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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    As lame Wrigleyville t-shirts go, "Sveumus Catuli" isn't bad.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wind's gotten two now.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    DeJesus took a pitch, what more do you want?
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Dempster's got some nice, tight movement on his stuff today. Just no command.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    lol, thanks wind. That was the meatiest meatball fastball you can get, and it was crushed.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's probably a better defender than Mather, so I like it. He's still a career .239/.292/.364 hitter against righties. I can't look at the roster and insist that there's a better option, so I guess this says more about our roster construction than Sveum's choice.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Darwin Barney is getting the No. 2 slot in the batting order. We gave out a roster spot based on spring training stats. Jeff Baker is getting the start against a tough righty. He's getting an early "no," but I'm perfectly willing to change it to a yes as soon as something good happens.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Meh. I'm still a lot more skeptical than you, but what's the fun of arguing the pessimsitic side of things on Opening Day? We are hoping for a metric ton of guys who are very questionable to turn into something better than what they are right now. And right now, I'd rather focus on the "maybe they will" than the "they probably won't, though."
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Baker confirmed to be getting the start. Against a tough righty.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Screw it, it's Opening Day, everything is awesome
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Nah. He'll just tank the first three years, then with his impressive farm system he'll win three division titles in six years, and everyone will proclaim how much better this all was than the Hendry regime.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    That explains why they are trying so hard to set themselves up for the 2021 playoffs.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Who would start at 1B? Mather? Baker, presumably.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    A decent Epstein interview: http://www.csnchicago.com/baseball-chicago-cubs/cubs-news/Theo-Epstein-is-hungry-for-more?blockID=683188
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's 6.5 wins better than our current corner combo.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wind is supposed to be 15-20 MPH and blowing straight in from center. Let's hope for some kind of BS 3-2 victory where we score all three runs on productive outs, and Dave Kaplan dies of happiness.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    But how is it at the expense of tomorrow? In the scenario I listed, you can still acquire Rizzo, Concepcion, Torreyes, Wood, Volstad, etc.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Haven't you argued before that ZIPS severely overrates LaHair? I'd argue that the cumulative difference between those three players is closer to 4-7 wins. Throw in a bit more for the relief pitcher (the lack of a single reliable reliever to use in high-leverage situations is really going to hurt us this year, I think) and I think that takes this team to at least a little past .500. That's close enough to be taking your shot.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Handing jobs to bad player | an entire universe | Spending hundreds of millions on free agents. They could have attempted to put a credible team on the field without going the Pujols route. Do everything you did this offseason, but keep Ramirez and Pena, sign Cespedes instead of DeJesus and spend some money on one more decent relief pitcher to replace Marshall. Go ahead and trade Byrd. That's probably a .500 team with some decent chances in the 5-playoff-team era, and you've committed less than $100 million long-term.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o4VGwxK1Jt4/TzvUuzHJWlI/AAAAAAAACjU/6GR70HJfC-s/s400phineas%2525255B1%2525255D.jpg Yes. Yes it is. But "evaluation" is just after-the-fact rationalization to make a bad choice seem better after it's too late to hope it might be changed.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Jiminy Christmas. Yes, we all know this. The point is they are throwing away 2012. The fact that there is a purpose is besides the point. It didn't need to be done, but it has been done. Kyle is the one who is arguing that the organization is throwing away the year for no reason. Oh, I certainly believe there is a reason. But "Let's hope maybe some bad players turn into good players" isn't a reason, it's a rationalization. If a player is good, you can evaluate him while trying to win. If he's not, that's what AAA is for.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I wanted to trade Wood and Pat Cline for him so bad.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Very good summary. It's hard to figure out just what happened because none of them make sense, like you said. The problem with No. 5 is that the scale just doesn't add up. When you include the fact that the new CBA won't let us spend another $12 million in the draft, then we're talking about a shortfall of dozens of millions of dollars from last year to this year. You could have built six Dominican Academies and gotten every scout a gold-plated iPad, and still not accounted for where all the money went. Unless they counted the McDonald's purchase, then my guess is they are holding it back for Soler.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Okay, three WAR is more than I was thinking it was from a position player. In which case, you are talking about a benchmark that DeJesus has hit once in the last five seasons, Stewart has never passed the halfway mark to, Soto has only done twice. Throw in Soriano's age and Jackson's uncertainty, and I'd say you are as likely to only get 1 3-WAR season out of those six as you are six. Okay, what was the reason? I'm not entirely clear on what you are arguing the reason was. To "evaluate"? Evaluate who? Some prospects who still need AAA time? We could have done that anyway.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    He also traded for Curt Schilling. So far, we're getting the Scrapyard Hero half of his M.O. without the "also get some really awesome players" portion. And this is for a team that needs more awesome players way more than it needs more scrapheap finds.
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