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You don't think he has a feel for the team, having spent several years with them already?
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Carlos Zambrano's brouhaha and apology
jersey cubs fan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
i'm 90% sure he'll still be a cub. I'm betting he's a goner by the end of the season. How? He has a NTC. And he earns a million bazillion dollars. He's not going anywhere. Pure speculation on my part and I may be reading between the lines but it sounds like the whole organization is tired of his act. I am fully aware of the money involved and I'm also aware that he has a no trade clause. I am saying that despite that, I can see the club eating some salary, I can also see Zambrano waiving his NTC to play for his friend Ozzie. There are several scenarios that I hope to see happen. The Cubs seem willing to go into "fight back until he waives his NTC" mode. -
Should be a part of fan appreciation weekend, the last homestand when the announcers are just talking about all the cameramen and crap like that. Make a big to do about it.
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b/c what does 3 months with crap team that doesn't care tell you about a manager? All it does is give the Sandberg-lovers some evidence that Trammel won't do any good as manager. I don't think managers are sacred cows by any stretch. But the manager isn't going to improve the team in any way (in chances of making the playoffs, or in player development). And if giving Trammel the reins now would improve his chances of getting the gig full time, I'd support it. I just don't think that's true. Right. Turning the team over to Trammel does nothing except all but ensure that Trammel will have nothing to do with the team next season. I can't stand Lou, but the time when firing him might have made any kind of an impact on the team has passed. If it still happens before the end of the season, hey, I'm not complaining...but if it doesn't, oh well. The only thing I really want to see is Hendry fired after this season limps to a close. I'm hoping that happens sometime in September. Just to get a head start on bringing in the new guy.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 6-28-10
jersey cubs fan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
In the last four games Vitters has a 1 AB game, a 2/4 game, a DNP and a 1 AB game. Is he nursing another injury, or in clear your head mode? -
A nominal increase over this year's.
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Doesn't baseball do that already? I remember going to a Giants game a couple years ago and seeing a close play at first and I think the Giants fan I was with said they did something there. Not sure if it's done throughout baseball though. Most teams won't show a visitor team friendly replay on the jumbo.
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So you want somebody else to manage Jim Hendry's team and maybe make it back to .500 by the end of the season? What is the point of this? Lou leaves a lot to be desired, but it's still Jim Hendry's Cubs once again proving mediocrity is sometimes an overly optimistic goal.
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There's next to no downside to that happening. Once an older injury plagued player has a season like this in his 30's, there is absolutely no telling how quickly he can fall again.
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After listening to soccer analysts more in the past three weeks than ever before in my life, I kind of feel bad about how much crap I give baseball analysts.
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Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
jersey cubs fan replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
he's not great but he's at least average. you can win a cup with an average goalie. you can't win one with michael leighton and brian boucher. If you can win 2 games in the finals with those guys you can win a stanley cup with those guys. -
http://deadspin.com/5573041/how-slovenians-and-algerians-reacted-to-donovans-goal
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fire and intensity baby, that's all you need
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Everyone says it that way (including myself), but it's supposed to be "couldn't care less". If you could care less, that means that you do care a substantial amount but have the capability of caring less than you are currently. drives me nuts
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they beat a bad team in 13 innings with that lineup, can't change it. A 2nd day off in a row after a cross-country flight with another day game isn't the worst thing, I guess. half the country
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And those tweaks might not help. If the Cubs do not have a bounce back year very soon, they will see a hard drop in attendance. Season ticket list be damned. That thing started when the economy was rocking and the team was great (and tickets were cheaper). People who otherwise could not afford season tickets could get them with the expectations of financing their tickets through later sales. Or they put their name on the list knowing they would not have to pay for years. Without a quality team, those sales dry up, and people take baths. This is two years in a row of people bathing. There will easily be 15,000 attendance days if the team doesn't improve significantly in 2011.
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they beat a bad team in 13 innings with that lineup, can't change it.
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How do these transfers and loans work out? If a player is under contrat to a team/league, and a bigger team wants him, do they have to convince the player to come there and the team to loan him? Where does free agency come into play? Is there ever any true "you can sign with whatever team you want" free agency?
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Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
jersey cubs fan replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
You didn't care about the Toews/Kane drafts? Not so much for Toews, but yeah I watched when they had the 1st pick. I'm just not one of those people who knows who all the prospects are and really cares what goes on after the first few picks. Same here, but the Blackhawks were making those first few picks, so I was interested. -
Fukudome on the Block
jersey cubs fan replied to Elwood's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
And played CF, no? -
I bet you wouldn't mind what kind of owner he was if he brought you a WS ring. I'll take him. saying you'd be fine with loria here makes it obvious that you know absolutely nothing about him The joy of winning the world series be sapped somewhat when I saw that piece of [expletive] holding the trophy next to Selig. And I'm not even being sarcastic. exactly. I think I'd feel worse about a WS with Loria than if we'd paid off the umpires or something. I'd enjoy it with no reservations.
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Re: NHL (Blackhawks included) offseason thread
jersey cubs fan replied to Prizefight's topic in Other Sports
You didn't care about the Toews/Kane drafts? -
Steve Stone can't wait to broadcast a Zambrano game.
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Hes one of those Augie Ojeda/Craig Counsell/Aaron Miles/Jeff Keppinger types who the Cubs can never get out. Great point. His career .264 .301 .342 .642 line in 436 PA against the Cubs show that he's a force to be reckoned with. Keppinger: .252 .299 .273 .571 in 155 PA. Augie: .243 .333 .243 .577 in 43 PA. Counsell is the only one that comes even remotely close to being a guy they can "never get out", and that's with a line of .256 .362 .379 .740 in 356 PA, so yeah, these guys all suck and nowhere near being "Cub killers." Hyperbole hy·per·bo·le 1. obvious and intentional exaggeration. I'm sure he understood that Craig Counsell doesn't have a .1000 batting average lifetime against the Cubs. So what. He claimed they can never get them out, when in fact they usually get them out. If they had a .400 OBP his claim would make some sense. But the actual numbers don't come close to supporting the claim, so there's no reason to make it.
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If the free agents are smart (a lot of these guys probably won't be), then we won't be one of those teams that are upset. Our situation is easily the best one available out of the teams with space to sign a big name FA or two. I assume you mean Rose/Noah there. What does the future look like with those two guys' next contracts if they do sign two max guys today? Does Rose become a max guy, can they sign him? Do they give Noah big money?
