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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I like how many in the media love to talk up the importance of the team concept and whatnot. And then somebody like Farnsworth comes along and gives an honest assessment of the situation, expressing an opinion that is probably shared by at least half the team, and they dismiss him by saying it doesn't matter since it's Farnsworth. Mike and Mike talked about this. Golic, who loves to talk about his playing days, keeps comparing it to how he would feel with Reggie White pulling this. There's absolutely no comparison there, as there is never a time when a football team would be playing a game while the star would just go away on game day, assuming he was healthy.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    The White Sox, Guillen and the Score are a bunch of classless dirtbags that so deserve one another.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    unfortunately he had quite a floor as well If you ask me, that floor is quite shoddy and unstable. There appears to be a lot of unsafe spots that can cause him to fall right through to an even lower level.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Problem is, he's been so bad that you just cannot pitch him in close games. How can you have a guy on the team who can't play except in games that become a joke? With a competitive team, that's wasting a roster spot that could be used to win close games. With a bad team (i.e., this one), it's wasting a spot that could be used to test minor leaguers for next year. That's fine and all, but a release just forces the Cubs to pay him to play for somebody else, and will probably cause them to go out and spend on another inconsistent reliever. The key word here is inconsistent. It's not like Eyre is Neifi Perez where you can count on him to suck day in and day out. They shouldn't have signed him to that deal, but unless you can trade him away, you are probably better off trying to get him to work through the struggles. Nobody in the minors is an obvious candidate to do better. The Cubs are stuck. Hendry made the mess and they really can only try and right the ship, or cut bait at the deadline. Releasing Eyre solves nothing right now aside from appeasing an angry fan base. It would be a move based on emotion rather than one where there's an obvious improvement to the team.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Beane manages the A's? No, he writes books.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    He was shaded up the middle because of the DP opportunity. Delgado is a dead pull hitter. Theriot, DP opp or not, was incredibly out of position for who was at bat. Do you honestly think Theriot put himself there on his own? The coaches position the fielders in those situations. I guarantee Theriot was standing exactly where somebody told him to be. Oh, and Delgado is not a dead pull hitter. He's had more singles to LF this year than RF. His hit chart shows he's barely hit anything down the line this year. I know it sucks people, but it happens. Ground balls find holes. Dempster lost the game by walking people, but there's no justification for hanging Eyre, Theriot or Murton for this game. Eyre gave up a soft single and a ground ball that trickled through. That's baseball. You can't choose where groundballs are hit. I'm not saying it was Theriot's fault, but he was out of position. No he wasn't. Delgado is not a dead pull hitter and he was cheating toward the bag for the DP.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Folks, when you rely on a guy with a career WHIP over 1.5 to be your closer, you are asking for trouble. Sure, Dempster got off to a decent start this year, but you knew his long term trend would eventually surface, and it did. He has always had a habit of working behind in the count and walking guys, and on top of that, he gives up more than 1 hit per innings pitched. These aren't exactly the traits you look for in a closer. Dempster is like many other closers that are 1 year wonders. The advance scouts get a read on these guys, and figure out a way to make life miserable for them. With Dempster its easy - all you do is make him throw strikes, and chances are, he will get himself in trouble by walking guys and then give up a hit or two because he turns to toast. Yesterday was obvious, first Dempster was looking down at the mound, like that was the reason he couldn't throw strikes, then he complained to the ump on a pitch 6 inches inside. If that ain't a sign a guy is blowing up, I don't know what is. Well, his numbers as a reliever have been better than as a starter, including the WHIP. Control has been and always will be an issue for him, which is why it's a shame he had only pitched once in 9 days before yesterday. Loss of control is pretty much inevitable
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I think it would be a mistake to release Eyre. Although if it gets to the point where he's the fans' whipping boy in Wrigley, and the boo him mercilesslly, then they might just be forced to give him away. But they still won't release him, they will trade him, even if they get a C prospect and have to pay half the salary. I know he's been bad most of the year, but I still think it's a mistake to blame him for yesterday.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I would love to see the Bulls get in the top 2, if only to see Knicks fans go nuts.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I highly doubt it. You blow a save when you are on the mound as you lose the lead. Dempster wasn't. What I want to know is can you have multiple blown saves in a game where a reliever gives up the lead in the 7th, the team retakes the lead, and another reliever blows it in the 9th. I think you can. But again, it's not official, so there's no rule.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    But in this case, that's because Eyre was on the mound when the lead was lost. What if Dempster stayed in the whole time? I still don't think it would be a blown save. You can't really blow something you don't have in the first place. It would have just been a loss, I believe. But it's not really an official stat anyway, so there's isn't a hard and fast rule. And since the save itself can be rewarded subjectively by the official scorer, I wouldn't see why Dempster wouldn't have gotten rung up with a BS if he stayed in the game.