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12/25 - Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers
CaliforniaRaisin replied to burnt out cubbie fan's topic in Other Sports
I agree. Interceptions are the sexy stat and the reason Vasher is going to Hawaii. I'm glad that Harris, Brown and Briggs are getting their dues. :) -
12/25 - Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers
CaliforniaRaisin replied to burnt out cubbie fan's topic in Other Sports
Noah Herron? Poor Jon. -
No. The Cubs weren't going to find too many better options now, but 3 years is ludicrous.
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Jock to the Cubs.
CaliforniaRaisin replied to B's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
We already have 29 Premium pages on Jacque about four spots down in Transactions (or click here [Premium]). -
Why Finley? Was he the bane of the '84 playoffs? No, that was Steve F. Garvey. Don't forget Will Clark and Josh Beckett.
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I find this to be the most offensive post in the thread. Far worse than any f-bomb. The guy shows up and makes a post that he obviously spent a lot of time on, just trying to start discussion. I don't agree with his points either, but that's no reason to respond with a childish, overreacting post and say the entire thread should be locked because he mentioned the words "clutch" and "leader." I'd be pissed off if I were him too. I rarely find a thread here at NSBB that doesn't degenerate into high school squabbling, but this probably takes the cake. i agree. the guy talked about his blog and posted his work, and gets blasted out of left field for nothing. I'm dubious on the Jones signing. He provides an attitude and hustle thats lacking here, but statistically hes a little disappointing. I think this is a signing we wont be able to judge until the season starts. What's the problem here? A mod told WilliSC that there was nothing wrong with the original post in the thread and there's no reason to lock the thread. It seems like things have been settled and you're still bringing this up?
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They were #2 and #3 in ERA in an absolutely loaded league(Both made BA's top 20 for the Southern League as well, IIRC). Pinto and Nolasco are good prospects. You may think that they are worth Pierre, but let's not devalue them by calling them 'mediocre at best' or 'middle relievers'. Feel free to call them whatever you want. I wish to call them middle relief prospects. Why? Because neither has a "plus" pitch and nothing exceptional, good minor league pitchers but nothing special. Pinto's change is a plus pitch, his FB and slider are above-average or plus, depending on which scout you talk to. Nolasco's FB, curve and change are all above-average. EDIT: Raw wins. Pinto has absolutely no control and got hammered against good competition and Nolasco is nothing special i.e. middle relievers Pitchers can improve their control. Especially when they're still only 23 years old. And why do you think Nolasco will only be a middle reliever when he has great control and 3 above-average to plus-pitches?
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Not necessarily. Pie is only 20 so if he stays in the minors for three years he might be better off. Haing said that, Jones can still be traded if the Cubs choose to go with Pie in RF in the future. Hendry is hinting at wanting to lock up Pierre longterm at some point. Pie is young and does need more time in the minors, but he definitely doesn't need to rot at West Tenn and Iowa for 3 years. That would be a complete waste of a player.
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Hmm, I like what I've read so far about him.
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Choi reups with LA
CaliforniaRaisin replied to CuseCubFan69's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Seems kind of stupid to me. He probably could have gotten something better because the Dodgers weren't going to offer him arbitration. Now's he going to get 750K to sit on the bench all year. Maybe he likes being on the west coast. He loves LA and K-Town/the whole Korean community in So Cal has embraced him -
Forget you guys and your booze and drugs. I'll study the night away. :evil:
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But even then, we're only contenders if everything goes right - Z, Prior, Wood and Aramis are healthy, Dempster and Lee have to maintain their 2005 success and Pierre has to rebound. All that has to happen just to keep the Cubs in contention in 2005. I'm not suicidal on Jones, I figured he or Encarnacion were coming. I'm disappointed in the years, because his signing will now affect personnel decisions all the way till 2008.
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Strangely enough, I thought that Southside was referring to Tree's OTHER idea earlier in the thread.. At first, I did too. But then SSR mentioned not finding his USB - unless this is some new-fashioned heroin-consuming method.* *Not that I know anything about consuming heroin.
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We don't need any Padre OFs, they don't have French names.
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Yeah, Jim, defense really is the key to victory. Look what a good defense has done for the other Chicago team...I'd say they've turned out alright. are you really so naive to buy into that? the white sox won because they hit a bunch of homers and had lights out pitching. Look one line down...And I can't find my USB to upload my picture right now... :( Hurry up and find it.
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Yeah, Jim, defense really is the key to victory. Look what a good defense has done for the other Chicago team...I'd say they've turned out alright. are you really so naive to buy into that? the white sox won because they hit a bunch of homers and had lights out pitching. For ignoring the Bears, Urlacher is now going to pop you like he did Vick on Sunday night.
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They were #2 and #3 in ERA in an absolutely loaded league(Both made BA's top 20 for the Southern League as well, IIRC). Pinto and Nolasco are good prospects. You may think that they are worth Pierre, but let's not devalue them by calling them 'mediocre at best' or 'middle relievers'. Feel free to call them whatever you want. I wish to call them middle relief prospects. Why? Because neither has a "plus" pitch and nothing exceptional, good minor league pitchers but nothing special. Pinto's change is a plus pitch, his FB and slider are above-average or plus, depending on which scout you talk to. Nolasco's FB, curve and change are all above-average. EDIT: Raw wins.
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Go UCLA baseball. :(
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Well, at least we can make funny French surrender jokes about our OF when the Cubs are out of it. In May.
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Not sure, but one of the benefits of going to a bowl game is that it gives the freshman a lot more time to practice and learn the offense or defense. And we have a lot of freshman. I know that they returned to practice yesterday, so it's probably not a very heavy schedule. And I'd imagine that it was pretty light around finals time. At least at USC, UCLA and Cal, there's no practice scheduled during finals week.
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No love for Konrad Reuland? #2 TE, Konrad Reuland!! Also wanted to point out that Aldridge is enrolled for the spring semester, enabling ND to put him on this years scholorship list; leaving another spot for the fall class. I was gonna say, if you folks don't think highly of him...I'd love to see him replace Marcedes. I will be more than happy to see him wearing an Irish uniform. Does he go to HS near where you live? He's from the OC, same HS as a couple of Bruins and one of their recruits. Looks like Long Beach Poly WR Terrence Austin will probably come down to ND and UCLA (though he did visit Arizona and Oregon). He should decide in January.
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No love for Konrad Reuland? #2 TE, Konrad Reuland!! Also wanted to point out that Aldridge is enrolled for the spring semester, enabling ND to put him on this years scholorship list; leaving another spot for the fall class. I was gonna say, if you folks don't think highly of him...I'd love to see him replace Marcedes.
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c'mon. I was on the espn board back then too. we all predicted everyone from that Boise team to be superstars. there was no way to distinguish who was best, particularly the guy with the hurky-gerky, unrepeatable delivery. No, I mean they distinguished Willis (and Guzman to a lesser extent) from the others. Thanks for the stats.
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No love for Konrad Reuland?
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The best was Kerry Wood pitching one last time even though the surgery had been scheduled. What a wonderful last hurrah!