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  1. goonys evil twin
    Not saying Jones is that sensational or that he should be a #1 priority but there's not any guarantee that Giles or any other names floated on this board are dying to come to the Cubs. Point = Cubs fans need to be flexible and realistic. Jacque Jones SPLIT OBP SLG OPS Season 319 .438 .757 Career .327 .455 .792 Why does flexible and realistic = accept garbage? Jones improves this team in exactly zero ways. This team needs improvement. This OF is desperate for production. Jones is not productive. He's past his prime, and his prime wasn't any good. Jones would be a terrible option for this team, unless they end up with ARod at short and keep Ramirez, Walker and Lee on the IF.
  2. goonys evil twin
    Believe it or not I would prefer to see our OF talent be upgraded via trade if we can't get Giles to a good deal. If they can't get Giles, they have to upgrade via trade. Status quo is completely unacceptable.
  3. goonys evil twin
    But how come Roger Clemens has sucked so often in big playoff games? How come great pitching Greg Maddux was never great in the playoffs? How come Randy Johnson can have so many great regular seasons, so many terrible divisional series games, and so many great non divisional playoff games. Great pitchers lose to great hitters, a lot. This myth that great pitching always beats great hitting is just plain wrong. You need both.
  4. goonys evil twin
    The players have spoken. So if we use that as proof as Cardinal fans as the best fans, we also have to say Dusty Baker is the best manager. You agree with that, K-town? (or don't you take the players word for it?) I agree that the players think that Dusty Baker is the best manager and that St. Louis has the best fans. That's what the players believe. It's their opinion. In the context of the discussion we were having, that's all that matters. What was the context of the discussion, things that said neverland? Neither of those statements means a darn thing.
  5. goonys evil twin
    Jones is a massive offensive liability who would not solve one single problem on this team, only add to the list.
  6. goonys evil twin
    How would you like Lofton at 2/$6m, along with Wilson for 2/$10-14m? Because that's probably the type of people Hendry thinks would help this team. How do you know what Hendry thinks (assuming that's a typo), and yes, I know you said "probably"? Just basing it on his history of overpaying for mediocrity, and ignoring the BB/OBP problem on this team. Lofton, in theory, isn't a bad option. But if Kenny gets more than 1 year, or more than $1-2 million, and he's guaranteed the CF/leadoff job, no matter how he performs, it's a bad move. I actually think it would be kind of interesting to have Corey/Kenny/Greenberg battling for CF. But that would only be acceptable if they go big in RF. And going off Hendry's history, I'm not certain he'd solve that RF problem with an impact bat.
  7. goonys evil twin
    How would you like Lofton at 2/$6m, along with Wilson for 2/$10-14m? Because that's probably the type of people Hendry things would help this team.
  8. goonys evil twin
    Wilson the last couple years was very similar to Corey's career numbers. He doesn't get on base, and that's the single biggest problem with this team. He's overpaid due to some early success and overhype. He would not help this team one bit. The negatives about Wilson have been listed repeatedly.
  9. goonys evil twin
    It's got to be. In fact, I think it's a couple more than that. He's not very efficient.
  10. goonys evil twin
    It's a bargain now, but not because of a hometown discount. It was signed prior to free agency, which always takes away upside potential in a player's contract. That was not considered a discount at the time of signing. And it wasn't a hometown discount. Most teams have a couple instances where a player accepted less than other offers to play there. Mark Grace's non-stop 1 year deals were interpreted to many as being a type of home town discount (any other team would have had to pay much more, as Arizona finally did, to get him to leave). Todd Walker took a reported discounted contract to come to the Cubs.
  11. goonys evil twin
    The pitcher being the most important player on the field doesn't support, at all, the claim that pitching is 90% of baseball. That's just an arbitrary, and inaccurate, statement. Pitching is very important. It's probably beter to have great pitching and just average hitting, than great hitting and just average pitching. But pretending pitching is 90% of the game, and insinuating that all you need to win is pitching is just wrong. Hitting is incredibly important.
  12. goonys evil twin
    I understand what you are saying but have you ever noticed how players sign discounts and waive no-trade clauses just to play in st louis? I love the short memories. Seems to me in the early spring Pujols was getting ripped by fans and media in St. Louis for proclaiming, "No hometown discount". But he did give them a discount. You beat me to it. Besides I'm not saying every player does... just a lot of them. who?
