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  1. jersey cubs fan
    It's only [expletive] up if he did something wrong. One of three scenarios will come to pass: 1. Castro is guilty and is proven so 2. Castro is legally absolved because of lack of evidence or charges dropped and you have a Kobe/Ben situation where you live with the suspicion/stigma forever, right or wrong 3. The accuser retracts her accusation or is thoroughly discredited and Castro is vindicated I think scenario two is by far the most likely and while better than the first, it's not entirely palatable. I think you could easily find a scenario in between 2 and 3.
  2. jersey cubs fan
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  3. jersey cubs fan
    I don't particularly like the move, but I don't think Theo did this to be cowardly, or blame the Cubs' past suckiness on anyone. Based on his comments he sought advice from nearly everyone close to the situation and made an informed decision. Even though I don't care for the move, I like the willingness to call it what it is. I meant the players, who supposedly kept telling him Zambrano can't come back. Guys like Wood, Dempster..., who's left on this team now? Oops, looks like I misread it. I agree to some extent, but if they asked for the player's opinion and the player gives them an opinion, isn't it up to Theo to sift through what is reasonable and what is just sour grapes? Why ask the player's opinion? To avoid a fried chicken and beer catastrophe.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I don't remember exactly how it went down, but I believe it went something like this: Mark Hatley ran the personel department in 2000/2001 offseason. They knew they were going to replace him with a GM, and so did he, but he ran the draft anyway and took David Terrell and Anthony Thomas. There was some prolonged executive search committee process involving outside search firms and they settled on Angelo sometime after the draft but before the season in 2001. I don't know if they actually missed out on other targets, but the timing was awful.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Hendry's people were still in charge, which explains his overly aggressive approach at the date.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I think I like the Baltimore guy most, but I have no idea. If they get one of these top guys, I'd be very happy with how things went down this offseason. If they wind up with some second tier guy, like Angelo was, I'd be disappointed.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    He was also a Yankee and went to 2 WS with them so maybe there's carryover from that. Although he's probably most known for striking out about 30 times in that 2003 postseason.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    If this doesn't motivate Castro to shore up his defense nothing will.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I hope Bill Conlin presents the award.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    This is why we can't have nice things.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I don't particularly like the move, but I don't think Theo did this to be cowardly, or blame the Cubs' past suckiness on anyone. Based on his comments he sought advice from nearly everyone close to the situation and made an informed decision. Even though I don't care for the move, I like the willingness to call it what it is. I meant the players, who supposedly kept telling him Zambrano can't come back. Guys like Wood, Dempster..., who's left on this team now?
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I like the picture this puts in my mind of the guy mingling in some conference center butting in on conversations to tell people he's going to be teh head coach.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    It's a pretty nice arena. It's very similar to the UC.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I think many people had an unrealistic idea of what the market for Z was going to be. It wasn't a good trade, but it was as good as it was going to get. If you insisted on trading him.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, that's what I said. We got another illiterate here. There's a wide gulf between nobody and everybody. But you don't like to hear stuff like that I know.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    There's no guarantee any rookie WR will be a factor in 2012.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Where is anyone make such a general claim? People have been adament in their stance on the matter, and the movement is growing.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    How are they going to pull that off? After this year you can no longer spend huge on prospects. The baseball budget is set year by year. You can't go out and spend an extra $50m above that budget one season after not spending it, because the next year you are going to be screwed trying to get back down to your real budget. Unless there's another Darvish on the horizon, there is nothing to use the carryover money on from a baseball standpoint.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Choosing to actively avoid making a bad team better is essentially actively choosing to be bad. Also, avoiding all free agents is stupid.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, that's what I need to work on, being mad at the job Jim Hendry did.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I'm of the opinion that the Bears shouldn't be ruling out any of these guys, Jackson included. If they spend big on him, they can still sign help somewhere else and draft d-line, o-line, secondary, WR and LB as needed in the first 4 rounds (5 picks).
  22. jersey cubs fan
    But not every team has a QB and a RB due for a raise.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Good front offices with a good offensive line and a good QB should be able to turn 3rd - 5th round WR picks into viable options, especially when they have quality receivers lining up with them. Even when the Bears get a good front office. Don't have a good OL. Don't have quality WRs lining up. I think that's a whole helluva lot to come together in 1 offseason. If we had the OL or a WR like Jackson in place, then sure a 3rd round WR would be fine. But that's my issue. Jackson is a quality WR, but he's not that good that he would fix the problem enough to ease a 3rd-5th round WR into the offense. I think even with Jackson you still need a 1 or 2 pick in. And I think Jackson makes that less likely than a cheaper option, that may only be marginally less productive. But you seem to be complaining about the notion that if they sign Jackson they won't spend a 1st or 2nd on a WR, when in fact, if they do sign Jackson, then a 3rd or 4th round WR mixed into the rest of the group should actually be a good thing.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Luckily we're not talking about a diner, because you can build a quality organization in the future while still trying in the present. There is no need to punt 2012 no matter how hard davearm works to convince you people otherwise. I seem to recall a lot of excitement about this offseason on this site. Money off the books and the Cubs would be players in the big free agent sweepstakes. I am getting old so maybe my memory isn't very good. Am I remembering wrong? One by one the zombies have been convincing themselves that spending money on baseball players is foolish.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    They aren't actively trying to win yet, that's for certain. They're not placing 2012 ahead of the long term, which is the only thing I think you can say with any degree of certainty right now. Saying the FO is actively trying to lose in 2012 is ludicrous. They have not yet done anything to make the team better in 2012. That can be said with certainty. Not doing anything to improve a bad team make not be actively trying to lose, but if you aren't doing anything to try and get better, it's the same damn thing. There is nothing ludicrous about being upset at what they are currently putting out there for 2012.
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