UMFan83
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Self-toture is not good. Take off your tin foil hat. There is noting suspicious going on. Re-read my post. I didn't say there was a conspiracy going on. I said I am trying to link together 2 seemingly unrelated things into making sense. Makes no sense that Lamar would abruptly quit his position and reveal no reason why. Likewise, it doesn't make a lot of sense that Ricketts would extend Fleita and probably Wilken while he's searching for a new GM to make decisions on people like them. So my post was trying to find some link between the two....which I identified as Wilken and Lamar's previous working relationship. I doubt this is the case, but its fun to speculate at least.
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Bears game 1: Sunday, Sep 11 vs ATL, noon on Fox
UMFan83 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Before you get too excited about having our own Ed Werder...this is Josina Anderson: -
I was hoping he would play. Now Favre pretty much has his stupid ass record guaranteed for life.
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The thing that scares me about a possible LaMar GM hire is the fact that we resigned Fleita and are rumored to be resigning Wilken. Is there any connection between those 2 things (lamar resignation and wilken/fleita resigning) The more I think about it, the more I can't believe that Ricketts would be dumb enough to lock up two important positions in baseball operations before hiring a GM, or having one in mind. It goes against all logic, no matter how you feel about those 2 people. What if you could have had Theo Epstein, but he doesn't want Fleita, so you are stuck with people like Chuck Lamar. So is it possible he decided on Lamar and signed Fleita and Wilken (who worked with Lamar in TB) in order to convince him to leave the Phillies and take the GM job. Before JH was fired it was rumored that Wilken was loyal to him. So is a benefit to hiring Lamar keeping Wilken? We already know Ricketts values Wilken, as evidenced by the unprecidented amount of money he allowed the Cubs to spend on Wilken's draft this year. I don't even really believe what I am saying, because as others pointed out, Lamar goes against everything Ricketts said he was looking for in a new GM a couple of weeks ago. But I am just trying to draw connections between a series of very suspicious moves (Fleita/Wilken resigning and Lamar abruptly resigning from Phi with no reason given)
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???? I'm an idiot and refused to like Edmonds when he was here. I spent so much time hating him in St. Louis that I would have felt cheap had I embraced him as a Cub. I hated him as a person, not just as a guy who beat us up over his career, so I have a hard time just sweeping that under the rug just because he hits a few homers for the Cubs. Don't get me wrong, I settled on "I am pleased with what he did as a Cub" and if we had to do it again, I would be ok with the signing of course, but nothing he did made me like him.
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John Grabow might be my least favorite Cub of the last 5 years. That's right, he surpassed Edmonds awhile ago.
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He was the GM in charge back in the day when anytime someone was interested in a Devil Rays player they would ask for a ridiculous return for them, right? I know that had something to do with the influence of the owner but still.
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John Grablow. The $5.5 million dollar man.
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Pena career against lefties: .738 OPS Pena 2011 against lefties: .597 OPS
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That's kind of scary. He resigned suddenly, and won't reveal publicly why. Why would you do that if you didn't have something else lined up.
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Gotta love when a guy hits a double the very next pitch after a caught stealing.
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lol @ Bob "Uggghh, come ON Koyie"
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You know the Brewers are on pace for 96 wins and hold a ~10 game lead in the division right?
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If the Cubs walked any less, they'd have to change their name to the Chicago Stephen Hawkings. Really?
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I had a feeling once I saw LaHair was coming up, mostly because I doubt Leake has much of a book on him. Then when he went up 2-0 I had a great feeling. Good stuff.
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Nevermind, I guess we robbed him
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We got ROBBED by Mike Leake. Get it??
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http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/mlb-playoffs-seeding-races-news-and-n... This is from Ken Rosenthal's column. He rips on Ricketts for the Fleita extension. Here is the Cubs' part:
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I guess Chris Carpenter was not thrilled about not getting called up...
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PS I was able to access Bruce's blog without any issues just now.
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If true, I'm sorry Bruce, I enjoy your reporting, but I'm not going to pay for it when I can get tons of free information on the web. I guess I can understand why the DH is doing this, although I think it will blow up in their face. They must be one step away from bankrupcy to be trying that.
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At least we have the computers on our side.
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Ricketts' List of GM Candidates (Chicago Tribune)
UMFan83 replied to MrCub14's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
It worked for Sammy Sosa. Career OBP pre-1998: .308 Career OBP post-1998: .372 The problem is, a lot of agressive hitters seem to get exploited in the minors for their free swinging ways and never make it in the bigs long enough to get that kind of treatment from pitchers. I am not exactly asking for super patient prospects, I'd be ok with average patience from them. -
And its funny that the team that South Florida beat that vaulted them from unranked to 5th, is out of the top 25 in his poll. If they were such a juggernaut, why aren't they ranked anymore? Also, Oregon loses to his new number 1 in pretty much a road game and drops all the way to 25th? wow
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My bad, sorry about that. Look at this one dude's ballot: http://thegazette.com/2011/09/06/my-ap-top-25-ballot-1-lsu/ He has South Florida #5, Northwestern #14, Maryland #19, Houston #23, Michigan #24, Oregon #25.
