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  1. UMFan83
    Is anyone not thrilled with the idea of getting two fast guys with slighty above average OBPs to put at the top of the lineup? Isn't that exactly what Dusty would want? Also how does it help to get rid of a potential .900 OPS and a potential .800 OPS and replace them with a player with around .770 OPS and one with a sub .700 OPS last year Obviously a high SLG is not of high importance at the top of the order, but overall in the lineup we lost Alou and Sosa last year, Nomar and Walker this year, where is the power coming from outside of Lee and Ramirez??
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    Shouldnt even be an option. Unless the option is let other teams bid high on him and sneak in and get Giles
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    UMFan83 replied to DivineBovine's topic in Other Sports

    Does anyone know if that pick is conditional? Like, if the Knicks get a top 2 pick or something, they keep it? I read somewhere it was conditional, but I asked the question on basketballboards.net's Bulls board (best Bulls message board out there btw) and they said it was unprotected
  4. UMFan83
    Whats sickening is not ONLY will the Cubs not sign him, but they will sit there and let the Cardinals take him. I would be willing to go a little more agressively at Giles, just to either A) Drive the price up or B) To take him away from the Cardinals. If they get Giles, your gonna have a hard time getting above third place in the Central for the next 2-3 years.
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    Don't know if this was mentioned already, but I think the Cubs will bid for Giles like they did for Beltran last year
  6. UMFan83
    Well if Furcal reups with the Braves, we can always fall back on Nomar? Or at the very worst, keep Walker and play Cedeno at SS....
  7. UMFan83
    Just wanted to "play" with this lineup 1. Furcal, SS 2. Giles, OF 3. Abreu, OF 4. Lee, 1B 5. Ramirez, 3B 6. Barrett, C 7. Crisp/Murton, OF 8. Cedeno, 2B
  8. UMFan83
    Yeah right. I'd say the questions are pre-arranged, but I know people who have asked before. I guess the question askers are just scared to speak out. Can you imagine: "How do you justify overpaying the market value (cite example of a player comperable or better to Neifi getting signed this offseason for similar role for much less) for a player who is below average at best and a player you know your questionable manager will end up starting over your up and coming player just because he was alive for Jimmy Carter's presidency?
  9. UMFan83
    How do you figure? Michigan won fair and square
  10. UMFan83
    Haha, doesn't Phillips read the newspapers? Giles is going to cost us too much. Plus Hendry doesn't think Giles can catch the ball on a consistant basis. Furthermore, Dusty hates his confounded system of "walking" in order to score runs.
  11. UMFan83
    You've done this before. No one ever advocated that team any more than anyone advocated a team of C Blanco 1B Karros 2B Jose Hernandez SS Neifi 3B Lenny Harris LF Todd Hollandsworth CF Tom Goodwin RF Burnitz Yes they have. I'd really like to see where. Dusty posts here? ;) But seriously, if this is a free exchange, then how can you call people out for calling Hendry a moron
  12. UMFan83
    I'm sorry, baseball is a business. Hendry is (meakly attempting) to be in the business of winning. He can't just go out and resign Nomar just because he bought a house in Chicago. He can't stick with what he thinks is a bad option at 2B if there are better options available to him. I don't care if Walker took less to stay here, them is the breaks. If you can't deal with it, then go for the money. I appreciate that he did that for the Cubs, but he can't tie us down and make us (in Hendry's eyes) a worse team just because he did a favor for us.
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    Should have been a Mets or Blue Jays fan. At least they've won titles recently.
  14. UMFan83
    Only the Cubs would field the least likable team in years, and then make every attempt to keep that team intact.
  15. UMFan83
    Hendry is overpaying for known quantities and trying to 'play it safe' with unknown quantities. That is why the Cubs haven't won a World Series in 97 years. Playing it safe....
  16. UMFan83
    I don't see what the big deal is. Neifi as a bench player isn't terrible. He's a good late inning defensive replacement at SS or 2B. He makes contact, although a lot of it is popups and groundouts. The money is a bit high, but whatever, it will work out. Wait a second, they didn't fire Dusty Baker to go along with this signing? HAVE THEY GONE MAD???
  17. UMFan83
    I was short on cash one day, and I really needed the money, so I sold my soul to the devil. Apparently, this (being a Cubs fan) is his version of hell. In all seriousness, I was a tweener (like I would imagine most suburban kids without direct parental allegence to one team were). I followed the Sox a lot in 1994-1995. Then at the end of 1995, I'm not sure if anyone remembers this, but the Cubs were hovering a few games over .500, but still in the Wild Card race. I think it was between the Cubs, Astros and Rockies. We were playing the Astros the final weekend. We needed to basically sweep and have the Rockies get swept. Well we won the first game in dramatic fashion and the Rockies lost. That game brought so much drama in me that I was hooked. I watched the second game, which we lost to be eliminated, and was disheartened. But still, I made my mom take me to the last game of the season. I'm pretty sure we lost that game, but I do remember Harry saying something during the 7th inning stretch to the effect of 'Well I know we say this every year...but I mean it this year. Just wait til next year!' and the crowd went nuts. I never went back to tweener status
  18. UMFan83
    Tomorrows Trib Headline: Breaking News: Cubs fans still enjoy mediocrity; possibility of Sox fans buying to gloat slim
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    On a related note, I thought this article about a proposed Larry Bigbie for Kelly Stoppach trade that was agreed to and recinded was interesting. http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/sports_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_83_4214580,00.html
  20. UMFan83
    Do you think Bill Meuller would come back as a backup for 2.5 million? If so, I'd love that bench.
  21. UMFan83
    With regards to Walker in Left Field: Walker is valuable because he puts up good numbers for a second baseman at his price. Move him to left field, and while he is still cheap, he has severely lacking numbers from a corner OF. Especially when your other OFs could be Corey Patterson and Matt Murton. I think the same even goes for Nomar, who even though he showed he still has power in August and September, can't be counted on to put up the 30 HR /.900 OPS numbers that should be expected from one of your corner OFs.
  22. UMFan83
    :lol: Was it Tony Batista or Tony Wolmack (or both) who had another very quirky stance back in the day?
  23. UMFan83
    A lot of mine are all disapointing Cubs for the most part Jeff Fassero Mel Rojas Jose Macais Gary Gaietti circa 1999 Lenny Harris Rnez Enrique Wilson Alex "$%#" Gonzalez Jim Edmons Roy Oswalt Lance Berkman Josh Paul (tag the batter you idiot) Austin Kearns Rob Mackoigaogdfsogosiak Sammy Sosa after 2003 Javier Valentin I'm sure there is more. I hate more then I love
  24. UMFan83
    I can't wait until Jose Macais is retained too....
  25. UMFan83
    I'm telling you guys, if we got Furcal, Giles and Lofton and they play relatively similar to last year, we'd have among the top 2-3 efficient offenses in baseball
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