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  1. Gmoney08
    Montero left a gap between the dirt and his glove. The ball found it. On radio it was described as a fastball Montero barely moved his glove for..
  2. Gmoney08
    The wild pitch on Montero or Chapman? Im listening on radio and picturing Montero catching Chapman looking like the years in Bronco or Mustang when the nastiest pitcher in the league humorously gets paired up with the coach who forgets to draft a catcher.... & 5k innings with parades of pass balls, sb's, walks and drop third strikes hilariously ensues
  3. Gmoney08
    I think he was safe but I wouldn't have overturned it on those replays if you believe in the "conclusive evidence" judgement As Len mentioned New York has better angles and ive heard before the ability to zoom in with HD views. I'd guess they had a much more conclusive look in New York.
  4. Gmoney08
    Great game Jake! Bring in the bullpen of doom now!!
  5. Gmoney08
    Curious is the dirt manicured differently that you don't see the dirt and stuff flying up like you used to? My guess is just from my memory of playing infield as a kid when it would get real hot and the dirt would almost get sandy and semi-deep, opposed to watered and a little bit harder. When it is semi deep, standing dirt it would get "dusty" much more often.
  6. Gmoney08
    If Miller and/or Chapman were on the team, would we have won the NLCS last year? Some series it matters more than others. We are playing in the 2003 World Series though if our 7th, 8th and 9th was Strop, Rondon and Chapman. Probably because of a sweep of the NLCS (pretty sure bullpen blew game 1) and of course would be nice to have Chapman & Rondon coming in the 8th of game 6..
  7. Gmoney08
    Or off the top of my head Kyle Schwarber against the Cardinals last year.
  8. Gmoney08
    Yeah, a packed Wrigley with everyone on their feet for a full inning....This guy is a spectacle. Meatballs love the spectacle of someone hitting 100+ mph and watching the speeds come up on the board. When he was with the Reds the place would be half-empty and still go nuts and get on their feet once he came in. Replace Meatballs with Everyone and you are right.
  9. Gmoney08
    Nobody is untouchable. Id trade our untouchables 1 for 1 for Trout & probably Harper. I say only probably Harper because KBs positional value & contract might make them close. But off top of my head id still make the deal and run with Javy at 3b.
  10. Gmoney08
    The rightful King of our top prospect lists!!!
  11. Gmoney08
    2 6 win seasons, 1 5 win season, another 4.7, and also one 3.4 in 104 games. Obviously elite could be viewed differently by different folks but I'd say he had at least 2 elite seasons and 2 damn good seasons, and another 2/3 of a damn good season. Quoting myself but Fan Graphs has a chart where they rate 4-5 WAR as an All Star, 5-6 WAR as a Superstar, and 6+ WAR as MVP level production. By that measure which all may not agree with then Jed is right and Heyward has been pretty damned elite. That is 2 seasons in the Superstar/MVP range, another at the AllStar/Superstar range, and 2 more All Star seasons if you assume his 3.4 WAR in 100 games would have carried him to between 4 and 5 WAR.
  12. Gmoney08
    Elite? 2 6 win seasons, 1 5 win season, another 4.7, and also one 3.4 in 104 games. Obviously elite could be viewed differently by different folks but I'd say he had at least 2 elite seasons and 2 damn good seasons, and another 2/3 of a damn good season.
  13. Gmoney08
    Elite? Jed's words not mine.. I dont know what we want to quantify for elite but I think he has had 4 pretty good seasons with the bat.. combined with his baserunning & defense that is probably close to an elite player in those seasons he was hitting.
  14. Gmoney08
    Jed was just on Espn1000 with our favorite guy Kapman. Said its easy to admit Heyward is struggling. He turned down Kaplans idea to give him 5 days off in a row to work on his swing. Said him and Malee are putting in tons of hours working on the swing though. Made it sound like Malee's project is pretty much Heyward right now. Also said JHey has had 4 elite seasons in his young 6 years in the league and expects him to turn it around. Points to a good season with the bat last year with the Cards.
  15. Gmoney08
    I dont care if its Bobby Jenks with a Sox logo tattood to his arm, as long as a Cubs pitcher at that moment is getting the final out of the WS. I could see having reservations about Chapman's past but I could care less whether its homegrown or not. We have more than enough homegrown talent to rejoice about how homegrowny are team is when we win the title.
