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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I'd be more worried if it was the previous staff. I haven't lost all faith in the current group.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Personally, two solid months of regular starts. If regular starts and at bats means almost all right handers, I'd go much longer than two months of struggling. But that also depends on the level of struggle. Does he have a 240 OPS? Or 650? If he's truly abysmal, maybe 2 months gets him sent to AAA. But what is Johnson giving you at the time? I have no interest in dealing for another CF, so the position will have to be filled internally. Basically I need to know more, but two months is on the shorter end of the range for me. Felix is going to struggle, that much I'm almost certain of. What we don't know is if he'll ever improve after the struggles, and to learn that we need a lot of time.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Hopefully it's just the injury, all the lefties, and Johnson's hot streak. Pie's really bad at bats may be worthy of a temporary breather as well. It's hard to say what the original plan was. If they were thinking of getting him 450 PA this year, nothing has happened to change that plan longterm. But at any given time, the plan to play him or not depends on the situation. I thought the plan was a pretty straight platoon. Maybe the injury caused him to miss a game or two, but he's missed quite a few that aren't explained by the injury or the LHP. Maybe Lou wants to shorten his swing and that's causing him to miss time now. My point was - Tim suggested that you have to change your plans quickly when circumstances change. I agree to a point, but other than the injury, I don't see anything that would require abandoning the plan so quickly. I was wondering what he thought those changed circumstances were. I'm not so sure they've abandoned the plan. They've faced a bunch of lefties and Lou specifically wanted to sit Pie and work on some things. I'm worried about how that will affect the plan the rest of the way, but I'm not convinced it has changed. Add in the hot streak by Johnson (plus how well the team as a whole has played) and I can see the justification for how the CF situation has been handled to date.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    more details needed. tv size, drinks available at home, snacks, presence of wife, etc. 52" flat screen hd. All sorts of wine, beer and booze. I think there's water and milk somewhere too. Wife's arrival time depends on how busy she is today, probably a bit before gametime (same as me). If she's home by first pitch she will most likely want to make a good dinner. My guess is I'm going to get home before her, and therefore get dog walking duty. I'll dvr the start of the game in case I don't get back in time, then fast forward up to real time. Luckily the pooch spent all weekend wrestling other pooches and will be fine with a shorter-than-usual walk.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Hopefully it's just the injury, all the lefties, and Johnson's hot streak. Pie's really bad at bats may be worthy of a temporary breather as well. It's hard to say what the original plan was. If they were thinking of getting him 450 PA this year, nothing has happened to change that plan longterm. But at any given time, the plan to play him or not depends on the situation.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Home tv or local watering hole? Can't decide.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    The words "always seems to" create skepticism from me. Or at least they always seem to.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not saying that at all. The Bears aren't obligated to do anything. If it was just about anybody else, I'd be all for the hardline approach. But, this won't hurt the Bears, he's a true superstar, he probably has a lot left in the tank, and they are in a nice position where they can offer something below what he'll most certainly demand in a year or two. It may seem wrong for a guy with that much time left on his deal to expect a new one. But the fact that so much time is left gives the Bears leverage. An aging superstar with 1 or 2 years left is much more problematic.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I doubt he will, but I hope he keeps it up for a few more years.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    No, they should put out the team that will give them the best chance of winning on a given night. Right now, Johnson gives them a much better chance than Pie does. This isn't directed towards you... just a general statement. But it seems like some people are fans of Pie first and the Cubs second. I'm a fan of the Cubs finally developing another quality position player, which Felix has a really, really good chance of being. The team's offense recently demonstrates that in no way is Reed Johnson the person they need in there for them to win. Again, I have no problem with him getting the start in the last two games as they faced lefties, but with how this team has been raking, Felix should be in there more due to the "safety net" of the team's general offense. The second really is unnecessary. And the first is probably overkill as well. I think he's got somewhere between a decent-to-good chance of being a quality position player. Soto has a really, really good chance. And may already be a quality position player.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I'm having a hard time seeing the argument against those who have spoken out against these shirts. A shirt that pointed out the unique stereotypical characterizations, no matter how accurate, of a black, hispanic or any other category of player, would not be tolerated. I also don't just blame the idiots who bought them and absolve the sellers, both are idiots, and far worse than simply insensitive.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I look at it as the best Bears player of the past decade, by a wide margin, who is still a very good player and likely to remain very good, is looking for a final extension on his contract that will provide him with his last great financial income from his playing career. That extension will not come close to handicapping the Bears against the cap (they have great leverage in the negotiations because of what's left on his contract), and therefore I don't have a problem with him wanting it. I don't see it as greedy. The guy got divorced after his last contract, likely meaning his first wife took a great deal of that money. He's getting married again (idiot) and only has a few years left in his life where he can reasonably expect to make a high income. Say all you want about having more money than any reasonable person can expect in life, he deserves what he can get. As the Bears, I'd rather take care of this now, than 1 or 2 years from now where he has more incentive to sit out, be a troublemaker or otherwise make things difficult. They can pretty much throw him a bone now and be done with it, or wait for him to demand even more if he has a solid 2008.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    I'm worried about where this is headed, given the team's history. But I don't have a problem with how the CF situation has been handled to date. I like Reed against lefties - guys who have routinely handcuffed the Cubs in recent years. I also like that Pie has gotten an appearance or two against lefties. Hopefully he'll be getting a few more swings against righties coming up and going forward.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    A position player defintely.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I think he's ready to get promoted to the Angels. They can't just take the Cubs AAAA players without compensation. Dave Littlefield doesn't work for us anymore. Did he ever really work for you guys before? He did some good things for us. More awful than good to be sure. But, some things were good. No good saboteur screws everything up.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I'd put my money on tomorrow with the lefty going.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I think he's ready to get promoted to the Angels. They can't just take the Cubs AAAA players without compensation. Dave Littlefield doesn't work for us anymore. Did he ever really work for you guys before?
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I think he's ready to get promoted to the Angels. They can't just take the Cubs AAAA players without compensation.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    The dimensions are the same, the quality of field is probably different. And you also have faster runners down the line so you can't take your time making the throw to 1st and may feel rushed, guys hitting harder shots at you, probably some better bunting to deal with.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    It's possible they wanted to pull Hill then so he could leave the game on a positive note. He wasn't great today, but the results up until that point were. Had he gone back out and struggled, it might have carried over into his next start. I've fairly certain that was exactly the point.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    0-10, he looks bad.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Didn't know, but it sure feels that way. Thanks be to Fukudome. Surprise surprise, they also have the 8th most runs scored thanks to that improved OBP.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Hoping a player fails so his backup can provide barely a modicum of improvement, instead of actually rooting for a player to continue performing at a level above what either would have been expected to do is stupid. Well, when you put in that way................
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Just moving him over doesn't accomplish much. You are then putting it all on one batter to drive him in with a deep fly. I'd rather Soto try and drive him in with a hit. That's what I wanted, jsut worded it wrong, but at the very least it wouldve been nice to get the guy to third so the next guy can just make contact to get him in Making contact hardly guarantees the run scores from third. The only thing you can ask is that Geo get a pitch he can hit and try and drive it. It would have been nice if he moved over, but that's not his main job and there's no reason getting upset over it not happening.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Forgive my ignorance, but does he even make that much? Isn't that around the major league minimum? If he's not on the major league team, does he still make that? I believe being on the 40-man major league roster makes him eligible for the major league minimum.
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