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  1. jersey cubs fan
    He was on a 1 year deal with a mutual option. He retired, but as far as I know didn't decline the option. Huh?
  2. jersey cubs fan
    The whole "accountability" thing is much less important than the fact that Dusty liked bad decisions, poor players and overall stupidity. A lack of accountability is not why Dusty's teams failed. And you're absolutely right. Dusty was a terrible manager in just about every aspect. I'm just saying that you need a guy who can hold people accountable, because if a manager doesn't hold players accountable, eventually the players won't hold themselves accountable and then everyone will cease to give a crap. We saw it under Dusty, we saw it at the end with Lou. The GM holds people accountable by hiring, firing, trading, releasing and replacing. There is very little a manager can do to hold people accountable, and much like many fan complaints I think that is just an empty phrase.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Very good point. If you hire a new guy with the intention of playing out the string for a year you run the risk of a really bad season and the fans turning on the new guy before he has a chance to manage a real team. Maybe they are smart enough to ignore fan dissent, but coming out of the Boston scene there's no doubt they are aware of the dangers of pissing off the masses.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    The whole "accountability" thing is much less important than the fact that Dusty liked bad decisions, poor players and overall stupidity. A lack of accountability is not why Dusty's teams failed.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Sounds fishy to me that the framework of a deal would've been done before TLR retired. Not when he made that decision in August and I'm pretty sure everybody involved was aware of his intentions.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    My guess is he has a pretty good idea. Not sure he went so far as to line it up, because you run the risk of a credibility gap with regards to how they have handled the Quade thing.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I think you are putting way too much stock in the Boston ownership's hitjob.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    No interest on my part. I doubt that's what it would take to land Pujols, although if it did, I would reconsider.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    We didn't let him go, he left. Well, technically he hasn't gone anywhere, but it seems pretty clear they expected him to void his option, and have prepared from the beginning to move past Ramirez.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    hadn't heard
  11. jersey cubs fan
    So far I love every decision made except for letting Ramirez go, and at least that is respectable, reasonable adn probably the right decision in the end. That's the complete opposite of every Cubs-related prior to Ricketts. It was always a bunch of completely bad decisions couple with the occasional one that was at least reasonable and respectable.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    newdirections sorry ryno
  13. jersey cubs fan
    So is there any chance we can get an edit on the thread title?
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Kyle, I really don't think you know what you are talking about when discussing WAR.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I said that because as things stand now, they are bad. But a big part of that is because 1B is complete crap. And selling a player on winning is selling them on the notion that your presence might make the team the best in the league. You aren't selling them on the notion of maybe winning 87 games. Adding Pujols to a great team with 1B hole is an easy sell from the "we are going to win" standpoint. If you add Pujols you can easily put together an above .500 team in 2012, and start looking pretty damn good by 2013. You can say this team is 3-4 years away from really being a power, largely because there is no difference maker like Pujols on the team. But if you had Pujols on the team, and thus 1B settled and no need to keep patching that hole on a day-to-day basis, you can get started on building a great team a hell of a lot sooner.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I see the logic behind it... If you can't put a team together quickly enough, you're essentially wasting a year or two of that huge salary and of the player's productive remaining years. I just think it's a gamble you have to take and that you can take when you can spend $130-140M on payroll. I don't buy that logic at all. The fact is you can put a team together to, at the very least, be in the race in 2012. That's worth something. You don't have to win the World Series in year one to justify a signing. It's a slam dunk situation for the Cubs with everything lining up in favor of signing those guys. You can win more than you lose in 2012 and be in position in year two to really put together a powerful team.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    The Cubs last year got replacement-level production out of RF, No. 4 starter and No. 5 starter. They also had several other starting pitchers exhibit quite a bit of poor luck. There's 8-12 wins to be had fairly easily by fixing each of those things. After that, it gets a bit harder to upgrade without signing a major upgrade, but there's still a lot of fairly easy wins to be cherrypicked. And all of your fixes are completely vague assumptions (plus hoping for luck).
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I'm curious how you make that assumption at this point, especially the on base part. Their three best OBP contributors, Fukudome, Ramirez and Pena, are either gone or very likely to be gone. I would not make that assumption until I see the replacements.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    If you are very lucky, you call it 1998. 1998 without Sosa
  20. jersey cubs fan
    You probably shouldn't start with 71 as the base case. But the point remains, replacing Ramirez with platoon players who were already counted on to contribute to the team with Ramirez while also failing to add some impact elsewhere is a recipe for another horrible season in 2012.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    And that's where we disagree. This team is a lot closer to average than it is a complete mess, presuming we clean up the back of the rotation and get a small upgrade in the outfield by replacing Tyler Colvin's playing time with Brett Jackson. I don't know what you want to call the area between complete mess and almost average, but it's not good. And that's where the Cubs are without Ramirez or replacement studs.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Seriously? The team is coming in as a complete mess. If you don't get studs and you already lock in another downgrade elsewhere, this team isn't going anywhere. They need, and obviously can afford, major upgrades.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    That may not be the lede depending on the source. That could be some random scout jabbering about obvious things like, the Cubs need pitching and Buerhle is a pitcher. I think it's odd that at his age he's talking about 2-3 years, but I would guess he could get the Jayson Werth treatment and be way overpaid by somebody if he wanted. I also think he really does hate all things Cubs.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    What is so BS about it? He ran the business before, and runs it now. If it was just BS they would just let him go. Sure he runs the biz side, and I have no issue with that, but what I was trying to say I guess is Crane was THE Pres and now everyone knows Theo is. The fact Crane got to keep Pres on his biz card is all that it amounts to. I look at it as they moved him sideways to bring in a real Pres. He ran the business before and he runs the business before. He wasn't really running the baseball side, so while, sure, they moved him sideways, he's still doing the same damn thing.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I think we'd be better off letting the money do the talking for now and have Theo/Hoyer talk to them about future plans.
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