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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Pronger went after Toews a few times, and they tried to mess with Campbell and Burish as well.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Now you are just not making sense. What is he supposed to do to make the team better. The 2010 Cubs were more or less put in place before 2008. There was essentially nothing Ricketts could have done between the time he bought them and today to make them better. Ricketts in't losing games
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Ricketts is technically his boss, but the future of the GM spot is almost definitely Ricketts decision. And a "shake up" probably won't do anything in the near term. They need to can Hendry and plan for 2011 and beyond. Whether that happens today, tomorrow or October probably doesn't matter. If November comes along and Hendry is still here, then I'll be pissed. Otherwise it's perfectly reasonable for a new owner to give current management a little time before cleaning house.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    What exactly would dumping Crane Kenney have done to improve the team this year? So having someone above Jim Hendry who actually knows baseball isn't a good idea? Maybe having someone with the stones to fire the manager who admittingly says he doesn't know what to do? $4 million per year for the manager to act like he has given up. Maybe it wouldn't help improve the team this year, but keeping Kenney sure isn't helping. As a fan, all I see is the status quo and that is not good enough. If I was the head of a group trying to purchase a franchise, I would have a plan in place for changes the first day I had control of the team and improving bathrooms would not have been high on the list. A winning team is the best fan experience, the best marketing plan and the best way to grow revenues. Kenney runs the business side of the Chicago Cubs. Could it help to have a "baseball guy" as president, who would then hire a GM? Perhaps. But what's most important is the GM, and I don't really think Kenney mades the call there. His job is to keep revenue sterams flowing.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    What exactly would dumping Crane Kenney have done to improve the team this year?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    You fool.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I feel like they had a decent counterattack for much of the third period, but not the last 5 minutes. Even still, they should have scored an empty netter.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    It's supposed to be hot as balls this week. I'm not sure about the ice surface reputation there (I've always heard Chicago's isn't good) but the arena is very similar to the UC in terms of being a cavernous place, for whatever that's worth.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I felt Buff and Kane would be neutralized against Philly, and am not surprised Chicago hasn't dominated. But I also feel great that they are up 2-0 without playing their best yet, because so far in these playoffs they've struggled early and gotten better and better. They are the better team and if they have a great game in them, that's another win for sure.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, not a free agency/arbitration thing. I was just thinking specifically about pension eligibility. I feel like they did something like this for somebody else before (kept him on 15 day DL unnecessarily) and it was mentioned at the time.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Yes, maybe I missed something, but why the eff is a player who hasn't played all season not on the 60 day DL 57 days in? It's not really necessary until the roster spot is needed. And I have a feeling there's some sort of service time situation involved where being on a 40-man roster and not the 60day DL helps Guzman get his pension or something.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I love that Bruce Miles has been asking him about Theriot's lack of walks, and all of a sudden Lou finally figured out that he wasn't playing well.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Somebody's been following the sports guy twitter. What the hell do you need added? The Mets have a huge scoreboard, and not one relavent and/or interesting bit on information on it. You can easily see the score, inning, and count, why the hell do you need anything else? You want a nice closeup of the guy's face? Are you looking for batting helmet three card monty? Or those little "stolen base" videos?
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Bring on John Grabow 2.0!
  15. jersey cubs fan
    http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/05/bears-sign-third-round-pick-wright-to-four-year-deal.html Wright signed, now all picks are done.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    That is not the case. They just account for opening day payrolls. If you cut some reliever who made $3m, that didn't count. If you paid another team $14m to take a guy off your team, that didn't count.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    yeah, I agree...what St. Louis does most years (win more games with a smaller budget) is fairly admirable. I'm sure I'd harbor more hate for them if I lived in Chicago or St. Louis. There has only been a big difference in budget for the last 3 years. Before that it was relatively close and Cardinals was even higher in 2005 than the Cubs. I'm not saying that the Cubs spend their money well, just that the Cardinals have not always done more with less. Just more with about the same :) I'm guessing you are looking at opening day payrolls, those don't accurately reflect what a team actually spends in a season. Hendry repeatedly left open the possibility of adding to payroll midseason during the first half of his tenure as GM. They also spent a lot of money on guys who weren't actually playing for them. After the first couple years of this decade, the Cubs were spending more than STL consistently and the gap kept growing.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Earl Weaver claims to have never had a sign for the hit and run, citing that the play makes both the baserunner and the hitter vulnerable, as the baserunner is susceptible to being caught stealing and the hitter is required to swing at any pitch thrown. I'd take Earl Weaver's mummified corpse as a manager before I'd allow Lou or Bob to manage a game from the dugout. Ok, I am not big on the hit and run either but the blame cannot be taken completely away from Lee for killing yet another rally this season. Lee simply choosing to swing there does not necessarily save the rally, so the vast majority of the blame remains on Lou's indifferent shoulders.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Wait, that was a double steal with a 3-2 count? He was thrown out at 3rd? That's even more dumb.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Just got back from NHL store. It's got a whole bunch of blackhawks/flyers stuff.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    exactly, dumb call maybe but that was lee's fault. Its not Lees fault his manager is a [expletive] moron who sent the runners down 5 damn runs in the 1st freaking inning. I'm not arguing the bad manager decision, but how is it not Lee's fault that he took a fastball right down the middle of the plate? Guys take called third strikes. It's a 3-2 count, a ball is a walk. If he thought it was a ball, he's thinking go to first. They needed baserunners, not 90 feet.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    exactly, dumb call maybe but that was lee's fault. If that was a missed sign that's the 2nd on a hit and run in 2 days. Yea but Lee of all people should know to protect on 3-2 count. If he singles you are all calling it a great move. No, it's not great, because you risked an out to move a guy 90 feet while down 5 runs. It's dumb. It's extremely dumb.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    exactly, dumb call maybe but that was lee's fault. He could have swung and missed and you got the same result.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Nobody cares about your fantasy team. I really hate fantasy baseball. I love this phrase. Nobody cares, or just you? Lighten up. Nobody cares about someone else's fantasy team. It's not so much about the fantasy team. Just the phrase "nobody cares." Is it really nobody, or just the person saying it who doesn't care? it's nobody
  25. jersey cubs fan
    You're making the assumption that they are making the decision to promote him based on his stat line rather than other factors like pitch recognition and fielding. For all we know, Vitters may be sitting on fastballs and they want to force him to hit breaking balls against more advanced pitching. I guess what I'm confused about is you seem to think there is some reason that they're promoting Vitters and that it's not a good one. I just don't understand what would be promoting a player for the wrong reason? What are you implying their motive is? I think their reasoning is flawed, if not idiotic. Motive has nothing to do with it. From low A to high A and high A to AA, they promoted him after a very brief stretch of playing well, as if they were just waiting for an excuse to promote him. I don't get it. I don't get why they can't make the guy earn a promotion through prolonged performance. I can see moving a guy out of short season leagues to get with legit competition, but he's 20, with a spotty track record and huge red flags about his game. Why is he in AA?
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