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  1. jersey cubs fan
    OK but what does that have to do with last weeks preseaon game against the Giants? They looked really bad in that game and if such a thing carries over into the regular season the margin of errors disappears and Lovie is gone.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I was looking at this yesterday after enjoying the recent streak and it's kind of funny that even with the recent really terrific production his K rate is over 30%.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    way to go rammy
  4. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5938457/david-dejesus-drew-a-walk-and-got-hit-by-a-pitch-during-the-same-at+bat this team is all kinds of fun
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, comparatively speaking this was front loaded. And I'm glad. They have excess cash now, nothing to spend it on and it allows them to keep the total down, plus the out year salaries.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Because he was demanding a [expletive] load of money and the team that took him would have had to commit a large amount of their draft budget to him and they would have had to draft a lot of slot or under slot guys the rest of the draft. I realize he wasn't worth taking later I mean if he was worth the money someone would have taken him where he would have fit into their budget. He just doesnt seem like a tor type to me. But his demands weren't fitting into people's budgets in the new system.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Backloading is good. That is a little bit of an oversimplification. Backloading is not inherently good or bad. My personal preference would be to minimize backloaded contracts on a rebuilding team, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is a bad thing. Either way, it really should not be much of a factor here. Why wouldn't you prefer for a rebuilding team to invest the extra couple million in those rebuilding years to pay for (1) the higher backloaded years, and (2) other stuff with the extra money from the investment. Because in the short-term, with payroll plummeting and no apparent intentions of signing guys now, you can pay guys a little more now, thus leaving more room at the back end when you do want to sign guys. Plus, "other stuff" isn't really a thing. That being said, this contract hardly looks backloaded at all. The climb is very gradual.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I think you've gone beyond splitting hairs there.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    This appears to be a major flaw in the study. It's commonly accepted that the "can't walk off the island" mentality is real. So while a non-American born player may be more likely to be described as impatient or over-aggressive, there's a good chance that the description is accurate, which would negate any sort of theory that bias is the reason that description is used.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    HERBIE Hancock. Big surprise. Nuts&Gum trolling for a lol. Big surprise. You overreacting to something and then making a ridiculous statement. That's not a ridiculous statement. They played very poorly, and if they play like that in the regular season they will miss the playoffs by a wide mark, which would most likely mean Lovie is gone. Not ridiculous, pretty much spot on.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    As Dew noted, the Cubs were a notoriously small operation from a front office standpoint prior to Ricketts. I'm not sure how much of that was Hendry, but Ricketts gave Theo the greenlight to do what is necessary and Theo clearly wants a much bigger group of potential secret santas, so I would expect them to replace these guys, and maybe add on total numbers.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, he's a slob, he also had a ridiculous late career resurgence, so um, yeah, we all knew he was doing something.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    How many game do you have them winning this year? game(s)
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Doesn't matter, Lovie is going all new-school and the team will never punt.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    http://cdn.ksk.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/lol-not-my-fingering-finger.jpg
  16. jersey cubs fan
    like life
  17. jersey cubs fan
    that's not really apples to apples since it's the biggest rivalry and viewership was dominated by fans who were likely supporting the other team.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    primetime vs weekday, no? even worse, the vast majority of that viewership was almost certainly tuning in for Mexico. Big numbers: Mexico-USA soccer averaged 5.3 million viewers in US (4.5M Univision, 797K ESPN2). USWNT gold-medal game averaged 4.35M.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    I probably wouldn't venture from here.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    I never paid much attention to it before I got on twitter, but quickly realized profootballtalk is complete garbage.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Corey Patterson spent his formative years working in a Don Baylor/Dusty Baker/Jim Hendry led organization that had no interest in patience.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Augusta National admitted Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Sure it does. Having his flaws exposed by lesser pitchers at earlier stages absolutely means it's more of a problem, and by definition means it will be harder to fix. Mechanical changes are mechanical changes. Some are harder to implement than others, but when they are exposed has little to do with how difficult they are to fix. It's not some linear scale. Jackson has always struck out, but the goal isn't trying to get him down to a 10% K rate either. His K-rate didn't spike and performance didn't suffer until after he had about 300 AAA plate appearances. This isn't Russell Branyan striking out at 30+% through his minor league career. That doesn't make it some guarantee that Jackson will figure it out, but making adjustments to make a little more contact is not some major overhaul that's long been overdue. Who said anything about a 10% rate? Jackson has had a much bigger problem striking out than Rizzo. It was pointless to try and compare Rizzo's struggles with what Jackson has been going through for much longer. And it will be harder for Jackson to fix his problems than it was for Rizzo.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Apologies for bringing this back, but seriously? You're seriously going to say that it's easy to fix problems with approach, much easier than mechanical problems? That's not even trolling from Law like the Barney comment, that's just flat out dumb. No it isn't. An approach is a mental thing that you can choose to do differently. You can tweak mechanics, but an overhaul is extremely difficult.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    But was Rizzo ever around 30% in the minors like Jackson was? Jackson having the flaws in his swing exposed at a lower level doesn't make them less fixable. Sure it does. Having his flaws exposed by lesser pitchers at earlier stages absolutely means it's more of a problem, and by definition means it will be harder to fix. Rizzo never really had a problem until his brief callup to the majors where he played in the worst park to hit in the majors. There's all sorts of reasons to expect a player in that situation to struggle, and that would include increased k rates. He never had that in the minors though. Jackson has had much higher k rates all along the way. It would be silly to pretend he doesn't have more to do, and that his problems are less fixable than Rizzo's brief bout with striking out. In Rizzo's bad major league debut he struck out at a lesser rate than Jackson did in AAA.
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