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  1. jersey cubs fan
    That word, I do not think it means what you think it means. Soto has a track record of success that justifies excitement. Castro has a track record of success at a position where it doesn't take all that much to be really valuable. Colvin is not great. He's not a great building block. It might be great to have him around, although it might just be pretty nice. The point that is being repeatedly made, and repeatedly ignored, is that he is not great. He's an okay piece with some gigantic flaws to his game, the kind of flaws that can really hamstring an otherwise physically capable player. He had a great start to this season, when used sparingly, but the more he has played the more his numbers have dropped, and the more frequently he has made outs. If you want to be excited about him, go ahead, but I think the time for that was about a month ago. Over the past 28 days, his line is .244/.272/.500 with 20 K in just 81 PA, and only 3 BB. Aside from the surprising amount of HR, those are the types of numbers his minor league career more or less predicted. They aren't great.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    CNBC reporting MSG options action is heating up on expectations of a Lebron announcement popping the stock tomorrow.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    He was traded to STL. It's possible somebody didn't want to play for the Cubs because of Wrigley/day games. Some people have supposedly avoided NY because of the demanding fans/media, Philly because of horrible fans, west coast teams because they have family out east, American League teams because they like the NL, etc. It has nothing to do with 100 years of losing.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Really? Wrigley Field is the reason we haven't won since 1908? I find that extremely hard to believe. Even in 1984 when they had to move the last 3 games of the NLCS to San Diego because NBC wanted night games and Wrigley didn't have lights yet, the Cubs still should have won at least one of those games. That did not happen.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    What he's talking about can contribute to some players deciding to go elsewhere though. The Cubs have not suffered from players refusing to join the team.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    You're damned if you spend a billion dollars on a .500 ballclub. You are not damned if you actually build a winner. End of story. The nitpicking over how to rate specific moves is pointless.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    It was cool when they played all night games in Miller Park in 2008, not sure why they decided to move back to day games at Wrigley the last two years.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    The ASG has never been meaningless and never will be as long as sports writers use ASG appearances as a criterion for HOF selection. It's a joke, I know, but selection to the ASG matters and having it in the hands of the fans is unacceptable. Then again the managers don't do any better in picking the teams so I'm not sure who deserves that responsibility. But the hall of fame doesn't matter either.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I hope Cowherd isn't full of [expletive] like he usually is. Although, it would be like LBJ at this point to not have the announcement in Cleveland just to throw everyone off. I agree about Boozer at this point -- what can it hurt? Don't we want him either way? Wasn't it already reported to not be in Cleveland, but in Akron?
  10. jersey cubs fan
    He had the right plan going into '03 as far as building a team around young pitching but had the wrong person at the wheel. That plan had long-term success but it shifting from winning for the next 5 years to winning it next year. And that Dusty Baker signing was all on him, and easy to predict as a disaster.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Completely different situation. Favre is an old man who knows he's coming back but takes over 6 months to make an announcement. LeBron will have been a FA for a week when he makes his announcement. Favre is a great QB, a Hall of Famer. But Lebron is also a shoe-in Hall of Famer, and is the biggest FA in the history of the Earth. If this was 1990 and Jordan was a free agent, you would have seen the same thing. Not exactly. This could only happen in very recent years.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    You're not doing yourself any favors going out of your way in every single thread to talk about how little you think of Vitters. The act is getting stale. How have I done this? I rarely even talk about Vitters. Somebody else brought it up, then others got all melodramatic about how unfair it is to talk bad about Vitters, and I commented.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    You went out of your way to make a comment on one player for the sole reason of criticizing another player. I'm not sure what else you expected. I think that was West Side Rooter who did that. Or am I missing something? Right you are. My mistake. I still have to wonder what jersey expected from such a comment. What I expected from what? I didn't make the comment. Other people got all pissy that it was made though.