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  1. GaryWoods
    I don't know if that's a good move on his part or not. I think a big part of his problem is that he had no spring training, so a minor league assignment might have helped him get back on track. And I can't imagine anyone taking a chance on him at this point after struggling with two different teams.
  2. GaryWoods
    Thank you! I was trying to think of him when I made my previous post and just couldn't come up with his name.
  3. GaryWoods
    Trout??? Steve Trout? Steve's dad.
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    Remember the ceaseless threads about moving Mueller to second base? That was at Cubs.com Now that you mention it, I do. Although I can't recall what the logic was, given that franchise savior of the moment Bobby Hill was expected to take over second base for the next decade and I don't remember anyone of value in the system at third.
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    Along with Bobby Hill, Hee Seop Choi, Augie Ojeda, etc., etc. Okay, maybe not Augie Ojeda. I learned recently that he just retired a couple of years ago.
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    I don't know that Mueller really fits into the discussion because he was actually good. Which is probably why the Cubs traded him (with cash) for an injured minor league relief pitcher who never took the field in the Cubs system.
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    No, must be a typo. He was with the Arizona rookie team all year. I remember wishing the Cubs would trade Dunston for Johnson back in the '80s when HoJo was a beast. Unfortunately we ended up with the "What the hell ever happened to that guy?" version instead, about three years too late. Not the first time or the last, of course. At least in CarGo's case if he doesn't pan out we're only out the league minimum and a roster spot that would probably be filled by someone else just as bad anyway.
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    I typically associate that era of Cub third basemen with milquetoast white dudes: Vance Law, Steve Buechele, Todd Zeile, Kevin Orie. Although Gomez and Luis Salazar did play enough games there to be listed as the starter for a couple of seasons each.
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    When did this become a white power symbol? When I was younger we made this symbol for horsefeathers. *not arguing this isn't a white power symbol. Anyone that's watched any news the last few years, should know it's a white power symbol. Just wondering if it's always been that way, so I'm the horsefeathers. It's not. For it to be the "white power" symbol it would have to be held upright so that the third, fourth, and fifth fingers form a "W" and the thumb, index finger, and wrist form a "P". This dude is obviously playing the circle game. We used to play it at Menards all the time. You hold your hand in that position and try to get someone to look, and if they do you get to punch them in the shoulder or something. By getting everyone who tuned in to the broadcast to look this guy won in a big way. He should get season tickets rather than being the subject of an investigation.
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    I became a Cub fan in 1983 mainly because our local cable company picked up WGN that year. Because I was in high school I was able to watch darn near every game. If I live to be 100 I'll never forget Ron Cey shuffling around the bases on his little penguin legs while Dave Parker fumbles for the ball in right field.
  11. GaryWoods
    There was an annoying kid on the old cubs.com forum that worshipped Alou like he was Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and Willie Mays all rolled into one, I think some long-timers might have negative feelings toward Alou that stem from those memories. On a more rational note, it always seemed like he only hit when everyone else was hitting. He put up great numbers overall, but he never seemed to be one who could pick up the slack if someone was out or in a slump. The kind of guy who could turn a 6-2 win into a 10-2 win, but not so much the guy who could turn a 1-0 loss into a 2-1 win. He also never seemed inclined to hustle. But it's been a long time, I may just be remembering him in a bad light due to the whole Bartman thing.
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    Cubs.com, just like in the old days.
  13. GaryWoods
    I think Kerry Wood doesn't like Sosa (wasn't he the one who smashed Sammy's boombox?) I think this is a big part of the problem. If true, then Kerry needs to get the [expletive] over it like a grownup. If Kerry had chosen to act like a grownup 10 years ago, Sosa might have been abel to leave the game gracefully as a Cub.
  14. GaryWoods
    It's not an implication, it's an assumption based on the previous post. I haven't really followed the Cubs closely in several years, so unfortunately I don't know Matt Garza of the Cubs from Joey Garza of the Larry McMurtry novel "Streets of Laredo." Regardless of whether Matt Garza is marginal, sub-marginal, or a budding superstar, I still stand by the basic premise that if you have young players who, regardless of how much raw talent they posess, will never develop into major league performers of any caliber under your system, you are probably better off trading them for the 25th man on your roster than keeping them around. Unless the 25th man you want to trade for has a miserable contract that will tie up half of your budget for several years. In that case you are better off keeping your prospects until they burn out and hiring them to sell programs at Wrigley.
