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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Meh. It's leaps and bounds better than him refusing to acknowledge that his swing needed fixing. I'll take a young player with potential working hard to fix a problem over the alternative any day of the week. Well no kidding. Nobody is talking alternative. A young player being willing to work on stuff isn't out of the ordinary. What is, or will be actually meaningful is if he can translate the work to the field.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Kind of surprised there wasn't more of an uproar after the Bourn deal. I thought a few weeks ago everyone was hoping to sign him. Considering the money he got, it seems like a pretty big win for the Indians. It's not a bad deal, but this team needs more offense, not more speed and outfield defense. Not sure if Bourn would have helped this team much. Bourn would've helped this team as much as he would've helped any team that he'd play the same amount of time for. It's about how many runs he contributes (both offensively and defensively). Worrying about how is splitting hairs. It's not splitting hairs when you consider the inherent weakness in the stats that claim to quantify how many runs a guy contributes with defense and baserunning.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    and inaccurate if you saw the press conference
  4. jersey cubs fan
    same here. not sure 2013 matters at all for this subject.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Says who? http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2012/news/121001/kristin-cavallari-240.jpg
  6. jersey cubs fan
    not much reason for Samardzija to settle for less. I think he's made more than $15m in his career so far, so he's not desperate for that first big payout the way a lot of guys would be.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Didn't they also have some ambiguous language about the commish also being able to add additional penalties as he sees fit if teams are egregiously manipulating the rules?
  8. jersey cubs fan
    He shouldn't.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Every account of the bunt tournament I have ever read says the bunt tournament is about putting the ball in a specific place. No, we cannot infer the purpose of the tourney is equally about defense. Nothing at all suggests it plays any part in the tournament. http://mlblogsvineline.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/photo11.jpg One guy bunting, a couple gloveless guys shagging and everybody else lounging around.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I don't understand how every year people seem to talk themselves into being okay with the garbage the Bears have on this line. The only way you can even consider keeping status quo at LT is if you add a big time playmaker somewhere else to force defenses to cover/account for multiple guys. Even then you'd still have to add multiple offensive lineman since it is a 5 man group that uses 7+ players over a season with maybe 2 decent players to cover it.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Bunting is not that hard. It's not trying to teach a catcher to play shortstop. I think a few practices could go a long way toward making guys more competent at it.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Eagles resigned Vick
  13. jersey cubs fan
    That was quite possibly the stupidest example you could have possibly used.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    You can name worst-case scenarios for every contract out there but at some point you need good players on a team to compete. Believe it or not, it's possible to get good players without giving out bad contracts. But it's impossible to get great players without paying exorbitant prices. How much is Kershaw making again? I don't know, does your google not work? Nice job there too, by the way, bringing up a 24 year old pre-free agency player. Really brought the point home like you did with the Pedro Martinez commentary. I amend my statement to be, "All you have to do is keep losing enough so you can draft in the top 10 every year and then make sure you hit on an ace with that pick everytime, or pay exorbitant prices."
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I don't think that is true at all. They aren't defending the bunts, they try and hit them into marked off areas. The annoying thing is reading guys like Sullivan whine about how few sac bunts the team had in the regular season.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    You can name worst-case scenarios for every contract out there but at some point you need good players on a team to compete. Believe it or not, it's possible to get good players without giving out bad contracts. But it's impossible to get great players without paying exorbitant prices.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    They're doing that stupid [expletive] thing again this year? Only bad things can come of that, like Campana winning and the "fans" pointing to that as being a reason he should be starting over Soriano. Didn't DeJesus win?
  18. jersey cubs fan
    It's completely pointless to talk about either/or with signing your own guy or signing somebody else's free agent who is not yet a free agent. it is beyond pointless, it is a ridiculous comparison.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    No, they should not. Efficient as possible will leave you at .500 every year with the occasional outperformance year. You should try to be as good as you can, with efficiency being on the mind at all times, but clearly in second place.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Everybody sees what is happening with the Dodgers, and other teams are going to have a boatload of money to spend in the coming years. Salaries will keep going hope. Plus, it makes it easier to tell the fans you are committed to your best players.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Please remove pre-arb and early arb years from your list as they don't apply when talking about handing out a contract like this. The actual contracts those players had didn't matter, it's looking backwards at the last 7 years and deciding who would have been worth 175 million over that time. Yes, it really does matter where they were in their careers at the time of the decision. If that matters then why are you including guys who aren't in his ballpark?
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, what a disaster it would have been to have Pedro Martinez on your team from his age 27-33 seasons.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Don't pay for past performance, pay for expected performance throughout the course of the contract. If you refuse to bite the bullet and risk paying too much to a guy 6 years from now you won't get his top notch performance the next 4-5 years, and you won't win. The goal is not to have the most cost effective team, the goal is to have the best team. The system is set-up so you get cheap production early and expensive production late. You're a fool if you don't take advantage of the former and delusional if you think you can avoid the latter. Yes, but there are good risks and bad risks. 7/$175 to any pitcher is a bad risk. People say that about the highest contracts given out every year. The revenue is there, the risk is completely acceptable. This is the cost of doing business in major league baseball and the teams that win are willing to take those risks.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I think you have to prefer the line, but if you can make the WR corps a dominant force with multiple weapons it will make up for a lot of what the line lacks. If you can't fine the lineman you want to help you but you can find the receiver, take the receiver and dare the defenses to attack your QB as he spreads the ball around.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    wasn't it confirmed that isn't his account?
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