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  1. jersey cubs fan
    What makes me sad is seeing the record and watching all the losses. It will be good to not have to see so many losses for a while.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I was in northern california when they beat the 49ers wearing them.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    It's awful, and really Miami.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    How do we objectively declare that Hughes was the one who had the success?
  5. jersey cubs fan
    A nationally recognized brand (even if it's second or third tier) and an entire religion.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Yes, if someone else had exposed themselves as ignorant and dismissive at parts of player evaluation, or if Hughes hadn't done those things, then the opinions would be different. Opinions of the Cubs would also likely be different if they currently had 95 wins too. How did have success prior to the Cubs? I'm sure those same traits will still there. Did he really have a lot of success or was it just like most "good baseball men" where all you had to do was be in the game for a long time to be considered by your peers to be a good baseball man? Maybe he did have success 20 years ago, but every business evolves and if he failed to evolve then he wasn't good at his job. Just because somebody once did something well does not mean they are currently good at doing that thing.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    No one's work has been good under the Cubs since '02. I have no problem with him leaving, given his age and lack of ties with the team but most likely he does still provide good evaluation skills despite the Cubs as a whole not performing up to par for the last 10 years. He's been bad at his job for 10 years, and you're disappointed to see him go? No, but I'm also not using one interview as the main parameter whether or not, I'm actually happy or sad to see him go. If Maddux or Randy Bush (who I don't like) had done something similar or had Hughes had a better interview, opinions wouldn't be like this. It's one interview but we all knew pretty much where he stood long before he ever made that interview. It wasn't an offhand comment. That's like suspecting your uncle is a bigoted homophobe and finally hearing him go off on gays and blacks and all the rest while drunk, then dismissing the comments because it was a drunken rant. We knew what Hughes was about with or without an interview.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Hendry didn't create anything. That was how it was done before he took the job. It was a philosophy that Hughes himself lauded and preferred to work under. He really sucked at his job and now he is gone.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Uh, Fielder and Wilson are both more valuable than Aramis, so yes, both of them easily offset his production. Unless you meant to ask "Is Wilson + Fielder - Aramis enough to make the Cubs contenders/division favorites/etc?" In which case, the answer is that with their financial restrictions, there's no clear path to being a clear-cut favorite for next year, save for somebody saving the team from Soriano's and/or Zambrano's money. But those moves make the team better for next year and the following years, so the answer is obvious. You cut Aramis loose for the opportunity to add two players younger and better than him instead of only one. That is not anywhere close to an obvious answer. Odds are you'll miss out on at least one of those players if that is the move you attempt to make. It's completely foolish and incredibly risky to limit yourself to such a strategy. The Cubs have a very good player and an easy way to keep him. They should do that and then look to add elsewhere. Pretending there are no other teams bidding on free agents and all players will be happy to accept what the Cubs offer makes no sense.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    It is strongly frowned upon for front office types to tell a manager who to play. There's nobody with any real power in the Cubs front office to pull off such a move anyway.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    yep and yep
  12. jersey cubs fan
    This is such a ridiculous comment to make. The goal is not to break even on cost/value for every player. The goal is to be good. Ramirez is good, so he is paid a lot of money. If all you do is let every expensive guy walk and replace him with cheap guys who might break even on their production, you are going to suck. The Cubs already suck. They can't afford to let quality leave if they want to get any better. Their system isn't close to being capable of replacing somebody like Ramirez. The Cubs have needs beyond 3B and finite resources. If they are better next year with Ramirez's money spent elsewhere, they need to do it. Especially since Ramirez isn't a long term piece at this point. They won't be better. Every theory is based on longshot hopes of unrealistic production from garbage internal candidates. It's a pointless exercise.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    This is such a ridiculous comment to make. The goal is not to break even on cost/value for every player. The goal is to be good. Ramirez is good, so he is paid a lot of money. If all you do is let every expensive guy walk and replace him with cheap guys who might break even on their production, you are going to suck. The Cubs already suck. They can't afford to let quality leave if they want to get any better. Their system isn't close to being capable of replacing somebody like Ramirez.