Cubs will allow Prior to walk

[Ding Dong Johnson]

That when he was rehabbing, he NEVER came by to be with the team. ... Prior apparently never got involved in the community, unlike Wood who has his celebrity bowling tournament.

those statements are not true

[E.J.]

Do your duty, Wayne.

 

Troll

 

How is that being a troll? Teams are going to be interested in picking up Prior. I don't understand who him showing interest in having his team sign Prior can be considered trolling.

He's kidding.

 

I was kidding, however as a Cubs poster on this board, I don't like the feeling of an NL Central rival openly root for a player that causes such an emotional response for Cubs fans.

 

Sorry. Thought you were being serious. I don't have a problem with the Reds picking him up. Dusty will just finish off what he started. I don't want to see him end up on the Cards or Brewers.

[BigbadB]

Now a guy has to host a celebrity bowling tournament to be a good clubhouse guy?

[CUBZ99]

I like Prior, but if he doesn't want to be here, what can you do. I have no problem with this. Good luck Mark, hope you tear it up for an AL team.

 

You can trade him. Heck, you can let him pick wherever he wants to go and get a serviceable prospect for him.

 

I know Hendry has done some dumb things, but you got to give him more credit than that. I'm sure if he could have gotten anything of value for Prior he would have taken it.

[erik316wttn]

I'd make a terrible GM because I'm sentimental, but if it was me I'd have offered him a contract, stating that this was his absolute last chance. If he would have had another injury-plagued season this year, I'd have cut him loose and said goodbye. I just fear that he'll get healthy for another team, be the pitcher we all know he can be, then kick our asses a few times a year.

[Smack]

Good bye. I was a fan but if you won't work with the team that's been paying you for years while hurt... well you're a jerk in my book.

[Soul]

Now a guy has to host a celebrity bowling tournament to be a good clubhouse guy?

 

Oh hell yeah. Didn't you know?

[Sammy Sofa]

Why are some of you guys whining so much about this? It's not like the guy will ever pitch again. What... paying him over the pat 3 years to get NOTHING was not enough for some of you?

 

Good riddance. Go occupy someone else's 60 day DL.

 

Yeah, boy, 3 years of doing nothing. He sure didn't pitch at all in 2004 or 2005.

 

Oh, wait, he did. Quite a bit. And very well, too. Weird.

[Exile on Waveland]

What might have been... :cry:

[Sammy Sofa]

That when he was rehabbing, he NEVER came by to be with the team. ... Prior apparently never got involved in the community, unlike Wood who has his celebrity bowling tournament.

those statements are not true

 

No kidding.

 

Just this past season he was with them when they played in Arizona while he was rehabbing. He was also at some games in Chicago, too. And it wasn't just this year.

[erik316wttn]

If you put all that money in to fixing him, you had to at least see if it was worth it.

 

I don't pretend to know Mark Prior on any sort of level, but if he was a reasonable man I'm sure he would have considered a 2-year, incentive-laden deal.

 

I would just hate to put all that time and money into fixing him, then having him be healthy and pitching lights out for someone else.

[SABR Gamer]

A lot of yesterday's joy is gone.

 

 

The sadness of this heavily outweighs the happiness of yesterday... I feel like I would if I lost a good friend, seeing his potential and seeing that the Cubs had the gem of the entire league and going through all the crap we have to finally fix him and then do jack about trying to keep him to see if we could get any googly darn returns, and just to think what he could have been and still might be...it saddens me very greatly. When he played he was my most favorite Cub outside of Sosa, Ramirez, and Wood.

 

If only he had stayed healthy.....we would be world champs one of the last 4 years....so long Prior....and because it would just kill me to see you live up to your potential somewhere else.....I hope you suck.

 

The only bright spot in here is that just from getting to know him as a player on the Cubs, I feel decently confident he will either never pitch again, or suck, so fine....this still hurts though, I don't understand how it wouldn't hurt a real Cubs fan.

 

Another thing, it just shows me how much of a real man Kerry Wood is, that guy deserves as much respect as anyone in the damn league, dude hats off to you, thank god we got at least one class act out of the two....

 

Prior go to your California trash and play for a cheap team like the Padres who will contend in the most boring division in baseball (not counting Colorado, and even they usually suck) and then get killed in the playoffs.

 

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and just trade Prior for Abreu, or Tejada, or even flippin Bedard straight up back then, idc.....or even farther back and poison Dusty Bakers food so the Cubs would never hire him and Prior and Wood would be lighting up the league....

 

 

Bah I'm just venting w.e, Prior do MLB a favor and just take your money and get out of baseball so you don't scam a new team out of a few million more dollars...unless it's the White Sox, Yankees, Red Sox, or Cardinals, then you can go ahead and take as much money from them as you want.

 

Edited by a mod to remove the profanity.

[Outshined_One]

Here's my take...

 

Remember the Corey Patterson debacle? How people said he didn't look like he cared? That it always seemed like he was stubborn, childish, immature, and didn't listen to his coaches? Remember how much some people just hated him around here?

 

This reminds me a lot about that. Frankly, I think few people can fairly criticize the guy because he's not loyal, doesn't do much in the community, isn't a good teammate, or whatever. We're not privy to his thoughts. We don't know what he's like in the clubhouse. He might be incredibly private or keeps to himself. We don't know whether he does charity work. For all we know, the Cubs have been jerking him around in these negotiations and never offered him a fair deal. He could do a ton in his community, yet keep quiet about it because he doesn't want to draw attention to himself in that way. I remember a ton of people ripping on Randy Moss while he was in Minnesota, yet the guy did quite a bit of charity work out there and kept it to himself.

