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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, neither do I, but we're trying to get from 71 wins to 90, and replacing a conglomeration of replacement level with a 4-WAR pitcher may be the only big chunk we can easily get. It'd be nice if there were a few more 3 and 4 WAR players on the roster and a few more 0-WAR holes to fill around them.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    It loved Davis (3.86 FIP, 0.6 WAR), hated Russell, and considered Lopez and Ortiz about replacement level (4.77 FIP, -0.2 WAR). All told, it considered the conglomeration to be exactly replacement level.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Fangraphs has a replacement level team at 48 wins. If you got 2 WAR each out of the eight positions and five rotation spots, that'd be 74 wins. Add a few more for the bullpen and bench, so that's about a .500 team.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Are you [expletive] kidding me? Yeah where could we possibly get better, oh everywhere but SS and 3B. We had 2+ WAR players at 1b, 2b, C and CF as well.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    I've had a long-standing personal policy to try to refer to sports figures by their last names. I just think it sounds dorky to call them by their first names. But Theo will always be the exception.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Are you [expletive] kidding me? Nope. Part of it is that I was looking at Fangraphs, which actually kind of liked Casey Coleman this year (better FIP than Zambrano).
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    The more I look at it, the problem going forward is that the Cubs didn't have many really awful players sucking up playing time this year. Maybe Colvin and Grabow. There just aren't any spots where you can point to and say "We can get a ton of marginal wins by getting rid of that guy and replacing him with someone good."
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Theo commissioned Carmine. I'm pretty sure he can get a fresh one made. Carmine was only successful because it found a way to take intangibles into consideration. It's the Johnny 5 of baseball robots. Good luck! Short Circuit had a sequel, you know. But it was still Johnny 5, dip- [expletive]. The sequel involved Johnny 5 moving to a new city and making everything there awesome. So I guess we are getting Carmine?
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    awesome. from the sound of it, we're going to have to build a crapload of new offices. why weren't there any offices for the front office of a team that spends as much as we do? the more i hear about the situation, the more i understand just how terrible things were. You read the story about the Cubs still charting minor league pitchers on pen-and-paper, and then you read the story about Epstein's massive database programs. It's going to be night and day.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Theo commissioned Carmine. I'm pretty sure he can get a fresh one made. Carmine was only successful because it found a way to take intangibles into consideration. It's the Johnny 5 of baseball robots. Good luck! Short Circuit had a sequel, you know.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Theo commissioned Carmine. I'm pretty sure he can get a fresh one made.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's what I want to hear! I'm willing to give up a slightly better prospect or something if it means we get to poach more of the organization over there.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    I see it every time I close my eyes. I made my wife wear a Theo mask last night. a vast improvement Yes. That's kind of the point.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I see it every time I close my eyes. I made my wife wear a Theo mask last night.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    theo-blast, imo
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    I can imagine him falling off the couch while trying to catch a dropped chicken wing. Pretty close.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Eckstein just gained infinite sexy points for once being wanted by Theo.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Which would make sense then, but I highly doubt Red Sox want money. They have no shortage of that. I'd think they'd want talent. And the Cubs could be saying "tough [expletive]; either take the money or get middling talent." This isn't a done deal, but it's pretty obviously beyond the point where the Red Sox scrap everything if the Cubs are insisting they get max compensation value via money as opposed to a player or players. Then the Red Sox say "[expletive] you! He's under contact and he needs to drag his ass back here!" And completely torch their reputation among potential future young, talented executives who might want to join them. There's a reason real-life teams never go into this machiavellian, squeeze-ever-last-ounce-of-value ideas we come up with.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    *checks to see who the GM of the Cubs in 2008 was* Not Theo? Then who cares.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's barely ever benefitted us in the past, and we don't need it from now on because we have Theo. So variance can suck it.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    What is variance? Something that sucks as much dong as C.C. in this thread?
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    2008 was horsepoop. The best team in baseball gets swept by a 20-6 combined score, never leading after the fifth inning of Game 1, continuing a streak of 8 consecutive playoff losses (all by 2 runs or more). But none of that matters now. We are in the Theo Era.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    I hope your TV explodes and you can't get another one for like a week and are stuck watching some standard def backup.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I definitely want Jackson to be the everyday CFer from day 1. I think you can do something like CF Jackson SS Castro FA 1b RF Byrd LF Soriano 3b Platoon (Baker plus a veteran FA on a short-term deal?) C Soto 2b Barney Rotation of Garza/Dempster/FA pitcher/Wells/Cashner with at least one more veteran FA to back up Cashner if he doesn't work out or his arm gets tired. That team looks .500ish to me, with the chance to make the playoffs with good health and good breaks. Of course, that depends a lot on who the FA 1b is.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    THAT is the moment when we can start celebrating. Agreed. I'm not getting my hopes up yet until the process goes a littler farther. For the love of [expletive]. And don't forget even after Cherington is named GM, Theo can still come back and become the new, new GM and demote him. Endless possibly here folks. This is stupid, you're stupid and you should feel stupid. Theo is coming. Deal with it.
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