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Quote from: Slaky on May 08, 2014, 09:38:25 AM

Quote from: Eli on May 08, 2014, 09:26:50 AM

Quote from: Bort on May 08, 2014, 09:22:59 AM

Quote from: Eli on May 08, 2014, 09:09:13 AM
Jeff is crabby.

Quote"This is an on-field issue for uniform personnel," Samardzija said Wednesday at U.S. Cellular Field. "That's all there is to it. I'm a grown man. I'm 29. I'm not a prospect or 22. I feel good. I think I'm grown up enough and responsible enough to understand when I can go and when I can't go.

I hope his arm literally explodes on his first start after they trade him. I want a doctor to be picking shards of Snork's ulna out of his stupid frat boy face.

It's a pretty dumb comment from him. But he's obviously frustrated and it's hard to blame him for that.

Losing all the games to the Sox is fun. I'd be in a great mood.

The quotes read pretty crabby and frustrated, but Samardzija didn't come off that way in the video, much less "telling the Cubs" something they didn't know as the headline implies. This is going to be a long two months until he's traded, isn't it?

Castillo bunted on his own yesterday according to Renteria, so there's that.

http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/cubs/post/_/id/23122/cubs-go-down-quietly-in-new-york

QuoteCastillo bunting: Renteria indicated catcher Welington Castillo bunted on his own in the fifth inning of Game 2 on Wednesday night. With runners on first and second and none out, Castillo laid down a nice sacrifice, but it wasn't what his manager wanted.

"We wanted him to swing the bat," he said.

The Cubs' Nos. 8 and 9 hitters were due up, as Kalish subsequently struck out and Barney flew out. Renteria has used the bunt often so far this season, so maybe Castillo thought it was the right move. It wasn't.

Quote from: Eli on January 22, 2014, 11:58:58 AM

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on January 22, 2014, 11:49:05 AM

Quote from: Eli on January 22, 2014, 11:45:11 AM

Quote from: Slaky on January 22, 2014, 11:39:44 AM
Not sure guys. I think I'm done.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/25113883-418/wrigley-field-deal-fell-apart-at-stormy-session-with-cubs-rooftop-owners.html

I haven't followed all this very closely, but I guess I have never understood why rooftop owners feel they have the right to a clear view inside Wrigley Field.

Who owns the view is a big legal question.

I understand that it's a complicated legal issue. But from a common-sense perspective, I don't think the rooftops owners deserve anything. Again, just me.

I give the rooftops credit for turning three dudes hanging out with a grill into bleachers packed with 100+ paying customers. Couldn't the Cubs, back in the day, have bought up all those buildings themselves for a song and done the same thing themselves?

Still, that doesn't give the roofies ownership of the view, and reduces my desire to see the rooftops burned to the ground very little.

Drafting poorly to avoid the need to pay value to good players is the NFL's new market inefficiency.

http://espn.go.com/blog/minnesota-vikings/post/_/id/3983/vikings-cutler-contract-a-cautionary-tale

Quote from: morpheus on October 14, 2011, 12:53:43 PM

Quote from: CBStew on October 14, 2011, 12:42:37 PM
Phil Rogers wrote this today:

"It's clear that the sides have at least discussed Brett Jackson, the Triple-A outfielder who could take center field away from Marlon Byrd in 2012. There would be howls all around if Jackson went to Boston, but consider what ESPN's Keith Law thinks of a guy who is widely regarded as the Cubs' No. 1 prospect. He sees Jackson as a reasonable part of this exchange. "If you think Theo is going to turn this organization around, you wouldn't give up six years of a non-star prospect?'' Law said in an ESPN.com chat on Thursday, answering a question with a question. I'm with Law on this one. Epstein and the front office that he will assemble for Ricketts – along with Ricketts' understanding that you have to spend heavily on teenage players to grow your own stars – should be a game-changing shift for a franchise that has been patching things together annually since Dallas Green left. No one should think the Cubs are going to get Epstein without some labor pains. Jackson could be the biggest of those pains."

I wish that he had written this in English.  I don't have any idea of what his point is.  

I think he's saying that Epstein would net zero for the Cubs.  Epstein +1, Jackson -1.  1-1=0.  QED.

Phil's impeccable plus-minus system only alots "one" for a major league player. Thus, since Epstein is not a major league player, the Red Sox should let him go for free.

