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ah, it's been soooo long since we had a 'prior is a wuss' thread. feels good to have one again.
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Lou wants A-rod
abuck1220 replied to b_wiggy_66's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
the yankees could get much better prospects than that from any number of teams. of course, arod may not ok a trade to any of those teams... -
if you like piniella over girardi, fine. but to say that girardi isn't ready is just idiotic. the marlins put up a better record than the cubs with far less talent and fraction of the payroll. i don't know why the cubs' job is held in such high regard...the franchise is a joke. if he was ready to win 80 games with the marlins, he sure as hell is ready to win 75 with the cubs. also, girardi did a heck of a lot more with the marlins than piniella ever did w/ the rays. and yes, i know the marlins were more talented than the drays, but i don't see any real evidence that piniella is any more 'ready' than girardi.
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wow, none of those things are particularly important for a 1 or 2 hitter. Why would you want a 40 HR hitter batting leadoff?? So he can just hit solo shots the entire time? where did i say i'd bat a 40 hr guy first? but anyway...hitting a solo shot is better than getting a single and successfully stealing 2nd 70% of the time.
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wow, none of those things are particularly important for a 1 or 2 hitter. Are you kidding me? Have you watched the Dertroit Tigers? Granderson gets on base, then Polanco moves him over with a bunt, or the hit and run. Works out pretty well for them. Whitesox used it in 05 also. the 'gets on base' part is the important part. and for the 8 billionth time, the white sox won in '05 because they jacked a ton of homers and had remarkable pitching.
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wow, none of those things are particularly important for a 1 or 2 hitter.
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Wasn't that the case in '06? I don't have the numbers in front of me, but off the top of my head, I can't imagine the other 5 teams had a bigger payroll. And what did that get us? yeah, it's pretty pathetic, isn't it? i'm just saying the possibility exists that the cubs (especially given this rumored 15% bump in payroll) could, in theory, become to the nl central what the yankees are to the rest of baseball. sure, they hand out some dumb contracts, but those contracts don't cripple them the way they would other teams b/c they have so much to spend. if the cubs had a 50 mil payroll, they would be the worst team in baseball with hendry as the gm.
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I don't think Hendry is going to improve OBP anyway. So, I'd rather he at least get some SLG, as well as guys who are above average in production for their position. Soriano in CF or 2B is almost a lock for above average production, and he'll bring SLG. Plus, if a $115m payroll is true, it'll be easier to deal with overpaying him based on hype. that's exactly why i have come around on soriano. two important components of a hitter are obp and slg. since it's become perfectly clear that hendry is not going to pay attention to obp, the best we can do is hope that he stumbles upon a guy with a good slg. i'd rather get a no obp/good slg guy than a no obp/no slg guy with speed, heart, a good glove, spirit, bunting skills, and veteran presence.
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ugh...looks like hendry's doesn't learn from his past mistakes. i didn't want piniella, but i don't really know that there was anyone out there that would have been that much better. and even if there was, i had no hope in hendry hiring that person. basically, any optimism i have comes from the fact that the cubs could have a payroll that dwarfs the rest of the division, and they very well could win simply by outspending everyone. obviously with hendry in charge, there's bound to be some wasted $, but if you spend $115 mil you have to have a few good players in there...right?? in other words, the cubs could win in spite of hendry and piniella.
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According to the Score AM670 ,the cubs have a new manager...
abuck1220 replied to ronsanto10's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Me too. It pleases me to hear a GM of a division rival say "I'd give up home runs for (fewer) strikeouts." that, and his idiotic bullpen trade give me hope that the cubs should be finishing ahead of the reds at least a few times over the next decade.
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i'm glad that guy is a gm in the cubs' division.
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According to the Score AM670 ,the cubs have a new manager...
abuck1220 replied to ronsanto10's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
"i've decided i like crotchety old managers who experienced world series success in the 90's and then want to turn around a losing franchise." -
According to the Score AM670 ,the cubs have a new manager...
abuck1220 replied to ronsanto10's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
jim hendry, is that you? -
seriously. was that answer to the hill question given in july?
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dusty didn't work, so hendry just gets dusty's white equivalent. good stuff.
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who the hell's putting up an .800 OPS? soriano put up a .900+ OPS in the toughest hitter's park in the bigs in the toughest hitter's division in baseball. i can't see his numbers going down much playing all those games in gabp, mmp, miller park, etc. i'm also intrigued by the fact that he doubled his typical walk total last season. i'd give him 5/75 and play him at 2b/cf...whichever he wants.
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How does he pronounce his name? If it's pronounced the way the blonde on CSN Sportsnite said it last night, I don't think I could handle having him on the staff next year. from what i've seen of him, he's not a good third base coach.
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so torre has to have a press conference announcing that he's not being fired. how embarrassing for him.
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kruk just said that before arod came to ny, "he never made an out." it's crazy that i never heard about his career-long 1.000 OBP until today!
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kruk thinks the yankees should have played the players that were 'hungry' this postseason. get this man a managing job.
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if you don't want piniella, you better root hard against detroit this postseason...because if hendry sees a team win the world series with a crotchety old manager, by golly he's going to do his best to emulate that team. which brings up a good question...knowing that hendry likes to (badly) impersonate the most recent world series winner, who should cub fans be pulling for?
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there may be hope yet . . . I just read that Piniella already said he won't take the Nats job because they are rebuilding. So why in the world would he take the Cubs job? The Cubs were worse thant the Nationals last year. Because baseball people, especially red-assed old school baseball people like Lou, equate winning with employing veterans. exactly. if little, fresh-faced ryan theriot is your middle infield backup, then you're rebuilding. now if wise, old neifi perez is your middle infield backup, then you're thinking world series.
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i heard that strikeouts count for two outs next season. no thanks to dunn.
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Any man who would bat A-Rod eighth, in any game, for any reason, is invalidated from consideration IMO. Disagree. ARod has sucked in the playoffs recently. With that lineup that they have, I don't see a problem dropping him that low in the order. it cracks me up how much people buy into clutchnicity. What? Where did I say anything about clutch? The fact is that ARod has sucked in the playoffs as a member of the New York Yankees. No ifs, ands, or buts... he's flat out been horrible. It'd be stupid to NOT drop him in the order. Oh wait... he's good in the regular season so continue to bat him in the top of the order regardless of a slump. Great idea. yeah, completely revamping your lineup based on one guy's bad 40 ab's...now that's a great idea.