Jump to content
North Side Baseball

Magnetic Curses

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    29,981

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    2

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by Magnetic Curses

  1. Magnetic Curses
    if bush doesn't want to play in green bay, that's fine by me. but i won't ever consider him a football player. football was meant to be played in cold weather. if fans can sit there and freeze their butts off at lambeau in december, he should be able to go out there and put on a show for them. if he refuses to play in GB, i hope he gets severely injured the first time he puts on pads in cold weather, i hope he never plays the game again and has to go to work alongside curtis enis at the garage door factory in paris, ohio, 3rd shift. that's right, i wish injury on him, just like i wish injury on any player who refuses to play where they're drafted, just like i wish injury on any player who refuses to play in cold weather. maybe he should just wear a grass skirt and play the freaking ukelele on the sidelines in a dirty, crime-infested city like houston or phoenix. the NFL doesn't need a player like that. if it really is the case, he should just go back to school and pull some college wool like leinart did. better yet, he can just stay in socal and forget that california isn't the only state in the union.
  2. Magnetic Curses
    Largely agree. Group think and over reaction reign on here currently. Jones has one glaring attribute over Burntiz. He should be able to handle play much better during the summer months. (has little smerk on face....looks at shoes) Plus, with a the whinning and crying around here I'm not seeing any alturnatives to Jones except Burntiz. Like someone said crap vs. crap. Which to me is not fair to either. Burntiz was decent just not the usual RF production for a "gladiator" type person. One more point. Just because you're a GM running a fantasy baseball team doesn't mean you know what's going on and you're better then JH. well, you just indicted hendry without knowing it. "I'm not seeing any alternatives to Jones except Burnitz" could have been averted earlier in the offseason. hendry chose to ignore giles, that's his fault, not mine or any of the other fantasy Gm's around here. hendry sucks, period.
  3. Magnetic Curses
    no, don't say that. miggy's staying in baltimore and the cubbies are keeping their ace. there's only one miggy that i'd trade prior for, and it ain't tejada.
  4. Magnetic Curses
    you try going through 97 years of baseball purgatory and tell me how rational you get. the only reason some people look lrational around here is because they'vre come full circle. in short, they're so crazy that they're sane.
  5. Magnetic Curses
    I would not do this deal. I agree, however Tejada/Bedard for Prior would make the Cubs a lot better in 06. i fully expect a Cy Young season from prior next year, and if he's traded, that's a lock. Why do you fully expect that? because i believe that prior is the best pitcher in the national league when healthy. if he's healthy next year, book it, you can mark this post. if he's traded, he'll definitely win because we have no luck.
  6. Magnetic Curses
    mckinney leaves mizzou without a braggin' rights victory, boy, am i glad he didn't commit to the illini. anyway, augie and dee looked amazing, randle was all over but made some odd decisions at times, mcbride showed some handles, finally, and smith impressed everyone with his range. arnold played well, too. great win for the illini. pruitt played horribly, though. did anyone catch raftery's IB shoutout? "Brumby diggin' it in Champaign"? maybe Tim can get a daily NSBB shoutout from Len.
  7. Magnetic Curses
    I would not do this deal. I agree, however Tejada/Bedard for Prior would make the Cubs a lot better in 06. i fully expect a Cy Young season from prior next year, and if he's traded, that's a lock.
  8. Magnetic Curses
    i wouldn't trade prior for anything less than cabrera or pujols. and probably not even pujols, unless he's willing to go back to the outfield.
  9. Magnetic Curses
    I would hardly call tank and ian scott weak links. Tank has 4 sacks this year while only playing 20-25% of the snaps. Also keep in mind that it is only his second year and he has had to work his way into playing time. Boone also has 1.5 sacks. The amount of production we have gotten from our 4 DTs this year is really good. if you look hard, i wasn't calling them weak link, either. good players, but probably the only non-pro-bowl caliber players on that defense. i could be wrong, though.
  10. Magnetic Curses
    wow. congrats to those guys. Kruetz shouldn't be listed and Wale should be. kreutz is the best center in the NFL, and there's not even a question about it anymore. Personally, I think the OL Pro Bowl selections are based entirely on reputation. I was probably overreaching with my statement but I'd still take Kevin Mawae over Kruetz. Olin had a terrible season in '04 and definitely didn't deserve to make it. This year, I think its as much lack of other pro bowl caliber C in the NFC than Kruetz's great season. notice that i said "anymore". mawae was kreutz's only competition for a long time, and now, there's no one close. mawae is no longer in the same class as kreutz. kreutz's "terrible" season in 04 was primarily the result of having to cover for a terrible line. there were times last year when he knew that qasim couldn't handle someone, so he would pull, run over to the LT position and block the DE himself. there were several times last year when mitchell got beat, only to be saved by a pulling kreutz. kreutz had to play 5 positions last season, this year, he only has to play 1.
  11. Magnetic Curses
    wow. congrats to those guys. Kruetz shouldn't be listed and Wale should be. kreutz is the best center in the NFL, and there's not even a question about it anymore.
