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  1. Little Slide Rooter
    I belive Freddi Gonzalez was the 1st choicen but being a wise man he took the Braves job. As for Quade, I never agree with teams who fire the manager just to make a statement, but even before everyone started getting injured, the team was worse than it should have been.
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    It wouldnt be a day at good old NSBB without a healthy dose of vitamin irrational rage.
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    Straw that breaksn the camels back? Could be.
  4. Little Slide Rooter
    My sarcasm detectors on the fritz. Should this be green font?
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    I wouldn't put it past them. Pretty much the type of [expletive] they pulled throughout the bulk of the Sosa era.
  6. Little Slide Rooter
    they never said it had to be a good lefty reliever
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    Whatever happened to old Dex?
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    As much as I love the idea of Starlings season, if they do plan on making a splash this offseason with Fielder or Pujols, wouldnt we be better off drafting a college guy rather than a guy who probably wont be ready for another 4-6 years? We'll probably need contributers sooner than later, and while we have a plenty of guys in the system who project to be good players, nobody predicts to be great, with the possible exception of Szczur, and its way to early to tell with him. Even Brett Jackson projects to be an above average everyday player but not a star, and McNutt a 2-3 starter. These are things Ive read from the "experts", not my own far from expert analysis. This draft could be our chance to pick up an elite prospect if the stars align. Lets face it, our last high school phenom is still trying to pull it together 5 years later, and the 2 before him are probably filling out applications at Red Robin and Applebees and enrolling in their local community college as we speak.
  9. Little Slide Rooter
    I clicked this thread thinking that for some reason it was the Chicago White Sox thread. Now theres a series Im dreading.
  10. Little Slide Rooter
    This team has gone from mediocre to bad to gut wrenchingly awful to god I miss 2006 at a record pace.
  11. Little Slide Rooter
    The Twins won 94 games last year. We won 75. And we're 5.5 games in front of them. My point is that injuries are a valid excuse for the Twins not meeting expectations (contending in the AL Central) and it should be an excuse for the Cubs not meeting their expectations (borderline .500 team). Nobodies going to deny that injuries aren't a huge reason for the Cubs being where they are. However, you summed it up yourself, injuries are preventing the Cubs from being a borderline .500 team whereas they're preventing the Twins from being a strong contender, if not the favorite in their division.
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    We're in truely special company.
  13. Little Slide Rooter
    Interesting little lineup this evening Fuku Rf Barney 2B Castro SS Soto c Pena 1B Montanez LF Colvin CF LaMahieu 3B Demp P Quade sure does love re-arranging those deck chairs while everyone else is running for the life boats.
  14. Little Slide Rooter
    Yeah, sometimes the bullying people into going away works, but I am often perplexed by how many people argue ad nauseum with people who only want to argue. If you know getting into it with a particular person will only precipitate an endless and circuitous argument, why bother? Sometimes ignoring the problem is the solution. Precisely. If there is a poster who really gets on your nerves, whether they're right or wrong, the thing to do is put them on foe or simply ignore them rather than keep baiting them. I learned that in grammar school.
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    It would be pretty sweet to have him in the system, but I really hope that they dont waste our top pick in doing so.
  16. Little Slide Rooter
    If you had his uncanny ability to predict the future, you would have.
  17. Little Slide Rooter
    Cubs will rush him back before he's fully healed. He will alter his mechanics to compensate for the pain and tear his labrum. Hendry will shrug his shoulders. Book it. While you have your crystal ball out, what happens to the rest of our prospects? When do we win the World Series?
  18. Little Slide Rooter
    I don't know that they are all that far apart in terms of intent, to be honest. To put words in Tree's mouth, I think what he's saying is that there is nothing wrong with allowing people to take their lumps for making stupid statements/arguments. Tree was also addressing a specific complaint, ie "NSBB sucks now because people are mean". He's also saying that if you're going to get rid of the stupid (FDB), go all in and get rid of the stupid and run a board that rewards intelligent (not civil) discourse. TT is agreeing with eliminating thoughtless discourse and adding "consistent aggressiveness" as another area to clean up. The irony is that the mean or agressive posters are often mean or agressive toward the morons or meatballs that they want to go away. While sometimes it may work, more often than not, they are just getting into a drawn out debate with the poster that they simply want to go away, when in reality, if they wanted them to go away, the best way to go would be to stop responding to them.
  19. Little Slide Rooter
    forgot how to hit? he has an .852 ops in AA at age 22. i know you like to bandwagon onto players who are having a good two weeks but i didn't know you threw in the towel on guys who suffered an injury and slump for like 5 games after coming back. Towel thrown in? Not at all, however, he had been in a bit of a free fall well before the injury. It wasn't long ago at all that he was hitting in the mid .300s and OPSing in the high .900s.
  20. Little Slide Rooter
    So to sum it all up, our top prospect forgot how to hit. Our #2 prospect is nursing an unknown injury, and another top 10 guy who was cruising his way into the top 5 will probably be out of action until 2013, late 2012 at the earliest. Oh, and the big league club sucks.
  21. Little Slide Rooter
    Theriot was a .271/.355/.337 minor league hitter and a .285/.348/.355 major league hitter. His best season in the minors was .304/.365/.391 and his best season in the majors was .307/.387/.359. So almost exactly the same hitter. I really don't think it's that unusual for a low strikeout, low power player to have their minor league numbers translate pretty well to the majors. They aren't dependent on pitcher mistakes to generate power and they tend to hit line drives that will fall in on any level. Guys like Theriot and Barney are perfectly acceptable for a good team to have at the 7-8 spot in the lineup, maybe even 6. When the manager decides that they're more than that is when the wiser fans begin to turn on them. To build on this, a team can win with them in the 7-8 spots, but they shouldn't actively use this as a reason to acquire/keep status quo with players like this. Exactly. Its great when a guy like this comes up through your system and gives you some good years. However, if they go after the big money, your probably better off letting them go when the time comes. Alternately, you don't want to go out of the way to offer them a 2/4.5 deal when you can pull another one out of the farm.
  22. Little Slide Rooter
    Theriot was a .271/.355/.337 minor league hitter and a .285/.348/.355 major league hitter. His best season in the minors was .304/.365/.391 and his best season in the majors was .307/.387/.359. So almost exactly the same hitter. I really don't think it's that unusual for a low strikeout, low power player to have their minor league numbers translate pretty well to the majors. They aren't dependent on pitcher mistakes to generate power and they tend to hit line drives that will fall in on any level. Guys like Theriot and Barney are perfectly acceptable for a good team to have at the 7-8 spot in the lineup, maybe even 6. When the manager decides that they're more than that is when the wiser fans begin to turn on them.
  23. Little Slide Rooter
    Wasnt that the beginning of the end for Mark Prior :(
  24. Little Slide Rooter
    This tends to happen in the baseball threads as well. It will start off one way, but then they all seem to funnell into the same basic thing.
  25. Little Slide Rooter
    If nobody else gets things started, I'll take a crack after I get back home this weekend. im all for it. we'll wait for you to get the ball rolling. How is the draft order chosen? I hope Brian LaHairs still around by the time it gets to me.
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