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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I don't give a crap about who the manager is if Jim Hendry is still GM.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Except given the fact that it was written by David Haugh and about a team run by Jim Hendry, making it completely meaningless. Don't you think he's basing this off of some sort of source? I'm not saying it's true, and we could just as likely wind up with Don Baylor again, but the idea even being out there is somewhat encouraging Sure, but it's David Haugh who is a glorified football beat writer and who knows jack squat about sabermetrics. And it's a Jim Hendry team which has always paid lip service to this stuff but nearly every time chooses to focus on obscure nonsense. Whether or not they are going for a young hands on teaching manager without name recognition probably has a lot less to do with sabermetrics and a lot more to do with trying something different + cost cutting.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Why couldn't they send Hill back instead? He's the freaking spokesperson of this team. I've never seen a more inconsequential and incompetent player take such a prominent role in the team's conversation with the media. You can't get rid of that. Not since Ryan Theriot in 2009 He could at least pass for a competent starting SS. Hill is a backup catcher who is terrible.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Except given the fact that it was written by David Haugh and about a team run by Jim Hendry, making it completely meaningless.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Why couldn't they send Hill back instead? He's the freaking spokesperson of this team. I've never seen a more inconsequential and incompetent player take such a prominent role in the team's conversation with the media. You can't get rid of that.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    What? What are you even trying to say here? You make no sense. did you intentionally cut out the part of your post in which you suggested I wanted lou fired b/c of a lack of interest during press conferences? Cut out the part of my post? You haven't made a lick of sense here. You're rambling about the guy's passion in press conferences and how obvious it was that he mailed in this entire season and should have been sent home in February. You are making a bunch of really stupid comments. And I'm questioning them.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    So he should have signed day to day because he knew eventually his mother would die in the middle of a baseball season thus forcing his hand to retire?
  8. jersey cubs fan
    What? What are you even trying to say here? You make no sense.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I somewhat agree with JR here. Could the Cubs really not tell from his press conferences earlier this year that he'd lost it. He just didn't care that much - he'd given up. The fire was gone. He's been like a dead man walking for months. If his mother wasn't dying, he might sit through the last several weeks, but it is sorry that the Cubs didn't see that Lou had cashed in earlier or weren't strong enough to fire him/force him to retire then. I mean, his mother in 90-something. Does it really surprise anyone that she's dying? I can understand wanting to spend her last few days with her, but you don't retire 6-weeks early b/c your very old mother is going to die in the next few days. So then your opinion is they should have fired him earlier in the year because he sounded disinterested in press conferences? Jim Hendry put together another god awful baseball team. The problem with the organization is that Jim Hendry is GM. It has nothing to do with the way Lou went out.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    All depends on how they do this postseason. Girardi took heat after 2008 and it will happen again if they finish behind Tampa and/or get knocked out of the playoffs early.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    So they should have had the team doctors checking Mrs. Piniella's charts?
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Disappointed. Pointless.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Speaking of the free fall. Does anybody else think Hendry decided Trammel shouldn't be a candidate based on the team's performance in that handful of games he managed for them?
  14. jersey cubs fan
    It is all too clear now that Lou was indeed "ready." The reporting would have portrayed an organization under control, and not one in a constant state of chaos as we've seen since July 20. Lou is not a sacred cow. He's been fired before, and the Cubs have sent many baseball lifers out on the street over the decades. So your opinion is that after Lou took a couple days off to visit his very sick mother, the Cubs should have fired him to avoid a potential free fall from a team poised to lose 88 into a team poised to lose 95?
  15. jersey cubs fan
    David Kelton supposedly had an immaculate swing that should not be touched by coaches, and he sucked donkey balls.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I don't think this comes close to equalling the blundering this organization has accomplished.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    One really good team, two slightly better than average ones and a crap one. People forget 5 NL teams had a better record than the Cubs in 2007. They were nothing special and would not have contended for the wild card if they had to settle for that.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Then you are stuck with a mediocre 1B. well either scenario we're stuck with a mediocre player at a position where offense is important But 1B requiers more, no?
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Then you are stuck with a mediocre 1B.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    tapping pitchers?
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I think the 1972 Dolphins would argue that, though. Starting QB Bob Griese misses most of the season with an injury, but the Dolphins still go 14-0 and win the Super Bowl. More often than not you're right, though. It's modern era football though. STL did it with Warner, but that was a preseason injury and resulted in a HOF caliber QB replacing a journeyman. Same thing with New England. You could get away with it if you are a dominant defensive team that hides the QB anyway, but if you rely on your QB for anything your backup isn't going to help. A journeyman QB might help an already decent team hold onto a playoff spot, but that's about it.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    The Royals could very well covet someone like Colvin..................... I think a few poor teams would love him if he can still look like a guy with the HR power and isn't too huge of an OBP liability. Those teams can't afford ideal players. No one, certainly not in this thread is calling Colvin an "ideal player". I'm just wondering what the Cubs could get for him as a guy who is young, cheap, under team control for a good while and is coming a decent rookie season. I wasn't trying to say you were. My guess is not a whole lot. Maybe if they had a fairly costly vet they want to clear out.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    It's a little concerning, but not terrible. Compare him to Soriano's 25 year old rookie season. He has not appeared to me to be a crazy free swinger. He's had some really nice at bats. But he's also hot right now and a rookie trying to impress, so you expect some overzealous swinging. All indications are that he's very adaptable and will to adjust, my guess is as long as they don't hire Dusty Baker 2.0 for the next manager he will at least show enough patience to not let that be a liability.
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  25. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5612472/breaking-patrick-kane-stanley-cup-stuck-atop-a-ladder-truck-in-downtown-buffalo Kane is high
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