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  1. KingCubsFan
    Cause we all know academic cheating is right up there with child rape. That was one terrible attempt at finger pointing. Was the writer a PSU alumni? I didn't post it because I was personally trying to compare it to the PSU situation. In fact, I don't really care about the author's smarmy tone. I am curious to see if this gains any traction, though. Seems pretty egregious. Then why post the article comparing it to psu instead of the dozens of articles about it? Happened to be the one I was reading at the time. To address CubinNY's post: here will (hopefully) never be another violation as horrific as the PSU one, but if that is now the standard by which we punish people, no other school will ever be punished for anything again. And if we assume every school has systemic academic fraud (and thus shouldn't worry about it), we might as well shut the NCAA down entirely. It's not simply (a) give them the PSU punishment or (b) don't punish them at all. The PSU incident was an anamoly and shouldn't be looked at anything but that (certainly not some type of "standard").
  2. KingCubsFan
    Cause we all know academic cheating is right up there with child rape. That was one terrible attempt at finger pointing. Was the writer a PSU alumni? I didn't post it because I was personally trying to compare it to the PSU situation. In fact, I don't really care about the author's smarmy tone. I am curious to see if this gains any traction, though. Seems pretty egregious. This type of thing probably happens at most, if not all, major schools. It's funny how people are already trying to equate more normal violations with the PSU "precedent," though.
  3. KingCubsFan
    In arbiteation, I agree. But I seriously doubt either side even wants to talk extension right now. We'd want a huge discount and I'd certainly think he'd rather hit the market after a solid season, than agree on a much lesser deal right now. At least he's a guy we can be pretty sure to get a pick for if we offer a qualifier after a strong season. That's if we don't trade him at the deadline. I wish they would have traded him during this past offseason his value will likely never be higher than it was then. Yep. They took a risk and they lost. I don't blame them for asking for the moon last offseason though.
  4. KingCubsFan
    A 130 pitch complete game in horribly uncomfortable Florida for no other reason than "hey, let's act tough and get a complete game" when the guy's arm was already questionable. He threw 140 earlier that season. He threw 120+ on 13 freaking occasions that year, including 5 of the last 6 (with the low workload game being 114). Oh wait, and he struggled in his final outing that season when his innings total approached 240 for the season. But don't you dare blame Dusty. Ignorant morons. It was the unnecessary pitch counts in the beginning of the season for them that always bothered me the most. By the playoffs, Zambrano was completely worthless and Wood hit the wall in the NLCS.
  5. KingCubsFan
    Well I don't think it went down exactly like that. I think Cutler had some input though. And I think that while he'd love better O-line protection, that WR upgrades were more important to him. I think the Bears decided they were going to spend X resources on defense and X on offense. I don't think they could get the defensive player they wanted (whether or not you agree with the Mclellin pick) the receiver they wanted, and an impact O-lineman. I don't think Cutler specifically told them to completely ignore O-line. I think it has more to do with the coaching staff. With Emery coming in after the season, I'm sure he's had to rely on the coaching staff a lot in figuring out what the team needs really were. That's probably why we drafted an athletic pass rusher in the first round. Given Tice's background, he probably thinks he can coach up the O-line now that Martz's system is gone. It probably won't work, and my guess is Emery invests heavily in the offensive line next offseason.
  6. KingCubsFan
    It was originally about how writers and the fans treat certain players. I wasn't alive when Santo played, so I don't know how the fans felt about him. It probably can't be accurately described, as people are arguing about how players were perceived 5-10 years ago. But it's clear that the writers did not like him, as illustrated by the Hall of Fame votes. Most specifically, we are talking about the current, local Chicago media. This is a relatively recent trend that has been getting worse in recent years. I doubt it's been "getting worse." You've just picked up on it in recent years. Something tells me the media of the 50's and 60's was worse.
  7. KingCubsFan
    It was originally about how writers and the fans treat certain players. I wasn't alive when Santo played, so I don't know how the fans felt about him. It probably can't be accurately described, as people are arguing about how players were perceived 5-10 years ago. But it's clear that the writers did not like him, as illustrated by the Hall of Fame votes.
  8. KingCubsFan
    Binge drinking was Grace. Punching a concession stand worker was Santo. And that's not even half of Santo's list. Santo is a horrible example though. The only reason he didn't get into the HOF was because the media hated him.
  9. KingCubsFan
    I think the language barrier factor gets overlooked as well.
  10. KingCubsFan
    yeah, sammy was hated by many back in the 99/00/01 timeframe when "he only hit HR when it didn't matter" was the main complaint. I think that had more to do with the fact that he was the best player on horrible teams, and people generally equate a team's success with their best player (see Lebron, Cutler).
