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I don't see how this could be a bad deal. It's got to be nigh impossible to be worse than Bowen: .065 .167 .092 OPS+ -29 Haha. There's no way in hell Kendall will not outperform that. Of course, I've never heard of Blevin so I don't know what we really gave up there. But just speaking of the catcher swap, this literally can not be bad for us. 900K is chump change for the Cubs. -
Ack, Crew looking good again tonight. Lincecum pretty much bitch-slapping us. Not looking good right now.
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According to the Bears message board, Rosenhaus said that they will get a 1-year deal done by training camp. It certainly sounds like Briggs knows he lost this battle and won't sit out any part of the season. I hope so. Having Briggs for the entire season would be a big boost. Well OK, it's not really a 'boost' -- it would be a nice, uh, recapture of what we already had? :?
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We have won one playoff series in the last 100 years and Kerry is the main reason for it. That is why he can do nothing for three years yet still be the best. Too bad game 7 happened? Where was he in that one? From what I can recall, Dusty Baker got pantsed by an 103 year old man who got lucky with every decision he made and we lost after leading 5-3. Seemed like the luck continued all the way through the World Series that year, much like it did for the Cards last year.
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One thing about Soto though that I'm liking -- and I admit the sample size is small -- is that it looks like his pegs to 2nd are better than any of the other catchers we have sans Blanco. He definitely had one throwout yesterday that was miscalled, and it was a perfect throw. The other could also have been called out because the ball beat the runner -- that throw was only slightly worse, to the 1st base side but up a little. I for one would like to see Cub catchers at least throw out an occasional runner trying to steal. Hopefully those 2 Soto throws weren't just lucky.
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He better not wind up with the Cards after we paid to rehab him, I can tell you that.
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I don't think they'll wind up being big sellers either. We'll see.
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Sometime in '08, hopefully earlier.
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I don't think that will be such a huge number by the time the bidding is done. It is likely IMO that the bidding will reach close to 1 billion just because of the number of buyers involved and the passion that some of them will have to really want to buy the Cubs (Cuban won't be the only one who won't look it as completely a business decision). Yeah...if $850 million is his cap...I don't know if he'd even be the top bidder...which would make it much easier for MLB to say "we gave him a shot!" Yeah I've heard as high as $1billion. $850mil doesn't seem all that much. The Forbes value of the ballclub is pretty much meaningless when determining how much it will sell for. The Forbes number is for just the ballclub I believe, and does not include Wrigely Field, which in all likelihood would be sold along with the Cubs in a package deal. That's a good point if you're right. I don't know the components of the Forbes valuation. It's pretty much a given the Cubs will sell for far more than that figure.
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I don't think that will be such a huge number by the time the bidding is done. It is likely IMO that the bidding will reach close to 1 billion just because of the number of buyers involved and the passion that some of them will have to really want to buy the Cubs (Cuban won't be the only one who won't look it as completely a business decision). Yeah...if $850 million is his cap...I don't know if he'd even be the top bidder...which would make it much easier for MLB to say "we gave him a shot!" Yeah I've heard as high as $1billion. $850mil doesn't seem all that much. The Forbes value of the ballclub is pretty much meaningless when determining how much it will sell for.
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Cool, keep that pressure on boys! Gonna enjoy me some Sunday, have fun everyone 8-)
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SWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!
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Crazy Sunday game. WIN IT.
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YEAH
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What? He's thrown 27 over two different innings. Howry makes me a little more nervous than Wuertz, that's all. It's all about my feelings, you know 8-)
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What? He's thrown 27 over two different innings. Howry makes me a little more nervous than Wuertz, that's all. It's all about my feelings, you know 8-)
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Ack, Cmon Howry pitch good.
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Hmmmm.... That wasn't many pitches. Leave Wuertz in to start the 9th??
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yeah weak popper. must get lee.
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Wow. Probably not a strike but this ump is so damn inconsistent.
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That makes me feel a tad better.
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Got a bad feeling about this
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Got the 2 outs and then just can't get the last one.
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Well, Rockies just tied it.
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Agreed. We definitely need replay challenges in MLB.
