Pretty much. Turner has been horrendous in his time here and seemed like the worst possible option to have for a team trying to adjust to a whole new type of offense.
completely agreed, except i'll take it a step further and say that, since we're almost certain that we'll do something stupid and waste a bunch of money, i hope we do it on someone cool like this. Damn, you so smart. I like your style, cowboy.
Only after we eat Bradley's contract and sign Figgins to a 5 year deal. But, hey we should keep Jim around. The next guy could be worse. When did anyone say that was a reason to keep him around?
Unbelievable. I defended Gregg for a while thinking he'd be an average closer (mainly in the hope they could offer him arbitration and get the draft picks) but he's given up a ridiculous amount of home runs this season.
Do you go about each day saying things like "get ready to be in a terrible car crash" or "get ready to get fired" or "get ready to have the waitress screw up my order?"
There is zero need to look for a "leadoff hitter." In an ideal world Fukudome and Bradley are already slotted as the #1-2 hitters for the rest of their time in Chicago.
How? I don't care how bad the locker room situation is: at the moment when a player is hitting/pitching/fielding/etc. nothing else is going to be on their mind except that moment. If they're so easily distracted from that all-important task at hand right at that moment by someone else who has NOTHING to do with what's happening then and there how are they not also effected by basically everything else in their lives? Obviously I'm not saying these guys are robots and they just "switch off" to everything else over the course of a season, but I think you're vastly overstating the impact of a "clubhouse cancer" in terms of a player being able to play. I don't think it's a conincidence at all that these "cancers" tend to not be discovered or nobody pays attention to them until teams do poorly. Then everyone starts to scramble to find all of these various reasons to explain why a team is underperforming. It's a self fulfilling prophecy.