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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I can't decide if this makes Epstein more or less likely to want to come to the Cubs.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    No matter how many teams you do or don't let into the playoffs, it's always going to be kind of fluky whether or not there is a close race down to the wire for the last spots.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    The guy that really blew the Cubs season gets to go on TV and casually discuss the game while Bartman has to hide forever. No, he's managing the Reds.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    [justbeingme] So we replace Hendry with the guy who signed Crawford and Lackey to terrible contracts and who has won as many WS as Andy MacPhail? Hooray? [/justbeingme]
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    yea, hiding the lineup card will completely blank the players mind and he will have NO IDEA where he is batting. No way he can count. or follow game situations. no sir, the line up card holds magical powers over batters. Do they have the actual ability to follow the game situation? Sure. Would they? I bet not. They have no reason to notice or care.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    If the manager covered up the lineup card and just told the guy "Hey, you, it's your turn to hit," what percentage of major league players would know if they were batting 6th or 7th?
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Castro had an ugly slash line when batting third. He also had an ugly slash line when facing a starting pitcher for the second time (but not the first or third). He was pretty bad in the third and seventh innings. And the month of July. Those just look like statistical noise to me.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because Ricketts' words seem to indicate that, at best, the payroll will be staying about the same and any extra money goes into the farm system for the immediate future. Which ones? I've never had much success convincing you by posting actual words from people.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Seriously, players, stop being honest about how you feel and start giving us more lame cliches. Jerks.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because Ricketts' words seem to indicate that, at best, the payroll will be staying about the same and any extra money goes into the farm system for the immediate future.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    And my contention is, that's completely absurd. So's your face.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Screw you for pointing that out.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hughes knows a ton about scouting that I'll never know. The nuts and bolts of it. That doesn't mean he's automatically right on larger issues.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    So Hughes knew about unknowns because knowing that an unknown is unknown makes it known?
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://www.fangraphs.com/lgraphs/20110922_Mets_Cardinals_0_20110922182035_lbig_.png fapfapfapfapfap
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Cardinals entered the ninth leading by four, the Mets have scored two and have the bases loaded with one out. Come on, Mets!
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't play fantasy baseball.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    So after *decades* in major league organizations, his primary accomplishments are a brief run of good drafts with the Expos and being a part of a 92-win, one-off team. Forgive me for not being overwhelmed with his resume.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Leiter, Alou, Kevin Brown, Nen, Grissom, Floyd, etc. He was pivotal in the success of the Expos and Marlins of the 90s. If you don't remember how good the Spos were, look it up. I'm confused, are these players he scouted? Because they came from disparate organizations in the minors and were acquired by the GM in Florida, which he was not. Those Expos teams were nice. Floyd and Alou were nice first-rounders, but I don't know that it took scouting genius to find them. The best player on those teams, Larry Walker, predated Hughes' run as scouting director by two years. Nor did the two key rotation pitchers come from the minors. It looks to me like he just had two or three draft picks that turned out well and happened to be in the organization at the same time as a bunch of other talent was acquired, thus cementing his reputation. Scouted, signed, and recommended, he was with Florida and Montreal for each of their runs. If 1st rounders were easy, the Cubs would not be where they are. So he is getting credit for saying "Hey Florida and Montreal, you should sign some good MLB players"? Most of these guys weren't exactly diamonds in the rough. And again: The Florida organization wasn't all that good while he was there. Florida did not have a "run."
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Let's ask Gary himself... Thanks, Gary.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    The man's exact words were I can't give him a lot of leeway on interpreting that one.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Then why did he say what he said?
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    He could be a scouting director for a really long time draft the foundation of a winning team (partial credit for Montreal). He could be a GM and bring in the pieces of such a team via free agency and the draft. "He was there and they were good" isn't enough to make up for the proven dumbness from the interview. And it's not as if being on the Marlins when he was is all that impressive. They were a bad team that bought one 92-win season and won the playoff coinflips.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    What did he do for the Marlins? He has a case for some of the Expos success, but not nearly all of it. The Marlins? As far as I can tell, he was there, and they spent a bunch of money on players, and that makes him a genius?
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Understatement. Loaded is another word.... Is there another way to build a reputation as someone who never became a GM? Who's to say he didn't have some say in who the organization added beyond draft picks? I mean you have to figure that a scouting director has more than one time of year (the draft) where his contributions might be needed...Or maybe he really just is a complete imbecile who kind of lucked into any success he might have had (which can be taken away at any moment anyway since there's no direct line to him and only him there). Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Maybe. But if you look at exactly what can be attributed to him in his roles with the team, the results are good for one run with the Expos (and magnified by things he had nothing to do with), and that's about it.
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