  16. Gmoney08
    So, I understand most Cubs fans are not freaks that sit on the computer on forums talking about the Cubs all day like we do. But, to some more casual Cubs fans I've brought up that i would have been much more pissed had they traded Eloy in this deal. Their response has been well Torres is ranked higher. I understand Torres was pretty much the defacto preseason number 1. So, anyways... Am I right that Eloy is pretty much the consensus number 1 in our org at this point of the season? Even if Gleyber was still around?
  17. Gmoney08
    Well just think it through here. Its not insurmountable. Being down 7.5 games when the schedule is almost into august, isn't insurmountable. But the team up 7.5, and 8 games in the loss column will finish it off 9 times out of 10 is my guess (entirely guesstimating). Maybe its 8.5 out of 10 if the teams are equal. If the team that is up 8 games in the loss column is actually inferior to the team that is down 8 games (because of craziness or baseball, injuries, etc) then the inferior team probably still wins the division 70% of the time because they were spotted an 8 game lead with two months to play. If the team that is up 8 games in the loss column is the better team (which i'd say the Cubs are definitely better than the Cardinals & Pirates by a decent amount). Then the odds of them finishing the division off are closer to 95% or more. My guess is there are greater odds that the Cubs end up +16 games on the Cardinals than the Cardinals actually winning the division.
  18. Gmoney08
    So around twitter and on the radio today everyone is saying Cubs land their new closer Aroldis Chapman. I think the Cubs should be using Chapman as the ultimate fireman in the highest leverage situations & against stud lefties. Inning be damned. If its the 9th then well its the 9th. The Cubs blowout so many teams it would be pretty meh to only use him as a closer, look at that stretch where Rondon was barely ever pitching except to get some reps in a game up by 5 runs. I want to use our shiny toy when the games are on the line, whether its the 6th with bases loaded no outs, 8th inning in a 1 run game, etc.
  19. Gmoney08
    Any chance Cubs are talking extension talks and Chapman is listening cause Cubs are guaranteeing him a chance to try a convert to SP next year?
  20. Gmoney08
    well its definitely not going to be straight up. The Montgomery trade was exactly the type of transaction I've come to expect from this front office. Giving up Torres and more for the rest of the year of Chapman seems out of character and kind of surprising. This reminds me of Red Sox Thoyer! Balls to the Wall!
  21. Gmoney08
    I hope Chapman shoots out the new ceiling of the new clubhouse and lets Lackey know the next time he whines about our elite defense the next is going right between his donkey teeth.
  22. Gmoney08
    They could think that one portion of the game influences the odds more than others and still believe it is a crap shoot overall. Or that improving their odds by some margin in this year's crapshoot weighs more heavily than the future value of whatever prospects they are giving up. There are other variants out there that would allow for both the belief that the playoffs are a crapshoot and that the deal makes sense. This is what I would have believed last year. But I thought I finally grasped that it's all a crapshoot and it doesn't matter who you add. Like people here have said you could add Chapman, Miller and Jose Fernandez and still have an 80 percent chance of losing. Oh well. I'll admit I'm an idiot. I'll be happy landing Chapman and not worry about it. Chapman, Miller, and Fernandez would probably put us near a 25% chance of winning. I read somewhere truly elite teams can push to around a 25% chance of winning the title.
  23. Gmoney08
    Of course he believes it. He's been talking since day one about the only way to win a world series being to make the playoffs consistently. Agreed. So why is he doing this? I can't figure it out. Why is he improving the team? Chapman as a high leverage fireman inning be damned is extremely valuable, more valuable than plain WAR accounts for. Keeps him away from the Nats & Giants. May be signing him to an extension. May look at him as a project to put in the rotation next year to boost an aging staff with a guy who has at least Ace potential. Also he probably knows the value of Gleyber Torres more than anyone, not that I want Gleyber traded but he doesnt have any elite tools, and is probably a 50/50 shot at best to stay at SS. I would be entirely against the trade if it was trading Eloy.
  24. Gmoney08
    Kane definitely seemed innocent to me after digging deep into his case. i think the odds are that he did something bad I disagree. Knowing people that know the girl and her family and following details of the case I am of the belief that her and her family were looking for a payday.
  25. Gmoney08
    Talks are a 4 year extension for Chapman.
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