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Yes, I am too. There was a game or two earlier in the year when he took out the word fine but it's back. He probably got reemed by the front office.
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Going to Wrigley on Wednesday - Looking for Sign Suggestions
srbin84 replied to bobbyd20's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
If only we had Shaq and his Spanish skills to start a chant. -
They'll just bribe the cops to push us back into Wisconsin.
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Fixed.
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Let's title it "Common Sense" and make it about why we should all become Cardinals/White Sox fans (purely out of spite).
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Going to Wrigley on Wednesday - Looking for Sign Suggestions
srbin84 replied to bobbyd20's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I paid $20 to go to a Cubs game and all I got was a sore [expletive]. P.S.-That's assuming you don't walk out by the third inning in disgust. -
I think Roy will turn out be like Hinrich. He's a guy who is as close to a sure thing to be a good player as there is but unlikely to be a star player.
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I pretty much agree. I am not going to work myself into a lather over this anymore. It was a good sign that Prior that was in low 90s all night, and topped out at 96 (I think), only b/c it increases his trade value. That's really all I care about at this point....and what the Bulls do on Wed. night. Trading Prior would be downright silly. As much as I love Prior, where would we be right now if we had pulled the trigger on the Miguek Tejada trade? We'd be a better team at this point, simply because Prior hasn't contributed much at all to this season. On the other hand, I'm not sure we'd be over 500. Had Hendry traded Prior for Tejada, he likely would have moved Cedeno to second and dumped Walker for peanuts. So, Tejada's production would be in the place of Walker rather than Cedeno. the cubs wouldn't be anywhere near .500 if you simply subbed tejada for walker. not even close. It doesn't mean they shouldn't have made the trade though. I'm not sure that it was ever on the table, but if it was, it's possible it could turn out to be a Lou Brock type thing. the prior-tejada situation couldn't be any more different than the lou brock trade. I'm just saying if Prior continues down the path he's been on since 2003, it would be like a reverse Brock trade because we kept next to nothing when we could have got something very good.
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A few games ago Len said the Cubs were 8-12 in their last 20. I was impressed. That's when you know it's going bad.
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If I had to pick one, I guess it would be the Marlins because they are always broke but have the foundation of their third world series winner since 1997.
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I posted a question on ESPN.COM Chat with Steve Phillips.
srbin84 replied to C.C.'s topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Well, that's all on Hendry. Just because someone tells you to jump off a bridge doesn't mean you do it. What if you hired that person to tell you to do it? And then, while brutally falling, hitting rocks and such on the way down you continue to sing his praises and insinuate that you would like to pay him more money for more years to come? I think you just agreed with me. Hendry is a moron, and IMO, a much bigger problem than Baker, although both need to go. -
I'm not sure why Boston would need Duhon with the guards they have already, but I'd make that trade. I wouldn't trade Deng though, not even in a Garnett or Pierce deal.
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I posted a question on ESPN.COM Chat with Steve Phillips.
srbin84 replied to C.C.'s topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Well, that's all on Hendry. Just because someone tells you to jump off a bridge doesn't mean you do it. -
It's rivaling '99 for the worst I've seen.
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Maybe it's time to load up the shotgun.
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I pretty much agree. I am not going to work myself into a lather over this anymore. It was a good sign that Prior that was in low 90s all night, and topped out at 96 (I think), only b/c it increases his trade value. That's really all I care about at this point....and what the Bulls do on Wed. night. Trading Prior would be downright silly. As much as I love Prior, where would we be right now if we had pulled the trigger on the Miguek Tejada trade? We'd be a better team at this point, simply because Prior hasn't contributed much at all to this season. On the other hand, I'm not sure we'd be over 500. Had Hendry traded Prior for Tejada, he likely would have moved Cedeno to second and dumped Walker for peanuts. So, Tejada's production would be in the place of Walker rather than Cedeno. the cubs wouldn't be anywhere near .500 if you simply subbed tejada for walker. not even close. It doesn't mean they shouldn't have made the trade though. I'm not sure that it was ever on the table, but if it was, it's possible it could turn out to be a Lou Brock type thing.
