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If you pour all your efforts into that farm system while most other teams are actually trying to keep fans interested in their big league team it is not at all hard to make that system good. Again, what would you have done differently? again, go back and look at the thousands of pages on this site devoted to the different things they could have done to get better since they took control. it's not on me to make them better, it's on the supergroup of highly compensated geniuses. Their job isn't to vault to the top of baseball america rankings, their job is to make the big league team win lots of baseball games.
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If you pour all your efforts into that farm system while most other teams are actually trying to keep fans interested in their big league team it is not at all hard to make that system good.
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Screw that. The specifics have been thrown out thousands of times. Don't come with this nonsensical "there is nothing they can do about their situation" rhetoric. It's their job to make it happen. They are the highly compensated super group already 2 years into their tenure. If they can't figure out a way to make the team competitive 3 seasons in they really did a poor job.
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It might be, but that would have to only be by choice. Because it could open next year if they wanted to try and open it. How do you think they should do that? Actually try this year and stop crying poor. Do stuff along the lines of what was said above.
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It might be, but that would have to only be by choice. Because it could open next year if they wanted to try and open it.
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It is not the NFL, but it is closer to the NFL in terms of ease of making the playoffs than any of the other major sports. 33.3% - 37.5%, compared to more than 50% in the NBA and NHL. The NFL starts every year with 4-5 teams that have no chance 4-5 teams that are close to locks and a whole bunch in between. MLB is similar. You can't overhaul an entire roster as quickly as you can in the NFL, but the NFL also requires you put together a much bigger roster, plus injuries are a much bigger problem, plus coaches and their respective strategies also matter.
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And that the budget is more restricted than they expected. And the changes in the new CBA were more restrictive than anticipated. And that the wind blows in more often than they thought.
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The Pirates handed the keys over to Neal Huntington in 2007 though. So this is only the 6th year of his version of their rebuild. That means we need to give Theo and Jed until 2017 before we expect a Pirates like season.
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Take solace in the standings for now. http://espn.go.com/mlb/standings/_/type/wild-card
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-14-13
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
They've pushed their elite batters sort of quickly. But with these arms, even though they were college guys, none of them are elite and if they are pitching in Boise right now, there's no point in skipping levels without complete domination. They went with the quantity strategy, and with that you need patience for one or two to emerge. -
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Andy MacPhail, 1996 All that proves is he didn't stay true to what he wanted to do. Helped out by the fact he hired a bunch of morons to help him carry out his plan. How so? He stayed completely true to what he wanted to do. They focused on pitching on the minor leagues and were happy to trade prospects eventually to go after big leaguers, and acquired veteran bats from outside the system, plus consistently rose the payroll. He ended up hiring boobs who hired other boobs and the focus on minor league pitchers idea was stupid as hell, but I don't see how he didn't stay true to his word.
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jozy again
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Bears Offseason Thread (Trestman new HC, pg 37)
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
Typical provincial Illinoisans. Get out more. -
Kind of ridiculous to pretend to be surprised by people not knowing who McDonald is. He's a nobody.
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Bears Offseason Thread (Trestman new HC, pg 37)
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
It's a pretty fair mix of hipsters, techies, crunchy folks and homeless. Things I've never heard of since this page: Sounders and crunchy folks. you've never heard of crunchy people? Like granola/Phish fans? -
It looked to me to be insanely offsides, but is that negated when the US players touched the ball?
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that was sloppy
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ah who cares. It's harmless enough
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Net operating profit, which does not include debt repayment. It appears that the Tribune/Ricketts alliance screwed us with a rather restrictive sales agreement that is cutting in to our ability to spend. No, it appears the Cubs are choosing not to spend as much money for a few years because they don't think they will take too big of a revenue hit while they reposition the entire organization, from facilities to talent assets.
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The Cubs could spend more, they choose not to. That isn't that issue. I don't believe that to be true or that the evidence points in that direction. It all points directly in that direction.
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The Cubs could spend more, they choose not to. That isn't that issue.
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None of which trumps them winning the World Series. Not quite yet, but soon. 2005 was a long time ago. It didn't take long for the Bears Super Bowl luster to wear off on the enjoyment of that team, and the White Sox are basically in the Wanny years now. They've only been under .500 in four of eight seasons since, but they are right in the crapper now.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-14-13
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Bruce Miles @BruceMiles2112 1m #Cubs to bring Arrieta up Friday to start and remain in rotation. Villanueva to pen. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-14-13
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
strikes me as a bit odd to put him in the pen now, unless they have little expectation of him being a starter next year. He's already 27, will be 28 in the spring. He's at 110 innings this year after hitting 170 last year.
