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  1. But think of the children! You can't see the TVs from the shower room anyway.
  2. His answers read like an old man desperate for one last chance at a managerial job who says he's open to anything, then he goes home and asks his grandson to call the internent and figure out what these stats mean. He definitely seems like somebody who uses the wrong stats.
  3. how 'bout them chiefs!
  4. In 2012? No. But long term it definitely does. No It does not. It is maintaining the status quo. It may be the right decision. But it does not get the team on track.
  5. those are not tips ot get the cubs on track. giving Garza an extension does nothing to improve the team. Not signing a stud free agent does nothing to improve the team.
  6. How is concerns about his asking price a red flag? Oh shut up you moron. Why do so many people insist that you can only win in 2012 or it's a bust? Probably not nearly as good or as nearly a perfect fit as these two. You can't just say, "oh, there will be others." That's idiotic.
  7. I pissed next to Ethan Hawke at the Pierre.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Possessing that kind of movie can get you in an awful lot of trouble. erik made a funny
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. what sort of compensation did they have to pay the Brewers? Or is that considered a clear promotion?
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
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