Jump to content
North Side Baseball

jersey cubs fan

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    68,016

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    64

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by jersey cubs fan

  1. jersey cubs fan
    Gaudin's performance has been very inconsistent. I don't have love for Patton, I dislike veteran relievers assured of spots despite horrible performances because of contract situations.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    He was a god awful drunk who entered Lou's doghouse immediately and hasn't shown any glimmer of hope since. A god awful drunk? Where does this stuff even come from? There's a rumor about his injury happeneing when he was drunk and suddenly he's a drunk? Adults are allowed to drink guys. A god awful pitcher who is a drunk. He's a drunk because he got injured drinking. I'm all for boozing it up, but when it gets in the way of your work, you have a problem.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    When I think of Hester's routes the first thing I think of are all those short slants they throw him all the time. Which should also remind you of Justin Gage. The only thing that reminds me of Justin Gage is the Bears not playing a guy, Earl Bennett.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I'm more annoyed that Vizcaino is here, taking up a huge chunk of payroll. I'd be all for his release. Gaudin, I would think, could be trade bait. But considering the talk of his drinking being the cause of his back problems late last year, the rest of the league may not have any interest in giving the Cubs anything worthwhile.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    What did Ferris say? If things don't change for him, he's gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she's gonna treat him like...
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I think he's hit really well in the spring.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    He was a god awful drunk who entered Lou's doghouse immediately and hasn't shown any glimmer of hope since.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    When I think of Hester's routes the first thing I think of are all those short slants they throw him all the time.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Not at all unpredictable, that a promising young arm would be lost because the Cubs have to find space for overpaid veteran relievers with no roster flexibility. It's a real shame they trade Marquis for an immovable object. Patton is a near 25 year old who spent last year in High A. He supposedly has good stuff and has had a strong spring, but let's not go overboard here. The odds of getting decent production out of Patton aren't so different than Vizcaino having a decent year. And Gaudin is a better option than Patton, without question. I'm not going overboard. He's a promising young arm. I never said he was a super star in waiting. I hate guaranteed big money contracts for marginal relievers. Vizcaino and Gaudin don't have track records of sustained success worthy of guaranteed spots. But their contracts virtually guarantee they will keep their jobs. Guys who aren't good enough to make rotations and aren't good enough to be top-end relievers, just don't have the consistent success to justify guaranteeing jobs. They sucked last year and suck now. There's no telling when or even if they will improve.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Bear football philosophy has been unplayable for 20 years. Maybe these rule changes will force them to adapt. During the last 5 years, don't the Bears have the third or fourth-best winning percentage only behind NE, Indy, and the Giants? Pit, Philly and Dallas have more wins during that time as well, and they are tied with Carolina. Multiple teams are right on their tail.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    There's definitely some other positions that the Jets could fill here, but I'm going to continue the offensive skill position trend in the draft, selecting Donald Brown, RB UConn. Thomas Jones has been a nice RB, but he'll turn 31 before the season starts and has already carried the ball over 2200 times in his career. Very few RB have carried more and remained effective. It may be coincidence, but prior to 2008, Jones had his best season the year the Bears drafted Cedric Benson to take his job. Perhaps they can get one last solid season out of him with Brown pushing him and preparing to be the next solid cost effective back for 2010-2012.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Not at all unpredictable, that a promising young arm would be lost because the Cubs have to find space for overpaid veteran relievers with no roster flexibility. It's a real shame they trade Marquis for an immovable object. Actually, jersey the way I look at it is that the Cubs are prolly going to lose two "promising young arms" because of Gaudin and Viz. Unless Guzman gets mysteriously injured at the end of spring training, the Cubs would lose both Patton and Guzman, and that proposition sickens me, because both Gooz and Patton have higher upsides and future with the Cubs that Gaudin and Viz doesn't. Gregg Marmol Heilman Cotts Gaudin / Vizcaino Guzman Patton If one of Gaudin & Vizcaino exits the picture somehow, there should be room for both Guzman and Patton. I have my doubts that they'd manage to get rid of either.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Swinging early in a couple at bats hardly qualifies as openly defying your manager by refusing to be patient. Patience can only be measured over time, 5 pitches in 3 at-bats is something that happens to everybody. Maybe Lou overreacted to it. I'm not sure as I don't know exactly what was said. But I'm pretty sure a story at the time was that after Fox had swung at the first 3 pitches he saw and made 2 outs that by the 3rd at-bat Lou had him taking until he got a strike and Fox swung at the first strike he saw. Lou immediately pulled him from the game and then the Cubs announced they were going to ship him out before the next game. Fox wasn't going to get many opportunities. He had to implement Lou's suggestion immediately, and instead he went and did the exact opposite. Obviously the Cubs felt strongly about it as they have completely barred him since then when it didn't make sense to not bring him up. Their dislike for him might be getting a little bit less now though with the recent quotes from Piniella that he is getting closer to being a major league ballplayer. There's a perfectly good reason not to callup/use a guy who is essentially a potential DH. This team stresses defensive flexibility above everything else when it comes to their role players. He has no chance of being a Cub.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Bathroom reading. http://www.ratemyeverything.net/image/2239/0/Laptop_%2B_Bathroom_%3D_workaholic.ashx
