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Who do you replace them with? Hart, Cedeno, Atkins, Guzman, even Pie may not have a ton of value to other teams, but 1) they asked for them for a reason, and 2) the Cubs already weak system has no one to pick up the slack for them in the organization. It's one thing to not care if one of them goes in a deal, it's another to care if they all go, it's how you end up with Les Walrond pitching in meaningful games or Joe Simokaitis getting meaningful at bats. kevin hart and ronny cedeno weren't necessary in meaningful games last year, so i don't think their replacements would be this year. They will when you've traded away Marshall, Marquis, Guzman, Atkins, and DeRosa too, that's the point. well, in theory, replacing marquis with peavy would soften the blow of replacing your second string ss with your third string ss.
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jake peavy is in your rotation, so sure one of those three guys can do it. i'm not really concerned about it if my first four are peavy, z, lilly and dempster. probably, yes. so you held on to ronny cedeno. he's not getting you a ramirez-level replacement at 3b anyway, so who cares?
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Who do you replace them with? Hart, Cedeno, Atkins, Guzman, even Pie may not have a ton of value to other teams, but 1) they asked for them for a reason, and 2) the Cubs already weak system has no one to pick up the slack for them in the organization. It's one thing to not care if one of them goes in a deal, it's another to care if they all go, it's how you end up with Les Walrond pitching in meaningful games or Joe Simokaitis getting meaningful at bats. kevin hart and ronny cedeno weren't necessary in meaningful games last year, so i don't think their replacements would be this year.
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i would not miss any of those players. The point is, why buy at full price when you can pick it up discounted later? This is a poker game, and Hendry is gambling that he can get Peavy cheaper, and imagine he's right. yippy skippy, we'll get to keep kevin hart, a mediocre AAA middle reliever. won't that be great. Or he'll get to keep Marshall and Cedeno. Or DeRosa and Marshall. Or DeRosa and Pie. ok, we'll see if the cubs get peavy w/o trading derosa and pie. they're not trading for livan hernandez, guys. you may have to give up sean marshall, your 25 year old #7 starter, or ronny cedeno, your backup ss, or mark derosa, your 34 year old 2b who is under contract for one more season. come on.
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i would not miss any of those players. The point is, why buy at full price when you can pick it up discounted later? This is a poker game, and Hendry is gambling that he can get Peavy cheaper, and imagine he's right. yippy skippy, we'll get to keep kevin hart, a mediocre AAA middle reliever. won't that be great.
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i would not miss any of those players. Well, if that's the case, why don't we go ahead and throw in 10 more guys as well and REALLY make sure we get this deal done? Why are you so hung up on quantity? They aren't good players. If you are offering the core, what difference does it make who the 7th and 8th guys are. Because the 7th and 8th guys might be the guys who could acquire someone like Hermida instead of paying big bucks for Bradley, which in turn could allow you to spend those big bucks on someone like Furcal. the 7th and 8th best prospects in the cubs terrible farm system is not going to get hermida. come on. if kevin hart and ronny cedeno are deal breakers, you don't think twice about it. you could replace them both in one second.
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i would not miss any of those players. Well, if that's the case, why don't we go ahead and throw in 10 more guys as well and REALLY make sure we get this deal done? fine with me.
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Yes thats way too much for one player, even if it's an elite pitcher like Peavy. come on. hart and cedeno are nobodies...they have no value at all. nearly every team has players like that sitting on their AAA roster. marshall is probably above average, derosa's 34, pie doesn't have a job for the next three seasons, guzman is obviously a huge injury risk, vitters is years away and already has health concerns. while big in numbers, that is not an overwhelming amount of talent.
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i would not miss any of those players.
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last year's not-so-good rf is now in cf, so the new rf is going to have to outproduce 2007 edmonds if you want to see improvement. i'm not so sure 120 games of bradley is going to do that.
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#-o lol so basically it's like... if two of our 3 best starters suck and/or get hurt, our rotation is questionable. cool.. Except one is a lock to get hurt and the other is a very good bet to take a significant step backward. Are you advocating the 8 for 1 trade of Peavy? who cares how many players were involved? are we really that concerned that kevin hart can't be replaced?
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#-o lol so basically it's like... if two of our 3 best starters suck and/or get hurt, our rotation is questionable. cool.. you say that like there's not a good chance both of those things happening. i can't believe people are concerned about giving up stupid derosa for peavy. unreal.
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roast has a girlfriend, everybody.
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i sure hope a 34 year old 2b with one year left on his contract didn't just prevent the cubs from getting peavy.
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A zero for anyone who thinks it's still funny to rate jokes. 1.3
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a collective 0.4 for this thread's comedy.
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someone pm me when this trade goes down so i don't have to sift through 40 pages of amateur standup.
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if you're going to clog this thread with jokes can they at least be not terrible.
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it's only a roller coaster because you're following it minute by minute for some insane reason. if you just, like, checked it at the end of the day or something your life would probably be less stressful.
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they had the same conference records. iowa finished much stronger. iowa beat penn state, northwestern lost to freaking indiana. this isn't some outrageous injustice here.
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who cares? it's not like they jumped northwestern for a shot at the nat'l title. iowa will presumably play better than nw in the outback bowl and bring more fans. that's how it goes.
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...and the fact that MSU and Northwestern both beat Iowa? iowa travels very well and is red hot. i think they would beat northwestern by two td's if they played right now. they'd possibly beat osu.
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he was right on the money about harvin.
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i bet hendry's annoyed at how open towers is about all this. that's not hendry's style at all.