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  1. dime
    Baker had to hit patterson leadoff after corey asked him; it was the first sign of any initiative that patterson has shown in his career...baker couldn't have rebuffed him -- what if the light had gone on for corey?
  2. dime
    BURNETT TO CUBS: I'M HIGH ONNNNNNNNNN YOU!" Added Jim Hendry: "I can feel you tremble when we touch..."
  3. dime
    the A's miss tejada more than anyone thought they would, it would seem his value goes beyond his awesome stats
  4. dime
    I don't think I can remember a team ever trading for 3 starting OFs at once.
  5. dime
    larussa and baker are basically kissing cousins...the difference is that baker is paranoid about the media, larussa is paranoid about other teams/managers/players
  6. dime
    Corey ain't no Tori Hunter, fellas. Hunter 269/343/495, 19 steals I don't have the heart to look up what Patterson's stats are.
  7. dime
    I agree that Hendry's rep makes it tougher for him to get a good deal; other GMs are wary of trading with him because Jim knows what he's doing. He probably works harder than anyone else to try and make up for it; the Nomar deal last year was about 98% hendry, and I'm still amazed he pulled it off.
  8. dime
    too bad ripken didn't step aside all those years he was voted in and didn't deserve it...
  9. dime
    posednik can't hit good pitchers, so his value is more than a bit overstated. unless you walk him he's unable to hurt you, and 90% of his steals are just stat-stuffing. he did that all the time with the brewers, it was kind of embarassing to watch him go for 2nd base down by 4 runs in the 8th inning. posednik will always be a fan favorite, and he will always be overrated. I'd much rather have burnitz, though.
  10. dime
    the point is that it's not very wise to ridicule a team that is humiliating yours. honestly, gotta explain everything to some of these cardinals fans!
  11. dime
    nice job, nostradamus. you only had to wait 2 months to bump your own thread after he threw a good game...
  12. dime
    both of these guys were complete players...hit for power, could run (bagwell was fast for a 1B) and were outstanding defensive players. I think they both have to get in, not sure what their stat lines will look like but they affected the game in every possible way.
  13. dime
    I don't care that Patterson is not a leadoff hitter...but I do care that he's not a good hitter. The Cubs have invested too much in him to settle for this poor man's Preston Wilson routine. They can't afford to "miss" on such a huge prospect...they don't have enough depth to settle for this. The Andrew Jones comparison was interesting, because at that time the Braves could have gotten anyone they wanted for Jones in a trade. Sadly, it would appear Patterson's trade value peaked a year or two ago. They have to stick with him, hopefully he will show some improvement.
  14. dime
    btw the Sisco-Brad Pitt analogy is begging to be used as a sig.
  15. dime
    >I understand that they thought he would return. But the odds are they were wrong. > I'd love to see some past examples of how many A-ball pitchers with Sisco's stats were, in fact, taken in the rule 5 and NOT returned. I'd guess the percentage is quite small.
  16. dime
    as I said in my previous post, I think the fact that the Cubs DID give up on Sisco in such dramatic fashion speaks volumes about how they felt he was doing. I don't think that success he has in a completely different environment, with (apparently) a completely different attitude, means that the Cubs were "wrong" or "made a mistake." If they tried to deal him, they likely would not have gotten much back, and more importantly they would never have Sisco again. By leaving him unprotected they figured they would have at least a 80 percent(?) chance at having him back, this time humble enough to listen.
  17. dime
    I think Baker would be great if he had a bench coach he was not threatened by...a Don Zimmer type to help him with in-game strategy.
  18. dime
    >Who's to say? Perhaps it was just his time to mature? Perhaps it started to "click" for him in the offseason, notwithstanding what team he was on? > I think it's much more likely that the Cubs felt they'd exhausted all attempts to reach Sisco, and could not find anything to justify a belief that Sisco would decide to suddenly turn himself around. In spite of the popular opinion here, Jim Hendry and the Cubs brass are not stupid. They do want to win games. With all the money and hope invested in Sisco, I imagine that a LOT of time and effort were spent trying to salvage him. To leave him unprotected says an awful lot about where they felt their investment was headed. I don't see how you can conclude that Sisco would have been humbled, lost 40 pounds, found Jesus or whatever else he's done if he remained with the Cubs under the same circumstances he was already in. "This time we REALLY mean it, Andy." Uh huh.
  19. dime
    I can't think of a single manager in my lifetime who has NOT been second-guessed on a daily basis. Bobby Cox has won what, 20 division titles in a row? And yet he is criticized all the time for not managing his bench properly or not getting along with jd drew etc etc. Sports fandom simply has no tolerance, and in general our society equates criticism with intelligence. Anyone who manages the Cubs will be ripped as "stupid" after a loss, Dierker included.
  20. dime
    how is will carroll's steroid book doing? anyone read it?
  21. dime
    how is will carroll's steroid book doing? anyone read it?
  22. dime
    ryu was hoping to bait a rare bird into striking distance, so he was looking for a treat. he reached for one of andy's twinkies, and the fight was ON.
  23. dime
    > his problems weren't so severe that they couldn't be dealt with. > how would you know what his problems were? you think he hurt his hand hitting a "wall", for crying out loud. the guy was a fat jerk, if getting cut is his wake-up call good for him. but he wasn't doing what the cubs asked of him and so they let him go. not a big loss.
  24. dime
    I must have missed the part where this guy became johan freaking santana. give me a break.
  25. dime
    I blocked out most of my memories of last year...was macias used as a defensive sub? If so, for whom?
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