08/29 CUBS (Zambrano) @ Pittsburgh (Maholm) 6:05 CDT, WGN TV

[Sammy Sofa]

That is laughable. His contract, plus the fact he pretty much stunk this yr equals, UNTRADEABLE. Jim COULDN'T give Dempster away.

 

That's incredibly unlikely.

[Laura]

 

You seriously think Ram is walking? What indications has he given to make you think that?

 

Why would he stick around minus being paid a lot of money?

 

For the joy of watching this trainwreck?

 

And you know Hendry will have a gut attack at paying him more than Derrek Lee.

 

Hendry knows the consequences of not re-sigining, especially given how weak the offense is and how limited the free agent power hitters are.

 

And Aramis supposedly has said he likes playing for the Cubs. :shrug:

 

Yes, but Hendry has made several bad decisions over the past few years, and letting Aramis walk while resigning Pierre might be another (x2). Aramis will cost some money and a lot of people don't think he's worth it (I do, within reason).

 

He talked about how it was difficult for him and his wife to move from Pittsburgh to Chicago and that he likes Chicago. Part of the reason he liked it was because of the other Dominican players here. Who's left on the roster? Novoa and Mateo are the only other Dominicans. I hope he decides to be the Cubs third baseman, but I'm not counting on it until it happens.

[UMFan83]

I wish there was relegation. Is there a way we can start a grassroots campaign to get relegation in American sports?

[chuckywang]

Here's to all you people blaming the Cubs suckiness on the absence of Derrek Lee.

 

Lee did all he could to win this game for us, and yet we still lost because of piss poor defense that had nothing to do with Lee.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Here's to all you people blaming the Cubs suckiness on the absence of Derrek Lee.

 

Lee did all he could to win this game for us, and yet we still lost because of piss poor defense that had nothing to do with Lee.

 

I'm not disagreeing with you here, but merely giving you a hyperbole alert. Remember that Lee made 3 outs last night and left 3 men on base.