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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-13-12
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
3 years? Good luck with that. Yeah, he won't be ready for 4 years. -
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LOL. That's funny. Having met his dad, I knew he was a named after his dad, but didn't realize his grandfather also had the same name. Wasn't his grandfather the one who played in the NFL?
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He didn't really put it together though, it was put together and winning 90+ when he took the reins. He began to tinker and didn't do much damage early on but it's quickly falling apart. Keeping a team that good for that long isn't easy and comes with some issues. He's going to have earn being competitive from this point. If he can continue to make the team competitive then he's doing his job. That long? 3 years as the highest payroll team in the league and now they aren't at all competitive. They suck.
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what are the odds of that?
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He didn't really put it together though, it was put together and winning 90+ when he took the reins. He began to tinker and didn't do much damage early on but it's quickly falling apart.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-12-12
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
sandoval was already raking in the majors at 21/22. His A+ and AA numbers dwarfed Vitters. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-12-12
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
There's a difference between Kyle's comment, "average at best" and Theo's statement of "if you told me he would be." Average at best suggests the likely outcome is below average, with a potential for garbage. If somebody could theoretically guarantee you Vitters would be average, you'd take it because that's a good thing that many people have doubted Vitters would become. -
What are you trying to say? There should be no reason they can't play a game Saturday night. "Should" has nothing to do with it. Are you not familiar with the Cubs' issue with night games restrictions?
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-12-12
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
for the life of me, I don't know why ANYONE wouldn't be. Has anybody indicated they would not be very happy? -
unless you left
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No, he's not. Okay, will be. Not gonna matter. NFL went through this a few years ago with the Williams kid from USC that wanted to come out earlier than was collectively bargained. He lost - quickly. Courts are VERY reluctant to interfere with what was collectively bargained. He didn't have Boras representing him. Does Boras have a history of using the courts to overturn CBAs? He's got a hell of a lot more clients already in the union and a hell of a lot more money tied up the contracts he gets his veterans, and the union agreed to this system in a large part because they wanted money being spent on veterans, and not unproven kids.
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get that stupid hand signal out of here
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Viktor Stalberg @VStalberg Just got run into by car at a stoplight #fridaythe13th Retweeted by Chris Kuc
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-12-12
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I'm completely lost about the point you seem to be trying to make. -
Josh Vitters arriving soon?
jersey cubs fan replied to italianocubsfan7's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
This is something you say about a 24/25 year old. Simply "not being 20 years old anymore" is meaningless. He's only 22. And he was aggressively pushed along the way every year before 2011. They've got plenty of time to see what he has and no reason whatsoever to even consider calling him up now. -
Yeah, sounds like the hard sell
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Hasn't started since the 4th and he's been terrific 2 starts in a row. Why not? I can't remember who started the games leading up to the break, but I would assume you would always start Samardzija, Garza or Dempster if you could. Or even Wood. I was hoping the answer was "because Garza or Dempster is going to be traded in the next 24 hours." It's obvious why shark shouldn't be starting, he gets the extra break to hold down his total innings. Dempster was given an extra day 'cause he's old and injured. And Garza has sucked so they are probably hiding him.
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what happened?
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allowed?
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I know it's politically fashionable to let someone else pay for everything, but is an industry that prices out its users (i.e., the fans) really sustainable? Salaries went down in the early 1930s. It is hard to imagine, but absent hyperinflation it will happen again. The vast majority of fans watch their team on TV, which is really inexpensive to do and the source of most of the revenue. Can we imagine that TV contracts will not be so flush in a Depression? Maybe, hear me out here, but maybe, we aren't actually in a depression.
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I believe those revenues are spread evenly among all teams
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I know it's politically fashionable to let someone else pay for everything, but is an industry that prices out its users (i.e., the fans) really sustainable? Salaries went down in the early 1930s. It is hard to imagine, but absent hyperinflation it will happen again. The vast majority of fans watch their team on TV, which is really inexpensive to do and the source of most of the revenue.
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Yes. There's nothing wrong with Ryan Sweeney, but thinking of him as a target of sorts is pretty goofy. He's 28, already has 4+ years of service time, and hasn't been all that good. Um, doesn't that kind of mean there is something wrong with him?
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Cubs can't dump Soriano until they get someone in a trade that can play LF that can actually hit. Why? Because it would be a shame to get below average production from a position right now? Put LaHair there there for now, move DeJesus back to RF and have Campana and friends hold down CF until you callup Jackson. There's no reason to manufacture nonsensical reasons why they can't move Soriano when the opportunity arises.
