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  1. CubColtPacer
    I posted a very similar list in the game thread a few minutes ago (sans Selma, Alabama - that wasn't on my list and I didn't know about that). My list seems to disagree with you on a few, but I'd guess that the Cubs' own site would know what's up. I wish they'd come back to Pasadena...it'd be so awesome to have to only drive 5 minutes to go to spring training. Oh, and spring training in Champaign or in Indiana has to suck. Maybe not-I had never heard of West Baden, so I looked it up-it actually is West Baden Springs-it's right next to French Lick (where Bird was from). West Baden was home to a very popular health spa resort in those days because of some wonderful mineral springs-that seems like a nice way to relax those muscles after a day of playing baseball.
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    One error does not lose a playoff series. You don't think there's a very good chance we would have been in the WS if he had simply turned that double play? Maybe so, but you could say that about a lot of things-abuck is right, I think defense is more important than what he is saying, but the Gonzalez example is really, really bad for that.
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    Good, get a third rounder if the Bears have to give up their first rounder. Washington doesn't have one-they've already traded away their second, their third, and their 4th.
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    Well, they've got a little bit of a look at Jones as well-so he must be that bad at this point also. I do think Soriano will get better at CF as the year goes along, just as he got better at LF last year as he got more games under his belt.
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    Vance, we are going to pick the 3 or 4 3rd round compensatory selections, right?
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    If you said that to Briggs and he decided to come back week 5-6 and you don't play him, then the Bears will be paying him 5 million dollars or so without playing a down for the Bears this year (and I believe he also gets credit for the 6 games since he came back ready to play in time). If you do decide to play him, he could always refuse to play again once he hits his 6 games.
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    Murton was a great hitter before he reached the big leagues, but he wasn't a great power hitter. His highest ISOP number in the minors was 2005, and that .156 He had a .200 in the majors due to kind of a fluke home run rate (he hit 7 home runs in 140 AB's in the majors compared to 8 in 313 AB's in double A of the same year, also his ground ball rate in 2005 was higher than it was in 2006). In 2006, he started off what his minor league numbers would indicate (.156 in April, .125 in May). By August and September, he had developed into a much better power hitter (.244, .228). I'll give you this-the staff should have worked harder with him in the offseason so that he didn't have to go through the slump he did, and the time off during the season probably prolonged the time it took him to learn this-but he did develop much more power over the course of last season, and I think a little more aggression helped him in that regard, so I credit Dusty and his staff for that. If there was one thing Dusty and his staff were all right at, it was developing power in hitters-unfortunately for the Cubs, the organization bringing up aggressive hitters (Patterson and Cedeno to name two) combined with Dusty's aggressive approach was a really bad combination, and so only hitters that had learned patience in other places (Lee, Ramirez, Barrett, Murton) really came into their own under that coaching staff.
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    I think Dusty and company actually helped Murton out. A manager and his staff have to work to try to get every hitter a balance between patience/aggressiveness depending on the hitter's strengths coming in. Dusty's staff didn't do that-they just preached aggressiveness to everybody. For Murton though, it was a good thing-because he came in a little too patient. Sure he slumped during the adjustment period-but when he came out of that slump, he was a better hitter than he was before and was driving the ball a lot more. Cedeno, however, was too aggressive to begin with. Dusty and his staff continued to preach aggression to him, and that just left him hacking at everything and continued to make him worse and worse.
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    True, but the quote that was being disputed initially said that there was no way that the report was true because Z would never sign for that little because he could get more on the open market. They then just pointed out a couple of pitchers who took similar contracts-why can't Z do the same if reports say that he is close to doing just that?
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    I'm not sure I agree with you that the closer concept should never have been invented. There is still a mental toughness about closing out the 9th inning that some relievers simply can't handle. Now, this doesn't have to be your best reliever, and it's probably preferable if it isn't-but a closer by committee usually only works IMO if you have multiple people who could be closers by themselves instead of going to a committee because you have no one who could be a closer by themselves. For the Cubs, if Dempster can bounce back he's pretty good for the role. He's not the team's best reliever, but he does have the ability to be a closer, which allows us to bring in our ace relivers like Howry and Eyre in key situations.
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    Hopefully Angelo can exchange the 1st picks and steal their 2nd rounder. Probably a lot to ask for but hey if they get that you can't complain. I hope you wouldn't complain-that would be quite a steal:) Seriously though, if you read the Redskins board on the thread, most of them want the Bears to throw in their 2nd or 3rd rounder to make this deal even. While I think that's definitely excessive, the 6 for the 31 and Briggs is tilted a little bit towards the Bears. (Just think-the Redskins could probably trade down twice and get at least two extra second round picks along with a first round pick at 28-32. Briggs is likely worth less than 2 second round picks). To ask for more would have a low probability of success, but with the incompetent Redskins ownership, it just might work. If you reject this deal and move on to a team like the Patriots though who work more on true market value, you're going to get a deal less than this one.
