Some Cubs Videos

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 4:40pm

I don't have any thoughts on a post today, but I was playing around with adding an easier way to embed videos on the site. Here's Starlin Castro during the Arizona Fall League.

 

A clip from Bill Murray in 1984, bummed out that they didn't let him sing the national anthem before one of the playoff games.

Finally, I'll finish up with some of the members of the 1969 Cubs singing "Pennant Fever".  A lot better voices than the '85 Bears, but not quite the same end result.

The cover is a bit tough to make out, but I believe it's (from left to right): , , , , , and .

There was also a jazzy B-side of an instrumental titled "Slide".

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Submitted by Rob G.  on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 5:36pm  
in the projected standings...now up to 79 wins. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/fantasy/dc/

Submitted by crunch  on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 5:38pm  
KEVIN MILLAR, BABY!!!

Submitted by Charlie  on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 6:04pm  
He's worth two wins even if he doesn't make it out of spring training.

Submitted by Ryno  on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 9:16pm  
It's his healing touch. A Ram will never see the DL this year.

Submitted by John Beasley  on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 5:48pm  
AZ PHIL: On the chance that you're the gentleman in the Castro video sitting in the front row by himself. I just wanted to say how much I like your straw hat. Anyways, maybe that's not Phil, but I guess if I ever went to an AFL game, that's where I'd expect to see him.

Submitted by crunch  on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 6:07pm  
dodgers/reed johnson 800K finally done according to AP

Submitted by crunch  on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 6:25pm  
MEX vs. VEN on MLB Network in a few minutes. I missed the 3:30 game (PR vs. DR). Woo!!! Live wood bat baseball!

Submitted by crunch  on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 7:46pm  
chris robinson with a hit and a nice play for an out at home for MEX in CF. fun stuff. vinny castilla is playing 3rd for MEX, too.

Submitted by crunch  on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 8:01pm  
elvis andrus playing CF to let gregor petit play SS...end of their 4th in the field, petit with 2 errors and andrus has had 1 fly over his head.

Submitted by crunch  on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 8:02pm  
feb 2nd and there's live wood bat baseball on tv...so...awesome.

Submitted by Rob G.  on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 6:53pm  
http://twitter.com/SI_JonHeyman/status/856556... 2.75M and 2 options of some sort that could bring it up to $12M total (over 3 years I presume)...

Submitted by Seamhead  on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 8:17pm  
Wonder how that will affect Park's salary demands...

Submitted by Cubster  on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 9:48pm  
Gregg signing at $2.75 with the Bluejays might be the trigger that makes one of their relievers more available (Jason Frasier)? Not making financial sense to me though...isn't Frasier less expensive?

Submitted by The Real Neal  on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 10:15pm  
If you get a MLB ready player for Frasier who you only have to pay $400K to, then in theory it can make sense. I think half-assed rebuilding is probably a bad idea, but a lot of teams try it.

Submitted by Dr. aaron b  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 11:37am  
And the Indiana Pacers are doing it as well.

Submitted by Arizona Phil  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 12:33pm  
Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 9:48pm. Gregg signing at $2.75 with the Bluejays might be the trigger that makes one of their relievers more available (Jason Frasier)? Not making financial sense to me though...isn't Frasier less expensive? =========================== CUBSTER: Jason Frasor signed for $2.65M (avoiding arbitration), so he's less expensive than Gregg in 2010, but only by $100K. So I would think after signing Gregg that the Jays would now be more-willing to trade Frasor (who will be a FA post-2010). It's only a matter of whether the Cubs will give up what the Jays would want back for Frasor (whatever that is). Like ROB G, I have speculated that it would probably be Angel Guzman, but I suspect the Cubs would prefer to keep Guzman and trade a couple of their less-proven but still MLB-ready (or near-ready) young pitchers (like Berg, Stevens, Parker, et al).

Submitted by navigator  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 11:40am  
Rob HERE: The videos aren't loading onto the latest version of IE8. They work fine with Chrome, Safari, and FireFox on the same platform.

Submitted by navigator  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 11:41am  
I also tried IE8 in compatibility mode. No videos.

Submitted by The Real Neal  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 11:52am  
They work on IE7.

Submitted by Rob G.  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 12:26pm  
thanks... ~shrug~ IE - highest market share, biggest piece of crap

Submitted by Rob G.  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 12:44pm  
I looked around the interwebs and no real flags for IE8 and the editor and plugin I'm using to embed them...bah. worked for me on Opera, Safari, Firefox and Chrome on my Mac. Do these videos work in IE8 (or IE7)? http://wiklifield.thecubreporter.com/Starlin_...

