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  1. jersey cubs fan
    That sounds about right. Plus, frankly, I'd rather not have a front office shakeup prior to the draft and trade deadline. A front office shakeup may not have any impact whatsoever on the draft. And frankly I'd rather have people in here who care about the future instead of desperate execs looking to save their job with an 85 win season. If both Hendry and Lou were fired (or either, really), the likelihood would be that interim people would be put in their places. Those interim people would also be making moves with their jobs in mind, assuming they were auditioning for a job. Interim people would be much easier for the owner to control/overrule when it came to big moves. Ricketts runs the risk of being labeled as a difficult to work with micro manager who submarined Hendry's job status and the Cubs season if he vetoes a Hendry move, but if he fires everybody and brings in a new president, they can give anybody the reins as the de facto GM for the remainder of the season, and not allow any trades of prospects without taking much heat. And there's very little concern when it comes to the draft, since Hendry doesn't run the draft.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I wasn't saying they went out and got worse, but what you are writing seems to me to just reiterate my point that they are just running in place despite multiple changes. I don't see the upgrade. Tillman still being the best LB isn't a good thing. The who is going to play safety question may have been answered, but it's still very much in doubt how well they will play. And the line remains a major point of doubt.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Ugh, Vitters is off to a fairly ugly start, .250/.302/.400. Not fun to see with Aramis looking so bad in April as well.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    If a pitcher throws it in there at 80+ mph, hitting the dirt + catcher's equipment could make a significant scrape on the ball, but when a catcher like Zaun is lobbing 30 MPH backyard tosses that barely get back there, I don't think it has much of an effect.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    going from very poor play to about average on the right side wasn't an upgrade? Going from Williams to what they have is not an upgrade. Those short term grades mean very little, especially on an offensive line, which is a unit of 5 players all depending on 4 other teammates for how well his play looks. The fact remains they have one guy, Williams, who is even close to an ideal player for his position. They are old and incredibly shaky at every other spot. And Williams history still leaves him as somewhat questionable.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Because they are the goldilocks of bullpens, with one or two LH relievers being too little and 3 or 4 being too much.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I don't buy that at all. They didn't upgrade 2 positions, they upgraded 1, but only did so by letting their franchise left tackle play left tackle, and still have 4 spots that vary from bad to highly questionable and/or declining rapidly. They have zero players with a sustained track record of quality play on the line.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    so pretty much the same as every bruce levine article. Bruce Levine writes? I guess technically he types, or maybe he dictates, or possibly even uses one of those voice recognition software thingamajigs. Although with his lisp that would probably be difficult.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I don't see how it is possible to claim it upgraded two positions. And it wasn't much of a move, they just installed the franchise left tackle they drafted 2 years ago to do the job they drafted him for.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Peppers replaced Ogunleye, a really nice upgrade, but then they got rid of Brown as well. Peppers is clearly the best of that group, but Ogunleye and Brown were both nice players. What they each needed was an impact guy on the other side though. This coaching staff and front office has not made a correct decision since the super bowl in terms of deciding when a guy was ready to take over for an incumbent. I don't trust them to properly evaluate whoever it is that's going to play more at the other end spot, or any of these safeties now on the roster. They probably made the wrong decision on Harris three years ago, but now he's a defensive back who is four years older than when last played for this team and wasn't good enough and still is not all that good. The problem with this defense was they were a young athletic bunch (something that was needed for this scheme) but they got old. They got older on this Williams for Harris deal, they got an old guy in Peppers and they invested an obscene amount in an old backup RB and an old TE who has done nothing in his career. They are making moves and making investments, but they seem incredibly short sighted and not all that impactful.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not overlooking anything. Williams is the first significant draft pick in nearly a decade on the line. It's he and Columbo and nothing else. There are 5 positions to fill on the line, and simply adding one guy does litlte to solve the overall problem. They still have a way past his prime Olin Kreutz as the highest paid incredibly immature leader of the group, and they have crappy guards and despite the hopes, a huge question mark at tackle. It's 5 spots that need to be filled. They spend draft picks on safeties every year (and suck at it), where you only play 2 guys, but they rarely invest much more than a 7th on the offensive line, which is much more important.