WGN Radio Wants YOU
WGN is having a song-writing contest to find their next rah-rah Cubs tune to play before, after, and during Cubs games and on a nonstop loop inside Judd Sirott's headset. All you have to do is record your song and send an mp3 of it to cubssong@wgnradio.com. If you'd like, I can supply the lyrics, and you can be in charge of the music. Here goes:
See the runner in his stance
See him gunned down where he stands
TOOTBLAN
Was he running on his own?
How'd he get picked off at home?
TOOTBLAN
TOOTBLAN
Cubbies need a better plan
Save me.
Play on W-G-N
Save me
Save me
Come on don't get thrown out
Come on don't get thrown out
Come on don't get thrown out
Come on. Come on. (Santo: Oh, Come ON)
Hey, Chicago, say again
Cubs are never gonna win
TOOTBLAN
You don't even have to pay me. You only have til February 29, so get cracking.
Theo Compensation Coming Soon: Not a Rumor
I have a source that says the compensation from the Cubs to the Red Sox for Theo coming from the Red Sox to the Cubs will come from Bud Selig's ruffled lips to our tingling ears before spring training begins. Oh goodie. I bet it will be Kerry Wood.
The Rebuilding Process Will Be Televised
The Cubs announced their broadcast schedule for the 2012 season. Opening day is April 5 on WGN. 1:20. Be there. Or don't bother being there, it will be on TV.
Is there a Cubs game today?
No.
Thread-Hijacking Discussion I Recently Enjoyed
You've seriously got to catch up on the psychological manipulation of post-secondary architecture. Or something.
Video I Recently Enjoyed
Will Ferrell introduces the Bulls and Hornets starting lineups. It's pretty funny. Especially because Carlos Boozer most certainly does still live with his parents.
Comments
Dylan,
Didnt say shit about Maples. And if it did it would not have been pretty. He is not a fan of his arm slot and thinks he will be a reliever
bubblesdachimpQuote Reply
I like how none of these facepalms include anything about PECOTA or Law’s rankings. Do we even cover baseball anymore? (dying laughing)
MishQuote Reply
Free BPro article on divergent directions of Cubs and Sox.
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=16003
MishQuote Reply
Mish wrote:
Pipe down… This blog is discredited
bubblesdachimpQuote Reply
@ Mish:
Enough.
AndCountingQuote Reply
That’s a lot more complicated than hitting the “insert picture” button (dying laughing)
WenningtonsGorillaCockQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
mb21Quote Reply
i see that Tango and MGL had a lively discussion with Colin W over at the book blog regarding the New New Pecota.
dylanjQuote Reply
dylanj wrote:
It’s a discussion I recently enjoyed.
MishQuote Reply
@ dylanj:
That was tame compared to some of the “conversations” they’ve had over the years. Especially Colin and MGL.
mb21Quote Reply
http://doeskeithlawhatemyfavoriteteam.tumblr.com/
Aisle424Quote Reply
Awesome song, AC. Well done!
joshQuote Reply
So this is the new Chicago city sticker design after the previous winner was revoked for potentially using gang signs in the design. Is it just me or does the superhero in the middle look like he is grabbing his dick?
Aisle424Quote Reply
mb21 wrote:
Nothing can top some of those epic Colin vs JC threads on various websites.
BerseliusQuote Reply
Why no Concepcion in the Keith Law Top 10 prospects rankings? Is it because he sucks, or because he’s not yet eligible?
Knew we should have got Soler instead.
PezcoreQuote Reply
Bubbles, did Law write an explanation of his methodology at the beginning of the prospect list? I’m pretty sure in years past he explained that he does the rankings based more on upside/chance to be an All-Star vs chance to be a MLB regular. Within that framework the likelyhood that Jackson is going to be an average MLBer hurts him somewhat.
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ Pezcore:
They arent mutually exclusive you know
bubblesdachimpQuote Reply
Nevermind, it’s in the open part that non-insiders can access
BerseliusQuote Reply
In shocking news
Rich Harden ———-> out for 2012
BerseliusQuote Reply
bubblesdachimp wrote:
I know, just interested in what he thought of him. I forget who, but one of the scouts said Concepcion ranked #6 right now in the Cubs org.
PezcoreQuote Reply
Is Law an idiot? Or is he pretty accurate with his rankings?
