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Top 7..Brewers still up by 3. Capusano pitched bottom of the 6th.
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Cedeno playing CF in 7th and loses ball in the sun for 3 base error. Len and Bob tried to say it was the 'high sky' then the camera showed the sky with plenty of clouds. Ooops! I wish Cedeno showed more at SS and they would quit screwing around with him in the OF. Otherwise, he's the Juan Cruz of this era. Brewers-6 Cubs-3
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you'd be satisfied trading 7 players off the 40 man for 2? think about that You bet..You acquire Roberts and Fontenot and Cedeno are expendable. You acquire Crisp-where are Pie and Murton gonna play? Marshall is 5-7 starter now. Marquis has been on the market for months. Ceda and Gallagher are 3A pitchers this season anyway, because Hendry was silly and signed Lieber and Wood. so who are you going to use to fill those other 5 roster spots? According to a Orioles writer last night, the Cubs may also have to take Jay Payton in any Roberts deal. Re-signing Kerry Wood is always a mistake. His last two innings have proven he will always be a thrower and never a pitcher. Nice WHIP, though! So you add Crisp, Roberts and possibly Payton. Patterson is a possibility but I think he needs to play more in the minors. Lahey or Ascanio probably makes it as the last RH in the pen. LH relief is Eyre and either Cotts(yuck!) or Pignatiello(yuck!). Unless we acquire someone, our options are few. Hart is my first call-up. I sure wish Petrick would take a step up this year and be ready also by midyear. No thunder on the bench, unless Jake Fox matures as a hitter and I never want to see Ward in the OF.
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you'd be satisfied trading 7 players off the 40 man for 2? think about that You bet..You acquire Roberts and Fontenot and Cedeno are expendable. You acquire Crisp-where are Pie and Murton gonna play? Marshall is 5-7 starter now. Marquis has been on the market for months. Ceda and Gallagher are 3A pitchers this season anyway, because Hendry was silly and signed Lieber and Wood.
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Kenney can't mention names because that's tampering. If the Cubs can trade Cedeno, Pie, Marshall, Gallagher, Murton, Marquis, Ceda and Fontenot and get Crisp and Roberts-I'm satisfied.
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Some people prefer this kind of Cubs color man: "Patrick, I was in the bathroom for the past two innings, what happened?" "When I played as a third base...man, the ball was square." "I wasn't paying attention, let's see what the replay shows." "Here's a fax..'I love you, Ronnie and the other guy you're with." "Who is that in right field for the Cubs? I think he's lefthanded?" Further proof that Stoney is best, not required.
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Good for him. Stoney is an excellent baseball announcer and will certainly add to the broadcasts. But Ed Farmer is just terrible as a play by play guy, with his monotone style. He's a typical Reinsdorf hire-a loyal, non-descript employee. Didn't he ever learn that a good announcing team(Harry and Jimmy) can sell tickets and create excitement? Farmer-Harrelson-Jackson-pretty bad.
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Marquis - "start me or trade me": Lou - "He can go"
BudHouse replied to JGalt73's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
There's plenty of blame to go around. Hendry overpaid and overextended Marquis's contract. Who exactly was going to pay him 3 years at $24 million(?)? Now Hendry's been trying to unload him since last year and no one is interested. I hate it when we have to eat these Hendry mistakes and pay for someone to play for another team. Hendry then acquires 38 year old Jon Lieber(he of the 5.00 ERA), who can't even be the long reliever and gives him the 5th starter role almost by default. Or is someone going to suggest there will actually be a 'competition' for the 5th spot? Lou doesn't put Marquis on the playoff roster and then makes some lousy joke this spring about giving Marquis a 'split contract' based on his second half flops. What's Marquis supposed to feel like if his manager is not showing him respect. Lou should have shut his trap and taken care of this behind closed doors. The other teams know about Marquis and his 2nd half troubles. They don't have to read about it in the paper. His trade value is nil because of the contract and I suspect teams are asking for higher level minor leaguers packaged with him. Marquis hasn't done the job for sure, but Lou and Hendry haven't either. -
Does anyone believe the Cardinals weren't informed of this accident 8 weeks ago? LaRussa was aware of it and thought nothing would come of it. Sounds familiar. The spin will be the team acted quick, they love their fans..Tony is great...blah..blah. Ticket sales must be starting soon.
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Do you realize that Hancock killed himself in a rental SUV, because he was drunk and wrecked his own car 3 days earlier at 5:30AM? He was late for the Thursday day game, claiming he overslept because he had a new mattress and LaRussa merely fined him $500. Way to fix the problem, LaRussa.
