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  1. goonys evil twin
    Dusty has a reputation for always finding something to blame when his team comes up short, other than his own failure. We've heard nothing but excuses out of him for years, and I highly doubt he'll be accepting any responsibility for where this team is at. Because, in case you forget, his teams always have great fundamentals and always play deep in October.
  2. goonys evil twin
    Why do we want Wood to be of high value? If he's low value, then we can re-sign him much cheaper in the offseason since he's not going to get big bucks from these teams that view him so poorly. If he's got a high value, we just lose a high value guy to another team. He's got a NTC so he's not going anywhere. If he's high value you pick up the option, no questions asked. What good does letting him walk do? It's not like Jim is capable of using that $13m wisely on other players. He'll just spread it around to a group of completely replacable mediocrities.
  3. goonys evil twin
    Briggs would be great if he wasn't a threat to be gone in a year. Tommie Harris would be a good one, if you're looking for a guy who might be a star and stay around for a long time.
  4. goonys evil twin
    Why are they necessarily inherited runners? Those runners could have been given up by him.
  5. goonys evil twin
    I read that hack job about Mathews, written by the great apologist for everybody Fred Mitchell. The contention that the coaches have done all they can do and it's up to the players to execute is nothing more than lazy coaching. It's not just the coaches job to tell the players what to do, it's their job to make sure the players know what to do. If the players aren't executing what the coaches are coaching, then the coaches aren't doing a good enough job of coaching.
  6. goonys evil twin
    You can't assume a player cares or tries to get better? That should be the assumption at all times for all athletes unless it can be proved untrue. Why? Because we call them "professionals"? That's a label we brandish on all of these guys without regard for whether they earn it and/or display the qualities the term implies. We certainly don't assume that in other walks of life, why should we do it for athletes? I don't think goony's saying we are to assume that every player cares intensely and sees as their life's goal to succeed in baseball. He's just saying that they deserve the Benefit of the Doubt. If this is what he's saying, I completely agree. This is what I'm saying. Ricky Williams proved he doesn't care.
  7. goonys evil twin
    You can't assume a player cares or tries to get better? That should be the assumption at all times for all athletes unless it can be proved untrue.
  8. goonys evil twin
    Well, once other teams start looking to make trades, the Cubs will become an issue again.
  9. goonys evil twin
    And because of this we can't say anything bad about Jones? Everybody has their guy they want to defend through thick and thin. And they use the same tired defense for everybody. Don't pick on Dusty because others have failed as well. Don't pick on Neifi because others have failed as well. Don't pick on Jones because others have failed as well. Jacque Jones is not the Cubs biggest problem. I didn't say he was. But he played a large role in the collapse of the team, and his OBP is still terrible. He turned it on after they had collapsed, and if there is any hope of the team getting back into the race, they'll need him to keep it going. But history indicates there's little chance of that.
  10. goonys evil twin
    Fred, take 2 seconds to look at what I wrote, over the course of games that the Cubs began the tank, he sure as heck did suck. I acknowledged the great game on May 10, and how he's settled into a better range since then. But he did indeed suck during that string of games I mentioned. Just because you change the range of dates from what I was talking about doesn't mean I'm wrong.
  11. goonys evil twin
    Why do people always insist on saying this? Because he was absolutely horrible with the Cubs. Corey's pre-2006 career #'s were Neifi Perez like. Why does that mean he didn't care? Good point, with Corey it was more of an image in the minds of Cubs fans. There are certain fans that saw him in Spring Training and during the season and could have been justified in believing that Corey lacked the motivation necessary to be a good player or that he was a team player. Some of Corey's past coaches and managers have questioned his desire to win and ability to change. Reporters have mentioned the same..... But I agree that if it came down to it there are arguments to be made on either side. Btw I didn't mean to hijack the thread with more Corey arguments. I've never heard a good argument in support of the claim he didn't care or try.
  12. goonys evil twin
    Pujols was a wirey cat when he first came into the league. http://www.helloindianapolis.com/indianapolis/images/Kaiser%20sitting%201914.jpg He didn't start taking HGH until his 93rd birthday in 2000, when he changed his name as well.
  13. goonys evil twin
    Teams lose expensive players all the time. And the Cubs knew the injury risk a long time ago. Not to mention, they are very likely largely responsible for the injury situation given their usage of those players.
  14. goonys evil twin
    You don't see how they could use two guys with pop on the bench? Nevin is not a poor man's Wilson. Besides the fact that he costs more than twice as much, Nevin is 6 years older, and coming off a season with a 79 OPS+, compared to Wilson's 112. And Craig is running circles around Nevin now. Wilson could start for this team in LF, moving Murton into a platoon with Jones, which blows the doors off the current OF production. Nevin is the backup for 1B and 3B, and a pinch hitter. Wilson is a legit starter.
