Um, right...

[David]

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071209&content_id=2321912&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc

 

I understand the need for a left-handed-hitting right fielder, but the Cubs already have someone in house to fill this spot, Pagan. From what I've seen, he is very solid defensively and has the speed to help Felix Pie in the outfield. Also, he could be a quality offensive player, because he's a switch-hitter -- if given the opportunity to play every day. Why isn't this option being explored?

-- Joe B., Coal City, Ill.

 

Pagan has not been able to play more than 77 games in the last two seasons because of injuries. He has to show he can stay healthy.

 

Wow. So which one of you jokers sent this in?

 

Oh, I also love that the response to that question is that he can't stay healthy.

 

I guess he does qualify under Hendry's prerequisites, though.

[David]

Oh, and...

 

With Prior in trade talks, I compared his stats before his first surgery and Chris Carpenter's stats before his first Tommy John elbow surgery. The numbers are very similar. Being that this is Prior's first actual arm surgery, and after seeing Carpenter come back and win a World Series and a Cy Young Award (I know he was hurt last year), maybe they shouldn't try to deal him just yet. I think the upside on Prior is too high, and I would hate to see another Lou Brock trade.

-- Travis H., Chatham, Ill.

 

You cannot compare Prior's surgery with Carpenter's, or any other pitcher's. Prior's procedure involved his shoulder; Carpenter's was on his elbow. The trade interest in Prior has been more rumor than fact. Teams are cautious because they don't know when he'll return.

 

 

I thought Carpenter's surgery was a shoulder procedure very similar to Prior's, was it not?

[killthegoat06]

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071209&content_id=2321912&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc

 

I understand the need for a left-handed-hitting right fielder, but the Cubs already have someone in house to fill this spot, Pagan. From what I've seen, he is very solid defensively and has the speed to help Felix Pie in the outfield. Also, he could be a quality offensive player, because he's a switch-hitter -- if given the opportunity to play every day. Why isn't this option being explored?

-- Joe B., Coal City, Ill.

 

Pagan has not been able to play more than 77 games in the last two seasons because of injuries. He has to show he can stay healthy.

 

Wow. So which one of you jokers sent this in?

 

Oh, I also love that the response to that question is that he can't stay healthy.

 

I guess he does qualify under Hendry's prerequisites, though.

 

He's only half lefty. There's your problem. We need 100 percent lefties.

[GoCubsGo1679625768]

It was me....

[cubfan]

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071209&content_id=2321912&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc

 

I understand the need for a left-handed-hitting right fielder, but the Cubs already have someone in house to fill this spot, Pagan. From what I've seen, he is very solid defensively and has the speed to help Felix Pie in the outfield. Also, he could be a quality offensive player, because he's a switch-hitter -- if given the opportunity to play every day. Why isn't this option being explored?

-- Joe B., Coal City, Ill.

 

Pagan has not been able to play more than 77 games in the last two seasons because of injuries. He has to show he can stay healthy.

 

So, Pie needs help in the OF? :roll:

[sethuel1]

Oh, and...

 

With Prior in trade talks, I compared his stats before his first surgery and Chris Carpenter's stats before his first Tommy John elbow surgery. The numbers are very similar. Being that this is Prior's first actual arm surgery, and after seeing Carpenter come back and win a World Series and a Cy Young Award (I know he was hurt last year), maybe they shouldn't try to deal him just yet. I think the upside on Prior is too high, and I would hate to see another Lou Brock trade.

-- Travis H., Chatham, Ill.

 

You cannot compare Prior's surgery with Carpenter's, or any other pitcher's. Prior's procedure involved his shoulder; Carpenter's was on his elbow. The trade interest in Prior has been more rumor than fact. Teams are cautious because they don't know when he'll return.

 

 

I thought Carpenter's surgery was a shoulder procedure very similar to Prior's, was it not?

 

It was. muskat can't remember that Carp had surgery twice on his shoulder (the first similar to prior's, the second to clean up scar tissue supposedly left over from the first) before the recent TJ surgery.

[haltz]

I thought Carpenter's surgery was a shoulder procedure very similar to Prior's, was it not?

If I remember correctly, the first was a frayed labrum, and lately it was bone spurs and then an impingement and then the UCL. Prior's last surgery was labrum and some other stuff in his shoulder. Who knows, anyway, she's got her facts wrong.

 

What's funnier to me is that she says, "you can't compare Prior's surgery to any pitcher's."

Edited December 11, 2007 by haltz

[Mephistopheles]

its musk rat, what did you expect?

[haltz]

I don't know, I try to only read one team's idiot reporters on a regular basis.

[GoCubsGo1679625768]

[Roast]

I'm pretty sure the mods decided long ago that there would be no use of "musk rat" in reference to Carrie.

 

That's 150 times more childish/annoying than being RickRoll'd.

 

Mainly because RickRolling is funny on occasion - Musk rat isn't.

[Drew Doughty]

I'm pretty sure the mods decided long ago that there would be no use of "musk rat" in reference to Carrie.

 

That's 150 times more childish/annoying than being RickRoll'd.

 

Mainly because RickRolling is funny on occasion - Musk rat isn't.

=D>

[wvcbxl]

He's only half lefty. There's your problem. We need 100 percent lefties.

 

Is Carrie Muskat a leftie?