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LaRussa as a manager has the responsibility for what goes on the field and in the clubhouse. Those who think otherwise are wrong. He is by all accounts quite intelligent and a micro-manager. He was the first one I can remember that used notecards, etc.. to record stats, etc.. But yet he turned a blind eye to the bloated bodies of McGwire, Canseco and others over the years, claiming they just grew larger by working out extra hard. What exercises do you do to make your hat size increase so dramatically? Or what work regime forces you to wear long sleeves in 95 degree heat in July in St. Louis? LaRussa knew what was going on and chose to keep it at arm's length. Dusty did the same thing, to what degree I don't know. LaRussa 'enabled' because he knew and did nothing. LaRussa 'enabled' because he could have stopped it but encouraged it.
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The Cardinals even provided booze in the clubhouse for the players and took them 5 days after Hancock died, before they stopped it. The manager is responsible for the clubhouse. That's a great management team and so responsive. What's a Cardinal player supposed to think: I can use roids, because they didn't say anything to McGwire. I can drink after the game, when I'm tired and then drive home-because the manager did it and they provide the booze in the clubhouse for me. The only thing missing are the hookers and Ray Lankford.
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Tony LaRussa was manager of those Cardinals teams when McGwire played, Kile died with dope in the bathroom, Hancock died drunk in a car accident and on and on. At least ten years+ of St. Louis leadership and looking the other way. I'm just thankful that Leonard Little plays for the Rams and got off light for drinking and then killing 3 people with his SUV. The Genius would have made him a bench coach.
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Check out the latest story about the sad St. Louis Cardinals manager-Tony LaRussa on MLB.com. Squire Tony has wanted to sign Barry Bonds for the past two seasons, although cooler and obviously smarter front office heads prevailed. LaRussa once again overlooks the substance abuse issue about Bonds and says that Bond's problems were 'stand-offish attitude',etc.. but he wanted Bonds to protect Pujols. He still doesn't get it. I'd like for LaRussa to be called in front of Congress, raise his hand and be asked about his knowledge of substance abuse with Conseco, McGwire(Woo-Hoo!!!) and other Cardinals.
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Lou was on with Mike North. Just a Cliff Notes version: Would like Dempster to be #3 starter. Wood(Mr. February) looked good yesterday. Lou says he won't put him in any important role until Wood shows he can go 3 straight days. Wants Howry to start strong, unlike last year. Toying with batting Fukodome 3rd, Lee 4th and ARAM 5th. Lee looks he has regained his power so far. If no deal for Roberts is made(sounded like he was hedging his bet that something will be done), Soriano leads off and Theriot is 2nd. Soriano's leg is still bothering him and won't put him in leadoff until he's healed. Wants speed at the 8th spot-says that Pie has worked on his stroke in winter ball and looks good. Likes Fuld also, but sensed he knows it's Pie's to lose. Isn't concerned about 100 year thing..concentrates on this year's team-the team you've got. "Cubbie swager"-Confidence in the team. Big Z is in good shape and thinks 18 wins is 'stepping stone to 20'. We can't lose any of the power bats. Had to tinker with last year's team early, knowing what they had. No need this year. Thought that team was tired from middle of the season on and plans on resting players.
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Holy Joe Orsulak..Davey Martinez was thin. Andre looked great in right and the field looked terrible with plenty of barren spots. Seeing Harry call a game, almost like a conductor, should remind us all how low our announcing crews have sunk. Harry brought excitement and had such good chemistry with Steve Stone. Man, he was the best. Dave Kaplan did his tv show live from Harry's downtown restaurant and it was pretty good. Dutchie is such a lady and very gracious. The joke of the show was having Santo admit 'he was terrible' in his first few years as a radio color guy. Nothing has changed. I believe that CSN could show one old Cub game per day and we would watch it. The 23-22 Phillies game in 1979 and others come to mind. Watching ARAM..I mean Steve Ontiveros stumble around the bases still makes me cringe. By the way, did anyone notice that Lee Smith was brought in to start the top of the 8th and finished the game. The guy could pitch.