MuckerQuote Reply
Pezcore wrote:
It was Kevin Goldstein
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
bubblesdachimpQuote Reply
@ Mucker:
I think he is pretty fair for the most part. Except for his hate of Jackson.
I debated with Mish on twitter today. (debate probably isnt the right word) But i think Jackson is really valuable
bubblesdachimpQuote Reply
I agree with bubbles, I like Jackson a lot. The comp we kept using was Drew Stubbs. Hilariously, Drew Stubbs was also ranked as the 89th prospect on a KLaw ranking. Jackson’s minors numbers are better than Stubbs’ were in the raw, but IDK about after park and league adjustments.
MishQuote Reply
great read from Fangraphs on prospect ranking http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/how-much-risk-is-worth-additional-upside/
see what I did there Mish?
dylanjQuote Reply
a good read Sickels did about how his past rankings have played out http://www.minorleagueball.com/2012/2/8/2785017/prospect-analysis-lessons-learned
dylanjQuote Reply
@ dylanj:
I’m pretty sure I haven’t posted unnannotated links since SK’s bitching-like-a-woman about it.
MishQuote Reply
Your dad says hi, Mish.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
My dad’s dead, asshole.
MishQuote Reply
@ Mish:
Not sure if serious, but if serious, very sorry for your loss.
Also, I enjoyed the lyrics AC made, but don’t have enough composing ability to set a tune to it.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rice Cube wrote:
I do some serious gangsta rap. In the ‘I’m white and suburban’ sort of way.
PezcoreQuote Reply
Klaw ranks by nothing but upside. That’s why he is so low on Szczur. Apparently a scout told him he is a “slappy hitter” and Klaw hasn’t back off that Szczur = Juan Pierre.
What doesn’t make sense to me is if he ranks by upside not probability, why is Baez so far down? Ranking Zach Cates is pretty funny too. I must agree that these rankings are horrid.
jtsunamiQuote Reply
I’ll say that I would be surprised if Mish was legitimately upset at something said on this blog in jest, given his personality, but I’m still shocked at whatever asshole -1’d his comment without knowing for sure. (dying laughing)
GBTSQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
I’m never serious. My dad’s alive. But I shut SK right up. (dying laughing)
MishQuote Reply
Mish wrote:
Really, this was unnecessary. Don’t you have your own blog for lying about the death of your parents?
GBTSQuote Reply
@ Mish:
I’m glad that your father is not dead and that you’re still an asshole (dying laughing)
Rice CubeQuote Reply
GBTS wrote:
I want to give this 1000 faget points.
Aisle424Quote Reply
GBTS wrote:
Correct
MishQuote Reply
jtsunami wrote:
He’s probably mixing Zach up with Phoebe.
Aisle424Quote Reply
GBTS wrote:
http://www.mishsblogaboutlyingabouthisparentsdeath.com
MishQuote Reply
Rice Cube wrote:
You and I don’t agree often, but on this, we do.
MishQuote Reply
Rice CubeQuote Reply
I’m pretty sure I should earn a spot in tomorrow’s Daily Facepalm, something like:
Is Mish’s dad dead?
No.
MishQuote Reply
@ Mucker:
Law is an idiot. Those rankings are absurd. I have no doubt whatsoever that Al Yellon could come up with a more competent Cubs top 10 and probably provide more insight than he did.
mb21Quote Reply
And I’m going to shut up now because my dad is old and not in the best health so I’m probably tempting the gods to punish me.
MishQuote Reply
mb21 wrote:
I want to agree but I can’t even give Al that slightest benefit of the doubt. (dying laughing)
I’m pretty sure any regular here could probably put something together that’s better.
MishQuote Reply
I think the person who -1’d Mish’s comment knew that was a bit.
I was pretty sure it was a bit too because I’ve seen it before, but it’s such a good bit that I couldn’t be sure. (dying laughing)
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ jtsunami:
They make no sense. If you rank by upside then obviously Brett Jackson is a far superior prospect to Rizzo. It’s even less close than it is if you rank based on what the player is most likely to become. Rizzo hasn’t done shit that Jackson hasn’t done, but Jackson plays a premium defensive position. Ranking based on potential makes even less sense when you have Zach Cates 5th. When can we finally be done talking about Josh Vitters’ potential? He’s a low strikeout, low walk guy with average power. Maybe he can play 3rd and maybe he has to move to 1st. If he moves to 1st he’s completely useless. If he can stick at 3rd he might be a decent backup. And Reggie Golden? He has the potential to be the first player to strikeout 300 times in a season.
