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  1. 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?
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    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.
  3. 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.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    Jeff Loria is a horrible human being.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    UGH YOU [expletive] MORONS
  6. SouthSideRyan
    I'd imagine that phone records are some of the easiest things to monitor in the recruiting process. How hard is it to keep all recruiting calls to one cell phone per coach? How hard is it to monitor a cell phone call sheet?
  7. SouthSideRyan
    Hawpe is no worse defensively then the lot the Cubs have trotted out there recently. Sosa (the latter years), Hollandsworth, Grieve, Burnitz, Bradley, etc, etc, etc. The only remotely close to good defensively RF the Cubs have had is now playing CF. Hawpe is pretty clearly worse than all of those guys except maybe Grieve who played roughly 4 innings in RF for us.
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    I have no idea how somebody could consider Miguel Cabrera more valuable than Joe Mauer.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    would he have really? Going to bid for Olympics aren't things Presidents are expected to do, even if they are from the city. Considering the other 3 were there(right?), I think he'd take flack. I still think he was better off staying home for the loss(especially being the 1st one out), than being there for it. The White House misread this, but then again so did roughly everybody.
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    Medicine ball throws or low squat jumping jacks that burns the legs, but my student athletes don't come to practice late without a very good excuse. When we practice in the fall it is at 6:00 AM and they know if they aren't awake we will run by and wake them along with everyone on the block. That sounds even ruder than wearing a hat in public That sounds more dangerous than throwing rocks at a poisonous snake.
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    What city is the "greatest" has little to do with who wins the bid.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    Awkwardness is my boss laughing about this while the woman whose boyfriend is in construction gets more and more upset.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
  14. SouthSideRyan
    GO RIO
  15. SouthSideRyan
    I'm a bit surprised IU didn't receive any votes in either poll. I didn't expect them to be ranked, but with their only loss being a close road loss against a ranked team I thought they'd at least get noticed. You're surprised that a team that everyone thought would be awful isn't ranked because they barely beat EMU, WMU, and beat Akron?
  16. SouthSideRyan
    Oh right. I forgot. I guess I didn't play sports in high school and college. Pics or it's not true.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    They improved by 29 games the next year.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    Look at that Tigers roster. There are 6 players who've done anything of worth since then (Pena, Inge, Infante, Rodney, Bonderman, Young)
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    http://a.espncdn.com/i/page2/photos/040405kline.jpg
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    Charlie Manuel's gotta be not in there somewhere right?
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Not a way and hell that we could get Ross and Uggle giving up almost nothing. You would have to slide in Cashner/Carpenter, and another one of the Cubs upper level prospects.. Well the players and/or the money could be tweaked to get the trade done. With Ross and Uggla being mentioned often as trade bait and Hermida possibly being DFA, it might not be as expensive (in players) as you think. Maybe make the deal smaller by taking out Uggla: Bradley + Fuld/Colvin + Berg/Patton/Stevens + $10 million for Ross + Hermida It still gives us a decent CF and a 4th OF, leaves Baker/fontenot at 2B, and gets rid of Bradley ( :thumbsup: ).[/quote So in your opinion the trade value of Mike Fontenot is roughly Dan Uggla.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    At least we won't lose a draft pick when we sign Figgins to 5/70
  23. SouthSideRyan
    I do give Jim Tracey credit for getting the Rays to the world series last year.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    Am I alone in the thought that a team takes on the identity of its' coach? Are you discounting that entirely? Wouldn't the very White Sox team being discussed go against that thought?
  25. SouthSideRyan
    The quote looks like they'll try to find somebody else to bat 5th, not necessarily replace Bradley. I mean, they will replace Bradley, but that quote isn't really saying that. And this obsession lineup [expletive] is really [expletive] dumb.
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