Fox Sports: Ramirez SIGNS WITH CUBS!

[Laura]

Sullivan was probably too busy working on another Special Report to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on drunk Cubs fans to make more than one phone call.

 

No way? He did that.

 

What a puke.

 

Now that the Cardinals have had their parade, it's time for Cubs fans to come to grips with the fact that rooting for their heroes with the knowledge that they will never win is a disease, like alcoholism, and the afflicted parties must understand they are suffering from a serious problem.

 

He's also under the impression that we all watch Matlock.

 

 

Sullivan was probably too busy working on another Special Report to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on drunk Cubs fans to make more than one phone call.

 

It's pretty obvious why Cub fans are drunk all the time. We're just trying to dull the pain of being Cub fans.

 

Yeah ... Sullivans's still an ass, regardless.

[CubinNY]

I just sent this in to A Veiw from the Fans

 

It’s time for Jim Hendry to go. I know it is a bad time to be changing GMs, but it is still early in the off-season and perhaps not too late to salvage the 2007 season with another man in the front office. After all, this week has been a time of change in America, if Don Rumsfeild can be shown the door why not Hendry? He’s presided over three straight years of one debacle after another and now has lost exclusive negotiating rights to the most productive hitter on the team over the last three years. Aramis Rameriz should be the last player that Hendry lets slip away.

 

If John McDonough is serious about putting a winner on the North Side he has to give Hendry the boot. Since Hendry has taken over the reigns from Andy MacPhail the Cub have gotten progressively worse. The pitching staff is in shambles, and now so is the infield. Derrek Lee is the only run producer on the team and the free agent class is pretty poor. Any further upgrades that will make a difference will likely mean loosing talented young major league pitchers (Hill or Marshall) or top hitting prospects like Felix Pie.

 

Cub fans deserve better.

 

Not my best work, but not bad after a few beers.

 

I don't think it will get printed.

[Neuby]

Im beyond words of amazment at how stupid the Cubs are.

[E.J.]

Phil Rogers[/url]"]Barring a sudden reversal before the exclusive negotiating window closed at midnight Saturday, it seemed likely the Cubs would lose Ramirez, even though they had offered to add another three years and possibly as much as $50 million onto the two years and $23 million remaining in his deal.

 

The catch will be if the club then invests the money it saves from losing Ramirez into Drew, a high-risk proposition that could get them one of the National League's best offensive center fielders.

 

I hate the Cubs. :evil:

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

Just as a headsup... I too am drunk as [expletive].

[Bluescale]

Phil Rogers[/url]"]Barring a sudden reversal before the exclusive negotiating window closed at midnight Saturday, it seemed likely the Cubs would lose Ramirez, even though they had offered to add another three years and possibly as much as $50 million onto the two years and $23 million remaining in his deal.

 

The catch will be if the club then invests the money it saves from losing Ramirez into Drew, a high-risk proposition that could get them one of the National League's best offensive center fielders.

 

I hate the Cubs. :evil:

 

I've been drinking, so I'm not sure, but am I reading that right? 73M for 5 years? That comes out to 14.6M a year. 14M should have been where they started when he opted out of the contract, not just south of where they ended!

[RynoRules]

good news everyone, i drank a bunch of cheap whiskey (who can afford jim beam?) and now i don't care anymore.

 

everyone of age should follow suit.

 

I drank expensive, downtown Chicago alcohol and the sting is still felt. Maybe you could send some of that Mad Dog my way.

 

 

I am astonished. Maybe I should not be (see my earlier posts in this thread), but still I am. I thought that a guy fighting for his job would do better than this. This has sealed Hendry's fate, barring multiple miraculous moves.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Phil Rogers[/url]"]Barring a sudden reversal before the exclusive negotiating window closed at midnight Saturday, it seemed likely the Cubs would lose Ramirez, even though they had offered to add another three years and possibly as much as $50 million onto the two years and $23 million remaining in his deal.

 

The catch will be if the club then invests the money it saves from losing Ramirez into Drew, a high-risk proposition that could get them one of the National League's best offensive center fielders.

 

I hate the Cubs. :evil:

 

I've been drinking, so I'm not sure, but am I reading that right? 73M for 5 years? That comes out to 14.6M a year. 14M should have been where they started when he opted out of the contract, not just south of where they ended!

 

Yeah, that works out to 5/$73 M. Not even an average of $15 M a year.

 

Awful.

[Laura]

HA, that's the same offer they made to Beltran. 5/75.

[abuck1220]

david eckstein winning the world series mvp was the worst thing that could ever happen to the cubs.

 

 

"i've decided i like guys who hustle" -- jim hendry, 2007 cubs convention

[cjbucks]

I'm paralyzed with disapointment.