  12. Magnetic Curses
    5 defensive pro-bowlers, 3 other defensive players that could have easily been there (tillman, brown, wale), a rookie who looks like he could be there in the future, and a solid OLB that won't get the recognition, but is a good player in his own right. i guess the only weak link is scott/tank, and those guys aren't really weak links.
  13. Magnetic Curses
    I don't see why its nauseating. People aren't just making up stats. They are using stats that have been shown to be far more reliable describers and predictors of production than tired old cliches. And it's not true that people are relying exclusively on them. People have seen Jones play. He's a known commodity. I don't think it's "nauseating." But the team that won the World Series this year supposedly had shaky stats up & down the roster. At least, that's what plenty of people on this board tried to sell us. Yet, they still took home the prize. So then, perhaps naked statistics don't tell the whole story of a ballplayer or a team. I do agree they are an excellent tool for evaluation and there's a good reason why people rely on them. Sometimes though, teams & players come along that just defy logic. the white sox offense ranked 9th out of 14 AL teams, they were terrible. please do not invoke the offense of the sox when lauding conventional wisdom. if you like conventional wisdom, you probably also sit up on christmas eve waiting for santa claus, too.
  14. Magnetic Curses
    -Edward K, indianapolis, Ind.
  15. Magnetic Curses
    http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/insider/columns/story?columnist=neyer_rob&id=2267243 Sums up exactly what is wrong with this boneheaded backasswards management group. They are so bullheaded dead set against anything resembling objective analysis that they still live in the fantasy world that a 31 year old player can have upside, or that prolonged repeated lackluster results are due to something other than the simple fact that this is exactly what this player is. stop being so negative goony. and neyer should stop being so negative, too. let's not let the truth get in the way of irrational optimism. what a joke of a GM.
  16. Magnetic Curses
    What did you want in CF and RF instead? Lets be realistic too and not throw out sign Giles for 3 years or get Abreu for a few prospects and Williams. let's stop pretending that giles was unrealistic. you keep saying this but you fail every time to produce any sort of reasoning behind your logic other than "his family lives in san diego".
  17. Magnetic Curses
    his first priority should have been to sign giles. after giles, it doesn't really matter. the rest takes care of itself. trade for pierre, whatever, sign a couple bullpen guys, alright, lose out on furcal, i don't care. a lineup of 1. pierre 2. walker 3. lee 4. giles 5. ramirez 6. barrett 7. murton 8. cedeno looks pretty good to me.
  18. Magnetic Curses
    Mike Kiley wrote that Walker is behind Neifi on the depth chart right now. I really think people have to come to terms with the idea of Neifi getting 500 plate appearances, or more. This lineup will not be good. It might not be terrible, but it's certainly capable of it. i won't believe it until i see it.
  19. Magnetic Curses
    nobody has given up hope, but TC3 Hinrich gave us really lousy reasons to be optimistic. here are better ones since you didn't read my earlier post: 1. Jones' improving IsoD and pitches seen per PA. 2. pierre, walker, lee, ramirez, murton, cedeno, barrett 3. the bullpen. 4. the fact that we have enough money to sign millwood, hopefully.
  20. Magnetic Curses
    damn straight. i bet my wife's boss that the bears would have a better record when the season began. if i won, she'd have to wear a big bears shirt for the duration of one of her shifts at the bar where they work. if she won, i'd wear a packers jersey for an entire day. everyone around at the time started making fun of me for being foolish. i told them that they would soon see why i made the bet. and they have. nobody's talking so much about how foolish i am anymore. nobody's saying much of anything at all.
  21. Magnetic Curses
    Yeah, but one member said the thread should be locked b/c of its optimisim and another called it "idiotic". I don't think eitherof those reactions fall within the spirit of this bd. the post WAS idiotic. not for it's optimism, though. and i don't reacll willis actually saying that it should be locked due to it's optimism. Ryno, i want to you to read this real good, i like you, but actually try to understand what i'm saying: willis was saying it should be locked because it was so plainly incendiary. i was saying that the post was idiotic because it WAS IDIOTIC. not because it was optimistic, not at all. my response offered reasons to be optimistic without being idiotic but obviously you didn't read it all the way through. it's being criticized because it was a stupid, incendiary, and BASELESS (most importantly) argument. it was called out because it was a post with an insulting agenda. if he can insult the intelligence of many on this board, i reserve the right to insult his post.
  22. Magnetic Curses
    it better be millwood.
  23. Magnetic Curses
    like i said, if his IsoD stays the same and his average returns to the .300 neighborhood, he could be a pretty good addition. now, that's too many ifs to sign a guy to a 3 year deal, though.
  24. Magnetic Curses
    This is the exact opposite of what I would write. - Edward K., Inianapolis, Ind.
  25. Magnetic Curses
    it seems like people who subscribe to the conventional wisdom of baseball often see the new guys as smug. if anything, it's the unwillingness to change or see something as an improvement that maddens me. who cares if they're smug if they're right? does it matter? is it reasonable to go on believing myths because the guys who've busted those myths are sort of jerks?
×
×
  • Create New...