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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Crazy, right? Everyone loves the 27-year-old pitcher with a 5.0 WAR and 2.95 FIP (for 2011) -- what are they thinking!?! Meanwhile, while you're worrying about the Cubs' minor league shortstop depth behind a 21-year-old star shortstop, did you ever stop to think of what the Cubs' major league rotational depth would be without Garza? It wouldn't be pretty -- at all. Yes, I did, that's why I put it in the post. Everybody includes me. I'm just speculating on what the cost and benefits are to obtaining Epstein. I don't know what the asking price would be or how much is too much. I do think that the GM is the most important single person in a baseball franchise. I also think Castro is a great hitter, but not without flaws as a shortstop. I'm sorry I peed in your corn flakes. I'll aim better next time. Derek Jeter had a lot of flaws as a shortstop throughout his career, didn't stop him from putting up a hall of fame career.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I like. I'm not saying I want Sandberg, but he recently said that the Cubs didn't offer him his Iowa job back. "There was no other job offering [from the Cubs for 2011] other than, ‘We’d like you to come to spring training, hit a couple of fungoes and walk around’,” Sandberg said. “At that point, I knew it was time to move on." Forgive me linking to my own site, but I knew I could find the quote there easily. Does that change anyone's opinion with respect to how Sandberg left? It changed mine. No, because Sandberg made it very clear before the decision was made that he had no interest in returning as a AAA manager, and he had no interest in being a coach other than major league manager. It comes down to the notion that he felt they owed him the job.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    MLB execs told him that? Tom Ricketts has told everybody that many times. I'd be fine with Cherington too. My fear (if you can call it that) is that Henry will make Theo the President and move Cherington into the GM spot. Boy, you have to really wonder what is going on in Boston. Both Francona and Theo seemed pretty pissed about something other than the collapse. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm on the edge of my seat. I'm not too concerned that they would promote Theo and give Cherington the GM spot. For one, Luchino is pretty well entranched there as the president. Also, I would find it hard to think Theo wants to move into the overseer role of president with somebody else calling the GM shots under him.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    MLB execs told him that? Tom Ricketts has told everybody that many times.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Well then doesn't that speak extremely poorly about his ability to teach those kids the fundamentals?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I'd much rather have Esptein's assistant plus Castro than Epstein minus Castro. Trading your biggest asset for a new GM is only going to make that GM's job that much more tough. GMs are important, but only in so much as they bring in the players. And Castro is the Cubs best asset.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Trading Garza or Castro for a GM is hilariously not the right thing to do. I don't understand what you are talking about. Make a point and support it. The Cubs need someone to run the franchise. That person is much more important than any individual player. I think he's saying trading Castro or Garza for Epstein would be dumb. And I agree with him.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Obviously GMs are more important, I've made that clear. Fans, however, think about the manager first and foremost. Hendry never got the heat that Baker, Piniella and Quade eventually all felt. Cashman has never gotten the heat that Torre and Girardi have felt when the Yankees come up short. Fans focus on the man in uniform.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    In the past, I'd agree. I think a hiring like Epstein alone would be enough to get the fan base extremely excited. He'll get fans like us amped up because of the obvious reasons, and his success in Boston with the championships and the drought will get the casual fans excited. In the past, and in the present. Your manager is wearing the uniform, in the dugout every game and answering questions from the press on a daily basis. He is non-playing face of the franchise, and that is obviously what Florida was going for when trading for Guillen. GMs are more important, but they generally do not sell tickets, and they do not need to be traded. You offer promotions and money, not prospects.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    One guy said something like that, and he was clearly joking because he said we'd give up Garza and Castro. Yes I was joking about Garza and Castro. But if Ozzie Freaking Guillen netted 2 supposedly top 5 prospects, then why wouldn't Boston want compensation for Epstein? I don't know about compensation for GM's, but a good GM is certainly way more valuable to a team than Ozzie freaking Guillen. Even if he has an option year, why would Boston just release him if they knew he would probably get an offer from the Cubs? Your GM is more important, but your manager is who you sell to the ticket buying public.