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Who are you? If your not a Cubs fan go to the others boards your ignorant little turd. I haven't been on here for a long time but decided to come back and I see your posts. Gotta love these kind of people on the internet and aren't anything in real life. GO AWAY TROLL! you quoting him is just feeding the troll. if everyone puts him on ignore then he'll either lose interest and stop posting, or at the very worst just be talking to himself and nobody will be reading his posts.

oh God we might not get another base hit the rest of the year

the white sox had a june team line of .304/.364/.513/.877... that offense is pretty hot right now, especially cabrera, dye, crede and swisher. hell even alexei ramirez and dewayne wise have been hitting well.

this sucks

how come when the opposition has 1st & 2nd with no outs, nobody says that they should've scored more runs when our pitchers get out of the jam?

pat riley is probably wise to listen to the other folks in the organization... once upon a time he wanted chris kaman over dwyane wade.

Personally, I never considered Bonds to be a great average hitter (do some people?). A .298 average isn't hugely impressive for an all time great. Among those considered to be all time greats (going with nicknames for the hell of it): Really? Batting Average? yeah, hitting for average is a repeatable skill.

not gonna happen... you and me are s.o.l. without going to a bar and watching the game.

you really think that bud selig is telling every team in baseball not to sign the all-time leading home run hitter, and that all 30 teams are successfully keeping it under wraps? come on.

perhaps the dumbest idea ever

wait we are including brendan harris and freddy sanchez on a list of successful prospectus but jeremy bonderman is only a success "to a lesser degree"??? a few more trades you've forgotten - and btw you should also include waiver deals since those can be prospect-heavy as well: jose guillen for aaron harang, joe valentine and jeff bruksch brian giles for oliver perez, jason bay and cory stewart carl everett for jon rauch and gary majewski your point is valid though; there have been a lot of busted prospects swapped at the trade deadline.

jeff goldbach, ryan gripp, jason dubois

yeah i was gonna say, it feels like iowa has been playing the isotopes for about a week straight, and it also feels like mcpherson has hit a home run in every game. i guess the part about mcpherson hitting a home run every game is true. wonder if he'll ever get another shot in the bigs. i figure at worst he is a righthanded russell branyan. He bats lefty I was pretty sure. But "at worst" is a lot worse, he could be Brad Eldred or the current Wily Mo Pena or he could never stay healthy... he had a .755 OPS in his previous big league action; i'm pretty sure he'd be better than brad eldred or the current wily mo pena. you are right about one thing though, he does bat lefty.

lou is not dusty, but lou is also not someone who will allow someone who is young a chance to make mistakes at the big league level. i don't know that i blame him with a team that's built to win right now, but you can't say that felix pie got as much chance with the cubs as a lot of young players on other teams.

boy just about everyoe has crushed vasquez; even marquis has a home run. it would seem like this would be another nice game to have ward in the lineup.

right, but bonds was pretty similar to guys like pujols and williams in terms of power before he got on the juice. pujols is an outstanding hitter but not a guy who will consistently be among the top 2/3 in HRs in his league. i'd consider a guy like mcgwire to be more of a pure power hitter, whereas williams/bonds/pujols will hit for a better average, but a little less power.

i doubt that he has; most competent clubs do not evaluate potential acquisitions on the basis of a a couple of poor performances. Its not just a couple of performances. Hopefully none of the clubs have actually scouted him playing 2b either. In Iowa his 2b was actually worse than his LF if that is possible. i highly doubt that that is true.

If the Bulls had a kobe or a boston three party (yeah I said it), they could get away with Hinrich at PG for a few more years no kidding. the NBA isn't a point guard's league or a center's league, it's a great player's league. most of the time, teams that win the championship have at least one great, dynamic player. the pistons were the exception to that rule, but you had KG and pierce this year, duncan with the spurs, shaq and wade in miami, shaq and kobe in l.a., jordan with the bulls. going back to the mid-90s, you've got four teams that could be considered to have a very good point guard - three spurs champions (parker) and one pistons championship (billups). the rest have basically been adequate players, role guys. so let's get off these dumb generalizations like "it's a point guard league" or (NCAA tournament edition) "great guards win in the Big Dance." great players and great teams win, not teams with good players at a certain position.

i doubt that he has; most competent clubs do not evaluate potential acquisitions on the basis of a a couple of poor performances.

Guess who won't be watching this game, because the almighty Yankees and Mets are playing a series and I am in an eastern market! Anyway, bitterness aside, here's what we have to look forward to with this game. For the Cubs, the following young lad takes the mound, sporting a line of 3-3, 3.97 ERA, 17 BB, 39 K. I'm fairly certain that most, if not all, of those runs and walks were due to poor luck and/or lousy umpire work. http://chicagocubsonline.com/seangallagher-pub.jpg Sean will be facing a guy named Javier Vasquez, who has a 7-6 record, 4.24 ERA, 29 BB and 97 K. http://soxmachine.com/images2/vazquez0719.jpg Note that the size of the photo is proportional to the quality of the pitcher. Let's break that 2-game losing streak and sew up a win in the season series against the Sox. Go Cubs!

Bust! he went on to make outs in his next four ABs and also made an error

the thing about williams was that he was never surrounded by very good players. guys like johnny pesky, jackie jensen and bobby doerr were nice players, but really not HoF material (though doerr was elected by - who else - the veterans committee). he overlapped with the end of jimmie foxx' and joe cronin's careers, but he really wasn't around for their primes. ruth had gehrig and several great pitchers during his time; mays had cepeda and mccovey, along with marichal, gaylord perry and billy pierce (the latter being very underrated). williams was surrounded by average players and lousy pitchers; i'm pretty sure there wasn't one pitcher (aside from the very end of lefty grove's boston career) who would have even a hint of an argument for a hall of fame spot. bonds is about as good a parallel as you'll find for williams. obviously ted wasn't as fast a baserunner and didn't have the fielding ability (or some would argue, the interest in fielding) that bonds had, but williams was significantly better at hitting for average. they were both aloof and at times openly spiteful toward the press, and weren't really beloved by fans either. bonds really never had any great players as teammates either - some nice ones like the pirates-era bonilla and jeff kent, and some solid pitchers like doug drabek and jason schmidt, but no legitimate HoF candidates. both guys basically carried their teams to wherever they got each year. the biggest difference is that bonds took steroids at his peak (or what turned out to be his peak), whereas ted went and fought for his country for three years.

yeah no kidding. that's what is so scary about what happened to gehrig, he was a wonderful athlete, very handsome, was married, and was by all accounts a very good person. he seemed to have it all, and at age 37 he was dead. if that can happen to lou gehrig then it can pretty much happen to anybody.

That sounds like a good time. Yeah it does. And I don't even like the Fugees all that much. Ready or Not is a good song though. don't forget the fugeela, this white boy can appreciate "the score" as great music

i hate the stupid generalizations like "point guard's league." i guess rajon rondo and derek fisher are the cream of the crop then, since their teams played for the championship.