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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    It'll be a lot more than six weeks. For one thing, Rizzo already has 68 days of major-league service time. He'll need to stay down for at least 10-12 weeks to delay his free agency. For another, he's 22 and still has some worrisome K issues. Given the apparently cautious approach to the minors that the front office is taking, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see him get the full season at AAA with a September call-up.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    well then, since Theo has a 5 year deal, I guess we'll suck for the next 4 automatically then, by your thinking. Because he's certainly not getting fired between now and then. It's not going to take this group that length of time to get us from a crawl to a sprint. If they suck for 4 years he'll be gone before then. Don't count on it. Ricketts is one of those fans who is convinced that it all went wrong because of big contracts and that we have to do it "the right way." In four years, the first picks from Theo's first draft will just be hitting the majors. He'll have several more years of leash after that. This is the quote that has me nervous: Maybe it's just more of his random cliche meaningless press conference stuff, but that sure sounds like Theo plans on being bad for a few more years while he gets to water his plants in Farmsystemville.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    It ignores the entire universe of existence outside of the conversation at hand, which was whether or not Theo Epstein decided to tank the 2012 season. I'm very happy with what he's doing with the minor leagues and the overall organization. I just don't think that the tanking of 2012 was necessary to support those actions.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's easy to lampoon buy low moves because they are so often just catching falling knives. It's easy to just retcon bad players into "buy low opportunities." Volstad was a great buy low opportunity. He's in his prime age, he had solid peripherals and a pedigree. Stewart has terrible peripherals and a nagging injury that's been known to ruin batting seasons. DeJesus is 32. I don't think "3-WAR potential" is all that much of a compliment. Every stiff in AAA should be able to put up a 2-2.5 win season if the breaks go their way, as Darwin Barney proved last year. We had three clear openings in the lineup. We filled them with a career AAAA roster fill coming off a Julio Zuleta season at Iowa, a 32-year-old buy low candidate, and a bad-wristed, high-K 3b who couldn't hack it in Colorado. We can rationalize it to ourselves all we want, but this is not what we were all hoping for when Theo Epstein came to the Cubs.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    I've been exposed :( I didn't even make it to his first at-bat.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    They added David DeJesus, Reed Johnson, Ian Stewart and Joe Mather to the offense. I'm torn between labeling it "didn't try to fix the offense for 2012" or "actively tried to make a bad offense for 2012." That's the kind of offseason you hire Dave Littlefield to put together. Heck, like LaHair, he was already in the organization. Also, his wikipedia article is awesome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Littlefield
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    So far. But if this team starts to go all Major League and turning off the hot tubs doesn't make them worse, who knows.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, they "made moves." They plugged in other people's scraps and bargain-hunted for guys who are past their prime, coming off terrible seasons, or both. That's not the way Theo Epstein built the reputation that got him here in the first place.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    What makes me nervous is that he's not doing things the way that earned him this leash to begin with. This is the guy who ran half of the epic Yankees/Red Sox arms race that defined the sport for a decade. Now we're settling for Bryan LaHair as our starting 1b in November, because he's there and we don't really care to look for an upgrade. Or because, rather than overpay the hell out of Prince Fielder (or Pujols, but not as badly), we acquired one of the top 1B prospects in the game. Partial credit for the possibility that the front office knew they'd be able to get Rizzo, I guess. But that still leaves about half-a-lineup's worth of players that we made no visible attempt to upgrade.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    What makes me nervous is that he's not doing things the way that earned him this leash to begin with. This is the guy who ran half of the epic Yankees/Red Sox arms race that defined the sport for a decade. Now we're settling for Bryan LaHair as our starting 1b in November, because he's there and we don't really care to look for an upgrade.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://www.didlendycastillomaketheroster.com
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    We've already broken the Hendry-era record for bad backup infielders on the roster at the same time.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    yay six man pen Gotta have room for Johnson, Dewitt *and* Mather.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    UZR has him at minus a billion defensively.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    As bad as this team's going to be, I don't think that will look all that out of place by the end of the year.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    LaHair may be out for Opening Day with his back still bothering him. I ... I don't know how I feel about that.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    No, it isn't. Not even a little, really.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Unrelated to the game itself, but I went ahead and bought MLB.TV like I do every April and was going through spring training games. Torreyes really, truly does look like they sent up a bat boy. He looks like he's about 12 years old up there. Faster than I expected running to first, though.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Looking at the free agent market for next offseason, I guess I'm going to have to reluctantly return to the "extend Garza" camp. There's just no way to conceivably build a winner from pure scratch in the next few seasons.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Strasburg K predictions. I'll take 9.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    No, it isn't :(
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, at least we found room for Reed Johnson and Joe Mather.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    While fans of those teams are wondering if they might win the World Series this season, the most interesting thing about the Cubs will be hoping that some guys in extended spring training show enough to get to Boise.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Cubs are waiting until this evening or tomorrow to make final bullpen decisions.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    How much of those massive new local cable deals that everyone seems to be getting will go into revenue sharing? Not to mention the new CBA forcing more money into the major-league payrolls. It looks like we're just going to enter another inflation era of contracts and have to adjust our expectations accordingly.`
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