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  1. Bryants Disco Ball
    If he is willing to sign for 3/60, the Cubs and other teams would be all over that and give him even more. That doesn't seem possible.
  2. Bryants Disco Ball
    A did you know: Clark's boss is Bill Murray's brother. If you combined those two without knowing, that's some impressive stuff.
  3. Bryants Disco Ball
    One thing I don't get is that the police were notified of this in September. The stories say Castro left the next day for the Dominican. But Castro was back in Chicago for a time in November, meeting with Theo and appearing at a card show to sign autographs in Rosemont. If they thought Castro had raped someone, etc., wouldn't they have arrested him then or at least brought him in for questioning?
  4. Bryants Disco Ball
    Because I enjoy this trade so much, now I start to expect that Cashner will fail his physical.
  5. Bryants Disco Ball
    I enjoy this trade. I have to admit that I was really worried Cash wasn't going to ever be able to log the innings of a starter. That was just a feeling, though. No numbers to support that. Other than him missing most of last year with an arm injury.
  6. Bryants Disco Ball
    No, I think the main arguments are (in order, a and b are interchangeable though) - a) We don't lose much in the rotation from Z to Volstad. I'm reading through this thread, and I must not be seeing the same Z the last two years that some others are seeing. The Z I saw the last two years was, at best, a passable "3", but more of a "4/5". His fastball velocity was on a steady decline. b) Volstad is a young, lefty arm who velo is still there (this isn't say, a Brian Matusz case where there was a drop in velocity). He didn't struggle as badly with HR's in the minors and in 2010, but did in 2009/2011. It feels like he could correct it. c) We remove a headache. d) Last, but not least, we get something for Z, rather than take the risk into the year. I'm finding it hard to see why everyone is claiming that Volstad is "nothing". He's a solid end of the rotation lefty with the potential to be more. He has above average velo for a lefty, and he's still young enough, barely in his prime years, to develop a bit more. Is this a great return? Of course not. But for Z? Hard to expect a great return. Volstad is a right-hander. And I would rather have him than Z.
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    I say we get a not so great prospect and and save about $5 million in the deal. Won't make many happy, but for the Cubs, they save $5 million and don't have to deal with the headache. And, yes, Zambrano would have caused some problem this season on the team.
  8. Bryants Disco Ball
    Jays out on Garza? http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/01/blue-jays-unlikely-to-acquire-garza.html
  9. Bryants Disco Ball
    Who on twitter, exactly? it's probably just a regurgitation of this article. only other thing i've found is this. i don't really see anything that would lead one to think that a deal is close, or that drabek/other stuff for garza is likely. I dont see why people are so against Drabek. He's like 1 year removed from being a top 20 prospect. After a rough 2011, I wouldnt want him to headline the deal but as the 2nd or 3rd piece to a deal I'd be happy to get him. Certainly over Gose who I still don't get why we'd want over Jackson or Szczur anyway. Agreed. I'll let those who know more about Drabek tell us why we don't want him and trust what they are saying, but I don't see why he still can't be a very strong pitcher.
  10. Bryants Disco Ball
    I'm a bit skeptical about baseball people in an organization rife with developmental failure being able to suddenly adapt to something likely totally different than has been dictated in the past. I believe that stuff comes from the very top. Our people at the Major League level are the ones who implement what is going to be taught in the lower levels by what they believe in, etc. Too bad for us, the higher ups and their way of doing things wasn't very good. I'm almost certain it's been incompetence at both levels Very possible. But when the big man decides the direction of a franchise, I guess we really don't know just how good or bad our lower level coaches are. They are just teaching what they are being asked to teach.
  11. Bryants Disco Ball
    I'm a bit skeptical about baseball people in an organization rife with developmental failure being able to suddenly adapt to something likely totally different than has been dictated in the past. I believe that stuff comes from the very top. Our people at the Major League level are the ones who implement what is going to be taught in the lower levels by what they believe in, etc. Too bad for us, the higher ups and their way of doing things wasn't very good.