Submitted by navigator  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 1:04pm  
Same results as above. Works fine in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. But only boxes with little red X's in IE 8.

Submitted by crunch  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 1:15pm  
IE8 for some users may need an additional plugin for full compatibility with HTML5... google chrome frame plugin... http://www.google.com/chromeframe/

Submitted by Rob G.  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 1:15pm  
~shrug~ again, two completely different ways to embed video, so that's just odd and furthers my belief that IE is the devil's work. I suppose you're not running an ad-blocker in IE or something, it could block these videos as they are flash based. if anyone else is running IE8 and is having the same problem, let me know.

Submitted by navigator  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 1:57pm  
Okay, after checking all the IE 8 optional settings and coming up empty, I manually installed the latest update to IE Flash (version 10.0.42.34) using "getflash" and all is well. Why this was necessary is a Microsoft and Adobe mystery. Somehow every other browser but IE8 updated itself. Apparently the automated Windows 7 updates have gotten out of sync.

Submitted by Paul Noce  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 2:01pm  
I've been on a Mac for 4-5 months now, and once in a blue moon have to go over to my 1 year old Windows quad core machine. It only takes about 10 seconds back in Windows for me to remember how much I hate Windows and the many reasons why I switched.

Submitted by Ryno  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 3:01pm  
IE 8: Not any better than IE 7. I'm an avid Chrome user. Safari's latest release is impressively fast, but I've run into a few compatibility issues with certain websites. http://www.peopleofwalmart.com, for instance.

Submitted by Ryno  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 3:02pm  
I can literally open Chrome, check Gmail and Google Calendar before Internet Explorer finishes loading.

Submitted by Rob G.  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 3:05pm  
yeah, I've been using Chrome sparingly over the last few weeks and I'm impressed. May have to switch from Firefox.

Submitted by crunch  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 3:31pm  
the plugin/extension community has finally caught up with firefox's community. it helped that google put work into revisions after their original "yawn" launch of the browser.

Submitted by Rob G.  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 3:44pm  
Chrome just loads insanely fast. i don't use any plugins except necessary video ones and xmarks.

Submitted by Ryno  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 5:16pm  
The Google people really put some thought into how people look at porn the world wide web.

Submitted by navigator  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 12:21pm  
The Sporting News says Dusty Baker has decided on his 1,2 hitters out machines. 1. Drew Stubbs .323 OBA last year in limited action 2. Orlando Cabrera .316 OBA last year

Submitted by crunch  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 12:44pm  
speed leads, contact hits 2nd...sounds right for him.

Submitted by jacos  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 1:47pm  
Reds are one player away from being dangerous. Who is that one player??????????? :-)

Submitted by Paul Noce  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 2:01pm  
Ted Williams?

Submitted by JoePepitone  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 11:22pm  
Nope. Effin' baseclogger.

Submitted by Paul Noce  on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 12:08pm  
lol

Submitted by Rob G.  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 1:00pm  
http://espn.go.com/chicago/columns/blog/_/pos... Theriot and Cubs likely headed to arbitration redux (between Feb 8-20th in St. Petersburg, FL) http://espn.go.com/chicago/columns/blog/_/pos... suggests Frasor talks could heat up with Gregg signing

Submitted by Arizona Phil  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 1:27pm  
Every now & then, it's probably good for a GM to actually go all the way to an arbitration hearing, just so arbitration-eligible players don't think the GM will automatically always ultimately compromise at the mid-point between the club's offer and the player's figure. If a GM is afraid to take the salary dispute to a hearing and is always willing to compromise at the mid-point, it could motivate an arb-eligible player to request a higher salary than he may be reasonably worth, just to make the mid-point higher, even if the player would be unlikely to win in arbitration and receive his requested salary from the panel. So Hendry might not back down this time and compromise at the mid-point, even if going to a hearing would mean the relationship between Theriot & the Cubs will become a bit strained. After all, it's probably fairly likely that Theriot will not be a Cub by this time next year. Marmol's case might be a bit different, though, because he is more likely to remain with the Cubs beyond the 2010 season, but Hendry might decide to challenge Marmol anyway. Since the arbitration panels seem to side about 50/50 with the player and the club (sometimes it almost seems like they just flip a coin), the Cubs might figure they'll most-likely win one and lose one, and essentially break even.

