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How to solve the Soriano dilemma?
UMFan83 replied to ER Cub's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Do you honestly think someone would claim him? You never know. The Jays probably didnt think that Rios would be claimed. The best bet would be a contending team atempting to block the team aboove them. I could see the Red Sox claiming him to block the Yankees or the Giants to block the Dodgers. Whatever happens, Sorianos on his way to being the most hated man in Chicago since Gacy. WSR listen to me. There is absolutely zero chance that any gm in baseball that would ever even consider claiming Soriano. Why would a contending team try to block Soriano from going to another contending team?you see how bad Sorianos hurting us, why wouldn't another team care if their rivals had his miserable bat in the lineup for the next 5 seasons at 18m per. Plus any team that sees Soriano on waivers knows what a miserable contract he has and claiming him is a really really bad risk. Not going to happen, plus I'd be pretty certain he's already been through and cleared waivers. -
How to solve the Soriano dilemma?
UMFan83 replied to ER Cub's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I still love the Zito for Soriano trade suggestion. I feel like Zito could hurt us less by pitching as a 5th starter or long reliever than Soriano could playing 150 games in Left Field. We're gonna have to pay all or most of the contract anyways if we do trade him elsewhere so whatever, just clear the LF position for an upgrade. -
Haha, we are proving this weekend that the strategy worked. The offense looks eerily similar to the one last October. No hope of anything, but you still watch hoping that your intuition is for some reason wrong. So we lost today on a Randy Wolf 2 run double. He pitched seven 1 hit innings, and provided all the runs scored by the Dodgers today. He also had as many hits as the Cubs did all game.
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Lou said before the same that he was getting Marmol into the game no matter what because he hasn't worked all week. So if anything Lou is showing a lack of faith in the offense if he's burning his closer in the 8th inning of a 1 run game.
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So...since Marmol is now the closer, he's gonna get shelled in non-save situations I guess.
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I love how Bradley slipped and fell right on his butt right after Fuld caught that. :lol:
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It's amazing how you just know with pretty decent certainty that the Cubs aren't going to score anymore runs at a certain point. Of course they've only got 1 hit so it doesn't look like they've brought their bats to LA.
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Remember when we signed Soriano, we would have expected him to do something like steal second base in a game where we are down by 1 in the 8th inning.
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Awful AB by Ramirez. We've had 1 hit all game, lets just try to get hit number 2, not necessarily have to be a HR.
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Go offense
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Fuld should have played for Soriano. Hopefully that will be the case soon if Piniella's comments mean anything.
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andy laroche was a really good prospect The best right handed hitter of his generation playing motivated was traded for one really good prospect and one average prospect. I'd say they got him cheaper than his true value. im just saying that andy laroche was not ".30 cents on the dollar". they gave up a really good prospect for him. OK, sorry, 60 cents on the dollar. I just threw a number out there.
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I still mostly hate the Yankees, but its funny they haven't been in the thick of things long enough that I'd probably rather see them in the World Series over the Red Sox.
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Yeah we could have played better in May and June which would have allowed us to withstand a down stretch like this. But it sure feels like these 2 weeks sunk our season.
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andy laroche was a really good prospect The best right handed hitter of his generation playing motivated was traded for one really good prospect and one average prospect. I'd say they got him cheaper than his true value.
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Nice job Riot, you haven't made a baserunning gaffe in awhile.
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We never score that way. Kudos.
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Also, I have no doubts that the Cubs can and will remove Hendry if they choose to. But keep in mind that he did just sign a big contract extension last offseason. This might be a factor in the decision to keep or toss Hendry if it's a close one for Ricketts.
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Ned Coletti is terrible. The reason he has "done so much" with the Dodgers is because the farm system was stocked before he got there (Ethier, Kemp, Loney, Billingsley, Broxton, etc), and he lucked into getting Ramirez for .30 on the dollar because everyone was afraid to pull the trigger on a player that quit on his previous team. Ned had to go for Ramirez because he was in danger of getting canned if the Dodgers didn't do well last year.
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Re: Sale of Cubs to Ricketts Complete (p. 15)
UMFan83 replied to 17 Seconds's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
So does the Ricketts family officially own the Cubs or does trib still technically own until approval? -
Sadly, this is definitely the most important storyline for the Cubs in today's game.
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Lou was a step up from Dusty Baker. Sandberg definitely can be worse. I want people to know while we abuse Lou a bit here, he's an infinitely better than Baker. Baker was in his own world. I still think that an "involved" Lou is not a bad choice to manager your team. But the way he's managed in the face of adversity really turned me off to him.
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Maybe the expectations weren't super high but there were expectations for that team. Until Derrek Lee went down we were doing ok. Not saying we would have been much better but there were a lot of injuries that year. It reminds me a little bit of how our starting staff keeps getting injured. I think we saw 17 starting pitchers that year....Mateo, Marmol, Ryu, Walrond, Marshall, Maddux, Zambrano, Hill, Guzman, Prior, Wood, O'Malley, Jerome Williams, Wade Miller, Rusch...I'm probably missing a few. I also remember the teams in the Central not looking particularly imposing that year. We know what happened with the Cardinals, but going into the season, the NL Central looked like the Cubs could win it. I still go back and forth on whether 2002 or 2006 was the more miserable season this decade. Yeah the fact that the Cardinals won the division with 83 wins was like a final slap in the face for Cubs fan. No wait, I stand corrected, them winning it with 83 wins was the final slap. I mean, the 08 Cubs had more wins last season than the 06 Cardinals, playoff wins included.
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Yup, I remember everyone thinking the playoffs were an inevitability for this team. I'll admit I was mostly on that bandwagon. As painful as last year's playoffs were, I had a slight hope that we'd get another shot the next year. Whoops...just more misery for Cubs fans.
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Horrible strike 3 call...ump wants to go home. I saw the pitch, and then looked back down at my computer sure it was a ball...then I heard "called strike 3" and looked up in disbelief.
