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  1. jersey cubs fan
    500 were available for yesterday's game or available yesterday for today's game? The weather is going to be nicer in Chicago today, the team has won a couple games and a popular pitcher is on the mound. I know there were boatloads of great seats available for the Sunday Phillies/Cubs game and then on Sunday morning the really good ones were gone.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    A great many vexing things happen with regularity. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be vexed by them or accept them as the status quo. Those things that can be fixed are worth vexing over. But booing sports fans have existed for as long as athletics has existed and will exist long after your last post bemoaning the existing of booing sports fans. Fans who boo are just not something worth getting worked up about in my opinion.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Do you agree that the collective IQ of those people booing is at least 10 points lower than those not booing? No, not really. I have come to the conclusion that loads of otherwise intelligent human beings are in general really stupid about sports. Plenty of highly educated people boo and do a lot of other things one could describe as stupid. It has something to do with the whole fanatic thing.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I am aware! I am aware!
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I don't get the people who have such itchy booing trigger fingers, but I really don't get why people get so riled up against those people. Sports fans boo their players when they do poorly. They do it everywhere. It's a fact of life. There's nothing to see here.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Tracking flyballs/linedrives isn't all that athletic of an activity. It's largely instinctual after years of following balls coming off bats from that distance/angle. Well, then spend some money to make an app where players can "see" thousands of fly balls coming off a bat (based off real plays in games) one after the other and watch it on their IPad from different positions on the field... the player has to decide quickly which way to break. You could even use the accelerometer/GPS and camera to do an agumented reality thing. You could even have it support different wind conditions at the different parks, etc, so you could see how a ball reacts with the wind blowing in or out. It's not going to be as good as real practice reps, but I have to believe something like that would accelerate the learning process. All kidding aside, this is the sort of thing you do in the offseason, not the middle of a season. You'd have to give LaHair all of next winter/spring to try and learn the position. The all star break wouldn't be enough time, especially since he will be playing in that game.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Lots of those guys moved off of positions like 3B or 2B, not 1B. 1B is where fielders go when they can't play anywhere else. Listing a bunch of names that played the position does not do anything to support the notion that Bryan LaHair can do it. Plus, going back to the athleticism and tracking flyball discussions, somebody like Soriano is pretty bad at tracking flyballs. But he's a great athlete with a tremendous arm, so he was able to make up for his weaknesses. LaHair is not a good athlete and he has no history of tracking flyballs as an OF. You can assume he will be bad at it, and he doesn't have the athleticism to make up for it. He will be bad. He will need to be really good on offense to make up for it.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Tracking flyballs/linedrives isn't all that athletic of an activity. It's largely instinctual after years of following balls coming off bats from that distance/angle.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I'm going to have to print a fresh batch of fan club membership applications. I expect numbers to be growing very soon. Of course, it doesn't really mean that either of them have been good offensively (and oddly enough Ramirez seems to be rating better defensively early on). However, Stewart's peripheral stats are miles better and project for his improvement more than Ramirez's. As a special fan club entry promotional, we're taking predictions on the date Stewart's OPS catches up to the league average 3b (.730, as of yesterday). I'm going with July 4 to be patriotic. You say patriotic I say unnecessarily pessimistic.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    He kinda has, despite the low ERA, he hasn't been pitching deep into games at all, his K numbers have only been ok and he's been walking a lot of guys. Is that kind of horrible or just okay?
