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  1. imb
    Wow, I forgot about nic jackson. I remember buying some of his rookie cards off ebay.
  2. imb
    Mostly lack of upside. He's got 5 tools, but none of them profile as plus. And unless his defense improves, he'll probably be relegated to a corner spot. He's just kinda underwhelming for a first rounder. Edit: That's not to say he's a particularly bad pick or anything... just not the franchise changer we all find ourselves hoping for. Sounds like a Wilken pick to me, high floor low ceiling mediocrity. Bleh We really need more 4th outfielders. Sounds like Brett Jackson. NEBRASKA they're not our problem any more!
  3. imb
    I really think Jungmann is underrated.
  4. imb
    http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?id=6609946 A really long feature on Starling if anyone's interested. Kind of hard not to like him after reading it.
  5. imb
    I only saw Bundy once this year. The other time I saw him he was a freshman 1B for Sperry. To my uneducated eye, Bundy's breaking pitch looked tighter, and Bradley's fastball was much harder. I guess it's an exponential thing since Bundy is supposed to be 95-97. Somehow 99-101 looks more impressive. It might have to do with Bradley physically passing the eye test. Bundy is a workout warrior, but he's pretty unassuming looking when he's not on the mound. Bradley looks like a monster in person.
  6. imb
    Absolutely. You've seen him play, have you not? Many times. His velocity unlike anything I've seen that close up before. I didn't see him at the beginning of this year when he was "struggling" but at the end of the year his velocity was just unnatural.
  7. imb
    My hopes are officially up.
  8. imb
    I feel that way about Starling, Gray and Jed Bradley. Worst case, Starling ends up being Chris Lubanksi (obviously his transformation is weird, but they were similar prospects coming out), Gray is a reliever and Bradley never gets a second pitch.
  9. imb
    Mostly lack of upside. He's got 5 tools, but none of them profile as plus. And unless his defense improves, he'll probably be relegated to a corner spot. He's just kinda underwhelming for a first rounder. Edit: That's not to say he's a particularly bad pick or anything... just not the franchise changer we all find ourselves hoping for. I get so addicted to draft stuff in all sports that I could probably talk myself into just about anyone. Let's pretend the Cubs have the third pick, and Cole and Rendon are off the board. Who's your top 5?
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    I'm wary of the Gray to the pen stuff, even though I guess that could be teams trying to scare other people off. I'm probably just higher on Jungmann because I know more about him since he's a big 12 guy. I also like Springer for the same reasons I like Mahtook, though less so cause of the swing concerns. I'm a sucker for that type of OF, especially now that impact OF bats in the majors are so scarce.
  11. imb
    If Gray and Barnes are the top two pitchers left, I'd rather take Mahtook. He's probably my favorite bat if you take rendon off the list. Edit: If the top 8 goes that way, I'd wany Mahtook or Jungmann. I'd be cool with either.
  12. imb
    It would take a while a long time to do it this way, but the best way to involve the community would be to take nominations for a top 30 list. Cap it at say 60 names. Then start a poll where people pick their top 10 choices. Once you figure out the top 10 vote getters, you ask everybody to rank those 10 in order of their preference. Once that is tabulated, you have your top 10 picks. Then you have another poll of the remaining 50 to get your next 10. I'd prefer it to be drawn out anyway. As bad as the cubs are, I think it should probably end the day before college football starts.
  13. imb
    That would be fun, I'm not sure how you could do it though. I don't it would be as fun if you assigned one person to each spot like a fantasy draft.
  14. imb
    A real shame for you because it was good stuff.
  15. imb
    Just to clarify, you think game threads are short because of sporcle? Uhh, no. Is that what you really took from that (rhetorical question, I know it's not)? I really don't get what you are saying. You seem to be refuting the notion that the board has struggled because of the Cubs struggles and placing the blame mostly on the decision to try out a couple failed side projects. No, I'm not. I'm saying it's a combo. Pretend to not get it again though so I can say it a few more times.
  16. imb
    Oh yeah.
  17. imb
    Just to clarify, you think game threads are short because of sporcle? Uhh, no. Is that what you really took from that (rhetorical question, I know it's not)?
  18. imb
    If the top 8 goes like that, who would you rather take? Murton never had a season even approaching what Mahtook did this year, and he had the advantage of not using the weaker bats that college guys used this year. I'm not an ESPN insider. I saw just the top 5. Who does Law have going 6-7-8? Starling is one, obviously. Starling, Archie Bradley, Joe Ross.
  19. imb
    Right, so what's the problem with Mahtook?
  20. imb
    It's not that message board was neglected, it's that the effort to draw traffic when the team couldn't do it on its own was misplaced. There's always going to be a flow of people coming and going, but people need a reason to stay. Maybe there's no way to do it if the team isn't exciting, but I do know that sporcle and the ducross brothers are not going to keep interest high. That's the reason we have three page game threads where it's just Fred posting walls of stats. Not because erik's an idiot or people are mean.
  21. imb
    I actually really like Mahtook. What am I missing, what's not to like? If the top 8 falls like that I'd be ecstatic that we take a guy like mahtook instead of lindor or something like that. Well, I personally have never seen him projected to go higher than like 16. What I've read about him is that he recently showed some unexpected power but is mostly just an athletic CF with contact issues. He seems like a pretty low-ceiling, safe, up-the-middle Wilken vanilla pick. .383/.496/.709 41/32 BB/KK 29 steals and 14 homers in a year where college power was way down. Wouldn't he immediately jump into our top 3?
  22. imb
    If the top 8 goes like that, who would you rather take? Murton never had a season even approaching what Mahtook did this year, and he had the advantage of not using the weaker bats that college guys used this year.
  23. imb
    It's a combo, I think. The site got popular because the team was exciting. The site got monetized, in part because of the need to cover the traffic but also because the opportunity presented itself. When the popularity of the team waned, the focus was placed on poor (in my opinion) attempts to cover the costs. Maybe there was no way to do it, I don't know, but I think a better option would have been to give people a good reason to be here, instead of the parade of front page articles, ducross bros, etc. I know the idea was that this stuff would give people a reason to click on the front page, but honestly, it should have taken one email from the ducross guys to realize that no one was going to give a [expletive] about what they had to say. Did anyone really think that Meph was going to be able to write stuff that would draw traffic? Or that people were going to be breathlessly awaiting the next Roast article? I think that if you had taken all the effort is all these half-assed ideas and instead, fully fleshed out ONE quality idea and stuck with it, it would have been better in the long run.
  24. imb
    I actually really like Mahtook. What am I missing, what's not to like? If the top 8 falls like that I'd be ecstatic that we take a guy like mahtook instead of lindor or something like that.
  25. imb
    First off I won poster of the decade straight up and that can never be taken away from me. Secondly, I really didn't mean to paint tim as this like, capitalistic jackass figure. It always stuns me how much server costs are, so I'm sure it was a necessary evil. But once that line was crossed, I guess there was no turning back.
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