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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Byrnes has a .230 .278 .514 line against LHP this year, they need to get that murderer off the street. You're right though, it's not the worst idea, playing with only 2 OF would be the worst idea.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    More details are needed before drawing that conclusion. If Bradley is getting paid during the suspension, the MLBPA can't file a grievance. They can file anything they want, and they do. It's the most argumentative of all sports unions. They will stand up for guys who don't even want to be stood up for. And no, we don't need more evidence. He's a complete jerk, was suspended and accepted it with an apology. Let's move on.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    It was with Nets, but I don't think anymore. I agree though, a Cubs only network would be horrible. CSN-c is pretty good with several events and coverage of all teams. YES networks have 2 things going for it, Yankees games, and simulcasts of Mike Francesa (formerly Mike and Mad Dog) other than that it is completely useless. They've won 26 WS and have many more all-time greats to talk about and I don't know a Yankees fan who likes the channel.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    He handled it fine. In your opinion, and in our opinion he didnt. You have a ridiculous opinion. A repeat a-hole got suspended toward the end of a wasted season. BIG FREAKING DEAL. Jim doesn't want to talk about it with the media anymore. BIG FREAKING DEAL. As Sheehan pointed out a couple days ago, suspending a player for negative comments to the media is pretty much unprecedented. He used the line that the last non-drug suspension of this length was when Albert Belle attacked a heckler. And it's also painfully obvious that Bradley's comments were not the only thing that got him suspended. It's an ongoing situation with repeat offenses that apparently included refusing to take the field and multiple run-ins with coaches. And on top of it all, Bradley has accepted the suspension and the MLBPA is not filing any sort of grievance, so we can all be pretty damn sure the suspension was warranted.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I don't think it's an issue that he doesn't want to talk to the media about it anymore. I think there is a bit of a issue with the fact that Hendry feels there's nothing to discuss with Bradley though, unless Bradley was 100% accurate when he said the air has been cleared. It looks to me like he's done talking to the media about the Bradley situation, but even if he is talking about Bradley, there really isn't anything to talk about right now. He's suspended until the rest of the year and his camp has agreed to the arrangement. When the time comes in the offseason they can decided what to do. There's no reason for Hendry to talk to Bradley about anything right now. If cooler heads are going to prevail, it's not going to happen a couple days after the suspension was handed down, it's going to come in October and November, after Hendry hears what he might get for Milton. It's not like Milton is a free agent who is at risk of walking away from the team. Who gives a crap if he ignores him for a few days?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    He handled it fine. In your opinion, and in our opinion he didnt. You have a ridiculous opinion. A repeat a-hole got suspended toward the end of a wasted season. BIG FREAKING DEAL. Jim doesn't want to talk about it with the media anymore. BIG FREAKING DEAL. I've been the biggest anti-Hendry person on this board for several years but there's nothing wrong with how he's handled this so far. If he dumps the guy for nothing and pays him to play elsewhere, that's a problem. But he hasn't done anything worth whining about in regards to the suspension.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I've been to Citi 3 times this year in really good seats and the stadium sucks.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    He handled it fine.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Are you freaking kidding me? They aren't the same person are not in the same position. This is so incredibly stupid. Stop with the nonsensical woe is Milton crap.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    The correct answer is Soriano, and it really is correct. Bradley and Z shouldn't even be in the discussion.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Not worried, not anymore than most games. This is the first one that I'm expecting a win. It would be a very disappointing loss.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I think this is kind of ridiculous. I'm a fan of the Cubs. My main goal is to see them win a WS. But I really like watching them play live, both on the road and at home. I enjoy the Wrigley experience much more than most other fields, especially suburban parking lot stadiums. I'd hate to watch them at your high school. I'm all for a serious renovation at the current location but would be really pissed if they moved to some suburb.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Is this a function of focusing on college guys who end up going to Boise first, or does it expose a lack of investment in the young latin America market?
