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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I just assumed the 5/10 contract was spread evenly. Looks like they have him making 3.5m next year. Could still be a candidate for a bigger market team with bullpen issues, but probably eliminates a decent amount of teams from taking the rist.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I imagine Samardzija's contract makes his options status pretty irrelevant. He'd fly right through waivers if the Cubs wanted to send him down next year. Didn't think of that. Although it is just a $2m deal correct? He'd probably be a perfect option for the Yankees to take given how they are always looking for bullpen scrubs.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Mo and KRod, almost. Making $13m in arbitration is unlikely, but getting that much in free agency is possible if he maintains his level of performance for the next few years.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    In any one season, not averaged out over 8 years. And it's pretty stupid to say that a 10 win difference is meaningless.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    You're really making yourself look bad here. If you think it's a bad idea to trade Marmol, then say so. But stop inventing future hypocritical arguments and applying them to people in an effort to make yourself look correct. A lot of people (myself included) fear that moving Marmol would put Hendry in a position where he'd keep Cashner in a relief role. That's a legitimate fear. Backtobanks scenario is less likely, but I don't see it making him look all that far out there. That's a legit fear, but there's no reason to assume he doesn't already want to keep Cashner there since he's so obsessed with bullpen help and more than happy to keep better arms down there.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    He's like a half-step worse than Hendry. If he's worse than Jim Hendry why do his teams consistently win more than the Cubs? This year would be the 3rd year out of 8 that his team won more games than the Cubs. In 8 years they've averaged nearly 86 wins while the Cubs have been at 83.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I am not at all talking like that and I have no idea how you can possibly make such a statement. Money is a necessity for making deals. The more you have, the more you can do, and the better your team should be if you aren't screwing up. Jim Hendry is screwing up so his teams haven't been good despite more money than most. His rather pathetic win % is supported heavily by the two season super spurge in spending that catapulted them from more than most to more than almost everybody status. People like to blame McDonough and the Trib for the bad contracts, but choose to forget that without that spending, the 2007/2008 Cubs would have sucked. It's funny that the same "I didn't want to spend it they made me" defense that Hendry apologists give for reasons why Ricketts should keep him is arguably the only reason he still has a job today, since a continuation of the 2005/2006 Cubs into the heart of the selling process would have almost certainly cost him that job.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    He's like a half-step worse than Hendry. If he's worse than Jim Hendry why do his teams consistently win more than the Cubs?
  9. jersey cubs fan
    That seems to be a pretty extreme conclusion to come do. Why do you think that more money is going to always allow an average GM to overcome their mistakes and misconceptions as opposed to just amplifying or increasing them? If more money makes you worse, you aren't average. You're incompetent.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    What's the Samardzija options situation? Does he have one more next year?
  11. jersey cubs fan
    The expletive team that wrecked the season is the Cubs.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I think most people would say Kenny Williams is at best an average GM, however, the White Sox have trounced the Cubs during their respective tenures in charge, to the tune of being nearly an 86 win team every year to the Cubs 83 win average. The Cubs have spent a lot more than the vast majority but have been nothing but an average GM. I do not think it's possible for an average GM to take a top 4-8 payroll and make it just an average team. Hendry is decidedly below average. It does not matter if he's made moves that others would have made. His team has not come close to winning the number of games they should have been able to win given the resource advantage.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Shut up. You sound like an idiot with statements like this. We all know the sacrifice fly would have been nice. But it's absurd to say the GM should be fired because two outfielders did not hit sac flies. It's baseball, guys cannot hit the ball on command. On command? When did I ever say that!? Look, it's 2-1 now in the 12th and the inning still isn't over. Those two guys didn't get the job done, end of story. I can hit a pop up too for $17 million. This is only part of the reason why Hendry should be fired. You are blaming Soriano for hitting a fly to short center field instead of deep right center field. That's insisting a guy should be able to hit the ball on command and place it perfectly.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    To be fair, the fielders weren't at the warning track when he swung.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Shut up. You sound like an idiot with statements like this. We all know the sacrifice fly would have been nice. But it's absurd to say the GM should be fired because two outfielders did not hit sac flies. It's baseball, guys cannot hit the ball on command.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    You can't expect guys to hit sac flies on command.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Hendry should be fired because the team has lost too many games during his 8 year run. The problem with situations that "only require a deep fly ball to score" is it's not just as simple as wanting to hit a deep fly ball.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I understand that there may be a personal relationship, my point was their professional interactions have been very limited.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know why he didn't have one of them bat for Theriot and the other for the pitcher. Lou sent Soriano out initially for Theriot anyway so he was obviously willing to take Theriot out of the game. That must have been a mistake.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    They said the 2B could have caught it.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I still think hes the Braves next manager That's got to be the most likely scenario, but the fact that he has a history with Hendry should be a good sign. There's a history, but Hendry spent what, 2 years in Florida back in the early 90's? It's not like they have a long professional relationship.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Yes. He has shown tendencies to make stupid managerial decisions that fit into the conventional wisdom style of play that has been proven to often do more harm than good.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    And Santo is getting pissed at Lilly for giving up a HR. I'm not upset at the HR but, what pisses me off is a not very good player - Feliz - hit it. I was in Philly watching a game when Felix came up and commented about how much he sucks, he promptly popped one out deep to left.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    And Santo is getting pissed at Lilly for giving up a HR.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    712 July OPS. And since being Ryan Theriot seems to be the most important prerequisite for becoming the Cubs leadoff hitter, he's doing the job.
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