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  1. jersey cubs fan
    It's Memorial Day weekend, and I do not remember when I last saw the Cubs win a game. edit: win, lose or draw..... David will be up to bat for Saturday's game.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    so I guess that light bulb turned back off for a lot of people
  3. jersey cubs fan
    It was pretty much a useless exercise because all they did was slightly tweak any current power rankings, which doesn't hold up in the NFL. Their commentary on Brady glossed over the fact that he will be 38 in that season. I think half their top ten could be bottom dwellers by the time 2015 roles around. The Eagles are a really odd one. Vick will be in his mid-30's, and he's not going to that long. They will have huge QB questions by then. Plus, after a fantastic 5 year run in the early 2000's, Philly has been fairly inconsistent the past 7 years. Reid will eventually be gone. Anyway, this was a worthless exercise in ESPNness.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    But this whole thing has been about you being pissed off that Barney has been somehow slighted while DeJesus and Stewart somehow are better candidates for slighting.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Looks like that bet is -135, as opposed to +105 to bet the under. Detroit's 9.5 total is flipped.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    It would be, but getting Hamels is a huge longshot.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Nice job throwing in "for a while" for no good reason. They had him go back to starting for 4 months before he ever got to the point where he was regularly throwing 6+ innings. He had 24 starts for an average less than 4 1/3 in 2009, then just 9 starts for 6 innings each before abandoning the development ship and making him a reliever for four months. He wasn't some september call-up who threw in the bullpen for a little while to get his feet wet. He was the GD set-up man pitching every other day for the majority of the season. It was a complete setback from the development path he was on. If they wanted him to be a major league reliever, it wasn't reckless, but if there was any thought of him starting every day in the majors in 2011 it was completely reckless and foolish.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I've been under the assumption from day 1 that he was destined to be a reliever. But if I was going to try and make him a starter I would have tried to make him a starter and not turn him back into a reliever, then quickly change back to starting. What they did was reckless. Basically, start the way they did and then stick with that program for a couple more years until he's actually making 6+ inning starts every 5 days for prolonged stretches of time.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I agree. Like many things Cubs they had one idea what they wanted to do and changed on the fly. My point on Cashner is that by the time he was slated to start in 2011, his conversion/treatment was screwed up. They almost had to go back to the drawing board on him. It wasn't like the Samardzija situation. Jeff had a lot more work under his belt before this season started.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I'm hardly breaking any new ground there. At the very least they should come in with a clear track record of starting, which Cashner did not do.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    A) They didn't methodically build up his innings. B) The Cubs minds? Seriously? The fact that it may not have cross the minds of the reckless, foolish, overmatched dolts that ran the Cubs makes me wrong? The consensus on Cashner at draft time was he was a reliever. The Cubs thought they could make him a starter and they did a piss poor job of trying to convert, or reconvert him back into one, let alone one who a reasonably smart person would think could make 30+ starts with 200+ innings in a season.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    No. No, no, no. You can't make that statement. Pitchers have to prove they can handle a workload before you can pretend there is no reason to believe they cannot. Cashner had very little workload under his belt when he was drafted. He had very little workload as a professional before being moved to reliever on the big league club. He'd done very little as a pro when they handed him a starting job. If spending 1 year as a college reliever doesn't bring up durability concerns, spending 2 years as a juco starter hardly makes the case that you can do. Being a starting pitcher at the major league level is hard. You have to start quite a bit before anybody can have any reasonable faith in your ability to do it over a substantial amount of time. You don't start at a baseline of "the guy can handle it", you have to wait until he does a lot more than Cashner did in the minors before that becomes the assumption.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    You are making completely unsubstantiated assumptions here. Since when does a guy making it through a college season as a starter make it obvious he can do it in a major league season? There was nothing obvious about his ability to handle the workload. In 2009 he made 24 starts, but he only averaged less than 4 and a third in those starts, so he was hardly anywhere close to actually handling a full starters workload. You can rack up 100 innings before the all star break in the majors. There were questions both about his ability to be effective in 6+ inning stints, and whether he could actually last for 6 innings every 5 days for 6 months.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    In theory, but those value acquisitions don't exactly always pan out and on teams like the Cubs there's plenty of room (and need actually) for both types.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    If it was an either/or situation only then you'd have a point.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    That is hardly "exactly the same". Samardzija has twice as many professional starts as Cashner. Samardzija had three times as many professional innings as Cashner going into this season. Going from a reliever to a starter is not necessarily wrong. They way they did it with Cashner was much more reckless than the way it is being done with Shark right now.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Because 4 years isn't that short of an amount of time, and it's not some expiration date. You could always keep him longer.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    He was a college reliever who needed to be stretched out cautiously if they had hope of turning him into a major league starter, and 30-something starts into that process (when they were typically 3.5-5 inning starts) they abandoned it for a bunch of 1-inning relief innings. Then tried to make him a major league starter right after that. It was reckless.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    A work in progress that is only signed for 4 years. Is that a bad thing? I think people went a little overboard with the whole "years of team contract" obsession this offseason.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    So are they doing their best to drive down revenue this year?
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I would like to think that the Hendry regime (and the Cubs organization) learned to manage pitch counts on a young starter after Wood AND Prior. Unfortunately after the Prior/Z wave they really only pushed out guys like Rich Hill and Randy Wells so we never really got to see if anything changed. They were very cautious with Andrew Cashner. I thought they were very risky with both of them, how they yanked them back and forth from starter to reliever and back.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    you could probably steal something similar from any number of high school teams.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Yep, we pursued him but wouldn't give him the deal he wanted. Thus we passed on him. Yeah, they pretty clearly passed on the guy. It wasn't a blind bid or anything like Darvish, he wanted a deal the Cubs wouldn't offer.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    What the hell is wrong with writing about what happens in sport? Is everybody just supposed to shut up and not write or say anything until the 100-game point? There's nothing dumb about writing about what happens over the first month of the season. It's dumb to make assumptions that those things will hold steady the rest of the year, but that's not what he's complaining about. that is what he's complaining about, the entire rest of the article lampoons the stupid inferences writers make from the first few weeks of baseball results If a team starts out a season well what the hell is dumb about saying they started out the season well? Baseball writers write plenty of stupid stuff about baseball, and 99.9% of it has nothing to do with inferences writers make too early in the year. They can write incredibly stupid stuff on day 163. Trying to come off like Mr. Smart Guy who is too smart to fall for small sample size chunks of a season and then going the self deprecation route to excuse his own "dumb stuff" is stupid. If a team starts a season with a really good record, you better write about that if you are covering that team. It would be dumb not to.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5912959/would-the-steinbrenners-really-sell-the-yankees Who knew Kathy Geiss was part of the Steinbrenner family? http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17nmbz8yf96hbjpg/xlarge.jpg
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