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I am. I never really thought it was "dead" to begin with. I think Hendry told Towers to shelve the talks for Peavy until later in the offseason when he could swing a decent trade for Marquis. If Towers found another trading partner for Peavy, then go for it. But I think from Peavys perspective, he was telling Towers "the Cubs or nothing." JMO I need someone more besides Bruce Levine's speculation before I'm a believer. The Bradley and Marquis things have other sources. The Peavy thing doesn't. What about Dan Hayes saying the teams were still talking last week? Or the Rosenthal report that talks would be revisited if/when they got some payroll things figured out with new ownership? Or just the fact that it would've been stupid for the Cubs to walk away completely when they held the majority of the cards in this. The opening of a spot in the rotation (granted, we have guys like Marshall and Guz) may (or may not) suggest that we intend to acquire another SP. -
That's a good thing. It seems like you think a worse hitter (who might, among other things, hit for less power and be more likely to bunt) would be better suited getting the second most PAs. Stop thinking that.
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What exactly would you like them to mention?
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08-09' Blackhawks (46-24-12) 104 PTS - 4th Seed In The West!
David replied to Cynosure's topic in Other Sports
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08-09' Blackhawks (46-24-12) 104 PTS - 4th Seed In The West!
David replied to Cynosure's topic in Other Sports
Is Kane alright? I'm a hockey noob, but chicagosports.com had a headline up that he left the game with a knee injury. Looks like he's playing now, though. -
nomar garciaparra and rich harden the harden trade was certainly not leaked. there were like a couple of small rumors about the cubs possibly be interested in him a couple weeks before that but that's all It was talked about a pretty good deal leading up to it, but *nobody* expected it to get done as soon as it did. well a rumored trade happening and a trade being leaked are 2 different things. remember there was the article about how the trade happened, and they didn't actually do it until the night before it was announced, when jim called billy and said he'd include gallagher. But they were talking about it for like a month, and the reports/rumors didn't come out of thin air. There was obviously truth to the fact that they were having discussions. They just had a breakthrough that night when Gaudin was included. I'm just saying... some people act like Hendry is this obsessive secretive guy like Jerry Krause who never lets any information leak about what he's doing.
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nomar garciaparra and rich harden Brian Roberts. Yea... and Jake Peavy. It's not like the Cubs haven't had trade negotiations that were very public in the past. Sammy Sosa (both in 2000, but that wasn't Hendry, and in 04-05). Just because they don't wind up happening doesn't mean there isn't significant substance to the reports.
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I told you guys these talks were never dead in the first place. It was common sense. No reason for the Cubs to close the door on this when they're in such a position of strength. I'm not speaking to everyone here, obviously, but I'm just saying that you shouldn't overreact to every snippet you hear. Just as much as it wasn't done when people were reporting it "all but done," it wasn't dead when it was being reported as dead. Rumors are rumors. No point in dealing with absolutes here.
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nomar garciaparra and rich harden the harden trade was certainly not leaked. there were like a couple of small rumors about the cubs possibly be interested in him a couple weeks before that but that's all It was talked about a pretty good deal leading up to it, but *nobody* expected it to get done as soon as it did.
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no, not probably. it definitely is.
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this is probably the funniest post in this thread
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Well it's so nice that you let us all know hiow much you don't care about my posts. That was very necessary. Do you realize you average nearly 20 posts a day? My parent's vodka when I was a teenager was less watered down. and that has nothing to do with anything. i just thought it was funny that you made a post to say how much you don't read my posts That's 2 of his 88 posts in 3 years. lol
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Bulls with their first win in NJ since 2001. Rose with a very nice game, 21 pts, 13 assists, 2 steals
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Thabo has shown up big on defense the last two games... Maybe he'll keep getting a little burn.
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The Angels completely ran away with it.
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On the other hand, I'm guessing our RF production was pretty lackluster, though...
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Totally forgot about Dempster. That one is a no-brainer. My bad. I guess where I was going on Theriot is that I think he might be able to keep that up. It seems like changed his approach and he hit so many singles at the expense of having any kind of power. Like it was by design to some extent. That said, that obviously doesn't mean it's sustainable, but it leads me to believe it might be. But you're right about it being lucky in itself to have that many players at least meet expectations.
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Who besides DeRosa and, to some extent, Harden had career years (plus Edmonds' overachieving for his age)? Not really fair to call a rookie season a career year for Soto... Although it's fair to say we don't know if we can expect that again until he actually does it. I guess Aramis had a career year in the sense that his approach changed somewhat and he drew more walks, but his overall production wasn't anything out of the ordinary compared to the rest of his recent career. Theriot? I guess. How sustainable was his BA from last year?
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and apparently Duhon stopped doing that cause he's Kicking-A now By relative standards, I guess. He's playing for Mike D'Antoni.
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I've heard some talk that Deng is from the Chris Duhon school of partying and gets smashed (sloppy) even the nights before games.
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It's not a bad thing, but depending on the lineup he's in (and I'm opening a big can of worms here - and this somewhat goes against what I usually would argue because Dunn is such an extreme case), it's not all that great of a thing either if he has, say, Jeff Keppinger or Paul Bako, coming up behind him. It kinda blows to have a guy of Dunn's caliber taking a walk in that situation. I'd almost rather he swing at balls he otherwise would consider borderline, there. Who knows if that's not what he's already doing, though. It very well could be. In a lineup like ours, though, I feel like he'd be a great fit (offensively, at least). When you have solid hitters throughout, walks are an awesome, awesome thing, and a hitter like Dunn fits better in that type of lineup than anywhere else, IMO. By the way, I somehow totally managed to misread what US said as runners on with two outs (not man on 3rd/less than 2 out). Makes my case make even less sense. Sweet.
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Don't want him to shorten his swing. I want him to swing the hell out of the bat, even on two strikes, at balls he thinks are balls but might be strikes in THOSE particular situations. Like I said, he might be doing that already. If he is, then I don't really have a point. I would hope he is. And like you said, that argument is more of a knock on the lineup around him than it is on him, but I think it's a reality that comes with the type of hitter he is.
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I feel like what I said there is beyond too obvious so I hope what I was saying makes some sort of sense.
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It's not a bad thing, but depending on the lineup he's in (and I'm opening a big can of worms here - and this somewhat goes against what I usually would argue because Dunn is such an extreme case), it's not all that great of a thing either if he has, say, Jeff Keppinger or Paul Bako, coming up behind him. It kinda blows to have a guy of Dunn's caliber taking a walk in that situation. I'd almost rather he swing at balls he otherwise would consider borderline, there. Who knows if that's not what he's already doing, though. It very well could be. In a lineup like ours, though, I feel like he'd be a great fit (offensively, at least). When you have solid hitters throughout, walks are an awesome, awesome thing, and a hitter like Dunn fits better in that type of lineup than anywhere else, IMO.
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Or not