  12. Bryants Disco Ball
    So some of you actually don't think a coach can be asked/told that we are doing things different, and then actually change what they are teaching? If, for instance, we want our prospects to start taking more walks, they can't come up with a way to teach that? I disagree.
  13. Bryants Disco Ball
    Because they will be asked to coach a different way. Rather, told.
  14. Bryants Disco Ball
    Things still get out, perhaps just not as early. The Sean Marshall trade was broken a day or two before it actually happened.
  15. Bryants Disco Ball
    Spot on. Don't know why, but it's really entertaining for me to imagine us having like a $60 million payroll this season......and being no worse than last year. They can give Byrd away at this point. I just want to see the $6.5 erased from the books.
  16. Bryants Disco Ball
    Isn't it great to see the Cubs finally do things right?
  17. Bryants Disco Ball
    I still find this way of thinking very entertaining. We didn't need to bring Theo and company in to sign the most expensive of free agents. Anybody can do that. They brought him in to start building an entire organization that had been torn down through years of bad choices. That work sometimes doesn't look real exciting or create the headlines some need to feel satisfied. But they are doing their thing, and I trust them 100 percent.
  18. Bryants Disco Ball
    So the widely reported offer to Pujols, bid on Darvish, and interest in Fielder is just an elaborate smokescreen? To be fair, it doesn't sound like he actually thinks that. Just that it's an irrational fear of his.
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    Understandable. But that would be odd to have the same payroll as a team like Milwaukee.
  20. Bryants Disco Ball
    They've got to want to see Darvish against big league competition before pulling the trigger on a deal like that. The rotation isn't exactly stocked as it is. They trade Garza - Darvish blows - Zambrano -?????. Dempster isn't getting younger. That'd be a whole whack of question marks. If they paid that much to get Darvish, then they've already made the choice that he IS going to be the man. There is no wait and see at that point. If he ends up a bust, they've got bigger issues than having traded Garza for some top prospects.
  21. Bryants Disco Ball
    NO. This is not even mildly correct. EDIT: Eh. That was kinda mean. This sounded like it was a good read before you edited. No worries. You can't hurt my feelings.
  22. Bryants Disco Ball
    It's too late for that. It was once it leaked. If the news hadn't made it to the press, it could have possibly been swept under the rug, but not now. Trying to "make it go away" would just create a bigger scandal, and make MLB look like it's perpetrating a cover-up to make itself look clean. If you say it was a bad test, the system comes into question. If you exonerate Braun, you look like you're playing favorites (doubly so given Bud's ties to Milwaukee) or trying to maintain the illusion of a clean sport. None if it would fly with the public. No, someone is going to have to wear this. But you can say what they are going to try to say: It wasn't a roid in the first place. The leak by ESPN was wrong. Testing works. Braun isn't a roider. Hey, fans, let's forget about this all and blame it on the media.
  23. Bryants Disco Ball
    Except it has come out that it is not roid related at all. Keep up. And baseball can't say that, why?
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    As I was saying yesterday, baseball is going to make this go away. It can't afford for one of the faces of its new generation to be suspended 50 games for anything related to roids, and certainly not after Bud Selig came out and talked about how clean the sport is now with players such as Braun.
  25. Bryants Disco Ball
    This is where I think the complete opposite. Wouldn't it be better for baseball for them to have Braun win the appeal? This is a huge, huge stain on the game right now when the MVP and one of the top hitters in baseball is labeled a cheater. If guys are still doing this even today, the casual fan is going to just assume that baseball will forever be full of a bunch of cheaters. So, what I'm saying is, I believe a big coverup is about to happen. Braun actually did cheat, but he's going to get away with it! Why would MLB after all the hard work they have done to get rid of the steroid era would admit that their test failed? Nope. The test didn't fail. It will be that Braun somehow is able to prove that he took something by mistake. Win-win for both the player and a league that doesn't want this blemish.
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