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  1. SouthSideRyan
    A Cubs-Cards NLCS would be the stuff of legend. Especially if the Cubs won. :D On a walk of grand slam by Barrett. :wink: No. Big Z slams them, with his arm and bat I think that'd piss them off more than an Edmonds slam beating us.
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    Naked Twister.
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    I don't have the exact quote or wording but I believe DLee said something to the effect of " The money doesn't mean that much to me, I want to play for the Cubs." That's pretty close. And Gammons wasn't pitching the big markets to Lee. He asked a question that any reporter would ask a recent MVP candidate in a contract year. I completely disagree. Knowing Gammons's history and the fact that he explicitly told Lee you will make more money if you go to the Red Sox or Yankees was pretty unprofessional. If a team asked Derrek that question it would be tampering, because Gammons is a supposed unbiased reporter, it's "journalism"
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    Nothing gets Cardinal hatred going quite like living in Champaign 8 months out of the year.
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    Is it possible we could get a middle infielder in the deal too?
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    A ridiculous excuse at that. Cards fans(no offense meant to the good people here) are so high up on their self-made pedestal that anybody actually into a game is considered low-class? That they haven't been there before? Cardinals fans can act like this was our world series and that they have bigger fish to fry, but it just kills them inside that we swept them. That's why they're all having their ritual suicides on CardsTalk. Ripping on fans for being excited about their team, really just blows my mind.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    The Cubs haven't lost a series to the Cardinals since July of 2004.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    17 man pitching staff.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Thanks NCCF. No gratitude to Ichiro~!
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Hehe, the one guy used the initials TBBFIA in one of his posts talking about himself and other users of the forum. Try and figure it out.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    3 year splits: .297/.360/.505 vs. Cards .267/.328/.467 vs. all teams.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    Gammons also mentioned in the game how he tried to pitch to Lee to sign with the Red Sox or Yankees after the season. Absurd.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    "Grin and Barrett"
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Projecting forward: Conor Jackson or Prince Fielder? (BA, R, HR, RBI, SB, BB, K, TB, OPS)
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    SouthSideRyan replied to bc2k's topic in Fantasy Sports

    I don't think either of them is an upgrade to Crosby.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    I for one would hate to see the Cubs have to give up major league talent again like they did in the A-Ram and Nomar trades.
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    Unfortunately, that's not too reflective of his career against us, which is pretty impressive. The cards lineup has definitely regressed, though. Taguchi, Encarnacion, and Miles are all pretty big steps back from Sanders, Walker, and Grudz. The Cards' known quantities (Rolen, Pujols, Edmonds) are still very formidable, but they're going to be relied on much more with the decline of supporting talent. To be honest, if Ronny and Murton give us even decent production, I think our lineups are pretty comparable. Eckstein---Pierre Encarnacion---Walker Pujols---Lee Edmonds---Aram Rolen---Jones Taguchi---Barrett Molina---Murton Miles---Cedeno Unfortunately, I'm guessing they'll upgrade LF at some point in the season. I don't know if you were directly comparing them but Jones is nowhere close to Rolen. The bottom 3 do make up the difference though.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    Drafted him in Round 24 of my keeper league.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    I still don't know how to change my username. ANy help?
  20. SouthSideRyan
    Now was not the game to use him though.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    I don't think the people who posed the question are the same ones who give Corey "unlimited slack". Also, some of the reason that people would prefer Corey over Jones isn't over performance, it's about age and contract. But at the same time Jacque has had a couple good seasons in the majors while Corey had half of a good season. I understand your point but at least Jacque has proven to be a decent player. He's 30, going on 31 while Corey is 26 so I see your point on that matter as well as Jones' 3 yr contract. Here's hoping Jones turns it around. Corey had a good season in '04. .266/.320./.452 with 168 strikeouts is a good season? That's a bit generous, don't you think? He was very good the first half of 2003. I do remember a couple times in 2004 where he looked like he was putting it together, but it was always a fleeting moment and he returned to the same old Corey. 266/320/452 with elite defense in CF is a good season.
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    I think it's fair to point out that Baltimore's pitching staff has been equally horrible.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    I don't think the people who posed the question are the same ones who give Corey "unlimited slack". Also, some of the reason that people would prefer Corey over Jones isn't over performance, it's about age and contract. But at the same time Jacque has had a couple good seasons in the majors while Corey had half of a good season. I understand your point but at least Jacque has proven to be a decent player. He's 30, going on 31 while Corey is 26 so I see your point on that matter as well as Jones' 3 yr contract. Here's hoping Jones turns it around. Corey had a good season in '04.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    Yes because those 3 deals are the reason the Cubs aren't expected to win. Real franchise cornerstones there. That's over 10% of the payroll that's sunk into mediocrity, though. You can't gripe about the cheapness of the TribCo if they give a GM $95m and he uses up a 10% chunk of it on bad players. Where would we be if that 10% was given to only the good players? IMO those 3 deals aren't as "horrible" as one would think at first glance. It's the number of years that they have signed for that's the biggest sticking point. However, as evidenced, Hendry can get rid of contracts fairly effectively and should he can't trade them, waiving them would be a huge cost that would make it difficult. Hendry's only given up on inherited contracts, never on any hes signed. His recent quotes regarding dusty baker reflect that hes quite stubborn in his evaluation and cant open up his eyes to his mistakes. Dont expect him to ditch Jones, Rusch, and Perez. Latroy says hi.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    I liked Encarnacion's last AB better. Oh wait, I didn't get to see it. THANKS COMCAST!
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