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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I don't see how you can have a decade as bad as the Cubs have had in terms of patience at the plate and not have an organizational bias against it.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Just like prior promotions for Vitters. Sort of, but Jackson is like 1 for his last 20. He has about 130 games in AA now and all in his AA numbers are very solid, especially for a CF.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not sure Jackson and Ha are exactly rushed with these promotions though. There were certainly things they could both work on at the level they were at, but they won't be woefully overmatched at the next level either. And it does help the CF dilemma that was caused by Szczur moving up, and he absolutely needed to move up. I'm hoping Flaherty will get to come up to the big leagues in September, and don't really care which level of AA and AAA he plays before that. Yeah, not really a matter of somebody being rushed, just sort of odd timing that had more to do with getting out of other people's way.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    It should be the only reason you go to Pittsburgh.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Well that seems like an odd time to promote Jackson.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    No, those aren't the two options.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Since you're going to play that game: I played competitive soccer for 18 years (granted, at the lowest level of the Belgian FA's official league) and the red card rule hasn't changed since I started playing in 1972. Local FA's do tinker with the rules sometimes in specific circumstances (usually youth or reserve competitions or tournaments) - I remember an experiment with mandatory substitution after a yellow card - but big rule changes at the professional level are extremely rare. The one I remember most vividly was when a goalkeeper was no longer allowed to handle a ball that was played back to him (except when it was headed back) - as a defender, that one took some time to adjust to. Does "handle" mean touch with hands only in this case?
  8. jersey cubs fan
    explain
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Well yeah, you passive-agressively are. You're not using a good base of critical analysis to bring up the topic, you're looking at a largely unimportant statistic in an absurdly small sample size (even figuring in those games he missed due to injuries around graduation, you're talking about 11 games with far from a normal distribution of starting pitchers or opponents.) If there had been whispers of Szcur having issues with his teammates, it could be something to base things on. If he wasn't a FCS national champion in football (a sport that relies a lot more on the team concept than baseball) compiling a 37-10 career record, there might be something to base it on. Instead, we've got the equivalent of Catcher's ERA. Not really, because that is a stat and stats are bad. This is critical analysis.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Or he could get hurt tomorrow and be worthless. There's no reason to trade Pena just to get more filler, doing so because it is the highest offer is dumb.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I don't think he's a type A. And there's no reason to hang on to Pena past the waiver deadline. Maybe the prospects work out, maybe they don't, but there's no reason to pass up a chance to add depth to a pretty thin farm system so we *may* have a better chance of resigning him. Pena isn't terrible, but if we don't add Pujols or Fielder in the offseason, there's a pretty good chance we'll be bad again. The Cubs do not lack depth in the system. They lack quality. That's debateable, It really isn't.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Szczur was gone for over a week for his graduation - the team was 5-4. Remember the speculation on this board that he must have had a really good time. Not true. He was hurt and gone for graduation. The time frames just happened to coincide. Yep it was in the Peoria Journal-Star as well as reported by the Chiefs radio announcer that Szczur was gone for the weekend series in Kane County, and missed the remainder of the games (during which they went 5-5 in total, not 5-4) due to nagging injuries. Unless your theory is he only has the negative effect while actually playing as opposed to being around the team in the clubhouse with injuries. What went unreported is that the injury was sustained when his manager ordered a code red and all his teammates beat the crap out of him. Until you've done the critical thinking on this you cannot disprove my theory.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    They don't play 11-10 in football when somebody takes a holding penalty either.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    If the reasoning is that we want to keep him because we might decide in January or February that we want to bring him back, then not trading him makes no sense. Who says that decision will only be made in January. It could be made for you before then.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I don't think he's a type A. And there's no reason to hang on to Pena past the waiver deadline. Maybe the prospects work out, maybe they don't, but there's no reason to pass up a chance to add depth to a pretty thin farm system so we *may* have a better chance of resigning him. Pena isn't terrible, but if we don't add Pujols or Fielder in the offseason, there's a pretty good chance we'll be bad again. The Cubs do not lack depth in the system. They lack quality.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    You don't need to hold onto him, you hold onto him if you don't have a worthwhile offer. You don't just get rid of him to the highest bidder regardless of the price of the bid. Pujoles and Fielder could be off the market before the Cubs even have a shot at them for a variety of reasons. They have absolutely nothing even resembling an internal option. What they do have is a glut of organizational filler and absolutely do not need any more. If you don't get something more than a marginal upgrade to the Lee deal, you hold onto him.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Some, but not particularly meaningful. He was an all star in 2005 and 2008, so only once in the timeframe of this contract. And $75,000 isn't going to change his feelings much on a contract. Maybe he gets it anyway.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, sorry, you aren't making any sense. "Holding onto him because you don't like the offers is a bad idea but it could be a good idea to hold onto him to see if you can get better offers." Don't trade him for more filler, end of discussion.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    By the time we've ruled out Pujols and Fielder, Pena will be on the open market whether we trade him now or not. Not necessarily. And it's still better than taking back more garbage.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    We can re-sign him in the offseason, though, if that's what we choose to do. The only benefit to keeping him would be to have him during the exclusive negotiating period, but that will have ended by the time we can begin negotiations with Pujols/Fielder. I guess a team that acquires Pena could then re-sign him, but that's generally unlikely and it's not like Pena's a guy without peer on the FA market. There's just no point in getting more filler. If that is your only offer, don't trade him. It is as simple as that. It would be stupid to trade the guy for more filler. Entertain all offers but don't get lowballed. If you are, pull him off the table. Maybe somebody gets more desperate in August and you can swing a waiver deal.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    If the Cubs only get a marginally better deal than they shouldn't even trade him. What good does keeping Pena through the deadline do the team? I realize we've got a horde of players similar to the guys we got in the DLee trade so getting more of them for Pena isn't special, but Pena does us no good playing out the string and then leaving via FA. Because he won't necessarily leave via free agency, and the Cubs have no internal options at the position. Getting more filler does the organization no good, keeping Pena as a potential fallback option when they realize Fielder/Pujols options aren't there has value.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    If the Cubs only get a marginally better deal than they shouldn't even trade him.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5820010/whos-afraid-of-hope-solos-nipple Disappearing nipples.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    stones, glass houses, etc Not sure what the comparison is.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    even in that case he should know about red cards. Hey jerks! I know what the heck a redcard is but they made it sound like they were playing with one less player on the field. I mean sure they had a player who was unable to come back into the game but that wasn't what they made it sound like. I don't know a lot about soccer, although I did play a lot from about 5-13. But my understanding is that a red card means a player is kicked out of the game and the team plays without a substitute for that player the rest of the game, ie. one less player on the field.
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