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Expand the League and Kill the Wildcard?
NorthsideAvenger replied to Derwood's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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. -
Maddux? Something tells me you don't want Maddux back in 06. Not that I disagree.
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Expand the League and Kill the Wildcard?
NorthsideAvenger replied to Derwood's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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. -
Don't insult the term "pathethic", they don't deserve to be call pathethic.
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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.
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Who thinks Willie Mays/Hank Aaron are their advance ages would be more productive then Hollandsworth/Jose Macias are in their "prime?"
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This is Ozzie Guillen SECOND season, not his FIRST season.
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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.
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Personally, could live with Gonzalez or Girardi.
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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.
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You mean since Opening Day, don't you?
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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?
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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.
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{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.
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{sighs :roll: } If that happens, then we KNOW whose team this is. Can we nominate Calvin Murray an early entrance into the "Dusty Boys?"
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8/5 Cubs (Hill) @ Mets (Glavine) 6:10 CT on WGN
NorthsideAvenger replied to Omar's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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. -
Brian Giles
NorthsideAvenger replied to woodprior04's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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. -
Question and Answer with Dave Keller- ANSWERS POSTED
NorthsideAvenger replied to NCCubFan's topic in General Baseball Talk
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? -
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.
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Don't hold your breathe......DUDE.
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Yes he does, but he wouldn'be traded, thus he can't reject, unless he simply does not show up at the other team. This is a case of one team just GIVING a player away. I believe that a players no trade / 10&5 rights are not ignored when it comes to waiver claims -- i.e. they can still reject the move to the waiver claiming team. From the waiver rules thread: Ok, I wasn't positive about the situation about Junior and the 10/5 rights. Thanks for clearing that up. But I can't see Junior refusing to get out of Cincy, if it meant going to a contender, outside of New York.
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The whole Royal roster plus their whole farm system for Pie. (Royals pay all salaries) I still don't think I'd do it. I would do a Pie for Butler and Alex Gordon in a heartbeat. If the Royals want to add their entire farm system for Pie let them go ahead. If Gordon ever signs, he will probably be a better prospect than Pie before too long. I don't know about that. I like Gordon and everything, and when it comes down to it, I believe Pie's speed makes him a better prospect, IMO. I really like Gordon, but I wouldn't say he will end up being a better prospect then Pie. On the same level perhaps, but not better.
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Yes he does, but he wouldn'be traded, thus he can't reject, unless he simply does not show up at the other team. This is a case of one team just GIVING a player away.
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USAToday.com The White Sox, whose deal for Ken Griffey Jr. (for three minor league prospects) was killed by Reds owner Carl Lindner last weekend, would revisit their trade talks if Griffey clears waivers in August. ... The Padres plan to trade third baseman Sean Burroughs to the White Sox this week for Triple-A outfielder Joe Borchard. Junior to the White Sox makes more sense then Junior to the Yankees. If the White Sox get Junior, it will legitimze their lineup. I mean, Pods/Igauchi/Konerko/Junior/Dye/Everett(dh)/Piernyski/Burroughs (if happen)/Uribe, wouldn't be Murderer's Row, but it is more frightening, without Junior in it. They could literally go L-R (aka Bakerology) throughout the lineup. One last thing on the White Sox....man was Joe Borchard on of the BIGGEST busts in baseball history. Talk about a player who couldn't hit a curveball. It must svck knowing the White Sox gave Borchard one of the largest bonus in history, and he did NOTHING for them. There's the baseball draft in a nutshell. A decent starter, and over-the-hill CF, and a middle of the road reliever for a still prime young starter, and a very good CF? What was Phillies thinking? Did they know that the Marlins GM is NOT an idiot, cause I sure as hell would have laugh at that proposal.
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You know the sad thing....Scoop Jackson got what he wanted.....a reaction. That is what journalist---and I used that loosely with Scoop Jackson---wants.....reaction. He got each and everybody here to read that article. You kow the saying, "There is no such thing as bad publicity", and he used it.