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If it's the same kind of distraction that took the Giants to the postseason four times between 97 and '03, I'll take it...
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And more importantly (if we wouldn't be), what is Tonya Hardings ex-husband doing these days? :lol:
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Hey, we still need a platoon partner for Jacque. :)
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Please find super advanced Japanese steriod where one dose makes you Godzilla for life. Hey, I can hope. :lol:
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Gone, there's actually a scientific formula to represent how it happened. 10% gone growing up listening to father cry about 1969 15% gone for first baseball memory being losing in 1984, at the age of 4 15% gone for watching us lose in '89, then go on to lose Maddux 10% gone watching Ryan Sandberg retire twice without a World Series ring 30% gone in 2003 20% gone watching this past years team So, really, I'm integrity bankrupt. If bringing Cap Anson back from the dead won us a championship, I'd pitch in to buy the team a muzzle. :D
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I don't really care if he slaps Hendry in the face after every game, hell, I'd like that. He can do whatever he wants when he isn't in the game so long as he brings his bat with him. A .400 plus OBP? A .400 plus freaking OBP? Let him take batting practice off of a tee of Fredie Bynums teeth, for all I care. So long as I get that bat. Really, if you have the chance to sign a guy like this that nobody wants and you have great leverage over, you aren't serious about winning now. So what if you only get a hundred starts out of him. Good. Let Matt play. But those hundred games he plays, I like our chances.
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Kuroda is coming off one hell of a year, doesn't look like he's been ran into the ground. And I like this quote from his Wiki entry http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hiroki_Kuroda
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Or, if we're lucky Z Schmidt Hill Kurodas Prior :)
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I like it Vance, though I'd flip Riot and Soriano, if just because Sorianos power would be put to better use crushing Theriot home after he gets a hit or a walk. :D
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A-Ram update
Wheelimus replied to Post Count Padder's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Certainly Hendry has to know that any hope for 2007 rests on resigning Aram. If it comes down to overpaying a million or two, or losing Aram, overpay. -
Yeah, if we wanted a 3rd pitcher, i'd resign Miller on the cheap or a Padilla type free agent before i'd sign Weaver. Regardless, with his playoff "heroics", he's probably playing himself into a contract nobody sane would touch.
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Sign me up for eight million or less. Said it before, I'll say it again. Who better to march the Cubs right up to the gates of their own personal hell and break through it, than Barry Bonds? :lol:
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Yeah, if the fee is $30 million, too rich for my blood. Especially with Boras as his agent. While most expect Matsuzaka to sign with the winning bidder, I'm just not sure. Boras is going to be in his ear telling him that if he goes back to Japan for a year, they can negotiate with every team in baseball the next year. If it's a choice between 3/30 this year, or 5/90 the next (and Boras has the balls to think he can get that latter contract), that's going to be tough to pass up. I don't see anything wrong with signing Hiroki Kuroda to be our 4th starter, and then going after Schmidt. However, that doesn't mean I don't want the Cubs going after Matsuzaka, it just means i'm willing to accept it if they fail. If they do, Hendry better damn well reveal what his bid was. Anything less than $20 million is probably an insult, both to Daisuke and us.
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You know, would there be any greater irony than Dusty Baker having an OBP awakening, going to the Athletics, and winning the World Series? :evil:
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Bring Back Moises
Wheelimus replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
You know, I like it. If you signed Soriano for center, that would be a very productive outfield, with Moises taking all of Jacques lefties and any righties he has good history against but Murton might struggle. -
Carlos, Rich, and Dai...then you cry
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Wouldn't Von Joshua be more valuable in the big leagues? By all accounts he's a quality teacher. And Uncle Lou is the type of skipper who would smack a guys hat off if a coach said he wasn't listening. Don't you think Von Joshua might deserve a shot at developing big league talent in the show? Maybe if we're stuck with Pierre, Von Joshua can actually teach him patience. If we're going to have Theriot at the top of the lineup, I'd like Von Joshua there coaching him. Ryno for first base.
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The Cubs are in a no win situation with Prior. If they count on him being in the rotation on opening day, and he isn't, they'll be called idiots later. If they say "we're not counting on anything" and that anything they get will be extra, they get called idiots now. Honestly, if it costs $5 million to be able to (potentially) have Mark freaking Prior in your rotation, you find the money. Sure, we lose out on a Neifi and a Glendon, but it's worth it. Wood, of course, should work his way into relief. I guess that's another damned if you do thing too. If they toss him into closing and he blows his arm out going back to back or something, they'll take heat. If they ease him in slowly, they take heat. Miller showed me enough at the end of the season to bring him back. He's exactly the type of pitcher we'd let go, the Cards would clean him back up, and he'll be beating us within a year. For $115 million dollars, you can have some high risk/high upside risks on your roster. So long as you hedge your bets. One of Zito/Schmidt/Daisuke please, plus another middle/end of the rotation starters, possibly one of the other Japanese guys.
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Somebody get Ron Gant on the phone. Is Dave Justice still serviceable? :lol: Sid Bream anyone? Jeff Blauser? Surely they'd have better luck with him than we did. :x
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He has quite a long time to drop a little bit of weight if he needs to. Oh, and no way to Z for A-Rod. I'd rather dump prospects for someone to take his place in that deal...
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Somebody get Ron Gant on the phone. Is Dave Justice still serviceable? :lol:
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I judge Hendry from here on out based on what he does here on out. And obviously judge his past based on what he did in the past. If he does his job well this offseason, signing Soriano, signing Schmidt or Zito or Daisuke, I'll praise him. If we wind up with Carlos Lee and some journyman on a four year fifty million dollar contract, I'll damn him. Surprise us Jimbo, surprise us...
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Next Maddux goes back to Atlanta. "ATLANTA BRAVES 2007: WE'RE GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER!"
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Pierre Gone?
Wheelimus replied to b_wiggy_66's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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Matthews for CF?
Wheelimus replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Matthews is one of those players that, if he wound up on the market still in mid February and suddenly will take a one year contract, you'd have to bring him in. But if he wants big money for multiple years, pass. His three year OPS's, all in texas, are .811, .756, and .866. Just so happens the three year average is .811. Pie put up a .792 at Iowa this year. Is the difference worth the cost? For a year it might be. :)