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  1. Magnetic Curses
    That was you?!? http://forumimages.footballguys.com/style_emoticons/default/bowtie.gif LOL.....sorry Chocolate :) No Rex-bashing allowed, darn it!!! ...but colorful nicknames are. Will it be Turnoversaurus Rex next weekend? 8) are you one of the guys who wants to play kyle orton because he "didn't lose games" last season? apparently, people forget about the 5 INT cincinnati game. i'll never understand it. not many quarterbacks can play well when their line is being demolished. rex has made some bad throws this year, no doubt, but he's 12-4 over the course of his career-he doesn't lose many ballgames either....and he's never had a 5 INT performance while throwing a minimum of passes.
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    iirc, cotts started the 2004 futures game. IIRC, he also made his first career start at Yankee Stadium and got hammered. It was a pretty questionable decision. wasn't saying that he was invulnerable as a starter, just that he was regarded as a starter clear up until he made the major leagues.
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    iirc, cotts started the 2004 futures game.
  4. Magnetic Curses
    i doubt that hendry made this move with the intention of then sending jones, demspter, and marmol to the sox for freddy. :( well, westbrook would be fine, and it will happen soon if it happens at all.
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    Amen. So when (not if) Kerry becomes the regular closer, what should his entrance music be? Gagne had "Welcome to the Jungle", Hoffman has "Hell's Bells" ... how bout that old UFO song "Lights Out" for Kerry. "healthy body, sick mind" op ivy
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    if we got soriano i have a feeling he'd play 2nd.
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    See, the thing is, he's not a top of the rotation starter. Hence the "overrated" label. if he's not a "top of the rotation" starter, i'm not sure what is. Take a look at his ERA+ over his past 7 seasons. Anybody who doesn't acknowledge that he has not been, over the past three seasons, the same pitcher he was his first four seasons, is dishonest. He's good. But he's no ace. we're not talking about an "ace", we're talking about a "top of the rotation" starter. there are only a few actual aces out there in the national league, i think the cubs have one of them.
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    that's totally and absolutely ridiculous. in a full season (which has been every season since his rookie campaign of 2000) barry zito has only failed to post 14+ wins and a sub 4 era ONCE. in addition, since 2000, his abbreviated rookie year, he's never pitched fewer than 213 innings in a season. all of the sudden, he moves to the national league, a league that lacks the DH, and he gets WORSE? that makes no sense whatsoever. i'd like to know where you get your facts, your gut? Why are you guys talking about win totals? i was using the language that was being used at the time.
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    See, the thing is, he's not a top of the rotation starter. Hence the "overrated" label. if he's not a "top of the rotation" starter, i'm not sure what is.
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    that's totally and absolutely ridiculous. in a full season (which has been every season since his rookie campaign of 2000) barry zito has only failed to post 14+ wins and a sub 4 era ONCE. in addition, since 2000, his abbreviated rookie year, he's never pitched fewer than 213 innings in a season. all of the sudden, he moves to the national league, a league that lacks the DH, and he gets WORSE? that makes no sense whatsoever. i'd like to know where you get your facts, your gut?
  11. Magnetic Curses
    I thought Westbrook was a strong candidate to become a Hendry target. 3 straight years of 200+ innings, and below average to very good effectiveness during those innings. I don't believe he's a free agent until after 2008, but he'll make a lot in arbitration following this season. And I'm deathly afraid he'd trade Matt Murton for Westbrook then sign Carlos Lee. He said the Cubs would be trading young bull pen arms for Westbrook which "was the one commodity they had to trade." Also said Lilly was looking for 4/36. Young relievers for a starter like Westbrook would be nice, but I doubt that gets it done. He'd probably have to at least include a guy like Moore, and maybe a young starter as well. i still like the idea of freddy garcia better. not that jake westbrook doesn't intrigue me, but i just think that a package of JJ, dempster, and marmol would get the deal done without increasing payroll at all.
  12. Magnetic Curses
    could we rename this thread the "Kerry Wood Appreciation Thread"? thanks for coming back Kerry, i'm looking forward to you being a reliever that no hitter wants to see next season.
  13. Magnetic Curses
    i'm sad that shavo hasn't shown up in this thread since the game. i haven't remarked on the play of the corners. they may not be "shut-down"-type guys, but they sure know how to play in the bears' scheme and they're rarely beaten. it's also about time that bears fans ease up on peanut, he's a very, very good corner. i think that he's got a bit of the kerry wood-mark prior stigma. he busted out with a huge play against moss in 03 and then everyone expected him to just destroy receivers with thunderbolts from his arse. he's no champ bailey, but who is? vasher is also proving to be more than just a ballhawk.
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    i thought that little bit was funny. i don't know why i find grown men doing the charleston on a football field funny, but i do. as for hester's hillbily dance against arizona, that was classic. shooting a basketball? not so much. i mean, a third grader could have come up with that one. i guess that's my underlying objection to it, the inherent pre-pre-adolescent inoffensive sense of jubilation that goes into the whole thing--i find it intellectually embarassing. come on guys, at least pretend to unzip your pants and pee in the player's eye or something. also, merriman's lights-out dance is annoying. what's he doing? okay, shawn, i know that you're good because you took steroids, but please don't do that again.
