass-second guards, with absolutely nothing in the way of defensive or rebounding ability. I just don't see the Sixers being as bad as the Knicks. The Knicks are built completely wrong, don't have much talent, and have Isiah at the helm. I seriously could see that team winning less than ten games. I've got the Knicks for 31 wins.
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    So winning a World Series in 2002 and 2006 isn't good enough? :twisted: Why not just sign Craig Counsell? He was on the 97 and 01 WS champs teams. Maybe Counsell will be "Hendry's Top Target." Shut.Up. I think Counsell can play 3B. We don't need to be giving anyone any ideas.
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    are you kidding??? the end of the 2004 season was about as fun as a fart in church. A fart in church is fun. The end of that season was about as fun as a doberman biting you in the nuts. No. The USMNT's World Cup was like a doberman biting you in the nuts. September 2004 was like getting your nuts caught in a vice grip, and then having them twisted for like 3 straight weeks, and then having battery acid and rubbing alcohol dumped on the wound.
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    You can ask me any question, and I'll give you Jim Hendry's answer. He uses a mad lib to answer any question posed to him.
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    FJM is out-FJM'ing themselves. The Eckstein artciles are absolutely hilarious. And they all read exactly the same.
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    Is that from 2004 or 2005 or 2006? Yes.
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    What hilarious is that the player who had the best 2004 (Aramis) was on that highlight montage the same number of times as Neifi Perez and Jose Macias. Aramis and the starting rotation were the only Cubs doing anything in September. That was an absolute kick to the crotch season.
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    Sean Casey had a pretty good World Series.
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    That's the worst part. I don't really dislike St Louis all that much (I loathe Houston), but the fact that Scrappy McHustler won the MVP makes me sick, because not only wil we be subjected the the standard "heart wins over talent" boilerplate sportswriting/radio for the next 12 months, but there's a better than 75% chance that Hendry decides he needs to field a team that features below average corner OF's, a terrible C, a godawful middle IF, and a mediocre starting rotation anchored by a solid #1 in order to win. I can't wait to see what FJM says about it That site might explode.
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