jersey cubs fan
-
Posts
68,014 -
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 Pick Tracker
Blogs
Events
Forums
Store
Gallery
Everything posted by jersey cubs fan
-
Especially from NY teams. I think their ineptitude against lefties could very well trump this long-standing and storied trend. Glavine is a strange lefty though. I think lefties hit better off him, which may give the Cubs a chance. He hasn't owned them in recent years the way most lefties have. -
The Bears Training Camp and Preseason Thread
jersey cubs fan replied to cubweiser03's topic in Other Sports
It'll drop. I'll predict it right now that the Blackhawks are going to disappoint and not make the playoffs. Mr Negativity always gotta ruin it...:P It's called reality man. Sure, the WS is likely the Cubs to win, and the Bears are a lock for the Super Bowl, but I'm telling you and all the other happy happy, joy joy everything is perfect newbies that the Blackhawks young players are going to disappoint this year and the team will be drafting high again next year. Oh, and the Bulls won't win the East either. -
Jose Cruz Jr. Released
jersey cubs fan replied to HoopsCubs's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
should be an option -
It may have been me looking through rose colored glasses, but the highlights of Wood pitching on CSN (maybe 2 pitches) had me thinking his motion was much more calm and quiet than in the past. Wonder if he can maintain that with the inevitable surge of adrenaline the first time he pitches from the mound in Wrigley during a standing ovation.
-
The Cubs are good against guys going for 300.
-
The Bears Training Camp and Preseason Thread
jersey cubs fan replied to cubweiser03's topic in Other Sports
It'll drop. I'll predict it right now that the Blackhawks are going to disappoint and not make the playoffs. -
The intent is to throw to one of the two, and he succeeded in doing so.
-
There were several deals. When a guy like Teixeira is traded, a 27 YO everyday player who consistently produces, that's as big as any name you'll find in a busy year. There were multiple starting 2B that moved teams, a few big name relievers. It was only perceived as lame because the Yankees didn't do anything big and, by us, because the Cubs did nothing.
-
It is to provide an easier target, so if one gets it, that doesn't mean you missed the other.
-
I don't think you're understanding what a double cut is. Tell me, what is a double cut? A double cut is when both middle infielders go out and one of them receives the throw. For the play in question, DeRosa and Theriot both got into position to receive a throw from Murton, with some space between them. There's been a good deal of debate on the exact purpose in the thread, but the point is that one of them receives the throw from Murton. A double cut means Murton to DeRosa or Theriot to the plate, not Murton to DeRosa to Theriot to the plate. yeah you only need two cutoff men if Pierre and Jock Jones are involved in the play. But the whole notion that Murton missed a cutoff man in that situation is all wrong. There are two out there to make it easier for an OF making a tougher throw. He hit one. That's why they are two and why the notion that he did something wrong there is just asinine.
-
That's a false choice.
-
Right, but isn't the real deficiency in how the team was built before the season? . Again, I'm not interested in letting Hendry's past failures be the excuse for not being able to fix them.
-
that's true
-
If we're older and expensive, then we're trading good young talent to improve the team. That basically gives this team a one-year window to win a championship, and oh by the way there are a lot of other really good teams (a.k.a. American League) who we'd have to beat to win. If you don't do it, you've got an old team with no major-league ready prospects and you've just thrown a few more years into the crapper. Right. The playoffs are such a crapshoot too. Why not just make a team good enough to get into the playoffs for the next 3 years? We'd have a much better chance of winning that way then putting all of our eggs in one basket, imo. I think the playoffs crapshoot angle is overplayed. It's true that any team can get in. But it's still true that the better teams have a better chance of making it. I'd rather not just settle for trying to get in. I still think it's best to create the best team possible, regardless of division. Sure, the Cubs are lucky to have a relatively easy road to the playoffs, that doesn't mean they will definitely make it. Plus, the whole "contend within the division" theory didn't really work out well under MacPhail. I don't believe in setting goals that low. Set them for the highest, build the best team you can, and then see how it plays out.
-
Somebody else wrote this in the other thread. There is something to stop us, it's called the waiver process. It's far more difficult to get anything good done in the waiver period. When was the last significant move made? Sure, Cubs/Mets made that "big" six man One Dog/Brian McRae deal a long time ago, but you were talking about a couple of also ran teams exchanging roster filler. I'm not going to say it won't happen, or it never has happened, but the odds that the Cubs can acquire anything that solves one of their 4 big holes during the waiver period are very slim. My opinion is this was a pretty good team, nowhere near great, but pretty good, with several glaring holes that could and should have been filled (yes, they could and should have been filled a long time ago, but Hendry's past failures can't be use to defend his current ones). I'm all about increasing your chances for success. That means creating the best damn team possible. Hendry has never come close to doing that, despite a tremendous amount of payroll throughout his tenure. Failure to acquire something big does not guarantee failure to win the Central, but it does mean they didn't improve their chances. And if you aren't improving your chances you aren't doing your job as a GM.
-
You have that much faith in Cubs management that you believe the fact that something wasn't done is justification for it not having been done?
-
The Cubs are 55-49, on a pace for just 85.7 wins. The offense is ranked 9th or worst in several key stats. Some of the pitchers who were outstanding early in the season have had a few hiccups of late. The team has a losing record to every good NL team besides Arizona and Milwaukee, suggesting they aren't exactly the best team in the league. The Cubs haven't won a pennant in 60 years or a WS in 98, and people are getting on fans for being pissed the team didn't do anything to get better this year. How can anybody expect Cubs fans to be happy with the status quo?
-
That's not fair, you can't blame July 31, 2007 Jim Hendry responsible for the failures of 2004, 2005 and 2006 Jim Hendry.
-
Why in the world would anyone ever do that? :D With the Cubs history, I don't see why anybody would begrudge a Cubs fan's right to prematurely assume failure.
-
We have Kendall who is a veteran and has great career #'s..plus "brings it" every day. I'm not the least bit concerned. It's already been broughten.
-
They sure do like their wife beaters in Philly.
-
Just get on the Cubs bandwagon? We're getting Griffey...the announcement will be at 3:59 EST It doesn't have to be announced before the deadline. We didn't hear about Maddux being traded last year til about a half hour after the deadline passed. There was a heck of a lot of smoke before then though.
-
Are you sure this was Rozner and not his favorite GM not working in baseball?
-
Keith Law: Cubs only good because of weak schedule
jersey cubs fan replied to Bruno7481's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Well, I'm not sure how it appears to you, but it seems pretty significant to me. -
Weekday brunch, how sophisticated.
