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  1. cubbieinexile
    OK, now I know you don't know anything about pizza. Makes me understand. It might be my ego talking but I probably know more about food then anybody else on this forum.
  2. cubbieinexile
    I feel sorry for your tastebuds. I've had better pizza in Dallas (and their horrible), heck I'd choose Little Caesar's over giordano's. Even Domino's. . . woah well I wouldn't pick Domino's over it.
  3. cubbieinexile
    Real Pizza? Giordano's certainly isn't real pizza, god that stuff is horrible.
  4. cubbieinexile
    Trachsel in 2001 had a better year then Clement. Neither one played very well but in the Trachsel did have the better year. 2002 Clement probably did a little better since he pitched more innings, had two more starts, struck out more and I believe allowed fewer baserunners. So even though Trachsel had the lower ERA Clement was probably the better pitcher. In 2003 Trachsel had the better year. Now a lot is made of the quality starts of Clement, well I believe he had 22 and Trachsel had 20. Clement had about 8 games where his performance doomed the Cubs. Trachsel had 5. Take everything put it together and Trachsel had the better year. In 2004 Clement had the better year but it is a lot closer then you might think because Trachsel pitched more innings. So from 2001 to 2004 Trachsel most certainly could have held Clement's jock strap.
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    I'm not really talking about the is trade in hindsight becuase at the time of the trade I didn't like the trade. At the time it was viewed as a trade for Alfonseca with Clement as the throw in and the Cubs giving up psycho Tavarez and a bunch of minor leaguers. It wouldn't matter if the Cubs gave up a bag of golf balls for Alfonseca and Clement I still wouldn't have liked the trade. In terms of hindsight it turns out that the Cubs already had answers for their rotation and bullpen problems in the system. We as fans and outsiders didn't know that nor could we really get in deep to know it. The cubs should have been able to realize it, but didn't. So they end up making a trade which basically weakens the future by trading the future for mediocre present. Fortunately Clement turned out decent or else the trade would end up being one of the worst trades in Cub history. It might very well still turn out to be the worst trade in the history of the Cubs but at least they got something for Willis.
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    Looking at Clement and saying he helped the Cubs get to the playoffs so therefore it isn't a bad trade is also hindsight. When the trade happened it was a bad trade. There was no reason to believe that Clement would have been better then any option in the Cubs minor league system, and Antonio only had value because he was fortunate enough to get the closer label. It was a trade that didn't need to happen. Clement was a risk, a risk just as big as a minor league player. As for Willis he would be in the majors by now and probably at the very least in 2004. His minor and major leagues stats I thikn prove that he would not have been in the minors for long. His star would have shown through. Plus without Clement in 2003 who knows what would have happened perhaps they would have rotated through the youth like they did this year. We know what Dontrelle could do when given the chance in 2003 with the Marlins so its not really guess work to believe that had the Cubs given him a shot in 2003 he would not have squandered it. The Alfonseca-Clement trade was a bad trade, it was a bad trade because Hendry/MacPhail did not have faith in the Cub minor league system or with the players he had on hand.
  7. cubbieinexile
    Nobody knows the other two huh?
  8. cubbieinexile
    Found something I wrote before the season: Well I still would agree with most of that, though those darn Cardinals refused to cooperate. Oh hey did anybody else notice the BRef has been updated and now has the 2005 season? Probably the fastest they have ever updated that site. Well done.
  9. cubbieinexile
    Yeah that is the easy one.
  10. cubbieinexile
    Looking through the Cubs teams and I came across the 1924 team. Now I know a lot of these are just nicknames and not real names but it is how we remember them and how they are written about. Nobody writes about Frank Thomas by saying the Big Hurt did this the Big Hurt did that. But we do say Babe did this Babe did that. Anyway the names on that team: Gabby Hartnett Hooks Cotter Sparky Adams Jigger Statz Denver Grigsby Hack Miller Teddy Kearns Rip Wheeler Sherriff Blake Guy Bush Tiny Osborne Grover Cleveland Alexander I don't think any other Cub team can come close to the amount of oddball common names like that one, and they only finished in 5th place. Perhaps they were compensating for something.
