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  1. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5553643/world-cup-dis-track-is-our-generations-lexington-and-concord I speak American.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    But what are those resource advantages? When I was growing up Illinois was definitely an after thought for football players. If that's all you could get, you'd go, but there were bigger and better options in and out of the Big Ten. Their stadium sucks. They hold no national cache. And they even occasionally take the back seat to their little brother in Evanston. Illinois is in a tough spot. If they could find the next up and coming genius, that guy isn't staying there very long unless he's an Illini diehard. They need a recruiter to attract talent, as the school can't attract it on it's own.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Rotoworld breakdown:
  4. jersey cubs fan
    2 year contract expires after 2010, but he's only arb eligible this offseason. They control him.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    So you are advocating signing Lee to an extension? He's going to be a 35 year old first basemen with 2 great seasons in his career, coming off 2 of 3 disappointing seasons (assuming he doesn't completely catch fire this year). I think you have to strongly consider letting him walk unless he's willing to take a one year deal with a paycut. I didn't say to extend him, but if you trade him away there's pretty much zero chance he'll come back regardless of the length of the deal. There aren't any great options right now unless there's some sort of trade FOR a 1B, especially since Ramirez's awfulness means you can't even consider moving him over there. Okay, but if you aren't going to bring him back next year, what is the point in not trading him?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    So you are advocating signing Lee to an extension? He's going to be a 35 year old first basemen with 2 great seasons in his career, coming off 2 of 3 disappointing seasons (assuming he doesn't completely catch fire this year). I think you have to strongly consider letting him walk unless he's willing to take a one year deal with a paycut.
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  8. jersey cubs fan
    If you were a good hitting coach, would you take a gig at Wrigley? :D Wrigley, where fake good hitting coaches go to become exposed for who they really are. Bad hitting coaches. What matters is the overall ability of the players and that is determined by the GM. That's where changes need to be made. Whether it's Lou, or Alan or Ryno, it doesn't matter if it's still Jim.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Why don't they fire the hitting coach again? There's got to be another best in the business guy they can waste their money on.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Hmmm...they gonna start trying to run the goalie? I get the strategy. Bumrush the goalie, get some retaliation penalties on the Hawks, etc. But that whole "50 years" business is nonsense. Like that adds any extra pressure to a 26-year old kid from Finland who had probably never even been to Chicago until about a year ago. I think they gave him a crack of doubt on Saturday night when the dinged him for five goals. And it did them no good. I know it's all talk and a product of constant news conferences, it just gets tiring. I don't think it's nonsense. I think it's a desperate strategy from a coach who wants the media to help him win. He's telling them to start asking Niemi about the pressure of history.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Go Hawks!
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Oh, if only. I would love it if they fired Lou, let Trammel finish the year and then signed him up for at least one full year with Sandberg as the bench coach. I've resigned myself to the inevitability of Sandberg as manager at some point, so at least with that outcome he spends some time with the big league club under someone else as opposed to jumping right in. That's been my hope, and given Ryno's good soldier status maybe he'd go along with it. But then would Trammel? Would he take a gig where he's essentially a lame duck already just keeping the spot warm for the chosen one? maybe if it earns him another shot somewhere else. I doubt he wants his managerial career to consist entirely of his tenure in Detroit. So if he can be a manager again here, even for just a few months, it might be enough to get him a shot with another team next year. Who knows. He'd almost definitely take the actual interim tag for this year, but I was referring to taking the gig next year with Ryno as his bench coach. He's going to want a 3 year deal.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Really? They've given out bonuses of 500k or more to Jin-Yeong Kim, Wilson Contreras, Dong-Yub Kim, and Kyung-Min Na in just the last year. I know they aren't signing the 2-3 million bonus guys, but that's a pretty decent alotment for international free agents. And it kind of fits the quantity over quality theory. 4 guys getting 500k each instead of one guy getting 2-3m.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I hope nobody bothers with nonsense like that.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Oh, if only. I would love it if they fired Lou, let Trammel finish the year and then signed him up for at least one full year with Sandberg as the bench coach. I've resigned myself to the inevitability of Sandberg as manager at some point, so at least with that outcome he spends some time with the big league club under someone else as opposed to jumping right in. That's been my hope, and given Ryno's good soldier status maybe he'd go along with it. But then would Trammel? Would he take a gig where he's essentially a lame duck already just keeping the spot warm for the chosen one?
  16. jersey cubs fan
    To be fair, I guess, one would expect a team to have gone 1-8 against the Pirates to be a LOT worse than 5 games under .500. I'm not saying that Lou's is off the hook, but whatever. if it weren't for the fact that as a whole, the national league sucks and is rather unimpressive, my opinion is that lou would have been long gone by now. in a normal year, any team that is that close to .500 but is 1-8 to the pirates should have been fired well before the start of june. the extreme mediocrity of the nl is saving a lot of jobs now. I really think the only way Lou would have been fired by now was if they got off to some 0-14 start and were 20 games under .500 right now. And even then I'm not so sure. Maybe if the manager was some generic guy Hendry would have canned him by now. But he's still Lou Piniella, and Jim Hendry is still Jim Hendry. I'm not sure Hendry has the option to fire a manager and hire a new one right now.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know, but this looks like the 14th Hill start, which would put him on pace for a good 40-42 starts, which would leave Soto with only 120. Koyie is getting 25% of the PA at catcher, which is too much for a terrible hitter, and leaves Soto with relatively few for a good hitting catcher forced to bat at the bottom of a bad lineup.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Is Soto hurt? 3 off days over the past 9 days with 2 more off days coming in the next 6 days, plus a day game after night game situation in Houston.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Wait what? Took me a minute to figure the positions... RF, SS, 1B, CF, LF, 2B, 3B, C?
  20. jersey cubs fan
    True, 100 IP consistently starting is both less impressive and less actual work. This sounds a bit melodramatic to me. If he throws another 40 IP this year, I'm not sure why that would be the disaster you are portraying.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I'm trying to think of who though. Pujols and Cabrera went from the OF to 1B, but didn't they both start out as 3B? I just think anybody who spent his entire college and minor league career in the OF is going to have a bit of a tough time going to 1B. Lance Berkman. Wasn't he a 1B who moved to the OF in order to crack the lineup while Bagwell was around? Even if Colvin could conceivably play 1B, we're still looking at a guy who is questionable to hit well enough to start everyday in CF. He'd be a terrible hitting 1B.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    It doesn't derail it.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    I'd kill for some mid 700's OPS out of third base this year.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I'm trying to think of who though. Pujols and Cabrera went from the OF to 1B, but didn't they both start out as 3B? I just think anybody who spent his entire college and minor league career in the OF is going to have a bit of a tough time going to 1B. Adam Dunn Is he a full time 1B now? I thought he just played there on occasion the past few years. Anyway, I don't think he's handled it all that well either.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not sure you can say it's just fine now based on a couple innings from Howry and Stevens. It's been a mess all season and Marshall/Marmol are the only parts that aren't a mess. Gorzallany is no sure thing back there either. And if that is the worst thing, then I still don't get the outrage. He can go back to Iowa when they fall out of it in August, he can pitch this fall. He can work on stretching out all offseason and next spring. He's at 57 IP already this season, if he stays in the majors it wouldn't take a crazy pace to get another 43 to match last season's total (just 10 2/3 innings per month, or a 65 inning pace).
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