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  1. SouthSideRyan
    http://www.wxyt.com/ right sidebar click on the audio of Leyland going off pre-game. Pretty cool.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    Pretty sure Bonds and Piazza will be in the ridiculous class with Sosa, Clemens, and Biggio since they didn't/probably won't play this season.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    You'd be a jerk if you had to see that arrogant prick Simers every day too.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    I can assure you that I'm merely brinoch and not a semi-famous personage, television writer or sports-blogger. You mean personiage?
  5. SouthSideRyan
    How bout the 100s of 1-hitters that have been thrown?
  6. SouthSideRyan
    Maddux was an above average starter all 3 years(His 2nd go-around) with the Cubs. not 2006 Average ERA+ for starters is ~96. (Admittedly, not the best way to judge things, but it's quick n dirty) He was horrible for the last couple months before he was traded. He was fine in 2004 and 2005. And he was really good the first couple months of '06. So what. As a whole, he sucked in 2006. You take away his first month of 2006 and you can see just how bad he was. Oooh, my turn, Let's take away...June! The original quote was he was pretty bad before he was traded, and that's a fact. He was really bad from May-July, right before he was traded. He started nicely with 5 straight quality starts in April, but starting May 3 he sucked. He gave up 5 or more 9 times in those three months. If Maddux continued to pitch that way(park-adjusted) after the trade, I could see it as a downward trend, showing he had lost it, but he's stayed a slightly above league averageish pitcher after the trade. I don't understand the relevance of isolating those last few months.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    Your links are comical to me.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    Holy crap, seriously? That's awesome. Paxson will take Mario Chalmers cause he likes winners.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Maddux was an above average starter all 3 years(His 2nd go-around) with the Cubs. not 2006 Average ERA+ for starters is ~96. (Admittedly, not the best way to judge things, but it's quick n dirty) He was horrible for the last couple months before he was traded. He was fine in 2004 and 2005. And he was really good the first couple months of '06. So what. As a whole, he sucked in 2006. You take away his first month of 2006 and you can see just how bad he was. Oooh, my turn, Let's take away...June!
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Fine, let's compare it to Chris Carpenter. He was out there for virtually no cost to the team who signed him. There was no denying that he was a talented pitcher before his injuries. What were the personell people supposed to go off of on deciding Hamilton was both over his drug use, and ready to contribute at the major league level? The 50 ABs he had the year before? His track record from 4 years ago, pre-drug suspesnsions, etc.? His potential coming into the amateur draft? Wouldn't you deem it a waste if some team picked Luis Montanez in the draft?(And yes I understand that Luis wasn't as heralded as Hamilton, but Luis had also swung the bat competitively in the previous 4 years.)
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Well then it becomes the argument of complaining about every time a free agent the Cubs didn't sign performs well. You don't see people angry at the Cubs for not signing Barry Bonds in '93, but if Hamilton goes on to have a good career, there will be people screaming about stupid management trading Josh Hamilton back in '07. It's annoying because I can already see it happening, and I don't suffer fools well.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    I would think that would be a terrible trade for us.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    Brandon Inge doesn't want to get into it right now abuck. All he's saying is the team is different in some way now. Ya know in its makeup, for the everyday lineup. As far as trying hard, and caring about winning and not making a lot of moeny. For the everyday lineup. But he doesn't want to get into it right now.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Nah, then the Cubs would be idiots for NOT EVEN TAKING ANYBODY!!! I MEAN WHO PASSES IN A DRAFT??? MIGHT AS WELL TAKE A GUY, THEN IF HE DOESN'T PAN OUT YOU ONLY LOSE 25K STUPID CHEAP TRIB!!! YOU LET YOUR DIVISION RIVAL GRAB AN MVP BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO SPEND THE MONEY ON HIM!!
  15. SouthSideRyan
    Or you could look at it as the Cubs are huge idiots for not drafting a guy that was the consensus #1 pick a few years back and one of the top 15 HS hitting prospects in the history of the game. Hell, Wayne Krivsky is the greatest GM of all time for coming up with this genius plan. Outmanuevering every other GM to secure the pick from the Cubs, knowing how every team behind the Cubs was dying to grab Hamilton and get their free all star.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    Maddux was an above average starter all 3 years(His 2nd go-around) with the Cubs. not 2006 Average ERA+ for starters is ~96. (Admittedly, not the best way to judge things, but it's quick n dirty) He was horrible for the last couple months before he was traded. He was fine in 2004 and 2005. And he was really good the first couple months of '06.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    Erm, so the snapshot is...reading magazines = hits? This is a really odd couple of setences to put back to back.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    And let me point out, I'm not trying to say we should get Maddux, I already earlier in this thread called it a horrible idea, but people love to write off Maddux's 2nd visit here as if he was a 24M pit of nothingness. He was probably worth exactly what his contract paid him.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Maddux was an above average starter all 3 years(His 2nd go-around) with the Cubs. not 2006 Average ERA+ for starters is ~96. (Admittedly, not the best way to judge things, but it's quick n dirty)
  20. SouthSideRyan
    Dusty once again turning to the wisdom of a former GM.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    That would ideally be the best part, that bums like Macias there for his versatility wouldn't be needed anymore. Of course, teams are terrible at managing their roster, so that wouldn't happen.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    Because our coach got one. And Spiezio. josh hancock would've gotten one Wow. Not surprising though. Go ahead and make fun of Darryl Kile too, because people dying is hilarious. While you're at it, crack on Corey Lidle, he's also dead. At least those people didn't die drunk and operating a 1 ton piece of machinery at 70 mph. Lidle got 2 out of 3.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    Maddux was an above average starter all 3 years(His 2nd go-around) with the Cubs.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    Jim Duquette, though the trade was supposedly influenced pretty strongly by team owner Fred Wilpon and pitching coach Rick Peterson.("I can fix Zambrano in 10 minutes.") So he felt like he should top the Phillips/Mo Vaughn deal? I wonder if the Santana deal will haunt them as well and how well is Milledge doing at Washington?. Milledge is doing terribly to my disappointment.(due to my fantasy team and the way he was treated by NY media mainly for having the audacity to be black)
  25. SouthSideRyan
    The Cubs are huge idiots for not drafting a guy that had 50 ABs (At low A) over the previous 4 seasons. IDIOTS!!
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