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Some of these 3B platoon ideas are just dumb. But Vitters getting time at 3B in 2012 is beyond idiotic. It's irresponsible nonsense.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not sure why you would think this. The line sucks. We know it sucks. It has sucked for a while and it has the same sucky players. It will continue to suck until they get better lineman.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Define "around". Soto is too old and too inexperienced fielding ground balls to stand a chance of being anything other than horrible at 3B.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    The point I've been making this entire thread is that we should let Aramis walk to (hopefully) free up the money to sign Wilson and one of Pujols/Fielder. Wilson is a better short and long term investment than Aramis at this point. And that isn't a very smart point to try and make. Your solutions to fill the position are garbage. My solutions are salary-based - you shoot a little higher if Ricketts bumps payroll up at all. If it stays as is, then you make do with what you have. Baker is extremely productive against lefties and as long as Flaherty/LeMaheieu is decent, we'll have above average offense at third. Why do you think an aging, injury prone 33 year old slugger is a better 3 year investment than a 31 year old elite pitcher who only has 2 years of ML starting experience under his belt for 4-5 years? Your 3B production would blow. You are talking about guys who might have a chance to be backup middle infielders.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    There is no reason for the B1G to take Iowa State or Kansas. They add very little to the revenue pie. ND and Mizzou are the only two options on the table that (1) fit the profile of the conference and (2) add value to the league and increase the BTN's footprint. I'm perfectly content with staying at 12 teams, there is no need to expand to expand. Adding Iowa State will create a natural conference rivalry with Iowa. Adding Kansas will increase the league's basketball profile. You have to add someone if you want to get to 16. That's the assumption I started out with. Iowa is not exactly struggling for rivals in the conference.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Might as well keep him out through the bye then. That'd mean he'd be out for GB, Car, @Det, Min, and @TB in London. Back in time for Philly on 11/7. If he's healthy enough to play in 4 weeks there's no reason to purposefully hold him out longer. He'll get an extended break after that game to recover from his first post-injury action.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Peter King threw out the completely meaningless and nonsensical "can't win with Rex Grossman" line again this week. How is it that this line gets repated so often when the facts (his team went to the Super Bowl with him starting and they have won a lot more than they've lost while he's played) completely disprove the dumbass comment being made? Why can't you just say he's inconsistent and unreliable in the long-term? Why purposefully use an incorrect statement?
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I do not agree with the "we need to run more, passing gets us in trouble" concept. Running more doesn't win them more games. It was a close game for a while, but it got out of control in a hurry. And the offense couldn't do anything.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Most of the pounding was after some injuries. It was still a 3 point game late in the 3rd quarter. I'm thinking that line might drift more in the Packers favor if the Bears injury reports are....unfavorable. Nick Collins will be out you would think for the Packers and Williams, I think is questionable although he wants to play. With those two out the Packers secondary will be weakened big time. Combine that with the Bears ability to hold the Packers offense down and with it being in Chicago I am not the most confident about this game. I don't see how it's anything but a toss up. GB is favored by 3.5 on the road so obviously people don't think it's a toss up. I think they are an easy pick in this game and will be chosen by just about everybody.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Three straight weeks of being an underdog, Packers are favored by 3.5. Lot of potential implications to come out of this early season matchup. It's Packers week. It's the CG rematch. The game will either leave GB as the odds on favorite to win the division, or completely throw everything into flux as we enter the middle part of the season. Back to back chitshows like last week will leave the fan base and media up in arms, and may get Cutler killed. Bears might need to get lucky this week, but Lovie's teams tend to play well vs GB.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    At this rate they may just use up all the mileage he has left on his body this season and get somebody else next year.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I've never read the guy before, but you're right. Buffone is horrible. The entire paragraph is incoherent, but this was my favorite part. Did he right this or was he just quoted off a radio interview. Lots of people sound like that when being interviewed.
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