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  1. Magnetic Curses
    i think we learned how valuable harris is last week. that guy is an impact player. He's at least not a complete catastrophe waiting to happen, like Wright. Major has "back breaking bomb" written all over him. he's always doing something bad.
  2. Magnetic Curses
    i think we learned how valuable harris is last week. that guy is an impact player.
  3. Magnetic Curses
    illinois won a national title in tennis
  4. Magnetic Curses
    This isn't a question of right or wrong on larger issues. Your contention throughout this thread is that Hughes does not even understand a very basic scouting dynamic -- namely that HS and college players profile differently. It's completely ludicrous and I can hardly believe you continue to defend that belief. you're the one that keeps making the ridiculous argument that the unknown is not unknown because people know it's unknown.
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    I think it was more of a straw that broke the camels back thing than just that offense. Exactly. I'm willing to bet there have been a lot of things going on behind the scenes with Z that we'll never know about. Heck there was a quote or two (can't remember who) basically saying this. he was probably speaking spanish to another latino player in the presence of some white people.
  6. Magnetic Curses
    Scouts don't feel threatened about their jobs, they feel threatened about how their jobs are going to evolve or devolve. same difference
  7. Magnetic Curses
    i'd rather have fielder and wilson and keep jackson.
  8. Magnetic Curses
    you make no sense and your opinion is weird
  9. Magnetic Curses
    While I agree that he needs to be paid, one thing you don't do is sign a RB to a 7-8 year contract. I don't care who he is. Huh? This isn't baseball. You sign him for as longterm as you can, to spread out the cap hit. It's not the length that is all that scary, it's the guarantee. Did you forget that 29-30 (sometimes earlier) is pretty much washed up for a RB? Let alone 32-33 (7-8 years from now). Chris Johnson got a 4-year extension, which is what Forte needs as well. Sure the contracts aren't as extreme as they are in MLB, but why pay him any money at all when the chances are some stud out of college will out-produce him by the time he reaches his 30s (See: Tomlinson). because they can cut him.
  10. Magnetic Curses
    wasn't it hendry that said that? i'm hoping that with both hendry and quade done, we at least give him the chance to come back and create a little more leverage for a trade. Ricketts has all but ruled out any chance of keeping Zambrano. i really hope ricketts isn't planning on running the team.
  11. Magnetic Curses
    check for a pod in the closet
  12. Magnetic Curses
    it's my impression that the "stats guys" are more willing to work and employ old school scouts than the opposite. i don't think the new school has really been dismissive of people that watch baseball for a living, i just think that the old scouts feel threatened and choose to perpetuate the myth of the "harvard grad with a laptop" who has been hired to put them out of a job. if anything, it's the insiders who are being exclusive and trying to push out the new guys.
  13. Magnetic Curses
    i don't get the problem here, did he kill the real leo nunez and assume his identity?
  14. Magnetic Curses
    wasn't it hendry that said that? i'm hoping that with both hendry and quade done, we at least give him the chance to come back and create a little more leverage for a trade.
  15. Magnetic Curses
    they won't be able to. this line gets confused blocking a 4-man front. Why are some fans so obsessed with the blitz? I would actually welcome some over aggressive blitzing this week. Cutler can exploit that on occassion. The Bears lack the line to block straight up and look deep. it's easy to blitz our offense because there are no audibles and the center is in charge of recognizing the defense and calling out blocking schemes.
  16. Magnetic Curses
    mccracken said "more of an unknown" (meaning harder to evaluate, one would assume) and hughes criticized him for it. i honestly don't know what you need to admit you're embarrassing yourself. As compared to a college player, a HS player... * is less physically mature. That's known. * is almost certainly facing inferior competition. That's known. * has less experience. That's known. * will require more development time. That's known. * faces a greater risk of arm injury, if he's a pitcher. That's known. All of these factors, and probably several others I'm leaving out, make the HS kid a greater risk. So you do a classic risk/reward evaluation, and fill out your draft board, with the HS kids slotting in with the college kids however your risk/reward analysis, combined with your organization's risk tolerance, dictates. So what is it that's unknown in this scenario? Between the scouting grades and the statistical data, you have all the information you need to make a fully informed decision. That is what I believe Gary Hughes' point was. so it's known that high school players are more of an unknown. i'm glad we have that cleared up. what are you, dothraki?
  17. Magnetic Curses
    lol, what was that part about su casa?
  18. Magnetic Curses
    they won't be able to. this line gets confused blocking a 4-man front.
  19. Magnetic Curses
    mccracken said "more of an unknown" (meaning harder to evaluate, one would assume) and hughes criticized him for it. i honestly don't know what you need to admit you're embarrassing yourself.
  20. Magnetic Curses
    They probably already have, but we won't know anything unless the people with whom they are talking leak it. It will be interesting to see what sort of compensation the Cubs will have to pay if they get Beane or Epstein. Friedman does not have a contract. I still think it will be a lieutenant who gets the job. I'm hoping for Cherington if the above three decline. If the WS wanted Morrison from the Marlins for Guillen, I would imagine Epstein would cost us Castro. even if we offer him a promotion and make him team president?
  21. Magnetic Curses
    the bears are going to get bearded.
  22. Magnetic Curses
    you don't say? 20 dollars a month is like half of what most people pay for actual internet access. it has to be a joke.
  23. Magnetic Curses
    FINALLY!!! When people can't grasp scouting is and will be predom. Subjective, that is their lack of knowledge on scouting. i don't know what this means, but i know that scouting is the scouting of scouting, and scouting scouting scouting scouting scouting is scouting. now someone go scout me a scout of scout.
  24. Magnetic Curses
    How do we objectively declare that Hughes was the one who had the success? By the talent he was credited and the success of the organization/farm systems. To SSR: Its unfortunate it ended like this for him and that people will remember him more for that one article than his body of work, not that I'm disappointed to see him gone. In the right role (in Det) he could be of use. again, UK, that interview was a summary of his body of work.
  25. Magnetic Curses
    Hendry didn't create anything. That was how it was done before he took the job. It was a philosophy that Hughes himself lauded and preferred to work under. He really sucked at his job and now he is gone. Hendry created the team's approach. It is a philosophy and a relationship with Hendry he felt comfortable with. Hendry learned as much from Dombrowski as Hughes. hughes was poison in hendry's ear. sure, the GM is ultimately the decision-maker, and hendry paid the price for it, but his influence was clear. we had to put a noose around hughes's neck and toss him off the battlement to show the prospective GMs that we are serious about changing our ways.
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