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  1. 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.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    It'S not a debate.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    It's amazing how defensively foolish people sound when somebody points out a prospect has been disappointing.
  4. 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.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    All in one pitch?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    That's true. And if the question was $30m or nothing, you obviously take the $30m now. But if you already have the FU money guaranteed, there's plenty of reason to consider gambling the rest, and plenty of opportunity to make it all back.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    He's hardly "completely off clean".
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I'll never understand a disinterest in analyzing particular parts of a person's job. GMs have strengths and weaknesses and I simply don't understand the thought that discussing those strengths and weaknesses is a bad thing. I heard you the first time, and it still holds no water.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    That's my hope. I wouldn't count on it. Players understandably love money. It's not like he'd be forever missing out on all the money, correct? I mean, theoretically there's no reason why he couldn't make it back in his next deal. If a guy signs a deal that takes him into his early 30's, he should be able to sign another before his career is ending. Becoming a free agent one year earlier in your 30's, as opposed to one year closer to your mid 30's should be somewhat beneficial. Maybe he won't make it all back, but a significant amount.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I'll never understand a disinterest in analyzing particular parts of a person's job. GMs have strengths and weaknesses and I simply don't understand the thought that discussing those strengths and weaknesses is a bad thing. Because it's not analyzing, it's meaningless subjective ratings. Hendry's job is to build a team with the resources provided. He's been terrible at that. Trying to go through a list of trades he "won" is stupid. He's not a great trader, he's a GM who has failed at his job. That's the only thing that matters.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    They were talking about whether it would be better to keep Hendry through the year to let him orchestrate the fire sale before firing him, since he's been good at trades(supposedly). Not everything has to roll up to "Hendry HAS FAILED, rabble rabble rabble". And that is an asinine idea. If he's gone, don't give him an opportunity to makes moves that affect the future he has no stake in. And yes, everything should be rolled up into the only point that matters, Hendry has failed and he should be gone. Nitpicking over the proper distinction of a poor/bad/horrible trade is pointless.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I've not argued that the Trachsel trade was good. Only that it wasn't horrific as O_O stated. The only thing that made it bad, as you said, was that we targeted a mediocre pitcher. I've also not said a word about his "worthiness" as GM from his ability to trade. I wasn't making a comment as to whether he's a good GM, bad GM, whether he should remain or go after the year. I was responding to O_O's comment that he's generally overrated in his ability to make trades. I'm sick and tired of that discussion taking place. It's a meaningless distinction. You make trades to make a team better. The trade is not the end game, it's a part of the process. This notion that Jim Hendry is some fantastic trader is just unbelievably pointless. All his supposed trading genius has accomplished nothing. He is not a trader, he's the GM, in charge of creating a baseball team that wins a lot of games. He's failed. End of story, no need for arguing the finer points of any specific deal that went into creating that mediocre team.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    The major problem with the Trachsel trade is that they traded for Steve Trachsel. And I'm sick and tired of the idiotic practice of trying to quantify Jim Hendry's worthiness to be GM based on specific deals he supposedly won. Jim Hendry is not the executive vice president of trading. He's not the chief trading executive. He's the General Freaking Manager. He's in charge of the entire team, both short-term and long-term. It's all on him. The most important thing to look at are wins and losses, with the one condition of resource advantages. Jim Hendry has been here for 8 freaking seasons, and over that time has essentially constructed an 83 win team. They've had one truly great season in 8 years, several horrible years and even more disappointing ones. And throughout this time Jim's been given more resources than virtually all of the competition. He's been neck and neck with the Florida Marlins, the epitome of zero resource teams. He's been blown away by the Phillies and White Sox, two teams that have no business running circles around the Cubs. And even the A's, who have been afterthought for nearly half a decade have been more successful in the Jim Hendry era. There is only one reasonable answer to the question. Obviously he should not get another chance. To think otherwise you would have to be happy with .500 ballclubs (but willing to accept less on a regular basis).
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I'm skeptical because of the totality of his career.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    one announcer said "what was he thinking" and I was thinking, "uh, it's better to handball and draw the penalty than concede the goal."
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Don't think they care at all about Fontenot. People give a [expletive] about Theriot getting an unjustifiable amount of playing time.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    would have been more enjoyable if it was Howry pitching
  18. jersey cubs fan
    His caught stealing percentage is lower than Soto's, and he has more passed balls in fewer innings, but other than that, he's an awesome defensive catcher. Randy Wells was in too good of a mood when warmed up with Soto, proving Geo just doesn't take his job seriously.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    http://www.tmz.com/2010/07/02/elin-nordegren-tiger-woods-property-settlement-100-million-dollars-divorce/ It's $100m now.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    no
  21. jersey cubs fan
    are you watching now?
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Just saw Colvin's OPS the last month .257/.276/.500 , and the last two weeks .171/.171/.317 I'm not sure they have to let him play every day.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, let's trade Vitters for a proven veteran like Yuniesky Betancourt. Jersey Cubs Fan is right. Let's move Vitters now before he loses his prospect tag in 2016. It's amazing to me how bad people are at reading. Either that, or how afraid people are to admit when a prospect they have hope for is playing poorly. It's not like admitting he sucks right now commits you to a lifetime of hating Josh Vitters. He sucks, but maybe in the future he won't. If everyone is reading it wrong, perhaps it is a case of poor writing... It's more likely people getting their panties in a bunch because somebody pointed out a prospect's production has not lived up to hopes. Although in Guano's case up there I think he may just not know how to read.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, let's trade Vitters for a proven veteran like Yuniesky Betancourt. Jersey Cubs Fan is right. Let's move Vitters now before he loses his prospect tag in 2016. It's amazing to me how bad people are at reading. Either that, or how afraid people are to admit when a prospect they have hope for is playing poorly. It's not like admitting he sucks right now commits you to a lifetime of hating Josh Vitters. He sucks, but maybe in the future he won't.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Did you stay in midtown and/or times square area? yes - almost all of my experience in nyc is midtown/edge of times square. next time i'm out there, you'll have to show me where they hide all the pretty ladies. Yeah, well unfortunately those are a combination of tourist traps and the part of the city that never sleeps that sleeps. And where I work. It's office space and hotels, no real neighborhoods or bars.
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