  15. goonys evil twin
    A .317 OBP is absolutely terrible. A .500 SLG and 30 homers is better than average though. It balances out to be a solid season for what he his being paid. We'll see. First he'd have to put up that SLG, which would be the 2nd highest in his career. Remember, he's got a history of hot starts, and he routinely fades as the season goes along. And OBP should be weighed more heavily than SLG.
  16. goonys evil twin
    A .317 OBP is absolutely terrible.
  17. goonys evil twin
    They're paying all but $375,000 of his salary. I don't think this is accurate. If it was they'd be saving money overall, after giving up Hairston's ~$1.5 remaining. I thought they were taking on an additional $375k after all was said and done, which means they've got to be paying Nevin about $1.875m and Texas is paying about $4.9m of the remaining, more or less. That figure came from the Trib. If that were true, that would mean the Cubs either decreased payroll after this trade, or are paying Hairston's salary (which would be some odd and unnecessary bookwork.)
  18. goonys evil twin
    Perhaps you could quanitfy which specific range you're referring to instead of these vague timeframes. Exact dates and post some numbers. This is what I wrote. That's some questionable logic. On April 28 the Cubs were 13-8 and Jacque Jones was hitting .231/.281/.500. On May 9 the Cubs were 14-18 and JJ was hitting .244/.289/.444.. It was a direct reaction to the inaccurate statement that "when Jones struggled, the Cubs were winning. The Cubs were 13-8 on April 28 (high water mark over .500). Between then and May 9 Jones was pretty much the same player, with a slight uptick in OBP and a noticable downturn in SLG. I'm not going through all those games and calculating the total, but if his numbers went in bad, and they came out just as bad, it's pretty safe to say he was bad. Jones had a big day on May 10 and the Cubs won. But the die had already been cast. They were way under and in a tailspin. Since that May 10 big day, his numbers have settled into a better range. He played better after the team was already a joke. The Cubs problems didn't just start after Jones got hot. He was a big part of their fall. And you simply cannot ignore his overall bad OBP (the teams greatest weakness for several years now), as well as the multiple pickoffs that torpedoes potentially big innings.
  19. goonys evil twin
    They're paying all but $375,000 of his salary. I don't think this is accurate. If it was they'd be saving money overall, after giving up Hairston's ~$1.5 remaining. I thought they were taking on an additional $375k after all was said and done, which means they've got to be paying Nevin about $1.875m and Texas is paying about $4.9m of the remaining, more or less.
  20. goonys evil twin
    http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5648268?CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=49 Note that Perry has Ronny's OBP and SLG transposed. I wouldn't mind Ronny getting on base at .377. For a second I thought I was really misjudging Ronny's season.
  21. goonys evil twin
    Neifi was booed at least twice last night. The first pitch groundout following the Pierre single around the 6th or 7th inning really seemed to get the crowd going. And the announcers actually sounded pissed as well. What a pathetic effort by Neifi. But it's nothing knew.
  22. goonys evil twin
    Fred was wrong though. And so were you. Jones sucked between late April and mid-may. He didn't pick it up until after the team was well below .500, a little bit of too little too late if you want to stop people from complaining. Jones sucking played a huge role in bringing the Cubs down. It had nothing to do with his season stats at the time. He was crap going in, and crap throughout that string of games. He started to hit in mid May, after the Cubs were toast. I don't understand everybody's desire to gloss over the weakness of this team, of which, Jones is one.
  23. goonys evil twin
    But when they actually started playing poorly, he was still really bad.
  24. goonys evil twin
    The big difference between Jones and Aramis/Pierre is that a .317 OBP and near .500 SLG is what fans should expect out of Jones, while Aramis and Pierre are playing below the level they should be at. If .317/.500 out of RF is a problem, it's Hendry's fault (who unfortunately is a huge part of the problem). No doubt.
  25. goonys evil twin
    He's doing what he can, but his presence still hurts the team overall. He sucked while the team was tanking. He's turned it on now that the team hit rock bottom. It's better than nothing, but it ain't good. And you can't just gloss over bad OBP, it's an enormous liability. No, Goony, he did not suck when the team was tanking. Over the last 5 weeks, while the CUBS have gone 8-25, Jones has put up the following line.... Fred, go back and read all of what I wrote in regards to this situation. From late April to early May, when the tanking started, Jones sucked. He's picked it up of late, long after the team was in the crapper. Good for him. Doesn't really help much though.
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