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  1. goonys evil twin
    The 2006 Cards are the flukiest team since 03 Marlins. So I hope Detroit does baseball a favor and dominates the Cards. Those Marlins are better than these Cardinals.
  2. goonys evil twin
    Wellemeyer was seperete, this deal was Pinto. People look at what happens to these guys, and then say we might not have given up much (Nolasco alone was too much), but what is important to remember is while these guys might not have ever helped win games on the field for the Cubs, they were trading chips. You can always sweeten deals with guys like this, especially for teams desperate for arms, of which there are many.
  3. goonys evil twin
    There isn't a need for deception on a sac bunt. The whole ballpark can know its coming, if you get the bunt down it doesn't make any difference. If you know it's coming, then the success rate goes down. Based on what? If a player gets the bunt down anywhere towards the third base line there isn't a thing they can do about it. you've never seen an out at 3rd on a bunt?
  4. goonys evil twin
    There isn't a need for deception on a sac bunt. The whole ballpark can know its coming, if you get the bunt down it doesn't make any difference. Yes it does. Unless it's absolutely perfect, even a good bunt can be turned into a DP, if not an out at third.
  5. goonys evil twin
    I really don't know. But if you can find it, you'd have to break out obvious late game bunting situations, from 2nd inning versions, when teams are more than happy to just get the out.
  6. goonys evil twin
    You can't just put the guys there, you actually have to successfully sac bunt. And a lot of sac bunts aren't successful, often turning into wasted at bats, or even double plays. Plus, Reyes is getting walked and a big time dp candidate is now at the plate.
  7. goonys evil twin
    It goes both ways. Sac bunts, like field goals in football, are not automatically successful. If you get to 2nd and 3rd with 1 out, maybe your odds go up, but there's no guarantee you get there. When the other team is 100% certain you are sac bunting, which would happen if he used Glavine, it's easy to crash and get the out at 3rd. This also leaves open the chance for a dp. If everything works out, then you have LoDuca up with 1 out and bases loaded (assuming they walk Reyes). LoDuca isn't a strike out guy, but you aren't playing for contact there. 1 run is meaningless. You need a big hit. And LoDuca was swinging like crap, and is a prime DP candidate himself. It's not nearly as clear as the 2nd guessers are making it seem.
  8. goonys evil twin
    Off topic but if we can get those guys in your sig I will be very happy for once. Vincente Padilla is a punk and not someone I'd want near the team. "Punk" is a juvenille label to throw at someone, but it fits better than any other word I can think of. ???????????????
  9. goonys evil twin
    I just cringe everytime I think of that team. Absolutely the best lineup in the NL. Not really. Maybe in name only, but that's it. 7th in NL in runs scored. 14th in BB, 11th in OBP. They were an impatient, and predictably inefficient lineup.
  10. goonys evil twin
    Why do they do that? I never understood why the refs spend so much time looking like they are trying to fake guys out. Want to make sure no one is anticipating the drop. If you start a little early you're most likely going to win the draw. Yeah, but what's the point? The shenanigans on faceoffs are such a boring waste of time from an otherwise exciting non-stop moving sport.
  11. goonys evil twin
    Entirely different. In each of those cases he signed guys several months before they could reach free agency. He had the leverage of knowing those guys could get hurt and lose out on millions. Ramirez is already a free agent, even if he hasn't used the option. You should view him just like you'd view a normal free agent with no option. There is zero incentive for Ramirez to sign before free agency, even though Hendry keeps saying he doens't think Ramirez will use that option.
  12. goonys evil twin
    What is a prime time player? In their 3 years on the Cubs, Aramis has outperformed Lee 2 years. Ramirez has a 950 OPS in the playoffs. And when the rest of his team was choking away 2004, Ramirez was producing.
  13. goonys evil twin
    Talk about overreating to a small sample size. The Yankees won 4 of 5 years. The White Sox and Red Sox were favorites over their respective NL opponents and crushed them. There's about 6 underdogs each playoff season, which makes it really easy to say after the fact that the underdog made it.
