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Brenly was a coach under Dusty Baker on the Giants according to his wikipedia page. I'd rather a guy study under Terry Bevington I'd rather a guy study under Terri Schiavo

HOW WELL PEOPLE PLAY IS NOT DETERMINED BY THEIR SALARY

I still think hes the Braves next manager It's pretty obvious that SSR does, too maybe it's good that he's younger than cox, we can just give him 13 years or whatever to do his thing and get ready down there, and then make the call and give him the job we know he really wants (even if he doesn't act like it). good things come to those who wait.

Yeah, being paid millions of dollars to be a major league player would suck rocks if you were a DH. He's being paid millions of dollars in any event. Being a DH would suck a lot more than not being a DH. i dh'ed in high school and loved it. i just hung out in the cage the whole time, casually taking bp until some wiener junior high kid or whatever came down to tell me i was almost up to bat.

Clearly Ryno was groomed for the role by Hendry and if he goes then there is no guaranty that Ryno is the next manager. Is Sandberg as terrible as everyone seems to think? He could be. I just know he has said things about sacrifice bunts in the past and everyone subsequently hated him, but does anyone have actual insights on his managerial style? Just wondering. if you want to like sandberg, you can, you're just going to have to ignore everything he's written and everything he's done as a minor league manager. i'm not being sarcastic. if you're fine doing that, then, sure, there's nothing in his past to dislike. of course, if you do that, there's also just nothing in his past.

this is a pretty dumb way to defend a trade. also, looking at escobar batted ball numbers, there's really no reason to think he isn't due an immediate turnaround, unless he's so lazy that he's intentionally popping the ball up on the infield four times more often than usual so he doesn't have to run hard to first base.

This is extremely offensive. Just because you didn't understand basic math at a young age doesn't mean nobody did. Except nobody was looking at baseball cards and subtracting AVG from SLG to determine which players were powerful hitters. You mean to tell me you find it outside the realm of possibility that a young kid who likes math... a kid who is calculating his own BA and OBP and Slugging from little league games... didn't notice that guys with a bunch of home runs had a slugging percentage about .200-.250 points higher than their batting average and guys who didn't hit home runs had a much lower difference? That the very idea a kid might notice such a thing is so unrealistic that you can determine that nobody did that? Nah. You guys can't say that. You're just being jerks to be jerks. That's actually exactly what I'm saying. Kids looked at HR's and rbi to determine power hitters. Some kids my have even looked at slugging %. No kids were subtracting avg from slugging to determine which high slugging % hitters had their slugging affected by singles. i did this! i even remember the card that spurred it on. it was a tony gwynn from 93 or 94. it completely drove me insane because he there was one year where where he hit like four home runs and slugged over.500. i was convinced it was a typo until i matched the numbers up on a different card. the subtraction stuff eventually followed. this stuff isn't complicated, and i owned a calculator. i thought i was a badass.

hey guys, all this team needed to succeed was every player on the roster to play as well or better than we could have optimistically hoped for them to play. only jim hendry could have brought us to this beautiful pinnacle of roster building.

just look how much things have turned around since they put the hammer down Turning things around wasn't the objective. so we taught the organization an important life lesson that in no way improved play on the field. hurray? Doing nothing could have made things worse, on and off the field. I thought that was implied with the "inmates running the asylum" comment. lisa, i would like to buy your rock

Z killed Z's trade value, both with his production and with his behavior. All the Cubs have done is (re)establish that acting like an arse is unacceptable. That "life lesson" may be lost on Z, but it needed to be reaffirmed to everyone else in the organization. Otherwise you've soon got the inmates running the asylum. just look how much things have turned around since they put the hammer down Turning things around wasn't the objective. so we taught the organization an important life lesson that in no way improved play on the field. hurray?

it was those damn statheads again. kyle had to play devil's advocate in order to set them straight. he's not afraid to take a contrarian's position, you see.

Z killed Z's trade value, both with his production and with his behavior. All the Cubs have done is (re)establish that acting like an arse is unacceptable. That "life lesson" may be lost on Z, but it needed to be reaffirmed to everyone else in the organization. Otherwise you've soon got the inmates running the asylum. just look how much things have turned around since they put the hammer down

aramis asking to go on the disabled list when the training staff didn't insist and the season was going badly (but it was still early enough that things might turn around) would not have gone over well.

this is illustrative of the point i really, really wanted to make in this thread. if colvin had other things in his background to be excited about, it'd be easy to be thrilled about his future. given his age and track record, though, the main reason for the enthusiasm about him is also the main thing we should be ignoring. That's a fine point. And I agree with it. But I think it's pretty clear to see how that point would get lost in a thread called "Tyler Colvin is not that great" where you also say, "we should not be particularly excited about him" and "there isn't much reason for enthusiasm here". if you had asked me before the season, i would've said tyler colvin was not that great and that there wasn't much reason for enthusiasm. as i said before, if you already loved him, awesome, continue to do so. i didn't and dont.

this is illustrative of the point i really, really wanted to make in this thread. if colvin had other things in his background to be excited about, it'd be easy to be thrilled about his future. given his age and track record, though, the main reason for the enthusiasm about him is also the main thing we should be ignoring.

my argument is that he's the same guy now he was at the beginning of the season. if you loved him before the season, i suppose you should still love him now. the fact that he's hit a fluky number of home runs in the major leagues shouldn't sway your thoughts on how good he is or can be.

he brings donuts to all the meetings lol

this thread is for discussing the fact that expectations for tyler colvin are entirely too high and that we should not be particularly excited about him. tyler colvin has displayed one skill as a major league hitter: hitting home runs. he currently leads the major leagues in hr/flyball among hitters with at least 160pa. he's currently at 25.6%! this is not sustainable. last season, only one major league hitter who qualified for the batting title managed a rate that high: mark reynolds at 26.0%. 2009 qualified hitters top ten hr/fb mark reynolds 26.0 ryan howard 25.4 carlos pena 23.8 prince fielder 23.1 alex rodriguez 22.7 adrian gonzalez 22.2 russel branyan 21.7 nelson cruz 21.2 raul inabnez 21.1 adam dunn 21.1 do you really believe tyler colvin is this type of guy? a huge power guy who can keep up this sort of rate (or, actually a rate better than that put up by everyone on this list but one)? the fact that he k's like one of these guys doesn't mean he is one. tyler colvin is going to stop hitting home runs. when he does, he's going to provide no value. there isn't much reason for enthusiasm here. certainly nothing approaching what i'm reading about in thread after thread here.

im down for the part where he said we should put leeches on hendry, everything else is out

always retired absent mucheffort

this is my new favorite post of all time

it would be really, really cool if this ended with bad blood between lebron and wade. vicious, legitimate, hate-filled rivalries are awesome.

yes, followed closely by hall of fame agreed. i would prefer no one on the cubs ever make the all-star team. i don't watch the game, i'd rather the guys get the time off, and it makes the players marginally more expensive come contract time.

major league teams should not give starting jobs to 30 year old first basemen hitting .239/.338/.433 in the pcl. i don't care if we're going to be bad, there's still no reason to waste a spot like that.

I figured this team would be frustrating, but more in the "hover right around .500 the whole season" sense as opposed to this. i said 75 wins before the season started, and right now they're on pace for 70. if we're going to blow, though, i'd really prefer we slide on down to the 65 range.