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Tim trying harder than ever to support nonsensical pro hendry stance That's far more pro-Alderson than pro-Hendry. Really has nothing to do with Jim. Billy Beane has been GM of that team since October 1997. Starting in 2000 they won 90+ games in six of seven seasons, with a payroll that paled in comparison to the normal contenders. And that payroll has not grown in the years since. But you question whether Billy Beane deserves accolades for the job he did while supporting the notion that the Cubs should hang on to Jim Hendry because things could somehow get worse with a different GM. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-11-11
jersey cubs fan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Slumped? He's pretty much performed at the same rate he's performed throughout his pro career, fair to middlin. -
Tim trying harder than ever to support nonsensical pro hendry stance
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The notion that cashman is a better option because he has experience with a large budget and beans might not know how to use a large budget is baffling.
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How many losses have been tied to foolishly extending starting pitchers?
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6/10 Cubs (Z) @ PHI (Halladay) 6:05 CSN
jersey cubs fan replied to sweetpeteman's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
The crowd was laughing at quade -
6/10 Cubs (Z) @ PHI (Halladay) 6:05 CSN
jersey cubs fan replied to sweetpeteman's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Sarge? -
6/10 Cubs (Z) @ PHI (Halladay) 6:05 CSN
jersey cubs fan replied to sweetpeteman's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
This city doesn't like black people -
6/10 Cubs (Z) @ PHI (Halladay) 6:05 CSN
jersey cubs fan replied to sweetpeteman's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Quade is so dumb -
The cell blows on many levels.
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If it were possible I could get behind that, as it would maximize the potential usage of the triangle building area. Although I don't think it's completely necessary.
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Agreed, but it is far from a dump IMO. From the player's perspective, it's a dump I thought it was charming, then I took a trip to Fenway. Now I think it's a dump. You mentioned the players, and that is true because they see a side of Wrigley we rarely do. The clubhouses and general underbelly of the place is apparently a major mess. I went to Fenway before their renovations, and it was much more of a dump than Wrigley currently is.
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Did he have a stroke recently? I guess I hadn't seen him in a while, but he was really struggling on the live draft coverage. Totally sad. It was probably 5 years ago. Those things have lasting effects.
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Well then you just aren't remembering accurately. He did a lot of things wrong, like hiring Lynch and Hendry and allowing Baker to come here. But he did spend and allow spending, he just got weird about it at times. What major free agents did the Cubs acquire during his entire time with the Cubs? Was Alou the biggest one? MacPhail did allow spending but he wasn't willing to spend on any one player. It was a widely played story that one of the biggest reasons why the Cubs were suddenly landing free agents in the 2006-2007 offseason was because MacPhail was gone. It could be that all those reports are wrong (and I think they are probably slightly overplayed), but they are out there. I recall the Cubs "finishing" second in the bidding for a lot of major free agents. They were willing to spend big money, just not obscene money that it usually takes to land one of those guys. That and they did have one of their own "those guys" in Sosa.
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Well then you just aren't remembering accurately. He did a lot of things wrong, like hiring Lynch and Hendry and allowing Baker to come here. But he did spend and allow spending, he just got weird about it at times. What major free agents did the Cubs acquire during his entire time with the Cubs? Was Alou the biggest one? MacPhail did allow spending but he wasn't willing to spend on any one player. It was a widely played story that one of the biggest reasons why the Cubs were suddenly landing free agents in the 2006-2007 offseason was because MacPhail was gone. It could be that all those reports are wrong (and I think they are probably slightly overplayed), but they are out there. He went hard after Hampton. Then after the fact probably felt it was a bad idea and got gunshy. They really couldn't go after the one big guy because they had no small wage earners of their own that could offset the higher cost of stars. They had to pay for every hit. It was a wildly inefficient model.
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Well then you just aren't remembering accurately. He did a lot of things wrong, like hiring Lynch and Hendry and allowing Baker to come here. But he did spend and allow spending, he just got weird about it at times. I remember he was willing to offer a rather ungodly deal to Mike Hampton and how annoyed the Tribune Cubs message boards were that Colorado overbid. They gave Sosa what was the standard superstar player contract, they plucked other team's too expensive players and expanded payroll substantially as soon as the results began to show up. The whole plan was to draft and develop pitchers and go out and pay for bats. The problem at the time was the organization was completely ignorant of the inefficiences of the "be aggressive" mentality at the plate and the run production was consistently held down by a lack of walks. They didn't seem to put much thought into the inevitable decline of 35 year old position players. They were done in by the complete lack of any homegrown bats, because they had to spend to fill holes that should be filled by your minimum wage earning prospects.
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Well then you just aren't remembering accurately. He did a lot of things wrong, like hiring Lynch and Hendry and allowing Baker to come here. But he did spend and allow spending, he just got weird about it at times.
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I'm not sure they are reportedly after him, as much as Phil Rogers' boring good old boy stupidity just brought up his name out of the blue.
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Part of it is garbage-like. But overall it's not that bad. Citi Field is brand spanking new and a complete pile of junk.
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Every report indicates he actually made strong offers to their best players. I really see no reason to assume he wouldn't sign stars to star contracts. MacPhail didn't even avoid that. It's a pointless worry.
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It's played out only because there's only so long you can win 90 games on a shoestring budget. I'd be very happy to let a guy with a history of exploiting baseball people's idiocy try and do it again with twice the payroll. I'd be afraid that the same things that happened with MacPhail would happen with Beane. It's not easy to change your philosophy when you are transitioning from a small market with certain expectations to a big market with different expectations. I'm not sure Beane would be that much better with a bigger payroll. MacPhail was completely different though. He was completely beholden to the way a good baseball man would do it and apparently trying out for role as commisioner the entire time. I don't see Beane holding down payroll just to keep the establishment happy.
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It's played out only because there's only so long you can win 90 games on a shoestring budget. I'd be very happy to let a guy with a history of exploiting baseball people's idiocy try and do it again with twice the payroll.
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I don't get how he can say they didn't realize what it needed. We've been hearing about the need for years and they have specifically talked about the willingness to make those investments for years. Peter knows what he knows but when he tries to get into specifics of non-Boston teams he doesn't know much at all.
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It's not a phrase I'd tend to use, but I don't really see the problem with it.