 

It's one thing if you don't think he was valuable to the Cubs any more because of his potential ineffectiveness and injuries. It's another thing when you attack the guy because of the way you perceive his personality. That's just foolish.

 

I'm sad to see the guy go. I really hope the Cubs know what they're doing in letting him go.

[SABR Gamer]

Add Cinci to that list, just so I can have the joy of watching Dusty end your career ASAP.

[davecubsfan]

Goodbye Blue Cross, hopefully Blue Shield joins you next year.

[CubColtPacer]

Even though I've reluctantly had to advocate this move, that doesn't mean that I'll miss you any less Prior. You gave us a great year (and some other great partial years) and will remain my favorite player from the 2003 team. I wish it could have worked out in Chicago, and wish you the best in all your future moves. Please go to the AL so I can root for you without having to worry about how it affects the Cubs.

[SABR Gamer]

Here's my take...

 

Remember the Corey Patterson debacle? How people said he didn't look like he cared? That it always seemed like he was stubborn, childish, immature, and didn't listen to his coaches? Remember how much some people just hated him around here?

 

This reminds me a lot about that. Frankly, I think few people can fairly criticize the guy because he's not loyal, doesn't do much in the community, isn't a good teammate, or whatever. We're not privy to his thoughts. We don't know what he's like in the clubhouse. He might be incredibly private or keeps to himself. We don't know whether he does charity work. For all we know, the Cubs have been jerking him around in these negotiations and never offered him a fair deal. He could do a ton in his community, yet keep quiet about it because he doesn't want to draw attention to himself in that way. I remember a ton of people ripping on Randy Moss while he was in Minnesota, yet the guy did quite a bit of charity work out there and kept it to himself.

 

It's one thing if you don't think he was valuable to the Cubs any more because of his potential ineffectiveness and injuries. It's another thing when you attack the guy because of the way you perceive his personality. That's just foolish.

 

I'm sad to see the guy go. I really hope the Cubs know what they're doing in letting him go.

 

This also hurts way more than the CPatt situation, I think people gave up on him because he never lived up to anything and people understood the Cubs did everything they could do try to have him succeed.

 

With Prior, he more than lived up to everything, I watched him thinking I was seeing something special, and a talent that had existed maybe once or twice before in the history of the league, and to make it worse the Cubs don't even pay a measly 3 million bucks, which is nothing to them, to just see if the guy has anything left in him.....

[Warpticon]

I sure am glad I have you people around to tell me what strangers are thinking, because I sure can't do that.

[Rob]

There was no logic good enough to justify this decision. This is Jim Hendry being childish and making his decisions based on emotion rather than logic.

[bhogg]

Mitchell Report?

[BigbadB]

A lot of yesterday's joy is gone.

 

 

The sadness of this heavily outweighs the happiness of yesterday... I feel like I would if I lost a good friend, seeing his potential and seeing that the Cubs had the gem of the entire league and going through all the crap we have to finally fix him and then do jack about trying to keep him to see if we could get any googly darn returns, and just to think what he could have been and still might be...it saddens me very greatly. When he played he was my most favorite Cub outside of Sosa, Ramirez, and Wood.

 

If only he had stayed healthy.....we would be world champs one of the last 4 years....so long Prior....and because it would just kill me to see you live up to your potential somewhere else.....I hope you suck.

 

The only bright spot in here is that just from getting to know him as a player on the Cubs, I feel decently confident he will either never pitch again, or suck, so fine....this still hurts though, I don't understand how it wouldn't hurt a real Cubs fan.

 

Another thing, it just shows me how much of a real man Kerry Wood is, that guy deserves as much respect as anyone in the damn league, dude hats off to you, thank god we got at least one class act out of the two....

 

Prior go to your California trash and play for a cheap team like the Padres who will contend in the most boring division in baseball (not counting Colorado, and even they usually suck) and then get killed in the playoffs.

 

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and just trade Prior for Abreu, or Tejada, or even flippin Bedard straight up back then, idc.....or even farther back and poison Dusty Bakers food so the Cubs would never hire him and Prior and Wood would be lighting up the league....

 

 

Bah I'm just venting w.e, Prior do MLB a favor and just take your money and get out of baseball so you don't scam a new team out of a few million more dollars...unless it's the White Sox, Yankees, Red Sox, or Cardinals, then you can go ahead and take as much money from them as you want.

 

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[Outshined_One]

Mitchell Report?

 

I'm going to hold my breath on that one. We don't know anything until it's finally released.

[E.J.]

I read something earlier today that said the Padres had soured on trading for Prior after they had seen his medical records. I just think he's got a long road ahead before he gets back to the Prior of old (that's even if he can come back), and if he wasn't willing to take a team option for 2009 then we needed to move on.

[YearofDaCubs]

Kaplin made some really good points. He kept pointing to the difference in attitude between Wood and Prior. How Wood (on Sports Central last week) said he wanted to be a Cub his entire career. Prior has never expressed that he was happy being a Cub. Kap said he wasn't a good teammate that he was not liked in the Clubhouse. That when he was rehabbing, he NEVER came by to be with the team. Wood was just the opposite. Prior apparently never got involved in the community, unlike Wood who has his celebrity bowling tournament. Kaplin wished him well but he says he can't blame the Cubs for what they did.

I was always a really big fan of Mark but if he doesn't want to show any loyalty and stay here...then maybe it is better that he leave. I guess if anything, it shows the Cubs mean business

Funny that Levine almost said the same identical things about 30 min ago on espn1000.

[SABR Gamer]

If Mark Prior is successful for another team I will be tempted to send Jim Hendry anthrax.....THIS REALLY SUCKS