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  1. jersey cubs fan
    People are talking about Fuld as a starter?
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I don't think it's possible in this era. A hall of fame caliber QB is going to play on quality teams at some point in his career. He might be like Marino and never win it all while having several mediocre seasons, or Brees and have an inconsistent team that can win or lose 10+ in any season. But if he has a HOF type career, his team is going to have success.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Pirates fans grossly overestimate dirty Sanchez.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    It's possible, but the Cubs, while aggressive with some guys, have been fairly, for lack of a better word, careful (not the best word choice but can't think of anything else right now) with Vitters in not trying to force too much. How so? He's young, and after one great month, one bad month and one good weekend, they promoted him to Daytona. Careful would have been keeping him in low-A all season.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    So hes more like the asian Kaz Matsui. and I thought that trades couldnt be made until midnight after the end of the WS. Was this a waiver deal or something? I think that it's just an agreement among owners and Selig to minimize other baseball news so that the World Series gets maximum coverage. Also to make that news on travel days.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Honestly, it has more to do with risk than anything else. I don't expect Fuld to be much worse than Crisp, but the fact remains that maybe some scout somewhere will see a way to pitch Fuld that will near completely neutralize him. With Crisp, the odds of that happening are much lower. The book is already written. Favoring veterans isn't generally a great idea. But when the players are so similar, there is some value to experience... whether or not it's worth the difference in salary is a judgment call. I would say the complete opposite. The only time the veteran is favorable is when he's clearly better.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    A triple and a homer is nice says Goldstein, but where is the double and single he needs with it? :D On a side note(and it's actually very cool in a way that it is just that) but Vitters has hit damn well in his own right this fall. I'm starting to wonder if we see him start at Tennessee instead of repeating Daytona. He shouldn't even be considered for AA. i wouldn't say that... it depends how much he does during the offseason and how he looks in the spring. castro hit fairly well at short-season rookie ball in 2008 but i thought that jumping him to daytona was a terrible idea. as it turned out he had improved a lot during the offseason and more than held his own at high-A, and was in AA by september. But Vitters has been given a fairly aggressive path already, and there's really no benefit. Once he enters AA, it'll take one good game before the clamoring for his callup, and that's just not going to be a good thing. Let the guy have a year somewhere and actually produce for more than a month.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    A triple and a homer is nice says Goldstein, but where is the double and single he needs with it? :D On a side note(and it's actually very cool in a way that it is just that) but Vitters has hit damn well in his own right this fall. I'm starting to wonder if we see him start at Tennessee instead of repeating Daytona. He shouldn't even be considered for AA.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Wha, wha, what? Somanonom beach. Lou has said Soriano won't be there, he's also said he likes Fukudome near the top, but maybe not leadoff. And he wants more team speed. Yeah, I think they are looking at speedy leadoff again. Not good hitter maybe, but stereotypical leadoff hitter.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    He's the left handed Asian slightly better version of Ryan Theriot. Past his prime, peaked at 28. Unsuccesful base stealer.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I think it's hilarious that everybody just assumes yuppies must be the most racist ones.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    It may be a factor, it may not. I guess it would depend on how many trips they make. How long has it been since you were at the Southwest Florida International Airport? It's no longer the podunk airport it used to be. Back in 2006 a brand new state of the art 28 gate terminal was opened while the old one was torn down. Obviously not nearly the size of a major city airport like Phoenix but much more convenient and very easy to get in and out of. I was there once in the podunk days and once last year. It is pretty nice. But it's still a relatively little served airport.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Not sure how you can compare Shark to Joba. Joba was a stud who dominated in his brief minor league career and was very good in his first major league season. Shark would have been dismissed as a fraud already in Yankeeland. Hell, they've practically disowned Phil Hughes who blows Samardzija away.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    They've said multiple times that Crane will be there for the foreseeable future.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    That really put him in a bad spot. He really cannot answer that question without making someone within the organization angry. Yeah, that's a stupid question to ask a current player. Also, I don't really want any players thinking about any of this stuff. Coaches should emphasize good approaches at the plate and scouting evaluations of the opposition, but players don't need to be thinking about that while playing.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    It would be much easier and cost effective to travel to the Dominican and Puerto Rico from SWFL than it would Phoenix. I doubt that's a factor. How frequently do they make such trips? Phoenix is closer to the Asia markets, it's also a major airport unlike Fort Myers/Southwest Florida.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    If the Cubs are really planning on spending more money on scouting in the caribbean (DR, PR, Cuba at some point) wouldn't it make more sense to have your headquarters in Florida? Why? What would be the connection/benefit? Is it about players who are used to playing in heat/humidity? Is it about flights?
  18. jersey cubs fan
    The Bears aren't built to thrive in those conditions. I don't think it really matters one way or the other. Arizona has weaknesses with or without the weather, and I just hope the Bears figure out how to exploit them.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    In all seriousness, Blanton didn't do TOO bad as people feared he would. The Phils offense left 7 men on base, especially the one where they pulled a Cub-like in the 5th inning with runners on 2nd and 1st with no outs. no he pitched fine, and the yankees were really lucky to score their second two runs off him. there was a walk (his fault), a perfectly-placed bouncer up the middle, a perfectly-placed ground ball through the left side, and a perfectly-placed bloop single to right. The ground ball was perfectly placed because Jeter clutchingly placed it perfectly, on purpose.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    He said Jim is the guy that they will go into next year with, it was a pretty clear indication that next year will determine Hendry's future. And I'm not sure what bones you want, but they took control at the end of October. There isn't a ton of stuff they can do. Do you want new asst GMs or new scouts or something? They have a new hitting coach and will have a couple new players, but Hendry/Lou/Larry and the core of the team are all under contract and coming back next year.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    That's what they should do, but bye weeks stop after week 10, when Thursday night games start, which would leave only 2 of the 9 Thursday/Friday night games played by teams with that extra rest. The solution to that problem is having the byes go a little later in the season, but they don't want bye weeks when baseball and regular season college games are over and the playoffs are approaching. If they went up to the week before Thanksgiving, then at least 5 thursday matchups would involved teams on rest.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not sure the competition really matters all that much in the spring. The Cubs sell-out in Arizona already. People go to games to see a spring training game, they don't care who the other team is. The people that should be worried are the other teams/towns in Arizona that lose a huge road draw when Cbus fans who can't get into Hohokam go to the other parks.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    The line has been crap for a few years now. Cutler played quite well because he's quite good. You can't expect him to be perfect every game though, and you'd have to be pretty close to perfect with this line, running game and recievers, if you want to avoid subpar games like yesterday.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Sure, but there's only so much he can do if he's basically under pressure almost the entire time without much of a rushing option. The book on the OL simply seems to be "blitz to your heart's content." Fair enough. And I actually thought he played well yesterday although his stats weren't great. However, he did have three straight games with a QB rating over 100, and now three straight games with a rating below 80. It is partially the O-Line's fault, but not entirely, and I think Cutler would be the first to admit that. It's almost entirely the line's fault. He's under constant pressure and he doesn't have a single great receiver to fallback to when under pressure.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    That's right, for some reason I was thinking the game against Philly was on the road.
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