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  1. goonys evil twin
    And this was the exact same reputation he had in SF. This shouldn't be any sort of surprise to "baseball people".
  2. goonys evil twin
    Translation: It's not my fault this team sucks. I'm perfect and above reproach. I should get the benefit of the doubt because of injuries, and now that injured guys are back I should be given more leeway because they probably won't be 100% right away. I'm great and my teams are always great unless somebody else screws up. Why can't people remember how great I am? :(
  3. goonys evil twin
    It would be one thing if this team was struggling to stay at .500. You could make an argument that Dusty was getting the most out of the team in that situation. But this team is 18 games under .500. They are playing sub .400 baseball, and have been as bad as a team could be for May and June. You can't give the "see what he can do with everybody" excuse and also talk about how he's a great motivator that gets the most out of players. Part of getting the most out of your pitchers is keeping them healthy, and part of getting the most out of your players is having guys step up when guys go down to injury.
  4. goonys evil twin
    Because the Mets would never trade Wright. He's the franchise.
  5. goonys evil twin
    The Cubs don't, but Tim Wilken does. I don't think so. He's employed by the Cubs, hired by the Hendry/MacPhail regime. That alone is enough to tarnish whatever image he had coming in. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt since he has full control of draft decisions. I can't help but maintain a large amount of skepticism about any decision made by anybody involved with this organization.
  6. goonys evil twin
    couldn't resist! What's wrong with that? It's a highly likely scenario and I don't see it as a terrible excuse. Good Lord. What's wrong with it? It's another excuse that Dusty is using to defend the team's poor play. There is no excuse for this team to have the record it has, but Dusty will do his best to try and find it.
  7. goonys evil twin
    I'd rather have a guy like Theriot on the team than Neifi or Womack.
  8. goonys evil twin
    Why did he have to? Because futbol would fail to exist without pansy boys flopping and getting calls? Because he got fouled. It wasn't an intentional foul but Grosso tripped over Neill. I'll give you that Grosso sold it and may have tried to trip over Neill but the fact remains that he tripped and Neill preventened, albeit unintentionally, a shot at goal. It's not like Grosso jumped over Neill and went down. There was contact and Grosso sold it well. The referee had no choice but to call it. A foul or infraction doesn't have to be intentional to get called. I don't know the rules, so I can't comment on whether it should have been called. But the defender was motionless on the ground, and the other guy could have easily stepped over him or gone around, but he purposefully tapped his toe on the guy and dove. That, and the endless barrage of 0-0 and 1-0 games is why this sport won't make it in the US.
  9. goonys evil twin
    Why did he have to? Because futbol would fail to exist without pansy boys flopping and getting calls?
  10. goonys evil twin
    That line of thinking is what has kept the Cubs in this perpetual cycle of mediocrity, which has only been sidetracked by brief periods of modest success and spectaculiar failure. The fact is most veteran free agents aren't worth a darn thing. Guys get paid because there's a lot of money out there and not enough players to spend it on. Just because they can spend the money doesn't mean they should. I would much rather have multiple young players making next to nothing, saving the money for actual difference makers, than a bunch of overpaid veteran retreads. A $100 million payroll still leaves plenty of space for 5-6 $325,000 first/second year players, including young players in important roles. The Cubs should rebuild if they want to even achieve greatness. This "reload" rhetoric is nothing but talk that leads to nothing but continued trouble.
  11. goonys evil twin
    8) is now just plain ole 8) as in (8). http://www.northsidebaseball.com/PremiumForum/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif is now '8-)' http://www.northsidebaseball.com/PremiumForum/images/smiles/L33T.gif Sweet 8-)
  12. goonys evil twin
    Put a rather abrupt end to my run up the standings.
  13. goonys evil twin
    Jim Duquette made the deal. He's now with Baltimore.
  14. goonys evil twin
    There's no reason he can't do both for the next 3 months. He's got plenty of assistants in the front office area, as well as Andy. He could have coaches run the day to day on field operations.
  15. goonys evil twin
    I actually like the theory behind that strategy. Too bad he'll only use it for an aging veteran that won't help this team do a darned thing. And too bad they didn't think that way with Nomar, instead of just assuming from the start he couldn't help at another position.
  16. goonys evil twin
    Sometimes I feel like I go a little overboard in my desperate pleas for more walks by Cubs hitters. But then I look at stuff like this and feel absolutely justified.
  17. goonys evil twin
    The previous regime did.
  18. goonys evil twin
    Good thing they aren't striking out, because we all know the key to winning is just putting the ball in play.
  19. goonys evil twin
    The Cubs don't, but Tim Wilken does. I don't think so. He's employed by the Cubs, hired by the Hendry/MacPhail regime. That alone is enough to tarnish whatever image he had coming in.
  20. goonys evil twin
    Of course Boise and Mesa have played 10 games combined and the top talent hasn't even played (Colvin, Samardzija, Rundle and a couple other intriguing prospects like Huseby and Renshaw). Way too early to get an idea either way. And this from someone who roundly criticized the draft. Did all of their competition have all their top talent playing from the get-go?
  21. goonys evil twin
    Yes. No matter how you slice it drafting Colvin was pretty much a waste. Wow. I understand we reached for him, but give the kid a couple years before you call him a "waste." Agreed. He was STILL considered a 1st rd guy. So, if for nothing else, he went about 15 picks before he should have gone. But Tyler Colvin, will be a very good player for the Cubs. It's too early to call a kid a waste but it's not too early to say a kid will be a very good player for the Cubs? I don't get the logic there. We'll be lucky if he turns into a mediocre major league regular.
  22. goonys evil twin
    Didn't watch the game. What was the tirade? I watched part of the game. I remember Bob going off on the team for the repeated mistakes, including baserunning. He said something "even a healthy team couldn't win playing like this" and may have said the Cubs don't look like they want to win. I wasn't paying close attention though.
  23. goonys evil twin
    Just as long as he doesn't treat him like he treated this guy: http://www.themodernapprentice.com/osprey.jpg
  24. goonys evil twin
    Thank you. Aramis might not be a a longterm solution either. There is no way we can be sure he will be back next year. It would still be a lot easier to keep him than find somebody who can fill the job, even if he does opt out.
  25. goonys evil twin
    Actually, Marmol's future might be as a closer. Marmol also could use some more development time in the minor leagues. I'd send Marmol to AAA and let Hill come up and start for a series of 5 or 6 starts and see what happens. But didn't some people also think that Zambrano's "future" was possibly at closer? I know the Cubs toyed with the idea of making Z a reliever ( :roll: ) but atleast they went away from it. My opinion is....let Marmol prove where he belongs, if he can't cut the mustard as a starter, fine, maybe closer, but until then, I still consider Marmol a starter. I agree, but the Cubs don't have to find out of Marmol is a good starter now. He's got time to develop, and probably needs more time to develop. Hill is running out of time and they have to find out now.
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