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  1. goonys evil twin
    I would love, love, love ARod on this team. I just don't see why the Cubs should have to give up a guy three years younger who is about as good to get him. ARod is significantly better than any player on the Cubs roster right now. Bar none. If he's a good SS, then that is true, relative to his position. But DLee in 2005 had a higher OPS+ than ARod in 2005 and ARod in 2006. And Ramirez isn't too far off from matching ARod. He'd most likely be the best Cubs player, but I wouldn't say bar none. And I'd bet Zambrano would become the best Yankee if he went there.
  2. goonys evil twin
    It is a poor plan because the odds of developing a staff of great and healthy pitchers are slim. The Cubs tried to emulate the Braves, forgetting that what the Braves did was unprecedented, and that they developed hitters. The Cubs were free to pursue elite offensive players, and they chose not to. It's not smart to think you are going to develop a rotation of 3 healthy aces from within your organization. You can't contentrate that much on pitching and ignore offense as much as the Cubs have.
  3. goonys evil twin
    So we have to wait for him to get injured, and then come back to you and show you what happened to prove there could be a connection?
  4. goonys evil twin
    You'd have to work really hard to not get good pitching and hitting out of $100 million. Just because Hendry has done it, doesn't mean everybody can. I don't understand how anybody can look at the financial situation in baseball, and advocate that the Cubs skimp on one side of the ball in an effort to emulate some smaller market teams that had to. Do you really think Beane would settle on mediocre offense if he had $100+ million to spend?
  5. goonys evil twin
    The Cards have a below average pitching staff. And Carpenter is barely better than Zambrano. If the Cards can go to the NLCS with mediocre pitching, which they have, then it doesn't seem to be all that freaking difficult. I'm not advocating mediocre pitching. I'm advocating not being foolish enough to think it's all about pitching and the Cubs have to go out and get nothing but pitchers.
  6. goonys evil twin
    The Mets did. Pedro's been banged up and/or ineffective all year. Glavine is the only starting pitcher who was with the team all year and better than average all year. I cite it because two teams vying for the NLCS have mediocre starting pitchers, and in some cases, incredibly piss poor starting pitchers. The Cardinals have below average pitching (9th in NL in ERA, below 100 ERA+) and are a game away from the World Series. I'm sick and freaking tired of everybody pretending baseball is pitching only. Cy Young pitchers regularly go out and look like crap in the playoffs, rookies and mediocre pitchers have stellar games. Pitching is the most expensive thing in the game. The Cubs spent the last 12 years trying to build a team around pitching and virtually ignoring the offense. It's a poor plan. You have to do your best to field the best pitching and hitting possible. A $100m payroll is more than enough to have a top 5 hitting and top 5 pitching team, and if you throw in another $10-15m, you should be top 3 in each, which is exactly what the Mets did.
  7. goonys evil twin
    You seem to be arguing that $100m won't be able to buy us a good all-around team, and we should therefore focus almost exclusively on pitching. You claim OBP and SLG is expensive, but pitching always has been, and probably always will be the most expensive part of the game. The Cubs can afford to, and need to, field a great hitting and great pitching team.
  8. goonys evil twin
    Many reasons: writers like hustle and trying, and you can't write a story without saying Pierre hustles and tries hard while Ramirez doesn't writers like picking on the "new" baseball where homeruns are big deals, and they really like guys who just put the ball in play writers like the bunt and stolen base and think of them as lost arts pierre played on a WS winner, and Ramirez has played for the Cubs and Pirates. If there's one things writers will fall back on more than anything else, it's the notion that players are winners or losers depending on which teams they've played on.
  9. goonys evil twin
    See Cardinals/Mets. The Cardinals made it in a crappy division with a Cy Young candidate going once every 5 days. The Mets made it with Pedro, Glavine, Hernandez, etc. They weren't exactly pitching devoid. Z isn't even close to the pitcher Carpenter is, or Pedro for that matter. So you discount the Yankees winning 97 games without great pitching. STL is in the same division as the Cubs, has less money to spend on hitting, and just as many crap pitchers. Carpenter is not much better than Zambrano, they are very close. The Mets didn't get anything out of Pedro this year, he had a sub 100 ERA+ in 130 innings. The 2005 version of Mark Prior was much better than that. El Duque was average with the Mets, and hasn't been in the playoffs at all. Glavine was good early, but nothing special the rest of the year. Their best pitcher the past few months has been a virtual rookie with no history of major league success. People like to spout off about pitching because it's a great cliche. But the 2006 NLCS has put to rest any notion that you absolutely must have great pitching to go anywhere in the postseason. These teams are routinely throwing out retreads, has beens and nobodies, and succeeding. Why? Because they built good overall teams, and didn't foolishly focus solely on filling out a cliche.