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Swinging early in a couple at bats hardly qualifies as openly defying your manager by refusing to be patient. Patience can only be measured over time, 5 pitches in 3 at-bats is something that happens to everybody.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    there's so much funny about this. he's better than player a, unless he hits first, in which case player a is better than he is. I also love that they declare him to be a 20/20 player the "last few years," nevermind that he hit 33 home runs in 2007 and 29 and 2008 in the two shortest seasons of his career. And didn't actually steal 20 bases.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Disappointing words from Bruce Miles Not at all unpredictable, that a promising young arm would be lost because the Cubs have to find space for overpaid veteran relievers with no roster flexibility. It's a real shame they trade Marquis for an immovable object.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Bear football philosophy has been unplayable for 20 years. Maybe these rule changes will force them to adapt. Seriously, an offensive philosophy that relies on special teams to score your points is a bad philosophy. The Bears should be able to run an offense that can sustain 80-yard drives to score points. This special teams stuff wasn't a rule the past couple years, and the Bears still mediocred themselves all over the field.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    wrong. some players don't stop developing until their late 20s. some guys stop developing well before then. just because the average player peaks around age 27-28 doesn't mean that every player follows the same development curve. do you want me to go back to his 2005 season, when he hit very well in iowa, was called up to the big club and hit very well there? should i quote my bp 2006 and ba 2006 handbook that say cedeno was ready to contribute at the big league level? ah right, so despite the arguments that i've laid out for why i didn't think cedeno would be a good player, i just have a "blind spot of hatred" for him. it can't be that someone actually has well-founded reasons to disagree with your opinion, can it? their opinion has to be irrational and wrong, while yours is well thought-out and correct. Seriously, your reasons don't seem very well thought out or logical. He was rushed to the majors and had a bad year, and that is enough reason for you to believe he can never justify a job in the majors. I was never a fan of Ronny's. I never understood the rush to roster him or the infatuation with his tools. But he was treated exactly how you shouldn't treat a raw toolsy player, given one legit shot and then shoved out the door in favor of stable mediocrity. What's the point in investing in toolsy players if you are going to bail on them so easily?
  20. jersey cubs fan
    The biggest rush was unnecessarily 40-man rostering him when there was no way another team would keep him on a big league club for a full season.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    who cares and most likely. his postseason performances will get him in.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    the vast majority of players who completely flop at the big league level (over the course of a full season) do so because they're just not good enough or can't make the necessary adjustments against big league pitching, not because they're too young or whatever. i don't care if ronny was 23 or 33, his performance in 2006 showed there was a strong chance that he could not become an adequate major league player. soto and hoffpauir weren't given the chance at age 23 because they had not seemingly mastered lower levels of play, as it seemed that cedeno had. but once you've done well against AAA pitching then you should be ready to face major league pitching. age really doesn't matter here. your "argument" is bad. Suggesting age doesn't matter does not make sense to me. Age clearly matters. Lots of players have flopped at an early age and had decent careers.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    ok. I see that line of reason, but if I'm Angelo, I make it publically known that I'm going after Cutler, who grew up a Bears fan, hoping he takes notice and forces a trade. what I see the Jets doing right now is what I want to see Angelo do and EVERYTHING might be lowballing Denver when it comes to the drought the Bears have had at QB I don't see any value in going public. The player is under contract for 3 more years, Denver doesn't have to trade him.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    No it's not. Suburban baseball stadiums just don't work, and football fields do not work for baseball. There isn't a single successful football stadium in the middle of nowhere where a baseaball team plays. It doesn't work, and it won't work with an expension team especially.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    If that's what they sell for on the secondary market, why shouldn't the team sell them at that price? but do they really sell for that much on the secondary market? i've bought and sold plenty of tickets through that avenue, but that seems ridiculously high. even for yankees red sox. You've bought and sold Yankees tickets on the secondary market? Yankees tickets in general, and Yanks/Sox tickets in particular, are different than most. Put the best seats out there, and it's a whole 'nother beast. There are so many bandwagon Yankees fans in this city, and so many that have some money, that prices can go crazy. In the mid-90's, when I got here, the team was nothing special and it wasn't hard to get good seats. As they won more and more, you could still get nosebleeds and bleachers, but better seats became extremely scarce. Add in the rivalry, and the fact that there are tons of Red Sox fans in NY, plus many who just want to experience what became a cultural event, and it's not surprising to me.
×
×
  • Create New...