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    Am I missing something or if Miami wanted to sign all 3 couldn't they sign all of them to max deals as long as Wade is last? If that's true, I see that as much more realistic than one of them taking a pay cut. Edit: Oh, I didn't realize there was a cap hold even if that player is a free agent.
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    i don't think that's likely. i can see him being a september callup straight from tennessee, depending on their playoff situation. That would really be a waste to start his arb clock ticking as a 4th-6th(or 5th outfielder depending what happens with Kosuke and Nady) on a dead ass team. i'm pretty sure that september call-ups don't start the clock. It does add to his service time. And of course adding him to the 40 man roster would mean that if he doesn't make the club out of Spring Training next year he'll lose his first option. Of course, if Jackson were added that early it look like he would be one of those that would get 4 minor league options.
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    Hopefully when Hendry goes all those guys go with him, especially the Hawaiian shirted, neanderthal Bush. I'm not sure you have the right guy here. I think you might be thinking of Gary Hughes. I'm not sure I've ever seen Randy Bush in a Hawaiian shirt.
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    Bruce's blog highlights: Gorzelanny to the rotation, Z to the bullpen when he comes back Organization was not happy to have to send Stevens down They could have a sitdown meeting regarding Z between ownership and baseball management next week. Team meeting today Bush not happy about Z having dinner with Guillen last night There's a lot of good info in the blog: http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/4279
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    If we can trade for Adrian Gonzalez, then its worth it. If not, Id just assume as soon save up to sign him in the offseason. In case anyone was wondering, I REALLY want Adrian, more than Ive ever wanted any free agent. He wont be cheap though by any means, probably dwarfing the Mark Teixara contract. What the Cubs have been lacking since the Sosa days is that one guy, a Pujols or Braun if you will.If has a few extra bucks in his pocket, might I suggest trading for Aaron Hill. I know hes having a rough start to the season, but hes one of the best hitting 2B in the league. Yo, Adrian isn't a free agent until after 2011. He knows. He mentioned it in his first post. He meant that if the Cubs couldn't trade for him this offseason that they should just pocket the money until the offseason after 2011. Of course the Cubs wouldn't really need to save money to do that as they have a lot of money potentially coming off after 2011 (Fukudome/Silva/Ramirez/Grabow/Samardzija and even maybe Dempster if he keeps pitching this well through next year).
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    Equating Ghana players falling down to the disallowed goals by Dempsey and Edu is just stupid. They're not even comparable. The refereeing hardly played a major role in today's outcome. Ricardo Clark's giveaway and our defense did. Especially because at most the US lost 1-2 minutes because of the timewasting techniques. And the ref did let the US do a throw in and continue playing while one of the guys was laying flat on the ground right in the middle of the play and only stopped the game when Ghana was about to gain possession near midfield.
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    I'm not surprised Schlitter is the guy. Every time they have mentioned pitchers throwing well he's been mentioned. I'm not sure exactly why they like him so much, but they definitely do. I don't believe Z could be DL'd at this point like NCCubfan suggests. MLB would come down hard on that after the suspension. Stevens will probably be recalled shortly after the 10 days is up.
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    As dew said, that isn't really true. Ramirez and Fukudome both took less money to play with the Cubs. Dempster probably did as well. Z and Lilly were market value. Hendry has outbid at times. Soriano is the perfect example. He was the only one to give the 3rd year that Bradley wanted. He gave more money to DeRosa and Marquis than anybody else would. But that hasn't been often and IIRC Soriano was the only one of those that had a NTC to go along with their bigger money deals. For the person who asked, Samardzija needs to make the major league squad next year. That's also the last year of the deal (the Cubs have club options for 2012 and 2013 but it would be hard to imagine a scenario in which they would pick those up right now).
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    Where'd you hear that, out of curiosity? Not doubting it, just wondering who the last pitcher was to do it. I'm guessing...Livan Hernandez? BP's pitcher abuse points has a max pitch count statistic that is sortable. Livan was the last pitcher to do it as he threw a 145 pitch game and a 150 pitch game back in 2005. Since then, the max was a tie at 138 between Hernandez in 2006 and Lincecum in 2008.
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    It's fascinating to see how much these high pitch counts have disappeared even in the last decade. Throughout the 90's, there were at least 7 different pitchers who made it to 140 every year and frequently double digit pitchers did it and the max number for the league was in the 150's and sometimes 160's. In the early 2000's it quickly dropped to 2 pitchers or less throwing over 140 pitches with the max in the 140's. Now Jackson is the first pitcher to crack 140 since the 2005 season.
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    When Castro came up Lou said that Fontenot would continue to be the backup at SS because they wanted Theriot to become fully acclimated at 2B without switching back and forth. Good thing that Lou will be gone after this year at the latest, otherwise, this could spell the beginning of Castros journey to Baltimore for a PTBNL. Isn't this the first day off Starlin's had since being called up? I wouldn't read a thing into it. He didn't start either yesterday or today. Lou said that because he ended up playing 4 innings after entering yesterday's game due to it going 13 innings that he wanted to give him a real day off today.
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    When Castro came up Lou said that Fontenot would continue to be the backup at SS because they wanted Theriot to become fully acclimated at 2B without switching back and forth.
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    Although facing the winner of Paraguay-Japan has to be an improvement over facing the Netherlands in the quarterfinals isn't it? Obviously if Spain wins the group today then Portugal will wish they had tried a little harder against Brazil. But if they avoid Spain somehow that lower right quadrant seems to be a very good place.
