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  1. SouthSideRyan
    It's the standard Sagarin formula for the past 72 years. Tournament games are worth double.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2009/1004/cbe1.pdf Sagarin's comprehensive rankings over the past 72 years. AND GO
  3. SouthSideRyan
    I don't think anybody here has a shortage of GMs they'd take over Hendry. People are just afraid of how stupid most GMs are, and fear we'll be stuck with a Bavasi like buffoon.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    And it's not as if Joshua has had anything to work with. By the time players were reaching him at AAA(and to a lesser extent AA), they were pretty far along the line of being failed "prospects"
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    One guy who had one good year and then declined significantly. Not much of a case so far. So you believe '09 is Soto's true talent level. And that his '07 sucked. I think his true talent is probably somewhere between his 08 and 09, and his 60 PA in 07 don't really merit mentioning. Last I started paying close attention to the Cubs this year, Soto was absurdly unlucky on balls in play. He might not be as good as he was in '08, but he took a giant leap forward with 1 year of Joshua. I don't know why you'd toss out Soto's AAA #s that year. And why previously, you've stated you don't care what guys have done at AAA under him. Do you not believe that AAA stats translate to the majors?
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    One guy who had one good year and then declined significantly. Not much of a case so far. So you believe '09 is Soto's true talent level. And that his '07 sucked.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    I'm pretty hesitant to attribute big improvements to hitting coaches, but I'd say Geovany Soto is a pretty good starting point for Joshua's case.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    I think people are a lot more miffed at the 2 that pushed Vitters down to 3 rather than his ranking alone. It's an arbitrary ranking of prospects in Low A ball. He had one good month there. I don't get the uproar. I think you're making it more of an uproar than the people reacting. But one good month is better than whatever Aaron Hicks was doing this year.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    When the current GM has already fired two of the most respected batting coaches in the business within just a few months of each other, who can you realistically expect Hendry to hire next? You are dreaming if you think Jaramillo would come here so that he can be the next person Hendry blames for his own shortcomings. Since when did Von Joshua become one of the most respected hitting coaches in the game? People weren't exactly lining up to hire him while he spent the last several years in the Cubs minor league system. This whole Von Joshua uproar is getting out of control. Von Joshua has been very highly regarded for quite a while now. People keep saying that, but he's been a minor league coach for several seasons and he's in his 60's. How highly regarded could he possibly be? Everybody who stays around long enough in baseball is a good baseball guy, but if Von Joshua was only able to get a job as the Cubs AAA hitting coach, he can't be that much in demand. Maybe he was comfortable.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    I think people are a lot more miffed at the 2 that pushed Vitters down to 3 rather than his ranking alone.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    That seems like a waste of Bradley and a good way to ensure he loses his mind.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    I think calling the kid fat was back in August. And no charges were filed with regards to any domestic abuse.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    Well, he's certainly the safety-est pick in the draft... NCCub is going to murder you in your sleep.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Screw the rumors saying as much, and screw Bruce Miles explicitly saying it. BacktoBanks knows best.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    Bum saw everyone rip on him for using "mine as well" in the past. That's why he got rid of the stupid spaces.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    As a Cubs/Packers fan, the whole DeRosa and Favre thing doesn't help either. DeRosa's not very good. You're better than that. Well neither is Favre.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    No they wont. And the dog might have caught the rabbit had he not stopped to take a [expletive] too. I guess we'll just have to settle for seven national championships lol What were you alive for like one of them?
  18. SouthSideRyan
    I watched The Commitments instead of this crap. What kind of announcing were you people expecting?
  19. SouthSideRyan
    He doesn't want to get suspended for the start of the playoffs. If I was a Dodger fan, I'd prefer he did.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    He was inconsistent, but pretty damn good his sophomore year, if just for the Ohio St. game alone.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    I think a lot of the "RBI" talk is based on the fact that Bradley will be traded. I'm sure Lou would learn to love Bradley and his OBP if Bradley wouldn't be such a jerk. I guarantee that if Drew acted like Bradley (dissing the city, the front office, the fans, teammates, and the manager), Theo would trade him in a second. I wonder what Theo would do if he had someone much better than Bradley, like a Manny Ramirez type? He'd trade him for a comparable player who made less money and was signed for more years?
  22. SouthSideRyan
    His laid-back approach is exactly what the Cubs need more of to take the pressure off. Until the Cubs lose again. Then he's lazy and doesn't care.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    Because his whip and k/bb were good with Boston too. The reason Smoltz sucked with Boston wasn't due to bad peripherals, it was because he was getting the living hell beat out of him every time they made contact. Smoltz is the guy that isn't accounted for by FIP because he'd have ordinarily been weeded out of the majors by now. The reason FIP works is when you get to the majors the guys that get the crap beat out of them on balls in play are out of the league.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    Jeff Loria is a horrible human being.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    UGH YOU [expletive] MORONS
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