  13. goonys evil twin
    Lidge is a great pitcher Pujols is a great hitter The problem with the "great pitching always beats great hitting" theory is not only is it not true, but it doesn't really tell you anything. On average, pitchers will beat hitters. That's the nature of the game. So, in order to have a great game, or more accurately, a great series of games, a pitcher has to win the vast majority of battles. One mistake can lose it. All a hitter has to do to help his team beat that great pitcher is win the battle occasionally. You have to have a great team to win a lot. A great can consist of great pitching, great hitting, and great defense. More likely than not though, it will not have all three. Whether it's great pitching, good hitting and average defense. Or good pitching, great hitting and good defense, or any other combination, it takes all aspects of baseball to win. Anybody can highlight a single matchup to try and prove the old conventional wisdom as true. But history tells us it takes a lot more than just great pitching to win consistently.
  14. goonys evil twin
    I think Murton is capable of an 800 OPS, but I sure am not penciling him in at that number. I would expect him to provide at least a 750 OPS, and that would be fine at his cost, as long as they get production from the other corner spot. It would have been fine to hand the LF job to Dubois this year, as long as they went with somebody much better than Burnitz.
  15. goonys evil twin
    Just curious, why does a story about Felix getting busted equate to the policy being a joke? Does it have to bust bigger names to make it worthwhile? No. What makes it a joke is that it's either guys that most fans have never heard of or a guy that will probably be out of baseball soon. So you think they're protecting bigger names? If you ask me, it makes perfect sense that the fringe players would be taking the chance of getting caught simply to try and stay in the game. Unfortunately, the best players are rich enough to find the stuff that can't be detected. I wouldn't say that makes the policy a joke, it's just an inherent problem with all steroid testing policies.
  16. goonys evil twin
    Just curious, why does a story about Felix getting busted equate to the policy being a joke? Does it have to bust bigger names to make it worthwhile?
  17. goonys evil twin
    Adam Dunn just shed a tear. Adam Dunn does not have tear ducts.
  18. goonys evil twin
    Things generally happen for teams when they get people on base or successfully steal, regardless who it is. What matters when judging the individual player is the rate at which he does those things successfully. Not at all. That drags the conversation back to looking only at stats again. The whole point was that invidual stats like AVG/OBP/OPS don't tell the whole story in all cases. [edit]The end-game point being that a measuring a player's wroth to his team can't always be ascertained in the indivudal stat column. Win Shares aren't out yet for 2005 that I can find, but it is kind of like trying to evaluate at that level.[/edit] AVG/OBP/SLG does not tell the whole story, but it tells a whole lot more than the romanticists who like perpetuating the myth of intangibles.
  19. goonys evil twin
    Walking and staring at your work is showing up the pitcher, and generally poor sportsmanship. But many people tend to like poor sportsmanship nowadays.
  20. goonys evil twin
    But Pujols does that after every single homerun, what does the playoffs have to do with it?
  21. goonys evil twin
    Things generally happen for teams when they get people on base or successfully steal, regardless who it is. What matters when judging the individual player is the rate at which he does those things successfully.
  22. goonys evil twin
    Which is worse, having a reliever come in to issue the IBB, or having a pinch hitter come in for a pitcher and sac bunt? Donny Buntball did the latter all the time, while Dusty is infamous for the stupid pitching moves. Oh wait, another: a guy with command issues throwing pitch outs.
  23. goonys evil twin
    Wood didn't sign for $12m per year. He's made $8m and $9.5m in 2004/2005, and he'll make $11m in 2006.
  24. goonys evil twin
    But it's not like the Crawford boxes are only there when the Astros are up. The visiting team can also take advantage of the short porch there. Mel Ott hit most of his home runs over a wall that was 275 feet away. Should we take him out of the hall because he probably got a few "cheapies" in his career? It works both ways. There's a difference between making excuses for a loss based on the ballpark, and complaining about the stupidity of the design of the ballpark. It is the same no matter who is batting. But you wouldn't put the fences 150 feet away, or 600 feet away in any new stadium, and it's not because it would be unfair against one team. It's because it's dumb. The short left field porch is a joke. The insane cut-out area in left center is stupid, the center field is pointless. It was a poorly designed ballpark.
  25. goonys evil twin
    http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/cs-051017soxtix,1,7472552.story?coll=cs-home-headlines "Fans wishing to guarantee a seat for the 2005 World Series can make a deposit on 2006 White Sox season tickets and then purchase 2005 World Series tickets. A 50 percent deposit on the 2006 tickets is required. " Some will call this move unfair. I consider it a solid ploy. They don't have a strong season ticket base, a loss in the series, especially if it's ugly, might erase much of the benefit from getting there, in terms of generating excitement for ticket sales next year. Strike while the iron is hot. Sox fans should be all over this. Could you imagine if it was that easy to get Cubs series tickets?
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