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  1. daske17
    [expletive] you Hendry Umm, he's a 10 and 5 guy dude. He could block regardless of Hendry's doings. +1 What was Hendry going to do? He had no leverage whatsoever.
  2. daske17
    Jerk. I don't blame him. If I was in his position, I'd probably do the same. He already has a World Series ring, his family is settled here in the city, what's the incentive to agree to a trade?
  3. daske17
    That's awesome Time to get Team America into action ... wait, wrong Korea.
  4. daske17
    Carlos Zambrano to the courtesy desk... Carlos Zambrano to the courtesy desk. Thank you.
  5. daske17
    White Sox? I can't even see anyone claiming him on waivers. If Alex Rios can be picked up on waivers, anything is possible.
  6. daske17
    I'm still not sure he drove down the value of the other players. Most were already either really old (Sammy) or were playing badly (Bradley, Eyre, Patterson). Wuertz is the only exception as he was young and pitching well. Hendry did sell too low on most of them, though. He made it pretty well known that Sosa, Bradley and Eyre (through Lou's weird nonuse of him) had to go. He pretty much based the 04 and 09 offseason on that contention.
  7. daske17
    I don't think so. Kendall and Pierre were Type B FAs who netted the Cubs an extra draft pick apiece, but that's about it, from my memory. To be quite honest, I'm not sure what to make of this information...if anything. With talented players performing well, the Cubs tend hand out extensions when those players' contracts are expiring (Lee, Ramirez, Zambrano, etc.). Most of the players the Cubs have traded away were pretty much at the nadir of their careers and didn't merit much, if anything, in the way of compensation as free agents (Michael Barrett, Sammy Sosa, Corey Patterson, Greg Maddux). To be fair, Hendry ruined the trade value of Barrett, Sosa and Patterson before pulling the trigger on any deal. To his benefit and/or fault, players always know where they stand with him. Unfortunately, so do the other teams. Sosa and Barrett, as well as guys like Bradley, Wuertz and Eyre, were publicly on the outs with the team long before they were traded.
  8. daske17
    Money shouldn't be an issue since Theriot's salary this year was only $2.6 mil. An acquiring team would be looking at, probably, a million or less to spend the rest of the season on him. That's not much even for the Padres. I think we could expect a raw, low-high A, hard throwing pitcher with some upside. I guess that's better than getting nothing from a non-tender in the off-season, but not much.
  9. daske17
    I never realized it until you asked...but the answer as it relates to pocketing draft picks appears to be no. :-s Oh dear. I was being facetious but yikes. It's not like the Cubs have let a lot of good players go over the years. I was trying to find out who was potentially type A in the past earlier and found that maybe Alou and Wood were the two most high profile that the Cubs declined on? Was there anybody else besides random middle relievers? Weren't Slappy and Harden Type A?
  10. daske17
    I never realized it until you asked...but the answer as it relates to pocketing draft picks appears to be no. :-s Oh dear. I was being facetious but yikes.
  11. daske17
    Strange note about Figgins there, I hadn't heard anything to this point about interest from the Cubs (since the offseason, that is). Silva for Figgins? Hey Seattle, we fixed him for real this time!
  12. daske17
    There goes Bruce, putting logic into a situation in which there is none. Has Hendry ever offered arbitration to a Type A in order to get the draft picks?
  13. daske17
    He's like a half-step worse than Hendry. That's because the World Series trophy he is carrying is slowing him down. So if the Cubs had won the WS in 2003, and then everything else afterward plays out exactly the same as we've seen in the last 7 years, Hendry would suddenly be a good GM? In a vacuum, I'd say yes. If the Cubs won in 03, Hendry would have looked like a genius for the moves he made that year (Ramirez, Lofton, Simon, Prior, etc.) more than he does now. Subsequently, I think he would have been given more latitude given that the World Series monkey would have been off the organization's back. However, I don't think he would have made it past the 09 season based on increased expectations.
