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  1. goonys evil twin
    Da meat tree has the best name, and he's a great character.
  2. goonys evil twin
    How about the inability to think past today and realize that Murton is young enough to improve, therefore he should be given the chance to face these guys. Murton isn't hitting righties, but he's hitting them better than Mabry. Do you just ignore that fact?
  3. goonys evil twin
    Right now he can't. That doesn't mean he never will. It's absolutely foolish to never give him a chance to try and improve against righties, especially on a train wreck of a team like this one. Playing Phil Nevin in LF is one of the dumbest things this team could do. Playing Nevin and Jones against LHP is one of the few that are dumber.
  4. goonys evil twin
    No offense to MustangMike at all, but MODS, can we be consistent here. We couldn't use Sam ME, we couldn't use K and Patt, can we not allow posters to use Dumpster? If the previous two were juvenile, so is Dumpster. I'm no mod, but I think the situations are different. The K and the Patt thing, as well as the Sammy stuff was just inundating the board, popping up in every thread about those two hot button issues. It wasn't just about being juvenile. A lot of juvenile stuff goes on here without comment. Dempster/Dumpster talk hasn't been that prevalent, which is why it's still probably allowed.
  5. goonys evil twin
    Did anyone else watch this? I saw this last night while the cubs game was on commercial. I have never been so angry.. I have no confidence that Hendry will every make a right move. All he kept blamming it on was clutch hitting. Then they compared the cubs to the Yankee's, saying that they lost more in the terms of players than the cubs have and they are still only a few games out of first. Jim answered by saying we have players that have a history of performing and just haven't had the clutch hits, and then used the injury excuse. Which the question was alread addressing the injury issue... I hate this team.. The infatuation with clutch is going to kill this team. Going to? I'd say they are already dead. They are wounded now. But all they need to do is spot their weaknesses and improve upon them. Continuing on the futile quest for more clutch will kill them.
  6. goonys evil twin
    Did anyone else watch this? I saw this last night while the cubs game was on commercial. I have never been so angry.. I have no confidence that Hendry will every make a right move. All he kept blamming it on was clutch hitting. Then they compared the cubs to the Yankee's, saying that they lost more in the terms of players than the cubs have and they are still only a few games out of first. Jim answered by saying we have players that have a history of performing and just haven't had the clutch hits, and then used the injury excuse. Which the question was alread addressing the injury issue... I hate this team.. The infatuation with clutch is going to kill this team.
  7. goonys evil twin
    What? Where do you come up with a random stat like that? First of all, just playing in the majors doesn't mean a darn thing. It doesn't mean a guy was a good draft pick or that he "made it". A cup of coffee is worthless, while a couple years of suckitude doesn't mean anything either. Secondly, when was the last time the Cubs had 10 guys from a draft make the majors? This sounds like blind optimism to me with no basis of support. You don't want people to diss Colvin just because he was drafted by an inept franchise. Well why don't you stop pretending these guys are all great just because they were drafted by the Cubs?
  8. goonys evil twin
    Just having guys from round 5-15 all signed and in camp does not come close to ensuring a few will pan out. Quantity does not equal quality.
  9. goonys evil twin
    Calling somebody an idiot for suggesting an idea like this just goes to show you how backward and unimaginative baseball people are. Could Konerko be any worse than Manny Ramirez in left? Manny's defense hasn't kept the Red Sox from winning. The BS about defense winning championships is just macho talk from a non-physical sport trying to sound as tough as something like football. Corner OF defense doesn't decide games. Having guys who can pound the ball with their bat matters much more.
  10. goonys evil twin
    Nevin has no future with the club and can't help them at all. It would be dumb to hold onto him. They have to get whatever they can in a trade.
  11. goonys evil twin
    A couple reasons: A) Williamson needs to come up in order to show he's healthy and trade him, for that they needed space. B) Aardsma hasn't been pitching all that well. In June he has a 4+ ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 5.91 k/9, 7/4 K/BB ratio. He's pretty much interchangable with Novoa.
  12. goonys evil twin
    So I guess having D Lee behind him would have been a good thing. Same could be said if they had signed Tejada or Vlad when they had the opportunity. The extent at which the Cubune explains fiscal responsibilty to NOT sign a player is one of the main reasons why they currently have this heap called the Cubs this year. Fiscal responsibility means having to overpay for a superior ball player, which down the line will pay dividends. Instead we get scrap heap players signing multi million dollar contracts for multiple years. The way this ball club was put together and how poor a job the front office is doing, is speaking volumes this year. BCB The thing is, the money was available to afford these guys, they chose to spread it out, however, on much less valuable guys. Their theory was 5 players costing $15m is better than 1 guy costing $15m, but it's just not true when 4 of those guys can be replaced with guys making the minimum.
