An Open Letter to Jim Hendry

[SCCubbieFAN]

I still say move Jones to CF, Murton to RF, Lee/Soriano for LF or trade for another power bat for LF and soriano for 2b.

[NewUserName]

OK guys take your Murton 13 HR's and 60 something RBI's.Ill take 30+HR's and 100+RBI's..You have Jaque Jones doubling those numbers and you still all rip on him and desperatley want to trade him.... but,OMG, no one can ever bad mouth Murton.. like hes the second coming of Christ..Sure I like Murton, he has the patience and can take a walk, he got hot in the second half, but then when he was cold, and grounded into about 78 double plays, none of you guys ever bad mouthed him..Murton can probably have 34 errors a season and half you you guys will still be like " Its ok...He will come around...hes cheap...hes still learning...the power will come." or some other garbage... So tell me what sounds better for the heart of the order DLee,ARAM,Soriano or Lee or DLee,ARam,and Murton...Or if Murton is batting elsewhere, Barret or Jones... Uhhh I would think the first one and having Barret batting afterwards then jones after him would be perfect...Murton is a perfect number two hitter...thats where he belongs...If we could get Soriano to play second it would all work out and Murton could keep his crappy numbers and still play LF...OK so answer me this..your the pitcher...would you rather pitch to Soriano/CLee or Murton....Its a no brainer.Youd pitch to Murton... ..Its like pitching to DLee,pitchers are scared of him....You need another power hitter who can strike fear into a pitcher....A 3 headed monster is the key, just look at the other side of town... Dye,Thome and Konerko, that is just sick, you pick your poison...thats what we need..and look how many runs they scored...Matt Murton is the same thing as Iguchi...almost identical stats...Murton belongs batting in the 2 hole...I just wish Murton could play a different freaking position...Anyway,we need another powerbat...We cannot get outhomered in our own ballpark like we have been...I want a world series...I dont gice a danm about what money is spent...Its not yours..its the Tribunes...Go out at spend 200 million..I just want studs who can get me bring a world series to the north side..

 

 

Primetime players just dont show up to the Major Leagues and start putting up great numbers. I know you could give me examples where players have been I could probably give you at least 2 players to your 1 of players that have taken a year or two to fully develop. The Cubs are not going to win the WS next year. CLee and Soriano are both going to regress the next couple of years as the leave there prime years. In 2 years are you going to complain about how the Cubs should spend 250 million because they cant get anything done because they have these bad contracts to go along with Jason Schmidts. I agree to spend for a Stud however neither of these 2 has consistently put up .900 OPS in their careers. So defining them as Studs may be a large jump.

[Pinktermite]

Murton would be fine in the lineup batting 2nd if we could get a guy named ARod...or one named Tejada...I just don't like Soriano, he strikes out too much and had rediculously inflated numbers this year...

 

I'd much rather spend the farm on someone who can change games with his mere presence.