Bruce Levine Reporting that Remlinger Will be DFAd...

[WindyCity]

But, for the record, we didn't trade value for David Weathers--we traded the fat slob who Carlos refers to in my signature. Weathers was having the best year of his career when the Cubs acquired him, but in hindsight it looks like we got him just when he was going in to a dead arm phase, and he was never as effective for the Cubs as he was for the Brewers.

 

Not only that -- we got some nice draft pick compensation for him when he signed with the Mets. :D

[rawaction]

It's getting to the point where I think the Braves have some sort of magic potion where every player they touch turns to greatness. The Braves scouting and development people are so excellent, that I would hesitate to pick up anyone that they feel they can do without.

[HoopsCubs]

I'm sort of getting the idea that you wanted Hendry to sign Jeff Kent. :wink:

 

You're right - it's time for me to get off that topic now. It's water under the bridge. It just upsets me that the Cubs had a chance to get this guy twice - after the 2002 season, and again after the 2004 season, and both times couldn't (or wouldn't) close the deal.

[rawaction]

I'm sort of getting the idea that you wanted Hendry to sign Jeff Kent. :wink:

 

You're right - it's time for me to get off that topic now. It's water under the bridge. It just upsets me that the Cubs had a chance to get this guy twice - after the 2002 season, and again after the 2004 season, and both times couldn't (or wouldn't) close the deal.

 

I don't know how much of a shot this had of happening, but the only non-move that I keep wishing would have happened is signing Tejada a couple years ago. Alex Gonzalez's presence shouldn't have been a determining factor in getting one of the game's best SS. Of course, no Tejada may have meant no Derrek Lee/Choi trade.

[Brian]

It's getting to the point where I think the Braves have some sort of magic potion where every player they touch turns to greatness.

 

Obvious exceptions see; Kolb, Dan.

[Diffusion]

What time do roster moves typically go down on days when it's a night game, does anyone know? Or is there not a typical time?

[rawaction]

What time do roster moves typically go down on days when it's a night game, does anyone know? Or is there not a typical time?

 

The moves are probably done. We probably won't hear about them til gametime though.

[frostwyrm]

Alfonseca, Borowski, Hawkins, Remlinger. It seems whenever Hendry commits big dollars to a reliever the story ends badly. At least we got Williams for Hawkins.

[JC]

I'm sort of getting the idea that you wanted Hendry to sign Jeff Kent. :wink:

 

You're right - it's time for me to get off that topic now. It's water under the bridge. It just upsets me that the Cubs had a chance to get this guy twice - after the 2002 season, and again after the 2004 season, and both times couldn't (or wouldn't) close the deal.

 

I don't know how much of a shot this had of happening, but the only non-move that I keep wishing would have happened is signing Tejada a couple years ago. Alex Gonzalez's presence shouldn't have been a determining factor in getting one of the game's best SS. Of course, no Tejada may have meant no Derrek Lee/Choi trade.

 

You're like an angrier JC.

[brinoch]

I'm sort of getting the idea that you wanted Hendry to sign Jeff Kent. :wink:

 

You're right - it's time for me to get off that topic now. It's water under the bridge. It just upsets me that the Cubs had a chance to get this guy twice - after the 2002 season, and again after the 2004 season, and both times couldn't (or wouldn't) close the deal.

 

I don't know how much of a shot this had of happening, but the only non-move that I keep wishing would have happened is signing Tejada a couple years ago. Alex Gonzalez's presence shouldn't have been a determining factor in getting one of the game's best SS. Of course, no Tejada may have meant no Derrek Lee/Choi trade.

 

You're like an angrier JC.

 

You mean goony?

[USSoccer]

I'm sort of getting the idea that you wanted Hendry to sign Jeff Kent. :wink:

 

You're right - it's time for me to get off that topic now. It's water under the bridge. It just upsets me that the Cubs had a chance to get this guy twice - after the 2002 season, and again after the 2004 season, and both times couldn't (or wouldn't) close the deal.

 

I don't know how much of a shot this had of happening, but the only non-move that I keep wishing would have happened is signing Tejada a couple years ago. Alex Gonzalez's presence shouldn't have been a determining factor in getting one of the game's best SS. Of course, no Tejada may have meant no Derrek Lee/Choi trade.

 

You're like an angrier JC.

 

But you're like a funnier Goony. Does that even out? :P

[USSoccer]

I'm sort of getting the idea that you wanted Hendry to sign Jeff Kent. :wink:

 

You're right - it's time for me to get off that topic now. It's water under the bridge. It just upsets me that the Cubs had a chance to get this guy twice - after the 2002 season, and again after the 2004 season, and both times couldn't (or wouldn't) close the deal.

 

I don't know how much of a shot this had of happening, but the only non-move that I keep wishing would have happened is signing Tejada a couple years ago. Alex Gonzalez's presence shouldn't have been a determining factor in getting one of the game's best SS. Of course, no Tejada may have meant no Derrek Lee/Choi trade.