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    i dont think the cubs or anyone else will be paying the bidding fee plus his contract for a utility player. Utility player? Check again. There are other Japanese players that put up good numbers in Japan only to come over here and become utility players. Plenty of players in AAA that put up great numbers only to become utility players in the majors. His posting fee is not going to be all that high. He may be signed with the intention to start him and then be horrible in spring training and wind up being a utility guy. The more I look at him though the more I dont think he'd be the type of guy Id want in our lineup, rather have someone with a better OBP that doesnt strike out so much. I agree with Rich. Who knows though he could turn out to be a pretty solid 2nd baseman, I think there will be a long period of adjustment for him though. why do people assume that strikeouts are related negatively to OBP? if anything people with higher strikeout totals are more likely to have a high OBP as they generally see more pitches. players that have high walk totals and low strikeout totals are mostly called hall-of-famers, with a few exceptions.
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    let me say that i hope the bears' mocking of the jumpshot puts an end to the practice altogether for 2 reasons: 1. it's totally stupid, it makes whoever does it look stupid. it's not funny, it's not even disrespectfully funny. 2. i'm sick of seeing 300 pound beef-a-roni butts jumping around in those totally unflattering panty hose-like uniform whatever-they're-called. it makes me physically ill to see all those jiggling tubs of flesh jumping around on a football field.
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    whats happens to the broadcasting rights if the cubs are sold off by themselves?
  18. Magnetic Curses
    i'm bumping this because i still like the idea. now more than ever. throw some money at zito, roberts, and drew and call it an offseason. looks like aram is going to walk, unfortunately.
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    it's comical. my teams have like a 30 game losing streak.
  20. Magnetic Curses
    What does this mean? :oops: Quoted for truth. Roundabout way of saying "I agree completely." quite effing true. that's what i prefer it to mean.
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    i am very happy with this signing. what an amazing switch in philosophy. nobody that i know has ever advocated going up there looking for a walk. it's exactly like perry says, shrink the strike zone, look for a pitch in that area. if the pitch is borderline, don't swing, even if you have two strikes. the likelihood that a hitter is going to get a good swing on a questionable pitch is poor anyway, unless the hitter is pujols, vlad, or aram. I am with you until 2 strikes - at that point you can't let borderline pitches go IMO. I wonder what he thinks of a platoon partner for Jones? the chances that a borderline pitch will be called a ball is much greater than a player putting good contact on it. i'm not inclined to believe the conventional wisdom of "choking up on the bat and putting it in play with 2 strikes" for the simple sake of putting the ball in play. there are worse things than striking out on a 2-strike pitchers pitch. if you can't hit the ball effectively and the pitcher happens to put the pitch in an unhittable position in the strike zone, tip your cap as you walk back to the dugout. there's nothing a hitter can do. i detest the idea of swinging at a pitch you can't do anything with, it's useless. major league hitters CANNOT be afraid to strike out on a called third strike. hitters that are are usually ineffective.
  22. Magnetic Curses
    First half foul trouble, and then Thabo played great in the first half, so Skiles wanted him out there again in the second. Thabo has been very impressive as part of the second unit. thabo dominated the flow of the game when he was out there against the bucks. i haven't seen anyone liken his game to scottie's, but to me, it looks like he could be a bigger, stronger version in the future. the guy looks pretty amazing.
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    i am very happy with this signing. what an amazing switch in philosophy. nobody that i know has ever advocated going up there looking for a walk. it's exactly like perry says, shrink the strike zone, look for a pitch in that area. if the pitch is borderline, don't swing, even if you have two strikes. the likelihood that a hitter is going to get a good swing on a questionable pitch is poor anyway, unless the hitter is pujols, vlad, or aram.
  24. Magnetic Curses
    Paul Depodesta is certainly not the answer to any of our problems Yeah Penny, Lowe, Drew, and Kent are sure stinkin up the joint. Neither are Barrett, Lee, Ramirez or Jones. Your point? the point is that hendry's had 4 seasons to figure it out and hasn't, while depleting the majority of the minor league system that he himself built. depodesta was given 2 years and fired, while accomplishing everything that hendry had accomplished--he wasn't allowed the time to develop a minor league system (which is what the success in oakland was built around) and was fired before being able to assemble his team. sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. with hendry, they got good (due in part to moves he made and players he had drafted and developed) and then they got way worse, which was directly his fault. depodesta wasn't allowed to build a team. he was allowed to tear down, but not rebuild in his vision. that's totally unfair. the cubs have been very fair with hendry, including giving him a 2-year extension for letting his team get bad. in addition, he's shown no organizational plan other than flying by the seat of his pants, there's no blueprint for going forward or certainty that things will get even slightly better.
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    Haha, nice visual. It is true though. Always nice for Manning to be able to throw off his back foot and have Burress bail him out. Rex does not have that luxury. manning throws a lot of 500 balls, that's for sure.
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