  11. cubbieinexile
    1. This Cubs in his second ML plate apperance fouled a boul off his head and had to be carried off the field. Not a great start but he went on to have a somewhat decent career. Who is this Cub? 2. This secondbasemen rips a ball into the outfield that caroms off the head of the opposing team Centerfielder who despite this gaffe in his rookie season goes onto have a decent career. Who is the Cubs that hit the Centerfielder in the head? 3. This Cub centerfielder was beaned in the noggin on the very first pitch of his major league career. Who is this Cub?
  12. cubbieinexile
    Actually now that I think about it, had the Cubs simply resigned Trachsel after his 2000 or got in the way in 2002 the Cubs could have avoided trading Dontrelle or even needing Clement for 2003. For all the pub Clement gets around here, Trachsel was the better pitcher during Clements tenure here. So the answer wasn't Clement the answer was Trachsel. Signing Trachsel we would have gotten a better pitcher in 2003 and not have lost Willis. And we would have had a better pitcher in 2004, one that started 3 more games and pitched more then 20 more innings then Clement. Who knows that could very well have been the difference in staying home or going to the playoffs.
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    So the Cubs were supposed to rely on a 27 year old bust with a 5.05 ERA with a 1.61 runner per inning? That was a better option then just letting your youth develop. A youth that the organization and practically everybody outside of it thought was talented? Mark Prior got called up when he was 21 and he had limited time, Zambrano got called up when he was 20. I never said that Willis was the answer, but you said Clement was the answer. Well if the answer was an inning eater type guy then there were plenty of pitchers out there the Cubs could have had for free or at the very least didn't cost them prospects, only the money. Matt Clement was the only 2.5 million dollar innings eater guy out there? Heck there were games that Steve Trachsel looked unbeatable and was the best Cub pitcher out there, that doesn't mean we sit here and hope and prey he pulls it altogether and trade prospects away for him.
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    Willis wasn't in position to help the Cubs because the Cubs wouldn't let him be in position to help the Cubs. Nor was Clement the answer if the Cubs were looking at 2003 for help. They would have been better off developing Willis instead. You can't look back at that trade in hindsight and expect Clement to do good. Clement wasn't a great pitcher or expected to do much. He was a back of the rotation filler, nothing more. If Hendry was really looking ahead to 2003 then Clement was not the answer, Willis probably would have been the better answer for 2003 and going forward since Clement would be a free agent soon.
  15. cubbieinexile
    I have said it before but I would just like to be able to go into a season knowing that the Cubs will win 90+ wins that year. Know that regardless of injuries the Cubs will do what is necessary to get to 90+ wins. I would just like to go into a couple of seasons like that and not have some nervousness at the approaching season gnaw at my stomach.
  16. cubbieinexile
    He turned into superstar?
  17. cubbieinexile
    Nope. The answer is Dee Fondy. In 1951 home opener Sam Sneed hits the scoreboard with a golf ball and in the 2nd inning Dee Fondy tees off and hits a bases loaded triple for hit first ML at bat.
  18. cubbieinexile
    3 filled water glasses, 3 glasses filled with alcohol, actually it looks like several people are sitting at that table. The person taking the picture probably had the three scoot closer so they all could fit in the picture.
  19. cubbieinexile
    I think the Cubs just are not getting good positional youngsters. Even the ones that leave the Cubs don't amount to much. Once Dallas Green stopped having a say the positional prospects and talent dried up and fast. Grace and Palmeiro are the last prospects to turn into anything other then mud. Both were drafted in the mid-80's.
  20. cubbieinexile
    This Cubs first major league at bat was a bases clearing triple against the Reds on the same day that another historic event happened in Wrigley Field history, and so far it has only happened once. Who is this Cub? Bonus points for knowing what the one time only Wrigley Field event was.
  21. cubbieinexile
    Hack Wilson in 1926 hit a home run off the scoreboard. Of course then the scoreboard was at groundlevel, 447 feet away from homeplate in centerfield.
  22. cubbieinexile
    He did it but I am talking about a guy during a game hitting a baseball and hitting the scoreboard.
  23. cubbieinexile
    nope
  24. cubbieinexile
    Name the only player to have ever hit the scoreboard on the fly at Wrigley Field during a regular game.
  25. cubbieinexile
    Play the national anthem?
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