FormerHoya
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Post by FormerHoya on Nov 29, 2007 12:54:50 GMT -5
I know that I am the only happy person about this signing, so Kerry can have the moaning thread title this year. (My Kerry Wood irrational mancrush knows no bounds.)
Early prediction: I will hate Omar Enfante most this year.
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Post by hoyarooter on Nov 29, 2007 13:28:17 GMT -5
I know that I am the only happy person about this signing, so Kerry can have the moaning thread title this year. (My Kerry Wood irrational mancrush knows no bounds.) Early prediction: I will hate Omar Enfante most this year. You can't hate him until you learn to spell his name correctly.
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Post by vcjack on Nov 29, 2007 13:41:17 GMT -5
I know that I am the only happy person about this signing, so Kerry can have the moaning thread title this year. (My Kerry Wood irrational mancrush knows no bounds.) Early prediction: I will hate Omar Enfante most this year. Oh your not the only one happy, the Iowa Cubs season ticket holders must be thrilled that they'll get to have him for a couple more months
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Post by FormerHoya on Nov 29, 2007 14:02:00 GMT -5
I can hate indiscriminately and without reason.
I'm a white male aged 18-37, everybody listens to me...
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Post by Gold Hoya on Nov 29, 2007 15:43:57 GMT -5
Wow, we're starting early this season. Only a bit more than 300 days to go in the countdown to a full century of irrelevance.
With Jock gone, I am not sure whether Marquis or Dempster becomes my current least favorite Cub. The real drama of the next two years is whether Felix Pie manages to grab the title for a bit before Soriano holds down the fort from 2011-2014.
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Post by FormerHoya on Nov 29, 2007 16:09:49 GMT -5
Everybody loves pie.
Pie on the other hand... learn to freakin hit!
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Post by FormerHoya on Dec 5, 2007 12:56:58 GMT -5
Goodbye Omar Infante, we hardly knew ye.
Good riddance Will Ohman, we knew you way too well.
I read that the Reds are interested in Mark Prior. I can't imagine that Mark Prior would be excited about being reunited with the manager that helped speed him to being just another brokedownCubspitcher.
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Post by FormerHoya on Dec 12, 2007 1:34:59 GMT -5
FUKODOME!
Can anyone spell that phonetically? I'm not asking for me (I call Pie, pie because I like to), I'm thinking of Ronny. Poor guy.
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Post by Gold Hoya on Dec 12, 2007 9:28:39 GMT -5
Even when equipped with koh-skay foo-koo-DOUGH-may, Ronny still won't get it right. He doesn't get Lee right all the time. Projections & comps for Fukudome, at the free part of Baseball Prospectus. www.baseballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=699. Will this signing shake One back to life and onto this year's moaning thread for the first time?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2007 10:33:39 GMT -5
Saw Fuk-o-dome (as our entire section called him) play live during the World Baseball Classic a couple years ago. Don't remember many details (i.e. specific at bats), but the guy can definitely play.
Considering the money they spent, I think its a good pickup.
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Post by dajuan on Dec 12, 2007 10:46:15 GMT -5
From Baseball Prospectus: "If the Cubs let these kids play — perhaps integrating Ryan Theriot and Matt Murton in platoons of various kinds — this could quite easily be the best lineup in the National League."
Well that's good news, but oh God, I am not looking forward to another year of complaining about our batting order. Just move Soriano down for crying out loud!
Pie K-Fuk (it's inevitable that Linda Cohn will try to call him that, right?) Lee Ramirez Soriano DeRosa Soto TheRiot
That's not so bad, huh? Or do what BP says and bat K-Fuk first, DeRosa second and finish it with Soto, Pie, Cedeno (though I love that Riot).
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Post by Gold Hoya on Dec 12, 2007 17:57:23 GMT -5
Riot is just ok ... but Prospectus has loved Cedeno for a while. I guess PECOTA doesn't have a variable for "baseball sense" or "ability to slide into 2nd safely when your teammate walks"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2007 8:55:46 GMT -5
You've got Wood... but not Prior....
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FormerHoya
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Post by FormerHoya on Dec 13, 2007 12:18:32 GMT -5
Kerry Wood is only on the list due to a vast right-wing conspiracy.
This list is lies, lies I tell you.