  10. goonys evil twin
    I choose to ignore this issue. Need something to remain positive about.
  11. goonys evil twin
    See Cardinals/Mets.
  12. goonys evil twin
    You're just afraid that a rag tag pitching staff will keep Hendry from signing Mussina.... :D Then again, a STL win will mean more guys like Weaver.
  13. goonys evil twin
    You wouldn't trade ARam for ARod? I can see Z and DLee, but you GOTTA deal Ramirez for ARod. You can't deal ARam for ARod. If ARam resigns with the Cubs, he's going to be staying with the Cubs. He's not going to be part of a sign-and-trade.
  14. goonys evil twin
    I would guess Hendry doesn't judge bats based on OPS.
  15. goonys evil twin
    The Mets might have the most diverse crowd of any baseball team. The Yankees are the team of the typical white male 20-50 years old. Mets get all kinds. They have several "minority heritage" days throughout the year. A lot of last nights crowd was probably of the resale market, which would include a lot of bankers/lawyers etc, which might skew white. But overall, they get a very diverse crowd. They probably don't get as many women as Yankees fans, but that might be because Mets fans are actually Mets fans, while Yankees fans are largely "be seen at the cool place" fans, which includes more women. But there are a good amount of female Mets fans. Some of the most passionate I've ever seen were women.
  16. goonys evil twin
    I could easily see them dealing away Murton, acquiring Lee, then playing Izturis and a Cedeno/Theroit combo at 2nd. I just hope that won't happen.
  17. goonys evil twin
    Sarcasm noted, but my point is the same as wolf's. Very very few of us were complaining about Sosa's "jerkness" while he was putting up monster numbers. Pujols clearly does a lot for the community, e.g. his Family Foundation charity. He's going to have to do a lot worse than snub a few members of the media or flip his bat after going yard for me to call him a "jerk". That's cool. I don't spend much time thinking about his jerkiness either. I just don't get the point in chastising somebody who actually does point out that he's a jerk. It would be one thing if he was saying Cards fans should boo Pujols and demand his release because of his jerkiness, but it seems like he's just pointing it out. I think it's a good thing when jerks are exposed......unless it's me, in which case I don't think we should talk about jerks.
  18. goonys evil twin
    Jim's words come off as if he's just blowing smoke and being nice.
  19. goonys evil twin
    Their treatment of very good players is really weird. Do that fans hate these guys or just managment? philly fans are the most obnoxious in all of sports. plus, the philly accent may be the most terribly annoying accent in existence. Philwy has bad wooder.
  20. goonys evil twin
    There are multiple writers that have suggested Pierre is one of the lone bright spots and needs to be retained, while at the same time dying to see Ramirez leave.
  21. goonys evil twin
    Rusch contract seemed terrible from the very beginning. Jones will make over $5m per year, just so you know. And his barely above average season in 2006 is not likely to be repeated.
  22. goonys evil twin
    This thread should have ended with this post from Wolf, which I agree 100% with. On class, Bonds isn't even in the same ballpark as Pujols. Let's face it, the game has changed. Players -- and not just the superstars -- tend to do more "antics" these days (staring down umps, flipping bats, snub the media, etc) compared to yesteryear players. To be honest I wish ARam would show some of the competitive fire Pujols does. I don't see what's wrong with respecting a players ability while at the same time acknowledging his jerkitude. What is wrong with pointing out that a guy is a jerk? Fine - he's a jerk. So was MJ, worshipped by Bulls fans everywhere. Admit it, no one here would be calling Pujols a jerk if he were a Cub. True, nobody ever called Sosa a jerk.
  23. goonys evil twin
    This thread should have ended with this post from Wolf, which I agree 100% with. On class, Bonds isn't even in the same ballpark as Pujols. Let's face it, the game has changed. Players -- and not just the superstars -- tend to do more "antics" these days (staring down umps, flipping bats, snub the media, etc) compared to yesteryear players. To be honest I wish ARam would show some of the competitive fire Pujols does. I don't see what's wrong with respecting a players ability while at the same time acknowledging his jerkitude. What is wrong with pointing out that a guy is a jerk?
  24. goonys evil twin
    I didn't call you stupid, I said it was a stupid claim. Attack the post, not the poster. Claiming that my complaining about the Cubs somehow perpetuates the Cubs problem of losing lots of baseball games is just flat out asinine.
  25. goonys evil twin
    Because it's the same thing as saying, "Neifi Perez, you sucked this year, but you were really good in April 2005...now see if you can do it again."
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