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  1. 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.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I would think the major concern should be getting good years out of him, league minimum or not. The primary goal should not be to maximize his first three major league seasons. Again, it's not ideal, but I don't get the outrage. It's a reasonable way of using the guy, assuming they use him.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Howry sucks. Who's to say that having him go longer and longer as a starter isn't a risk? Sure this pushes back the timetable for when you can count on him as a 180-200 inning pitcher. But why do you need to make sure he can go past labor day by the time he hits arbitration? If anything, a lack of 200 inning greatness would just lower his potential arbitration earnings, and they'd still control him for a few years. He turns 24 this year, the Cubs control him until he's 30. I really don't get the outrage about Cashner being used as a reliever this season.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I wonder if Colvin could play 1st? A Nady/Colvin platoon, perhaps? Guys move from left to right on the spectrum, and from the infield to the outfield. But I don't think there's much history of guys moving from outfield to infield, even first base. I think some have gone the 3B, LF, 1B route, but OF his entire life then IF? That would be tough.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    How about releasing John Grabow so Lou can't use him? The money is spent, there is nothing you can do about it now. Other teams admit their mistakes and cut their losses. One could argue firing Lou might help the team be better this year. I never said Ricketts is losing games and I know there are no guarantees, but to act like he can't do anything to try to help the team this year is silly. Let's just pretend he does some stuff like this and the Cubs win an extra 2-3 games. Then what? You have a brand new owner with a micro manager label who insists on stepping on the GM's toes and releasing injured players, somebody that nobody would like to work for and therefore somebody who is going to have to spend extra money to convince people to work for you.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Pronger went after Toews a few times, and they tried to mess with Campbell and Burish as well.
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    What exactly would dumping Crane Kenney have done to improve the team this year?
  11. jersey cubs fan
    You fool.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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?
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Bring on John Grabow 2.0!
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Just got back from NHL store. It's got a whole bunch of blackhawks/flyers stuff.
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