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  1. Careless
    I've been told in a few years we'll see more like $7k for a chinese car that won't fall apart and will have an engine.
  2. Careless
    Does anyone expect him to be around for the full three years though? Does it matter? if he's bad we'll be paying to get him away from the team. No one's gonna give value for a guy who just put up 4 straight bad seasons
  3. Careless
    :shock: (really, I hadn't noticed he didn't get his high, that's astonishing)
  4. Careless
    If you're going to use that logic, then the counter-argument easily surfaces, 'The Cardinals and Astros got lucky the Cubs had serious injury problems the last 2 seasons.' So that won't work. because without injuries the cubs would have won over 100 games both seasons? that's ridiculous. yeah, mediocrity is always what a franchise should shoot for. I had "Fire hendry" in my sig for several months, and if hendry offers baker an extension with any expectation that he'll accept it, I was too kind
  5. Careless
    I wouldn't have been looking to move him in the first place. Paying $16M for him to play elsewhere was silly to me. If I had to move him, I sure as hell wouldn't have devalued him the way the Cubs systematically did. The only thing we know is that last year's formula didn't work to get the Cubs in the playoffs. So, I don't want to hear that Sosa would have made the season any worse. Let me repeat myself - JHJ was a better player than Sosa and will be again this year. And again someone completely misses JC's point. the issue isn't JHJ vs sosa, it's JHJ vs the player that sosa might have been traded for if the cubs had acted differently
  6. Careless
    this just makes me wonder why tejada wouldn't opt out of his contract no matter what if he got traded. Wouldn't you, if furcal was getting paid more? (well, as much as you after 2006)
  7. Careless
    There are many, many more people around DC than portland and seattle. There are what, 10 times as many people in the LA region as portland? 7 times as many in LA-SD-LV as portland-seattle? LV is the fastest growing ciity in the country now. Assuming that baseball has a good potential base there, I'd say vegas has to be the best choice.
  8. Careless
    1.17 WHIP (4582+902)/4688
  9. Careless
    There are Japanese and European nightmares sold every day; no company makes perfect cars. The quality surveys (reality) don't match your perception. HA! From the guy who has never owned a Toyota or Honda. Buy a new Camry or Civic, drive it for a decade and then get back to me. I do respect your loyalty to the American worker. The worthless remains of my camry are calling to disagree with you. My virtually flawless american cars made post 94 would also like to say something... but an experience with 3 (or 30) cars is essentially meaningless, except when it allows you to disprove a universal.
  10. Careless
    no..... Change it to 2003-2004 and it's arguably true.
  11. Careless
    Hendry was mocked for saying the hill/dunn thing, he could still exercise his right to hyperbole and say it again.
  12. Careless
    Personally, I believe that clutch exists, but that MLB hitters operate at such a high mental state that there is very little margin for improvement for most of them, and therefore virtually no possibility for clutch hitting. given that, I consider anti-clutch as proof of clutch. (in other words, it has a smaller impact on hitting in the majors than other levels)
  13. Careless
    Crap. Why not keep him on the bench, spot him into action once in a while to give Murton a break against some right handers, take a chance that he'll perform well and build his value up ahead of the trade deadline? because that would be the smart move. we've got to make room for marquis grissom to play way too much, you know. Smart IF Corey produces. Huge if there.... $3 million or so is a lot of money for .215/.254/.602.... I highly doubt Corey ever gets it going w/ the Cubs again, but wish him the best. Seems like a good kid. As bad as corey sucked last season, do you really expect him to be that bad again this season? This is a serious question, btw, does anyone expect him to be as bad/worse as he was in 2005?
  14. Careless
    If you don't believe there's such a thing as a clutch player, you must not watch much sports, and you clearly didn't play many either. I watch a lot of sports and have played plenty in my time and I don't believe there is a "clutch player." The numbers don't bear that out. If being "clutch" is an ability, then "clutch players" would have good numbers in "clutch" situations from year to year or at least numbers that are consistent with their career numbers. They do not. So does that mean someone has addressed the matter of clutch pitching and how it affects hitters? Because that's(highlighted) simply not a statement you can make unless that's been done.
  15. Careless
    So derwood's family is a bunch of oompa loompas, eh?
  16. Careless
    My friends and I have a name for those small SUVs. I won't say it on this board but it rhymes with "itch ruck" I don't get it, they're certainly not anything like trucks... atchback works
  17. Careless
    Other teams don't have the cubs demand/availibility. It's all about wrigley being small/cubs fan base being large
  18. Careless
    I'm probably not the only one, but if I knew you I'd try to bet you that lee would wind up with an ops at least ..075 lower than last season's But I don't think it's something worth arguing about at length at this point.
  19. Careless
    But that's an entirely arbitrary point. They are credible due to outside circumstances and come to the board AS authorities on the matter. Not vice versa. Now if Bruce Miles posted under a different name and didn't reveal that he was Bruce Miles - then yes, he'd be dismissed in favor of Jeff from Iowa (not a reference to any one real poster). Hey, I'm 100% incredible (ok, noncredible), but my point about gun being completely off base when he said that there's no incentive for columnists to write inflamatory articles that will boost readership is 100% correct. And if gunned doesn't recognize it, I'm sure his bosses would want him fired for incompetence ediT: and before some ____ brings up ethics, I never brought up what should be done, only financial consequences of irresponsible reporting.
  20. Careless
    So prior demands a NTC if he resigns/signs an extension with the cubs, I think we can live with that
  21. Careless
    But he didn't slide with his leg up. Walker's leg was at an angle and lee's rode it up to the knee.
  22. Careless
    That's not really how it works. Well, he doesn't physically sell them, they get homeless people to do that, but newspapers are a business. The more inflammatory and sensationalized, the more people are going to want to buy it. A very small fraction of a newspaper's income actually comes from newspaper sales. It's all about the advertising now -- something I sadly am forced to deal with every day (I'm a newspaper editor). While circulation certainly affects ad revenues, the Trib's funds won't be determined by whether Phil Rogers writes ludicrous trade proposals or not. With a few exceptions, the job of a writer is to report the news and, in some instances, comment on it. It's an insult to say that reporters are there to inflame and sensationalize every aspect of the news just to nab a few extra subscribers. I guess it's true of a one certain windbag in this city, but for the most part, it's an awfully harmful and dangerous misconception. newspapers with circulations of 5 copies don't routinely sell ads for $50,000 a page. the more newspapers you sell, the more your ads are worth. edited to remove sarcasm
  23. Careless
    I drive american because american companies are the only ones that make roomy cars (well, at a reasonable price. But I'm outraged whenever I see something like a toyota landcruiser which has an enormous wheelbase and a tiny interior) I'm always amused when I hear the foreign quality thing, as most people who espouse it don't even seem to have their personal experiences match their expectations. Anyway, worst problem I've had in the 8 years I've owned this dodge is the headlight switch pulling off (it popped right back on). I've got no complaints.
  24. Careless
    Why would we care what tejada thinks about the orioles trying to trade him after he asked for a trade?
  25. Careless
    Hmm.. all passing game when you don't care about the score...
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