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  1. Bull
    That would strike me as a terribly inefficient way to get a potential future coach into the system. I will gladly pay you 1.6 million today for an opportunity to pay you $250,000 to coach when you retire. More like, I can only pay you 250K later, but I've got the money to pay you handsomely now if you'll hang with us. Sounds good to me. I had thought about this myself, and then dismissed it. Not because it doesn't make sense, just because its a huge leap.
  2. Bull
    I understand that. I was just wandering if Theriot's birth control patch had anything to do with Banedon's desire to screw him.
  3. Bull
    ??
  4. Bull
    the guy in cali with 40 tickets.
  5. Bull
    Apparently this is a 100 loss team after all. Putrid. Here's hoping it was worth it!
  6. Bull
    Maybe Beane needed 40 man space and now owes Theo a favor?
  7. Bull
    with the thread coming up so late, I just assumed we were going to discuss Cubs games in the "games in which the Cubs are not playing" thread.
  8. Bull
    http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/8185283/chicago-cubs-ryan-dempster-makes-start-amid-trade-talk i thought the red sox said they were out on dempster. could be that they're out because he's unwilling to switch leagues.
  9. Bull
    WGN production crew played "The Last Time" and the end of Dempsters outing today.
  10. Bull
    Never happen. Good idea. Never happen.
  11. Bull
    Say what ????? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbaPQSoYbEw
  12. Bull
    Conclusion #1: Barney over campana in the two spot?
  13. Bull
    any news on whether he's been claimed?
  14. Bull
    according to this Marmol used to get the most called strikes of anyone in baseball. he had BOTH a high swinging strike rate and the lowest z-swing rate (swings at pitches in the zone i.e called strikes) in baseball. This confirms what I remembered: the slider would start out headed at the batter and end up in the zone for a called strike or start out in the zone and end up low and away for a swinging strike. Lack of movement makes the former a ball inside and the latter very hittable. The lack of a decent fastball leaves him nothing to fall back on.
  15. Bull
    This. I don't see where people are saying he's lost something on the fastball. It has little or nothing to do with his fastball. His slider has always been his best pitch. His ability to throw it for strikes in any count was what made him great. Once set up he could throw it away out of the zone and get even great hitters to flail at it. This year especially it doesn't have the movement it did and he can't locate it because of the lack of movement. It doesn't tail into the zone for called strikes and it stay in the hitting zone when he's trying to get the swing and miss, making it very hittable. The thread title says it all. The thing us though, that he didn't consistantly throw it for strikes, but it was so nasty that hitters used to flail away at the it and look foolish, and more often than not it ended up well out of the zone. As hitters and coaches picked up on that, they were more inclined to keep the bat on their should knowing that they had a pretty good chance of either getting a free pass or inducing a meatball. I disagree. A couple years ago he could throw it for strikes and get k's looking just as well as getting guys to flail at it out of the zone. When I get to my computer, I'll have to look for some data.
  16. Bull
    This. I don't see where people are saying he's lost something on the fastball. It has little or nothing to do with his fastball. His slider has always been his best pitch. His ability to throw it for strikes in any count was what made him great. Once set up he could throw it away out of the zone and get even great hitters to flail at it. This year especially it doesn't have the movement it did and he can't locate it because of the lack of movement. It doesn't tail into the zone for called strikes and it stay in the hitting zone when he's trying to get the swing and miss, making it very hittable. The thread title says it all.
  17. Bull
    What was done to bring about any animosity anyway? Theo's old boss was fairly unhappy with the compensation process.
  18. Bull
    I'm surprised no one has mentioned that it's nice to see that we still have a relationship with Boston that's good enough to agree to a trade. Obviously, they are trading for the present while we're collecting pieces, but its still nice to see that Larry hasn't imposed a trade embargo.
  19. Bull
    Getting a cortisone shot. Should not need DL time.
  20. Bull
    I almost want them to do it in LF too I would bet heavily that is what they do. It would help restore the symmetry. Wait, what?
  21. Bull
    yikes. If Carpenter's production dictated the return, the PTBNL might be dead.
  22. Bull
    the talent level in the cubs system has improved. not because THEO hath graced us with his presence, but because he and his team have added quality talent to the system since they've arrived. i think the question on everyone's minds is how well we will be able to convert talent into results through this regime's efforts at development. we won't really have a reliable answer until this draft class starts to blossom. I think the expanded front office, change in approach organization wide, and hopefully added player development personnel with a congruent approach will improve the results even if the talent/tools level was the same.
  23. Bull
    Since last June, we've added Concepcion, Torreyes, Rizzo, a boatload of other Cubans and the great (or at least expensive) draft. The system isn't getting better just because of who we hired. It's getting better because better players have been added to it. intentional?
  24. Bull
    no prob. I have others if you like.
  25. Bull
    ive seen it, it's terrible. it looks like you sawed your foot off with a hacksaw Except less sawing and more like ripping a chicken leg off a rotisserie. But yeah.
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