Jump to content
North Side Baseball

abuck1220

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    17,737

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    4

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by abuck1220

  1. abuck1220
    Did that cause his atrocious 2005, too, Jim? the excuse factory has got to be in high gear w/ jones and pierre right now. but hey, let's attribute the struggles to internal blaming and cold weather instead of just looking at their 2005 numbers and admitting that these guys just aren't that good.
  2. abuck1220
    i just remembered the cubs stole, what, five bases last night too. wow, five stolen bases and four sac bunt attempts = one run (scored, of course, on a solo homer). not exactly a ringing endorsement for small ball, eh?
  3. abuck1220
    i don't know if that's the case. his 2006 numbers aren't that far off his 2005 numbers. factor in that he's coming to a new league and has the security of a three year deal, and his 2006 numbers really aren't that surprising.
  4. abuck1220
    unfortunately, many (including cubs management, i'm guessing) think that the entire offensive problem is because of lee's injury. therefore, they will fail to see the numerous other offensive shortcomings. the lee injury coincided with the end of the cubs' ridiculous good luck driving in RISP, which is more to blame for the dropoff in runs. the cubs would be struggling to score runs even w/ lee in the lineup right now.
  5. abuck1220
    As if the ball isn't bouncing 15 times with the guys we have now? seriously. jones has rolled four or five throws into the infield. must have caught something from pierre. nomar in rf (if he could handle it physically) would be better than jones, regardless of whether he's an injury risk. if he gets hurt, then you throw pie, mabry, hairston, or even patterson out there and you'll likely match jones' "production." even if you only get two months of nomar, two months of nomar + mabry/pie/whoever > an entire season of jones...especially when you consider the albatross of a contract they gave jacque.
  6. abuck1220
    corey: .277/.299/.446/.745 ouch.
  7. abuck1220
    That's Hendry and the Trib. They're willing to overpay for mid-level players, but they're unwilling to get in bidding wars for top-tier free agents. Hendry should GM a mid-market team, not this one. He just has no clue. that would be an even worse disaster than this. he would single handedly cripple a 40 mil payroll team with a signing like jones. you think it's bad that he takes up 1/20th of this payroll? imagine the damage he would do if he make up 1/8th or 1/6th of a team's payroll.
  8. abuck1220
    most specifically, the 3rd, 17th, 33rd, 34th, 38th-44th, 51st, 54th, and 64th-73rd. though the 21st one kinda made me mad. i have to admit, however, i rather liked the 49th.
  9. abuck1220
    LEGITIMATE! i should do a search and see how many times that word was used on this board to describe pierre's lead off skills in the last three months.
  10. abuck1220
    honestly, seeing that [expletive] try to sac bunt three innings in a row and have it produce exactly zero runs almost gives me as much joy as it does pain. if the bus back to the hotel ran into a billboard that said 'sac bunts are stupid,' the omen wouldn't be any clearer than it was tonight. high comedy.
  11. abuck1220
    11 more sac bunts and the cubs would have won.
  12. abuck1220
    ...before you decide it's a bad idea? i don't think i've ever, in my life, seen a team attempt to sac bunt a leadoff baserunner over THREE innings IN A ROW and have it fail EACH AND EVERY TIME. the evidence could not be made any plainer. it's as though the baseball gods were trying to make it as obvious as possible. THREE INNINGS IN A ROW!!!!
  13. abuck1220
    i've missed the last half of the game. do my eyes deceive me or have the cubs been 0-3 the last three innings w/ the 'get the leadoff guy on and then bunt him over strategy'? i mean, seriously, how many times does it have to NOT work before you quit trying it?????? unreal!!!!!!!
  14. abuck1220
    getting cocky now that they've got a run...starting to think that they can just waste runners.
  15. abuck1220
    which has surprisingly led to no runs.
  16. abuck1220
    so you're saying they just need to get into 1st place in singles and they'll be fine, right? hurry and trade for someone else that can beat out infield hits!
  17. abuck1220
    ouch.
  18. abuck1220

    week 5

    abuck1220 replied to abuck1220's topic in Fantasy Sports

    wow, almost identical lines for cain and santana...weird. 4 INN, 9 HA, 3 BBI, 4 K, 6 ER, L 4 INN, 9 HA, 4 BBI, 4 K, 6 ER, L
  19. abuck1220
    wow...if their bats are slow...
  20. abuck1220
    instead i decided to watch the cubs dribble the ball around the infield for a couple hours. i think i made the right choice.
  21. abuck1220
    nope. they killed the cubs. SPEED NEVER SLUMPS!!!!!
  22. abuck1220
    yea you did - liar! edit. :D
  23. abuck1220
    actually lee's injury is a blessing to hendry fans. they can use his injury as the excuse for why the cubs' offense is so bad, even though the offense sucked w/ lee. it distracts from the pierre and jones deals.
  24. abuck1220
    i didn't realize small ball meant a small amount of runs being scored. oh wait, yeah i did.
  25. abuck1220
    i can hear the end of the year excuses already...'oh, derrek lee was hurt. he was the difference between having the worst offense in the league and a great offense.'
×
×
  • Create New...