  11. KingCubsFan
    When did Sammy Sosa ever get demonized? He pretty much just faded into obscurity once he stopped being good. Sammy Sosa was loved by most of the fanbase until he started declining,a and then he did a few things that made it seem like he didn't care about the team. If Sammy Sosa became a hitting coach right now, he'd probably be treated the same as McGwire. You don't remember the whole leaving the last game early and boombox-gate? Yeah that was my whole point. He started declining, and then the whole leaving the game/boombox thing happened. By all accounts, he did not get along with his teammates or the media by the end, so it's natural he wasn't going to be given the same treatment as, say, Kerry Wood. That doesn't mean it was racism.
  12. KingCubsFan
    When did Sammy Sosa ever get demonized? He pretty much just faded into obscurity once he stopped being good. Sammy Sosa was loved by most of the fanbase until he started declining,a and then he did a few things that made it seem like he didn't care about the team. If Sammy Sosa became a hitting coach right now, he'd probably be treated the same as McGwire.
  13. KingCubsFan
    I think the problems began on that Sunday Night Baseball game. Since then, he's been unable to shed the reputation as a guy who isn't always focused.
  14. KingCubsFan
    I support the Nationals shutting him down, but I can see the other side of the argument. There's really no predicting the future. We could have made the same argument about the 2003 Cubs (although I would argue a lot of the future developments had to do with the anti-Nationals treatment of our young pitchers). And Strasburg's mechanics are apparently so terrible, he's likely to have a short shelf life as it is.
  15. KingCubsFan
    My prediction is still alive, although WSR or BacktoBanks hasn't posted that Vitters/Price swap yet.
  16. KingCubsFan
    Haven't seen a lot about Marra. At least one catcher in our system is hitting well.
  17. KingCubsFan
    I don't think you can group Vitters and Jackson together. Jackson is the type of player our FO seems to like: good all-around player, solid defender, patience at the plate, etc. The problem is obviously the strikeouts, and maybe they want to see if Sveum and his staff can work on that. That's really Jackson's only weakness.
  18. KingCubsFan
    This is the year Miami beats Ohio State and destroys the state of Ohio's spirit. Even Miami's campus will be crushed.
  19. KingCubsFan
    My guess is what they'll say is they want him to work more with the coaching staff on his defense before he plays every day. In actuality, they're picking their spots to inflate his numbers for trade purposes.
  20. KingCubsFan
    Exactly what I thought when I read Sveum's quote.
  21. KingCubsFan
    And 5 walks in the last 10 games. I really hope he can play a legitimate third base (though I still doubt it). IMHO, they should start giving him some reps at the corner OF spots as well as 3B. Next year, I'd love to see Ian Stewart get another shot post wrist-Sx with Vitters in the OF. If we can trade Soriano, he could have left. If not, DeJesus should be an easy trade and Vitters could have right. We could actually luck our way into a potent offense if enough goes right between Stewart, Jackson, and Vitters. I believe it's been said that he'd also never be better than average in the OF due to a lack of speed. So, you'd have similar defensive concerns at both 3B and the corner outfield with his offensive value taking a huge dip if he changed positions. In his early 20's still, Vitters needs to be playing 3B until he proves he can't. I'm not going to get too concerned with squeezing a 1 or 2 win season out of a 28 year Ian Stewart. Yeah I think I remember that as well. I think if the Cubs are strong defensively everywhere but 3B (which seems to be the case right now), you could live with Vitters as long as he's able to make routine plays. See if he can put up a few good offensive seasons, and then hopefully Baez is ready.
  22. KingCubsFan
    I don't think Volstad is coming back. I'm guessing he'll be replaced by another Volstad-like reclamation project.
  23. KingCubsFan
    And 5 walks in the last 10 games. I really hope he can play a legitimate third base (though I still doubt it).
  24. KingCubsFan
    Come on davell, you're better than overly simplifying things like this. If that were all there were to consider, no team would ever retain a veteran player. The risk is that the prospects turn to be nothing (which is always more likely than them turning into long-term pieces). Plus the risk that the expected 3 WAR pitcher you sign ends up being terrible. That risk isn't there with signing Garza long term? Well yeah, of course there's a risk of that too. I suppose it depends on what you think Garza is projected to do over the next few years. I think he's been in the majors long enough where you can say he's probably not going to be terrible, and he's probably not a huge risk to miss entire seasons due to injury. At the same time, he's probably not repeating last year either.
  25. KingCubsFan
    Come on davell, you're better than overly simplifying things like this. If that were all there were to consider, no team would ever retain a veteran player. The risk is that the prospects turn to be nothing (which is always more likely than them turning into long-term pieces). Plus the risk that the expected 3 WAR pitcher you sign ends up being terrible.
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