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  1. Gmoney08
    Since he gave me no direction with what this info means I'm going to assume it means Manny Ramirez is starting at Shortstop tonight.
  2. Gmoney08
    Guess they cant move to Rosemont, Schaumburg, Naperville, River North or anywhere with a bar scene then. These drunk sexual assaults happen everywhere. The only chance is to move the team to Sandwich, IL i guess.
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    Why does everyone on here seem so anti Kolek? TJS surgery scares me but not to the point where I literally dont want to draft flame throwers because of it.
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    What team would give up the insane haul it would take to land Stanton without it being all but a sure thing that they could lock him up? Let me have my dream.. Anyways, it wouldnt be totally unprecedented. The Astros traded for Beltran in a playoff stretch who at the time was probably regarded as just as much if not more a superstar as Stanton then lost him to the Mets. They also lost Randy Johnson after a playoff stretch trade a few years before that as well. As for what team would do that.. for some reason I could see the White Sox if they ever have good prospects trade the farm for a playoff run of Giancarlo and then fail to sign him.
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    Is .344 really that good in that era?
  6. Gmoney08
    Id forgive PTR entirely for his wreck of his first half decade as owner if Bryant & Baez hit their potential to become Allstars, Rizzo & Castro hit their potential and Ricketts opens up the pocket books to sign Stanton in two years outright without trading that talent.
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    I hope the signs block all the views and cause major loss of revenue for the rooftop owners. Then I hope their lawsuit fails miserably with the Cubs settling for very little with the owners. On top of that I hope the rooftop owners are highly leveraged and end up bankrupt with the lost revenues. PTR, comes in and buys up all the property dirt cheap. Rebuilds the rooftops that he bought dirt cheap and turns them into luxury high rises with rooftop views that can see over the signage, plus building more signage on the high rises. The rebuilt high rises will also be named the "Sammy Sofa Zone."
  8. Gmoney08
    How accurate do you think Chapman at 105mph is? Has there been a study on this? For that matter all the guys at over 102 mph im curious about.
  9. Gmoney08
    Gritty. I bet all the dominican, cuban, and venezuelan prospects growup on caviar spoonfed by soft coaches..
  10. Gmoney08
    I for one think he would be a terrible couch. Plus, no way Ricketts is allowed to add another couch to the renovation project with those [expletive] rooftop owners & Tunney.
  11. Gmoney08
    Am I the only one who wants Tyler Kolek number 4 over any position player and even Rodon. Yes, i know he will probably blowout his elbow answering the phone call from Hoyer on draft night but his potential seems like too much to passup. His age could be beneficial in him hitting the majors when the Cubs are finally decent in 2018.
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    Again, not saying its an exact comparison but his size, swing, and bat speed reminds me soooo much of pre 60hr Sosa. If Baez hits his ceiling I think it could look alot like young Sammy but playing SS.
  13. Gmoney08
    Who was rumored to be involved in the Sheffield trade? I vaguely remember some Bonds to the Cubs rumors in the mid 90s. I dont know if it was as a FA or trade though. When was Bonds first SF contract expiring?
  14. Gmoney08
    I'm still pissed nobody replied to this and instead there was much needed bickering about run differential for 7 of the 8 pages.
  15. Gmoney08
    I'm still pissed nobody replied to this and instead there was much needed bickering about run differential for 7 of the 8 pages.
  16. Gmoney08
    That homer reminded me so much of mid 90's Sammy Sosa, the skinnier version with the lightning quick bat. Crazy comparison but could Javy be a mid 90's Sammy playing SS, that seems to be pretty valuable even if he doesnt steal as many bases as 90's Sammy. They are roughly about the same size as well, short guys with lightning quick bats (Sammy at 21 was probably even smaller then Javy is now). I could see Javy putting up similar strikeout numbers to mid 90's Sammy, hitting 30 to 45 homers, with roughly the same batting averages preroids Sosa was putting up (without looking I feel he was between 270 and 285 most those years).
  17. Gmoney08
    Derek Jeter on that '98 team? That could have been pretty sweet to replace Jeff Blauser with Jeter. Although the only thing that probably would have accomplished is not needing the play-in game (arguably the greatest event in Cubs history from '84-'02). Probably would have helped them make it a little closer in 2001 as well. Maybe Jeter wouldn't have pissed his pants on those groundballs in the 8th inning of game 6 in 2003. But, yes I do know AGon was probably a better SS glove than Jeter ever could of dreamed of being. Imagine Jeters bat in the lineup in 03, 04, 07, 08.. Jeter in that 08 lineup instead of Theriot.. oh my. Maybe in 04 we could have traded the assets we traded for Nomah for a stud closer and we would be talking about the 2004 WS champion Cubs.. Bah, why do I even contemplate these things.
