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  1. goonys evil twin
    The season is over. Anybody with any sense would be playing the guys who have a chance to help this team in the future, both to get a better idea of how they handle major league competition and to allow them to work through the struggles.
  2. goonys evil twin
    The fact that Hendry should be gone should by no means be used as support for the idea that Dusty should remain. It's faulty logic, with no justifiable support.
  3. goonys evil twin
    These words, I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
  4. goonys evil twin
    http://www.suntimes.com/output/sports/cst-spt-cub07.html I viewed that as a sort of sarcastic comment from Maddux, who I believe thinks Dusty and his hit squad are pathetic.
  5. goonys evil twin
    Agree. Hendry's hand is being forced and the point-of-no-return has been reached. I'm not so optimistic....Hendry appears to stubbornly and deliberately do the opposite of what he should, as if he can prove everyone wrong. Ain't that the truth. It's just like their stubborn insistence on winning with their old school style. They are beligerently anti-sabr (or moneyball, or whatever you want to call it), to the point that they seem to want to do everything out of spite against that way of baseball. They have to have been made aware of the walk/patience issue, and I have to assume that they just refuse to admit it is a problem.
  6. goonys evil twin
    That drove me insane. Dusty has talked for years about the fundamentals of the team. He talks every spring about improving the fundamentals, and he constantly reminds us that his teams don't make baserunning mistakes or other fundamental errors. But then you have guys like Alou constantly screwing up with no repercussion, Jones doing the same, Ramirez taking part, it's an epidemic. It's not the manager's fault when one guy does something stupid. It's not his fault when two guys do something stupid. But it's his gosh darn responsibility to make sure that those mistakes don't continue in the way the Cubs mistakes have continued. If every announcer can watch a game and talk about things that can't be Dusty's fault, then sooner or later they add up to being Dusty's fault. Otherwise, the manager has no responsibility for anything, and doesn't even deserve a job.
  7. goonys evil twin
    I agree. But I do think he could be available for a decent package. I wonder if a couple good weeks out of Scott Williamson could entice them to bring back and ex-Red. I thought Williamson hated the Reds for what they did to him or was that another pitcher? No clue. If there's bad blood, that's probably not a possibility.
  8. goonys evil twin
    I agree. But I do think he could be available for a decent package. I wonder if a couple good weeks out of Scott Williamson could entice them to bring back and ex-Red.
  9. goonys evil twin
    I'm hoping Maddux can look decent enough to still draw interest. I have a hard time believing somebody would give up much more him as poorly as he's pitched for 2 months.
  10. goonys evil twin
    Don't get cocky, it's still early, and there is plenty of baseball left to lose.
  11. goonys evil twin
    Don't watch the game.
  12. goonys evil twin
    He displayed a lot of this same attitude last year.
  13. goonys evil twin
    That is what I meant. I meant they'd fit in perfectly with the Cubs as they are, not as they should be. I know, wasn't trying to correct you.
  14. goonys evil twin
    In other words, ideal Cubs. :D I would say quintessential, instead of ideal, but that's just me.
  15. goonys evil twin
    Very tender, and juicy. He plays like a caged animal. But he's soft.
  16. goonys evil twin
    The thing is, I'm not sure how having disagreements with Baker would keep Rothschild from doing things like helping to improve the control of our pitchers or trying to get our starting pitchers to become more economical, though. I'm sure Baker isn't telling Rothschild to make sure every young pitcher coming up from the farm system remains a wild man or that everybody on our staff should be turned into home run derby pitchers. Rothschild really needs to go with the rest of them. Yeah, well I'm reaching. I don't think he's earned the praise he's received or the job security he apparantly enjoys. Maybe Hendry feels guilty about keeping him from the Detroit job and wants to make up for it by giving him another managers job.
  17. goonys evil twin
    His first season was 2002, taking over for Acosta.
  18. goonys evil twin
    Maybe, but they didn't even let Baker hire his own PC, and they bent over backwards in every way to get Dusty on board.
  19. goonys evil twin
    The slippery slope is this. The Cubs pitching has failed due to trying to be perfect because poor offense. The offense has been just god aweful, but with D Lee, Barrett, Jones and JP getting in a grove, runs are going to be scored once again. Am Ram will alway be a side-kick, never a main hero. The defense as a whole is respectable. So if the offense gives 3 runs a game, the pitchers can give quality starts and the pen does what it's suppost to do sans Fat Glendon. then I see the Cubs fighting for respectability once again. (hears.. off in the distance the "neigh sayers" stampeding toward the thread.") 3 runs a game? That's far worse than they've done so far, on their way to a .369 W%. There is nothing respectable about that. We aren't naysayers, you just have no concept of reality.
  20. goonys evil twin
    I have no idea what he's going to do. The only justification I can think of is that Larry disagrees with many of the decisions Baker has made to overrule him. But Larry has done absolutely nothing in his time here. The Cubs seem to be more interest in stability than actual performance, which sounds a lot like their strategy in dealing with players.
  21. goonys evil twin
    They could choose to go that route, but it would be a horrible decision. I'm not sure what qualifies some of those guys as having been high-end prospects, but an OF constructed of that group would be horrible in 2007. The Cubs need real OFers next season, no more futzing around with 4th and 5th OFers slated for lots of playing time.
  22. goonys evil twin
    can't handle the heat
  23. goonys evil twin
    I will make a small coment....who exactly cares what middle America thinks about soccer ?......the world is only slighty bigger than middle America (sic).....The World Cup had been incredibly entertaining.....who exactly cares if middle America is watching b/c the rest of the world is watching.........get a slight grip on reality and maybe the myopic attitude is desimmate. Thanks. Thats all. Uh, ESPN cares. People involved with US soccer care. The rest of the world watch on their own channels. They aren't watching ESPN. People watching ESPN are mainly people who've heard about this World Cup thing, are interested in this World Cup thing, don't know a heck a lot about this World Cup thing, but are willing to give it a chance. And there isn't anything more pathetic than the tired old American bashing revolving around the lack of interest in the World Cup. 99% of the thoughts of 99% of the people in the world revolve around their own very local issues. Get over it.
  24. goonys evil twin
    I see nothing wrong with the wishing they'd lose today in order to affect change for the better tomorrow theory. It can be tough to carry out, but there's nothing wrong with it. Wishing they'd lose to keep bandwagon fans away or keep the lovable losers formula intact is pretty pathetic, but wishing they'd lose so they'd fire the people making all the wrong moves isn't a bad idea at all.
  25. goonys evil twin
    I don't think there's any insinuation or subtlety on Dusty's part. He has blatantly stated that Hendry has given him a bunch of players that can't win. IMO that's the ONLY thing that could have broken Jimbo's weird love affair with Dusty, and thank God, Dusty was dumb enough to do it. Or maybe smart enough. Lots of speculation that he wants out, but he needs to stay employable, so he's doing the same thing he did in SF, which earned him a fat contract.
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