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Everything is [expletive], based on the fact that this team is still [expletive] many years after regime change and is not anywhere close to being good. My post was about the pathetic insistence on the apologists to place all the blame for the current state of affairs on people not currently affiliated with the Cubs and grossly exaggerating the lack of young talent that was here pre-Theo. Why do you get so upset with fans who aren't happy with a bad team? -
Hot take.
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I kind of brought it up when goony compared Almora to Vitters...and I knew what Kyle's response would be so I kind of brought that up too. You did a very nice job of preemptively turning this into an argument about me. Nice deflective tactic, and it workd. http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/4/005/052/10a/0e7ce98.jpg
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Why does Haugh think this is interesting? I thought this was a widely shared opinion.
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He is basing it off of what he has perceived to be countless stories of amazing minor league fielders not holding up. I think it is similar to how every new hitting/pitching coach is some genius who will make everybody better and how every 55 year old "lifer" is a great baseball man that will bring a reservoir of knowledge that is somehow differentiated from everybody else.
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2014 Defending SC Champion Blackhawks playoff thread
jersey cubs fan replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports
There is a greater than zero chance I will be able to get ridiculously good free tickets to the Finals. -
That is pretty much how the baseball world worked, and failed, for decades before smart people supposedly figured out better ways to do things. If there were better information at our disposal, I'd go with that. Kyle's opinion does not qualify, however. All of those people have an agenda to push, including Kyle.
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That is pretty much how the baseball world worked, and failed, for decades before smart people supposedly figured out better ways to do things. The age old "Scouts vs. some vague thing Kyle started saying" debate. No, the "people who have seen him play a weekend series say it is so" and "I read a vague quote about it 2 years ago and assume both that it was accurate and that it is still true".
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The Cuban Defectors Thread
jersey cubs fan replied to davell's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
3 WAR will give you a pass for liking some crappy musician or following professional wrestling. If you want to worship satan you better be putting up 5+. Thinking Hitler had a few good ideas requires 8+. -
That is pretty much how the baseball world worked, and failed, for decades before smart people supposedly figured out better ways to do things.
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Proof that every minor leaguer's defense is overrated? Proof that all these great fielders are actually great?
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I am generally not somebody who just assumes a prospect will be good until he fails. I like to see a prospect do well before giving him credit for being good. And the Vitters commentary was as much about the inability to stay on the field as it was about being a completely underwhelming bat. And what Almora had done in the minors until the last few weeks did not qualify as doing well? It hasn't impressed me.
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I am generally not somebody who just assumes a prospect will be good until he fails. I like to see a prospect do well before giving him credit for being good. And the Vitters commentary was as much about the inability to stay on the field as it was about being a completely underwhelming bat.
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When I heard about the painting I too thought it was blue.
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And this was all done with 100% focus on just building the farm system. That is the easy part. The hard part is winning at the major league level. It is beyond pathetic to still be blaming the previous regime for the state of the current team. It's a joke.
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My guess is Soler was an omission and Almora(6th pick) was "earned" by the previous regime. Also Almora isn't an impactful talent. Soler has like 17 professional at bats in three years. Almora has had a far to Vitters-esque start to his career and there is still questions about how much of an impact he'll ever have.
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He put the ball in play, didn't he? We reward hitters for putting the ball in play and getting lucky all the time. We reward them for putting the ball in play and reaching base despite the best effort and execution of the defender, not defensive mistakes.
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[expletive]. Samardzija, Castro, Cashner, Baez, Castillo, Vogelbach and many others who still account for a substantial portion of this supposedly deep farm system were here before. Outside of drafting Bryant, which they needed to tank a season in order to accomplish, and trading Cashner, which they needed the value of Cashner to pull off, they have brought in no young talent that is more impactful than what was already here. The pre-Theo "financially crippled and empty system" story is a [expletive] grossly exaggerated myth propagated by the apologists.
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at the end of the day you are looking to reward a hitter based not on something he did, but on a defensive mistake.
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2014 Defending SC Champion Blackhawks playoff thread
jersey cubs fan replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports
Kane is going to be so expensive -
2014 Defending SC Champion Blackhawks playoff thread
jersey cubs fan replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports
[expletive] yeah -
davell got his wish
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349 carries....seem like a lot for a college player, no? It's on the high end, and I think pretty similar to Forte's last year in school.
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This is the scary part. Someday when we're trying to be good, we're going to need a cheap RFer or 3b or 2b and we're going to get a Nate Schierholtz (-0.6 fWAR this year) or Ian Stewart of Brent Lillibridge, and that might just cost us a playoff spot or a division. Eh, this failure to find those diamonds has also been during the era of them trying to lose, so did they really try to find diamonds that would muck up the plan?
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because generational talent damn you
