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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    World Series Champion: Not the Cubs
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    OK, I'll say it. Between IS and ST, Jackson has 11 PAs without a walk. I'm concerned.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    And there's our first brettjackson. *looks around for place to exit bandwagon*
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Dontrelle Willis left the game with an apparent arm injury.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    What if he's not doing that? In my mind the Cubs can extract maximum return especially if they eat a little more salary. This is about as good an opportunity as they can reasonably expect. Who knows if the Yanks are interest though. He got the choker label there before. What you get for Soriano isn't going to be important enough that you have to focus on maximizing the return like that. Now or in July, it'll be some guy that we get crazy excited about because he was top-100 on one list at some point and might fit into our top 10.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Dont want to start the arby clock until we're ready to compete There's competitive games coming up in like five weeks.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    (Believe in) Brett Jackson makes it nine consecutive PAs in intrasquads and ST with balls in play.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Something called "Steamer" projections from Fangraphs: http://www.fangraphs.com/projections.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&type=steamer&team=17&players=0&sort=22,d
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I remember that he's an outfielder and an NRI, but that's about it. We don't need outfielders so I have to assume the odds of him making the team are so minimal that I don't need to know about him, but I could be wrong.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Castillo makes it back to back. Gosh I want a good season from him.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Some random NRI I've barely heard of with a 3-run homer.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Unless Brett (believe in him!) can win the CF job outright and you slide DeJesus over to left, I don't see the point of trading our cleanup hitter for prospects at this point in the year. There's no need to create a hole at this time of year unless you are getting something difficult to replace in return, and the prospects we'd get for Soriano is not that. We can always fire sale in July if/when we're out of it.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    I didn't realize this game had free audio on Cubs.com. Villanueva getting chased in the first after two walks and a single.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I really think this might be the year that happens.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Jackson 3b Believe in Brett!
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Can't help but notice Cabrera still can't throw strikes. 4 BBs today in 2 innings.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fair enough, but I find ZIPS to be a bit optimistic projecting Lillibridge to a standard he has failed to meet 80% of the time.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Me too. All this coachification and ish is going to work its magic this season. Ian Stewart, surprise All-Star. We'll get there yet!
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm sold. New swing=success.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    I hope you are just assuming he'll never bat leadoff, because this team should be hoping to win a championship. Joe Mather played this role last year and got 10 leadoff starts. This is literally true of every position player in all of professional baseball who isn't good. We threw around names all offseason for the reserve infield spot. It's not as if this just came up. I would have loved Ronny Cedeno in that spot for the $1 million or whatever he got from the Cardinals. If we don't want to spend that much, I liked Ryan Raburn as a better fit than what we brought in. That's two off the top of my head. I dispute the idea that he brings positives. If you can't hit at all, and he can't, you could at least play a decent defensive middle infield, which he also can't. Going by bWAR, he's worse than Augie Ojeda or Jose Macias It sure seems like a guy who has been below replacement, both cumulatively and consistently, for years, is being given the inside track at a major league job because Sveum recruited him and the front office couldn't (or couldn't be bothered) to come up with a useful utility infielder given all offseason. Difference in degree, maybe, but not type.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's incorrect already.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    No one said it was great.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'll bring up again my argument that Cubs fans are a bit shellshocked by it being so long since normal baseball variance played out strongly in our favor over the course of a season.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm pretty happy with the way they handled most of the roster. If you set aside the Ian Stewart debate and give them a bit of a pass because there's pretty much nothing out there at 3b, then everything else was handled pretty well. They put together plenty of adequate depth in the rotation, outfield and bullpen.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think there've been some rumors about the Cubs teaching someone like Navarro or Hairston to play 1b, and I guess in that scenario we could just go with five infielders if we really wanted to go crazy with an extra pitcher.
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