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  1. Lefty
    You are so wrong. Getting on base is essential to scoring runs. Why don't you check Soriano's road stats as well. And the fact that Murton makes $9 million less than Soriano does matter. RBIs are not a real stat. So Soriano at 30 HRs and a .250 average and no walks makes him worse than Burnitz offensively and terrrible defensively. Soriano would be a disaster. Don't be bamboozled by meaningless numbers. How was Texas 15th in obp and 3rd in runs?? They play in the best hitters park in the AL. On the road they were nothing special. And Soriano was maybe the fourth best offensive player on the team. Let's not get carried away.
  2. Lefty
    I agree with you that Jones is terrible, and should be batting 7th not 5th. But Walker and Murton (at $3 million) will outproduce Hairston and Soriano (at $12 million) as well.
  3. Lefty
    But how can you win if everybody has a lousy stat line? You know that's not possible right? You know if you can't get on base, slug, pitch or field, you can't win, right? Those things show up in the stats. Lee's great year was rendered meaningless from a win/loss perspective because the rest of the team stunk. But that doesn't mean we might as well have J.T. Snow.
  4. Lefty
    You are so wrong. Getting on base is essential to scoring runs. Why don't you check Soriano's road stats as well. And the fact that Murton makes $9 million less than Soriano does matter. RBIs are not a real stat. So Soriano at 30 HRs and a .250 average and no walks makes him worse than Burnitz offensively and terrrible defensively. Soriano would be a disaster. Don't be bamboozled by meaningless numbers.
  5. Lefty
    If you are unproductive at the plate, you can't hit. Soriano is unproductive. I don't care how good he looks. Murton may not be the second coming, but he's the best we have, makes $9.5 million less than Soriano, and projects to hit at least a little. By your logic, you would never play a young player. Welcome to the board Dusty!
  6. Lefty
    It'll last until he starts pi**ing away leads.
  7. Lefty
    You liked Zimmer and Frey!? I'm gonna be watching you.
  8. Lefty
    Ok, I want to see the Cubs record with Patterson and Perez batting 1-2.
  9. Lefty
    You know, I am old enough to remember "the Bowa trade." And while it is a great story that a HOFer was a throw-in, it is simply not true. DeJesus was the prize the Phillies wanted. We took their old SS to fill the position, but the prospect was the key to the trade. I believe we asked for Julio Franco and settled for Sandberg. i thought i heard at the time of the deal somewhere that hendry wouldn't have pulled the trigger without murton being involved, and that he was the only reason boston fans didn't like the deal initially. funny how we have to take from others' farm systems to produce a good, patient at the plate position player. i guess no so much funny as sad :( I was not speaking to the equivalence of the Sandberg and Murton trades. I am saying that Sandberg was not a throw in. Kudos to Hendry for getting somebody who might be good. If he isn't, what's new?
  10. Lefty
    You know, I am old enough to remember "the Bowa trade." And while it is a great story that a HOFer was a throw-in, it is simply not true. DeJesus was the prize the Phillies wanted. We took their old SS to fill the position, but the prospect was the key to the trade. I believe we asked for Julio Franco and settled for Sandberg.
  11. Lefty
    So is that your prediction - the Cubs will win the division? I hope you're right! On the other hand, won't that mean three more years of Dusty Baker? Hmm... Maybe Baker will quit on a high note.
  12. Lefty
    I don't know how to link, but there is some very positive ink on Murton at the above site.
  13. Lefty
    Baseball, like life, moves in cycles. I think Hendry is clueless, and he has rightfully taken a lot of grief on this board, but I suspect the Cubs' 2006 division title will change an awful lot of perceptions over the next few months.
  14. Lefty
    I don't have the James book, but is it possible that the Cedeno and Murton numbers are their minor league equivalencies from last year? Their minor league numbers were terrific and their major league numbers from last year were consistent with that.
  15. Lefty
    Now this doesn't make sense. Yes it does. It depends on how the group finances the deal. If it's highly levered, a decent sales price for the Cubs would increase the return on the other assets.
  16. Lefty
    I thought they were going to try and lock-up Pierre long term. This doesn't mean they can't. They've done this lots of times _ avoid arbitration and then sign a guy to a multiyear deal in spring training. they did it last season with Aramis, and nearly gave me a heart attack when they waited til opening day to sign him long term to that goofy contract. BTW, Bruce, has there been any indication of Aramis wanting to exercise that opt out clause? Ramirez repeatedly has said he wants to stay with the Cubs. There's been no talk of him opting out, but if he hits 40 HR and drives in a ton of runs with an OBP of .356, all bets might be off. I'm sorry Mr. Miles. I understand that you write for an established newspaper. How do you know what OBP is?
  17. Lefty
    Lou got his money out. And it ain't going back. As far as the Tribune selling, it isn't going to be this Tribune. It will be two private equity groups and the New York Times, Viacom/CBS or something like that.
  18. Lefty
    God will indeed have blessed us all if Cedeno gets more ABs than Perez. And I'm an atheist. BTW, no other place to put it, but yesterday was the birthday of both Cedeno and Perez. How freaky is that? They are ten years apart (33 and 23).
  19. Lefty
    I really believe in this possibility, that's why I started the thread. While Mark Cuban is intriguing, remember the Steve Stone group that wanted to move the Expos to Vegas? The head of the syndicate was Lou Weisbach who used to run Halo Industries. He's a local guy. Remember all those Major League dugouts had "Halo" written all over them. The cupholders at Wrigley used to say "Halo" too. They were a specialty advertising firm. Anyway he has financing to buy a sports team. And if it's a baseball team, Steve Stone would be the GM. So in this case we would get the change in management.
  20. Lefty
    And yet with Cedeno's incredible progress, most of us think that Neifi Perez will get more at bats than Cedeno this year.
  21. Lefty
    If it's going to happen the way I envision, it will be in this stock market cycle. That is sooner rather than later.
  22. Lefty
    But it's not the old Tribune anymore. Another media company won't necessarily need the Cubs to generate content. And depending on the leverage employed by a financial buyer, the profit doesn't matter either.
  23. Lefty
    I would agree, but I heard on the radio over a month ago,I believe it was Tim Kurkijiankaianananaian, who said that the White Sox and Phillies had seriously discussed Abreau for Contreras at the Winter Meetings. I thought it so nuts, and then saw it no place else, I just dismissed it.
  24. Lefty
    Tribune stock made a seven-year low this morning. All newspaper stocks are in the dumps. There has been some activity with Private Equity groups negotiating to buy other large newspaper chains. Tribune's market capitalization is about $8.5 billion. It is very easy to foresee a bid by a syndicate of Private Equity Groups and another media company. For those in the Chicago area, Jewel's parent company just agreed to be bought out by a syndicate involving two Private Equity groups and the CVS drugstore chain. The market capitalization of that stock before the deal was announced was not much below where Tribune is now. And I believe Tribune has less debt than Jewel's parent. In other words, it wouldn't even be a big deal (in a financial sense). My point is that once these entities get their hands on the Tribune, the Cubs would be a prime candidate for sale to pay down the purchase price of the assets that these entities really want, the media properties.
  25. Lefty

    Bill Murray

    Lefty replied to fibro's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    It was against the Expos very early in the season. I believe it was a Friday, and the Cubs won.
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