Mephistopheles
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If it's not about the money, why is he considering coming here in the first place? It's always about the money. Testing himself against the best players in his sport? -
I am not saying he will, I am saying he may like the option of doing so.
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Fukudome wants a three year deal. Mainly so he can go home after three years and finish his career in Japan. It's not about the money.
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Nice reasoning. I guess this argument is over. im pretty sure its the perfect logical connection. if you assert that a guy sucks and your reasoning for saying he sucks is that he sucks and he in fact does suck, then it's not circular reasoning. it's simply stating the facts. Sickels ranked Pie 22nd in his preseason prospect rankings, and Maybin 16th. Not exactly a different universe. Perhaps he's not privy to the "facts". oooooh SICKELS OMG I AM CONVINCED NOW he pulled the sickels card out on me. lol. Sickels gives reasons for his opinions. Are you always excessively obnoxious? and i give reasons for my opinions. its not as if i put all the cubs players in a hat, choose one and decide that i hate that guy. im a cubs fan im not out to get my own teams' players. i have rational reasons for not being that high on Felix Pie and i have explained them dozens of times on this board, not only that, in this case I do not even need to bother explaining my distaste for bitter pie because it is irrelevant to the point of the discussion: your misguided reluctance to trade pie for greene
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Nice reasoning. I guess this argument is over. im pretty sure its the perfect logical connection. if you assert that a guy sucks and your reasoning for saying he sucks is that he sucks and he in fact does suck, then it's not circular reasoning. it's simply stating the facts. Sickels ranked Pie 22nd in his preseason prospect rankings, and Maybin 16th. Not exactly a different universe. Perhaps he's not privy to the "facts". oooooh SICKELS OMG I AM CONVINCED NOW he pulled the sickels card out on me. lol.
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Nice reasoning. I guess this argument is over. im pretty sure its the perfect logical connection. if you assert that a guy sucks and your reasoning for saying he sucks is that he sucks and he in fact does suck, then it's not circular reasoning. it's simply stating the facts.
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"appear" just like greene "appears" to suck i mean to back up the greene for pie trade i dont even need to mention pie. you guys know that.. cro magnon doesnt
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not really. theyve got a few key differences in their skillsets. mainly maybin is good and pie is not
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Comparing Cameron Maybin to Felix Pie is wrong. Felix Pie....sucks....Cameron Maybin...doesn't. Theyre not even in the same universe.
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Kerry Robinson couldn't even slug .400 in AAA at age 26. irrelevant to your initial point son
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"gg cf" guys grow on trees you know. so youre obsessed over pie because hes a kerry robinson at worst oh man that is excellent
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Figgins will be 30 come opening day. Fukudome is 30 and will be 31 for most of next season. Roberts is 30. I just wish some of the guys we're pursuing would be in the 26-28 range.. the "right side" of 30 is 30+. the "left side" of 30 is 30-
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no jim hendry just likes to collect 2B like kids collect baseball cards, barbie dolls or w/e
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sorry, im trying not to be the oakland a's in the playoffs, but its hard.
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No, not at all. But when you say "at this point", you bring up a good point. The Cubs are in the position they are in at this point, because of how badly Hendry has screwed up in the past. So even a couple good moves wouldn't be enough to offset the big picture mess that has been the Hendry era. What is "The position they are in"? The team that finished the regular season 55-38 in their last 91 games, one of the best teams in baseball during that stretch? Despite underperforming from the three offensive stars, and disappointing season from the #1 starter. We'll play out next season with a significant upgrade at catcher, and likely upgrades in the CF & RF, all the while losing very little production elsewhere. I guess I don't share the dire outlook that others do. Trade Pie for Greene Oooof. Are we really that down on Pie that we want to ship him out of town for crap like Khalil Greene?? like i said earlier i dont take candy from a baby. just take what i say as fact. it will be easier.
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we are
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Personally, I don't like taking candy from a baby.
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Let's see.... Mark DeRosa falls under this.
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Trade for Carlos Guillen and plug him in at SS.
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fukudome does not know the difference between the west coast and chicago. it isnt like he lived in the us his entire life.
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there is a censor here? [expletive] edit: apparently so
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Trade Pie for Greene
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i used league averages. he added about 7 runs or so to the birds with his steals last year, 50 for 57 right? 50 for 57 is a ridiculous success rate, as you all know and it is not something that he is likely to reproduce. Over his career for 57 SBA he's thrown out 12 times. Based on those numbers, he would be expected to add five or so runs per 57 SBAs to an average team. A little less for the Cubbies.
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break even is anywhere between 65-80 depending on the park, league, team, etc. given that he will play on a team with a lot of slugging dependent hitters behind him in a park that is advantageous to home runs, it's likely that the breakeven point for him on the Cubs will be right around the 78-80 mark
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because getting to second does not mean all that much period. If Roberts went 30 for 30 in SB...(a ridiculous 100% success rate)....he would add about five and a half runs from the steals. That is not a significant number....and that's if he went 30 for 30!