That list is garbage.
mb21Quote Reply
@ Mish:
I couldn’t.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Mish:
Sure. I was just making a point that even Al Yellon could provide a superior list.
mb21Quote Reply
Suburban kid wrote:
Yeah it’s pretty clearly a bit, and since apparently you’ve become my sworn enemy on this board, I had to go to the nuclear option. (dying laughing)
MishQuote Reply
@ Mish:
Jackson was better and a little younger. He had a better average, better OBP, higher slugging. Jackson’s career wRC+ is roughly 150 while Stubbs was about 120 in the minors.
mb21Quote Reply
@ GBTS:
What are you supposed to do though? +1 it if you think his Dad is dead? That’s one thing I’ve hated about Facebook. I’ll read some article that disgusts me and I have an option to like it. If Mish was serious and he apparently wasn’t, I would definitely give it a -1.
mb21Quote Reply
I think the naysayers may have a point about Brett Jackson’s strikeout rate, but as long as he can get on base okay, I guess nobody really cares how he makes outs.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
for some reason, when i read that song, i thought of “whip it” by devo. you’d have to alter the lyrics slightly to get it to fit but i think it works pretty well.
berselius – what math building were you talking about in yesterday’s post? which building at UW is considered the “math building”? van vleck, i assume? just curious as to what UW campus building would have a great view and i never really took any math while i was a badger.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
The whole problem with just looking at the strikeout rate is that you could do the same for every other player. If you really wanted to, you could look at Rizzo being a 1st baseman and just leave him off the top 100. That he plays 1st base is a weakness. Or you could just look at Brett Jackson and compare him to other high walk guys and come to the conclusion he has a much higher chance of success than the average prospect. I guess I expect the people who rank these guys to be more intelligent about their rankings and Law is quite clearly an idiot.
Jackson has some issues. So do most prospects, but there aren’t 50 of them who are better than Jackson. There probably aren’t 40.
mb21Quote Reply
@ mb21:
Usually when someone posts about something awful on FB (i.e. “Westboro Baptist Churchs vows to rape corpses”), me liking it is usually just acknowledging the poster’s comments/thoughts on that link. Or agreeing with their disgust.
MishQuote Reply
Mish probably thinks his parents are dead because he repeatedly compares himself to Batman.
GBTSQuote Reply
I’ve received a request to run Discredited Fantasy Baseball again. I’m all for it, are people still interested in doing it? Do we want to do H2H this year instead of Roto? I kind of like Roto, to be honest.
GBTSQuote Reply
RC, if you want to record your version of the song, just find a karaoke version of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_zzCLLRvE
AndCountingQuote Reply
GBTS wrote:
I’d prefer roto. I’m already in a H2H keeper league and I don’t particularly care for H2H. Mostly because my team pulls a 2008 Cubs in every damn playoffs.
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ Mish:
I know, but sometimes I read something I hate the idea of having to “like” it in order to share it.
mb21Quote Reply
GBTS wrote:
(dying laughing)
I just noticed if you highlight some text and then hit the quote button it works. Weird.
mb21Quote Reply
GBTS wrote:
MishQuote Reply
mb21 wrote:
I discovered this yesterday but I thought everyone knew. I’m still sucky at posting pics though. (dying laughing)
MishQuote Reply
i gave mish the – point. I was pretty sure he was joking and also if he wasn’t i was just giving parental death a negative faget point. No risk.
dylanjQuote Reply
Mish wrote:
It’s really simple.
img src=”http://www.mish.com/batman.jpg”
Surround that with less than and greater than signs (carrots).
img: image
src: source
Surround the url of the image in quotations
You’re telling it that the image source equals the url you provide.
mb21Quote Reply
Once you get used to writing the html it’s a lot easier than clicking a button.
mb21Quote Reply
@ mb21:
I actually know a bit of HTML and don’t have a problem posting pics. I do like the old method but it’s pretty immaterial.
MishQuote Reply
dylanj wrote:
This is sound reasoning.
MishQuote Reply
@ mb21:
So your objection is merely that the guy is cherrypicking one attribute of the player to penalize him instead of looking at the player as an aggregate, correct?
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Non-blog related post (I’d say baseball but IDK if we talk about that much here anymore):
Apple is worth more than Google and Microsoft combined. DAMN.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/apple-stocks-lofty-heights-in-context/
MishQuote Reply
Mish wrote:
Don’t you have your own blog where you can post baseball-related crap?
