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  1. jersey cubs fan
    The level of anger I would have if a quality GM hired Sandberg is infinitely smaller than the level of anger I'd have if they hired a crap GM, or kept Jim Hendry around. The GM is who matters. That being said, I think Sandberg would be an annoying person to be the face of the franchise the next few years.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    That isn't the impression I have gotten, but it would be a much better theory if true. Desperation contracts to second tier guys is what you want to avoid. Record setting contracts to the best of the best is worthwhile.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I always really liked Martinez. No idea what type of coach he is, but I don't think that's a horrible idea. It would be funny to see the Ryno sycophants go nuts after a different ex-cub gets the gig.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I hope they don't want him gone. I hope they want to keep him away from Chicago. I hope Ricketts isn't dumb enough to push for Sandberg and the new GM is smart enough to find the much better candidates for the job. Ok, so let me get this straight. So you say you hope a hall of fame baseball guy and an organization that has been a beast in the NL wants him enough to stay with them, which to me is a ringing endorsement of Sandberg but he is not good enough to manage the Cubs? Ok. Philly has been a beast for the better part of a decade. Hopefully Sandberg plays a part in tearing them back down to their prior aggressively mediocre ways.
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  6. jersey cubs fan
    I hope they don't want him gone. I hope they want to keep him away from Chicago. I hope Ricketts isn't dumb enough to push for Sandberg and the new GM is smart enough to find the much better candidates for the job.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    "Yes, yes. Please take this man who took a crap minor league to the playoffs away from us". Yes, yes, taking a minor league team to the playoffs is some sort of accomplishment that the Mike Quade's of the world could never dream of achieving. Pat Gillick knows a thing or three about baseball and he basically hired him. Hmm, pretty strong endorsement to me. As a AAA manager.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    A lot more people would care about the NIT if the NCAA tournament was just the Final 4. Conference tournaments are a better comparison, and those are wildly popular. EDIT: Or better yet, Bowl games. Bowl games that people care about are 50-100 year old institutions. With the exception of maybe the Rose Bowl, bowl games are watched for the teams involved, not because it's time for the Outback Bowl or whatever. Because for the past 50-100 years the best teams have played in those games. If, for the past 50 years they had a playoff series to determine the national champion and then all of a sudden decided to only allow 2 teams to play in that tournament and then everybody else can play in a make-up tournament, nobody would care.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    "Yes, yes. Please take this man who took a crap minor league to the playoffs away from us". Yes, yes, taking a minor league team to the playoffs is some sort of accomplishment that the Mike Quade's of the world could never dream of achieving.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Consider me sold.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    A lot more people would care about the NIT if the NCAA tournament was just the Final 4. Conference tournaments are a better comparison, and those are wildly popular. EDIT: Or better yet, Bowl games. Bowl games that people care about are 50-100 year old institutions.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    While I fear Sandberg may eventually come back here, I do like 2 things about this story. 1, it's from a source close to Sandberg, which tells me his agent is begging somebody to hire the guy. And 2, his current boss seems to be signaling to everybody else in baseball that he'd be happy if they hired him away from their team.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, seriously Albert, nobody in the history of baseball has received a 10-year contract. In fact, throughout all of professional sports there has never been anything even resembling a 10-year contract. All-Star, more like All-Delusions-Of-Grandeur. Pshaw.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    The Cubs have never and will never invest 200M on one player, nor should they. Pujols will breakdown midway through whatever ridiculous contract he gets. The Cubs have a fairly long history of giving out the biggest or among the biggest contracts in baseball. Going back to Sandberg they made him the highest paid player in the game. They were prepared to make Hampton the highest paid player before giving the huge money to Sosa. Since then they have gone huge on Soriano and Zambrano. The specific $200m number is a pointless fact, since there haven't been too many of those guys to pretend the Cubs have a fear of doing such things. Well, Pujols will command that and has already turned down the Cardinals. And people seem to forget that he will be 32 before next season even begins. I will take Prince at a smaller price. So what? Just because he will get that number and the Cubs have never given anybody else that number does not mean the Cubs will steer clear.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    That's a ridiculous idea. Having only 2 teams with a chance for a world series, which is all that fans care about, is horrible. Having the rest of the field play for some sort of NIT banner isn't going to excite people. Having this year's standings determine next year's playoffs is just flat out dumb, given the roster turnover. That will not force teams to keep rosters together. Why would it?
  16. jersey cubs fan
    The Cubs have never and will never invest 200M on one player, nor should they. Pujols will breakdown midway through whatever ridiculous contract he gets. The Cubs have a fairly long history of giving out the biggest or among the biggest contracts in baseball. Going back to Sandberg they made him the highest paid player in the game. They were prepared to make Hampton the highest paid player before giving the huge money to Sosa. Since then they have gone huge on Soriano and Zambrano. The specific $200m number is a pointless fact, since there haven't been too many of those guys to pretend the Cubs have a fear of doing such things.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Oh, I don't recall hearing that. I've interpreted the words I've heard to indicate he doesn't want THE BIG NAME but would prefer something more conservative. I do have to think that the eating of contracts for Bradley/Silva, potentially Zambrano and maybe eventually Soriano is starting to wear thin on the guy. He's also eating Hendry's and Quade's contracts this offseason while bringing in a new GM and likely an entirely new coaching staff.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Or both. However, no way Ricketts is shelling out over 200M for Pujols. We will be lucky to land Prince. Where do people keep getting this from? Ricketts has sent out signals that he's not very interested in spending big on any one player and would prefer to build from within while spreading the money around. Of course that could be a smoke screen. But if you add those signals into the fact that it will be really hard to get either guy even if you do want him, I think the odds are the Cubs don't do it. But hopefully he's just laying in the weeds for negotiating purposes.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    What does that even mean? You want the 4 best MLB teams to go play Asian and South American teams and have that schedule somehow woven into the next season?
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Well, lets not forget who else has been rumored to join the Cubs from the Phillies organization. The dots seem to be getting connected here. And we all saw how true those rumors turned out to be. Gillick would be joining the Cubs after the season if it happens. Then why did he resign mid-season? Why did he say he would not take a GM job? And why did Ricketts say the new GM would be reporting directly to him? No, that rumor is dead. Are people talking about Gillick or Lamar?
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Bobby Valentine is already lobbying for the job.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Because he wanted Hendry to go down in flames while keeping his own hands clean.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    I think that mindset is completely outdated. You win through the air. There is no point in running when you can't and are down big. It would be nice to have a better running game, but the problem is not that they aren't calling for it enough. It's that they aren't good enough.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Wells had a string of about 6 starts, mostly in August, where he looked like he has in the past at his best but that didn't last through the end of the season. Even when he had his solid seasons he was prone to some really horrible outings where he got rocked. I feel like he probably outperformed in 2009/2010 and is going to struggle to do that again as he gets into his 30's. I do feel he should absolutely be penciled in as part of the rotation, barring a massive overhaul with more top notch talent (or a profitable trade). But I remain concerned about his low K rates and the fact that he still hasn't reached a 200 inning season and he got injured early in the year after his most significant workload.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    He's making $9m next year and 11.5 in 2013, and I'm pretty sure people were thinking the Cubs would offer cash to offset. It's hardly outlandish, especially if they want to have some names around to help sell the new stadium.
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