David

That was my point though. Bobby is still in baseball, and would be a viable managerial candidate, when what bsb has been arguing is that there aren't viable candidates available. At least I think that's what he's arguing, since he's asked about 4 times in this thread for managerial candidates. I honestly thought he was genuinely curious as to what Davey Johnson is up to nowadays.. Maybe I'm naive. :?

It's OK if you can do it, but we're 29th in OBP and 30th in SLG. It ain't happenin'. Exactly. :cry:

I'm all for station-to-station baseball. Get runners on base, hit home runs and doubles. Sign me up.

As opposed to what? Wishing he wouldn't come back healthy and pitch well? As opposed to having him just leave without the Cubs being able to at least try to get something for him. If he pitches poorly he hurts us because the Cubs will lose and nobody will want to trade for him. Well, right. I'm just saying I don't understand you "almost" wanting him to come back healtlhy and do well. Even if it didn't raise his trade value, you'd presumably want him to do well because that would mean the Cubs were doing well (at least in those games).

As opposed to what? Wishing he wouldn't come back healthy and pitch well?

Excellent post. I second everything you said. Yea. These guys miss time because they don't have "testicular fortitude." Righttttt.. :roll:

Huh? CP's OBP is in the .320's (and, at this point, is above Jones's). It couldn't have changed that much since Friday. And Jacque's OPS is slightly higher, .787 vs. .771... Not sure where you got your numbers from... EDIT - Guess it could've changed that much, since CP had great days Friday and Saturday. Still, just goes to show that the sample sizes still aren't that big.

No, it isn't. That argument is absolutely crazy. Taking Diffusion's coinflip reference as an example, you could flip a coin 99 times, it could land heads 99 times in a row, and that doesn't mean that the "current probability" of getting heads is 100%. It's still 50-50.

Ridiculous. Neither Stone nor Brenly are idiots. JC, you think that Stone would be an effective GM? You have any proof saying he wouldnt? He seems to hold the same old conventional wisdom BS beliefs (offensively, especially) that hold back all the old schoolers in this game. Forgive me if this stuff doesn't make sense. I've already started pregaming my Saturdsay night.

What did our brilliant manager say now? :roll:

While I wont doubt that Jesse Jackson might jump all over it, I do doubt that this is somehow preventing the Cubs from firing someone. Jesse Jackson = clown. Seconded. The notion that the ridiculous Jesse Jackson might jump on this isn't nearly as ridiculous as the idea that this is what's keeping the Cubs from firing him. Total ineptitude sounds much more plausible to me.

Did Hughes just say Lee is "at least 3 weeks from playing in an actual game?" I mean, I know he said "at least," but that still seems pretty optimistic.

Edit... not worth opening a can of worms over

What's this about?? It means watch your language. People have been using clever contractions and characters to represent words that are clearly stated in the NSBB Guidelines as inappropriate. Warnings, suspensions and bannings will follow if the behavior doesn't stop. And now I'm curious as to what it was that I said that led you to direct this at me.

Why am I thinking of the Adam Ant song "Goody Two-shoes"? Can't catch, can't throw What do you do? Bob Slydel: "What would you say you do here?" Tom Smykowski: "Well look, I already told you! I deal with the GOSHDARN customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the heCK is wrong with you people?"

What's this about??

That's just silly. Going to a Cubs game and booing Cubs players is bad enough. But you are going in have already dediced in advance who you are going to boo, that's worse. And then you pick out two guys who are playing poorly and leave off another. If anybody deserves to be booed, it's the players who makes the same stupid mental mistakes over and over. I have a tough time booing performance. But it's not that hard to boo guys who routinely get picked off base, miss cut-off men and roll the ball in from the outfield. Baseball is a game of failure. You win on the margins. Slumps happen, and have to be tolerated, as annoying as they are. Mental mistakes should not be tolerated, and repeated mental mistakes absolutely cannot be tolerated. It's also players that aren't playing anywhere near the level they should be playing at. But not players who repeatedly make mental errors that cost their teams runs in the process, errors than can theoretically be fixed with the snap of the fingers? Are you serious? I'm at a loss for words too. It's not like Aramis can do much about his numbers. Players go through down times. They can't just flip the switch and say "Oh, I'm going to hit better from now on." On the other hand, mental mistakes are completely preventable and there should be NO excuse whatsoever for those who make them repeatedly.

I think the point was that they're equally bad. As for me, I'd rather give the younger, cheaper, faster player the chances than give them to almost the same player on a 3 year contract for $15 mil. :wink:

So does Jones. Only Patterson is younger, faster, (outside of this, they're almost the same player) and isn't on a 3 year multi-million dollar contract.

Even if Prior and Wood were here and pitching at Cy Young levels, we'd be losing. The offense is horrific and is the main reason this team is so terrible. We'd just be losing 1-0 and 2-1 instead. Oh, and it's not Wood's fault he had to miss the first month of this season.

Seconded.

Bruce writes for the Daily Herald.

Jones : .311 OBP 5 Walks Giles : .401 OBP 28 Walks Slugging? Slugging > Walk If the OPS's are similar, the guy with the OBP that is 90 points higher is more valuable. OPS correlates lmore closely to runs when OBP is multiplied by 1.5. i can't see how that generalization is possible when you combine those walks with a bunch of singles hitters. now put the walks on a team w/ manny, ortiz, nixon and varitek or arod, giambi, matsui, sheffield, and posada and maybe so. Not making outs = scoring runs.

if jones was putting up walker's #'s the past 11 days, jones would be enemy #2 behind baker. I don't even know what Walker is doing, or Jones. I couldn't care less. They are losing everyday and I can't watch this mess anymore.

he should get a tons of credit for dealing off choi for lee. that was pretty controversial. Hendry isn't an absolute monkey. He has done some good with his trades back then. Unfortunately, he hasn't done squat recently. true. his last big strike was murton. i think gm's are more wary of him now & don't want their trade to be Lee or Aram for a pile of garbage part III. Funny how a similar wariness doesn't keep Beane from doing it.