Submitted by jacos  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 1:50pm  
"GM to actually go all the way to an arbitration hearing, just so arbitration-eligible players don't think the GM will automatically always ultimately compromise at the mid-point between the club's offer and the player's figure." 17 straight years is pretty much automatic.

Submitted by The Real Neal  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 2:09pm  
Historically the management I think is up about 60-40 on Arb hearings.

Submitted by Rob G.  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 1:52pm  
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100...
"They're here by themselves," said interpreter Min Sung of the Koreans in the Cubs' system. "They don't shop much. They go to dinner and sing karaoke. In the Midwest, the entertainment is going to Wal-Mart and Target
oh burn!

Submitted by Old and Blue  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 1:59pm  
What. WalMart's not entertaining enough for you? http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

Submitted by Rob G.  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 2:05pm  
is there a way for me to unsee those pictures from my memory?

Submitted by Old and Blue  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 2:14pm  
No. Once introduced, they are burned in forever.

Submitted by jacos  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 2:15pm  
This is true. By the time I realized that this was horrid and nauseating I was already at page 72.

Submitted by Ryno  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 2:51pm  
lol... you slay me

Submitted by Ahone Ahtwo Ahthree  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 3:50pm  
The Gushers one just wrecked my day...

Submitted by jacos  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 2:03pm  
Hey I take offense to that as a Midwesterner. There are Home Depots and Old Country Buffets here too. racist!

Submitted by The Real Neal  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 2:08pm  
I am pretty sure that even Peoria and Boise have movie theaters - plus Starcraft II should come out sometime this season.

Submitted by Cubster  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 6:26pm  
Baseball Prospectus' C. Karhl's take on the Nady acquisition...
n short, I'd suggest that Nady's beaten his platoon rap, and before last season's early injury, he'd begun to establish himself as a decent starter in an outfield corner....
For the money, he's not a bad risk; indeed, unlike guys like Micah Hoffpauir or Reed Johnson, he's an actual everyday-quality player if healthy, not a bad thing to have around when you don't know when or how long Alfonso Soriano might need to head to the DL. The problem is whether or not he'll be healthy, to which I'll defer to Will Carroll and the Cubs' training staff. The intent, however, seems sensible, so that if the Cubs do lose a starting outfielder for any length of time, they're not short on offense.
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php...

Submitted by crunch  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 6:39pm  
lol...will carroll...

Submitted by The Real Neal  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 7:34pm  
Pecota expects Hoffpauir to outhit Nady, pretty substantially +.038 in OPS.

Submitted by Stevens  on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 12:24pm  
I wonder if Nady's defensive abilities overcome 40 points of OPS? Though if Soriano goes down again, we may need both Nady & Hoffpauir.

Submitted by crunch  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 6:59pm  
Caribbean WS has been full of some bad/lazy D so far...some nice games, though. jason simontacci pitching for VEN...ha. been a while since i heard that name.

Submitted by Rob G.  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 8:05pm  
http://bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=com... Cubs @ Rangers - May 22nd (Sat night game) Cards @ Cubs - May 29th WSox @ Cubs - June 12th Cubs @ WSox - June 26th (Sat night game) Cubs @ Dodgers - July 10th Cubs @ Cardinals - August 14th Braves @ Cubs - August 21st Mets @ Cubs - Sept 4th they have a Sunday night game on July 11th versus Dodgers as well on ESPN.

Submitted by jacos  on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 9:08am  
Cubs @ WSox - June 26th (Sat night game) That can't be right, I believe the city banned cubs vs Sox night games for Friday and Saturday nights due to fights. Joking about the ban, but I believe there is an understanding.

Submitted by Stevens  on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 12:26pm  
"Cubs @ Rangers - May 22nd (Sat night game)" 1st nationally televised game because of the huge grudge match potential of facing Byrd and Jaramillo's former squad!

Submitted by Rob G.  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 8:24pm  
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=sh-hsdc...

Submitted by Cubster  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 8:51pm  
Nady is recovering from a shoulder injury and might not be ready for defensive duty by the start of the season.
oh great, now he's got a shoulder injury to go with the elbow surgery?

Submitted by crunch  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 9:14pm  
i think the author thinks it's 2008/2009 offseason...or he's got some news.

