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  1. Warpticon
    Neifi tried to hit a bunt home run.
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    Jones is a lot more tolerable when he doesn't suck.
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    What happened there? Well, 1-0.
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    BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I hate taking the bat out of one of your hottest hitters to gain one base. :/ Looks like an infield hit and an error for Walker, pending judgment.
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    Goodness gracious, Eric! Pie just walked.
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    Wow, what a horrible first pitch to swing at.
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    Nice arm, Juan.
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    So much for that.
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    I love that Ronny provides quality power despite his lack of homers.
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    It does help that they've got a weak schedule coming up. If ther was ever a good time for Derrek to go down, this would have to be it.
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    We did? I recall the Cubs, for as long as I've been watching them until recently, spend money on veterans and have horrible farm systems taht had mediocre prospects projected to be superstars because they didn't completely suck. I sure don't remember what *you're* talking about. Just keep in mind which team in the NL has been the most consistently good over the last decade plus, and which team has been the most consistently near the top in player development. Hint: they're both the same team. I suspect getting Cabrera would cost at *least* Patterson and Pie, plus young pitching (probably some combination of Hill, Guzman, and Pawelek). And that's just to keep up with what other teams with better systems would be able to offer. If the farm system were in better overall shape, I could get behind that deal, but I'm not sure now. That would decimate the system, and let's say one of the big three (now including Cabrera) gets hurt again. It's not like there'll be anything left to offer for another player at that point.
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    It is something that needs to be done. It would be a MAJOR move in the right direction, IMO. It would show the fans and TEAM that this organization is committed to winning. Would our farm system take a hit? Sure. But on the other hand, you need to look at the ages of the players on the Cubs starting line-up. VERY young and very good. If you can keep the core of these young guys around, and there is no reason why you cant, then your looking at 3,4 or 5 years to restock the farm. It's a no brainer for me. But the question is does Hendry have the stones to do it? My guess is no. And that is a shame. I hope he proves me wrong. I think it's a stretch to say it needs to be done. It would be nice to do, though. It is, as all trades are, a balancing act of potential progress versus loss. The Cubs aren't in a great negotiating position because everybody knows they want somebody who can fill in for Lee's absent bat, and the Marlins are under no obligation to trade Cabrera. In addition, they just got a starter and 2 prospects for Pierre--a more expensive and far inferior player--so there's a chance for an enormous hit to a farm system that is just now starting to rebuild.
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    People need to stop teasing me with this talk so I can stop fantasizing about a Cabrera/Pie/Murton outfield next year, with a Ramirez/Cedeno/Patterson/Lee/Barrett infield.
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    I mentioned it and some thought he couldn't handle first base defensively. E3PO can mash, but he's horrible defensively. With the issues on the left side of the infield, I'm not sure he'd be worth the defensive sacrifice.
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    Very true. People need to back up from the ledge. Nice gesture, but it's over. Astros '05
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    Abreu/Stocker, Santana/Jared Nobody, and Liriano/Nathan/Guy With Ridiculous Name for Pierzynski are all really good (bad) in my eyes.
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    Haha, that certainly won't do anything to reduce the Vlad comparisons.
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    a) People who don't like Dusty nitpick the hell out of him. I'm so glad there's actual baseball to talk about now so we don't have to overanalyze every adjective, gerund, and split infinitive for hidden meaning. b) it ties into the justified fear of Dusty putting the youngsters on a short leash. A lot of people think he and Cedeno should have played a lot more last year. Fortunately, both Murtan and Cedeno have done well thus far, and Dusty seems to really like them both (He practically glows when talking about Murton on a couple of interviews I've heard on XM), so those fears are tempered somewhat.
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    Considering his plate discipline/pitch recognition issues, I think Corey should holler at Brian Roberts about getting some of those magic contacts that gave him double the number of home runs he'd previously gathered over his whole career. I still believe that if he can either fix the glaring hole in his pitch recognition or find a workaround for it if he can't, Corey will eventually become a very similar player to Torii Hunter.
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    I started to post that I was more concerned about Ramirez's slow start because I figured it'd have more meaningful effect on winning and losing, but I got distracted yesterday. There are probably two reasons people aren't all over Aramis. 1) We have established experience with what he's capable of doing, and he started off even slower last year. 2) he's not a new, one-dimensional hitter coming off a down year. Nevertheless, Aramis is more important to this team than Pierre is, and if he keeps struggling (and right now it appears he won't) the team will have problems as soon as guys who are red hot come down to earth.
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    Yeah, something's not right about those winning percentages there.
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    Awesome. Go Lakers. They'll blow it though. I know they will. Probably not. Not with they way they're playing now, esxpeically with Nash sitting out.
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    Pie is 0 for 2 today, if anybody wondered. ;)
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    Haha, Lakers lead Phoenix 16-1. Murton distributing souvenirs.
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    Oh man, look who's coming in.
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