[CoolHandLuke]

:cry:

[Bluescale]

HA, that's the same offer they made to Beltran. 5/75.

 

Just think...right now we could be heading into an off season with both Beltran and Ramirez, only worrying about 2B or SS and the rotation. Instead, we have to plug ALL those holes. It sucks to be a Cubs fan right now...

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

What's worse...if that's the best we can offer Ramirez, there will be no Soriano, no Schmidt, no Zito, no Lee, no Drew....

 

Look forward to Padilla, DeRosa, and GMJ as your FA signings!

 

And what we pay for those will hamstring us for next year's FA class.

[b_wiggy_66]

Now Hendry will put all of his eggs in one basket (Soriano) like always and get burned with that to.

[treebird]

GOODNEWS EVERYONE

 

ivde drinken enough that when i read this thread now i just laugh alot

 

especially when i readabout the cubs offer

[don_kessinger_was_good]

Honestly, this team will never win crap. Truly, the most pathetic organization in American sports. They don't even WANT to win.

 

But hey Jim Hendry, as you pass Larry Himes in the pathetic totem order of lousy GMs, congratulations on that high priority signing of Wade Miller this week, that was crucial, dude! If you hurry, I think you can get Freddie Bynum signed as well, he saved us last year, get that done if you're not too busy, OK?

[CUBZ99]

Well look at the positive side, at least we won't have to watch him loaf around the bases anymore. :cry:

[CUBZ99]

Honestly, this team will never win crap. Truly, the most pathetic organization in American sports. They don't even WANT to win.

 

But hey Jim Hendry, as you pass Larry Himes in the pathetic totem order of lousy GMs, congratulations on that high priority signing of Wade Miller this week, that was crucial, dude! If you hurry, I think you can get Freddie Bynum signed as well, he saved us last year, get that done if you're not too busy, OK?

 

Why invoke the name of Freddie Bynum on such a bad night? :lol:

[b_wiggy_66]

Well look at the positive side, at least we won't have to watch him loaf around the bases anymore. :cry:

 

lol Instead will get to watch Sarge Jr. and Derosa hustle to first just to get their avg. up to .250

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Boston has interest in Ramirez.

 

And the Angels are already prepared to make him an offer.

[wolf stansson]

I'm dsoory and drunk. This sucks for you gusy

[Laura]

LA Times[/url]"] The Angels already have bid on Japanese star pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka. They could learn in the next 48 hours whether they have won the right to negotiate a major league contract with him. And, by [sunday]'s end, the Angels are expected to have made offers to third baseman Aramis Ramirez and outfielders Alfonso Soriano and Gary Matthews Jr.

 

"I expect some of the free agents will want to take their time," Angels General Manager Bill Stoneman said. "That's not something we want to do."

 

It will be expensive to sign a top free agent, perhaps prohibitively so to sign one to a contract so lucrative that a player and his agent decide not to shop around. Barring an 11th-hour agreement to return to the Chicago Cubs, Ramirez would join Soriano as the top position players available in free agency.

 

"If he hits the market, we'll be looking at Beltran money," said Paul Kinzer, the agent for Ramirez.

 

That would be Carlos Beltran, who signed a seven-year, $119-million contract with the New York Mets two winters ago. Soriano is looking for Beltran money, too.

 

No team might meet that asking price — Scott Boras, the agent for Beltran, opened that bidding at 10 years and $200 million — but Stoneman might have to if he wants Ramirez to sign quickly.

 

The Angels desperately need a third baseman and a power hitter, so Ramirez is their top target since he fills both needs. Kinzer said he would be receptive to an offer that would make it worth signing quickly.

 

"I could see that happening," Kinzer said. "When you come in aggressively, you can get a deal done."

 

He cited last winter, when he and Dodgers General Manager Ned Colletti worked out a three-year, $39-million contract within days last winter for shortstop Rafael Furcal. The Dodgers were widely perceived to have overpaid for Furcal.

 

Kinzer said eight teams, including the Angels, called to express interest in Ramirez on the first day teams could do so. The Dodgers are expected to bid on Ramirez and Soriano too, but Soriano is their top choice since they have Wilson Betemit and Andy LaRoche for third base and they have two outfield vacancies.

[don_kessinger_was_good]

See, the difference is that the Angels are a winning organization. They have homegrown talent that they develop and nurture, the owner has deep pockets and is willing to spend, the GM is aggressive and goes for the throat.

 

The Cubs. We are quite the laughingstock, aren't we? And really, I can't blame Aramis one iota. I'd do the same thing, take the money and head to a winner, he'd never get to play in a World Series if he stayed with this group of zeroes. Good luck Rammy.

[Butterscup1679666578]

Go Bears.