Hope for Chitown baseball??

[pdrift1]

Cubs Are Going Down !!!!!!!!!!!!

[disappearingdan_akaplaya]

theres no hope for that sorry a$$ franchise on the other side of town chuck............." it dont matta baby you can bring bernard king in here brotha we hittin 2 and we out"

[Supah Brother]

CUBS GET FUKUDOME!!!


http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/art...=.jsp&c_id=chc

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Atleast the cars on the northside have the same color doors as the rest of the car's exterior.



(Since I am too lazy to write correctly,I'd be a southsider....If I moved to the icebox city.One of those houses just outside the fence at Midway would be great.The chance of a jet coming down the street would be an interesting plus.)

[pdrift1]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

Atleast the cars on the northside have the same color doors as the rest of the car's exterior.

i'd rather ride my bicycle to us cell to a game(mind you i'm packing heat) then carpool with some computer geeks to a stadium only half full of cubs fans ,while the rest don't know or care to know the starting lineup (but i do consider miller park south one of my fav ballparks)

[Cannon Shell]

Hot-off-the-presses PECOTA projection for Kosuke Fukudome in Chicago:

PA R 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS BA OBP SLG EqA VORP WARP
465 80 30 4 15 58 70 94 9 3 .289 .401 .504 .303 29.2 4.4
PECOTA holds Fukudome’s playing time projection down because he missed about half of last season due to elbow surgery. If he’s healthy in spring training, that should no longer be a concern. And look at that pretty OBP! Fukudome is unlikely to be a huge power threat, but that on-base ability should address one of the Cubs‘ primary areas of weakness. His top comparables give you a pretty good idea of what sort of player we’re looking at; his is a fairly common profile for a left-handed outfielder.

1. J.D. Drew
2. Gene Hermanski
3. Jim Edmonds
4. Fred Lynn
5. Johnny Grubb
6. Andy Van Slyke
7. Bobby Abreu

The question, of course, is whether they’ll be smart enough to put him in the leadoff spot (Fukudome also runs pretty well) and demote Alfonso Soriano. Something like this…

Fukudome, RF
DeRosa, 2B
Lee, 1B
Ramirez, 3B
Soriano, LF
Soto, C
Pie, CF
Cedeno, SS

…is a pretty good-looking lineup. PECOTA very much likes Geovany Soto and Felix Pie, by the way, and is reasonably warm on Ronny Cedeno. If the Cubs let these kids play–perhaps also integrating Ryan Theriot and Matt Murton in platoons of various kinds–this could quite easily be the best lineup in the National League

[pdrift1]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Hot-off-the-presses PECOTA projection for Kosuke Fukudome in Chicago:

PA R 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS BA OBP SLG EqA VORP WARP
465 80 30 4 15 58 70 94 9 3 .289 .401 .504 .303 29.2 4.4
PECOTA holds Fukudome’s playing time projection down because he missed about half of last season due to elbow surgery. If he’s healthy in spring training, that should no longer be a concern. And look at that pretty OBP! Fukudome is unlikely to be a huge power threat, but that on-base ability should address one of the Cubs‘ primary areas of weakness. His top comparables give you a pretty good idea of what sort of player we’re looking at; his is a fairly common profile for a left-handed outfielder.

1. J.D. Drew
2. Gene Hermanski
3. Jim Edmonds
4. Fred Lynn
5. Johnny Grubb
6. Andy Van Slyke
7. Bobby Abreu

The question, of course, is whether they’ll be smart enough to put him in the leadoff spot (Fukudome also runs pretty well) and demote Alfonso Soriano. Something like this…

Fukudome, RF
DeRosa, 2B
Lee, 1B
Ramirez, 3B
Soriano, LF
Soto, C
Pie, CF
Cedeno, SS

…is a pretty good-looking lineup. PECOTA very much likes Geovany Soto and Felix Pie, by the way, and is reasonably warm on Ronny Cedeno. If the Cubs let these kids play–perhaps also integrating Ryan Theriot and Matt Murton in platoons of various kinds–this could quite easily be the best lineup in the National League

its a nice order on paper but take out fuku and you have close to the same team as last year.

and as good as that lineup hit last year ,i'm not going to worry to much.

ramirez and lee were very slow outta the gates and are not playing as well as 2-3 years ago. age and injurys are closing in on these 2

.last year proved one thing that whats on paper for the cubs and then to execute those back stats is another.

and the starting pitching can get rattled very easily. zambrano-lily-hill-will be giving it up some this year just like last

[JJP]

Originally Posted by pdrift1

Cubs Are Going Down !!!!!!!!!!!!

Where is there to go down after 100 years without a title?

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by merasmag

i have a new t-shirt to go with my fukme bracelets

Ain't no telling how long you have had a fukme bracelet on.

[JJP]

$11 million for 2 years for Dotel. Something like 56 innings pitched the last 3 years. I can't believe he could command that kind of money. If you want to pump him up to 7 million a year and load it with incentives, that's one thing. But locking up 11 million for 2 years on a injury prone 34 year old setup man seems questionable.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by JJP

$11 million for 2 years for Dotel. Something like 56 innings pitched the last 3 years. I can't believe he could command that kind of money. If you want to pump him up to 7 million a year and load it with incentives, that's one thing. But locking up 11 million for 2 years on a injury prone 34 year old setup man seems questionable.

And he gets SHELLED......He will spend more time on the DL then innings pitched.....

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by JJP

$11 million for 2 years for Dotel. Something like 56 innings pitched the last 3 years. I can't believe he could command that kind of money. If you want to pump him up to 7 million a year and load it with incentives, that's one thing. But locking up 11 million for 2 years on a injury prone 34 year old setup man seems questionable.

He must have a really good agent

[JJP]

I guess the key is that the injuries were muscle injuries and not arm problems. Still a big risk for a non-closer. We'll see if he can still hit 95-96 on the gun like he did in his days in Houston.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by JJP

I guess the key is that the injuries were muscle injuries and not arm problems. Still a big risk for a non-closer. We'll see if he can still hit 95-96 on the gun like he did in his days in Houston.

His elbow surgery would still be the biggest factor i would guess. He was at one time a pretty tough bullpen option.