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Are we to agree with him because we like what he said or is it the dementia talking again? I'm surprised that he didn't add that we should send him to the Red Sox as compensation for Carpenter. i know making fun of gammons is the cool thing to do now, but the guy had a aneurysm. He's not demented. You don't know that.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Why would you move your all star 1B to LF for some kid? Make Rizzo play another position, or better yet, trade him for a closer. This is exactly the kind of condescending, patronizing nonsense I'm talking about. GMAFB. The mere suggestion that the Cubs see whether LaHair can play the outfield at a level somewhere above Adam Dunn -- an idea that arguably the best front office in baseball is apparently entertaining -- does not make someone a Kaplan-ish meatball. At least TT is addressing the position head-on. You resort to mocking strawmen that I haven't (and obviously wouldn't) suggest. I don't know what has you so upset, but I wasn't being condescending. LaHair is LaLord. Of course you were. You obviously aren't seriously suggesting trading Rizzo for a closer. Don't pretend otherwise. I am suggesting that the goal should not be to try and move LaHair to let Rizzo fit in, but rather that LaHair should be the one around which others are moved.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Why would you move your all star 1B to LF for some kid? Make Rizzo play another position, or better yet, trade him for a closer. This is exactly the kind of condescending, patronizing nonsense I'm talking about. GMAFB. The mere suggestion that the Cubs see whether LaHair can play the outfield at a level somewhere above Adam Dunn -- an idea that arguably the best front office in baseball is apparently entertaining -- does not make someone a Kaplan-ish meatball. At least TT is addressing the position head-on. You resort to mocking strawmen that I haven't (and obviously wouldn't) suggest. I don't know what has you so upset, but I wasn't being condescending. LaHair is LaLord.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Ryan Braun hasn't learned yet and it's been almost 5 years. There's a difference between acting like an asshat and acting like a douchebag. Braun is a douchebag, but a lot of ballplayers are douchebags. That's what happens when you get 6 figure deals as an 18 year old and then essentially no longer have to continue growing up. Asshats are a specific breed of douchebag, like AJ and others.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Why would you move your all star 1B to LF for some kid? Make Rizzo play another position, or better yet, trade him for a closer.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    They didn't get hit because the pitchers weren't old school in the 90's/00's. That's why all the old school worshippers started to complain, and so it was up to the next generation to live up to that old school mentality.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    What small sample? The guy has been here a long time and acquired zero impact players. Everybody good was acquired before he took over. The rest is just a bunch of guys. I have not been the least bit impressed with Bowman and do not understand why so many people were high on him after the past two offseasons. Also, while Oduya may have played all right late in the regular season, the trade itself was by no means good. He gave up way too much for such a mediocre player with no future.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I didn't say anything about taking Volstad's spot. I said I thought they might try and give Wood another start while he's up here.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    wtf I read this earlier and am still baffled as to how this happened.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Instead of suspending Hamels 5 games, suspend him 1 start. TA-DA! Philadelphia then announces that Hamels was supposed to start today on 0 days rest. Or any of the next 4 days. And he misses zero actual starts. I think it would be pretty easy to do something like a 6-8 game suspension for starting pitchers while only taking away 1 or 2 games checks. If you do 6 games it's at the very least pushing back his start a couple games. 8 games has a good chance of missing a full turn.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Spring training results determined status, why shouldn't regular season major league starts? Well, Volstad's peripherals aren't bad, while Wood has been pretty bad in Iowa. At the very least, I'd like to see Wood get a few more starts in Iowa to prove his start in Chicago wasn't an outlier. Giving the nature of pacific coast league baseball, I think seeing what he does in Chicago and other major league ballparks may be more useful in determining his ability.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Spring training results determined status, why shouldn't regular season major league starts?
  23. jersey cubs fan
    In whose place? Not necessarily in anybody's place. But they seem to be giving Garza an entire turn in the rotation to recover from being sick, they've talked about doing stuff to limit Samardzija's innings, Dempster has already hit the DL and the other two have struggled. I thought that after calling the guy up and getting a decent outing out of him they wouldn't rush to send him back down and might give him another look. They have an off day Thursday but then have 13 straight, and with the very shaky bullpen at the moment it might also help to have another stretched out arm on the staff.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/joel-quenneville-become-next-montreal-canadiens-head-coach-164804276.html#more-32544 Apparently there is real talk of Q leaving and Montreal stepping in to hire him. I don't really blame Q for the struggles. But hockey tenures are not long, and Q is already about a top 5 guy in that department and it could be time to move on. I feel like too many guys have gotten too comfortable with their standings dating back to the cup win.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    So Wood got optioned back for Cardenas. I thought they might have tried to give Wood another turn.
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