Hairyducked Idiot
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OK, I will.
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It'd have been hard. I wish we had a front office willing to try hard things.
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That is such a terrible opinion.
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I don't agree with the idea that we were doomed to suckiness no matter what was done, even with the financial restrictions.
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There's nothing to answer. He and I have different evaluations and that's that. You don't accept that we have possibly the deepest prospect pool in baseball? Then what are you so happy about?
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Most prospects flame out so you need a lot of them. We have a lot of them. We have more than just about any team in baseball.
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Baseball teams aren't houses. There are real, physical reasons why you have to tear down a building with a bad foundation (I assume. I am not a contractor) before you rebuild on the site. If you add good baseball players before you remove all the bad ones, all that happens is you win more baseball games. Which is kind of a good thing.
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Whomever they feel like mentioning at any given time to give the reporters something to write about. I think (hope?) that they don't really believe the whole "core" nonsense is as important as some fans seem to. As recent as January or February, Darwin Barney was referenced as part of the "core" by Hoyer.
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1) The farm system wasn't barren. It wasn't great, but it seems how bad it was is being revisionist-historied further into the depths every year. 2) The consensus at the time was that the Cubs were stacked with role players in the minor leagues who could be contributors quickly. It was the major strength of the system. 3) Finding cheap, useful players is supposed to be the sort of thing good front offices do. It was something Epstein was very good at in his early years in Boston. They did a bit better job this year, but in 2012 they were really, really terrible at it.
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Why would you be proud of wanting what has happened to the Cubs in the last three years? In case you haven't noticed, things are not going well.
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Off the top of my head, half the everyday lineup (when healthy) is inherited. I guess the tear-down is still in progress so we can't even start building the house/team yet.
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lmao Please, show me this dramatic blow up of the "old team." Byrd, Soto and Dempster traded in 2012. Soriano, Garza and Marmol traded this year. My God, it's like the post-WS Marlins in here, what with all of the flames and all. You also have to factor how they ruined Castro and turned Samardzija into a starter who wears down every year. That's part of the blow-up.
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Rick Renteria Named New Cubs Manager
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Hawk4Hall's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Why wouldn't someone like Girardi want to come to the Cubs. The bar has been set extremely low for the past 2 seasons, so any kind of improvement will make you a hero. Then you have the uber-prospects coming up in 2015 and the possibility of increased payroll. As long as you get a multi-year contract, I can't see any downside. Because we're terrible now, don't seem likely to do what it takes to be not terrible next season, and other teams in our division have prospects, too. If I'm a manager who needs to break into big-league managing, I take the job. If I'm an established, in-demand guy, then I wait to be the guy who gets fired after Sveum. -
No.
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Rick Renteria Named New Cubs Manager
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Hawk4Hall's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I can't see an established manager wanting to come to the Cubs. That'd be one heckuva sell job. -
It was crazy nonsense. That was what we were trying to get across, that our opinion is that his opinion is crazy nonsense.
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The entire point wasn't that I didn't understand his analogies. It's that his argument was based on nothing but flimsy, homespun analogies that have an emotional appeal but no real weight.
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:( He's up to 26.4% K's. Never mind, unless he can improve that or play plus defense in CF.
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The Cubs are like a snakebite. You had to suck the poison out before you could apply a band-aid.
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The Cubs are also not an investment.
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The team that won in 2007 and 2008 had run it's course. It was expensive, old and in decline. The farm system offered no quick fix and the impact players that could have kept the team above .500 would have come at a great cost over a very long period of time. The Cubs are a piece of land. The land had a house on it. The foundation was crumbling and the structure was rotten. So, you tear it down and build new. The Cubs are not a piece of land. You can build a good baseball team and still have a couple of players from the old team.
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Why was it necessary to "unwind" the old team? Why is that even a thing?
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Anytime we want to stop reenacting scenes from the first half of Major League is OK with me.
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Strop is capable of giving up runs, too. And it wasn't a save situation.
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Rick Renteria Named New Cubs Manager
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Hawk4Hall's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
We are 29th in bullpen fWAR (for the 2nd year in a row), ahead of only the Astros. I seriously doubt that there was a bullpen usage pattern that could have been in place that would have made a noticeable difference.