  14. goonys evil twin
    He gone. Based on what? For me, it's just a gut feeling. Hendry has said he thinks Ramirez wants to stay, and doesn't think he'll test free agency. That tells me Hendry is prepared to add a couple years to the deal, but not start fresh with a whole new package. We've also heard a lot about the need for clutch hitters, and I bet many within the organization view Ramirez's slow start as a character flaw, and of course, there's the hustle question. It's getting late in this process. For all intents and purposes, Ramirez is a free agent. Hendry doesn't let free agents, or pending free agents, he wants to keep, go this far without having a new deal. He's also the kind of guy who would let a guy walk, then find a replacement, and talk about how that guy is an addition to the team, as opposed to just a replacement. Throw in a cubs source talking about contingency plans, and "getting offense from a couple different places", and it doesn't look good. I'm still hoping he stays, but I don't like the direction this has gone.
  15. goonys evil twin
    He'd get his money.
  16. goonys evil twin
    I would think Hendry would like him, but I have zero interest.
  17. goonys evil twin
    Do you think the franchise is suddenly going to lose direction without the immortal Hendry running things? No I'm not an anarchist. Are you a sadist? You seem to enjoy what Hendry is doing to the team. I am somebody who wants to give qualified people an honest chance to make right, and then reward them if they do. Hendry was seemingly qualified, and had his chance. But he didn't get the job done, and has had more than enough time to succeed. He inherited a team that was already greatly affected by his own work, and now that team isn't good. I have no faith in his ability to do a 180 and start making things right. I have no idea why somebody would sit here and admit his failures, admit that he doesn't deserve another shot, but advocate keeping him anyway.
  18. goonys evil twin
    Why? I don't see how it could do any harm.
  19. goonys evil twin
    On the surface, that seems true. But Jim also said he would have called up Pie in 2005 if healthy. Perhaps he just knew Dusty was gone, and it was a bad idea to introduce a key prospect to Dusty's wrath. His best bet for playing time would have been a platoon with Murton, as Pierre would not have sat, and Jones wasn't going to sit for a LH bat. If he can get better infield production, I would not be surprised if Felix gets the shot. It's not like Piniella has no experience introducing young, dynamic, athletic outfielders to the big leagues.
  20. goonys evil twin
    I wouldn't call that bargain basement. He was an expensive pickup. Bargain basement is guys like Miguel Batista or Jeff Suppan before this year.
  21. goonys evil twin
    The team as you see it is the result of the 12 year run of Jim and Andy. Ed Lynch played a part as well. But those 3 guys have been the primary baseball decision makers for 12 years. Several other teams with much greater success have had far greater turnover. Bad decision making, as a result of poor planning and strategy, has been this team's problem, not consistency in the front office. Jim Hendry has been a major part of that problem.
  22. goonys evil twin
    Wasn't this our problem in 2004? Either we would win with the long ball or we sucked. Piniella has stated that the home field should be an advantage to us. If that is true (and I believe it is), then we had better learn how to win when the wind is blowing in at 20 mph. Power will not help us much in that situation. As with any good team (coach), you have to learn to adjust to the environmental conditions of the ballpark, particularly with Wrigley. If we want to be a playoff contending team....we have to learn how to use Wrigley as an advantage to us. Ken Other teams didn't have problems launching HRs into the wind at Wrigley.
  23. goonys evil twin
    Kind of sounds anti-Soriano for center, though he does go on saying how athleticism is important in center. The "butcher on defense" line probably counts out Adam Dunn too then. It also counts out Carlos Lee, for that matter. Jacque Jones too. Nope, he likes athleticism.
  24. goonys evil twin
    No, it hasn't. You can keep claiming that one, but you are wrong. The Cubs have been one of the most stable front offices the past 12 years.
  25. goonys evil twin
    That sounds okay, but the Cubs aren't in a position where they can just get guys who really want to be here. This isn't USC recruiting high school football players. Hendry has to convince him to stay. That's his job.
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