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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Dang. That's a stupidly named list then. Stupid Sickles.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Okay, is 14 wins for a team with that much money to spend somehow unthinkable? Would there be anything wrong with getting halfway there and putting yourself within variance range? And things have gotten steadily worse for them since. Must not be a sustainable way to build a franchise.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wow. That's an impressive showing for Almora, especially, because he derives so much of his value from position and defense.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    You basically just said you want a plan, regardless of how good the plan is. And it's silly to assume that the team that won 71 games and had $60 million to spend would be capped at 75 wins.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    All I want is a credible attempt to fill out the entire roster with major league players. For 2012, that would mean a real 3b, the best players on the roster from the beginning (which would mean leaving Rizzo at Iowa for at least half the season) and a real bullpen.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    I imagine a lot of teams will touch base on Garza. "Hey, do you want to give up your elbow-injured pitcher for nothing? We'll pick up his arbitration award. No? You want a real return? Thanks, then. Good luck!"
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd say that names on that list we'd have to do without would be Vizcaino, Villanueva, Chapman and Bowden. And there's only one name on that list that would even register as an important loss.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    1) New? 2) I know it, but so what? It doesn't prove the implied point you are trying to make, which is that the strip-down rebuild was a necessary or best course of action. Going into last offseason, the Cubs were short on star players, but had a reasonable base of useful good players and about $60 million in budget room. There were enough resources to put together a winning team without taking a sledgehammer to the future, and that's always the best option.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    That Theo Epstein was also dealing with the Yankees and not the Brewers, Cardinals and Pirates.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's tricky because I do like commenting on front office decisions and that requires pretending we know a lot more than we do, but I don't think there's a ton of correlation between the sorts of leaks that come out after an incident like the Darvish bidding, and what actually happened. Just because someone's willing to tell a reporter something anonymously doesn't mean it's true, whether it be before or after an event.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think that is overstating it, but it makes a lot more sense than comparing it to an outright blown call.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I've seen that put forward a lot. Here's a screencap they posted over at GWB: http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b207/newpagodi/2072.jpg Arm is coming up, ball is just barely in the frame. Don't see that in the rules. http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b207/newpagodi/2055.jpg A few frames before the previous picture. SS, who hadn't exactly sprinted to get there, is under the ball, holding his arms out to say that he's got it, and setting up to make the catch. That's when the umpire decided to make the call. I've heard a few umps from various sources say that you usually make the call on plays like that when an infielder sets up under it. Though granted, I've heard others say they would never make the call at all.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    1) It was a pop fly 2) There were runners on first and 2nd with one out. Those parts are indisputable, right? Well, all that's left is whether an infielder could reach it with ordinary effort. Considering the umpire made the call when there was an infielder standing under it waiting to catch it, I'd find that to be a pretty reasonable judgment.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I like that stuff a lot better. Where'd that guy come from and can we hire him to run the 2012 Cubs retroactively?
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    If taking random shots at Ian Stewart is wrong, I don't want to be right. I want to renew my wedding vows just so I can write something in there about how much I hate him.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    1998 Cubs were pretty close, especially when you consider how a decent power hitter turned into one of the greatest of all time in his age 29 season.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    This. That may be the intent, but that's not how the rule is written or practiced. In both the letter of the law and the way it is normally practiced, it was the right call. It just looked stupid as hell.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Runner scores from 2nd on an infield single - *check*
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    My point, besides that they make me feel waves of rage and envy, was that they were able to maintain that awesome farm system without tanking seasons. Because that's what good organizations do.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Cubs have won one postseason series in any of our lifetimes, including Fred. Two if you want to count the WC tiebreaker game in 1998. Today's game could be the Cardinals' 10th in the last decade. Oh, and they haven't lost 90+ since 1990, though their farm system mysteriously hasn't shriveled up and died as a result.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't think "top-100" and "not a stud" are mutually exclusive. But I don't see him as top-100 right now, no.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    That list has a couple of very interesting guys who will probably cost way more than we're willing to give up in terms of prospects/talent, a couple of generic 90-MPH fastball righthanders, and a Stewart-sized mistake in the making in Jiminez.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    We went over that list a little more in-depth at PSD, but that's an interesting mix. There's a couple of high-upside young arms that would probably be expensive to acquire, a handful of generic right-handers with mediocre fastballs and possibly ties to the Cubs front office, and the incredibly overpaid and awful Jiminez. Oh, and Wade Davis, who I'd love to have in the bullpen but you know the Rays would ask for Baez+ or something.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    We went over that list a little more in-depth at PSD, but that's an interesting mix. There's a couple of high-upside young arms that would probably be expensive to acquire, a handful of generic right-handers with mediocre fastballs and possibly ties to the Cubs front office, and the incredibly overpaid and awful Jiminez.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    The idea is that the lower seed should never have the opportunity to have more home games. If these series end in 3, they've had a 2-1 homefield advantage. I don't agree with that idea, but I get it.
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