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Because he would have fought the move to the DL, the MLBPA would have gotten involved and it never would have worked. That would create a hell of a lot more animosity and a "there's no coming back" situation than the current team suspension. Hmmm, I wonder if that's part of the reason he was suspended. Hendry went to DL him due to the knee issue, Bradley told him no he was able to play, and then when called upon said he couldn't. I'm sure the recent can play/can't play taking himself out stuff was involved in the whole discussion.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Z goes berzerk in the heat of the moment of trying to win a game. Bradley carries around a ton of baggage day in day out, criticizes the organization and paying customers and takes any generic question about play on the field into some existential BS about hatred and negativity. I don't think anybody gave a crap about Bradley going off on that ump for the bad called strike 3 early in the year. It was all the other BS. Z also performs well year in and year out (and despite everybody calling him out this year, he's still been pretty good) whereas Milton Bradley has been Ryan Theriot with slightly more pop this season.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Because he would have fought the move to the DL, the MLBPA would have gotten involved and it never would have worked. That would create a hell of a lot more animosity and a "there's no coming back" situation than the current team suspension.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I've been reading about him the last couple years and he's pretty much the reason why I can't hate Miami anymore.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Hendry had no leverage to begin with.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Because if you wait for mid-season (if he lasts that long) you are saddled with the same situation you are now with no RF'er. I just don't see how there's anyway he'll somehow pull it together and be a productive positive force next year. You're going to be saddled either way if you do something stupid and just dump him. And who the F cares if he's going to be a positive force? He's a baseball player, not a community activist. If he's the best man for the job, and with the current assets in place he clearly is, then play the man. If people want him gone, too bad. He didn't make Soriano and Soto suck this year. His attitude is not why they are going to miss the playoffs. His absence is not going to make them better via happiness. They still need baseball players, and as much as a douche as he is, he's still a baseball player. Until they can get a better player, they have to keep him.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    That has a lot less to do with ECB than with their ongoing issues of conflicts of interest.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Either way we are screwed. I'd rather get rid of him and be sucky, then have to deal with this again and still be sucky next year. The most important issue is to be not sucky next year. Trying to make the Bradley situation work is the best way to do that. Which is to get rid of him. Ideally, if you can trade him for something decent without being saddled with the contract, sure. But it's really stupid to just dump him and pick up the tab. Bradley's idiocy is not why the team struggled. This was not a chemistry issue. This was a flawed team that had its flaws exposed.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    So you want him to get on a conference call with the team in the clubhouse or call everybody individually on their mobiles? This is stupid.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Prior, Cruz, Hill and Choi were all top prospects at one point. Let's hope these prospects end up better than those did. Let's hope that any of them end up as good as Prior. Yea and Id be happy as hell if any of them equal what Choi did for us. Choi didn succeed as a Cub,but he landed us Derrek Lee. Id take that agin from any of these guys. Choi was playing really well for the Cubs in his age 24 season until he broke his brain.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    How much does a team really have to prep for Seneca Wallace? He is more mobile than Hasselbeck. So you at least have to prepare for that much. This is probably where the downgrade from Urlacher to Hillenmeyer would most be noticed. Urlacher can beat the crap out of mobile QBs, Hunter will not. They will have to scheme.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    And the burnout rate for pitchers was a lot higher "back in the day." Is it true that organizations may have gone overboard in "babying" pitchers? Sure. There are quite a few pitchers who can easily surpass the arbitrary 100 pitch mark without significantly increased injury risk. Young pitchers with an already huge jump in their workload though? Come on. There's truth to both sides of the argument here. I just don't see any reason to shut down Wells at this point, in this context. If there's truth to both sides of the argument then you can's say there is no reason to shut him down at this point. If there's no reason, then you don't think there's any truth to the side of the argument that young arms should be treated somewhat cautiously, especially when there is nothing to be gained by using a guy, and the team has been talking about reducing his workload for over a month already because he's gone way beyond what he's ever done before.
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