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  1. SouthSideRyan
    I'll be sure to bump after every good Maddux outing. Don't be ridiculous. Why is it ridiculous to suggest Maddux isn't pitching like a $9 million pitcher and he is unlikely to pitch like a $9 million next year? Why is it wrong to not want to see that much of the payroll tied into a pitcher who just isn't all that great anymore? It's ridiculous to bump after a bad start and use that bad start as evidence that he shouldn't be back.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    I'll be sure to bump after every good Maddux outing. Don't be ridiculous.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    They both deserve it, no doubt. But, the BBWAA is pretty dumb sometimes.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    Ed Wade is dumb.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    That doesn't happen. Those extensions always wind up backloaded, and the Cubs wind up saving a couple hundred thousand on them. That's how it was for Lee, Wood, and Barrett.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    I believe Hendry said earlier this past offseason that that 4.5M to Sammy counted towards '05's payroll.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    I'm sure you'll have a hard time in the future balancing your 40 man. Who to cut loose, Cody McKay or Mike Mahoney? Does Bo Hart or John Gall get squeezed off?
  8. SouthSideRyan
    Yeah, I realized that as I was typing out my last response. I don't know where I remember seeing Sisco's numbers then. My mistake.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    No personal problem with you at all. I hadn't realized that bringing those stats back was such a recent thing, as I thought I had seen them since late April. The language of the disclaimer is what I thought was a cop out. You mentioned that you may bring them back later on in the regular season but your point had been proven. The fact that the time they were brought back conicided with Sisco having sick numbers didn't sit well with me. I took the emoticon to be the same uneasiness with the Cubs not with his workload.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Unless I'm confusing him with someone else, he had his ST stats in his sig, then when the season started, he removed the stats from his sig with the disclaimer that it had nothing to do with his bad start to the year, but that he thought he had proven his point. Lo and behold, Sisco's #s get good again, and the stats are back.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    If he has a couple bad outings to inflate his ERA are you going to continue posting about him, or are you going to cop out like you did after his 1st couple appearances this year?
  12. SouthSideRyan
    In the case of Fox that's true literally, not just figuratively. :( Chad Fox only has 1 arm?
  13. SouthSideRyan
    Right here. It sucks that we're going to lose Sisco, but I still say it was the right move to make at the time. Its never a right move when you can lose any of your top prospects. Trading away Justin Jones was the wrong move?
  14. SouthSideRyan
    I'll definitely agree with that. It's one of the things I don't understand about Dusty. How he can overthink situations so much at times, and at other times completely underthink things. Bringing in Fox with a 4 run lead(What it was when he started warming up) still is bad, but it's not a terrible mistake all things considered. But when you get a couple guys on with just 1 out, how do you not get Leicester up in a hurry in case you add on an insurance run? It's not like it'll be bad for Leicester to get loose in the pen, he hasn't pitched in a week anyways.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    It's not how many innings but when. Fox pitched in 3 consecutive days. The culmination was yesterday's blow out. There was absolutly no reason for him to be in there, none. I don't blame Dusty for injurying Fox, but I do question his baseball acumen. How do you pitch a guy comming off of a serious arm injury in 3 straight games? Espeically when he has been anointed as the closer de jour. Fox didn't pitch in on April 23rd. He pitched in 2 straight games.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    Doesn't that run the risk of him having to clear waivers if/when we send him down again, or does that only occur once a year? I'm not 100% on the rules, but at least in regards to the 40 man, if when Kelton gets sent down he's removed from the 40 man again, he's pretty much a FA, and can sign anywhere without the obligation to be added to the 40 man roster. As far as being kept on the 40 man but off the 25, I haven't a clue.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    I'm curious as well, what exactly did Dusty do that caused Fox to get injured? Did he leave him out there too long? Is Fox not supposed to throw more than 20 pitches? If that's the case why is there no hate being spewed for Rothschild, he was the one who said leave him in there for 1 more batter(correct me if I'm wrong, just going off of what other people say, I don't get WCIU) Fox pitched a total of 8 innings for Dusty Baker, 8! Yet somehow Baker has ended his career.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    This is a lovely post. Too horribly true to contemplate, but a lovely post. Dusty has pitched many guys into surgery. I hope they relieve him of his duties before we see another one. Tonight I feel very, very bad for Chad Fox. And very, very angry at Dusty. Robb Nen comes to mind. Yeah. He's the only one that comes to mind from the past 12 years. Do you still think it's a coincidence that both Wood and Prior have been injured more than healthy since the 2003 season? Do you have any sort of conclusive evidence that Dusty's one season of Prior ruined his arm that much that he's still getting injured as recently as this ST. Or do you think Prior was misused last year, cause it didn't look like it to me. Do you think their previous injury histories should be ignored? Wood had TJ surgery in 98, was injured again in '01, yet for some reason his injuries are all Dusty. Prior was injured in '02, had a freak baserunning injury in '03, an achilles injury in '04, and missed 1 start this year with an arm injury. The only start he's missed thus far due to arm troubles.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    This is a lovely post. Too horribly true to contemplate, but a lovely post. Dusty has pitched many guys into surgery. I hope they relieve him of his duties before we see another one. Tonight I feel very, very bad for Chad Fox. And very, very angry at Dusty. Robb Nen comes to mind. Yeah. He's the only one that comes to mind from the past 12 years.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    I actually don't have that big a problem with Macias getting a start. If you're going to have him on the roster, I don't mind him getting a start one out of every 20 games or so. His presence on the roster is the real problem.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    And then blew the save giving up 2 hits. :evil:
  22. SouthSideRyan
    What annoys is me the lineup was PERFECT today. The bullpen management was fine, but that Macias thing just cancels out everything else.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    The Macias thing didn't even dawn on me until they came back from commercial. I then realized that that couldn't have been the pitcher's spot, then it clicked that it was Dubois. I spent the rest of the game ranting about it. Even if you're going to pinch hit for Dubois there, why not Hollandsworth? Holla came into the game in LF anyways, IT MADE NO SENSE! Does Dusty think Dubois didn't see any righties in the minors??
  24. SouthSideRyan
    I'll continue to argue til the day I die that Garland for Karchner turned out to be a good trade. Garland in the Cubs farm system means he's wasting a spot in our rotation right now, and Zambrano is not a part of the rotation in '03, quite possibly traded away by then. There's no room for Garland in our rotation or bullpen right now.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    Wasn't watching the game, who was on deck when Barret struck out? Macias or Dubois? I just don't understand how Baker can go out and say in public that Remlinger sucks against lefties, and then still uses him against lefties.
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