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  1. CUBZ99
    I want Nola.
  2. CUBZ99
    At least they were cheap.
  3. CUBZ99
    Looking forward to seeing the new facility in a couple of weeks.
  4. CUBZ99
    How about a Cliff Alexander like press conference? They could put several hats in front of Tanaka and he could reach for the Cubs had and just before he picks it up, he puts it down and puts on the Dodger hat.
  5. CUBZ99
    That Ty guy is not very accurate. He just throws a bunch of stuff against the wall and hopes some of it sticks. This off season he batting about .000. I've seen people say that he has been correct before but his average is in Neifi Perez/Darwin Barney land.
  6. CUBZ99
    This is said to be the deepest draft since at least 2003. There are anywhere from 10-12 guys this year who could have gone 1 last year. Even so, this team is pretty exciting to watch and very difficult to root against.
  7. CUBZ99
    Time for Theo and Jed to earn their money and sign Tanaka. I'm not real optimistic, but at the same time I'm hoping that Theo will make it happen.
  8. CUBZ99
    Yeah, that's basically my take on it; looking at they've been able to do with McCown should be an endorsement of wanting to see it do even better with Cutler, not just stick with the backup. It is hard to see the offense playing any better than it did last night, regardless of who the quarterback is. I still think Cutler should be the starting quarterback, but I feel much better about moving on without him if they are unable to sign him.
  9. CUBZ99
    I like this move. Cheap contract for a pretty effective reliever.
  10. CUBZ99
    That would suck. I could see where they would be very upset about the rule change just before cashing in on a player.
  11. CUBZ99
    According to the BA article, the winning bids get to duke it out for the player's services. If that is the case, there goes my hope for signing Tanaka. I can see the Dodgers and Yankees going all out for him.
  12. CUBZ99
    This is the best day of any offseason ever, from a non-team-specific viewpoint. @#%@#$, that was fake This has been a pretty exciting day for transactions.
  13. CUBZ99
    Could have been worse, they could have called him a traitor.
  14. CUBZ99
    Yep, smart fans never expect a win until two years from whatever day it currently is. When you finish building your army of straw men, mind trying to have some conversations with adults? The short of it is you cannot separate the decision to go for it on 4th down and the play-call that went with it. It doesn't matter if going for it is "right" if you are running Michael Bush up the gut again. The horrible decision to run that play negates any positive takeaway from actually going for it. Then you have the entire pre-half segment and a host of other bad decisions and it is painfully obvious that Trestman is handicapped by his glaring head coach decision making disabilities. How about this? I'll take that play call over the even more terrible play call that kicking the FG would've been. And you can absolutely separate them if you want to. That doesn't make any sense. You would take a 5% chance of rushing for a TD on that play over a 99% chance of putting up 3 pts on the board? I don't see what is so hard to understand about what Goony is trying to say. I wasn't against the call to go for it at the time, but the play call was horrible. Anybody watching the game could clearly see that the Bears were getting destroyed at the line of scrimmage. Especially on plays up the middle.
  15. CUBZ99
    I agree, but I refuse to believe that they are trying to lose on purpose. I thought we were getting a front office that was supposed to excel at scouting and drafting. Almost any team can get good draft picks early in the draft and if tanking was their purpose they have sucked at it. We have yet to get the #1 overall pick so far. I'm guessing they were mislead by the Ricketts regarding the financial situation when they signed on.
  16. CUBZ99
    Kind of hard to compare payrolls from 10 years ago with the numbers the way they are now. An $80 million payroll in 2003/4 was a really solid number then. It's peanuts now. That is a fair point. But the Cubs were 11th in spending in 2003 when they nearly went to the World Series and had a terrific farm system. Last couple of years the Cubs have been 15th in spending.
  17. CUBZ99
    Sorry, but I'm going to have to see it before I give them credit for it. well, he took over a roster and a minor league system largely bereft of talent, and the owner yanked payroll down by $30-40m per year when most clubs in the game have been rolling in dough. i'm not too sure what you expected was going to happen. You're the one giving the FO credit for something they haven't accomplished yet. I won't have any problem giving them credit when they actually accomplish that winning part. And if they can do it without the constraint of a mid-market payroll, I'll give them credit anyway. I agree, I'm pretty sure that at one point Hendry had a lower payroll than the current front office and had a top 1-3 ranked farm system and a team that competed in the division. I do like what Epstein and Hoyer have done with the farm system, but it gets old hearing the excuses on why the front office can't spend, when the Cubs are one of the most profitable teams in the league. There is no excuse for them not being able to compete year in and year out.
  18. CUBZ99
    What is the deal with Minter? Have heard many positive comments about him, but he didn't play last week.
  19. CUBZ99
    It is funny to look back on all of the hype surrounding Girardi's possible return, like somehow he was going to look past how terrible the Cubs have been and leave an organization like the Yankees. In my opinion the biggest positive of signing Girardi was that he would probably not come to the Cubs without some reassurance that there was a plan in place to win in the short term and not the current endless rebuilding project.
  20. CUBZ99
    That's exactly what we said when Epstein was hired. No *way* he'd be hired just to gut the payroll and run an expansion-style rebuild. I could've made this post for you; I was so sure it was coming. Hey, I'm thinking the Ricketts DID make promises that ultimately they couldn't keep; I do still think that Theo would have come here if he knew the money issue was going to be what it's seemingly turned out to be. If the farm doesn't start seriously paying off in the next two seasons I wouldn't be surprised at all to see Epstein walk when his deal is done. I don't think he would have come here if he would have known the realities. Yeah, he's blowing this joint if things don't start paying off in the next couple years. The whole dual fronts talking point turned out to be phony. I bet Theo wishes he would have stayed with Boston. Something has to give at some point. You can't have one of the top profitable teams and spend like a small to mid market team. Never thought I would pine for the Sam Zell/Jim Hendry days, but at least they were attempting to put together a major league team to compete.
  21. CUBZ99
    This year really wasn't that far off from his other seasons. Interestingly, his GB rate actually went up to his highest rate in years (2006). As someone earlier pointed out his LOB% was also very low and coincidentally (or not) was the lowest it has been since 2006. I know that Bosio has been preaching pitching to contact and pounding the zone, maybe Jackson is having trouble buying into it or is just not capable of executing.
  22. CUBZ99
    Vogelbach was also an HM. Nice to see 6 Cubs int he top 75, with 5 of them being in the top 41. Granted they won't all pan out, but you have to like the odds that at least a few of them will. Also, great to see the Edwards love.
  23. CUBZ99
    At this point you have to wonder where the front office sees Baez fitting into the major league roster. With Bryant moving through the system and looking legit, I hope they just leave Baez at SS.
  24. CUBZ99
    That is one hell of a swing.
  25. CUBZ99
    So Baez has 3bbs on the day? Wonder when that happened last?
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