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Rick Renteria Named New Cubs Manager
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Hawk4Hall's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
You know that's not true. I completely know that it is true. -
He's taking Darwin Barney's vacated spot, I assume.
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Rick Renteria Named New Cubs Manager
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Hawk4Hall's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
There are no good ways to manage a bad bullpen, and few bad ways to manage a good one. I'm sure the next guy would be just as good as Sveum, but I don't want to be one of those teams that just cycles through managers with another round of "This guy is totally going to teach our players fundamentals and how to play the right way." I'd like to be better than that as an organization. -
Maybe *this* time it means Arrieta has figured it out?
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Sure they could. Didn't they make a big show of meeting with Pujols' agent and leaking rumors of a 5/$150 offer?
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Where's the dogs-stealing-Homer's-chips gif?
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We've got: 1) Payroll saving moves 2) The knowledge that the renovations will need start-up money, even if they are eventually designed to pay for themselves 3) The quotes from the front office 4) Rumblings from reporters, the same sorts of which we used to laugh off when they said we'd be dropping payroll when Epstein was hired. I don't think anyone knows for sure what payroll will be next year, but dropping from the $95m we are currently at is a legitimate concern.
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And the next time we get six prospects on a list somewhere, we'll get three posts talking about how bright the future is. Same difference.
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Describing these are mere cliches is a bit of head-burying, especially given how it syncs up with many other legitimate fears about the offseason.
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The "no multiples" and "can't afford Edwin Jackson again" were separate quotes, right?
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You guys just don't appreciate the plan. Exchanging money for useful MLB players is something Hendry would have done. We're going in a different direction now.
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Rick Renteria Named New Cubs Manager
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Hawk4Hall's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
He is either doing it himself or a leader in implementing it. There were a lot of articles about how it was one of his big selling points when he was hired. -
Or we could just trade for him and also acquire other players.
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No 100 losses for us.
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*obligatory premature Arrieta praise through three innings*
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I think that's in the vicinity. I usually use something in the vicinity of 2.5 wins for the bench, and I'd like to think we can get 5-6 from the pen next year. That's a lot, but not like league-leading a lot or anything.
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At one point, but at the time of the trade he was one of the guys the Pirates could choose from and they settled on him. I am pretty sure he was kind of Brett Jacksoned by that point. He wasn't anywhere near that bad. I remember a lot of acrimony and arguing with Pirates fans over whether they could get Hill back in the deal.
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Hill was still thought of as a future leadoff guy. I don't think he'd lost much luster.
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I swear like 90% of the fan base has this willful amnesia about how long it's been since we had an elite farm system.
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If I had known it would cause people to be nice to me, I would have encouraged my wife to whore it up years ago. At this point, I think we're gonna need proof so we know you didn't make up this story for the sake of popularity. So this is a bad time to ask to be let back into Other Sports?
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If I had known it would cause people to be nice to me, I would have encouraged my wife to whore it up years ago.
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When I was in like sixth grade or whatever, we were taught that mean, mode and median were all different types of averages. And if you can't trust a sixth-grade teacher in rural Illinois, who can you trust?
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Out of gas?
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i suppose i'm in the same boat as TT (above). if they're spending like $100-105m and continuing to pour money into the draft, international free agency, upgrading wrigley and other facilities, etc, i'm okay with that. but they aren't really "pouring" money into the draft and intl free agency. It may be more than most other teams are currently spending under the new system, but it isn't a huge amount that makes up for a middling payroll. Upgrading Wrigley is a completely different topic. Under the new system, we paid about the same this year as we did in 2011, and we'l be paying a ton less next year.
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All of this.