This is more exciting than the season!

[AramisRamirez]

Jesus you'd think we'd be in the WS the way im running to the computer every 2 hours to see whats going down. i log on to NSBB.com and like 4 new rumors are posted. nevermind that few materialize, i still gets the mind racing.

 

now if we can trade the entire farm system for tejada, we'll win 125 games!!

 

CF pierre

2B walker

1B lee

SS tejada

3B ramirez

C barrett

LF murton

RF some scrub

 

pie, cedeno, rich hill, and dopirek for tejada anyone?? with lee and tejada we dont need cedeno and dopirek, and rich will probably win the cy young in 2011 but thats cool....atleast we'll get our 2006 rings!!

[TrueBlueCubFan]

Jesus you'd think we'd be in the WS the way im running to the computer every 2 hours to see whats going down. i log on to NSBB.com and like 4 new rumors are posted. nevermind that few materialize, i still gets the mind racing.

 

now if we can trade the entire farm system for tejada, we'll win 125 games!!

 

CF pierre

2B walker

1B lee

SS tejada

3B ramirez

C barrett

LF murton

RF some scrub

 

pie, cedeno, rich hill, and dopirek for tejada anyone?? with lee and tejada we dont need cedeno and dopirek, and rich will probably win the cy young in 2011 but thats cool....atleast we'll get our 2006 rings!!

 

So Tejada will make the Cubs 46 games better?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Jesus you'd think we'd be in the WS the way im running to the computer every 2 hours to see whats going down. i log on to NSBB.com and like 4 new rumors are posted. nevermind that few materialize, i still gets the mind racing.

 

now if we can trade the entire farm system for tejada, we'll win 125 games!!

 

CF pierre

2B walker

1B lee

SS tejada

3B ramirez

C barrett

LF murton

RF some scrub

 

pie, cedeno, rich hill, and dopirek for tejada anyone?? with lee and tejada we dont need cedeno and dopirek, and rich will probably win the cy young in 2011 but thats cool....atleast we'll get our 2006 rings!!

 

So Tejada will make the Cubs 46 games better?

 

Tejada and "some scrub" in RF. :lol:

[minnesotacubsfan]

RF some scrub

 

 

 

this is likely to happen regardless

[CuseCubFan69]

Jesus you'd think we'd be in the WS the way im running to the computer every 2 hours to see whats going down. i log on to NSBB.com and like 4 new rumors are posted. nevermind that few materialize, i still gets the mind racing.

 

now if we can trade the entire farm system for tejada, we'll win 125 games!!

 

CF pierre

2B walker

1B lee

SS tejada

3B ramirez

C barrett

LF murton

RF some scrub

 

pie, cedeno, rich hill, and dopirek for tejada anyone?? with lee and tejada we dont need cedeno and dopirek, and rich will probably win the cy young in 2011 but thats cool....atleast we'll get our 2006 rings!!

 

So Tejada will make the Cubs 46 games better?

 

And getting rid of Macias while benching Perez. :sunny:

[goonys evil twin]

Let's hope it doesn't keep mirroring the regular season. Slow start, but everybody shrugged it off saying it was too early to be concerned. Then mild enthusiasm at the midway point with expectations for things to start turning their way in the second half. Only those breaks never came and they finished terribly.

[NoDak]

Jesus you'd think we'd be in the WS the way im running to the computer every 2 hours to see whats going down. i log on to NSBB.com and like 4 new rumors are posted. nevermind that few materialize, i still gets the mind racing.

 

now if we can trade the entire farm system for tejada, we'll win 125 games!!

 

CF pierre

2B walker

1B lee

SS tejada

3B ramirez

C barrett

LF murton

RF some scrub

 

pie, cedeno, rich hill, and dopirek for tejada anyone?? with lee and tejada we dont need cedeno and dopirek, and rich will probably win the cy young in 2011 but thats cool....atleast we'll get our 2006 rings!!

 

1. I like talking baseball during offseason more than during season. Usually during the season conversations get bogged down in minutiae and fluke events (like a bad hop) are extrapolated to indicate that bad defense is THE reason for the lack of WS wins for CHC.

 

2. There is NO WAY that I agree to trade pie, cedeno, hill, dopirak for Tejada. It is not just that these are prospects, but that there are so many of them. Baseball, unlike other "team" sports, requires more quantity of talent. While Tejada is certainly more productive than ANY of these prospects is likely to ever become, I would want to get a couple of ML ready players to give up that many solid prospects.

 

For this reason I am really intrigued by what FLA is doing. While they may well not be getting "equal value" back for their investment, just the shere quantity of what they are getting indicates that in a couple of years they could well be a team to reckon with and plenty of money/prospects to trade. Not a bad strategy!

 

Put on top of that they got lucky and are selling in an off-season with very little FA talent and most of that gobbled up in the first month. Teams hungry to "show their fans they are doing something" are going to FLA to get big name people, usually for prospects the fans have never heard of.