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  1. Lefty
    =D> Nothing like getting out of a night game to find that everything closed at 10 PM and 60% of the town's residents went to bed hours ago. There's a bunch of Section 8 housing west of the proposed Golda Meier Stadium. Condemn it, send the people to the Wrigley Field Projects, and relocate the Wrigleyvile establishments in West Skokie. There's already a firehouse there.
  2. Lefty
    Agreed. Turn them into the Schaumburg Cubs so they're more easily available for me to watch in person. The Village of Skokie just took over a bunch of property near 94 and the Skokie Swift extension of the Red Line. Of course they think developers will flock to them with plans. Not in USA 2011. Let them build a ballpark there and bail the Village out of their idiotic ideas of government planned development.
  3. Lefty
    Just turn it into public housing and build a new stadium near the airport.
  4. Lefty
    Clearly he's not jewish. Are you saying Jews have slow turnarounds? I think traditional Jews have the quickest post-death funerals in the Western World.
  5. Lefty
    ...And Thomas Diamond. Diamond will never be anything for us.
  6. Lefty
    1979
  7. Lefty
    Just got back from an instructional baseball camp where the instructors were present or former MLB coaches. The hitting coaches were Ty Van Burkleo, Jim Presley, Orv Franchuk, Brook Jacoby and current minor leaguer Sean Kazmar. Collectively their stats aren't great. But hitting is so tough I would think that most A-ball players could learn something from Jason DuBois about the mechanics of hitting. Albert Pujols probably wasn't available.
  8. Lefty
    As a senior at Lane Tech he would take a bus after school to Wrigley to suit up.
  9. Lefty
    Wakefield? He always seems to get some starts when people go down. Dice-K will be gone somewhere somehow this winter. Damn, I forgot about him being there too. Plus, they have a young guy named Doubront who did decently last year as well. If they pick up all of Blanton's salary, the conspiracy theorist in me says they did this just to allow the Phils payroll flexibility to make the offer to Lee and keep him out of NY. That last part is genius.
  10. Lefty
    4th guy still makes 32 starts. It also means less innings for the bullpen. And no bullpen is as effective as whoever their 4th guy is gonna be.
  11. Lefty
    We might actually not be horrible. Always easy to get excited. We will be horrible.
  12. Lefty
    He was hired away by the Orioles as bullpen coach during the 2007 season and still serves in that role. It isn't just former Cub players that MacPhail collects. :D The Orioles bullpen coach is Rick Adair. But Pitching Coach is a very overrated position in the Majors. How'd that Jaramillo hire work out? Focus on performers, not coaches.
  13. Lefty
    I am happy as well that they didn't chase Girardi or hire Sandberg. I hope Sandberg leaves the organization. His HOF induction speech always made me think that 9 David Ecksteins was his kind of team.
  14. Lefty
    You'd lose. As a team the reds hit 8 points lower and had a OBP 14 points lower than the Cubs. The reds OPS was also well below the Cubs. The cubs also had better stats compared to the reds pitching. I just dont see the reds being as good as the Cubs, if only because Baker is their manager and he does not have a roided up player to make him look good.... Those are last year's stats. By that measure the Cubs must have won the division in 2009 because of their 2008 stats. The Cubs are on their way down, the Reds on their way up. They cross this year. You see no rebound from Soto or Soriano? You expect Ramirez to be hurt again? You don't think Byrd can outperform Bradley? On the flip side, you're expecting who to step up for the Reds? Bruce? An 80 year old Scott Rolen? I just don't see it ...and yet it happened.
  15. Lefty
    At that point, what would it matter?
  16. Lefty
    How about for Logan White?
  17. Lefty
    Maybe the next time the Cubs draft a football player he can have some vowels in his name.
  18. Lefty
    Really? Wrigley Field is the reason we haven't won since 1908? I find that extremely hard to believe. Even in 1984 when they had to move the last 3 games of the NLCS to San Diego because NBC wanted night games and Wrigley didn't have lights yet, the Cubs still should have won at least one of those games. J.R. makes a lot of good points about the faculties and the start times. The whole "day games and Wrigley Field is supposedly crappy" argument just seem like excuses. The real reason is because of some of the crappy teams that have been put together and the mind-bogglingly boneheaded decisions made by Cubs management over the decades, not because we play some games at 120. You are incorrect. The 1984 NLCS was always 2 in the East, 3 in the West. Had the Cubs won, the World Series schedule would have been altered so the 3 weekend games would be day games at Wrigley. Alas, it was irrelevant.
  19. Lefty
    different races... invalid comparison That's funny. I just assumed Jackson was black.
  20. Lefty
    I am just amazed that over a thousand people can be picked, all pretty good baseball players, and only a few will have an impact and a few dozen may even make the Majors. I marvel at how good Major Leaguers are, and I always sense that most fans have no concept of that greatness.
  21. Lefty
    Turned on the game last night and thought the pitcher looked like Howry. When I saw it was him I felt a bit nostalgic. It hasn't even been two years.
  22. Lefty
    Just looked at his stats. Brutal. I feel the Cubs need to lose to insure that Hendry goes. I'm willing to take a chance that the successor won't be worse.
  23. Lefty
    I didn't say I was "right" just yet. I was remarking on the broad pessimism in this thread. Whether I am right about the Reds, we'll see. What I had mentioned as a way to play it at the time was to go under on Cub wins and over on Red wins in equal dollar amounts. That would have given me a cushion.
  24. Lefty
    I visit the board to check out the minor league threads. As for the major leaguers, I have watched a few innings this year, but I am looking forward to having a lot of extra time this summer. I had the Cubs winning 79 games and finishing behind the Reds and took some (deserved) abuse when I didn't put my money where my mouth was. It's interesting to see that in two weeks my pessimism seems to be the norm.
  25. Lefty
    Ah, the Spring. Every pedestrian pitcher has a new pitch, every underachieving hitter a new approach.
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