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He had one good start. Overall he's been terrible

i feel bad for him. he finally put it together and was lights out at the end of 06, had a great 2007, and then when it looks like he finally figured it out and is going to have a nice career, it all falls apart. don't forget this is his career. he's losing a lot of money every time he gets wrecked.

Good thing I didn't do that, huh? In fact I expressly noted that two of the three teams ahead of the Cubs are the mega-spenders (BOS and NYY), while the similar-spenders (LAD, NYM, PHI, CHW) have been as successful or worse. So why do you include a list of all 30 MLB teams, even though the majority of them don't have nearly the same amount of money to spend as the Cubs do? And you did it again when you said this Those teams all have significantly lower payrolls, yet you just compared Hendry's work to their work without even mentioning the payroll differences. Perhaps I overestimated the board's ability to take payroll considerations into account without me having to spell them out more thorougly than I have. Or, maybe just yours. Haha. I'll go back to my original statement. Comparing the success of 2 different teams who have completely different payroll situations is pointless, yet you did it. You compared hendry to Minnesota (among others) when you simply can't compare the success of the 2 when they are in completely different situations. I've seen you do this many times with hendry. You constantly dismiss the payroll advantages he has and try to compare him to better GMs with much more limited resources and then say things like "all that matters is that he wins with what he says...it doesn't matter how he does it". Umm, well, yeah.... it does matter how he does it. A GM with more money to spend than most franchises is held to a different standard, whether you like it or not. It would be foolish to not hold him to a higher standard. Compare Hendry to teams with similar payrolls, and that's it. Don't try to ocmpare him to teams like Minnesota. You can't do that. It's like giving one person 10 grand to buy a car and another person 50 grand, then congratulating the second person for coming home with a BMW while the other comes home with a Saturn.

at this point i couldn't care less about the hall of fame. it's all so arbitrary. pay attention to who is good and who is not and judge for yourself who the best players are.

I'd be iffy on getting any pitcher post-Dusty. plus harang was terrible after if he got dustified around midseason last year and has been crap again this season

why? they could just trade laroche... and even if they can't, it's still a huge upgrade and laroche didn't cost that much

lol 2 year contract

Good thing I didn't do that, huh? In fact I expressly noted that two of the three teams ahead of the Cubs are the mega-spenders (BOS and NYY), while the similar-spenders (LAD, NYM, PHI, CHW) have been as successful or worse. So why do you include a list of all 30 MLB teams, even though the majority of them don't have nearly the same amount of money to spend as the Cubs do? And you did it again when you said this Those teams all have significantly lower payrolls, yet you just compared Hendry's work to their work without even mentioning the payroll differences.

washburn is a contract year [expletive]

good thing we gave him 2 years. you gotta lock that kind of ability up for as long as possible

To use that list and then disregard payroll is absolutely ridiculous.

The non-waiver trade deadline is looming Friday afternoon as Cubs front-office executives are looking at any number of patchwork deals to keep the team competitive. A left-handed reliever is a must. Pittsburgh's John Grabow remains the best of four or five available lefties. That list includes Baltimore's George Sherrill, Washington's Joe Beimel and Cincinnati's Arthur Rhodes. grabow is the worst of those 4

btw, when i said marmol i said it strictly because i'd be terrified of him hitting me.

haha

that helps the dodgers this year but i dont think that's a very good trade for them long term at all. i think it would be pretty bad actually.

Marmol

the grand slam he just hit. oh wait that was adam dunn, sry mah bad he played a single intro a double the next inning though, so they took the 4 runs away

stop

maybe it's because defensive metrics are a joke

no, you just dont understand value very well lol @ nyjer being worth 3 times as much as dunn this season and him being worth 22 million. hilarious

that's the same formula that said willie harris was worth 15 million last season

oh my god lou STOP BATTING REED JOHNSON LEADOFF AGAINST RIGHT HANDED PITCHING

lol @ 2 things: 1) people paying attention to anything dave kaplan says 2) people not being willing to unload bradley's terrible contract

Yeah but Dempster was legitimately good. I'm not saying Pineiro hasn't been good, but to give up a hit an inning with that few strikeouts is BS.

That's definitely a good thought, but Lee would be a pretty big upgrade over what Harden's done this season. I don't know that taking on Lee's option (even though a great deal for a pitcher of his caliber) for next season would be a possibility, though. lee has been good, but he's gotten pretty lucky, at least ERA wise. isn't his WHIP around lie 1.30 or something?