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Not really sure. Per the auction I won it was a kids ball signed at the Cubs Convention. Doubt they were really thinking about maximizing long term value. I was just happy to knock 3 great sigs off my want list for a little over 30 bucks. Don't care about Cotts but DeRosa is a nice bonus.
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Wow. Is Mark in the witness protection agency and secretly signs his real name? lol, crazy, I never would have even thought that close enough to cross reference. Pretty sure the other one is Neal Cotts. Similiar to http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-lvO2CRUlLQ/TEoCp7d71yI/AAAAAAAACIk/Fkt5wlSbEG0/s1600/nc.jpg Thanks guys!
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Sorry if there's a better forum for this but since it pertains an all Cubs signed ball I thought this might work. Recently picked up a ball signed by Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Big Z, and two others the seller didn't know. The two unknowns are on top of each other, pretty sure the bottom one is Neal Cotts. But the one on top is driving me nuts. Pretty sure I read a #7 but can't match it to anyone who wore that number. FYI the seller said their son got the ball signed at the Cubs Convention "six or seven years ago". Pretty sure Cotts being there dates it to 2007. Anyway, thanks for the help if someone can quickly ID the mystery sig. Should be a clickable thumbnail. http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh143/Wheelimus/th_KGrHqZpgE-v3LzGuGBPtCdGtq60_57.jpg
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Since it's looking like Blake DeWitt will make the team it's probably for him.
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If well over half of the 25 man roster over performs there's a chance we surprise everyone this season. Maybe even win it all. Sadly, the day after the frogs start raining. Day after that the dolphins fly away singing "thanks for the fish." And then various other anomalies as the world slowly crumbles.
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Not the first, but with the newsbit of Darwin Barney showing up with 20 pounds of muscle he's my pick. He'll have a career best year and be above average as he continues to pack on muscle throughout the year. At least until the 50 game suspension.
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Tigers sign Prince - 9/214 - Heyman
Wheelimus replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Nothing like nine bleeping years of cushion to keep a weight concern motivated. Yikes. -
Man, if we're paying that much we better get a better return than Volstad.
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I'd suggest not telling people you think your team is cursed. I always find it funny how its OK to believe that a baseball team is cursed, but not that a fat bearded man in a red suit brings gifts to children or a giant rabbit gives them chocalate eggs. This is so strange. You're right, those are totally the same thing. Also, it's not ok to believe that a baseball team is cursed. Who told you that? Eh, it's as factual of an opinion as a lot of the other things silly people believe literally in. But no, you're right, believing that a hundred year drought equals a curse of some sort ISN'T the same thing as parents needlessly lying to their kids. EDIT: Anyway, the only reason some of us let our poor brains take comfort in a curse is because the reality is too depressing. That we're rooting for a team that has lost over one hundred years in a row and aren't strong enough to break our addiction to said team. But that's just being human, seeing patterns where there really is only random human history.
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I'd suggest not telling people you think your team is cursed. I always find it funny how its OK to believe that a baseball team is cursed, but not that a fat bearded man in a red suit brings gifts to children or a giant rabbit gives them chocalate eggs. I could expand on that fallacy but it would bring religion up and is probably a bad idea. I don't have to tell people my team is cursed, though. I just tell them I'm a Cub fan and they tell me.
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Is it sick that I kind of wish this were true just to have something SANE to blame the curse on? You tell people that you think your team is cursed because they once besmirched a billy goat and you get weird looks. Tell people that you think your team is cursed because they threw a series and, well, you still get weird looks but slightly less so. Plus look at it this way. If we assume it's a hundred year curse and can bump our start year up to 2018 we're damn near guaranteed to win a World Series in the next seven years! Yay! I think...
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Carlos Silva is a confident man
Wheelimus replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Eh, this doesn't bother me too much. I'd be disappointed if a guy coming into camp who will make over ten million dollars wasn't over confident. With the results he had last season before his health scares it isn't even that unrealistic. He's confident he'll be good enough to be our 5th starter. He should be. But if we wind up with six contenders and we trade Silva without eating a lot of cash I won't complain either. -
All I know is if opposing baserunners get spontaneous wedgies to slow them down this season we'll have further proof that there actually is a God. Because that is totally the type of prank I could see Ronnie pulling. I'm not a religious man, agnostic at best, but I really hope there is an awesome afterlife because Ronnie really freaking earned it.
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Hell, on some level the bump in merchandising we'd get from Pujols would be worth his contract. As would the 50 million World Series DVD/Blu-Ray's we'd sell. Back in the day Hawk gave us a blank check. Tomorrow we'll need to give Pujols one. Something tells me we wind up winners on both deals.
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This is the first year I'll actually have CSN, so despite the long odds we face I find myself strangely more excited about this season than any in the recent past. I just hope I can be strong on some of these day games and not spoil the result before I get home. Gotta love DVR.
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Really we should just say that going 3 to 4 years for ANY relief pitcher is risky. Probably a 50/50 crapshoot at best. I'm not going to mind if we wind up betting on our own as it were, but I'm not going to be shocked if he breaks down halfway through a deal.
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Perhaps they can talk him into several of the years being team options with considerable buyouts. I'd rather pay him 3 or 4 million not to pitch one season than be on the hook for 3 seasons when his arm gives out.
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I love Ronnie, but enough! You really think a statue is going too far? The guy gave his life to this franchise. It's the least they could do.
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You could send them up to the plate with the following edict. First guy who hits a homer lives, other guy dies. And the contest would still take several days to play out.
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If there really is a curse he's going to get on base .400 or better because of this. Luckily there probably isn't a curse.
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Or even better meant "avoided because they traded him for a long shot low A prospect"
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wb reed johnson
Wheelimus replied to rocket's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I would too unless you can get something of value for Fukudome. The drop from Fuku to a Colvin/Johnson platoon is minimal enough that if you could seriously upgrade another position it might actually make sense. Not sure what position that is though. Second base maybe? Highly doubt we're getting a top center fielder for Kosuke. -
Hill has thrown out 28% of baseruners in his career despite playing more good running teams than a normal catcher would. That's pretty solid. Is it enough to make up for his putrid hitting? Absolutely not. But there's no reason to denigrate the one thing he actually does reasonably well. My bad, I was going off of his percentage for last year.
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Has anyone clued Jimbo into the fact that he could probably bring Carlton Fisk into camp and at the age of 63 he'd probably still throw out more baserunners than Hill.
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If I had a nickle for everytime I've said this before spring training...well, I'd have a whole lot of slaggin nickles.