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Both Chicago newspapers really struggle with their sports sections and what they cover. It used to be you could find all of last night's games for the local teams on the front page of the TRIB sports, now you have to dig thru 6 pages to find them. Having Bob Knight in Illini colors this morning is provocative. Why not Northwestern? I know that banging Sammy Sosa is the current rage, but where were these 'enlightened writers' in 1998? They were right there with all of us cheering Sammy and his 66 HR. We all bought into it and yes, Sammy had a large head and had bad facial acne-but the guy always hustled. He had a bad arm and couldn't respond like he used to, but he ran to first, ran to the OF. He cared and it may have been about himself first, but he cared. Can you say the same thing about ARAM? Everyone knows that an anti-Cubs article is a must read in the TRIB, just like an Oprah front page article sells the Sun-Times off the news stands. These journalists(?) ran out of things to write about the Cubs on Jan. 3rd.
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Revisiting Joe Nathan
BudHouse replied to cbbryan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Position in the batting order doesn't matter? Oh come on. Managers have been putting their best power hitters 3-6 in lineups since the beginning of time. What sort of manager would put a Babe Ruth, a Lou Gehrig, a Henry Aaron batting leadoff? How soon we forget the impact a Bob Denier and Kenny Lofton had on Cubs teams. They worked the count, didn't swing for the fences and knew their job was to get on base. While Soriano isn't the prototypical leadoff man, he may have been placed there during his career because the Yankees, Rangers, etc.. had enough power and no speed in the 3-6 part of the lineup. Stats explain what happened. Others explain why. -
Revisiting Joe Nathan
BudHouse replied to cbbryan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I think it's a bad idea to go after Nathan. I'm pretty sure that Marmol will finally surface this year or next as our closer, putting Howry back as setup. I believe that Nathan will want some major bucks in his next contract. Balsa Wood, who has never had one save in his career(notice the Cubs have so little faith in him last year he never entered one game with the team ahead), can't be expected to do anything beyond the 7th inning. The prospect of him being a closer and going 3 days in a row is a pipedream. With all these team desperate for 3-5 starters, why haven't we had a taker for Marshall, Marquis, Dempster, etc..? Before we can even consider a trade for anyone established, we have to unload some long term $$$. -
Greg Couch: most pessimistic article ever?
BudHouse replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Offensive numbers say that Rameriz isn't even the best 3rd baseman in the NL Central. But then again, many of us watch the games and see his shortcomings daily. I'll take David Wright over him any day. -
I've been lucky enough to have gone to Fenway Park for about 75 games. They have made a number of improvements inside and outside the park in the last 10 years. Maybe the best improvement is the activity outside the park. More smaller vendors and unique products help to build the excitement before and after the game. You do feel that the Green Monster is about 90 feet behind the SS, little wonder that most Red Sox LH hitters have that inside out swing down pat. I'll still take Wrigley Field. The trouble with ESPN is they are very short-sighted and love to make lists out of everything. They have no appreciation of history. They feel like nothing happened before Chris Berman opened his big yap.
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Jim Hendry candidly speaking at Bloggers Luncheon
BudHouse replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
A brief comparison from 2002-2007: GM 'A'- 474-498(20 games under .500) 2-95+ loss seasons, 0 90+ wins season, 0 WS Appearances GM 'B'- 511-461(50 games over .500) 1-90 loss season, 2-90+ win seasons, 1 WS Victory -
Jim Hendry candidly speaking at Bloggers Luncheon
BudHouse replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
That isn't entirely true...he does go on sports radio, but often yes questions are softballed to him. As for KW and his WS ring, that is 3 years ago and really meaningless at this point. I have NEVER heard Hendry go on the air and take direct questions from fans. You're right, when he appears on WGN Radio, Kaplan asks fans to email questions-filters out the more controversial ones and then asks the obvious ones. How about a little give and take with the people who pay your salary, Jim? Kenny Williams at least has a plan. Funny that Jim Thome came to Wrigley and Hendry barely talked to him. Williams snapped him up pretty fast. -
While maybe not Top Ten, Elroy Face's 1959 season where he went 18-1 as a reliever and frequently pitched more than one inning is pretty special. Because the save rule has changed a bit, I don't know if a pitchercould get a save and a win back then or not.
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Jim Hendry candidly speaking at Bloggers Luncheon
BudHouse replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Where are the actual quotes again? You know..the ones you could prove that Hendry actually said? I wouldn't want to go to court with such a lame attempt to disparage Hendry. :^o Hendry avoids actually going on sports radio and taking questions from fans, because he can't defend his lousy record. Kenny Williams does, but then he's got a recent WS ring to show his fan base. Chad Fox, Steve Trachsel, Jerome Williams, Jason Marquis, Neifi Perez, Latroy Hawkins, etc... Good job, Jim.