AndCountingQuote Reply
@ AndCounting:
I started one. But then I realized I enjoy criticizing the people here more. (dying laughing)
MishQuote Reply
@ Mish:
I’m tempted to ask if the only reason you come here is to criticize the people here just so you can tell me to scroll up and read your thoughts on the matter. (dying laughing)
AndCountingQuote Reply
@ AndCounting:
(dying laughing)
MishQuote Reply
This is effin’ awesome, and that’s all I’m going to say:
http://images.4channel.org/f/src/589217_scale_of_universe_enhanced.swf
MishQuote Reply
@ Mish:
That was awesome.
joshQuote Reply
EnricoPallazzo wrote:
Yeah, it’s Van Vleck. The building is utter shit save for the view and the copious amounts of blackboards in the classrooms. The worst part is the lack of a modern seminar room. We would get some famous visitor or another and the Big Lecture would be in our dingy basement lecture hall that can’t mount a ceiling projector (so it has to be propped across some chairs). It also has those old wooden chair/desk systems that make a ton of noise whenever anyone moves and are adorned with decades of student graffiti.
BerseliusQuote Reply
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-downtown-tilted-kilt-sued-for-sexual-harassment-20120209,0,6697866.story
If women can’t find a respectful workplace at a knockoff Hooters, where CAN they go???
GBTSQuote Reply
Mish wrote:
*inserts decades long rant about the quality of Apple’s products vs their abhorrent branding and software policies*
BerseliusQuote Reply
Mish wrote:
GBTSQuote Reply
Damn, I wish that was bigger.
(The screencap.)
GBTSQuote Reply
Berselius wrote:
I love PIXAR. (dying laughing)
MishQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
(dying laughing)
GWQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
I don’t know. I didn’t read Law’s scouting report. I was speaking in the generic sense. Jackson strikes out a lot, but there are other aspects of the game he is very good at.
To be completely honest, I don’t care what Law says. The only time I even think about reading something he’s written is when he does his prospect lists. I don’t know what he said about Jackson and only know he rated him near the bottom of the top 100. That’s fine. If he thinks there are that many better prospects, great, but Rizzo isn’t a better prospect.
mb21Quote Reply
http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Singing_Shark#SUCK_MY_DICK_THE_MUSICAL
fang2415Quote Reply
The Olney tweet that said the Yankees wanted to trade AJ Burnett to the Pirates for Garrett Jones made me (dying laughing)
Rice CubeQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
Rice CubeQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
mb21Quote Reply
I think it would be cool to see someone so efficient that you were literally compelled to break down into blood curdling screams.
joshQuote Reply
I dunno much about advanced basketball stats, but as a a fan, I’m glad Luol Deng made the All Star team.
MishQuote Reply
Mish wrote:
http://sabermetricresearch.blogspot.com/2011/01/sabermetric-basketball-statistics-are.html
GWQuote Reply
Mish wrote:
With Thibs coaching, he’ll probably play 44 minutes.
GBTSQuote Reply
@ GW:
I’ve read that before; actually, probably a few times. After I blew my load on all things baseball, I ventured slightly into the basketball side. I get the basic concepts and am familiar with the more well-known stats, but IDK, some combination of it not hooking me or winning me over.
DRose, for example, strikes me as a phenom. But the advanced stats knock him down quite a bit, and I do understand why. That said, I can’t harmonize what I read from the stats and what I see on the TV. Baseball sabermetrics is alive to me. I see that hitters who walk often and hit for power are the most valuable. I see pitchers that strike out many and walk few are the best. I see that a good defense gets attributed to good pitching, etc. I know they are my lying eyes, but I don’t see Derrick Rose being the 7-10th best player in the league.
But, given my outlook on baseball stats and science and math in general, I do realize that there are people that know way more than me, so I won’t deny them that authority. So I’m basically stuck in a “throw my hands up and back away” philosophy with basketball stats.
MishQuote Reply
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/02/hoyer-talks-alfonso-soriano-matt-garza.html
Just like the link says, SK.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
This might sound crazy but i think Vitters goes bananas this year and has a huge breakout.
bubblesdachimpQuote Reply
new shit: http://obstructedview.net/projections/projecting-the-2012-cubs-1st-basemen.html
mb21Quote Reply