Submitted by The Real Neal  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 9:26pm  
2007 team dodges the injury bug and they're a juggernaut. 2008 team can't and now they're mediocre. That guy's Haikus couldn't cut it here at TCR.

Submitted by Cubster  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 10:04pm  
I'm sure he writeup on the Red Saux will be spot on.

Submitted by Paul Noce  on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 10:14pm  
Interesting line buried in Jon Heyman's article, which condemns the Mets and Cubs for not spending enough money this offseason: "...and Alfonso Soriano proved to be even more untradeable than (Luis) Castillo." http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers... So is he actually implying the Cubs at some point shopped Fonzi on the down low? Or just stating the obvious, that Fonzi's contract is unmovable? I've personally always dismissed Heyman as SI's version of Phil Rogers, but once in a blue moon he does get something right. I don't believe it's this time, however.

Submitted by Cubster  on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 7:05am  
Muskat on Koreans learning English via Karaoke...this is the absolute bottom of the offseason, it's gonna get better from here on out. My rule of thumb is that baseball season officially opens the minute the superbowl is over (sunday, 2/7 around 9pm). http://cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=2010...

Submitted by Cubster  on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 7:12am  
Bruce Miles, Herald paints a vision of the Hendry-Theriot arbitration hearing:
So here we go. The Cubs and maybe GM Jim Hendry are likely to say: “Obviously, Ryan, we love you. Obviously, you scrap and scrape and do all those little, gritty things this organization loves. But since we do pay attention to stats, contrary to what some may believe, we’ll present these to the arbitrator: “From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Theriot’s offensive line went from .307/.387/.359 to .284/.343/.369. His wOBA (yeah we know what that is, too), went from .338 to .318. More alarmingly, his flyball percentage jumped from 20.2 percent to 30 percent, and we don’t pay Mr. Theriot to hit flyballs, no matter what our manager (and we love him, too) thinks. On top of it, Mr. Theriot’s walks total dropped from 73 to 51 while his strikeouts spiked from 58 to 93. Or, put another way, Mr. Theriot’s BB/K ratio went from 1.26 to 0.55 in a year’s time. We rest our case.”
and some of the Theriot side:
“I hear a lot of talk about my defense and range being lacking. You forgot something, there, across the table, when you cited all your fancy stats. How about my UZR going from 0.4 to 7.7 and my UZR/150 going from 0.7 to 8.3 in a year's time?
http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/3380

Submitted by Ryno  on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 8:10am  
Why let stats inform your opinion when you can just find a stat to back up what you already believe? This is the biggest problem with the mess of stats in baseball and why I trust my eyes more than I do some douchebag on the internet telling me about zone ratings. Anyways, if you've been paying attention you'll know intuitively that Theriot isn't a wizard in the field, that he didn't work the count in '09 like he had in previous years, and that he didn't hit those outside pitches to the right fielder in '09 as much as he did in previous years. You don't need stats to tell you this stuff.

Submitted by Stevens  on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 12:42pm  
"...and why I trust my eyes more than I do some douchebag on the internet telling me about zone ratings." Ironically, my problem is the douchebags on the Internet who tell me to trust their eyes. Not that you were doing so.

Submitted by crunch  on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 1:46pm  
when it comes to D you better trust someone's eyes because there's not a defensive matrix yet that's even close to giving you a picture of how most people play D or how well they do it.

Submitted by Dr. aaron b  on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 10:53am  
Jim Hendry has no idea what any of those "stats" are supposed to mean.

Submitted by Cubster  on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 10:58am  
CarrieMuskat: #cubs sign Carlos Marmol to one-year $2.125 mill contract, thus avoiding arbitration. Also, Kevin Millar Minor deal is finally official

Submitted by Osiris  on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 11:50am  
"The Cubs will also air eight games on WCIU-Ch. 26, including the season opener in Atlanta on April 5." So the first game of the year will not be available to anyone outside Chicago. Unless we're able to pick up the Atlanta broadcast on TBS.

Submitted by The Real Neal  on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 11:54am  
Yes, the Cubs still haven't figured out that getting an extra $50K on local contracts hurts their long term profitability by removing national telecasts. This type of short-term decision making is what will eventually turn the Cubs market value into the same as the White Sox.

Submitted by Paul Noce  on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 12:14pm  
It's almost like Bill Wirtz came back to life and is running the Cubs, except this time he's basking in the irony of putting games on TV, just not TV most people get.

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