DivineBovine
-
Posts
2,359 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Joomla Posts 1
Chicago Cubs Videos
Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking
News
2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
Guides & Resources
2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
The Chicago Cubs Players Project
2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker
2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker
Blogs
Events
Forums
Store
Gallery
Everything posted by DivineBovine
-
Josh Hamilton Free Agency talk already starting, and Jeff Passan of Yahoo has the Cubs a distant 3rd behind Texas and the Dodgers in the sweepstakes. He'll be 32. How much is he even worth? Teams might be more hesitant now to throw huge money and years at a 32 year old. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/10-degrees--looking-beyond-josh-hamilton-s-legendary-week-to-handicap-his-free-agent-market.html;_ylt=AuxOzgPqnqSafRz6GIKDmGk5nYcB
-
Bosh out "indefinitely". Miami is not good enough to win it all without him.
-
How much would you have bet me if I predicted Darwin Barney would have a better OPS than Pujols by mid-May?
-
Kobe is damn good. I don't get the overrated talk. He's clearly in decline, but Kobe in his prime was the closest thing to MJ the NBA has seen since. Clearly, he's no MJ. But I don't get the Bulls fans who refuse to give him credit for being really good. I'd take Kobe in his prime over LeBron in his prime.
-
Lottery? That's crazy thinking. The team will make the playoffs next year.
-
I wonder if this happens if he's playing in Chicago. NY definitely. Chicago probably. A place like Atlanta, no way. I can't believe this is such an issue. And the national media is getting on him too. Mike and Mike were all over him. Pitchers play golf between starts all the time. Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz played insane amounts of golf during the season. Always had their clubs with them. When did all the Boston meatheads get their MDs and do the physical exam on Beckett so they could decide that golf could aggravate a pitching injury. I don't get it.
-
He's batting below .200. What kind of Vegas odds could you have gotten on that before the year?
-
We can replace Brewer with Butler, but its gonna be tough to get similar production from Korver and Watson with the veterans minimum. As bad as they were in the playoffs, they were valuable in the regular season, and I think Korver really struggled getting open without Rose out there in the playoffs. Even without Rose, Korver remains basically our only dangerous shooter. I'm not sure who they are going to be able to get for the vet minimum who can come in and run around screen after screen to get open and hit 40% of his 3s. If the Bulls werent cheap, I'd suggest amnestying Boozer and resigning all 3. This way, you give Taj starter minutes, you keep most of your depth which carried us at times this year, and the difference between Boozer's contract and Brewer/Korver/Watson combined leaves you with $2.4 mil extra, which can be spent to replace backup PF and would probably net a better player than could be had for the vet minimum. But I just cannot see Reinsdorf willing to eat $50 million. Is amnesty of Boozer a realistic option? A lot of people mention this, and it certainly seems like a good idea. But I've never heard it even mentioned by any credible source. And I thought you're only liable for the part of the contract that another team doesn't pick up. Someone will pay Boozer decent money. It's not like he's making 400% of what he's worth, like Soriano for instance.
-
Might as well root for the Celtics. Perhaps they can make it at least mildly interesting in the ECF.
-
OK. The article states he missed a sub-5 foot putt at Pebble Beach when he and Phil were in the final group on Sunday. There. And the main point of my initial statement had to do with "clutchness" in his putting, not necessarily about specific putts. In the past, it wasn't even 4 footers. He has rolled in huge 10 footers over and over again. Being asked to name the last time he missed a 4 footer is like being asked when the last time Soriano misplayed a ball in the outfield after making a statement that he is not a good fielder. OK. Enough of the tangent.
-
Do you watch golf? Have you seen the big putts Tiger has dropped in his career? Have you seen the ones he misses now? I want to know when the last time Woods missed a big 4 foot putt was. Are you kidding me?! Do you even play golf? So you can knock in a 4 footer on the windmill hole at your local mini golf course and you think it's the same thing in professional golf? Or are you just trying to be contrarian. I can't believe I am arguing with someone that Tiger Woods can't putt like he used to. What's next? DRose is not valuable? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/sports/golf/tiger-woods-struggling-with-putting-accuracy.html
-
Do you watch golf? Have you seen the big putts Tiger has dropped in his career? Have you seen the ones he misses now?
