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The Cubs will be better at first base this year because Rizzo is a far superior player than LaHair. What is your argument? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD The argument is that even though Rizzo is clearly the better player, the 2013 Cubs are not likely to get improved production over the 2012 Cubs at 1B because the 2012 Cubs actually got lucky with production from LaHair for a while. Also, lots of people seem to be comparing 2012 stats simply with the stats of the guy most likely to start at that position in 2013 then saying it must be better. It doesn't work that way. The stats of all the backups affect the total, and all the backups suck. Castro is the only one who really accounted for all the production at his position, and he already did a very good job there, providing top 4 offense among NL teams at SS. I'm not sure the Cubs can reasonably expect to get much better there this year. -
Week 15 Green Bay @ Lovie's Chokers (No GB Fans Allowed)
jersey cubs fan replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports
It's not a matter of having the refs take the game from them, it was just absurd how strongly they were working in the Packers favor when GB was clearly the better team that was going to win anyway. -
Such nonsense. I'm not a behind the scenes fan. I'm a cubs fan. The process is worthless if the cubs don't win
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Week 15 Green Bay @ Lovie's Chokers (No GB Fans Allowed)
jersey cubs fan replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports
cutler is probable -
i am not agreeing to that at all. my goodness, some people act like the entire franchise died in a plane crash and we literally have to start over with nothing. this is a baseball team with huge resources. it is not acceptable to just punt FIVE seasons of baseball. I agree that I am not in agreement with that completely unnecessarily conservative focus.
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The long-term cannot be the only focus. If you want him here for 4 years, or think you can trade him in 2-3 years, then sign him to a 4-year contract if that is what it takes. You cannot only work in the ideal. Maybe you wanted other people more, but if you aren't willing to spend on them you have to settle for your third or fourth option. You have to field a team.
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You should never make a decision on an acquisition based on whether or not that person would make you good by himself. No one player is going to make the difference between good or bad. It could make you better, and specifically should provide you the depth needed to turnaround and make a separate deal that improves you in another area. I would agree but I don't see anymore deals that would do anything different. There just aren't players out there. my thinking was why spend or over spend for guy that improves you some but is not a game changer, or someone you want long term. I wouldn't mind jackson for 1 or possibly 2 years, I just don't see him signing that type of a deal with us. I also don't see a deal of consequence left to add depth around him. If he was one of 2 or 3 deals then I could see it. We just have such a poor offense that adding middle to end of the staff help(ok, on a normal staff) to overpay and give big years too just doesn't make much sense. What doesn't make sense about it? You still have to field a team. You still have to try to win the games you play. You still have a shot to luck into contention of nothing else. The notion that you shouldn't sign players until you are already good does not make a whole lot of sense.
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With a team that has sucked for 3 years and looks to be bad for at least another it should not be a surprise to anybody that there has been a lost line of disappointments. Getting upset with fans for caring doesn't make sense to me.
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You should never make a decision on an acquisition based on whether or not that person would make you good by himself. No one player is going to make the difference between good or bad. It could make you better, and specifically should provide you the depth needed to turnaround and make a separate deal that improves you in another area.
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The Cubs getting close to signing and then losing out on a major free agent isn't a non-event. And where was the drama? It's a message board for discussing a professional sports team. None of us should care at all about anything they do, but the fact is we do care or else we wouldn't spend any time on here in the first place. If you want to ban sarcastic comments that express the disappointment in seeing your team fail to improve then go right ahead. I don't see the point of such an endeavor. "No hope for you." Again with the piety. So impressive. How is anything being said pious? Were asking people to stop freaking out about everything great or small. You have a very low threshold for declaring a freak out. People made smartass comments and were criticized for it, as though this forum should only be reserved for serious discussion. It wasn't freaking out, it was smartass comments in response to a disappointing situation. Telling people not to respond negatively to this specific situation isn't just asking them to stop freaking out about "everything great or small". It is telling them not to have a negative feeling about anything at all.
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Then you wait some more. At this stage, with what's left, I just don't know if you need to jump into any multi-year commitments (well, I can live with 2 year deals for some of the guys left, and maybe 3 for Jackson, so I guess there are certain cases), which is the likely cost of business with the top guys left available in FA. If they didn't already have an incredible amount of financial flexibility or if they had a lot tied up into the next 2-4 years then I'd be more hesitant to sign these guys. But this team's only advantage over others now is their money, and they might as well use it. The goal isn't to have the most efficiently structured roster, it's to win more than the other guys. Paying Jackson more than he's worth in 2015 isn't going to prevent them from accomplishing anything.
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Liriano. Bourn too if you weren't just wondering about SP. There's a few relievers of interest too but no one that makes you take notice. I, for one, would like to see a bat or three. The focus on the pitching is great and all but I'd like to see this team get back out of the gutter when it comes to run production. Unless it's coming by trade it's pretty much Bourn and the island of misfit players. Bourn has some intriguing things about him but starting pitching is probably the best way to improve the team right now. Yeah, I didn't have any free agents in mind, but was hoping they'd deal for a bat somehow. Hopefully signing another arm could give them the confidence in the depth where they'd feel confident making a move.
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Liriano. Bourn too if you weren't just wondering about SP. There's a few relievers of interest too but no one that makes you take notice. I, for one, would like to see a bat or three. The focus on the pitching is great and all but I'd like to see this team get back out of the gutter when it comes to run production.
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The Cubs getting close to signing and then losing out on a major free agent isn't a non-event. And where was the drama? It's a message board for discussing a professional sports team. None of us should care at all about anything they do, but the fact is we do care or else we wouldn't spend any time on here in the first place. If you want to ban sarcastic comments that express the disappointment in seeing your team fail to improve then go right ahead. I don't see the point of such an endeavor. "No hope for you." Again with the piety. So impressive.
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Frankly I find the piety to be laudable. Repetitive tripe is annoying even when you think you're better than everyone else, guys. Clearly, anyone who isn't responding to what is transpiring with acerbic, sarcastic cynicism (as the enlightened do) is an Theo worshiping sucker, Bukie. Any pretense of optimism is a sure sign of indoctrination. You can respond to the disappointment in whatever way you prefer. So can others. What shouldn't happen is the holier than thou BS whining about other people's reaction to the disappointment.
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Frankly I find the piety to be laudable.
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Doesn't seem obvious to me that is what happened.
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It's totally unethical. But until the supply of good pitching exceeds the demand, there's not much GMs can do about it. In what way is it unethical to use an offer from one club to try and get another club to offer more?
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What does need have to do with it?
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hahaha you fell for it to?
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I hoped they used miles and flew coach. This isn't the time for frivolous travel expenses.
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that shouldn't be too hard
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Week 15 Green Bay @ Lovie's Chokers (No GB Fans Allowed)
jersey cubs fan replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports
i dont know the contract situation, but is this guy on the team next year? always hurt. He's been a bum since the contract extension Wasn't that good before it. But he's not even a reliable #3 anymore. Would be best if the team found another WR better than him. He had the makings of a fairly decent player that one year. -
what's the interest in Villanueva about?
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Or, they could get the "We believe we can better use our resources than what it will take to get him to change his mind" award. That's not a real award.