Maybe she could be an option. :-s

[ctcf]

lol I wasn't aware having a nickname for Carrie freaking Muskat was such a big deal.

[Chris]

It has been requested on several occasions that her name not be used like that.

[ctcf]

It has been requested on several occasions that her name not be used like that.

 

Seriously? Just strikes me as odd people would even care.

[Chris]

It has been requested on several occasions that her name not be used like that.

 

Seriously? Just strikes me as odd people would even care.

 

I don't know that it is so much about caring as it is being considerate. Carrie has always come across as a nice person in my limited interactions with her. It's one think to criticize her work and another thing to criticize her name.

[NCCubFan]

lol I wasn't aware having a nickname for Carrie freaking Muskat was such a big deal.

It's a ig deal because using demeaning ncknames is disrespectful. It's a big deal because we know that there are people connected to the Cubs' organization registered here and probably others that frequent this site as guests. It's a big deal because some of them undoubtedly know her, if not actually friends, and people don't like to see other people they know referred to disrespectfully. It's a big deal because the moderators have requested people not to and have even set up a word sensor to try to prevent it, and people intentionally skirting around the word sensors is disrespectful to the moderators.

[Banedon]

It has been requested on several occasions that her name not be used like that.

 

Seriously? Just strikes me as odd people would even care.

 

We've quashed a number of nicknames for people like Corey Patterson and Glendon Rusch as well. There's a point where nicknames cross the line from being funny and clever, to immature and childish, and even more so...annoying.

 

Think of this as a general rule: if it's in the word filter, it's there for a reason. Don't try to avoid it by getting cute with the spelling.

[David]

It has been requested on several occasions that her name not be used like that.

 

Seriously? Just strikes me as odd people would even care.

 

We've quashed a number of nicknames for people like Corey Patterson and Glendon Rusch as well. There's a point where nicknames cross the line from being funny and clever, to immature and childish, and even more so...annoying.

 

Think of this as a general rule: if it's in the word filter, it's there for a reason. Don't try to avoid it by getting cute with the spelling.

 

I love the irony of this coupled with the fact that Rusch is used by the word filter as a substitute for an "obscenity."

[David]

BTW, don't forget the ever-clever "Dumpster."

[jersey cubs fan]

It has been requested on several occasions that her name not be used like that.

 

Seriously? Just strikes me as odd people would even care.

 

We've quashed a number of nicknames for people like Corey Patterson and Glendon Rusch as well. There's a point where nicknames cross the line from being funny and clever, to immature and childish, and even more so...annoying.

 

Think of this as a general rule: if it's in the word filter, it's there for a reason. Don't try to avoid it by getting cute with the spelling.

 

I love the irony of this coupled with the fact that Rusch is used by the word filter as a substitute for an "obscenity."

 

It's used for that obscenity because that obscenity was used as a nickname for Rusch.

 

[expletive] pitched like crap today.

 

Rusch pitched like crap today.

[CuseCubFan69]

It has been requested on several occasions that her name not be used like that.

 

Seriously? Just strikes me as odd people would even care.

 

We've quashed a number of nicknames for people like Corey Patterson and Glendon Rusch as well. There's a point where nicknames cross the line from being funny and clever, to immature and childish, and even more so...annoying.

 

Think of this as a general rule: if it's in the word filter, it's there for a reason. Don't try to avoid it by getting cute with the spelling.

 

I love the irony of this coupled with the fact that Rusch is used by the word filter as a substitute for an "obscenity."

 

It's used for that obscenity because that obscenity was used as a nickname for Rusch.

 

Rusch pitched like crap today.

 

Rusch pitched like crap today.

 

So it's like "Marquis pitched like Rusch today"? :D

[David]

It has been requested on several occasions that her name not be used like that.

 

Seriously? Just strikes me as odd people would even care.

 

We've quashed a number of nicknames for people like Corey Patterson and Glendon Rusch as well. There's a point where nicknames cross the line from being funny and clever, to immature and childish, and even more so...annoying.

 

Think of this as a general rule: if it's in the word filter, it's there for a reason. Don't try to avoid it by getting cute with the spelling.

 

I love the irony of this coupled with the fact that Rusch is used by the word filter as a substitute for an "obscenity."

 

It's used for that obscenity because that obscenity was used as a nickname for Rusch.

 

Rusch pitched like crap today.

 

Rusch pitched like crap today.

 

I recall. It's just funny a couple years later now when that word is thrown around sometimes in Social.

[David]

It has been requested on several occasions that her name not be used like that.

 

Seriously? Just strikes me as odd people would even care.

 

We've quashed a number of nicknames for people like Corey Patterson and Glendon Rusch as well. There's a point where nicknames cross the line from being funny and clever, to immature and childish, and even more so...annoying.

 

Think of this as a general rule: if it's in the word filter, it's there for a reason. Don't try to avoid it by getting cute with the spelling.

 

I love the irony of this coupled with the fact that Rusch is used by the word filter as a substitute for an "obscenity."

 

It's used for that obscenity because that obscenity was used as a nickname for Rusch.

 

Rusch pitched like crap today.

 

Rusch pitched like crap today.

 

So it's like "Marquis pitched like Rusch today"? :D

 

 

More like... look at those nice Rusch in my avatar.