Also: the Cubs should give up Jackson, and for that matter any other prospect in their system, for free as well.

Edited to add:
Actually I'm not quite right. From Phil's defense of his system (http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports_hardball/2008/01/clarification-.html): 

QuoteTo be factored into the ratings, a player has to have filled a regular spot in the batting order or been a starting pitcher, closer or eighth-inning reliever. Thus most transactions do not impact the ratings at all -- only those involving the guys who would be considered "proven" players.

Thankfully, the first Google search result for "phil rogers plus minus" is the FJM takedown of said system. We can keep faith in America.

Quote from: Slaky on October 11, 2011, 08:55:10 AM
Can we talk postseason in here? That Rangers game was incredible last night. Anyone not pulling for the Rangers to win the World Series has brain damage.

...OR lives in Detroit and is hoping the Tigers can mend our broken hearts and such.

Pujols to maybe return early. Like, before the All-Star Break early:

http://eye-on-baseball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22297882/30387610

QuoteBut Pujols could be back with the Cardinals prior to the All-Star break in a shocking development reported by the St. Louis-Post Dispatch.

A CT scan performed Friday showed a much-diminished fissure on Pujols' left radius. If a follow-up exam on Monday shows sustained improvement in the wrist, Pujols will be cleared to resume baseball-related activities. That would ensure a return right after the All-Star break, although the best-case scenario has Pujols appearing in an upcoming four-game series with the Diamondbacks just prior to the All-Star break.

"Shocking?" Haven't we seen this before? Yes, we have...

http://www.desipio.com/?p=2121

Quote...if only there were some sort of hormone that could promote the growth of tissue in humans? Wouldn't that be neat? Man, if an organization could just embrace the benefits of such a hormone and ignore the illegality of it, they'd really have a nifty little advantage, wouldn't they?

But, nothing to see here, HGH police. Please move along.

Quote from: Yeti on May 18, 2011, 11:54:21 AM
Five years ago today, we woke up with our KUBBIEZ 7.5 games out of first place at 17-22.. They responded by going 49-74 the rest of the season.

It's gonna hai?

Bruce Miles thinks it's gonna hai:

http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/5704

Quote[The bottom line is you can make the case for firing Hendry and cleaning house up and down the organization. Hendry has been the GM since July 2002 and has won three division titles and only one playoff series. His proclamation at the 2007 Cubs convention of, "We're going to get good, and we're going to stay good," already is haunting him. What we're lookin' at ain't good these days.

But if you fire Hendry (and Fleita and Wilken follow him out the door) whom do you bring in, and do you trust Ricketts and team president Crane Kenney to hire the right people? Think about that for a sec.

Uplifting!

Sounds like Cubs camp is no longer the happy-fun-time place Phil Rogers made it out to be.

http://eye-on-baseball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22297882/28092353

QuoteSoon-to-be-former Cub Carlos Silva said there's "no chance" he'll go to Triple-A Iowa, as the Cubs have asked him to do if the team is unable to work out a trade.

"No chance," Silva told reporters (via MLB.com's Carrie Muskat). "That's not in my mind right now, not at all. I'm not an insurance player. My guess is that's what they want."

Silva also took a shot at new Cubs pitching coach Mark Riggins, saying Riggins was "not straight" with him about the team's plans. Silva said he had a workout on Friday with Riggins, who was positive about the results, and "an hour later" the pitching coach told him the team's plans.

"I'm like, if you have to say something, be straight," Silva said. "He has to learn he's in the big leagues now, know what I mean? There's no kids around here anymore. The way he laid it out, I don't know what he was trying to do."

"I didn't shave it off... it rubbed off.  From the friction."

Quote from: Andy on January 15, 2011, 10:21:32 PM
I'll write something up for Desipio proper, but here's what I remember:

Gordo is fucking insane.  He showed up demanding to see me, then refused to shake my hand (right after Sullivan and Miles happily greeted me.)  Gordon wanted to know what my deal was (I guess this makes me Jim Harbaugh to his Pete Carroll), and said I was too personal in my criticism of him.  I asked him for an example...knowing he'd have to call himself a douche.  That really made him mad and he said, "That stuff is uncalled for.  My son read that."  To which I very calmly replied "I'm sorry that's how he had to find out."

He said that I'm the first person "to rip me without even meeting me" and so I said, "It's good to know that most people wait to meet you and then rip you."