 

You're like an angrier JC.

 

You mean goony?

 

Us soccer players must think alike. Must be the shots to the head :D

[brinoch]

I'm sort of getting the idea that you wanted Hendry to sign Jeff Kent. :wink:

 

You're right - it's time for me to get off that topic now. It's water under the bridge. It just upsets me that the Cubs had a chance to get this guy twice - after the 2002 season, and again after the 2004 season, and both times couldn't (or wouldn't) close the deal.

 

I don't know how much of a shot this had of happening, but the only non-move that I keep wishing would have happened is signing Tejada a couple years ago. Alex Gonzalez's presence shouldn't have been a determining factor in getting one of the game's best SS. Of course, no Tejada may have meant no Derrek Lee/Choi trade.

 

You're like an angrier JC.

 

You mean goony?

 

Us soccer players must think alike. Must be the shots to the head :D

 

In second to last game this year, I did take a nasty shot to the face. Ouchies! I was wearing a hat, and it broke the brim -- probably saving my nose from being broken. Despite bleeding like a stuck pig, I managed to corral the ball. (Probably because I was bleeding like a stuck pig, the offense let me...) Stupid defense, letting forwards by them for one-on-ones. I hate that. Grrrr.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

 

In second to last game this year, I did take a nasty shot to the face. Ouchies! I was wearing a hat, and it broke the brim -- probably saving my nose from being broken. Despite bleeding like a stuck pig, I managed to corral the ball. (Probably because I was bleeding like a stuck pig, the offense let me...) Stupid defense, letting forwards by them for one-on-ones. I hate that. Grrrr.

 

Agreed. I got drilled in the face, except I actually got my hands on it(of course it still hit my face hard enough to bounce out for a corner). Didn't stop the nose from bleeding though.

[JC]

Ouchies? :binkybaby:

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Ouchies? :binkybaby:

 

What, no polo or badminton stories of your own to share?

[imb]

 

In second to last game this year, I did take a nasty shot to the face. Ouchies! I was wearing a hat, and it broke the brim -- probably saving my nose from being broken. Despite bleeding like a stuck pig, I managed to corral the ball. (Probably because I was bleeding like a stuck pig, the offense let me...) Stupid defense, letting forwards by them for one-on-ones. I hate that. Grrrr.

 

Agreed. I got drilled in the face, except I actually got my hands on it(of course it still hit my face hard enough to bounce out for a corner). Didn't stop the nose from bleeding though.

 

I almost tore my thumb off my left hand my senior year while playing keeper.

[brinoch]

Ouchies? :binkybaby:

 

How's your golf game?

[Jon]

Well, this means that Hairston isn't going on the 60-man. I wonder if this means they're hoping he'll be back for the playoffs if we make it.

A little late, but the initial estimate after the MRI was 10-15 days.

[JC]

Ouchies? :binkybaby:

 

What, no polo or badminton stories of your own to share?

 

Ok, big shot.

 

After being an All Conference keeper in middle school, I attended a high school with an established keeper. So, wanting to play immediately, I switched to center midfielder and was pretty good.

 

Anyway, the first game of the playoffs in my senior year, I raced for a loose ball. Their sweeper, a Norwegian exchange student who I battled in an epic 5 set tennis match earlier that year, was going for it also. We struck the ball at nearly the identical moment. However, a bone on the top of my foot fractured and I went down. The referee, with no medical training, grabbed my foot while I was on the ground. He bent it toward me, asking if it hurt, and I exclaimed, "F#%$ yeah, it hurts!" He then gives me a yellow card!

 

Regardless, we won that game and I attended the next game in a cast. The guy replacing me moved up from left fullback. The guy replacing him was a freshman.

 

The freshman tried to clear an in-coming ball about 10 yards out from the goal by one timing it. The ball went of the outside off his foot and spun into the goal. We lost 1-0. Mostly because I broke my foot in the last competitive soccer game I ever played. (While I play some indoor now, its not nearly the same.)

 

Now, one time in badminton, I had this shuttlecock...

 

EDIT: The captain won't let me spell correctly.

Edited August 5, 2005 by JC

[USSoccer]

I'm sort of getting the idea that you wanted Hendry to sign Jeff Kent. :wink:

 

You're right - it's time for me to get off that topic now. It's water under the bridge. It just upsets me that the Cubs had a chance to get this guy twice - after the 2002 season, and again after the 2004 season, and both times couldn't (or wouldn't) close the deal.

 

I don't know how much of a shot this had of happening, but the only non-move that I keep wishing would have happened is signing Tejada a couple years ago. Alex Gonzalez's presence shouldn't have been a determining factor in getting one of the game's best SS. Of course, no Tejada may have meant no Derrek Lee/Choi trade.

 

You're like an angrier JC.

 

You mean goony?