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    When I think of baseball player, I think of players like Colvin, etc. I would give some other names, but then I would get crucified for putting those guys' names in the same sentence with Colvin. My point with the "baseball player" remark was that when I look at Colvin, I see a young player who is eager for his opportunity, but still goes out and hits in a lesser role. And when he does start, he's got a hop in his step and it is just fun to watch him out there. I don't really get the same vibe from Kosuke, that's all. You asked if Kosuke cares. What would make you think Kosuke doesn't care? He has done well when he comes in as a pinch hitter. He's been excellent in the clutch. He asks a man to come halfway around the world just to help him with his swing. If he didn't care, would he do any of these things? Why would he even be playing in America in the first place if not for the challenge? Also he's been continually fine tuning his swing which is not something that many veterans like to do. Fukudome seems to do things in a very professional manner. That's a very mature approach to take. Just because he doesn't wear his emotions on his sleeve doesn't mean he doesn't care. It is pretty obvious he does from all the work he puts in, the fact that he's ready for all situations, and the occasional emotion he shows when an important call does go against him.
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    Right now they're in the same position the US faced. Score and win the group, tie and go home. Italy even with 2 goals can't win the group unless Paraguay loses as far as I can tell. Italy would need 3 goals in the second half to win the group without help. Edit: Oops. Realized you were talking about New Zealand. Sorry.
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    Ghana would finish 2nd with a Germany and Serbia win today which is one of the more likely scenarios. BTW, the odds on 538 has the US playing Serbia 48% of the time, Ghana 29%, Germany 16.5%, and Australia 6%. If Germany and Serbia win, the US plays the tiebreak loser of Germany and Serbia. If Germany and Australia win, then US plays Ghana If Ghana and Serbia win, the US plays Serbia. If Ghana and Australia win, the US plays Germany, unless Australia wins like 8-0. If Serbia wins and Ghana and Germany tie, the US plays Ghana. Thanks for the correction. IMO, the most likely scenarios in order are: Germany win, Serbia win-US likely plays Serbia Ghana tie, Serbia win-US plays Ghana Germany win, Serbia tie-US plays Ghana Germany tie, Serbia tie-US plays Germany Ghana win, Serbia win-US plays Serbia Ghana win, Serbia tie-US plays Serbia Germany win, Australia win-US likely plays Ghana Ghana win, Australia win-US plays Australia Any of those scenarios incorrect or any others out there?
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    Ghana would finish 2nd with a Germany and Serbia win today which is one of the more likely scenarios. BTW, the odds on 538 has the US playing Serbia 48% of the time, Ghana 29%, Germany 16.5%, and Australia 6%.
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    Fukudome should probably have hit for Nady even though Nady is the better fastball hitter. By the time it got to Colvin, I was fine with Colvin up there even though Colvin has struggled somewhat with the great fastballs around the league. If he did catch up to one though, he was likely to do more damage with it than Kosuke and the potential for an extra base hit to tie the game was worth more than Fukudome's slightly better chance of doing something positive (walk or base hit) especially with the Cubs options for the next hitter.
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    Kosuke was never going to play against left-handers this year. The only sign that he's been relegated to a backup role is the two games against right-handers that Colvin started a week ago. Since then the Cubs have only faced one right-hander and Fukudome started that game.
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    Silva called out his teammates publicly in Seattle on multiple occasions for being selfish and trying to pad stats. He also said this: Of course the fact that Silva did this while he was pitching horribly and some felt that was partly due to his refusal to get in shape did not go over well.
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    Apparently lineups are actually in for both sides: Cubs Byrd CF Baker 3B Lee 1B Nady DH Soto C Soriano LF Colvin RF Castro SS Theriot 2B (Dempster P) Mariners Ichiro RF Figgins 2B Bradley DH Lopez 3B Gutierrez CF Carp 1B Alfonzo C Wilson SS Saunders LF (Vargas P)
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    But again, it's not that he gave up future hall of famers. He gave up valuable trade pieces for a useless player. I question how valuable they were in trade talks. Nolasco was the 7th best Cubs prospect in a year where only 3 Cubs made BA's top 100 list. Pinto had a very good AA run for most of 2005 but had a wildly inconsistent minor league career and also had control problems and had fallen off the Cubs top 10 list. Mitre had put up very poor numbers in the majors 2 years in a row and was seen as at best a fringe #5 pitcher. Obviously just the fact that they were traded for Juan Pierre made it a poor move. But I don't think they really had a ton of trade value either. At the same time, judging it to be a decent move because of getting Donaldson out of it isn't fair either. The Cubs got very lucky to get compensation out of Pierre. It has turned out ok in hindsight, but that doesn't mean it was anything but a poor move at the time.
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    The Cubs are pretty close to middle of the pack in this. Attendance is down across MLB this year. Also last year the Cubs attendance didn't drop as much as MLB as a whole did so they have a higher number to shoot towards. This year is comparable to 2004/2005/2006 attendance, higher than 2003, and lower than 2007/2008/2009. But there is also no doubt that the quality of the team has hurt attendance.
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    So would I, but aside from DeRosa, when has Hendry sold high on a player? Jose Ceda and Kevin Hart probably qualify. Sean Gallagher would as well. I guess it could be argued he sold reasonably high on Choi and Bobby Hill, too. What about Clement? Clement was let go in free agency by the Cubs. That's probably a little bit of a different category in which a few notable names would appear.
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    So would I, but aside from DeRosa, when has Hendry sold high on a player? Jose Ceda and Kevin Hart probably qualify. Sean Gallagher would as well.
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