Wheelimus
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Well, I'd rather make no move than make a bad move. A lot of the deals proposed would be really bad moves. The fact is we just don't have starting pitching to spare. That or elite prospects (and I think most of us still want to hold onto Pie and not cross the bridge that would be dealing a Veal or other high ceiling prospect) are what it's going to take to get impact players. I feel good right now. The rotation should hold (please hold please hold). The bullpen should hold and we hopefully have Woody coming (please come Woody please come). The offense should hold, especially with platoons at CF and RF (please platoons at CF and RF please platoons at CF and RF). That of course will depend on what Theroit and Fontenot give us for the rest of the year (please don't suck please don't suck). :lol:
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Why do I get this feeling that "THE CUBS ARE IN SERIOUS TALKS FOR JAY PAYTON" actually equaled "The Cubs are scouting Jay Payton, along with every other available outfield bat"?
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Felix quad. Kroeger oblique. Nothing.
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I love how the audio is randomly going up and down. Here goes Bell...
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The Iowa Cubs post game guy is trying to talk up Soriano getting pulled in the 7th. lol I'm sure this is nothing, but it sure would be nice for it to be something.
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Am I Allowed To Say Anything Positive about Jacque?
Wheelimus replied to HoopsCubs's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Trade him while he's hot IF you can get something back that improves the team. At this point, we're getting into the stretch run and can't afford to weaken the team just to dump some cash. Pie just doesn't seem to be ready, and Pagan is certainly not the answer. Unless you can upgrade in CF by trading Jacque, you really just have to leave him there and hope Perry has turned him around. -
If the Pirates were to remove Duke from the DL and demote him (I'm sure he has options) they could. Hell, I thought there was some loophole involving the DL anyway.
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I hope he hits 10 homeruns against The Brewers, helping the Giants sweep them. Then I hope he ends the last game by peeing all over The Brewers. Why? Because at this point it doesn't matter. The record is his. Even if the baseball gods dropped a shattered knee on him, he'd still wind up getting it. Some team in the AL, after he had healed, would let him come in to hit 3 homeruns. Just for the curiosity attraction. Even if he is just a pinch hitter in every game who either homers, or walks and is replaced by a pinch runner. It's hopeless, so just accept it and hope for some deserving player to break it. As already mentioned, A-Rod in about 7 years.
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I'll give it a chance. If we can get a rebound second half out of him (perhaps aided by the easier competition, perhaps aided by not being seen much for three years) it might be a good deal. I highly doubt he will hit worse than Bowen or Hill, and Soto was no sure thing. So long as this isn't our "big move" and simply a small upgrade at a problem position, I'm happy.
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Nice!! If it is truly a zero sum game, Santa can also forget about my wish for peace on earth...plenty of time for that later...... BTW, I see you're in Iowa City...truly god's country!! U of I is my law school alma mater... I miss that town. Dear Santa. You know tha wish I keep putting in for Middle East Peace? Can we delay that until Christmas 2008? I need something else... Sorry Middle East, you all will have to hang on for another year. :lol:
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Better use of a roster space than Hill. Of course, Neifi would be too. Sweet googley moogley, I can't believe I just typed that with a straight face...
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Easy, a bunch of wannabe some-sort-of-Caribbean-hippie's are going to go easier on the field than a bunch of some-sort-of-80's-punkster's.
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Be careful what you ask for. The Tigers might offer to take Jacque's contract on if we take Neifi's.
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Um, when I said I was cool with trading Jones for nothing, I assumed we wouldn't pick up any cash. Lol
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If that's what ugly looks like these days I better make damn sure and not piss off my wife. Because if I go back on the market, I'm screwed! Oh, is this official yet? Lol, this bleeping thing was under 10 pages when I left work...