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I get the realty of the NBA, but I also know that you don't walk into elite players, either. Boston took advantage of Danny Ainge's relationship with Kevin McHale and got Kevin Garnett not to mention getting Ray Allen. Both were already on their decline when Boston got them. LA got lucky when Chris Wallace became a punch line to a joke when he gave Gasol to the Lakers. Vince Carter went to NJ but I don't believe he was an elite player at the time of the trade. Elite players do not leave their teams in their primes, they just don't. I think the last one to do it was Shaq in 96. Hill was injuried, and McGrady left Toronto before his prime. So getting James/Wade/Bosh were longshots at best. But here is the good news for the Bulls, by the end of the 2010-11 season Rose will be a bonafide superstar. Not to mention Noah is quickly becoming an elite rebounder/shot-blocker/hustle player. So we got the two important positions filled already. Not all is gloom and doom if the Bulls don't land anybody. Except this offseason was all about the big star free agents, and the Bulls made all sorts of moves to plan for the big stars, so if they don't get one, they will have gotten shut out. It doesn't mean the franchise ceases to exist, it would mean they missed out on their targets.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I guess it wouldn't technically be getting shut out, but something like an unearned run scoring in the 9th inning of a 12-1 loss.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    On the contrary, I'd love for us to eat his contract. Realistically, this team probably wont compete next year. So any salary of Silva's (or any other player) that we pick up to facilitate a trade wont exactly keep us from adding those one or two missing pieces to put us in the playoffs. And it's not like any savings in the budget will go towards 2012's payroll. Really, the best thing we can do is pick up as much of the contract as we can afford... that way we can get some very nice prospects. Absolutely. The money is spent and not likely to go to any better cause, might as well use it to acquire talent.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I think the Bulls are getting shut out of this, too. I don't. I think Boozer or Lee will be Bulls. But even if they do, it's not the end of the world. Isn't that being shut out?
  18. jersey cubs fan
    What if we call that predictably inconsistent?
  19. jersey cubs fan
    The discussion of trades has nothing to do with discussion of his overall job performance. It is a factor in it, but I can believe he's good at making trades but bad as a GM overall. I just don't get the idea that because he's been bad overall, we have to focus only on that and should not be allowed to break down where he's been good and where he's been bad. Because he's not a freaking role player that can be slotted into another position of just trading. He's the [expletive] GM, therefore you focus on the job he has done as GM. It's pointless nonsense to constantly bicker about how to properly classify a trade, be it horrible, bad or poor. It doesn't matter. Any GM who has been on the job for 8 freaking years (and allowed to take on money in deals) is going to get back talent at some point. It doesn't matter. It's like talking about a RF with a line of .230/.250/.350 and talking up the few hits he did have. Any one move is meaningless on it's own. The only thing that matters is how a GM puts together a team.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Oh heaven forbid somebody make a snide remark about a top draft pick who is playing like crap. Not sure where this adjustment supposedly happened, he's been crap since the callup. I guess one must always assume that a top Cubs pick who isn't performing eventually will perform because the Cubs saw fit to promote him despite a lack of performance.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Not necessarily. He's fine to have out there as a cheap player with mediocre to decent production if you're adding an Adrian Gonzalez at first base & such. He's the kind of player where you take advantage of any cheap production he can provide, then if he doesn't grow as a player, you trade him or non-tender him when his price starts to grow. Kinda like Theriot. This is my thinking. If he can provide cheap, adequate production that allows us to spend more elsewhere, then I'm happy with him. I'm happy for cheap adequate production, but I wouldn't be too happy if they penciled him into a corner position. Theriot was adequate for a short period because he played SS. But they also endured a season of crap in his first year, and are paying him millions to suck this year. The danger is holding on too long to somebody who gives you a brief period of cost effective production. Unless Colvin takes a huge step forward, he's not somebody you want as your opening day starting RF, barring an unexpected upgrade in performance at some other position. If you had a Chase Utley at 2B, maybe you can deal with that. But if you're a top payroll club expecting to be among the best teams, willingly opening a season with somebody who is likely to be an out machine starting at a position that needs to produce.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    It'S not a debate.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    It's amazing how defensively foolish people sound when somebody points out a prospect has been disappointing.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    The 6th year he doesn't get from the Bulls he'll be paid for in the first year of his next contract. Like he said, it may only be $15 million at that point, but he'll still get a chunk of it back. Even without the CBA/extra year gamble, the AAV of the contract is higher, right? He can't get that money back. Huh? Isn't that money 6th year money? It's going to be paid in the 2015-2016 season, whether it's from a contract signed today or one signed 5 years from now.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    All in one pitch?
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