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  1. NorthsideAvenger
    Why do we want Boston's equal to Steve Bartman running the Cubs?
  2. NorthsideAvenger
    My guess it will be close until late in the game, but a mix of terrible defensive play and a bullpen meltdown will give it away. That said, go Cubs, don't screw up! That's the problem with the Cubs, with Harang---or any Reds starter---it shouldn't be close in the late part of the game. There should be NO reason why a Reds pitcher should even make it to 5 innings. But hey there are positives.....I'm positive Baker will be gone not to long after the World Series.
  3. NorthsideAvenger
    Now if the Cubs can get Dopirak going again, then we might be on to something.
  4. NorthsideAvenger
    Now that the Cubs got their "threat" of the game out of the way, who now sees the Reds taking control of the game in the 2nd inning?
  5. NorthsideAvenger
    That's exactly the kind of thing winning organizations do worry about. Or PARANOID organizations.
  6. NorthsideAvenger
    Doesn't that mean that every day that a team is off? That's bad revenue for baseball to have teams not playing on a Friday, Saturday Sunday. Not to mention it makes scheduling an even bigger headache than it already is. Yes, i thought I already explained this earlier. You can't have odd numbered teams in each league. Fine, make it three WC; with Top 2 seeds with byes and the seeds 3-6 playing in a best out of 3 series.
  7. NorthsideAvenger
    Maddux? Something tells me you don't want Maddux back in 06. Not that I disagree.
  8. NorthsideAvenger
    Anybody who hates the Wild Card apparently doesn't like intense baseball. Wild Card---as Snoop Dogg would say---"Is off the hizzle." I would go 6 five team divisions, with 2 WC winners (don't matter from which division). I would shorten the season from 162 to about 140 games. Drop 2 weeks off of ST, and start the season around the 22/23 of March. I would ALSO drop the Interleague Series, cause that is now boring; Detroit .v. Arizona, TB .v. Colorado...come on, gimme a break. I rather baseball reestablish rivalries like the Cubs/Mets, the Braves/Cards etc. Wild Card rules....outside the fact the Cubs have no shot at it this yr.
  9. NorthsideAvenger
    Don't insult the term "pathethic", they don't deserve to be call pathethic.
  10. NorthsideAvenger
    First the Cubs last two FULL TIME managers (Bruce Kimm doesn't count)---outside of one magical yr---haven't done squat in what 6 yrs? So, IMO, a new voice is what the Cubs need. And just because you've managed before doesn't mean you are qualified for a job. For the past two yrs, I believe. I like Joe, but two yrs isn't enough time for Girardi to earn his "stripes" as a coach, thus I don't really see Girardi as a candidate right now. If the Cubs went with an "experience" manager, I would hope it is either Larry Dierker or Grady Little. If they went with the "rookie" manager I hope it would be Freddie Gonzalez of ATL or Bud Black of Anaheim.
  11. NorthsideAvenger
    Who thinks Willie Mays/Hank Aaron are their advance ages would be more productive then Hollandsworth/Jose Macias are in their "prime?"
  12. NorthsideAvenger
    This is Ozzie Guillen SECOND season, not his FIRST season.
  13. NorthsideAvenger
    Agreed. Don't "Dusty-proof" a team, just get rid of him all-together. Seeing as next yr, Baker would be a lame duck manager, I doubt he will be back in 06.
  14. NorthsideAvenger
    Personally, could live with Gonzalez or Girardi.
  15. NorthsideAvenger
    I suspect the ONLY position Nomar moves to is 3rd base, not SS. We saw what happen to Jose Reyes, and Kaz Matsui when both tried to play 2nd---after being consider natural SS---THEY failed measuably. Now while Ryes hasn't exactly been an All Star this yr, he has been more comfortable. So again, I highly doubt Nomar will be playing 2B for any team in 06. It will be either SS or 3B.
  16. NorthsideAvenger
    You mean since Opening Day, don't you?
  17. NorthsideAvenger
    Did you bring us a new manager as well?? I can't bring you everything. You'll have to settle for some runs if I can find some. I'm definately looking in my couch, my cars, my GF pantyhose, but I'm definately looking for some runs. :wink: But I will continue to look around the house for some runs. Who else think, the Cubs need to challenged Andy Petitte's son little league to a game? Who else think the Cubs would lose that game?
  18. NorthsideAvenger
    I tell you what, if Furcal stays off the sauce (Farnsy and Furcal on the same team....what up ATL bars), then he might be worth taking a look at. But seeing as he has already by busted TWICE for DUI, I would definately think long and hard about signing Furcal.
  19. NorthsideAvenger
    {sighs :roll: } If that happens, then we KNOW whose team this is. Can we nominate Calvin Murray an early entrance into the "Dusty Boys?" I think it is more likely that Corey comes up. According to Bruce Levine (as you probably already know) they were planning to bring him up soon anyway. It would suck if Murray is promoted to the active roster. Patterson hasn't exactly been tearing it up in the minors, so I don't know how credible calling CPatt up--after hitting something like .214 in the minors---would be. I would personally call up Dwaine Bacon, instead of Patterson, simply because Patterson has earn his way back to Chicago.
  20. NorthsideAvenger
    {sighs :roll: } If that happens, then we KNOW whose team this is. Can we nominate Calvin Murray an early entrance into the "Dusty Boys?"
  21. NorthsideAvenger
    Not only is neither OF lineup is going to happen, gut feeling has it tha Jose Macias is prolly going to start and hit leadoff.
  22. NorthsideAvenger
    Hendry is trying to build a core of a team, not an all-star team. If Giles was closer to 30 yrs old, that'd be one thing, but he is 35 yrs old. Besides Hendry won't offer anything more then 2 yrs, and Giles won't sign for anything less then 4 yrs. So I doubt Giles will have any interest in coming to Chicago.
  23. NorthsideAvenger
    Mr. Keller; First of all, my name is CJ Keller, no lie. So seeing a Keller in the Cubs org. brings a smile to my face. But what gets me, is that you share the same name as my father, David Keller. Again no lie. So i get to mess with him about it. :lol: So, it brings smile to my face knowing that a Keller is working for the Cubs. Now that I go that off my chest...let me ask you something, if you don't mind....is there a player in the minors---not necessarily with the Cubs---that has that great feel for hitting like a Tony Gywnn, or a Wade Boggs? And I know you can't put one prospect over the next, but privately within the Cubs is there one particular prospect you enjoy working with, regardless if he is a top prospect, or a career minor leaguer?
  24. NorthsideAvenger
    Don't hold your breathe......DUDE. Dusty seems too laid-back for that. This team has quit on him. They look like they don't even care anymore. They're not covering bases, and they're making errors that first year little leaguers know not to make. It's hard to be optimistic about anything when the team doesnt look like they care. It makes you wonder if Baker is REALLY trying to get himself fire. He didn't downplay---he sidestepped--- the offseason article that Chicago hasn't treated him well, and was consider a town who didn't want to see a black man succeed with power. He was alledgely pining for the Dodgers jobs, even tho he has ALSO side-step this contreversy. Hendry had basically forced him into playing Cedeno, Dubois, Murton. Hendry has also force him to change his Patterson/Perez fascination, by sending Patterson down. This maybe all coincendental, but IME, it looks Baker is trying to get fired from the Cubs.
  25. NorthsideAvenger
    Don't hold your breathe......DUDE.
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