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How's the mood around the ballpark?
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i was rejected.
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I want Z to hit two homers in a Cub rout.
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How about Granderson?
wade replied to rchap24's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
A lot of sites are mentioning the Tigers trading Ordonez, so I'm sure they're not going to trade Granderson too. Who would take Magglio? They aren't going to get a lot of value for him, and he's due $18Mil next year w/ a 3Mil option. For Granderson, they can possibly do something about that horrible pitching staff they have. We could take Magglio and move Fukudome to centerfield if the Tigers ate some salary, couldn't we? -
http://www.seatdata.com/html/mlb_cubs/pick_section_mlb_cubs.htm If you need to visualize it I got two for my father-in-law. Kpet, you're the bomb diggidy. Another reason why nsbb.com is awesome.
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Unless the Mets also lose and Houston wins three in a row. :D
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I agree. This is worse for the teams like NY and Hou that will have to put out their best pitchers and players if make up games are necessary. I know Houston is like 2% likely to make it matter, but man, can you imagine how burnt those team's bullpens could be heading into Wednesday? At least the Cubs can sit anyone of consequence if they have to play.
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I got rejected too.
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Nah. The trend seems to be that the rejection emails are sent out after the success ones, whether by the Cubs for the luxury seat opportunities or other teams for the playoffs. I hate you for telling me that I've been Mr. Pessimistic throughout this whole thing, but Jon has to be Mr. Bearer of Bad News (note, not badnews). Sooo, about 7,500 per game means a bit over 10,000 unique ticket purchasers. I'm guessing they'll allow 3x the amount of people through the VWR (to ensure it sells out), so maybe 30,000 people will get the good email. Hey, I've been pretty pessimistic, too. Well, surely to Geo someone on here will get tickets, and no one has posted yet that they have, so I'm still clinging to 'no news is good news', so there.
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I'm trying to tell myself that no news is good news.
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I hate Donovan McNabb because any year I have him is a year he misses most of the season with injury or plain sucks. Every year I don't have him he blows up the scoreboard. At least it seems that way.
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Magglio would be an interesting option if he could be had cheaply. I'd prefer to throw a better prospect and hope the Tigers would throw back some cash. This is a common theme when talking trade, but who do the Cubs have as a better prospect that would interest the Tigers? Also, would getting rid of that prospect be worth a player who will most likely not be worth his salary by the last year of that contract? The Tigers need bullpen help, maybe a good reliever or two would interest them.
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Well, the Tigers will be looking for salary relief this winter and should be interested in getting out from under Magglio's contract (something like 3 more years at 48 million). That's steep as hell, but I don't think he'd cost much in terms of prospects - or you maybe you could get some kickback in money from the Tigers if you gave up some talent. He's also OPSing around 900 the past couple of years with not much injury time missed. I don't know, just throwing it out there.
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'09 Schedule is out! (Cubs open in HOU; End at home vs. ARI)
wade replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I know they give the day off in the middle of a series the first of the year so they can have a day to do a make up for weather (with a roofed in stadium that's not a problem), but I don't get the Colorado series either. When I saw it I was trying to figure out if there was significance to April 14 or something crazy. -
Do you think that the Cubs are basically shutting Fukudome down for the season, hoping he dedicates his offseason to making adjustments and coming back revitalized next season or are the Cubs essentially giving up on him? I'm guessing the former based on his contract, but if its the latter will the Cubs be searching for a new RF this offseason? I also wonder if they'd work him out in centerfield and look for a RF.
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Get out of here Dusty, everyone knows it's you.
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When the Webster kid has you beat, its time to give up. You don't understand the number of walks Emmanuel can draw.
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Maybe they could, but I'd like to at least have a third solid arm. Harden is probably going to be a 6 inning pitcher. There is likely to be at least one extra inning contest. I agree that it would be good to be able to depend on someone else. Maybe in the next couple of weeks if he doesn't get straightened out someone else could step up and inspire some confidence. Again, I see that role as important, but I think Kosuke getting right would factor more since he's a position player.
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While the Shark has been good lately, I never really got on board with thinking we had to have him to make a huge difference in the playoffs. Of course, if he gets this blip straightened out he is an asset out of the pen, but Marmol and Wood, when right, can be enough. Kosuke, on the other hand, would make a bigger difference if he could regain some early season success. But, that is looking pretty bleak at this point.
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I emailed my father in law, who lives in the western suburbs, so you may hear from him if he can go.
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Didn't he just barely miss last time? Hopefully we can see enough of a swing to get him in there.
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Wow, um, no. Look through the career leaders in PAs and find me a below average player. So then, to follow your logic, a player with a high amount of wins = an above average player, making the win statistic far from meaningless ? Yeah, that's missing the point. Yes players who accumulate a whole lot of PAs in their career are going to turn out to be good players because nobody's going to run a bad player out there that often. Players who accumulate a lot of wins in their career are going to turn out to be good players because nobody's going to run a bad pitcher out there that often. Let me know next time somebody cites PAs as proof that somebody's good. aka selection bias Ooh, I haven't had that yet.
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It's simple. There are more confounding variables regarding wins as a response variable in measuring pitchers than many other response variables, such as WHIP, HR/9, K/9, etc. (I'm taking an intro to Stats class and I'm using this thread as homework :D )
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You could probably look at each player (I think Fontenot was due up after Soto, then the pitcher's spot- another reason why it was dumb), but the stuff I've read that has dampened my enthusiasm on the sac bunt in general was based on years of stats, not samples of players like you're talking about. The years of data would be better, I'd think. I'm not totally opposed to the bunt, but with Geo there and two spots in the order behind him before you'd find as good a hitter coming up, it's just bad. I wouldn't bunt Geo in that spot if Pie had been on second with no outs (which I think is an even more obvious bunt situation late in a game)
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Makes no sense to me either. I look at it like this (seems like a no-brainer..): How many times out of 10 will he successfully get the sac bunt down and GIVE UP AN OUT vs how many times will he get a hit? Open and shut case - stupid call. ps - I'm sure there's some metrics at Baseball Prospectus on this, but I'm too lazy to look it up. In same situation the next inning Soriano hit away to the same DP result. Certainly not saying I wanted Soriano to bunt...just saying. I don't mind the sac bunt as much as some here but I certainly do question asking Soto to do it. Soriano did GIDP, but he wasn't trying to make an out on purpose like Geo was told to do. I agree with you in that you never know what would happen with every circumstance every time- Geo swinging away coulda been a GIDP too, but it's the giving up of the out on purpose(especially with a guy that can hit it out of the park) that riles some of us.