  13. goonys evil twin
    I'm all for him making $10 million for the Cubs next year... ...so long as it's based upon performance incentives. I'd love to see him PROVE he wants to be a Cub his whole career. take the 2 year, $14 million base contract with lots of incentives for innings pitched. I would like the Cubs to try and resign him with IP incentives. I'm just afraid they'll blame 2006 on injuries, and therefore rid themselves of injured players in order to solve the problem. They'll blame the guys who got hurt, without even thinking of the millions wasted on healthy guys who absolutely sucked and the circumstances surrounding those injuries in the first place.
  14. goonys evil twin
    I guess you just didn't look at the numbers. His "clutch" stats aren't routinely better than his regular stats. Sometimes they are a little better, sometimes a little worse, and in the case of this year, his close and late are much worse. He's the same hitter virtually all the time. And that's a very good hitter. So, when you give a very good hitter lots of opportunities to have a bit clutch hits, which is what a great team with great team OBP will give a guy, you will have numerous instances where he'll come through. You'll also have a lot of times when he'll fail, just like every ballplayer has lots of times when they fail. In what universe is .326 .408 .724 worse than 297 .383 .600? Runners on and risp you know he'll have a higher OBP/lower slg. And that's not "sometimes", that's "every year you posted" In 2006 his close and late are worse than his overall. In 2003, for instance, he was better with nobody on than with people on. In 2004, that was reveresed. He tends to have much worse numbers with a man on third than in any other situation, kind of weird. The guy is a really good hitter, and he plays for a team where you are going to have a lot of opportunities to do something notable. And he usually hits in front of one of the best hitters in baseball.
  15. goonys evil twin
    It has been well noted that Baker "has alot of input" into who Hendry goes after. I've heard about Hendry getting "Baker's style guys". . So just having a new manager could be a big plus, because he can knock Hendry on the head, and say "OBP you DOLT!!". But Hendry would have to hire a manager who knows what OBP is and values it in his lineup.
  16. goonys evil twin
    That stat is off. It should go by the last time they were 19 under, which they were at some point in the 2002 season. Games under isn't really as interesting as winning percentage. 67-92 is actually a significantly better W% than where the Cubs are now. How many are we on pace to lose? I figure if you're gonna suck, go all-out and lose 100. 28 - 47, .373 W%. 60 - 102 .370 W% 61 - 101 .377 W%
  17. goonys evil twin
    That stat is off. It should go by the last time they were 19 under, which they were at some point in the 2002 season. Games under isn't really as interesting as winning percentage. 67-92 is actually a significantly better W% than where the Cubs are now.
  18. goonys evil twin
    The funny thing about throwing Nevin into LF against the lhp, with Jones starting as well, is that Murton has much better numbers against LHP than both of those guys. Baker not only hurts the team's future by screwing over a kid who needs to get through his early struggles, but he's hurting the team's current chances by sitting the best active player against that type of pitcher.
  19. goonys evil twin
    I get it. I think it's foolish to think there can be no benefit to losing more today. 1 step back 2 step forward I say.
  20. goonys evil twin
    So in other words, you never say YES.
  21. goonys evil twin
    No, it's not. And it's not even close. It's just shortsided stupidity. Rooting or not rooting for the Cubs has no bearing on what they will do now or in the future. While I understand your point about how rooting for or against the Cubs doesn't affect their performance one way or the other, I do not understand why you state that rooting for them to lose right now is "shortsided [sic] stupidity." In other words, if: a) rooting for or against doesn't make a difference and b) rooting for the team to lose is shortsighted and stupid then c) rooting for the team to win would also be shortsighted and stupid I don't think Soul was arguing that his rooting against the team has tangible short-term benefits. I believe he was simply stating that the continued losing will have tangible long-term benefits. Yeah, what's up with that CubinNY?
  22. goonys evil twin
    http://www.dailyherald.com/sports/story.asp?id=202963
  23. goonys evil twin
    How does Santo call people out? He gets all upset during the game and talks about problems in general, but then he takes a step back and says you can't blame Dusty, guys like Neifi are just great, everybody is trying their hardest. He'll talk about the need for change on one hand and then say nobody should be fired right after that.
  24. goonys evil twin
    It actually would be pretty easy. The questions are being asked because writers know Dusty doesn't have the balls to accept any blame.
  25. goonys evil twin
    I wonder where he would have been after the CWS, where he looked absolutely pitiful.
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