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  1. SouthSideRyan
    Sigh, I really want Aldridge.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    Don Baylor was hitting coach for Cox before getting hired. I can't remember who else was considered for the job around Baylor's hire(other than Gardenhire who I'm iffy on), but the Dusty hiring had no retreads talked about/interviewed IIRC.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    Somebody mentioned the serious air around Prior's early injury, with nobody saying it was just a strain. 1. I don't think there was any sign from anyone in the Cubs organization that it was something serious. 2. Could you imagine the backlash if the Cubs went out and said it was just something minor and he'd be fine? You still had people jumping down the Cubs throat when they didn't give any indication about how serious it might be. Everybody ASSUMED the worst. Even today you have people complaining about the way the Cubs handled it, hinting that it's worse than they're saying.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    I picked Matt Holliday today, which should push mine to 5, but the game is showing him at 0 for 2.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    Yeah that 8th round pick was a great idea.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    Prior's arm could fall off and people would rip on him for not sewing it back on and pitching the next day. It's nobody's business but Prior's and his doctor's to tell whether he's truly injured or not. How anyone can call him soft after taking that line drive off his elbow and not being done for the year just blows my mind.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    This was posted a coupel days ago somewhere on here. As I said, parts of contracts being picked up by other teams (i.e. 7M of Thome's contract being paid by the Phillies) isn't accuonted for in those #s. It's annoying, and not that difficult to get correct. And it leads to people freaking out about payroll numbers like last year when everyone said the Cubs had an 87M payroll when they were paying 13.5M to Sosa.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    I'd put Brenly and Speier as far more likely than any of those 4 you've listed. The only one of the 4 I see as a possibile hire is McClendon.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Annoying as always, those figures take into account only the salaries paid to the guys currently on the team, not the total payroll of the team.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/czechrepublicTCR/headfirstlikepeterose.jpg never bet against the reds Did choose some days to not bet on the Reds.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Not as much as I love what Jacque Jones brings to the Cubs. They're pretty equally awful. Houston won the 1st Annual NL Central crap OF contest by only inking Wilson for 1 year.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    The Phillies suck.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    well the pretty much did just that. He did hang a 3-0 slider for no apparent reason.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    I know it's something you just can't do as a manager, but I'd IBB Howard there. David Bell sucks.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    The Phils have a pretty great lineup 1-6.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    Skip Schumaker. UnF'n Real
  17. SouthSideRyan
    5 guys left in scoring position in 4 ABs. Impressive.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    I'd rather keep Dusty than have Piniella managing the team. seconded 3rd.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    How bout a tribute to Russ Meyer? Arne and Harry would be proud.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    Who lead all of baseball in hits and doubles from 1993 to 2002? I really hate the arbitrary, lead the 90s in hits stat that's always tossed around. It's a selected 10 year period that just happens to coincide with Grace's prime. How many players even have a chance at contending for that?
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Dirty to type, but Go Jeter!
  22. SouthSideRyan
    It's not like the '01 Cubs outperformed their pythagorean by 8 wins or something. They underperformed by 1 win. (And had a better pythagorean than division winning Houston) Sosa was due for some regression since his season was flat out amazing, and Mueller likely wouldn't put up a 400 OBP over a full season, but the rest of his season wouldn't theoretically be taken by Ron Coomer. Poised for greatness maybe not, but certainly a serious contender for the division.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    I wish this was somebody more reputable, but I'll give a cautious woo hoo
  24. SouthSideRyan
    I don't think that's the point. He's still better than Konerko so expect his contract to be in that neighborhood. The Cubs don't want him to become a FA and have other teams attempt to drive up the price. I'm sure some teams would be very willing to overpay so the Cubs will want to be generous without breaking the bank. The best time to do that is now. But Konerko won a world series so he's clutch or something. I wouldn't be shocked at all to see Lee get a lesser contract than Konerko. Well hasnt Derrek Lee won just as many World Series as Konerko has??? No that world series was all speed and SMALLBALL~! Lee just happened to be along for the ride. Konerko single handedly carried the Sox to the world series.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    This is revisionism however. The Cubs were coming off of an 88 win season, had Wood looking to be back to '98 form, had McGriff and presumably Mueller for a full season and had just signed Moises Alou who wasn't expected to mail in the entire season. On top of all that, Juan Cruz had an encouraging end of '01 and Mark Prior was on the horizon waiting to be added to the rotation
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