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Isn't that the guy who gave him a backloaded 3/16 deal? If you don't make fun of him for a week, I'll pick up the slack. The whole Jacque signing is contingent on this trade. If Hendry manages to get a decent player and/or relief from the contract, then the signing goes in the books as a decent one, possibly even a pretty good one. If he can't and Jacque continues to be a liability on this team and the Cubs keep paying his contract, the signing can quickly become a bad one, even with him being a pretty decent bargain last year. It already is a bad one. He can make it less bad by getting rid of him. To go further, I will even consider it a job well done if he were to aquire Neifi Perez or Jose Macias. Macias obviously would be making league minimum and would be a quick DFA. At least Neifi is only signed through this year. :lol: Jacque, for anything including nothing, is a win in my book...
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:shock: And all I got was this lump of ****
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Jacque to Texas for their batting boys used chewing gum, for all I care...
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I don't think it's a question of whether people will die or not, it's a question of whether they'll start to live to be much older and be able to play to a much later age. In 1900 the average life expectancy was 47. A hundred years later it was 77. I don't believe it's out of the question that it could be 107 by the year 2100. And with advances in science becoming more and more dramatic than they were a hundred years ago, it's not out of the question for that lifespan to go up even more. So, it's pretty safe to assume that as people begin to live much longer, players will stick around longer. And when we get to the point that a player can still be playing at 60 years of age, all bets are off. Nevermind that crazed day when some rich nut buys a collection of game used jerseys and creates a clone hybrid of all of the greats. Much like Serpentor on GI Joe. :lol:
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Yeah, to me it would be stupid to move DeRosa unless the deal really improves our ballclub. We have no reason to just dump him. An .800+ OPS out of second base is not bad at all. Mix in his ability to competently play almost every position on the diamond and it just makes no sense to want to get rid of him. Now, obviously, there is a price for every single player on the team. I'm just not sure who I can think of on the Yankees who would be a suitable haul that they'd be willing to give. Obviously, if the conversation went "hello, we'd like to trade you A-Rod for Mark DeRosa" you had me at hello...
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Will Sammy be traded?
Wheelimus replied to Mizzou's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Sammy is on a one year deal, right? I could see the Cubs possibly grabbing him after the team is sold, if Hendry is fired. The new ownership might see that as a great PR move. Well my comment was that Sammy would never come back while Hendry was still the GM. I agree I could see this happening this offseason if the Cubs don't trade for another RF. If he stays cheap and the Cubs trade Jones, both of which are quite likely, then a Floyd/Sosa platoon wouldn't be a terrible option (I'm also assuming the Cubs don't plan to make Murton into a RF). That's not true though about him not returning with Hendry still as GM. Supposedly when he decided to come back, the Cubs were the first team he called. Now, whether the mixed snubs of being ran out of town and refused a return has created such an atmosphere is another discussion. But we certainly could have had him in spring training instead of the Rangers. Which sort of annoys me in regards to Hendry, Sammy Sosa on a flier for under a million is sure a better bet than Wade Miller on 2.5. -
I think there are two different beasts of records. There are the kind which are near impossible to see broken, but with the right mix of luck and skill could. And then there are the kind which are just about guaranteed that nobody reading this board will see broken in their lifetime. In the first group I'd put things like the consecutive games hit streak, the consecutive games played streak, Henderson's stolen base record, etc. In the second obviously most of Cy Young's awards and those type. Sure, in a hundred years a pitcher might come along who can break the all time win record. He'll probably be so artificial that they discuss putting astericks on the records of our lifetimes, but still, someday someone will break that record. They may be 83 and just thinking about retiring when they do it, but hey, it'll get broken.
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Nothing like a game against the Cubs to build up a guys confidence....
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Dukes and 5,000 condoms for Jacque and 5,000 personally written letters of thanks from Cubs fans?
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Selig grows a pair, asks Giambi to cooperate in roid probe
Wheelimus replied to photoguy9883's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Giambi doesnt have a ring. DOH! For some reason I thought he was on the last Yankees Series team. Probably doesn't help that "Yankees" and "World Series" has been an automatic channel changer for me.