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  1. Elrhino
    Or Julio Lugo, as many were clamoring for.
  2. Elrhino
    A lot of players cut their teeth in the big leagues in a platoon situation, much less second tier prospects like Murton. He's gotten over 100 AB's and we're into June. The "platoon is screwing up Murton" excuse is stale and wearing thin and seems to be more of a pet peeve to some than anything that holds any real substance. I don't see how anyone could claim we're burying the young guys. We currently have Marmol, Guzman and Marshall all brought up and contributing. Theriot has gotten a lot more extensive playing time then I foresaw in March. The only young guy that maybe should be playing is Pie, and I'd rather take the cautionary route with him since he appears to be the only positional organizational prospect the Cubs have developed worth a darn in the last two decades. The comparisons to the mid 90's Yankees are silly. If we had Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada in the high minors I have no doubt they would be playing. Unfortunately, we got Ronny Cedano, Matt Murton, Rocky Cherry, Neal Cotts and Micah Hoffpauir.
  3. Elrhino
    Corey = poor man's Odibe McDowell Corey was another great athlete who was a horrible baseball player. There were a million to come before, and there will be a million to come along after. To blame it on Dusty is absolutely ridiculous. Corey had plate discipline problems from Day 1, and despite claims to the contrary it often times can't be taught. I wonder how many of those who claim his development was "botched" were the same ones clamoring for him to be brought up when he obviously had huge, huge holes in his game.
  4. Elrhino
    Beane manages the A's? The way Beane goes through managers, even winning managers, it's pretty apparent that he pulls the strings in the entire organization. Or does he just to get to pin all of the blame on the managers for things going wrong, while receiving all the credit when things go right?
  5. Elrhino
    I've been listening to Cub fans "reverse jinx" (aka gripe and moan) for 35 years, and it hasn't worked yet.
  6. Elrhino
    Now its Harden and Street with chronic arm problems. Beane must be overworking his pitchers. 8-)
  7. Elrhino
    Its really not good when you're a defensive liability at 1st base and you can't crack the .600 OPS barrier.
  8. Elrhino
    I wonder if DeRosa's finger injury and perhaps DL possibility lights a flame under this rumor.
  9. Elrhino
    Being a Machine Operator for 30k a year is a job. Being a professsional baseball player....and being paid millions of dollars to do so....is a GIFT! Don't delude yourself. It's all relative. To a large percentage of the world's population, making 30k US is an outrageously luxurious salary. Try going to India or China some time and complaining that you're trying to make ends meet at $30k US a year. You know, there was time not so long ago when even upper middle class American families only owned ONE television set, ONE family car and siblings actually had to share bedrooms? Before things were massed produced and made cheap , worrying about putting "food on the table" wasn't just a figure of speech. People actually worried about putting food on the table. They couldn't just drive up to the McDonald's Value Menu and order 4,000 calories with the change they find between their seat cushions. So given how good the average American family has it to the rest of the world, and even previous generations of Americans, I guess they can no longer stress or worry about money? If you don't think money isn't a major influence on almost everyone's lives, you have an amazing lack of knowledge about the human condition.
  10. Elrhino
    Generally all sinker ballers have problems at the beginning of games as they tend to overthrow early in the game and their ball doesn't get enough movement. Its doubly true for someone as emotionally high strung as Z. I think his contract situation and impending free agency is also playing with his head. If he starts to mentally meltdown after a BB or fielding error, imagine what the added pressure of knowing this season could make or break him another $25-40 million in potential earnings could do to him.
  11. Elrhino
    The Murton apologists are absolutely shameless. High school kids should be able to routinely catch that flyball.
  12. Elrhino
    If Murton is so limited that he can't play both corner positions at 25 years old, he really is a AAAA player.
  13. Elrhino
    Cubs need Aram or Lee to bring in the runs before Murton can leave anymore on base.
  14. Elrhino
    Ward with the 7 iron off the shoe tops with plenty of draw.
  15. Elrhino
    Aramis with a classic display of Jim Hendry hitting. Get up 2-0 on the count and then swing weakly at three straight pitches that you obviously don't have a good bead on.
  16. Elrhino
    I would still wait another month before shipping Jacque. For one thing, it allows us to get a better evaluation of how ready Pie is, and secondly I think teams like the Braves might get more and more interested as the season goes on and their corner OF problems become more obvious.
  17. Elrhino
    Doubtful, he had the best numbers of any OF at one point and still sat. Week 1?
  18. Elrhino
    He ripped a line drive to the opposite field, I'll take that as a result of the approach. i won't... his approach is awful. He's been swinging early in every at bat and not coincidentally, he hasn't had productive at bats. He's always had a great approach, and all of a sudden he's turned into a bench player, and not coincidentally he hasn't had many productive at bats. Maybe if he had more productive at bats he wouldn't be on the bench so much.
  19. Elrhino
    Really good at bat by Itzzy.
  20. Elrhino
    Screw 1 run games, with this bullpen the Cubs need to learn how to get ahead by 5 runs every game.
  21. Elrhino
    Just what the bullpen needed today since they played a mini-double header.
  22. Elrhino
    Jason Marquis is a machine.
  23. Elrhino
    Bases fully clogged for Aram.
  24. Elrhino
    With Murt's .297 SLG%, do you think it would help him if he spent some time in the batting cage with Izturis to get some power tips?
  25. Elrhino
    No matter what happens, Murton will always have a place in the northsidebaseball Hall of Fame. Sandwiched between Bobby Hill, Hee Seop Choi and Juan Cruz.
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