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    It'll be difficult to see them better than GB/Det, NYG/Phil, TB/ATL/NO. 3 of those teams will win their divisions and 2 more for WC. They have to go 2 of 3 vs Det, TB, and Phil while beating Minn to have a shot at the WC. While its not a must win, they'd have to win the next month to be in the picture. I don't think it's all that difficult to see them better than TB/ATL/NYG/Phil. None of those teams have played as tough a schedule as the Bears so far. I'm not saying the Bears are for sure better, but I don't think it's difficult to see. It's not tough to see them as better than any one of that group, but they have to be better than all of them, plus have a better record because a loss this Monday would mean 3 NFC losses very early in the season.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Bears go from 6.5 point favorites to 6.5 point dogs as they travel to Detroit. The Lions are probably going to rape the Bears through the air. The only way to stop them is for Glass Joe to get injured back there, otherwise it is going to be a shootout and the Bears don't do shoot outs. I still think this is a huge game, even if many chalked it up to a loss going into the season. 2-3 virtually eliminates them from the division, since they would have losses to both undefeated leaders. And while it remains possible the NFC North could sneak in 2 wild card teams, the odds would be against it. Plus, that would be three NFC losses already, killing them in tie breakers. 3-2 keeps the division in play and keeps them in the heart of the wild card chase.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    What a brutally ugly performance by everybody but Forte and Hester. The optimist in me thinks that was a purposefully stupid game plan so as to not show anybody anything to have on tape. The defense was awful. Although I've felt for a long time they stand no chance of stopping an offense that tries to throw the ball. Luckily Rivera is as big a coward as Lovie or Carolina may have pulled off the upset.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    A D is high for a guy who posted a 4.82 ERA and 4.34 xFIP and an .848 OPS? Combining offense and defense for Z he was a 1.9 WAR player after missing the last month or so of the season. I'd grade him as a C if his blowup didn't lead (rightly or wrongly) to him being suspended for as long as he was. He didn't get a D. He's at a C+/B- (better than Dempster, Garza, Soto, Russell) And why are you assuming away something that actually happened? You cant really downgrade him because of the idiots he works for who decided to make a big deal out of a not big deal.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    MAKE IT COUNT
  16. jersey cubs fan
    COVER YOU WHORES
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I'm going to lose so much money on this team
  18. jersey cubs fan
    This is a high school game
  19. jersey cubs fan
    With the way the Bears D has played today, you take the points and make them get a TD to win. You mean that mistake prone weak defense letting cam newton school them?
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Marts say f u to all this run hungry Neanderthals.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Just because you are putting arbitrary time delays into your scenario doesn't defend your absolutely incorrect assertion that there is no benefit to doing it now or potential risk for waiting. There is an obvious risk and absolutely no benefit to wait. So quit pretending otherwise.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not calling it a hindrance to the GM search, but rather a potential hindrance to the new manager search if a potential manager takes a job elsewhere while you are pretending Quade is still your manager in the meantime. Quade is not a tradable commodity nor a potential asset in 2012, so there is no comparison there. He's a worthless sack of hairless skin who cannot be a part of this coaching staff next year if they have any interest in winning, so why go through the charade of waiting for the new GM to fire him. There is no benefit to waiting, there is potential harm.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    castro's value is at SS. so, not until he's old should we move him to third. His maximum value is at 1B, but it would not be outside the realm of possibility for him to hit more than enough to be a great 3B. Ramirez hit 12 HR in his first 550 major league PA spread over 3 seasons from age 20-22. Granted, he was more of a power threat in the minor than Castro was, but Castro was still very young and developing.
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    The guy they just drafted, Baez, may have to move to 3B eventually. But like Castro, I think they should, and will, try and get as much out of them as possible at SS.
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