That's when he called me an asshole and flipped me off.  He told me I was just jealous and mean, and I asked him if he could explain why I don't have any problems with either Paul or Bruce.

Then, Sullivan decided to "help."  (He was at his shit stirring best, which was pretty fun.)

He said, "Gordon, Andy wrote something nice about you the other day."

Gordon wanted to know what it was, and Paul said, "He congratulated you on getting the Garza trade first."

The best part is that here is what I wrote in that tweet:

"Go ahead and gloat about your scoop @cst_cubs Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn in the mud once and a while."

Sullivan then helpfully reminded Gordon that I like to write that he's an albino.

This went on for about ten minutes at which point I told him I enjoyed meeting him and having him confirm all of my suspicions about him.  He went to go buy himself a fucking Dewar's on the rocks and pointedly bought everyone else within earshot a drink and not me (buuuurrrrrnnnnn).  I went back to chatting up Miles and the rest of you degenerates.

Ten or 15 minutes later he got into it with Kermit and that went on for a long time because Kermit was shithammered and he's used to dragging out arguments so he can bill more for them.  Gordon said Kerm was irresponsible because he will tweet things with no sources to back them up.  And he wanted to let Kermit know what a huge asshole I am and at one point Bruce and Kermit thought Gordon was going to punch Kermit, because Kerm called him a talentless hack.

I went back to the Chubby Julie tweetup, which was a wild time.  They know how to party.  They let me have a nametag and they were all writing their twat handles on them, so I did too, but I wrote Todd Ricketts above it.  I still had it on today in a Nike Outlet store and the girl at the register had a nametag that said "Ask Me About the Cubs" and she just stared at my nametag for a second.  Neither of us asked, and neither of us told.

Anyway, Crane and Todd came in about midnight.  Some broad came in and Gordon ran over to her, Bruce ID'd her as the Ricketts PR lady.  She saw my name tag and gave me a lovely stinkeye.

Hendry came in and came over to me and Bruce, he shoved Oleg to the ground, then looked down and offered him a three year deal to play second.  Then said this to Bruce, "Sorry about the contract thing.  You know that it was Kinzer and that Levine is up his ass, that's the reason he had it first.  It didn't come from us."  Hendry wanted Bruce to know that Geo's agent had given Levine the contract scoop, and that Jim was at least pretending to be pissed about it.

I had already yelled my hilarious hose down the bathrooms line to Todd 2014 and he didn't hear me, but the PR lady did.  She was not amused.  And Miles claims he saw Gordon explain to her that I'm a complete asshole.  Second scoop Gord's had this week!

Then, the personal highlight of the night for me.  They started flashing the lights for closing time and we started packing up.  Todd 2014 wandered over and just stared at my name tag.  I said hi and repeated that the bathrooms could use a good hosing down.  He just wandered off.  But on our way out, Crane was holding court with a bunch of suits in the little room where Julie and her gang had been festering all night but had since abandoned in search of an Old Country Buffet.  I stuck my head in and said, drunkenly, "Hey Crane!"  He looked up and with a big shit eating grin I said, "Go fuck yourself."  That felt good.  I didn't even yell it, just said it kind of matter of factly.  I thought I really nailed the delivery.

Interesting thing I learned (maybe we've always suspected it) is that Hendry absolutely hates Crane, and it was pretty obvious the way they avoided each other in the bar.  Hendry also hates Gordon.  Say what you will, but the man at least has the good sense to openly despise those two.

So I think, all in all, it was the best one yet.

The payoff for lurking on a fringe message board. This is the Lord's work, all of you.

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As if on cue, Nate Burleson guarantees a Lions victory http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/12/lions-wr-burleson-guarantees-victory-over-bears.html

On the same day it is revealed the Lions will be starting Drew Stanton, no less.  Does he know the game the Lions claim to have won against the Bears earlier this year does not satisfy this "guarantee?"

Quote from: Tinker to Evers to Chance on October 20, 2010, 11:47:48 PM
So you want to go to law school.

Good stuff:

Q: "Why do you want to be a lawyer?"
A: "I want to help people."
Q: "Oh- so you were pre-med and got a C in organic chemistry?"
A: "A D-plus, actually..."

Quote from: Slaky on August 27, 2010, 09:58:15 AM
Steven Strasburg - someone else's problem.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5502866

I wonder what Rob Dibble will have to say about the situation on the next Nats telecast?