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    You actually think we'll win one? We'll win one. The Sunday game they got a Rook going. Contreras isn't going? I don't think it's been determined. They have to juggle things because of the rain out/double header earlier in the week. I read that the rookie John Danks or Contreras could pitch on short rest or they could bring up Gavin Floyd... Danks has pitched well and he's a lefty. Considering the Cubs struggles against LHP, I'd prefer they not see two in this series. Ozzie says Contreras is going. I think it's hysterical that he wants to send out an old man like that on short rest, but hey, Ozzie's a genius.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Why couldn't we have rode the hot hand for once and stuck with Ohman? I know that Dempster hasn't been getting regular work lately, but when Ohman has struck out 4/5 batters he's face and he typically struggles why not let him go on? The first batter of the 9th (Newhan) was a lefty anyways so it isn't like there was a bad matchup. Ohman could have possibly neutralized the threat of Beltran's LH bat lurking as well...the decision just doesn't make sense to me. Ohman is a guy who is used to throwing 1, maybe 2 batters at a time. He had already thrown 23 pitches yesterday-the chances of him starting to struggle with the high pitch count at the beginning of the 9th was higher than another reliever coming in and being completely ineffective. Yeah, that's just not realistic to be complaining that Ohman didn't pitch the 9th. Dempster threw 1 inning in 9 days going into yesterday, and he paid for it with a lack of control. That's it. End of story.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    He was shaded up the middle because of the DP opportunity. Delgado is a dead pull hitter. Theriot, DP opp or not, was incredibly out of position for who was at bat. Do you honestly think Theriot put himself there on his own? The coaches position the fielders in those situations. I guarantee Theriot was standing exactly where somebody told him to be. Oh, and Delgado is not a dead pull hitter. He's had more singles to LF this year than RF. His hit chart shows he's barely hit anything down the line this year. I know it sucks people, but it happens. Ground balls find holes. Dempster lost the game by walking people, but there's no justification for hanging Eyre, Theriot or Murton for this game. Eyre gave up a soft single and a ground ball that trickled through. That's baseball. You can't choose where groundballs are hit.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    But in this case, that's because Eyre was on the mound when the lead was lost. What if Dempster stayed in the whole time?
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Barrett makes Barrett expendable.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Guzman needs to keep starting.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Ramirez has a dirty uniform because he's so lazy that he lies down between pitches. It's funny you say that. Someone on WGN was talking to Barry Rozner about the Bulls game on Wednesday morning, and right at the end of the conversation, Rozner took a blantant and unnecessary shot at ARam. He said he hadn't seen the Cubs game from the previous night and wanted to know if Ramirez was still standing there admiring his home run, or if he bothered to run around the bases. I bet if Rozner did anything worth noting he might take the time to admire it as well. Like when he spends an entire column reminding us he talks to Greg Maddux on the phone?
  19. jersey cubs fan
    By giving up a hit to the first batter he faced? Even if Theriot gets to that he isnt going to have much on the throw to 2nd and Delgado probably beats it out anyway. Eyre sucks plain and simple. A ground ball is a groundball, it could be a rocket right at the 3rd baseman and we say the guy did his job, or it could be a dribbler through the hole and he choked. This stuff happens. Agreed. Eyre's job was to get a ground ball and he did. What are you going to do. Drink myself silly, that's what I'm going to do.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Wrigley is not the problem.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    By giving up a hit to the first batter he faced? Even if Theriot gets to that he isnt going to have much on the throw to 2nd and Delgado probably beats it out anyway. Eyre sucks plain and simple. A ground ball is a groundball, it could be a rocket right at the 3rd baseman and we say the guy did his job, or it could be a dribbler through the hole and he choked. This stuff happens.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    He was shaded up the middle because of the DP opportunity.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Beginning? No, that was 2005. This may be more like the end of the end.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Soriano and Lee are not in the prime of their careers. Well, if they are starting to go down from the prime of the careers that just makes it more likely that whatever group comes in will want to play for next year. Changes will have to be made though. I fear that they may not even be able to be made this offseason, because if the Cubs don't go up for sale until the season ends the sale might not be completed until it's too late to make changes for 2008. I feel that there will be changes this offseason, but the team itself will stay largely intact for 2008. I think we're stuck with most of those contracts. I think the coaching staff stays unless Lou retires. I'm pretty sure there will be a new GM, who will try and fine tune around the core of this roster. I think I might actually prefer to see a GM get a year, or at least several months, on the job before he really starts to overhaul.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Why wouldn't new ownership want a fresh start? It's not like the guys here have any real positive track record to speak of. I want everyone gone. Everyone. This is a rudderless ship with no real plan to find direction. I'm pretty sure they would want a fresh start, however, fresh start rarely means house cleaning. Dan Snyder was probably the last owner to completely clean house after taking over, including secretaries and whatnot. This just isn't going to happen here. Depending on the owner (whether he's active or behind the scenes) I could see a new president - although I could definitely see McDonough staying on board in some capacity. I'm pretty certain we'll have a new GM, and that will probably mean new assistants to the GM, and new development people. But they are not going to turn over an entire coaching staff, big leagues and minors, and all instructors. Personally I'm not so sure it is an "everybody" problem. I think it's largely Hendry, and his backward philosophies. You can still achieve a great deal of change by lobbing off the top of your totem pole, even if you keep a good amount of the middle and bottom rungs.
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