07/30 Astros (Ortiz) @ Cubs (Hart) 1:20 CT, WGN TV

[Keener98]

2:56pm: Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the Cubs and Pirates are discussing a deal that would send Grabow and Tom Gorzelanny to Chicago. No deal is in place and other teams remain interested in Grabow.

 

OMG YES!

 

Gorzelanny? Why?

 

Check out his 3 year numbers vs leftys they are pretty damn good

[erik316wttn]

2:56pm: Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the Cubs and Pirates are discussing a deal that would send Grabow and Tom Gorzelanny to Chicago. No deal is in place and other teams remain interested in Grabow.

 

OMG YES!

 

Gorzelanny? Why?

 

Check out his 3 year numbers vs leftys they are pretty damn good

 

Plus he made Billy Crystal look pretty bad in Spring Training. That's gotta be worth something.

[Keener98]

I cant believe this discussion is still going on.

[jersey cubs fan]

I don't see the risk. I would take Kerry Wood on my team any day of the week.

 

Can people set aside the player-crushes and look at this realistically for a second?

 

Realistically it's ridiculous to pretend not offering arbitration was a good idea.

[haubrich91]

Bad day at the plate for Lee.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'm not sure I'd want Gorzelanny on a AAA team.

 

Grabow is bad. He covers it with a decent ERA, but he walks way to many guys.

[erik316wttn]

I don't see the risk. I would take Kerry Wood on my team any day of the week.

 

Can people set aside the player-crushes and look at this realistically for a second?

 

Realistically it's ridiculous to pretend not offering arbitration was a good idea.

 

If he accepts, we have a good reliever. If he doesn't, we get 2 draft picks.

 

The downside is where?

[David]

I'm glad the Cubs have beaten up on the Astros this series, but it's a little bittersweet since the Astros are headed to St. Louis with a taxed bullpen.

 

 

Have they actually used important people in these two blowout games?

 

You would hope not...

[jersey cubs fan]

2:56pm: Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the Cubs and Pirates are discussing a deal that would send Grabow and Tom Gorzelanny to Chicago. No deal is in place and other teams remain interested in Grabow.

 

OMG YES!

 

Gorzelanny? Why?

 

Check out his 3 year numbers vs leftys they are pretty damn good

 

That's probably because they are dominated by his good 2007 season.

[erik316wttn]

Off to work. Hoping we set aside the Florida curse and take 2 out of 3 this weekend from the Fish.

[Vanilla Ice]

I don't see the risk. I would take Kerry Wood on my team any day of the week.

 

Can people set aside the player-crushes and look at this realistically for a second?

 

Realistically it's ridiculous to pretend not offering arbitration was a good idea.

 

If he accepts, we have a good reliever. If he doesn't, we get 2 draft picks.

 

The downside is where?

8 million dollars that we don't have

[cheapseats]

Bucknor is a really bad umpire.

[Vanilla Ice]

Gorzellany has 2.82 FIP in a small sample size this season

[David]

I don't see the risk. I would take Kerry Wood on my team any day of the week.

 

Can people set aside the player-crushes and look at this realistically for a second?

 

Realistically it's ridiculous to pretend not offering arbitration was a good idea.

 

If he accepts, we have a good reliever. If he doesn't, we get 2 draft picks.

 

The downside is where?

 

 

A good reliever with an injury history as long as the Bible... Not to mention the the fact that it's just a bad appropriation of resources to pay a closer 8-10 million dollars.

[cheapseats]

I don't see the risk. I would take Kerry Wood on my team any day of the week.

 

Can people set aside the player-crushes and look at this realistically for a second?

 

Realistically it's ridiculous to pretend not offering arbitration was a good idea.

 

If he accepts, we have a good reliever. If he doesn't, we get 2 draft picks.

 

The downside is where?

8 million dollars that we don't have

 

Because Hendry is busy spending it on Joey Gathright, Paul Bako, Aaron Miles, Chad Gaudin, etc.

[jersey cubs fan]

I'm glad the Cubs have beaten up on the Astros this series, but it's a little bittersweet since the Astros are headed to St. Louis with a taxed bullpen.

 

 

Have they actually used important people in these two blowout games?

 

You would hope not...

 

Do they have important people?

[Sammy Sofa]

Wood is struggling in his first year in a new league, and the Cubs are for sale.

 

Any other stupid questions?

 

Guess you've got the pesky overreacting condition to deal with.

 

Thoughts and prayers.

[Sammy Sofa]

I don't see the risk. I would take Kerry Wood on my team any day of the week.

 

Can people set aside the player-crushes and look at this realistically for a second?

 

Realistically it's ridiculous to pretend not offering arbitration was a good idea.

 

If he accepts, we have a good reliever. If he doesn't, we get 2 draft picks.

 

The downside is where?

 

 

A good reliever with an injury history as long as the Bible... Not to mention the the fact that it's just a bad appropriation of resources to pay a closer 8-10 million dollars.

 

Your logic has no effect on the might gooney/erik316stone tagteam.

[jersey cubs fan]

it's just a bad appropriation of resources to pay a closer 8-10 million dollars.

 

Sure, it's not ideal. But high payroll teams can easily get away with it and succeed.

[CyHawk_Cub]

Listening to Pat & Ron, & according them, per JH, Geo expected back at least by Rockies series, and best case, back by Reds series

[jersey cubs fan]

 

Your logic has no effect on the might gooney/erik316stone tagteam.

 

There's no logic in defending not offering arbitration. It was a stupid move.

[Vanilla Ice]

it's just a bad appropriation of resources to pay a closer 8-10 million dollars.

 

Sure, it's not ideal. But high payroll teams can easily get away with it and succeed.

Except we don't have 8-10 million dollars to pay him, especially with him not being great this year.

[Guest]

it's just a bad appropriation of resources to pay a closer 8-10 million dollars.

 

Sure, it's not ideal. But high payroll teams can easily get away with it and succeed.

Given the other constraints the team had at the time, it would have been a lousy use of funds.

[Vanilla Ice]

Your logic has no effect on the might gooney/erik316stone tagteam.

This

[David]

Plus there's the very real possibility (actually, likelihood) that Hendry knows a lot more about Woody's shoulder than we do.

 

It might've been an even bigger risk than we think.

 

 

It's fun winning by a lot of runs so we can argue about stupid crap.