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  1. goonys evil twin
    I'm not saying I'm against giving guys rest. But if you have guys like Rusch in your rotation, it's not a bad idea. If I had a nice set 5 man, I'd be all about the rest whenever possible. I just don't think the 1 day of extra rest in April is all that helpful, or as helpful as a couple extra days in June/July.
  2. goonys evil twin
    He has left the door open, but I think it's no more than a token gesture. I think he really likes having a lefty in the rotation, and appreciates what Rusch has done while believing he'd be a great 5th starter. It's just unfortunate that he's already the likely 4th, and probably won't be bumped even if Wood returns.
  3. goonys evil twin
    I would not have a problem skipping the 5th guy early. I don't think the extra day off here and there is helpful that early in the season. I do think you should find way to skip guys by June/July though. 12 pitchers is dumb though, and 8 relievers is asinine, but very Cubslike as well.
  4. goonys evil twin
    I am a huge Cubs fan who spends an inordinate amount of time and a good chunk of change every year to see them play on TV, as well as in person, in Chicago and several road cities (but to be fair, when I see them in NY it's free 95% of the time - and better seats). But I have never once had any interest whatsoever in going to the convention. It seems to me to be a celebration of 100 years of failure (or at least the past 40-50 of those years of failure) with no real information coming from the team or serious discussion on what can be done to improve the team. It's a giant PR event.
  5. goonys evil twin
    I'm asking for a world series championship.
  6. goonys evil twin
    Possibly because a lot of people don't believe in clutch. I think guys can be bad, below average, average, above average or good. Throughout their career they may fluctuate, maybe up and down, maybe like a bell curve.
  7. goonys evil twin
    Yeah, I'm not envisioning anything be addressed that I want to be addressed. It's not like you can sit down and have a back and forth conversation where you can more or less call them out on their BS.
  8. goonys evil twin
    [Clutch discussion quotes moved to the Clutch or Not thread]. If Hendry can trade for Lugo without giving up much, it'll be a clutch trade. And if Dusty can find a way to start Cedeno and Lugo, leaving Neifi ono the bench but for a handful of at bats this year, it'll be clutch strategy on his part.
  9. goonys evil twin
    I've heard the "in the mix" talk before from both Dusty and Hendry. Makes sense. I wonder if what you say is accurate, and if it means anything since Hendry said we have 3 middle infielders in the mix, Cedeno, Neifi and Hairston, leaving out Walker. Is there a conflight here where Dusty wants Walker and to get rid of Hairston, while Hendry wants Hairston and to get rid of Walker? I'd be pretty surprised if Dusty said Walker was the starter, but the fact that he said "as of now" leaves open the very real possibility that he's just playing diplomat and is very much on the get rid of Todd bandwagon.
  10. goonys evil twin
    Actually they'll just say they are not assuming Kerry will miss any time. Sad but probably true. Edit: Also, they'll mention that Kerry "wanted" to pitch. That is a very good point. "He wanted to go back out there." The standard answer to any "why did you keep him in" question.
  11. goonys evil twin
    Jones is obviously the less bad hitter, making Perez the worse option for #2. Of course Perez is the lesser of any two options regardless who the other player is. But wouldn't you want Slappy McNostick batting 2nd to bunt, hit-and-run with Pierre on base? That way Jones could break up the parade of RH hitters toward the back of the order. No, not at all. I don't think there is any value in having a bunter hit 2nd, he's more likely to hit into a ton of DPs than provide many successful hit and runs. Perhaps if the leadoff guy was a .400+ OBP kind of guy, I could live with a .300 OBP 2nd hitter who bunts a lot. But there is no value in Pierre's speed if you have to have Neifi continually bunting him over. And I don't put much stock into "breaking up the RF hitters". I'd want Jones hitting 6th or 7th because he's no better than a 6th or 7th hitter, not because the 3-8 will be RH if he's not there.
  12. goonys evil twin
    Which probably means then that nobody asked him who his starting 2B was, or at least Dusty never said Walker is the starter. He may have said Walker is still here so he's in the mix, and people may have assumed that since Walker was the started last year, that if he's still here, Dusty will start him again.
  13. goonys evil twin
    Actually they'll just say they are not assuming Kerry will miss any time.
  14. goonys evil twin
    How can you hate that which you do not know? jack bauer is dead to me. And to most everybody else, see he died last season, at least, that's what I gathered from the couple episodes I saw. But wait, what about that ending....... Oh my god, he's not dead! Holy .....
