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Really, it's irrational to not assume a guy who proved completely incompetent at putting together a major league baseball team might not currently be an excellent scout? Seriously? That's ridiculous. Baseball history is littered with people with excellent reputations as baseball people who completely suck. You get tenure as a teacher but may not be the same quality teacher later in life. You get worse playing the game of baseball. But I'm supposed to assume that somebody whose reputation is based on the rather arbitrary notion of being good at spotting who is and is not a good baseball player, who spent the last several years making terrible mistakes in deciding which baseball players to employ, and is now going back to that job, and recommending people he obviously has a bias for considering they a part of the team he completely screwed up. Seriously, you want to call that irrational? -
Like I said, a label you can acquire and hold on to for life. The Peter Principle doesn't say that once you get promoted above your level of expertise and fail, you can then go back to the previous level and be a master. Hendry played a big part in building the Cubs farm system from nothing. But I wouldn't trust him in a million years to go back to that job.
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Littlefield's involvement, which was obvious and unavoidable considering his history and current position, is probably the scariest part. Littlefield is a very good scout. Seems like a label you can just acquire and then hang onto the rest of your life as long as you stay in the business.
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Littlefield's involvement, which was obvious and unavoidable considering his history and current position, is probably the scariest part.
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I don't think this sentiment can be emphasized enough for the spazzes still in denial out there thinking that only a relative few players used PED's over the last 40 years. Agree. Tons used something or other. Baseball was slow to pick up the benefits of strength training. Once they did, and saw the physical rewards, the PEDs used in gyms all over the country were there for them to see you could add even more benefit by using those. I was thinking about Ortiz earlier- I wonder if there's anything to the number of south of the border guys using. I.E., I've read that buying stuff like synthetic testosterone is relatively easy in the Dominican. Why, then, wouldn't these guys say they were taking whatever without much thought? Guys like Ortiz (who I assume has lived in the Dominican in the winter) could have bought this stuff just about anywhere, and until 2003, what did it really matter? A) Public perception. B) They could have bought there and brought here, illegally.
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I don't know, this doesn't seem so much the Hawks' fault. I don't know the specifics, but it sounds as if they are getting toward the very boundaries of the rules, and the NHL and other teams don't like it. It's a shady contract. But it's probably only a problem if they actually discussed the retirement issue, which I would hope they wouldn't be stupid enough to do.
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What's the wrongdoing?
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If you put any stock in Rivals' 40 time measurement before he entered college, they have him at a 4.69 40. If he can get that down into the high 4.5, low 4.6 range, put up good bench/squat numbers and show at least decent hands, I could see him as a possibility on the first day. He'd have to be very impressive on his combine day and a team would have to be willing to be creative with him, but a late first isn't out of the question, I don't think. Especially if the Wildcat package continues to succeed in the NFL this year. Never put stock in HS 40 times, they're even worse than the college 40 times that schools list. I'm going to live on that 4.7 I once ran for the rest of my life, no matter what you say.
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How does the Cubs farm system rank now?
jersey cubs fan replied to burnt out cubbie fan's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Ben Christensen. -
It's amazing how much momentum they've been able to lose since the day they signed Hossa.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-30-2009
jersey cubs fan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
No word yet on why Vitters isn't playing? -
Like the average ex-wife, he was the one that chose to leave, and now is bitter at his ex partner. Just like a bee-eye-you-know-what. He left twice didn't he?
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309 huh, not 305 or 310, but specifically 309. Umm thats odd When Lovie was first hired they made a big deal about how the coaching staff set specific weight limits for guys based on their body mass and there would be fines and other penalties for making it. It's some sort of formula for the different positions, so they aren't going to round to the nearest 5. It was also true for coaches, back then at least.
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Kaplan's is the smarmy host who points with his finger a lot and thinks Reed Johnson should be the everyday leadoff hitter playing center.
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http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper883/stills/ve9f7wy8.jpg That is the dude I'm talking about. Reminds me of Robert Schimmel. http://stupidcelebrities.net/wp-content/robert_s4.jpg
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Don't much care for the acquisitions but I probably care less about what they gave up, so that's that I guess.
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Hendry doesn't have that problem. How else would we have stole Juan Pierre? He gave a lefty reliever, prolly at best a #2 starter, and already journeyman starting pitcher. All in all not a total crapfest of a deal. Pretty bad, prolly he worse deal---legitimately---but not one that push the Cubs back all that much. A bad deal in that we could have used those pieces to get something of value though. And not have Juan Pierre on the team.
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Left-handed Mark DeRosa. Who doesn't play 2B?
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What is the point of Teahen?
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Is this game still on? Gregg in to pitch for the first time in 4 days.
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This board was almost unanimous in it's support for the Harden deal.
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Can we send Fukudome to the minors?
jersey cubs fan replied to ChiCubsfan0502's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Trade him while he's hot. -
Really?
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This isn't a logical post. Hendry is the one who is too attached to finding a LH reliever.
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Oh god no The shine has come off Jackson a little bit, no? He hasn't been all that impressive at AA this season. Solid, yes, but I don't think we're talking about a future MLB ace here. Regardless of whether or not he can be an ace, he's one of the few valuable trade chips this team has and should not be wasted on Loogys.