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We'll never know if saving Prior and Wood the 10 or so innings they pitched extra in blowout games would have made the difference between them staying healthy since then or not. It was nevertheless stupid, but with modern medicine the way it is now, I just cannot see how anyone could rationally say that he ruined their careers by doing that. If nothing changes for those guys five years from now, are those same people going to give them a lifetime mulligan because of 2003? I don't see many/any others in baseball doing it now, so I doubt anyone will then.
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I posted a question on ESPN.COM Chat with Steve Phillips.
srbin84 replied to C.C.'s topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I'm kind of curious what record you guys think the Cubs would have if they had a different manager this year. Pick anyone alive and say what record you think they would have. I think Baker should be fired, and I don't think he is a good manager, but I think this team has such a bad record because it's bad. If I could pick any manager alive, I'd pick Bobby Cox, and I'd say we'd have 5 more wins max. -
Very few burst onto the scene. The Cubs got scene bursters with Wood and Prior. But they abused the heck out of them and couldn't keep them healthy. That's one of the big problems with devoting the vast majority of your minor league system to pitching. Pitching is unreliable. And who are all these other teams with first year guys tearing it up from the outset? It just doesn't happen all that frequently. The difference is most other teams don't send a guy down for struggling and blame their struggles on the kid. The Yankees for instance have an impotent Melky out there everyday and he's as much of an OF butcher as any Cubs fielder. Just about every team has at least one. Let's look at our division for example: Elizardo Ramirez, SP, Reds Prince Fielder, 1B, Brewers Ronny Paulino, C, Pirates Anthony Reyes, SP, Cardinals Adam Wainwright, RP, Cardinals Ok, so the Astros also don't have one. I could go through the other divisions and find similar players, but I think you get my point.
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Maybe you just don't understand player development in baseball. Players don't just step onto the field and improve in a straight line. Almost all of them suffer setbacks. To "blame" a rookie, or get upset with a young player for experience normal setbacks in his career is just plain old illogical. Out of like 10 guys, why can't we have a couple who just come up, start playing well or get good quick? I'm sick of watching the other teams have guys like that while we have to wait for what may or may not ever come. Sometimes you have to. Not everybody is going to burst on the scene but some should be.
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And my biggest concern about our rookies is the lack of improvement most of them show. They've either played worse from the start of their careers until now or they've been exactly the same as they played their first game.
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You won't hold vets accountable to the standards of their contract but you will criticize young players who struggle when they enter the big leagues? No, I said guys like Ramirez, Prior, Wood and Pierre flat out stink. I'm not going to pile on Jones most of all because I think he is doing what he has always done. You can't down him for that. Perez and Rusch aren't major league players (maybe last guy in the pen or last guy on the bench at best ). This seemed obvious a year or two ago. Like I said with the rookies, they either should be playing better (in which case I blame them) or they aren't that good. If it is the second circumstance, I don't blame them. I blame Hendry and the scouts. You're right about that. I'm not going to blame a guy for doing the best he can do if that happens to be bad. I blame the people that put him on the team.
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Fine, but the fact remains it's silly to expect similar production out of a $350,000 kid and $5 million vets, and it's absurd to point the blame for team failure on the kids when so many vets have failed. Agreed, but I think a lot of our vets are overpaid. I'm not going to hold them to the standards their contracts set. I blame Hendry for that. Certain guys are just flat out underachieving (Ramirez, Prior, Wood, Pierre). Others are doing as good as they can do but are getting paid too much to do it, so it looks worse (Jones, Perez, Rusch).
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I highly doubt that. Baker is blaming his team's failings on the kids, which in his mind will be the legitimate reason not to play kids in the future. He will look back at the time he did play them and they let him down, point that out to his critics and go from there. Dusty isn't saying the kid's struggles have contributed to the team struggles, he's said the kids are the reason for the team's struggles. He's got crap veterans playing like crap and they keep getting props for giving it their all, but the kids get called out repeatedly for not doing the job. It's quintessential Baker, make excuses for the losses, push the blame away from himself, and humiliate young players all at once. I know Baker's history, but I'm still going to hold the young players accountable because they are either not that good or should be playing better. There are bigger problems, yes, but this is one of them. Baker should be taking blame too, and he isn't, and he is wrong for that.
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Z for sure. Like I said a month ago, Ross and McCann are more worthy than Barrett. Barrett makes it as the third catcher so long as neither Ausmus nor Martin are selected.