  14. daske17
    Traded by Chicago Cubs with Jamie Moyer and Drew Hall to Texas Rangers in exchange for Mitch Williams, Paul Kilgus, Steve Wilson, Curt Wilkerson, Luis Benitez and Pablo Delgado (December 5, 1988). We sure got the ass end of that deal. While Palmiero just got ass.
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    I'm sorry, but where are these scores of billionaires running around who have previous experience running a major sports franchise? Guys like Reinsdorff and Cuban are the exceptions. An owner's job is to put the right sports personnel in place because they lack the knowledge to do so themselves. Crane Kenney and Jim Hendry have proved they are not those people yet they still retain full confidence of the owners.
  17. daske17
    Ho-ly... CRAP! The irony! It's just too much! What's so ironic about it? Objectively I can say that most fans are too emotionally invested in a team to make the right business and personnel decisions. The Ricketts family has no experience owning a sports franchise previous to the Cubs. It seems to me like a billionaire's hobby for them.
  18. daske17
    Won't he have to check with his manager at the Home Depot for time off?
  19. daske17
    Not exactly. We had the opportunity but Girardi was pretty open in saying that he was looking to rejoin the Yankees organization. As a GM, I'm not looking for a manager who has an eye on another job. All that said, Ricketts is going to be a terrible owner. This is why you don't let fans buy teams. They don't have an effing clue of how to run a sports team.
  20. daske17
    Ryno's hard-on for this job probably is visible under his uniform
  21. daske17
    But they still each have won 1 World Series title. Quite honestly, that's all that really matters. Anything can happen in the playoffs. Weaver's 1971 team was a good all-around team that hit well (1st in OPS), pitched well (1st in ERA), and played good defense. In the World Series, they pitched well, hit horribly, and committed nine errors in seven games. It happens. Similarly, the 2001 Mariners won 116 games and were bounced out of the ALCS 4-1 while being managed by a Senor Lou Piniella.
  22. daske17
    YES! You want this to happen. If Dunn is traded to the Sox, there's no way that he'll re-sign with them because he doesn't want to DH and most indications are that the Sox will re-sign Konerko. Thus Dunn will become a free agent and available to fill the void of DLee. Not wanting to be a DH is a noble thought for a 20-something position player looking to establish himself in the league. However, when you're in your 30's, everybody knows everything about your game and somebody is offering a contract, I think that stance can be adjusted. He's in his age 30 season currently. Is it that much of a stretch that he believes he can want to play the field for another few years? Say a three-year deal worth about $42 million from the Cubs? That way if his skills deteriorate in the field, he'll still have time to make an adjustment to DH and prolong his career. But an AL team that has the luxury of the DH can afford to risk paying him a much bigger deal, since they'd have a place to hide him down the road. Right, but I'm taking davearm's argument that if the money was equal (and frankly there are still too many people that don't value Dunn's offense) and his preference is to play the field, I can see him doing so.
  23. daske17
    YES! You want this to happen. If Dunn is traded to the Sox, there's no way that he'll re-sign with them because he doesn't want to DH and most indications are that the Sox will re-sign Konerko. Thus Dunn will become a free agent and available to fill the void of DLee. Not wanting to be a DH is a noble thought for a 20-something position player looking to establish himself in the league. However, when you're in your 30's, everybody knows everything about your game and somebody is offering a contract, I think that stance can be adjusted. He's in his age 30 season currently. Is it that much of a stretch that he believes he can want to play the field for another few years? Say a three-year deal worth about $42 million from the Cubs? That way if his skills deteriorate in the field, he'll still have time to make an adjustment to DH and prolong his career.
  24. daske17
    I'd prefer a ninja attack to a "report to the principal's office" for Hendry. I don't want to give him time to eff things up any more.
  25. daske17
    Sullivan's top five candidates for manager in 2011: Sandberg ("fans' choice" -- to which I respond, which fans?) Girardi Brenley (again, "fans' choice") Torre Trammel
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