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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I wouldn't say he got them there as much as they got there under his watch. And that reasoning doesn't mean anything to me. Lessers teams dumped Torre before he became a world series winner with the Yankees. Francona wasn't good enough for Philly before winning a world series in Boston.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    As literal as you can possibly take it. Players Dad's accompany the team for a couple games on the road trip. you don't know what you are talking about. It's a road trip sponsored by Dad's Root Beer. They do one every year, and while the team is away they open up the UC to the fans to watch at a Dad's sponsored family fest. Kind of hoaky but you need to bring in that casual fan and young families. incorrect the dad's trip is a road trip is an annual men's rights event in which the team works to raise awareness of the implicit unfairness of the divorce and child custody system in the united states by allowing all team employees to bring their children on the trip to show that they can successfully balance work and parenting. they cancelled that part when all the dad's were hesitant to transport their 15 year old neighbor babysitters across state lines.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    As literal as you can possibly take it. Players Dad's accompany the team for a couple games on the road trip. you don't know what you are talking about. It's a road trip sponsored by Dad's Root Beer. They do one every year, and while the team is away they open up the UC to the fans to watch at a Dad's sponsored family fest. Kind of hoaky but you need to bring in that casual fan and young families.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Possessing that kind of movie can get you in an awful lot of trouble. erik made a funny
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Meh, thats Eagles +2.5 if the game was at Soldier Field right It would actually be Bears +2.5 Yeah sorry, Bears +2.5 Except the whole "3 points for homefield" thing doesn't really hold true.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    that's a weird post
  7. jersey cubs fan
    His career has gone from high school gym teacher to college baseball coach to scout/scouting director/gm. Why would you want him to go into PR? He's not a former player with legions of fans who will show up just to see him at a signing or something. He's a scout with a nice resume. Let him scout. So he can find the next toolsy left-handed leadoff hitter who can catch the ball? No thanks. You let him scout people, you don't let him determine the #1 target of the team every offseason.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    He's twice been an interim manager at the end of lost seasons for crap teams. He's not Joe Torre. Also, Chicago people have all kinds of issues with pronunciation.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    His career has gone from high school gym teacher to college baseball coach to scout/scouting director/gm. Why would you want him to go into PR? He's not a former player with legions of fans who will show up just to see him at a signing or something. He's a scout with a nice resume. Let him scout.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I didn't hate him as a person, but I hated him as a GM. If he gets a job within the organization that is far away from assembling talent, I'd be ok with it. Wait, how does somebody think Hendry is a good guy to be the face of the Cubs but not want him building the team? You think he should be some sort of figurehead? You can't be the face if you don't have any power, and if you are a GM type who isn't building the team in the future you have no power and can't be the face. What the heck does that phrase even mean? I thought Jim Hendry as the face of the Cubs epitomized everything that held back this organization during a decade when it could have and should have dominated its division. Hendry is a decent person and executive who wasn't interested in screwing people over and all that. But he couldn't do his job and be competitive against the other more modern executives in the league, let alone the more traditional ones who just got better results than he did. I don't read that as him wanting Hendry to be anything close to the face of the organization. I read that as he was ok with Hendry being one of the crosscheckers or something like that. I was responding to the guy that actually said he was a good guy to have as the face of the organization.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    what sort of compensation did they have to pay the Brewers? Or is that considered a clear promotion?
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I didn't hate him as a person, but I hated him as a GM. If he gets a job within the organization that is far away from assembling talent, I'd be ok with it. Wait, how does somebody think Hendry is a good guy to be the face of the Cubs but not want him building the team? You think he should be some sort of figurehead? You can't be the face if you don't have any power, and if you are a GM type who isn't building the team in the future you have no power and can't be the face. What the heck does that phrase even mean? I thought Jim Hendry as the face of the Cubs epitomized everything that held back this organization during a decade when it could have and should have dominated its division. Hendry is a decent person and executive who wasn't interested in screwing people over and all that. But he couldn't do his job and be competitive against the other more modern executives in the league, let alone the more traditional ones who just got better results than he did.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Sure, but if the hitters are still overly aggressive isn't it difficult to judge from the stands whether a guy is actually throwing strikes that would be considered good strikes in a more patient league? It's not like they have Fox broadcasting with the K zone or anything.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    If he can throw strikes down in the Dominican, I'd be interested. Yeah, that'd be what I'd want to hear. He's always had really good stuff and the ability to strike a lot of people out. Some of those 6 and 7 BB/9 seasons are ridiculous, though. Can you learn much of a pitcher's control by his time in the Dominican? Maybe it's just a phrase but the whole "hit your way off the island" approach has to be a part of that league to some extent, right? I imagine the hitters are pretty aggressive.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Screw that. If they give him the contract he wants at this point it's going to blow up in their faces. Tag him and pay him big money year-to-year.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    the line is down to 7.5 now. So it's gone from 6.5 to 9 back to 7.5. Kind of similar pattern to the game against the Lions.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I like the concept of converting the guy, but you'd have to figure 2012 would be an experimental year, limiting his innings and potentially piggybacking him with other pitchers. You'd be spending a lot of money on that experiment. He's only gone past 50 pitches three times in his career. What could you really expect out of him, 25 starts for 100 innings? Guys might prefer to be starters, but if you can make big time money as a reliever and have been a successful reliever for many years, I'm not sure there's enough incentive to take the risk.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    There were like 60 relievers in the NL who held opponents to a lower OPS against and only 6 who had more blown saves. He was a completely middling middle reliever this year. Probably 4th best guy on a not so good Cubs bullpen. He was not "darn good" this year and he wasn't last year either.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Brett Jackson probably can't hit enough to justify a corner spot. maybe on a .500 team
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Other stats for Wood are pretty bad. ERA+ is only another version of looking at his ERA, not great. Fangraphs have him worth less than his contract. He's way down the list of relievers and was not pretty darn good. And Pena's decent season doesn't not equate to excellence.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    espn.com had a "quade is their latest goat" story up and somebody else wrote a "firing quade isn't fair story". I also think Sandberg talking to STL is perceived nationally as a mark against the Cubs for some reason. I don't see how it is turmoil at all, but espn has never been good at being in tune with what is going on.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    I had on ESPN briefly last night and the host said something like: "The Cardinals, Dodgers and Cubs, three marquee franchises going through some turmoil right now." I couldn't understand how what the Cubs and Cardinals are going through is turmoil while the Red Sox are not mentioned.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    could play DH in interleague and World Series, not sure where else during rest of season.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    1.Boston 2.Chicago 3.St.Louis Not so sure about this, given the events of the last month. I don't see how having a successful playoff run makes an opening any more attractive than it would've been without said playoff run. If anything, it might be marginally worse because of expectations. I took that as stating Boston's internal implosion muddies the water there.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Their payroll is also dwarfed by a division rival, ownership threw the last group under the bus despite 2 WS and a bunch of success. 90 win seasons are a huge disappointment. The fan base is insane. Anything less than 2 WS titles in the next decade will be deemed disappointing. There's a lot of negative about that gig.
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