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  1. XZero771679666304
    this Maybe, but that doesn't mean the point isn't valid. I think there's a pretty good chance that the first half of this year will prove to have been the high point of LaHair's career. He was being sarcastic about ordering 3 LaHair jerseys. Nothing to do with his production. Yeah, I glossed over that apparently.
  2. XZero771679666304
    this Maybe, but that doesn't mean the point isn't valid. I think there's a pretty good chance that the first half of this year will prove to have been the high point of LaHair's career.
  3. XZero771679666304
    1984 was my first season of paying real attention to the Cubs as well. But when you're that young, you're optimistic and resilient and the [expletive] doesn't eat you alive yet. Sure, you feel crushing disappointment, but only until you wake up the next morning.
  4. XZero771679666304
    In September, people are going to think your last name is Lahair when you wear those in public. Probably, unless the schedule can be arranged so that the Cubs play only the Cards for the rest of the season.
  5. XZero771679666304
    He's done "ok?" Seriously? Given the talent he's been surrounded by, he sure could have done a hell of a lot better. I'm kind of a passive observer here, but your're laying on the Romo love a bit heavy.
  6. XZero771679666304
    I have to wonder why anyone would want Lee. He's just about a replacement level player right now, and I somehow doubt he'll rediscover his power in Miami, or would have in LA.
  7. XZero771679666304
    Colvin had no future with the Cubs. If he hadn't been traded, he'd be on the bench or in Iowa, and probably would be next year as well. On top of that, he's benefiting from a platoon, Coors and an outlier of a babip. Given his 2011, Ian Stewart was about as good a return as could have been expected, and there's still an outside chance he'll be on the team next year. The trade doesn't look so hot right now (due in large part to Stewart's wrist), but I'm not losing a nanosecond of sleep over it.
  8. XZero771679666304
    Aside from the Seinfeld episode, a slogan totally unknown outside of people who lived in an area in NY and around NYC in the 90s and late 80s Actually, that's the first thing that came to my mind, and I've spent about a week total in NYC in my entire life. Don't ask me why.
  9. XZero771679666304
    And of course tomorrow's game has to be on WCIU. Guess I'll have to watch it in SNY.
  10. XZero771679666304
    Probably. But between Simmons still being unproven, Chipper being very injury prone, and them possibly someone to pair with Uggla at second/third when Chipper retires, he could have decent value to them. To echo what everyone else (and you, basically) are saying, he's more valued by us than he is to the rest of the league, and I'm only really in favor of trading him with others to sweeten a possible return. Pairing him with a pitcher to the Braves and all those young arms could be the way to do it (obviously, given the right return.) It had better really sweeten the return or else you just created another hole to fill on a team that has a ton of holes to fill now. I'd be a little reticent about trading a cost effective player, but I don't think replacing Darwin Barney would be a tall order. If some team wanted to give a decent return (like a decent pitching prospect), I'd deal him without much compunction. And I don't think it's out of the question that a team would want Darwin to plug in at SS, either.
  11. XZero771679666304
    Hmm....why not? Probably because those losses all but take them out of contention, even if they add a SP. Not every team folds up and gives up on entire seasons because it looks like it might be hard. That's just a Cubs thing. And picking your battles is often the prudent thing to do.
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    Hmm....why not? Probably because those losses all but take them out of contention, even if they add a SP.
  13. XZero771679666304
    Not looking forward to him being dealt, if for no other reason than that maniac Gville will turn up rejoicing like the team just had a tumor removed.
  14. XZero771679666304
    Soler's a FA now, apparently.
  15. XZero771679666304
    Hawk was dead wrong, though. AJP spiked Zobrist and he got drilled, and that's where it should have ended. Wegner tossed the pitcher to keep things from escalating (ostensibly). I'd bet Hawk's issue is that he didn't even take the blatant spiking into account because he doesn't think it was dirty.
  16. XZero771679666304
    Apparently Selig called Harrelson and chewed him out.
  17. XZero771679666304
    It's hard to blame all of Wood's injury issues on him since Wood started missing major time a good 3 years before Hendry became the GM. You can blame Wood's problems primarily on his high school coach, Jim Riggleman and Dusty Baker. Hendry is not high on the list.
  18. XZero771679666304
    Are we using BB's scale? The Grace Slumpbuster Curve.
  19. XZero771679666304
    Strawman. No one said "can't enjoy." The argument is "enjoy slightly less." No it isn't. You've said "ruined" all along. It is a lie. When something could be 10 on a 1-10 awesome scale, and instead it's an 8.5, I think it's reasonable to say it was "ruined." Yeah, not so much. Diminished, maybe. Ruined has a much more severe connotation.
  20. XZero771679666304
    It sure looks like Groce & Co. decided they like Moore better and that's why James is headed elsewhere.
  21. XZero771679666304
    I've said it before, but Hawk is a guy who should be limited to local radio. His homerism has no business reaching beyond the home town fans (well, it has no business reaching anyone, but what can you do). He's like Ronnie was, only he's a piece of [expletive].
  22. XZero771679666304
    We shouldn't have any sort of replay because the rare bad call isn't worse than the cheapening of virtually every cool sports moment involving a close play. IMO, Nothing cheapens a big moment more than knowing it came as the result of a blown call. It's a trade off (though you're embellishing a ton here), but I'll take getting right every time.
  23. XZero771679666304
    As Len and Bob have pointed out, games are delayed by arguments over calls all the time. With an extended replay system, you circumvent the argument and go straight to replay. In the final equation, it probably won't make any difference with regard to "ruining moments". There's no need for it to be instant. Moving past a bad/disputed call is never instantaneous.
  24. XZero771679666304
    It was in the mid-late 90's when it began to dawn on me that there was something very wrong with using most of the traditional stats to determine a player's worth, and it really coalesced in the early 2000's. So there wasn't a moment of epiphany or anything.
  25. XZero771679666304
    The lack of patience has been brought up in many of the game threads I've followed, and I've mentioned it more than a few times myself. And I've seen it discussed in other threads as well.
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