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True, it's not absolute like ops. But it can be backed up w/ various observations... Jeter, Bernie and Paul O'Neill were "great clubhouse guys," the Red Sox have a fun clubhouse," etc., etc., etc.... Thus an opinion can be supported to some extent. If you want to give it a value, perhaps 5-10% of winning a title is based on "chemistry." Sometimes talent and luck can override this though. See the 72-74 A's for more.. exactly. opinion is a hell of a lot different than empirical evidence. you're certainly entitled to have an opinion that chemistry helps winning. but don't act as though it's fact.
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you're still ahead in crappy arguments though.
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give me a break. you know nothing more about corey's mindset now than you did at the end of the season. did you know that he's been working w/ joshua recently?
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there you go with your 'me against the world' stuff again... anyway, your argument was that chemistry is important to winning. for some reason, you cited to past ws winners and said that they had good chemistry. thus, chemistry is important in winning. your 'argument' is unbeatable because all anyone can say is 'the white sox didn't have good chemistry' or 'they didn't win because they had good chemistry' and you'll say 'prove it'...which, obviously, is impossible to do. of course, this ignores the fact that you can't prove that they did have good chemistry or that this is why they won. thus, your argument is beyond weak. in fact, i hesitate to call it an argument.
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Has he learned nothing from last off season? Chemistry is such overrated garbage. Tell the 05 White Sox, 04 Red Sox, 03 Marlins, 02 Angels and the 96-2000 Yankees that. why? do you know for a fact that they had great 'chemistry'? The empirical evidence suggests they got along well, which helped their performance as a team. um...sure. and this year's cub team supposedly got along great (or so empirical evidence suggests), and they sucked big time. They didn't have the talent to compliment the camaraderie. great self-sealing argument. (pst, ask him if he knows what "empirical" actually means) yes. i have an mpa. then you should realize how ridiculous your original argument was.
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that's a novel idea. i'm pretty sure that's what everyone tries to do. problem is, it's not that easy to pawn your crap onto other teams and know which guys are going to be cornerstones. trading the junk and keeping the studs is easier said than done.
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i don't care if morris pays the cubs to play in chicago. i hate him, and i would not want him on the team.
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Is Ichiro available???
abuck1220 replied to E.J.'s topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
how does the price go up if his trade demands go public? :-k -
other than burnett and millwood
abuck1220 replied to cubs121's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
i don't think i've ever seen anyone upset that jimmy anderson didn't make ANY rotation. -
i like weaver too, but he gave up a lot of hr's considering he pitched in la. if you trade williams and don't start rusch, i'd rather throw hill out there.
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i'm not quite sold on furcal. i'd rather go with nomar (til he gets hurt)/cedeno at ss. though if i had to chose between furcal and pierre, i'd take furcal. i'm on board for bradley, but i don't think he fits in w/ the boy scout troop that hendry seems intent on putting out there. and while baker came here with the image of being a guy that can soothe egos, i have complete faith that he and bradley would have 14 blowups during the course of one season. if you get giles for rf and furcal (or a healthy nomar) at ss, i think you can afford to throw corey out there for one last chance. his trade value sucks right now anyway. furcal and giles would be enough of an improvement over neifi and burnitz that i think you could just tell corey to play good defense and hit him 8th. i agree w/ raw, though...i just don't see giles coming here.
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is self-serving better?
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Has he learned nothing from last off season? Chemistry is such overrated garbage. Tell the 05 White Sox, 04 Red Sox, 03 Marlins, 02 Angels and the 96-2000 Yankees that. why? do you know for a fact that they had great 'chemistry'? The empirical evidence suggests they got along well, which helped their performance as a team. um...sure. and this year's cub team supposedly got along great (or so empirical evidence suggests), and they sucked big time. They didn't have the talent to compliment the camaraderie. great self-sealing argument. What's that suppose to mean?? Never seen the term "self-sealing." Learn something new everyday.... your argument -- those teams won because of great 'chemistry' -- is bullet proof. there's no way for anyone to prove it wrong, but there's also no way for you to prove it correct. in other words, it's not a good argument.
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because nomar's backup would be cedeno, who i wouldn't mind see getting forced into the starting role. that, and the alternative may be grossly overpaying for furcal. i'd rather pay nomar $4 mil, have him get hurt and miss four months, and let cedeno play than give furcal a 4/$45 type deal.
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Has he learned nothing from last off season? Chemistry is such overrated garbage. Tell the 05 White Sox, 04 Red Sox, 03 Marlins, 02 Angels and the 96-2000 Yankees that. why? do you know for a fact that they had great 'chemistry'? The empirical evidence suggests they got along well, which helped their performance as a team. um...sure. and this year's cub team supposedly got along great (or so empirical evidence suggests), and they sucked big time. They didn't have the talent to compliment the camaraderie. great self-sealing argument.
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Has he learned nothing from last off season? Chemistry is such overrated garbage. Tell the 05 White Sox, 04 Red Sox, 03 Marlins, 02 Angels and the 96-2000 Yankees that. why? do you know for a fact that they had great 'chemistry'? The empirical evidence suggests they got along well, which helped their performance as a team. um...sure. and this year's cub team supposedly got along great (or so empirical evidence suggests), and they sucked big time.
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Has he learned nothing from last off season? Chemistry is such overrated garbage. Tell the 05 White Sox, 04 Red Sox, 03 Marlins, 02 Angels and the 96-2000 Yankees that. why? do you know for a fact that they had great 'chemistry'?
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i vote against contraction.
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all your draft picks are certainly going to help you narrow the gap between you and the league's best team. :D
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the last couple of years it's like hendry tries to copy whatever the last ws champ did. the red sox were such a close knit, team chemistry delight he got rid of all the bad attitudes. the white sox apparently had their success w/ pitching and defense, so that's what hendry wants to do.
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hendry on rusch... :pukel: :pukel:
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agreed. if a hitter has a bad game, he's got 5-6 more during the week to make up for it. if a sp has a bad game, you're screwed. strive for mediocrity with starting pitching...i'll take a week of 9 point starts from all my guys.
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who needs pitching? jeff weaver anchored my staff and i won this bitch.
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guess i'll give up on trading now... the champs... teixera 0 (3rd exemption) matsui 0 (3rd exemption) street 0 (1st exemption) cano 0 (1st exemption) oliver perez 124.1 drew 253.5 sheets 326.1 blalock 446.0 tejada 506.2 lee 532.2 total: 2188.1
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wow...lot of cuts to be made here in the last day.