  18. Gmoney08
    I dont know why but I decided to torture myself and read some posts from the first few pages of this thread.
  19. Gmoney08
    We will probably retire Jeter's number and Arod's before Slammin Sammy..
  20. Gmoney08
    I grew up pitching in the 80s and 90s (decades, not velocity) and we had strict limitations on pitches and days we could pitch. We did not come close to pitching all year round though. My in house leagues had inning limits each week for different levels. For example in Bronco you couldnt pitch more than 10 innings in a week. Also if you pitched more than 4 innings in one game you couldnt pitch the rest of the week. Never saw a pitch count rule in any league in the 80s or 90s. Also, travel ball there was no restrictions at all. The other thing was how you pitched in travel had nothing to do with the in house rules. So, an in house league could say our pitchers arent pitching more than 10 innings a week. But, in reality they pitch 10 innings for their in house team, also started and pitched 6 innings for their travel team, and came in and closed a game for their travel team. There was a lot of bending of the rules in the 80's and 90's. Not to say there isnt now but I've seen much stricter inning rules and how they combine with in house and travel in the youth leagues now.
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    I think the throwing too much as a kid thing is likely NOT the cause. There is more restrictions on pitchers pitch limits and innings limits now then in the 90's, 80's and before. There was players back in the old days pitching all year long as well. There is guys from different countries, vastly different youth baseball programs and they are all ripping up their elbow in their 20's. The one constant in that list though seems to be guys who throw 95+ all the way across the board. There has been reports out there that pitchers are throwing much harder then they used to as recently as the 1980's and early 90's. Maybe genetically the freak athletes are getting to the point where they are just throwing too hard on an average. A big fastball with major velocity usually means a guy also has a high velocity (high strain breaking ball) that usually leads to the elbow blowout. The one guy on my blowout list who didn't have a huge velocity breakingball IIRC was Johan Santana and his arm injuries were shoulder issues correct? There will always be your genetic freaks the Bob Fellers, Walter Johnsons, Roger Clemens, and Verlanders but in general I think guys might be just throwing too hard and in turn putting too much velocity on their breaking pitches in this era for most humans to handle.
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    Ben Sheets is on there already. Greinke and Hamels have both lost decent amount of velocity before 30 as well though right?
  23. Gmoney08
    Bonifacio probably accumulated all that pace in 2 games. Lets be realistic it was more like four games now that he decided to start is Ruthian pace up again today..
  24. Gmoney08
    Has every great pitcher except King Felix and Verlander blown their arm out or at the very least lost their dominant fastball in the last ten years. Off the top of my head pretty healthy superstars - king felix - verlander - kershaw (some arm trouble iirc and still very young) - yu darvish (still young) - Cliff Lee Neverending list of good pitchers injured - Harvey - Fernandez - Strasburg - Bundy (uber prospect) - Johan Santana - Brandon Webb - John Lackey - Kerry Wood - Mark Prior - Ben Sheets - Halladay (great longevity though) - Chris Carpenter - Adam Wainwright - Rich Harden - Erik Bedard - Wang from the Yanks - Matszusaka - Volquez & Cueto for some reason i feel one of these two hasnt had a blowout but both have had arm trouble. - Seems like all the top pitching prospects of the last two years, sorry its 2am - Bullpen Guys (Broxton, Wilson, Papelbon, Joba, Zumaya) Lost Major Velocity before Age of 30 which contributed to inferior results - Zito - Lincecum - Kazmir - Zambrano - CC Sabathia - Josh Beckett - Jake Peavy This is just all off the top of my head at 2am so there is probably more and seems like an alarming amount of good pitchers over the last decade. I used to think oh only the poor old cobss this happens to, but looks like its a league wide epidemic.
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    http://voices.suntimes.com/sports/inside-the-cubs/cubs-top-pitching-prospect-c-j-edwards-to-miss-more-than-a-month-with-shoulder-injury/#.U1rR_zd5mc0 given his stature does this sort of track him into a bullpen arm in the bigsor is this just one of those things with nothing to read into for the future. I dont see why this would effect anything in the longterm. Plenty of guys come back from TJS and other surgeries that put them out for a year and end up starters. Missing a month of shoulder fatigue shouldnt put a good prospect in the bullpen.
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