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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I don't hear that. The problem is they don't have enough quality starting position players, so they have to mix and match with a bunch of less than ideal parts. What I'm hearing is that Floyd was a bad signing, given the rest of the roster. The implication is that the Cubs would be better off without him. Ergo, the problem with Floyd is that he gives the Cubs have too many quality, starting-caliber players. No, he gives the Cubs another not quite starting caliber, but decent if he platoons player, but with no platoon partner. The problem with Jones is he should only face righties. The problem with Floyd is he shouldn't play much. The problem with Murton is that while he's a nice OF at a cheap price, you should really have some serious quality in the other spots. They don't have a real CF on the roster without Pie, so they almost feel forced to put him out there, despite being a potential black hole bat. Soriano in left is the only guy you should feel comfortable starting no matter who else is starting in the other 2 spots.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    One of the more egregious examples of Hendry just throwing money away. Blanco puts up an OPS+ of 80 and people think of it as a pretty big surprise on the upside. He's just brutally awful, and Hendry has now given him 2, 2-year contracts. Completely unnecessary nonsense.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Heaven knows we could use a few more right fielders. Or one real one.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    don't bother. I think the Cubs win like 10-2, then lose by a run on Wednesday. That's not even a bet worth taking, since I'm pretty sure you have to bet $100 to win $1 if that sequence happens.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I don't hear that. The problem is they don't have enough quality starting position players, so they have to mix and match with a bunch of less than ideal parts.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    What was wrong with his 2006? Kinda what I was thinking...he saved 30 games for a team that won only 70....he's no savior...but he'd be ok in the pen and just as importantly we'd clear up some of the outfield trainwreck. Alfonseca saved 45 for a team that won 79 in 2000. That's the kind of thinking that caused Hendry to foolishly go after him. I'm not saying Cordero is just like Alfonseca, just noting that saves is a pretty worthless way to judge a reliever. Generally speaking though, I'm not all that interested in giving up much talent for any reliever, let alone a soon-to-be free agent who Hendry is bound to overpay longterm. They'd be better off acquiring somebody whose value is not overinflated by a number of saves. But they'd be much better off concentrating on starting position players to help this team.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Can't they keep all 3? It's not unheard of to have 3 TE's is it? As long as Clark and Gilmore can fill in on special teams this should work. If Reid beats one of them out, fine. But I like having the blocking TE, the all-around TE (Clark) and the pass catching threat in Olsen. Only Olsen will be making serious coin, and his salary cap number can be partially taken from the WR position, since they only have one guy making a lot of money, and Olse's role will be similar to what they'd get from a receiver.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    He's a gutless choking dog for giving that lead away.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Does it seem to anybody else that the opposing team figures our hitters out as the game goes on? It just feels that there have been a bunch of games when the Cubs score a few runs early in the game then get shut down for the final 6 or 7 innings. The Cubs have had a routine of scoring early and shutting down the past few years. Not sure if it's more than just selective memory though. Duke has shut down the Cubs repeatedly, I think he figured them out long ago.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    bummer
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Wuertz has nothing right now.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    dagnabit
  13. jersey cubs fan
    I'm rooting for them to send Murton to AAA. He's wasting away with these occasional starts, and may be pressing to make something happen in his limited appearances. Let him play everyday in AAA. If they find somebody to take Jones then call him up. Otherwise this is not productive.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Black guy? Seriously though, how bad does it look when the manager gets busted with a DUI, then a player "oversleeps", possibly due to booze, gets in a "minor" accident, possibly due to booze, and then dies in a DUI? I would hope this wakes some people up to the problem.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    69 thru 5 for Hill, he's officially cruising. And in a related story, the Cubs apparantly did not figure out Duke in their one decent outing against him last year. And they continue to suck vs LHP, despite the front office and managerial stance that they need more LH bats in the lineup. The OPS vs LHP is 111 points below the OPS vs RHP. Get more guys who can hit lefties!
  16. jersey cubs fan
    True, but 35 through 2 with the pitcher due to leadoff isn't unmanagable. If he gets through this inning with just 10 pitches, that's an average of 15 per, and a 7 inning/105 pitch outing. Pretty good. 58 thru 4 for Hill, not a bad pace.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    this is newsworthy. You people are following the Cardinals game and talking about how they seem to not have their heads in the game, so if you think ESPN showing the game and talking about Hancock is pathetic, then you should probably stop talking about it too. But if you're interested in this game, don't you think other people are too? I guess the major news networks shouldn't have covered 9/11, Katrina and the tsunami so thoroughly... after all, people died and they were making ratings money off those people. Not to hijack our game thread - but I'd make the easy argument that us discussing it privately on the internet is NOT THE SAME as nationally televising it to millions of people. It's a baseball game that was supposed to be aired anyway. People are always looking for reasons to complain about ESPN, and other media outlets for airing things. If people watch it, then it's worthy of being aired. You can't blame them for this.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    They just showed Kip Wells just randomly staring around the stadium while on the mound. Looked odd.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    True, but 35 through 2 with the pitcher due to leadoff isn't unmanagable. If he gets through this inning with just 10 pitches, that's an average of 15 per, and a 7 inning/105 pitch outing. Pretty good.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Did the locals cops give a break to the hometown athlete? Oversleeping for a game is a sure sign of somebody with issues. Somebody wrote earlier this year that while steroids were a problem, drunk driving was an even bigger problem with the players. We've seen Tony get busted this year, and now a guy with multiple accidents who can't get to the field in time was reportedly drinking before driving in a crash. That writer may have been right on. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=law/070327&sportCat=mlb
  21. jersey cubs fan
    If Floyd wasn't here and Pie wasn't up, the OF would be Soriano, Murton and Jones, and I don't think many people would be clamoring for another guy. And if it was, it wouldn't be the redundent Floyd. Hendry bashers blame Hendry for the sub .500 record during his tenure because he is responsible for everything. Excusing him for one bad signing because he made another good one makes no sense.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    I know a girl who is a terrible driver, admits to being a terrible driver, has been in numerous "incidents", and basically just accepts that she's a terrible driver and won't do anything about it. Drives me nuts. She's the type of person who literally has no idea what is going on outside her car. She's not a speeder or anything, just incapable of seeing the world outside her narrow view. That is the most dangerous driver in my opinion. Far worse than the guy going 90.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    After a late 90's fad, Krispy Kreme has fallen hard from grace across the country. DD is loved by most.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Is the movement of a fastball really something that increases over time? I always thought that guys either had movement on their fastball, or they didn't. I've read some things that most of that crazy movement is in the younger arms, and over time that stuff tends to straighten out. But that is offset by an older pitcher learning how to pitch better. Anyway, is there much history of guys in their 20's who don't have movement but acquire it over time?
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I think it comes down to his history in the college game. College baseball is all about rah-rah, tough guy, throw the fastball by him, hit to get on, let your pitchers throw as long as necessary to win, it's called hitting strategy. As bad as "conventional wisdom" in MLB is, it seems to be much worse in college. As a guy who made his way up the ladder via coaching college kids and then scouting them, Jim was bound to be one of the last of the crowd to be introduced to new ideas. College teams play so many fewer games that the results of any one at-bat, or pitch, is so much greater than in the 162 game major league season, and I think that is part of his infatuation with "clutch" and "timely hitting". In college it's harder to brush off one bad at-bat in the clutch or a handful, because they don't have 6 months of back to back games to make up for it and see the numbers even out. So it's just important to get that hit right now every single at-bat. I really think that Jim is still influenced by that past college coaching exposure.
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