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That doesn't make those people focused on the future, though. It might make Ricketts look a little better, but the new GM/manager are still going to make moves focused on the present rather than the future. That's not necessariliy true at all. First off, the manager is meaningless in this discussion. The question was about the risk of changing people before the draft and trade deadline. The interim GM, if you even need one, can be hired in that position with the sole purpose of keeping things moving properly, signing papers and whatnot. His power to trade young players for short-term help can be limited easily.
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With what they had available, they did an alright job. But they were always going to spend in free agency. With losing big money guys and not having to pay any high priced draft picks, that was a given. I was ecstatic with Peppers replacing Ogunleye. But overall they are just turning over bodies. They still have way too many TE, none of them elite. I'm more pissed than ever about the Gaines Adams trade, and it's kind of ridiculous how much faith so many people are putting in a third round safety to actually start next year. It still comes back to the entire season being put on Cutler's shoulders, with a weak line and questionable receivers.
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The thing with Angelo is that when he was in Tampa, they were notorious for having a weak offensive line. And he's spent 2 first rounders, then signed varying levels of veterans in a decade with the Bears. In Tampa it worked since the defense dominate for longer than the Bears did. Angelo definitely has a weak spot on offensive line, and the biggest problem has been how often he just ignores it. They just don't matter to him, in comparison to how much effort other teams put into the line. I have my doubts that it will be addressed early next year if he's still around.
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Oh, I see. What we had, not what he did. Yeah, well maybe he'll be better, I'd hope. But I also think the safety blame has been overdone. There were a lot of things wrong with the defense, and there has been for three years. They sort of addressed it, but they are still counting on a less than steller line perhaps doing more than they are capable of, and a linebacker core that has struggled to stay healthy.
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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. It's not much of a doubt in my mind that Harris will play better than what we had last year. Tommie? There's should be doubt. He's running on 2 seasons of "coming off surgery" excuse. He hasn't been close since and is a head case.
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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.
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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.
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Re: Minor League Discussion & Boxes 4-28-10
jersey cubs fan replied to davell's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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. -
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.
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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.
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Because they are the goldilocks of bullpens, with one or two LH relievers being too little and 3 or 4 being too much.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks Thread!!!!!!
jersey cubs fan replied to chuckywang's topic in Other Sports
So Buff is going back to forward this series, I like that. -
Changes to All Star game rosters
jersey cubs fan replied to UMFan83's topic in General Baseball Talk
It's already meaningless. -
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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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Roethlisberger to be suspended 4-6 games
jersey cubs fan replied to Old Style's topic in Other Sports
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. -
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.