Also, I'm not the least bit sad to see Prior go. Don't let the door hit you in your [female reproductive organ] on the way out Mr. Prior, it might cause you to miss another year...
Modified to avoid a dressing down from the mods.
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Post by dajuan on Dec 13, 2007 12:42:02 GMT -5
I wanted Prior to be hurt in the Cubs organization until he retires in 2015. Too bad my dream won't come true.
It's bittersweet to see him go. I'm glad that we don't have to endure any more towel sessions, simulated games and speculation at his return date, but I'm disappointed at his career with the Cubs (obviously) and terrified that he might someday return to form and bite us in the ass.
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Post by dajuan on Dec 13, 2007 15:42:37 GMT -5
No Wood or Prior in the Mitchell Report. Nice. Looks like the Cubs either run a tight ship or keep their bat boys/clubhouse guys in line. "Nobody talks, everybody walks."
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Post by Gold Hoya on Dec 13, 2007 17:09:12 GMT -5
Not sure if you guys got to Page 280 of Mitchell yet:
Matt Karchner pitched for two teams in Major League Baseball between 1995 and 2000, the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox. Members of my investigative staff contacted him as part of our effort to interview former major league players.
Karchner said that during spring training in 1999, he observed two of his Chicago Cubs teammates inject themselves with steroids in an apartment that Karchner was sharing with them. Karchner declined to identify the players. He said that one of the players brought the steroids to the apartment but was afraid of needles and therefore asked the second player to administer the shot. The second player injected the first player with steroids in the buttocks and then injected himself.
Later that season, Karchner was offered steroids by certain of his Cubs teammates. Karchner would not disclose the names of players who offered him steroids, but he said that the conversations he had with them involved the general cost of steroids and discussions of “stacking” to build lean muscle necessary for pitchers. Karchner did not report either of these incidents to anyone at the time.
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Post by FormerHoya on Dec 13, 2007 17:31:32 GMT -5
Not sure if you guys got to Page 280 of Mitchell yet: Matt Karchner pitched for two teams in Major League Baseball between 1995 and 2000, the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox. Members of my investigative staff contacted him as part of our effort to interview former major league players. Karchner said that during spring training in 1999, he observed two of his Chicago Cubs teammates inject themselves with steroids in an apartment that Karchner was sharing with them. Karchner declined to identify the players. He said that one of the players brought the steroids to the apartment but was afraid of needles and therefore asked the second player to administer the shot. The second player injected the first player with steroids in the buttocks and then injected himself. Later that season, Karchner was offered steroids by certain of his Cubs teammates. Karchner would not disclose the names of players who offered him steroids, but he said that the conversations he had with them involved the general cost of steroids and discussions of “stacking” to build lean muscle necessary for pitchers. Karchner did not report either of these incidents to anyone at the time. Slow day? I'm assuming that if Karchner was sharing an apartment with the guys then they were scrubs. Also, if they were afraid of needles, then they couldn't have been members of the Cubs staff for long... Also, God do I hate Matt Karchner. Garland for Karchner? Good trade.
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Post by hoyarooter on Dec 13, 2007 21:41:22 GMT -5
Not sure if you guys got to Page 280 of Mitchell yet: Matt Karchner pitched for two teams in Major League Baseball between 1995 and 2000, the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox. Members of my investigative staff contacted him as part of our effort to interview former major league players. Karchner said that during spring training in 1999, he observed two of his Chicago Cubs teammates inject themselves with steroids in an apartment that Karchner was sharing with them. Karchner declined to identify the players. He said that one of the players brought the steroids to the apartment but was afraid of needles and therefore asked the second player to administer the shot. The second player injected the first player with steroids in the buttocks and then injected himself. Later that season, Karchner was offered steroids by certain of his Cubs teammates. Karchner would not disclose the names of players who offered him steroids, but he said that the conversations he had with them involved the general cost of steroids and discussions of “stacking” to build lean muscle necessary for pitchers. Karchner did not report either of these incidents to anyone at the time. Slow day? I'm assuming that if Karchner was sharing an apartment with the guys then they were scrubs. Also, if they were afraid of needles, then they couldn't have been members of the Cubs staff for long... Also, God do I hate Matt Karchner. Garland for Karchner? Good trade. I thought so. ;D
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Post by Gold Hoya on Jan 23, 2008 17:27:30 GMT -5
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