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  1. jersey cubs fan
    On a good week.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Todd Hundley started it. He was a malcontent big money outsider brought in when the team tried to take the next step for contention "within the division".
  3. jersey cubs fan
    what? not only had he never heard boos at wrigley before, but he'd never heard boos ANYWHERE before? and couldn't pick them out? come on. I saw lines of this white powder side by side on a mirror and I was like, what is that strange stuff?
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Oh my god I hate Mark Grace.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    It made me want to rage-vomit onto his face. I really don't want to break my streak of not clicking on the sun-times site, what was the gist?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    really?
  7. jersey cubs fan
    19-1 New England hasn't won a Super Bowl in 7 years. They've been knocked out the playoffs at home in the 1st round two years in a row.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    The system is lackluster and aggressive promotions is a part of the system. The system is lackluster because of a lack of overslots, taking some chances early, and not spending jack in Latin America for several years. Combine that with a few guys being traded or not panning out, and I think you have a much better case for saying aggressive promotions haven't hurt in any significant way than arguing they have. It's all part of the system. It isn't the main issue, nobody is saying that. But unnecessary promotions are not helpful
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Wouldn't a lack of baseball only experience, specifically time to work on it with trained professional teachers, contribute to mechanical swing issues?
  10. jersey cubs fan
    While that's possible, hasn't Kaplan been part of the Crane bashing during the past 2 years? I vaguely remember him talking about Kenney as part of the problem (moreso than Hendry) and I'd wonder about him talking about a source that way.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    The system is lackluster and aggressive promotions is a part of the system.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, that made no sense then and makes no sense now. There were a couple people who theorized that he'd feel obligated to fix the mess he created, but I think they were just Boston-centric morons without much reason behind them. Boston was ripping apart at the seams and ownership was all about placing blame, it seemed obvious that Theo was sick of their shenanigans.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Of course the Cubs could look to be in fantastic shape by next season and not needing to pay huge money for a president to install between Ricketts and his baseball men.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I can't think off the top of my head what I read to make me believe it, but it sounded to me like he was had the idea to chase Epstein since Hendry was canned. I realize the name was bandied about at the time, but Epstein was a huge longshot. I thought he didn't move to the front of the list until Boston collapsed.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I keep hearing Boston people talk about how the Cubs have been after Theo for a very long time. It didn't sound like it was referring to just this specific process, but insinuation that Ricketts targetted Theo from day one and was going to get him. My impression is that while Ricketts obviously likes Boston people, he plan was to go after underlings, and it wasn't until Boston's collapse and the carpet bombing by their ownership that Tom decided to pounce on the big prize himself.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    It's not just specific people who were hurt by aggressive promotions (although Josh Vitters trade value probably was), but there weren't people helped by it either. Aggressively moving guys along when they didn't need to be and had little to gain from it has contributed to a lackluster minor league system.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    The travel time one?
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Neither team has shied away from doubling down with the 1B/DH type of hitter. True, and it wouldn't surprise me to see the Red Sox go hard after either one with Ortiz likely gone, but the Yankees...I don't know. They've got Tex at 1B and ARod seems destined for the DH spot sooner rather than later. Another thing with their logjam is that it always seems one of the guys is on the DL anyway, so there isn't much bench time for the studs. But I see them going hard after pitching.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    That was all sorts of fun last night. You typically don't see just a fast paced game this early in this season, or maybe I'm just not used to it.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    You lost me here.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Neither team has shied away from doubling down with the 1B/DH type of hitter.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Pessimistic response: How will we f this up? Optimistic response: BOW TO YOUR NEW OVERLORDS OF BASEBALL AWESOMENESS eric's response: what is he talking about?
  23. jersey cubs fan
    I thought C.C. was a chick.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Why do people put an e in there? There was no e. I'm not Brandone.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    If memory serves, FJM really went after people who kept playing up grinderball as the reason they won, and ignoring that they hit 200 home runs. Yeah, they said they won with small ball and without power but they had 200 HR and 4 200 IP starters with ERAs below 4.
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