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illinois on first down in this game: completed pass for -2 rush for 1 incompletion completed pass for -6 rush for -3 rush for -4

2008 ibb: 38 2009 ibb: 44 2010 ibb: 34 2011 ibb: 15 there's some of them.

guessing castro's war is an exercise in futility as long as war is tied to that rng oops, i spelled uzr wrong

guessing castro's war is an exercise in futility as long as war is tied to that rng

money be damned (unless not)

http://www.autographinglive.com/Ryne%20Sandberg_Second%20to%20Home-1.jpg http://www.amazon.com/Second-Home-Ryne-Sandberg-Opens/dp/1566250404 someone buy this book and find all the stupid things he says and post them here.

FINAL DECLARATIONS don't photoshop our guys who haven't done anything yet onto other guys who haven't done anything yet corona sucks ----------------

i'll volunteer, all you've got to do is hit the plunger

This is the classic strawman when it comes to Sandberg. I can answer that question, but you really should be asking yourself the inverse. Aside from being a very good Cubs player, what qualifies him to be a MLB manager? He's been in coaching for only 5 years, has never coached at the MLB level, and his playing career is mainly the highlight when bringing up his qualifications. As to your original question, there's a list of reasons I don't think hiring Sandberg is a good idea. For one, his philosophy towards the game, based on his quotes to the media(as a manager, HOF speech, etc), articles he's written for Yahoo, and the actual track record as a manager, is not one that I think is optimal in a manager. It reflects the type of overbearing manager that hurts the team by trying to press buttons with steals, hit and runs, and bunts. He isn't bilingual and I haven't heard anything overly positive(or negative for that matter) on his ability to handle latin players. His disposition(based on his ejections in the minors, his self-righteous HOF speech, his quotes on deserving a managerial opportunity, and the rumors of his personality) is not one that I consider to have the requisite humility to deal with players without alienating them when they disagree. In the same way, I'd expect his personality to cause problems in executing the front office's vision when it is not exactly aligned with what Sandberg believes. Are there similarly compelling reasons to think that he would be an effective manager of personalities, and able to execute the front office's vision to the minute detail? I don't believe so. I'm not advocating for Sandberg, but that is a weak argument. We don't have any idea of what the directives given to him in the minors are. From everything we have heard from any player that has played for him they liked him and appreciated greatly his coaching skills. Even though it is not as important in the minors, his teams always seemed to do well. He stressed fundamentals (something greatly lacking on the big league team) and held his players accountable. I think it has been proved over and over, despite the false perception on this board that the small ball stuff was greatly exaggerated. The actual statistics showed that his teams bunted about the same amount of times as other teams in every league he has coached in. Most of the criticism is based on his HOF speech and yahoo articles, but his actual coaching body of work is nowhere near as bad as it is portrayed. TT as someone who uses statistics, please provide statistics that show any of these accusations that your are leveling against Sandberg. his HoF speech put up a 68 mEQA+, thus putting him over 30 percent below the average manager's speech seriously though, what numbers do you think he is going to come back and post? where are your numbers, if this is somehow the standard?

great analysis, but i'd really prefer it if you could remember to include "GO AWAY LAHAIR: go away lahair" as a major offseason goal in all posts like this.

Who the hell is saying that? Whoever wants to see a bad team next is not a Cubs fan. Talk Cubs outside of a board like this, and you will run into tons of fans who think that the best course if action for 2012 is to place Vitters at 1b, LeMahieu at 3b and go with an outfield of Colvin/Jackson/Byrd (if you can't find a trading partner for Byrd). Because anything else is sacrificing the future for the present, or something blithering like that. yep. there are a lot of people (people who know a lot about the cubs even!) who think that we have to/are going to be garbage for 3-5 years if we have any hope of getting good thereafter.

i don't think epstein is going to tell starlin to look good but play poorly in the field in order to more closely resemble jeter

i'm as big a zambrano defender as you will find, but, in addition to weighting zambrano's injury risk or whatever, you do need to account for the fact that there is a nonzero chance z will punch someone in the face again and miss time as a result. that impacts his value.

your league is too complicated, leave it and start another one

tt thinks zambrano will provide war or whatever worth 8 million dollars. if you trade zambrano for nothing and save 8 million dollars, you can go buy that war someplace else and break even. if you save more you'll come out ahead, less you'll come out behind.

i like that picture a LOT. albert seems nice. let's get him.

i'm sure cc can tell us all about sex to your ears, let us never speak of it again

you guys vince vaughn is in chicago this proves i was telling the truth when i said i slapped him in the face on amtrak a week ago

we thought you were dead where is chocolate milk????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? cc is only letting one guy out of his bloody foot dungeon a year, give it time

huh EDIT - oh. I didn't see it. A lot of people didn't, things were moving a mile a minute back then, lol share share

one of my friends who is otherwise a solidly intelligent cubs fan is unfortunately obsessed with kenney. he just said this to me:

nope. Chicago Media fail. it might just be that they were told not to ask about that since it isn't officially done.

nope.

christina kahrl is transexual you a holes

christina kahrl!