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utamav91
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posted 04-22-2002 11:12 AM     Profile for utamav91   Email utamav91     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Rangers already a club-record for this early season (and we've had teams that lost 100 games, folks)
9.5games outta first place.

You know GM Hart (the gentleman that brought us Rocker, Everett, a ton of pitchers to camp, Park, etc.) ain't gonna take the fall for this mess.

My guess is that nice-guy Narron's last day as a Ranger: May 1. Not his fault, he's probably a great baseball guy. But look at the mess he inherited.

Same situation in Brewtown...the Big $tadium was supposed to $olve all problems and make them competitive. Did any of the new revenue help the roster? Nope. And Lopes took the fall. Similiar situations in Buctown and Tigertown...new $tadiums, no re$ults. It's all about the Benjamins...but who's benefitting from them? Not the fans or the success of the club on the field.

I am the only one bitter about baseball, the high ticket prices, and ineptness of GMs and owners to put competitive teams on the field?

[ 04-22-2002: Message edited by: utamav91 ]

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Lemmi
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posted 04-22-2002 11:33 AM     Profile for Lemmi   Email Lemmi     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
If Mike Illitch gets into the tigers like he did the Red Wings the tigers would be a desent team, it took Illitch a good 6 or 7 years to build up the Red Wings to be a consistantly good hockey team, but i think it will take alot longer to do the same thing with the Tigers

And it all about the scouting and Farm teams which is what i think the problem is with the tigers, they need to get lucky and find 3 or 4 good young guys (with talent, and then keep them and not trade them away)

oh well i used to watch baseball up untill i got hooked on hockey in 1986, and now baseball is just to slow and boring to watch on TV (but going to a game isnt as bad)

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Inky
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posted 04-22-2002 12:40 PM     Profile for Inky   Author's Homepage   Email Inky     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Cubs need to fire Don Baylor, and lose Jeff Fassero, Augie Ojeda. And we need Hee Seop Choi.

I vote the Cubs hire Ryne Sandberg as manager, or promote Joe Girardi to that position.

"We must save Señor Science!"

--Brak


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GOAT Dan
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posted 04-22-2002 03:29 PM     Profile for GOAT Dan   Author's Homepage   Email GOAT Dan     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I'll admit that I am also annoyed by the state of baseball, but I have to mention that the Brewers have won four straight since Lopes left us.

I think that ten games into any sports season (except football) is too early to decide who is good and who isn't. The Milwaukee Bucks won 9 of their first 10, en route to going straight out of the playoff picture

Dan L.
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scooterb23
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posted 04-22-2002 09:22 PM     Profile for scooterb23   Email scooterb23     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I like Baylor, but I think his time is about up. Fassero needed to go two weeks ago! I would have dealt him after the first game of the season when he hit 3 guys!!! Augie Ojeda rules though!!! They need to get their guys healthy, get Bill Mueller and Moises Alou in shape, and they will rise.

- Ohio, the gateway to Indiana.


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Inky
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posted 04-22-2002 09:29 PM     Profile for Inky   Author's Homepage   Email Inky     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by scooterb23:
I like Baylor, but I think his time is about up. Fassero needed to go two weeks ago! I would have dealt him after the first game of the season when he hit 3 guys!!! Augie Ojeda rules though!!! They need to get their guys healthy, get Bill Mueller and Moises Alou in shape, and they will rise.

We need Hee Seop Choi and Mark Prior YESTERDAY!

A quote I heard on the Cubs.com message board... "You can't spell Rondell without DL"

"We must save Señor Science!"

--Brak


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Inky
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posted 04-23-2002 08:34 PM     Profile for Inky   Author's Homepage   Email Inky     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
And now the Cubs are losing 6-0 in the top of the 4th to San Fran.

When are the owners in CHicago going to get thier heads out of the sand and put together a team that can WIN!

I may become a Red Sox fan before too long if this keeps up.

"We must save Señor Science!"

--Brak


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scooterb23
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posted 04-23-2002 10:58 PM     Profile for scooterb23   Email scooterb23     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Inky, let me perform an intervention here...

I have been a Cubs fan since I was 6 years old, that was 1981.

I have also been a Red Sox fan since I was 10, that was 1985.

I have been a fan long enough to remember watching two ground balls roll through 1st basemen's legs (Buckner in '86, and Leon Durham in '84) on live TV. Both times I stayed home from school the next day because I was sick.

I know where this road leads Inky, and it's not pretty. I guarantee you, your faith in God will be put to the ultimate test. I think mine left sometime around May of '85. No matter how great the Red Sox are doing now, just remember there are still about 140+ games for them to blow it.

Do not, at any cost, become a Cubs / Red Sox fan. You will become self-loathing, you will be laughed at at the sports bar, you may develop nervous ticks, you will be taunted by residents of both Chicago and Boston (this actually happened to me!!!), and the worst thing may be the fact that you will probably die at the hands of a blind Peruvian midget hermaphrodite with a slight limp carrying an accordian and a snorkel before seeing these teams win the pennant.

Just looking out for your best interests Inky, don't go down the path I have traveled...

- Ohio, the gateway to Indiana.


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Inky
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posted 04-24-2002 07:54 PM     Profile for Inky   Author's Homepage   Email Inky     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by scooterb23:
Inky, let me perform an intervention here...

I have been a Cubs fan since I was 6 years old, that was 1981.

I have also been a Red Sox fan since I was 10, that was 1985.


I have been a fan long enough to remember watching two ground balls roll through 1st basemen's legs (Buckner in '86, and Leon Durham in '84) on live TV. Both times I stayed home from school the next day because I was sick.

I know where this road leads Inky, and it's not pretty. I guarantee you, your faith in God will be put to the ultimate test. I think mine left sometime around May of '85. No matter how great the Red Sox are doing now, just remember there are still about 140+ games for them to blow it.

Do not, at any cost, become a Cubs / Red Sox fan. You will become self-loathing, you will be laughed at at the sports bar, you may develop nervous ticks, you will be taunted by residents of both Chicago and Boston (this actually happened to me!!!), and the worst thing may be the fact that you will probably die at the hands of a blind Peruvian midget hermaphrodite with a slight limp carrying an accordian and a snorkel before seeing these teams win the pennant.

Just looking out for your best interests Inky, don't go down the path I have traveled...


I was 13 in 81, and I've been a Cubs fan since I was 8. Do the math

I'm actually flirting with the idea of just giving up on baseball in general. Chicago can't put together a good team at all, and the Yanks seemingly buy the series every year (Except last.. I'm glad the D'backs won.)

"We must save Señor Science!"

--Brak


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scooterb23
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posted 04-24-2002 08:18 PM     Profile for scooterb23   Email scooterb23     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Oh, in that case may I suggest either Curling or Australian Rules Football for your next sport of choice???

- Ohio, the gateway to Indiana.


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Freedom Fighter
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posted 04-25-2002 07:21 AM     Profile for Freedom Fighter   Email Freedom Fighter     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Let me address a couple issues here:
1] Good pitching beats good hitting (for Texas Ranger fan).
2] Players play the game, not the coach (for Brewer's fan)
3] Cub's fan... aw, forget it.....
4] I almost lost my cookies when Dave Henderson homered against the Angels in '86 (for Red Sox fan) but my Mets (who I was a big fgan of at the time thanks to WWOR in Secaucus NJ) got them in the end.

I used to love ball. I guess strikes and salaries got the best of me lately. It is nice to see my hometown Pirates playing well (on the cheap )

Got war?


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