 

Us soccer players must think alike. Must be the shots to the head :D

 

In second to last game this year, I did take a nasty shot to the face. Ouchies! I was wearing a hat, and it broke the brim -- probably saving my nose from being broken. Despite bleeding like a stuck pig, I managed to corral the ball. (Probably because I was bleeding like a stuck pig, the offense let me...) Stupid defense, letting forwards by them for one-on-ones. I hate that. Grrrr.

 

My freshman year in college I was lucky enough to endure 2 concussions. The first one I was run into the post after scoring. The second one I got kicked full force in the back of the head. I also seperated my shoulder on that one. Fun times...

[USSoccer]

Ouchies? :binkybaby:

 

What, no polo or badminton stories of your own to share?

 

Ok, big shot.

 

After being an All Conference keeper in middle school, I attended a high school with an established keeper. So, wanting to play immediately, I switched to center midfielder and was pretty good.

 

Anyway, the first game of the playoffs in my senior year, I raced for a loose ball. Their sweeper, a Norwegian exchange student who I battled in an epic 5 set tennis match earlier that year, was going for it also. We struck the ball at nearly the identicle moment. However, a bone on the top of my foot fractured and I went down. The referee, with no medical training, grabbed my foot while I was on the ground. He bent it toward me, asking if it hurt, and I exclaimed, "F#%$ yeah, it hurts!" He then gives me a yellow card!

 

Regardless, we won that game and I attended the next game in a case. The guy replacing me moved up from left fullback. The guy replacing him was a freshman.

 

The freshman tried to clear an in-coming ball about 10 yards out from the goal by one timing it. The ball went of the outside of his foot and spun into the goal. We lost 1-0. Mostly because I broke my foot in the last competitive soccer game I ever played. (While I play some indoor now, its not nearly the same.)

 

Now, one time in badminton, I had this shuttlecock...

 

I was playing semi-pro ball for a team of mostly Guatemalan's a couple years ago, when, during a training scrimage indoors, I planted my ankle, and just about every ligament and tendon snapped.

 

I still can't run too far without pain.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Ouchies? :binkybaby:

 

What, no polo or badminton stories of your own to share?

 

Ok, big shot.

 

After being an All Conference keeper in middle school, I attended a high school with an established keeper. So, wanting to play immediately, I switched to center midfielder and was pretty good.

 

Anyway, the first game of the playoffs in my senior year, I raced for a loose ball. Their sweeper, a Norwegian exchange student who I battled in an epic 5 set tennis match earlier that year, was going for it also. We struck the ball at nearly the identicle moment. However, a bone on the top of my foot fractured and I went down. The referee, with no medical training, grabbed my foot while I was on the ground. He bent it toward me, asking if it hurt, and I exclaimed, "F#%$ yeah, it hurts!" He then gives me a yellow card!

 

Regardless, we won that game and I attended the next game in a case. The guy replacing me moved up from left fullback. The guy replacing him was a freshman.

 

The freshman tried to clear an in-coming ball about 10 yards out from the goal by one timing it. The ball went of the outside of his foot and spun into the goal. We lost 1-0. Mostly because I broke my foot in the last competitive soccer game I ever played. (While I play some indoor now, its not nearly the same.)

 

Now, one time in badminton, I had this shuttlecock...

 

Haha. Consider yourself lucky, nowadays it's an automatic red for saying the magic word. Of course, it does take quite a bit of non-profane berating to get a card where I played.

[Diffusion]

Ouchies? :binkybaby:

 

What, no polo or badminton stories of your own to share?

 

Ok, big shot.

 

After being an All Conference keeper in middle school, I attended a high school with an established keeper. So, wanting to play immediately, I switched to center midfielder and was pretty good.

 

Anyway, the first game of the playoffs in my senior year, I raced for a loose ball. Their sweeper, a Norwegian exchange student who I battled in an epic 5 set tennis match earlier that year, was going for it also. We struck the ball at nearly the identicle moment. However, a bone on the top of my foot fractured and I went down. The referee, with no medical training, grabbed my foot while I was on the ground. He bent it toward me, asking if it hurt, and I exclaimed, "F#%$ yeah, it hurts!" He then gives me a yellow card!

 

Regardless, we won that game and I attended the next game in a case. The guy replacing me moved up from left fullback. The guy replacing him was a freshman.

 

The freshman tried to clear an in-coming ball about 10 yards out from the goal by one timing it. The ball went of the outside of his foot and spun into the goal. We lost 1-0. Mostly because I broke my foot in the last competitive soccer game I ever played. (While I play some indoor now, its not nearly the same.)

 

Now, one time in badminton, I had this shuttlecock...

 

Haha. Consider yourself lucky, nowadays it's an automatic red for saying the magic word. Of course, it does take quite a bit of non-profane berating to get a card where I played.

 

Yeh, backup goalkeeper, hard to get sent off when you're hardly ever on! :P

[Blueheart05]

It's getting to the point where I think the Braves have some sort of magic potion where every player they touch turns to greatness.

 

Obvious exceptions see; Kolb, Dan.

 

Alfonseca pitched well for the Braves, for a while, but they let him leave not wanting to press their luck...