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  1. Bull
    I don't mean to scare you, but didn't Finley sign a minor league deal? That may mean he's available at the end of ST.
  2. Bull
    I'm excited that not only is Murt batting 2nd, but he's batting second with DeRosa and Itzy in the line-up.
  3. Bull
    I'm much much much rather have Murton in RF than Jones. After seeing him play last year, I certainly wouldn't say Jones is qualified to play RF. After seeing both of them play there, Jones is a much better fielder at getting to balls and making plays (along with the stronger arm, if he would ever show it). Murton has the much more accurate arm. I'm all for putting Murton in RF part of the time (and I think Murton is an average defender in LF, which is higher than most people think)-but if our defensive outfield on a regular basis is Floyd-Soriano-Murton, there's going to be plenty of gap shots that will be hit against them. Against a right-handed Ace I think you get Floyd-Soriano-Jones but thats less than 30 starts a year. The other 130+ games I think Murton starts in RF more than LF and Floyd gets more start than Jones. Again all assuming Soriano doesn't embarrass himself in CF and Murton doesn't embarrass himself in RF.
  4. Bull
    If not jones then who?
  5. Bull
    I think that it's possible that Murton might go to RF and Floyd will stay at LF against leftys if Floyd continues to hit well against them. I just don't have a lot of faith in Floyd remaining healthy but if he does and is productive it's a win-win situation for the Cubs. As I said for the pitchers, I want Lou to have hard decisions because guys are doing well a heck of a lot more than the other way around. Maybe I'm eisegeting, but I'm getting the idea that if Soriano can handle CF, Jones becomes the 4th.
  6. Bull
    With their payroll if the Cubs fail to contend in a league this crummy then Hendry should be shot out of a cannon Do you honestly believe every single one of those predictions and believe there will not be one single 90-win team in the whole darn league? Also, if I'm not mistaken most predictions gravitate toward the mean. It's not surprising that no team has an excessive amount of wins. Do they use pythagorean wins based on RS/RA? This would account for the lack of outliers. IIRC, the Cubs often underachieve relative to pythagorean predictions
  7. Bull
    Seconded. All in favor? Ay! eye. oy!! I Oooo!!!!
  8. Bull
    Yep, I'd rather be talking about Floyd and Murton than Hollandsworth and Dubois.
  9. Bull
    how did I guess that?
  10. Bull
    You can offer your own free agents arbitration. If they decline, that's where draft pick compensation comes into play and the team who loses that player will get a pick or 2 if the player is rated at a certain level of all MLB players. huh? :? The difference is players under the team's control have two choices: sign or they must go to arby. A potential free agent can: sign, go to arbitration, or decline arbitration, thus becoming a free agent. Teams have choices too. For a guy with more than 3 years service time, but less than 6 years (Carlos Z for example) they can: agree to a deal, mandate arbitration, DFA him if he's out of "options", (I've tried to avoid the word till now). For a potential FA they can: agree to a deal, offer him arby (if he declines, they get compensation) or ignore him (Ala Grace a few years back) basically forcing him into FA.
  11. Bull
    http://www.dailyherald.com/sports/cubs.asp?id=283367
  12. Bull
    I have to say, those are pretty funny shirts. Awww...that so sweet. It's good to see "The Barry's" who play for a team in San Fran, have found each other. That is so sweet. Interesting anecdote: A friend of my cousin knows a guy who works at a t-shirt kiosk in the mall in Scottsdale. One of the other emplyees sold them these shirts. The funny part is they tried to get shirts that said, "don't ask me, ask overpaid prima donna," and "don't ask me ask the over-rated King Kong head", but it wouldn't fit on the shirt.
  13. Bull
    That's beautiful, man. I feel clean.
  14. Bull
    Again, that's from ESPN 1000 reporting that Levine is reporting the 200K difference. Third hand at best.
  15. Bull
    ESPN 1000 reporting they are only 200K apart and the hearing may not have started yet. 12.3 and 12.5
  16. Bull
    25 pitches on Monday all went well cubs.com
  17. Bull
    My guess is that the Cubs planned on settling for about 12.5, so they didn't want to offer that and then have to work on a new mid-point that was higher than that. They offered 11, they thought Z would offer about 14, and when he offered 15.5 the mid-point of that was simply unacceptable to them. Yeah I could see that but offering 12 or 12.5 in the arby would pretty much have won it hands down for the Cubs and IMO Z is going to get 16 or more anyway after this so why not just give him what he's worth right from the beginning? If I remember correctly, don't both sides put in blind bids so how could the Cubs know if 12.5 would even be a mid-point? But his point is they didn't want to go to the hearing at all. They wanted to settle at a midpoint, but weren't expecting the midpoint to be so high. I see, I'm surprised they didn't think it would be that high. True. Given the market the Cubs helped create, it should have been pretty clear he'd wanted Zito-type money.
  18. Bull
    My guess is that the Cubs planned on settling for about 12.5, so they didn't want to offer that and then have to work on a new mid-point that was higher than that. They offered 11, they thought Z would offer about 14, and when he offered 15.5 the mid-point of that was simply unacceptable to them. Yeah I could see that but offering 12 or 12.5 in the arby would pretty much have won it hands down for the Cubs and IMO Z is going to get 16 or more anyway after this so why not just give him what he's worth right from the beginning? If I remember correctly, don't both sides put in blind bids so how could the Cubs know if 12.5 would even be a mid-point? But his point is they didn't want to go to the hearing at all. They wanted to settle at a midpoint, but weren't expecting the midpoint to be so high.
  19. Bull
    What type of hand gesturing? Hands clasped pleading? A hand shake attempt left hanging? Arms thrown up in disgust? Did Jimbo give Z the Michael Vick treatment?
  20. Bull
    They said 90% at least once on the updates during Mike & Mike! I would say 99% of the time that means nothing.
  21. Bull
    Same news as before. They're just passing along Zambrano's 85%. What time is the hearing scheduled for?
  22. Bull
    Why do you equate not trying to steal third with having a manager who sits around and does nothing? You coach, you know that there is more to game decisions than just "should I steal or not". I want a coach to worry about lefty/right match ups, defensive positioning, pinch hitting, etc...not to attempt a steal when it's likely harmful. But when you throw away a possible option you are limiting yourself and I just don't understand why you would make the opposing managers/teams job a lot easier. Again for the extremists....I'm not advocating to steal the whole time but to use it wisely and especially when you see a good matchup for success. I also don't understand the extremes of one way or another. You mix it up....maybe a slant one way or another but to say to steal all the time or to never steal is foolish to me. Any way to figure pitchers ERA with a basestealing threat on base vs their ERA without?
  23. Bull
    *points to signature*
  24. Bull
    I'm not so sure of that. Didn't Grudz get a vote or two for the NL MVP that year? So did Russ Ortiz (complete with 3.81 ERA), what's your point? I think he's just saying that if he got a vote for the MVP, he at least must have played well enough to justify the team playing him over a prospect who is waiting also, even if he didn't really completely deserve that MVP vote (I don't think anybody would really argue that he did. :D) It wasn't a first place vote. I think it was on the ballot where the guy voted all Cubs.
  25. Bull
    Awesome. I want to go to AZ.
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