  15. goonys evil twin
    I've got a better one for you. Guys that want to sit here and read gossip stories are like women. The only reason I brought that up was to make a point (seeing things first hand) that Lugo is NOT the ONLY one with these character issues. I by no means wanted to turn this into an AOL gossip/story chatline...... Well I don't want to hear the stories regardless. But if you say you got stories, you better expect people to ask what they are. First of all, your are DEAD wrong when you say players are not predictable in situational hitting. Ever hear of the phrase "Clutch Hitter??" Some players are born for those types of situations. Regardless, nobody said that was ALL that was being analyzed. We are bringing in situational hitting to compliment what we already know about Lugo (last year's stats as well as his career stats). But if it makes you feel better, then let's look at Lugo's stat line from last year: .295avg/.362obp/182 hits/39 steals/36 doubles/6 triples. Compare those numbers to the rest of the league, and justify for me why you wouldn't want this guy to be your starting 2nd/SS????? Yeah I've heard of clutch hitter, and it's a myth. I'm not dead wrong, players aren't predictable. If they were, they'd repeat those "clutch" stats year after year, but they don't. I'd have no problem with Lugo as my shortstop. But it has nothing to do with the myth of clutchiness.
  16. goonys evil twin
    Yes, gleaned. Maybe not verbatim, but it definitely seems to be a much different scenario than Bruce's column. I agree with you. If Baker had actually been asked those questions, I have no doubt he would have been directly quoted (i.e. in quotation marks and all with no confusing introductions). But apparently, Baker was pretty upbeat and probably made a couple general comments from which this article is written. They're not Baker's words, but they're based upon the general sentiment he portrayed Thursday, IMO. So you think Baker gave the impression to those in attendance that Todd Walker was going to be the starting second baseman?
  17. goonys evil twin
    Yes, gleaned. Maybe not verbatim, but it definitely seems to be a much different scenario than Bruce's column. Perhaps it's different because Dusty never said what either guy wrote they think he will say. Talking about how a guy "is on the team right now" is pretty standard Cubs speak. He's probably generalizing here, and not quoting Dusty, or even paraphrasing.
  18. goonys evil twin
    They spent over $5m on Jones, and will spend a good chunk of Pierre. They could also use some of that money on extensions for guys like Zambrano, Prior or Lee. Even though they said they would have gone for Pierre and Furcal, we really don't know that for sure. And you can't really talk about Furcal money and the need to spend it elsewhere. At the end of the day we should just expect them to spend a little more on players this year than they did last year, when it was about $100m.
  19. goonys evil twin
    Gleaned, not quoted. He's giving his best guess on how Dusty will answer the questions, this is not what Dusty said, even if he tried to write it in Dusty speak.
  20. goonys evil twin
    Not my style to get into all that, but there sure are some good ones.... If it's not your style to tell, you probably shouldn't even mention the supposed stories that you do have. It's like a guy talking about how much tail he gets, then pretending to take the high road by not saying who it was. That has been discussed plenty. And really it doesn't "matter most". Situational hitting is not a predicatable number. Guys can go from years where they end up great in certain situations and terrible in the same situation the next year. Over time it tends to even out. Those numbers tell us nothing about who the Cubs should go after. A guy could easily go out and repeated his season stats but completely reverse his splits in those situations. You should never make personel decisions based on situational stats, it will burn you.
  21. goonys evil twin
    Jones is obviously the less bad hitter, making Perez the worse option for #2.
  22. goonys evil twin
    I'm assuming Baker never said those words, and that the Cubs will continue on the path they've made clear all offseason, dumping Walker. He made it clear that he was making up the quotes by saying this is how he will respond to the Q&A, not "this is what Dusty said when asked these questions today."
  23. goonys evil twin
    I know this is tongue-in-cheek (sort of), but NOTHING worries me more about this roster than my deep-seeded (and I think justified) fear that this is EXACTLY what management is planning. I'm not sure NOTHING worries me more, but that is pretty close. I'm betting Neifi is in the 2 hole at least once by the 2nd week of the season. Other worries are that a slow start by Cedeno at shortstop will lead to a middle infield of Neifi and Hairston, while a slow start by Murton will lead to Grissom getting 100+ starts. There's also the worry that some random veteran will have an unbelievable April, but, while that will be great for the team in April, it'll likely lead to an unjustified number of PA the rest of the year. I'm also worried that Rusch will get 30 starts with an ERA near 5. There's also the chance that Pierre will sign some ridiculous contract extension that will bog down this lineup even further for years to come. These are all just fears of mismanagement, and I haven't even gotten into the fears of what could go wrong with the players themselves.
  24. goonys evil twin
    You guys seem so paranoid. Why would a journalist misrepresent Baker in this situation? Because like others he is writing what he thinks Baker will say in the Q&A. The Q&A with fans hasn't happened yet, so it's rather impossible to say what Baker's answer to these questions from fans in the Q&A will be. How is this at all paranoid?
  25. goonys evil twin
    This is where you'd need a follow-up. Okay, so he said you couldn't do more damage, but given the likelihood that Wood will not be ready for opening day, would you not have been better off having him get the surgery a month earlier and starting his rehab earlier? And even though the doctor said he wouldn't suffer anymore damager, wouldn't common sense tell you that a pitching injury could be made worse by pitching? And given your terrible track record of having pitchers stay healthy, and get back to healthy after injuries, don't you think that taking the cautious approach with this one, would have been the wise approach?
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