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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Where on earth are we going to find another starter better than Marquis that's not Peavy? You act as if above-average starters are just floating around, waiting to be plucked. Another possible regression is that I think it's very possible we've seen Soto's best season. *ducks*
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Nothing like being a player or two away from the World Series and then regressing with nearly every transaction (Bradley excluded). And people wonder why it's been over a century since the Cubs last won the World Series. I can't figure it out! How have they regressed? By getting rid of some of the dead weight on the team like Pie/Cedeno before they had no value/had to be cut? DeRosa and Wood say "hi." Not to mention trading one of our most valuable prospects (Ceda) for Wood's lackluster replacement. And trading probably our 2nd biggest prospect in Pie (yeah, not saying much) for a guy we flipped for Aaron Heilman. This is not a 97-win team. I doubt it's even a 90-win team. That's going a bit far. Where did we lose seven wins, especially when you account for Bradley? (keeping in mind that Fukudome/Edmonds is a wash in CF when you consider defense, where Edmonds gave away most of his bat)
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Nothing like being a player or two away from the World Series and then regressing with nearly every transaction (Bradley excluded). And people wonder why it's been over a century since the Cubs last won the World Series. I can't figure it out! How have they regressed? By getting rid of some of the dead weight on the team like Pie/Cedeno before they had no value/had to be cut? DeRosa and Wood say "hi."
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bulin with several disgusting saves on the pkill, then Toews scores on the counterattack off the last one.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Toews has had some wonderful shots at the net tonight.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Anaheim announcers are furious.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Kaner gets a gift.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Toews really should have passed that. Or at least made one more move.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not much to be done about that goal except not take the penalty in the first place.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Just got home, watching now. one goal ahead of where we were supposed to be :)
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Could he be any worse than Theriot playing there? Yes. Theriot isn't good, but he's not *that* bad.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I wouldn't go that far -- bottom 5 GMs don't pull off some of the good moves Jimbo's gotten done. This one is confusing though. Any chance Heilman has a bounce back season in '09? He wasn't too bad in '07. I'm guessing either he bounces back or he has an elbow injury. It doesn't seem likely for him to repeat '08.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    The idea that I need a non-integrated graphics card just to run a baseball management sim makes me suspect they may have put their money and efforts into the wrong parts of the game.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    If we're bringing up every stupid thing anyone ever said on here, I'm pretty sure my pile would be near the top. Even ignoring those unconscionable times when I have an opinion that is only held by 30% or so of intelligent people (gasp) and the times I make a completely and utter fool of myself in the wake of a postseason sweep, I was dogging Hendry and Piniella over Theriot as hard as anyone. Point is: Hendry has been right and the sabermetric consensus of the board wrong about a lot of middle infielders now.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    The entirety is pretty funny. The same people who lambasted Hendry for letting DeRosa go this offseason, the same people who were sure Theriot would be worthless. Except Truffle, who came off pretty well. TruffleShuffle wrote: goony's evil twin wrote: TruffleShuffle wrote: Brought down to that level by an awful 2004. The last two years he's had an OPS+ of 98 and 106, and will be playing mostly "defensive" positions. He'd be a bad hitter for a 1B or RF, but as a 2B/SS/3B/Util guy, he's clearly not a bad hitter. You can just as easily say it was brought up by a fluke 2006. Quit making excuses. It's a bad contract. Quit being a pompous prick. Not everyone agrees with you. People who aren't dumb do.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Don't know if this is the legendary one, but it's a good place to start: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=36629&hilit=derosa+signed
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    We honestly don't know that they have money left. There have been reports both ways.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    No, but also not the .283 .327 .328 they got over 400 PAs from Juan Pierre. No I know, I'm just saying that if you take into account that they'll get a full season from Manny you also have to take into account WHich Manny that is I agree. Since I like being lazy and letting Fangraphs do the work for me, I'll use their WAR stat. But sadly, they don't split up Manny's totals for when he was a Red Sox vs. when he was a Doger. Juan Pierre 2008 (2/3rds of the Dodgers' left field production): 0.3 Manny Ramirez season: 6.3. I think there's definitely a 2-3 win improvement in having him for the entire season. Then throw in a full season of Kershaw, a bunch of other good young pitchers, and the fact that 5/8ths of their lineup (and the most productive 5/8ths besides Manny last season) is in the 20-26 range and likely to take a collective step forward.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    No, but also not the .283 .327 .328 they got over 400 PAs from Juan Pierre.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Assuming they get Ramirez, I really like the Dodgers as a possible best team in the NL. I don't know about that. They look pretty mediocre after losing Lowe and Saito. They'd have to have a lot of breakout years to be the best in the NL 87 pyth wins + full season of Ramirez - Lowe and Saito. From there, I think they do have a lot of guys poised to have breakout years. Their roster is full of guys in the 20-26 range, so I'd say it's a good bet one or two have breakout years.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Assuming they get Ramirez, I really like the Dodgers as a possible best team in the NL.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    No way. A full season of Gallard and improvement from Parra isn't enough to make up for losing 130.2 innings of 1.65 ERA and 198.1 innings of a 3.09 ERA (I know, not the best pitching stats). That's at least a six-game loss right there, and they were only an 87-win team by Pyth anyways.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm overexaggerating a little. I like the Cardinals for low-80s right now.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    80 wins? 80 wins, yet somehow get into the playoffs? Good chance 80 wins takes the central in 09 care to make a friendly wager on that? Not at even odds. There's not a team outside the Cubs that I'd project at 81 wins or better right now, but the odds are one of the other five will have a better than expected season.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    When you are the best team in the league, have little in the minors, and have backloaded a bunch of contracts in recent years, getting better is pretty much not an option.
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