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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Intrasquad veteran lineup: Dejesus, Castro, Rizzo,Sori, Schierholtz, Navarro, Stewart, Barney,Hairston DeJesus Castro Rizzo Soriano Schierholtz Hairston Spoiled part for those with weak stomachs.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's going to be a thing all year. It's this years brettjackson.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Go. Soriano/DeJesus/Scheirholtz (Sappelt, Hairston) Stewart/Castro/Barney/Rizzo (Valbuena, Matherbridge) Castillo (Navarro) Samardzija/Jackson/Garza/Feldman/Wood Marmol/Fujikawa/Russell/Villanueva/Camp/Wade/Rondon Wood over Villanueva in the rotation. Rondon beats out Dolis for the last spot with his Rule V status basically being the tiebreaker. Wade makes the team as an NRI. I think Baker can start the season on the 60-day DL backdated by like 45 days and not miss too much time.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    I wish Lillbridge were as valuable at 6th infieldering as Campana was at fifth outfieldering.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    That chart is awesome. Notice that most of the below .500 teams got better and the above .500 teams got worse. Bless you, Plexiglass Principle.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm ignoring them because they are an ancillary point. The point is that Lillibridge's apparent ascension to the roster is a bad decision. The Perez/Macias comparison was a minor aside. If you have valid reason for disliking them but not Lillibridge, then you aren't being inconsistent, but you're still wrong for not disliking Lillibridge.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Don't mistake not finding your distinction relevant for not understanding it. I expect the Cubs to try to win baseball games this season, perhaps even with the playoffs as an end results, and I don't think they should be making decisions that hurt that goal without clear gains.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Last year's version got 243 plate appearances. Over/under on Matherbridge repeating that playing time?
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't think anyone's even disagreed with me. They've just taken the rather odd stance that Cubs fans shouldn't care about Cubs roster construction.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    If everyone would stop disagreeing when I'm right, we could have settled this early. I know it's pointless to generalize about groups of people that do not have homogenous opinions, but I find it a little bewildering that the section of Cubs fandom that used to destroy guys like Neifi Perez or Jose Macias suddenly don't care when the team puts really bad players on the roster, or at least appears to intend to.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes. Much better offseason than last.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ironic as always.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, enjoy the spring training pics, because there's literally nothing else for you here Cubs-wise. That philosophy is so generic it can be used to justify every move ever made by any front office. "Well, they think there's something there."
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm pretty sure he's making the team. But what if he's absolute garbage in ST? Then surely Kyle would want him not making....ooooohhhhh, riiiiiiiiiight, he hates that, too. He shouldn't be making the team no matter what he does in spring training. But if we somehow luck into the right decision through a bad process, I'll call it a draw.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's making the team.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    We're all full up on outfielders and we've got Valbuena for 3b. He doesn't make sense on the roster for either of those roles.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    He was bad every season except for two seasons ago. Significantly below repalcement bad. He's a worse player than Betancourt.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, I don't want that at all. I don't want them giving up on teams in spring training.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Don't forget Sappelt = Soriano. It's baseball. We're all going to be wrong a lot.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Shame on them for giving him a job at all, based on spring training results. Make a bad decision for a bad reason and get a bad result, you get the blame, even if that bad result is toward the worse end of variance.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Nix is pretty much the only one you could make that argument about unless you want to continue hiding behind selective generalizations and pretending things like Old Man Cairo who was terrible last year is a preferable option. Nope. Everyone one of them has been consistently better than Matherbridge.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I kind of want the front office that's proven it's capable of taking care of the little things to actually take care of the little things, because their failure to do so sort of implies that they just don't care.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    So long as we never use our backup infielder at the two positions he's played most in his career, he's almost replacement level. I'm sorry I doubted you, Theo and Jed.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    That wipes out the bench, the bullpen and several of the starters.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Generally speaking, the choice is between 13/12 and 14/11. 12/13 has been done, but it's pretty rare.
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