-
Agreed that Jordan was just better, although I have to give Kobe credit and acknowledge that he's close. However, Jordan was unbelievably clutch. Some of it has to do with the fact that he could always create a decent shot in the half court against a good defender. Kobe does this well too. However, he happened to make more than his fair share of them. Some people might say it is chance, but I definitely believe there is a mental component. Tiger Woods went 10 years without missing a 4 foot putt that mattered. And after the Thanksgiving incident, he can't seem to ever make one. Maybe I'm in the minority one this board, but I believe in clutch in sports.
-
Aint going to happen, but it would be nice to see NY win tonight in Miami. Early lead for them.
-
Thanks for the advice. And thanks for letting me know what happened to Werth, who happens to be on my team too. Sh!t.
-
Did you miss the part where I mentioned he was worth 5.2 WAR in 2004? Let me know if LaHair ever sniffs that. To be fair, that 5.2 WAR is largely because of his incredible fielding numbers that year, which is either extremely flukish or more likely just plain wrong. His UZR/150 in 2003 was 2.8. In 2005 it was 6.5. In 2004 it was 30.7. He's only had 1 other year where it was even double digits! (excluding 2009, when he only had 50 fielding innings all season). That's why there's such a huge discrepancy between fangraphs and baseball reference for that year. BR has him as a good defensive player that year, and only has him at 2.7 WAR for 2004. That's probably closer to what Patterson was that year, with a possibility of up to a 3.5 or 4 win player. But he almost certainly wasn't anywhere near a 5 win player. It's very fishy to have a player coming off a major knee injury have by far his best defensive season of his career, which is what the fangraphs numbers would indicate. Yep,Pattersons fangraphs 5.2 WAR is most certainly an error. He was certainly more valuable than LaHair defensivly, but anyone using the 5.2 WAR as an arguing factor needs to work a little harder. It is simply a flawed/inacurrate stat. Thanks for the WAR arguments guys. Yeah, I'll stand by my statement but from an offensive standpoint.
-
So maybe after they lose in 5 we can stop hearing this idiocy about how DRose is overrated and how he's not that valuable.
-
Someone offered me Harper for LaHair. Should I take it? I'm stacked at 1B, and both guys can play OF so position is inconsequential.
-
Bryan LaHair has a long way to go before he matches what Corey Patterson did in the majors before hurting his knee. Talk to me when he gets there. Or since hurting his knee. Seriously. Corey was really good in 2004. Like really good. 2003 is (I think) what you're referring to. That was the year he got hurt, but 298/329/511 in 83 games as a 23 year old is pretty impressive. 2004 he went 266/320/452, which is still pretty good. 83 games in a year that turned out to be his best year by far. In 329 AB's, with a .329 OBP. OK. And he had 1 real good year in the minors, in single A at age 19. His hype was completely based on age and therefore "potential" upside. All his age got him was more years of mediocrity. OK. Let's see if LaHair gets there. I'll take LaHair's 2012-2013 vs Patterson 2003-2004. I'd make that bet.
-
Some of you guys are such ageists. The guy absolutely kicked ass in the minors and is kicking ass in MLB. People get so excited about a mediocre player in double A ball because he's 19. Everyone wants a potential Ken Griffey Jr. who dominates for 10-15 years. But that happens once a decade. Who wouldn't take Bryan LaHair over Corey Patterson.
-
A those empty seats in the box next to DRose. I'll take a few seats. Promise I won't bother him.
-
Terry with a rookie mistake on the bailout foul on Durant. Will cost them the game.
-
Dallas is showing some balls, and really showing why they are the champs. Playing like this, they might be able to beat any other team in the NBA. Actually, they might even win this series. If it wasn't for the prayer by Durant, they'd be in control here too.
-
Think about this. Nobody thought the Bulls had a chance in hell after MJ retired, and Scottie's Bulls came within a questionable call from the finals. Sure, MJ's Bulls were better than the 2012 Bulls, but MJ was a much bigger loss than DRose.
-
Still not sold on Miami. Assuming they get to the finals, which they probably do, they will probably be favorites against the Western Conference team. And I'd bet against them. A team that plays good defense and doesn't turn the ball over can easily beat them. I'd take OKC or SA. Miami's half court offense is still suspect. And I can already hear the LeBron haters getting on him disappearing it the fourth quarter. You heard it here first (or in the wrong thread).