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    That sounds about right. Plus, frankly, I'd rather not have a front office shakeup prior to the draft and trade deadline. A front office shakeup may not have any impact whatsoever on the draft. And frankly I'd rather have people in here who care about the future instead of desperate execs looking to save their job with an 85 win season.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    So Buff is going back to forward this series, I like that.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    It's already meaningless.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    The question is, will Ricketts fire a veteran GM and manager. I think he might. Ricketts and his family did not put so much money into buying a team that is underachieving. If this team isn't playing better by the end of May, I thnk Lou and Hendry will be gone, and Trammell and ??? will take over as Manager and GM. But alas if you fire Piniella, you open the door for the Cubs to promote Ryne Sandberg to at least interim manager, and that is a propostion I'm not particularly interested in. Ricketts has been very complimentary toward Lou in the press ever since he started talking about the deal. If I had to guess, I would bet he is much more likely to let this season play out and then making wholesale changes in the offseason, including hiring a "baseball guy" who will determine who the next GM will be and let that guy select his manager.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I'm really confused about the direction the Bears seem to be taking. They continue to ignore the offensive line in the draft, they add a good player on defense then get rid of two. They trade a linebacker for a defensive back, which makes some sense, but get back a guy who isn't particularly good, then trade away another young safety as a result. They seem to me to be running on a treadmill with the defense while at the same time doing nothing with the offense (other than the Taylor signing - but again, he's an old backup RB not exactly a superstar acquisition). This isn't as bad as the Cubs running in place offseasons of the past 2 years, but it has a similar feel and they started out in a much worse position. For a sub .500 team that didn't have a draft pick it was obvious they were going to spend some money on free agents. But so far I'm just seeing a lot of action with no real impact.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    the red wings are the best team in the west only if you've been living in a cave for a year. jimmy howard is average at best. their top defense pairing is a combined 76 years old and neither guy is as good as he once was. their third D pairing is pretty weak, cleary and bertizzi on a second line isn't going to scare anyone and their third and fourth lines are pretty meh. they're a good team but the sharks, wings and canucks are more talented IMO. (as well as the pens and caps)
  18. jersey cubs fan
    this has the makings of some guy who has a history of some closing in his background. oh goody Cubs are 14th in NL in OBP and 15th in runs scored.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Legally speaking, yep. NFL-wise, quite possibly as well. If they went through with charges on this, he could have seen a season or more taken away. I've heard a lot of pittsburgh fans calling for a substantial suspension. this post should have included a joke about big ben getting off.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Screw the overrated eastern divisions. The jets were still just a 9-7 team, new england has fallen from their mighy heights, and neither Miami nor Buffalo is particularly threatening. And the Bears have fared quite well against the best team from the NFC East, Philly, for the past several years.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Only if by addressing it you mean calling up arms from the minors. There's no good reason to trade any assets for the unreliable short-term fix of adding a reliever, especially when the far more glaring need is the atrocious lineup.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    It's the best possible fit for Cromartie, I think he'll have a solid year. He's going to be lined up against all #2's/3's and with the pressure they get it's about as good of a spot as you can have. True, although teams will most certainly try to throw his way more. Looking at the schedule I'm not seeing the Bears having a much more successful year than 09, although it's too early for me to throw out a w/l prediction. To me, it really doesn't matter about the schedule. What matters is how well Cutler does in his 2nd year with the team, and first with Martz, and to a slightly lesser extent, how much of an impact Peppers and Urlacher will have on improving the defense. If Cutler is better, a lot of good things can happen. If not, very little good can happen.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    I don't have a problem with Lou bashing, per se, but I'd prefer if everybody directed their hatred toward Jim Hendry.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    There's no good reason why they would need to, let alone should, wait 4-5 years to try again.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    And yet people keep harping on the RISP thing and leaving men on base. The Cubs are batting .242 overall, .239 with runners on, and .250 with RISP.
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