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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I think that says more about the industy than him. People constantly give Rick Reilly awards, but he's god awful. Posnanski has written some really stupid stuff on SI, and a couple other things that were surprisingly not stupid.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I believe they often try and time the appeals hearings to a team's visit to NY, which means Milton might not have his appeal heard until early September.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Sure, but it's still a matter of bodies. You don't really want to use your backup catcher. You also don't want to use your backup MI, for the same reasons, if he goes down nobody can man the position. That leaves 2 backup position players in any game that Bradley is sitting out. Cut Gathwright, and you only have 1 guy you feel comfortable going to in the middle of the game, for any purpose.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    With Bradley essentially inactive, leaving only 3 bench players and a backup catcher on the roster (and one of the bench players being your only MI backup) that's really putting yourself at a disadvantage offensively.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Unless Lou thinks he's still not full strength after seeing him play yesterday. Damn you're smart. Maybe you can use that smartness to teach Harden how to be a star.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Why are people so hung up on the appeal story? He doesn't think he deserved suspension, he doesn't want to lose 2 days of pay, there's nothing wrong with him fighting it. There are going to be plenty of times the rest of the year where sitting for a couple days will more or less be a necessity. But basically he's hurting the team to do it. Will there be a time where he needs 2 games off? Yes, but we all know the best he's going to do with the appeal is get 1 game off. So, he's essentially hurting the team for 1/162 of his $10 million salary. Way to see you've changed, Milton. I tried to talk myself into this guy being a good addition, but the injuries and weirdness are just going to be too much, I'm afraid. Guy better put up a .900 OPS if we have to deal with all of this garbage. That is a bunch of BS. Players appeal suspensions all the freaking time.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Why are people so hung up on the appeal story? He doesn't think he deserved suspension, he doesn't want to lose 2 days of pay, there's nothing wrong with him fighting it. There are going to be plenty of times the rest of the year where sitting for a couple days will more or less be a necessity.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    signed by Chicago Cubs as a free agent 1/6/09 $4M signing bonus 09:$5M, 10:$9M, 11:$12M option 2011 may become $12M club option with $2M buyout based on Bradley's health 2011 option vests with 75 games played in 2009 The bolded appears to be the key, saying 2011 becomes guaranteed if he plays 75 games this year. If he plays less it becomes a $12m option with a $2m buyout. I'd say the odds are stacked unfavorably for Bradley to get that option to vest. I'd say the odds are heavily in his favor to be able to play 75 games this year.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    signed by Chicago Cubs as a free agent 1/6/09 $4M signing bonus 09:$5M, 10:$9M, 11:$12M option 2011 may become $12M club option with $2M buyout based on Bradley's health 2011 option vests with 75 games played in 2009 The bolded appears to be the key, saying 2011 becomes guaranteed if he plays 75 games this year. If he plays less it becomes a $12m option with a $2m buyout.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Complete misuse of assets, a Hendry trademark.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/1848 Bruce also said Milton will bat 6th. I think part of that reflects how the pitchers approached Ramirez this week. He's the Cubs best hitter, and pitchers do not have any incentive to give him anything to hit. They threw at him a couple times, hitting him at least once. With the non-entities of Fontenot and Soto behind him, why not just plunk him repeatedly?
  12. jersey cubs fan
    It absolutely slows his development as a starter. With as little experience pitching as he has, innings were always going to be an issue. Spending half of 2008 and most of 2009 as a reliever will severely limit his ability to both prepare his arm to handle longer innings, and work on the other pitches necessary to face a lineup 3 times in a game. It may not permanently eliminate any chance he has of starting, but it does slow the development. That said, I have always had my doubts he'd be anything more than a reliever.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Meaning you assume they will lose game 5, or that they have no chance of winning a game 7?
