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Ya, if you're going of TE too, Antonio Gates is a big difference maker. I wish the Bears had a target like that to go to in the red zone.
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Will Carroll Source: Prior's 2006 Injury = Wood's 2005
David replied to Mephistopheles's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
No, thank you on Zito. Schmidt, please. -
Why don't you start a thread about how somebody thinks ARod, Tejada, and Cabrera would all be great fits with the Cubs? Or how Cesar Izturis would be a great fit with some other... ah, hell, nevemind. :x
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I'd hope for the return date to be February of 2007.
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Soriano soon to be traded?...
David replied to Cubzfan64's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Which again, just proves the point that there is no risk in putting in the claim. The claim is riskless. Risk does not exist for making the claim. No team would be at risk for putting in a claim on Soriano. Any claim put in on Soriano would come without risk. QFT... I'm not sure what about goony's point hasn't gotten across here the 500x he's explained it. -
First, I never compared Beltran to ARod in terms of talent. Second, Beltran was extremely highly regarded due to his incredible potential (on top of what he was already producing) and his young age. What had Sosa done at Beltran's age? I'd much rather sign a 26 year old to that sort of contract than a 32 year old. I'd prefer to pay for future production in contracts rather than reward past production.
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This isn't exactly true. Beltran was already being hyped (sort of the way ARod was) as the big free agent of the class well before the 2004 season started.
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In 2004, the Cubs had the best chance of winning. When Hendry signed Maddux the chances increased even more. Disagree. The 2004 Cubs with Beltran and Cruz/Rusch (2004)/Mitre are a better team that the 2004 Cubs with Maddux and Patterson. The only way to get Beltran in 2004 was a trade. Maddux and Beltran were not choices up against each other. Maddux was signed after the 03 season, and Beltran was traded to Houston in June of 04 and became a free agent after the 04 season. We had no idea that a player like Beltran would automatically be available the next offseason (and of course Beltran hadn't completely broken out then either) when we signed Maddux before the 04 season. And again 17 million a year for Beltran is alot and I mean alot of money! Sosa was in that vicinity, and Beltran would've been our new superstar talent. They only would've had to have swallowed one year of both contracts.
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I'm not sure about that because Houston was pretty close to the Mets in money and years and Houston doesn't even have state taxes...And yet he still went to the Mets. It would've taken more then 9 million a year to sign Beltran, and Maddux was signed after Beltran signed. So signing Maddux has nothing to do with not signing Beltran. The Cubs made a fair offer to Beltran but Mets offered more...17 million a year for Beltran is a lot of money... Wrong. And nobody is saying that Beltran would've signed for 9 million. But the 9 million could easily have been used to up our "offer," which, IIRC, was reported to be in the 5 year 12-13 per range or something like that... (I'm a little hazy on the numbers)
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If Hendry had not wasted 9 mil/year signing Maddux (that was a terrible contract), there would've been more than enough money to sign Beltran, even taking into account whatever payroll restrictions there may or may not have been. I still think Beltran would've taken a bit less if he didn't have to go to NY. It was widely believed that Beltran wanted nothing to do with NY (be it the Yanks or Mets); of course, when you get offered that kind of money, there's not much of a choice. I could be wrong.
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I LOLed. Congrats, Fred!
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Ugh, imagine if we had gotten Beltran that offseason... I still remember (during the 04-05 offseason) having hopes of.. Walker, Beltran, Nomar, Ramirez, Lee, Sosa, Barrett, Patterson w/Wood, Prior, Zambrano, Maddux, and ?? Instead, we spent the whole offseason trading Sosa and picked up Hairston and Burnitz... :x
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Yes, that's got to be it. It becomes pretty obvious once you actually read what people write, instead of taking unwarranted jabs. Don't give me any garbage about unwarranted jabs. Nobody took a jab. You had been spouting nonsense in this thread that Hendry was a genius then an up-and-coming superstar from 2003-2005. Hendry has had his fair share of detractors since he was named GM, and just because you remember it differently doesn't make it so. The quotes below lead me to believe that you actually believe that "everyone thought Hendry was a genius until a couple of months ago". Then we remember things differently. That's the memory I had also. Where did you read anything negative about Hendry in that time span Goon? QFT
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I'll start the QFT bandwagon here. Also, I prefer the current, no-name home jerseys. It just looks better. It's not so much about team mentality vs. individuals, clubhouse chemistry or any of that BS. Home team fans should be able to identify their own players by their numbers, anyway.
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Yes, happy birthday, Juan. Now, please go sign with Colorado in the offseason.
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His 2004 wasn't too far off... .318/.373/.578/.951
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That Aramis has only had 18 HR in those two months of his torrid stretch reminds me of how truly amazing June of 1998 was.
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... .277/.341/.545 now... How ridiculous would his numbers be right now if he hadn't gone .259/.320/.481 in the first half? :shock:
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This couldn't be any further from the truth.
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how many more bad starts til mark prior "jumps the shar
David replied to rocket's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Unfounded allegations and accusations are so awesome! -
These are hairs that don't need to be split. .325 is just as crappy as .320, and Pierre has been right around there for the past 1.5 seasons.
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how many more bad starts til mark prior "jumps the shar
David replied to rocket's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Maybe he was sick but didn't want to miss his start for fear of being ripped further by the fans and media. :?: -
I think that the beat reporters that don't do their research and call him out on these idiotic statements are just as imbecilic. I don't disagree.
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I'm surprised he wasn't called out on it in the very article where they posted the quotes. Wow. He's an imbecile.
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Dusty to Testify in Steroid Investigation
David replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Bwahahahahahha...
