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Ha ha alright tough guy. So i guess you work for the cubs front office and knew it was an option in their thinking. We dont work for the cubs smart guy, and it was obvious they didn't consider it an option but yet you continue to beat this idea that somehow, keeping bradley was an option the cubs were still considering. The Cubs chose to not make it an option. That doesn't mean it wasn't an option. Seriously, it doesn't take much thought power to understand this very simple concept. The Cubs didn't have to trade Milton Bradley. They chose to. Sort of like how suicide is always an option, just because you choose not to kill yourself doesn't mean it's not an option. -
Dont tell that to some of the guys on this board. They ignore that part and still think Milton staying was an option. It was an option. The only reason it wasn't was because they have idiots in charge, and only an idiot would actually think it wasn't an option.
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There is no [expletive] such thing.
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Rich Harden and Milton Bradley came to the Cubs with giant red neon signs pointing out their flaws, both of them displayed those flaws as expected. Jim Hendry was giddy to acquire both and just as motivated to get rid of both.
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It's 5, and no.
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Jim Edmonds was a good player who had one last hurrah in him. Carlos Silvia sucks. And your entire post was incredibly stupid.
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No sense in getting bent out of shape over something you had to have seen coming for the last four months. This is all crying over spilled milk. If anyone actually thinks the Cubs have ANY chance of winning the World Series in the next three years, you're sadly mistaken. I've come to terms with this, so it doesn't hurt anymore. When it gets this bad you just can't allow yourself to become so emotionally invested. It's simply not worth it. This is kind of ridiculous. The only reason you could see this coming is because people know Jim Hendry is a bad GM motivated by nonsensical tangents. That doesn't change the fact that it never had to happen and was a bad move. Telling a fan of a team to not be upset when their team makes a bad move because they should have anticipated the bad move makes no more sense than actually being a fan in the first place. If you are a fan, it makes perfect sense to be upset.
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The day before David Patton went on the DL. Or maybe the last day Jeff Samardzija was listed on the roster.
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No, that is not the key, because the Cubs lost a player that can be servicable and acquired a player who sucks, but are still playing a large sum of money.
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What red flags in terms of teammates hating him? That's like the one thing Bradley didn't have a problem with before he was signed. And who gives a [expletive] what that awful midget at SS thinks? He's been the only guy to seem to not like Bradley, and it's hardly like he speaks for the team. Jeesh, lay off Theriot. According to Bruce Miles everyone affiliated with the Cubs wanted Bradley gone. And so what? Seriously, baseball players in general are very stupid people. They are sheltered humans with distorted views of the world, and usually uneducated. Who cares what they think or what they want? They are paid to play baseball. Baseball people have clung so hard to outdated beliefs and wrongheaded nonsense that it shouldn't matter to anybody what any of them think. The only logical choice in this situation was to hold onto Milton Bradley. This team was not good enough to throw away assets because a couple pansies couldn't deal with a jerk for a teammated.
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What I'm saying is they didn't have to trade him. Nothing happened that forced them to trade Milton Bradley. There was never a time when they had to trade Milton Bradley. The fact that they were determined to trade him no matter what does not mean they had to trade him. The guy is a cancer. They never should have signed him in the first place. The red flags were all there. His teammates hated him. Theriot was practically giddy during an interview today. Hendry should follow him out of town. His signing of and trading of Bradley were both horrible deals. Ryan Theriot is an Afflicition T-Shirt wearing douchebag who isn't good at baseball, who cares what he thinks? Cancer kills people, a [expletive] teammate does not affect his teammates play.
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This team is going to open 2010 with 2 "reliable" starting pitchers. I can see how the Cubs can view Silva as a player they could use, because he is a body that has started baseball games before at the major league level.
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What I'm saying is they didn't have to trade him. Nothing happened that forced them to trade Milton Bradley. There was never a time when they had to trade Milton Bradley. The fact that they were determined to trade him no matter what does not mean they had to trade him.
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Sure that's probably how they see it, but the fact is they didn't have to deal him. Jerk players are brought back to teams all the time in sports where how you get along matters through the course of play. They never had to get rid of him, and they didn't have to scapegoat him because only idiots would actually believe he is the reason why they struggled.
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Well, that only counts PA's that end on those counts, which means he either struck them out or they put the ball in play. Considering he can't strike anybody out, that's not exactly surprising.
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I'm happy they got rid of him, they had to get rid of him. Manager hated him as well as most of his teammates. Instead of trying to make that problem less worse, they made increased the damage depending on how poorly Silva does or what that extra money brings in. Silva is bad, but he won't be as bad as he was with Seattle in '08 even with the lack of MI range. None of that is a reason to get rid of a player. Why not get rid of the manager if he's incapable of managing the guy (and hasn't exactly been doing a bangup job nor is he owed much in comparison).
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What do you mean give him a chance? None of us are going to prevent him from playing. But the guy sucks. There's no good reason to give guys a clean slate when they have a track record that tells you how much of a disaster they are.
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Isn't Wrigley on the National Registry of Historic Places or something? As such, you cannot tear it down. The footprint of Wrigley is too small for a modern park anyways. It could just be the same thing Wrigley is, but new. It would have to be better, even if architecturally they couldn't do a whole lot different. There's a large amount of space to the west, and they can always go up. Plus, their current set-up isn't a very efficient use of the space available.
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08:$7M, 09:$11M, 10:$11.5M, 11:$11.5M, 12:$12M mutual option ($2M buyout) Silva is owed $23m over the next 2 years, and an additional $2m for the 2012 buyout, assuming they don't pick up the option. That's $25m total. Bradley is owed $21, a difference of $4m. If the Cubs got $9m, they are "saving" $5m over the course of 2 years, although they are still paying $16m for a nearly worthless player.
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Ok genius, so what do you do other than this trade since you seem to know what options were out there. If you release him, you dont get the 6 million that you just saved. And again, not sure how anyone can assume he'll be in the rotation, especially coming off injury and with those numbers. Well, I am a genius, thank you. The option is to... keep him! And yes, Silva will be in the rotation. Of course the best option is to keep him and i've said all along thats what the cubs should probably do, but with the way they have gone out in the media, it was apparent that that was never an option in Hendry mind. That does not matter. In Hendry's mind Silva was a reasonable acquisition. The best option was to keep him, regardless of whether or not Hendry considered it.
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I wouldn't pencil him in, but Silva probably as the inside track to a rotation spot.
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Ok genius, so what do you do other than this trade since you seem to know what options were out there. If you release him, you dont get the 6 million that you just saved. You keep him on the team.
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You think the guy chooses which conference he wants to coach in over which team he wants to coach for? I'd say that conference has an impact, yes. The team is obviously the top choice but things like history, conference, rivalries, etc., all go into the persona of that team. Yeah, I'm sure it plays a role, but you were implying that he chose which conference to coach in rather than which team. The biggest determination is going to be money.
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There was never a point in time when they had no choice but to trade him. And it doesn't matter if Silva gets a rotation spot or they hide him in the bullpen, they had an asset who could provide value, and now they don't. My guess is Silva has a great shot at the rotation. The current one is wide open. They've got a bunch of 6th starters competing for 3 spots to start the season.
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The trade isn't that bad once you hear how much money the cubs saved. Though i still would've preferred Castillo from the Mets in some kind of deal. It makes you wonder that maybe the Rays weren't willing to take anything of miltons salary. It also depends on what hendry does with that money. They really didn't save much, and they downgraded talent. One team came out of this deal with a useful asset, and it wasn't the Cubs.