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Well, those reports seem to be speculation as well, although much more informed speculation.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    The beat writers all seem to think it's Vizcaino.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Actually, if that's what you are basing it on, you should really rethink it. Latroy was supposed to be unavailable that game. He wasn't going to pitch. Dusty brings in Dempster, who let two guys on base, then rushes Latroy into the game. So he wasn't going to use him as the closer until he let the other guy put 2 guys on base first. That's setting a guy up to fail.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    It might not matter what you, personally, give him. After today he's got 1 week before he returns to Wrigley. It could get really ugly in a hurry. and it could just as easily be forgotten with one good week. Sure, it could. But it's going to take one big week to get the boo birds off his back. And I don't think it takes a lot of boo birds to get into Milton's head. well, i don't doubt that morons will boo him mercilessly. that's absurd though. the guy has had 30 PAs. i highly doubt the guy who put .947 and .999 OPS the last two years suddenly forgot how to hit. It doesn't have anything to do with forgetting how to hit, and I never said it wasn't absurd. My concern is that it is happening though, and will continue to get worse unless he gets better, in a hurry. But it would not be at all surprising if he fails to come close to his past two seasons' OPS.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Yes, he is that much better. And two bad games aren't enough to put in a guy who hasn't played in two weeks, either. You don't just switch goalies on a whim in the playoffs. And no, in the middle of the playoffs, especially in the middle of a closely contested series, you do not seriously consider changing goalies just to give the guy with a longer contract more experience. Khabi has been good for the Blackhawks for about 2 months of his entire contract. He's had some very weak stretches of play. I don't see the point in staying loyal to him at this point. And yes, teams have made early switches at goalie and enjoyed the results.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    When we look back on why the promising young crop of Hawks never quite made it to Cup-winning level, never caught up with Detroit, I'm going to point to two bad signings: Campbell and Huet. Good players, but bad fits for this team and way too much money. I think that could very easily be true with Campbell. But Huet didn't get that much money, or that long of a contract. By the time the young guys are at their best, they should have a younger goalie pushing him out the door. But the Campbell contract is probably going to hurt, a lot, barring multiple solid defensemen coming up through the system.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    What's the point of sticking with him? He's the better of the two goalies and you are in a 2-2 playoff series. That trumps everything about potential and contracts and whatnot. And he hasn't done "nothing" in the postseason. Stole game 1, solid in game 2. Stole is just subjective rhetoric. Solid is nothing special, and 2 bad games is disappointing. Khabi was better at times this year. But he wasn't a superstar. And when he came back from injury, he wasn't the same goalie he was over the early winter. I was all for Khabi if he was looking like the guy who could carry this team deep. He's shown no signs of that, at all. Like it or not, the contract situations matter, and Khabi isn't that much better that you just ignore disappointing play in back to back games.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    You may be right, but the point is he's here, now and for the foreseeable future. And Khabi is as good as gone. It was possible to have both this past year because their best players were underpaid and you could make it fit. But with the cap likely going down and many players in line for a raise, they can't afford to resign Khabi, at his age, with his uneven track record of service to the team.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    It might not matter what you, personally, give him. After today he's got 1 week before he returns to Wrigley. It could get really ugly in a hurry. and it could just as easily be forgotten with one good week. Sure, it could. But it's going to take one big week to get the boo birds off his back. And I don't think it takes a lot of boo birds to get into Milton's head.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    At that point though, you're just giving Huet a chance to have his only playoff appearance being the elimination game. And? Khabibulin is the better goalie, and he gets more than two bad road games before you yank him for a completely cold goalie. Khabi has had years to perform up to his contract as a Blackhawk. So far he's only done so for part of half a season. He's had his own cold stretches this year, and he's not coming back next year. So what's the point in sticking with him? He doesn't have a track record with the team worthy of sticking with him through thick and thin. It probably doesn't matter. But with Khabi doing nothing so far this postseason and it making no sense to bring him back next year, I'd go with Huet now.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    At that point though, you're just giving Huet a chance to have his only playoff appearance being the elimination game.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    It might not matter what you, personally, give him. After today he's got 1 week before he returns to Wrigley. It could get really ugly in a hurry.
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