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    It doesn't at all. Briggs totally went about this the wrong way, so we should return in kind. Who cares? I want to what is best for the Bears and having a vendetta with Briggs doesn't seem like that would be the best way. The point was, the Skins did this and wound up rewarded with 2 1st rounders. If we wait, it *could* result in a better deal than swapping 1st round picks, which is what some have suggested isn't good enough. True-in fairness though, that is the only time in the history of the league that it is ever happened, and it set back the franchise that did it a couple years (in fact its labeled as the worst move in the short Panthers history)-I doubt anyone is going to be trying that anytime soon, although if anybody would be silly enough to try something like that, Washington would. I was hearing though when it Peyton was franchised for a couple weeks 3-4 years back that it was unlikely that anybody would even sign him and give up 2 first rounders. I do think that if people want the extra pick rather than the top pick, that the Bears probably could get a pick in the 20's or maybe a little later for Briggs. That's not worth quite as much as moving up to 6, but it does pick up an extra pick that may fill a need.
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    This is likely very, very bad-at least a couple of runs. It's been a long time since the updates.
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    Floyd singles and is lifted for a pinch-runner-either there was an injury or Lou is furious with him to be lifted this early in the game this late in ST. Edit: Maybe not-there were a couple other substitutions as well.
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    Wuertz pitched a scoreless inning with a walk and two K's. I think that outing may have solidified him on the team again-if he had struggled mightily one more time, he would have been down to Triple A.
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    And there's a big reason that Prior had no chance to make the Opening Day roster no matter what he did today-he hasn't made it up to a high pitch count yet, and they are not ready to have him get up that high, instead going to let him slowly build up closer to 100. I like the approach-no need to have a setback now.
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    pretty good-a walk and a WP, but that's it with a strikeout at the end. Good inning Prior.
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    The NFL started awarding compensatory picks in 1993. seriously? are they all at the end of the draft? they must not talk about it much at all No, they start in round 3. You hear about them before the draft, but you don't usually hear them talk about a particular pick being a compensatory selection during the draft. It can really help a teams draft though-like this year, the Colts have an extra 3rd, 4th, and 5th round picks-they knew they were going to get good compensatory selections, which allowed them to trade their 2nd round pick for Booger Mcfarland who helped them win the title.
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    That pitch count isn't necessarily right-that's just gameday's usual thing in the spring of giving a strikeout as 3 strikes, a ball in play as one strike, and a walk as 4 balls. It doesn't tell you of all the pitches he threw before that.
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    That's officially his third error-of course, OF's can make misplays that don't get called errors, and I know there have definitely been a few of those. I'm concerned about it, but it's the price the team has to pay with going with offense first there-I hope the sinkers a couple of the pitchers are working on and the K's for a couple of the others work well during the season.
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    The outfield defense will likely be an adventure at times, especially with Floyd in the game.
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    I wouldn't say that-he gave up a single, a WP, and a walk-but that's it. It's possible that 1 run shouldn't have scored, and certainly not 2.
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    I thought about that too, but then I looked up the last year for Soriano. He had 90 singles and 67 walks-let's disregard HBP and getting on due to an error or fielder's choice for now. That's 157 times he was on first. Of that, he stole 2nd 32 times. So that's only 125 times that Murton would have put the ball into play behind him with Soriano on first base, and some of those come with 2 outs. When I thought of it that way with Soriano's power and speed, I realized Murton hitting into double plays is likely going to happen less at that spot in the lineup than at most of the others.
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    I'm sure it is-they've been giving him 5 days off between every start, and so this one is no different from the last couple times. Plus, do you really think they'd keep him from starting yesterday because the Royals had a radio broadcast? I doubt they look at if an opposing team has a radio broadcast when making pitching decisions.
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    I think this was the answer to an old LSAT logic game question. Logic problems are my specialty :D I love to see why things fit together the way that they do. Izturis is going to see some time at the 2 spot this year if he remains patient, but I can't see it being more than 1/8 of the games at most unless Lou decides he really doesn't like Jones in the 2 spot at all, and even if that's true Murton will likely play the majority of the time and be in the 2 spot if Theriot is not. Wow-I tried to make that last paragraph clearer, but I guess that came out a little confusing as well :D
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