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Cubs sale delayed? / Trib may own Cubs on Opening Day
jersey cubs fan replied to Banedon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
No offense, but that's ridiculous. No ownership group is going to commit to 100% of any revenue source to be "reinvested in the team", nor should they. -
agreed Gabe Kaplan is much dirtier fighter.
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What exactly is a natural utility man? http://www.vincekeenan.com/uploaded_images/harrington-725920.jpg Scary that it took you only three minutes to think of this guy, find his picture and post it in this thread. Very scary... That show always creeped me out for some reason. FYI, a Mets outsider I know believes this trade has actually already been completed, and voided by the commissioners office. (take that with as small or large a salt lick that Mackenzie Phillips could handle)
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I am not the least bit concerned.
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Doug Glanville--comments on steroid era
jersey cubs fan replied to seanhopper's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Cubs sale delayed? / Trib may own Cubs on Opening Day
jersey cubs fan replied to Banedon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Do you really care what the place is called? I think the implication that the name means nothing is absurd. I agree it would not be the end of the world, but the name "Wrigley Field" does carry weight, and is an iconic name. And when it's called Wrigley Field at Boeing Park, people will still refer to it as Wrigley. I'd be interested to see how WM. Wrigley Jr. Company handles these negotiations. I doubt they offer as much as some companies would to change the name, but they've been enjoying a free ride, so to speak, with the naming rights for several years. They may find it worth while to spend several million to keep it Wrigley Field plain and simple. And the Cubs may find it better to take a little less to keep it Wrigley Field as well. Zell is out there talking about selling things off bit by bit to drive up the total price right now. He's floating the idea of a name change as a way of giving the new owners a trial balloon to judge how hard it will be to pull it off. My guess is the new owner will buy the Cubs/Wrigley/Comcast for around $1B, and they will then sell naming rights while trying to keep Wrigley Field in the name. Frankly, I would much rather see them stay in Wrigley Field, and Wrigleyville, and have naming rights, increased ad sales, grandstand renovation and all the works, than see them move to some god forsaken megamall in the suburbs. -
What exactly is a natural utility man?
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How else are you going to grade a player, especially at the amatuer levels? I think it would make sense to stop pretending those are the 5 tools that matter, and implying they are of equal value. But one thing I've never understood is how somebody can be described as having the tool of being able to hit for average. I'm assuming that's just a matter of having hit for a high average in his career, but that's not scouting, that's looking at results. The hitting for power tool is self explanatory, you can see when a guy hits the ball he hits it far. Speed is easy. So's the arm. Defense is subjective, but I assume it's more or less watching a guy play defense and judging how good you think he is at it. Presumably, all those things pretty much translate, except for hitting for average. Anyway, how else could you grade a player? I don't know, but there has to be a better way.
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If Pie is modestly successful, who's his MLB comparable?
jersey cubs fan replied to badnews's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Or Brian Roberts No, it needs more threads about Felix Pie and more pages dedicated to Brian Roberts, but all in the same thread. -
I have a feeling that the bigger money teams feel that as long as a pitcher makes 30 starts a year and somewhere around 180 innings, without getting completely rocked, they won't regret any deal.
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So Taguchi
jersey cubs fan replied to HoopsCubs's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
That's an oddly and inappropriately sarcastic comment. Since when have people demanded 800 OPS or bust on the bench? He will turn 39 in the middle of next season, and has a major league career line of .283/.336/.391. He's old and he stinks. And he's a pretty good bet to play far more frequently than somebody like him should play. I'm not sure why a .350 OBP in 2007 is noteworthy to some, seems pretty clearly that it's flukey. Any anti-Taguchi sentiment is clearly justified, and not deserving of some overblown nonsensical criticism like you've implied above. -
So Taguchi
jersey cubs fan replied to HoopsCubs's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
jersey cubs fan, on NSBB.com, is reporting that he's a sad panda. -
I have to ask, are you NOT goony? I really thought you were, and if not my appologies to you both... Yeah, I was just making a funny. That was my old screen name. Sorry for the confusion.
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I'm not sure how Colvin = average makes Pie = Beltran. That makes no sense. The point was that Pie and Soto are not equally "untouchable" because Soto is far more difficult to replace. Competent catching is going to be harder for this team to find than competent CF play.
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When has Goony never complained? :) When has anybody ever been influenced by anything he said?
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I heard some guy saying Geoff Jenkins was an obvious roid head this past weekend. Certainly he could be, but I never thought he was a blatant guy, and never heard his name involed in the story before.
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The thing about SS is while they are lacking at the major league level, there isn't any decent hope in the minors either. It's Cedeno improves or bust, because Theriot is a bust, and Cedeno could be. SS is a need now, and it's probably going to be a need every year for the foreseeable future, until they go outside the organization to find a real one. I'm all for going to Cedeno, and don't like the idea that Theriot may have been promised the spot. And I don't buy for a second that knowing he's the guy will somehow allow Theriot to prepare physically this offseason to handle 6 months of the job next summer.
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anybody think orioles insiders know nsbb is obsessed with what they have to say and just screwing around?
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I'm sorry for your loss.
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I'm not sure how somebody could interpret this as pimping him as a top 5 player in the league. This is most likely not going to be anything close to the Jacque situation.
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Orlando Cabrera trade?
jersey cubs fan replied to 98navigator's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Cabrera would probably be no bigger than an upgrade than Roberts would be. If it were just Cabrera vs Theriot and Roberts vs DeRosa, Cabrera would be a little bigger of an upgrade, but adding in the factor of DeRosa taking away 200 AB's or more from Fontenot and Roberts becomes the better upgrade. I would tend to agree. Depends, VORP-wise, the Roberts to DeRo bump is about the same as the Theriot to OCab bump for 2007, but if you look at Roberts and OCab's 2006, and compare them to the Cub's 2007, you'd be much better off with OCab. Looking at a couple different advanced defensive metrics and it appears as though DeRo and Theriot were actually slightly better than Roberts and OCab in 2007. I think your analysis negates the fact that DeRosa would still be here, playing, and likely replacing potentially poor numbers. -
He's the quintessential old school local news sports guy. His agent looks like the guy who does all those Bayer commercials and that home improvement show (not Home Improvement, the one that makes my wife cry).
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Sammy Sosa was the first thing he said that I understood.
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I used the site in the pre-mlb.com days, and listened to the radio broadcasts when they were first offered online for free, but never hit the boards. How long ago were the pre-mlb.com days? I want to say mlb took control around 2000 or 2001. I believe your could listen to games for free online around 1996/97 timeframe, and that lasted a few years. My screen name on the old cubs.com site was 'agrotech', and that was during the 1998 season. I believe it was the '99 season that mlb.com took it over. Could be. Although I believe it happened gradually, as far as how it affected the user. They used to all be independant and very different. The Cubs had one of the better sites, although I think Seattle and Boston were the leaders. I do not believe mlb.com banned the free radio right away either. They took their time to see what they had, and probably to draw in more customers, then laid down the hammer with the charge.
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I used the site in the pre-mlb.com days, and listened to the radio broadcasts when they were first offered online for free, but never hit the boards. How long ago were the pre-mlb.com days? I want to say mlb took control around 2000 or 2001. I believe your could listen to games for free online around 1996/97 timeframe, and that lasted a few years.
