Paul Sullivan @PWSullivan Great Chicagoans besides Demp: Jane Addams, Harold Washington, Frank Lloyd Wright, Studs Terkel, Ray Rayner, Mike Royko, Billy Corgan. Sullivan is enjoying making fun of the Dempster going away party.
lol okay Kevin I'm not good w/ the Twit. Who's saying what there? bmix said the Cubs should get more than webster, Goldstein retweeted him and say webster alone would be highway robbery
but he hit 2 homeruns Goony, point is he can hit the ball out of that park. It's not THAT difficult a place to play. That isn't really the point. He can hit the ball out of any park. The point is the rate one would expect to do it in different parks is quite different.
I like Russell, but he's getting close to arbitration eligible isn't he? His trade value will be at its highest while pitching well at dirt cheap prices.
Hard to see Soriano accepting a deal to Pittsburgh if he actually turned down a deal to San Francisco. PNC is a better park for him to play in. He's spent the majority of his career east of the mississippi, and maybe he had a boyhood affection for Roberto Clemente? Okay, he shouldn't but logic goes out the window with a lot of these decisions.
That's kind of what people were expecting in the first place Which shouldn't change the disappointment when people realized there was an opportunity for more.
I do like this part of the email the Cubs just sent out: Maybe a bit of a reach there with that one? I guess it's better than daytime batting averages or w-l record in home games.
I think that is a risk some people would be willing to take. A year from now Texas very well may have gotten nothing for Brigham. It's not a huge deal either way, but I'd rather gamble on the young arm than the aging catcher. I love Geo, but I think there's a good chance he's done being productive player. I'm more or less neutral on the trade. My commentary was in response to somebody saying that if he played well in early 2013 you still wouldn't get anything of value for him.
If he played well next year I'm sure you could have gotten significantly more. That's exactly how the Maholm deal happened. That is how Dempster's value went from non-existent to quite high this year.
He wanted to keep Garza and only wanted Soriano gone for contract reasons. I think it's more about him thinking this team was better than it is and about to go on a run.
You call it turning up their nose, I call it realistic descriptions of what we got. Sure we can use such things. But they aren't exactly tough to find. And there's no cause for celebration once you get them. our bullpen FIP is 4.65 and has been below-replacement; good relievers are hard enough to find In a year when they didn't even try to find relievers that's not a big deal. They traded away 2 of their best relievers for more useful parts and another one retired. They didn't care, because those are replaceable parts.
You call it turning up their nose, I call it realistic descriptions of what we got. Sure we can use such things. But they aren't exactly tough to find. And there's no cause for celebration once you get them. The celebration is because while it may be realistic to think they'll both be bullpen arms, one could potentially be a legit #2 SP. And from reports that I've read, I don't think anybody would be surprised if Vizcaino wound up starting. I was referring to the 2 other guys as bullpen arms. I didn't realize anybody talked about Vizcaino as a reliever.
It seems to me that he would more likely be pulled as part of a potential trade rather than as a promotion in response to a different trade. There would be more urgency to prevent injury in the trade scenario rather than simply calling him up the next day.