MeatampPotatoesMan

hahaha. too true.

I just want a "Fire Hendry" t-shirt. I'm going to wear that in Wrigley with pride.

I would hope. Just wait for the contract extensions. you just couldn't let us enjoy a moment of delusional bliss, could you?

When we just wasted 5 million dollars on someone we could have paid the league minimum for? It isn't premature. You're right, it isn't Neifi's fault Dusty bats him in the 2 hole. It's ultimately Hendry's fault, as he resigned the offensive black hole.

enough voting on the Cy Young b/c of W/L records. :evil: Santana was robbed.

:shock: wow, you gotta think twice before charging the mound on Urbina.

I can't even laugh at that b/c i'm so pissed. Wood is awesome. w/l record my hiney. if he, prior, and z are healthy for a full season, we make the playoffs. they'll even overcome Neifury starting at 2B and hitting 2nd.

hey, we gotta spend 100 million somehow.

It's the 12 Step Program for claiming last place in the NL Central. =D>

No...he's saying Neifi > Walker since he is going to move Walker. hahaha. ](*,)

wait...walker for 2.5 million at 2B or Neifi at 2.5 million at 2B? I can't believe this. Hendry is basically saying that Walker = Neifi. :shock:

Murton whom JH did trade for. Oh never mind! Sorry, boys! I didn't mean to ruin the pessimist party. You're going to count on Murton to set the table? That's not too bright considering he doesn't even have 1 full MLB season under his belt. Murton could very well be a good 2 hole hitter, but if he goes through a sophomore slump (which is a pretty common occurance) we're looking at Neifi in the 2 hole (as if dusty would put murton before lee and aram anyway :roll: ).

The only way i'll forgive Hendry for this MI debacle is if he signs Furcal for less than 4/36 to start at SS, gets Marcus Giles at 2B and trades Cedeno and Walker. Otherwise our middle infield is going to be a joke. I don't think Cedeno has shown enough to start every day at 2B or SS, but come on! Neifury at 2B? Well, at least we'll have good middle infield defense. :roll: The real stink of it is that Neifi will bat 2nd with walker pawned off in a future hendry trade. What other decent 2 hole hitter do we have?

$5 million over two years? Hey, let's all line up outside Wrigley. Hendry's giving money away! Whoohoo!!

Awesome job, Hendry. You like guys that can catch? Well then, let's re-up Patterson and Burnitz with long term deals! whoohoo! I'm just waiting for JH to trade Ramirez b/c he "can't catch." Sweet, this will be our opening day starting lineup: C Barrett 1B Lee 2B Perez 3B Ramirez SS Furcal LF Murton CF Patterson RF Burnitz (resigned after declining option) ^^ now that team is a contender.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/official_info/umpires/rules_interest.jsp just measure a person of average height (for the age group you are talking about) to get the vertical dimension.

the gamble is that there are plenty of teams out there that won't wait for the non-tender. the dodgers will get something in return for bradley.

Haven't heard this before?? Some like to portrary Murton as a mere throw-in. Don't want to make it appear as if Hendry's competent, ya know. No more kool-aid for you two. Murton was a last minute throw in, not the centerpiece. How can he be the "reason the cubs made that deal?" He wasn't targeted from day 1. He wasn't going to be an addition to the MLB team at the deadline. Nomar was the centerpiece for us.

Sauerbeck was just resigned by the Indians, but i like the rest. it's certainly better than we're going to see in '06. :cry:

I wish you were Schuerholz.

Here's a good article on ZR (zone rating) for those interested. http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/dialed_in/discussion/what_is_zone_rating/

This goes on to suggest the Dodgers wouldn't want much in return for Bradley, especially if they might non-tender him. The Cubs should be all over him. He'd break up the good chemistry that they have...I'd pass. How did "clubhouse cancer" A. J. Pierzynski work out for the White Sox this year? So the right way is to emulate the WS champs? How many WS champs have there been and how many different approaches did they take? I don't get it.

What?! He spent less than a season in the minors. All he did was go through the paces. He was MLB ready out of college. I guess those 9 games in the minors "developed" him. Murton spent little over 1 season in our system to get to the major league club. So the Cubs get no credit for targeting players that need less development? no, they get credit. the scouts get a nice pat on the back. good job. but they didn't "develop" that talent. they just took what was already there. Identifying and developing talent are part of the system. In evaluating the system as a whole, like was being done in the original post, why wouldn't you include Murton and Prior? i include murton and prior in the cubs organization, but not in the farm system, as we didn't have much to do with developing Prior or Murton. I use the word "developing" not "identifying." It was no big secret Prior was going to be a stud. Our farm system should be credited with doing the obvious and selecting Prior 2nd overall in the '01 draft? murton seems to be a last minute throw in to the Nomar deal, not someone we scouted. it's almost dumb luck that we got him. JH's magic 8 ball is paying off. :lol: our farm system isn't worthless. we identified and developed Zambrano (who spent around 3 full seasons in our system before coming to Wrigley). nice work. Z is a STUD. however, we don't have a ton of great prospects, which confounds me, considering how much time we spent losing in the last 10 years and a notable lack of decent position players reaching the majors (who actually contribute). as far as willis goes... if we're going to include identifying talent in the discussion, we can also blame the farm system for letting him go for Clement. if they had correctly identified his talent, as evidenced by their hands on experience developing him, we would never have let him go (his age makes no difference). willis is at most a testament to our development skills and a slap in the face to our ability to identify talent.

What?! He spent less than a season in the minors. All he did was go through the paces. He was MLB ready out of college. I guess those 9 games in the minors "developed" him. Murton spent little over 1 season in our system to get to the major league club. So the Cubs get no credit for targeting players that need less development? no, they get credit. the scouts get a nice pat on the back. good job. but they didn't "develop" that talent. they just took what was already there.

I think his point with Prior is he was the most major league ready SP prospect to come out of college in the last 50 yrs if not ever. Yeah, but you can't just take away from the system because they were smart enough to draft him, or smart enough to trade for Murton. If Murton doesn't count, then we should be allowed to count Brendan Harris, Dontrelle Willis, etc. well lets just count everyone that ever played 1 game in our system as "being developed by our system."