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    Too bad the Cubs minor league system has been broke for some time. The prospects to choose from are pretty bleak. They have a LONG way to go to get to the Red Sox level. Oh...and some good talent was shipped for Garza (who's been pretty average so far). Hendry gone may help but I am not a fan of how Ricketts wants to improve this team. They need free agents at this point. Not rookies. Not a single word of this post is accurate Sorry you were wrong. How can the farm system have been broken for a long time and yet have had good talent to ship out for Garza? I took him to mean "broke" as being unable to develop raw talent into legitimate major league prospects, not that there has necessarily been a complete absence of talent. That being said, if you can't develop your players then you are probably better off sending them off to someone else in exchange for marginal major league players. Just a thought.
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    Was going through some old posts.....I felt like I had to post this because I've always wanted to quote a Yanr post. It's been several years since I've had the privledge. I would like to suggest that Tim unban Yanr quietly and see if he figures it out. I have this feeling that every 6 months or so Yanr comes onto NSBB and tries to log in to see if he's unbanned. I love this.
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    Jesse White has had a pretty good career since leaving the Cubs minor-league system.
  18. GaryWoods
    So I'm guessing that you're not a fan of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein?
  19. GaryWoods
    When did TJ get in? :shock: The Flying Dutchman has more innings, strikeouts, and wins, and a lower ERA than Fergie Jenkins; no way he doesn't belong.
  20. GaryWoods
    McGwire leads Dawson in HR, SO, BB, OBP, and SLG. Keep in mind that Dawson played 750 more games than McGwire. If you level the playing field that way, McGwire would also have a commanding lead in RBI and runs scored.
  21. GaryWoods
    Just for grins I decided to take out the 20K game and recalc his number: #2 - 10.358 - Kerry Wood Still #2. My point is, Kerry's detractors say he's never won 15 (yada yada), and only made a name for himself with that 20K game. They're wrong -- he made a name for himself because he can strike out guys like there's no tomorrow. I'm a huge Kerry fan, always have been, and very very glad he's still a Cub. But if you take out his entire first season, which should be considered an anomoly because much of his success was achieved using a pitch he no longer throws, he drops to #3 at 10.06. Not that it really matters, he's still an outstanding strikeout artist. It just seemed somewhat relevent in the context of the discussion
  22. GaryWoods
    I haven't decided on Rice, yet, but just wanted to point out the fact that his lack of speed was legendary back in the day. Rice is sixth all-time in GIDP. That's not all bad in and of itself, as the five guys ahead of him are in the Hall. But, Rice made it to #6 with significantly fewer ABs than the guys ahead of him. Dave Winfield (#4) is closest to Rice; he was doubled up four more times in 2778 more ABs. Again, I don't think that keeps him out of the Hall, just pointing out a fairly significant negative aspect of his game.
  23. GaryWoods
    Yes. The save may be a meaningless stat, but that's no reason to automatically exclude the all-time saves leader. Lee Smith started his career in the "workhorse" era of the short reliever. Before Tony Larussa (or Dave Duncan, or whoever it was) came up with the stupid micro-defined roles for relief pitchers, teams put their best short reliever in the game when they needed an out right now; they didn't save them to face whoever might be batting in the ninth inning. Smith earned plenty of saves the hard way, by getting out of a tight situation then pitching a couple more innings to finish the game. And there were plenty more times where he'd put out the fire, then leave for a pinch-hitter and let someone like Bill Campbell or Tim Stoddard finish up. It's unfortunate that Smith's career carried over to the era of the closeur. If his career had started and ended 10 years earlier, people would take a much more objective look at him.
  24. GaryWoods
    There was quite a bit of speculation that the baseball in 1987 was juiced. A lot of players, including Trillo, had their highest career homerun totals that year. Here's a list of some Cubs who posted career HR bests in '87 along with their age at the time: Manny Trillo, 33: 8 HR Leon Durham, 29: 27 HR Andre Dawson, 32: 49 HR Jerry Mumphrey, 34: 13 HR Bob Dernier, 30: 8 HR Don't forget 33-year-old Keith Moreland's 27-homer power surge that year. Dave Martinez only hit 8 home runs playing with Ryne Sandberg, but reportedly he acheived several more while playing with Cindy Sandberg.
  25. GaryWoods
    If Eckersly can make it on the first ballot, Gossage, Smith, Sutter, Reardon, and a few others should automatically be enshrined without a vote.
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