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  1. AlwaysaCub
    Ron Santo would have Wood drawn and quartered. Man, I would have Wood drawn and quartered. If he signs elsewhere hopefully its with an AL team like the Rangers or Indians. Watching Wood pitch against the Cubs would utterly destroy me.
  2. AlwaysaCub
    What if your name was Yorvit?
  3. AlwaysaCub
    Yeah, you put up a career 154 ERA+ over 2700 innings and you are pretty much the best pitcher of all time. I have to concur. I run down some of the greats ERA+; guys like Walter and Randy Johnson, Cy Young, Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, so and so, and none of them have ERA+ higher then Pedro. So Pedro can be argued that he is the best pitcher in MLB history. I think that was sarcasm. Lefty Grove put up a 148 ERA+ in 3900 innings which is essentially the same thing. Walter Johnson pitched 5900 career innings, over TWICE as many, and put up a 147 ERA+. 8 points of ERA plus in absolutely no way makes up the innings difference of 3200 innings.
  4. AlwaysaCub
    In this scenario we'd move our set-up guy to closer. We'd then have five quality guys, including an injury risk and a workhorse. We'd have traded for a Marlins regular. We'd be playing a center fielder carrying very high expectations. I'm not saying its a bad thing, but this is me just pointing out how that sounds similar to 2003 offseason.
  5. AlwaysaCub
    Who is running the Cubs far east scouting these days? It would be nice to find a diamond in the rough from these two, but I have my doubts.
  6. AlwaysaCub
    Nick Swisher, mentioned above, is a great buy-low candidate. He seemed to be in ozzie's doghouse late in the year and did not start any of the Chisox games with the season on the line. I would also consider buying low on Jeremy Bonderman or Justin Verlander. Both guys had down years (Bonderman was hurt and Verlander lost 17 games with a 4.84), but they're both only 25, have good arms, and have already some good years. Moving them out of the DH league could really help.
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    It would never happen, and obviously I have no idea how he would do live, but Doug Glanville writes a good column for the NY Times and has always had good things to say. Karros would be good too, but hasn't he mostly done studio work to date? Jon Lieber?
  8. AlwaysaCub
    If you extend him to a 3rd inning I can almost guarantee that BJ Upton, due up third in the 9th, will hit one over the monster.
  9. AlwaysaCub
    Dear Baltimore: Please take a Lee, his bad contract, and a steaming pile of crap and give us your three best players. Deal? Your point stands, but did Nick Markakis get run over a car in your scenario? Matt Wieters also has something to say to you.
  10. AlwaysaCub
    He was under our control either way. If we had declined the option we would have gone to arbitration with him. Given his roughly 180 strikeouts in 140 innings Harden would have gotten far more than the 7 million in his contract. The story is his shoulder here, not the contract. It's good his shoulder passed this exam, but a shoulder exam says little about his performance next year. Hopefully we get the Harden we saw right after the trade, not the September Rich.
  11. AlwaysaCub
    I can easily see him hitting .250 next year for a line of .250/320/.300. I don't think his "true" average is actually .250, something more like .270-.280, but batting averages vary from year to year and Riot was probably somewhat over his head this year. Even if he does prove to be a .300 hitter there isn't much chance he maintains that .380 obp. Pitchers will realize how much "power" he has and just begin pounding the zone. I would sell high also. He's a second baseman (albeit a good defensive 2b) playing shortstop anyway.
  12. AlwaysaCub
    1. Kerry Wood and Mark Prior (They won 3 times combined in the 5 game series against the Braves). 2. Kenny Lofton made things happen. 3. We squeaked in to the playoffs with the worst record of any playoff team so we had nothing to lose.
  13. AlwaysaCub
    Lee stepped up. He is NOT who I was talking about. Lee looked and performed like he was the only one who cared. He might not have had a great season by his or our standards but I can't blame his desire. Soriano on the other hand needs to get traded to the Mariners.
  14. AlwaysaCub
    I was going to title the thread "Let's Vent" but then considered how horrible those Coors commercials are. My immediate roommate is a Dodgers fan. I despise everything about this.
  15. AlwaysaCub
    It is fitting that this series ended with Soriano striking out on a slider in the dirt.
  16. AlwaysaCub
    When push comes to shove, the Cubs are still the Cubs. At least Lee went down kicking and screaming in this game.
  17. AlwaysaCub
    NO, this year will make 100. Thanx for playing Dick.
  18. AlwaysaCub
    You, sir, are a lot better than me. I enjoyed the regular season, but I absolutely need a break. I agree now, but by March I'm definitely going to have the itch.
  19. AlwaysaCub
    Is this what having terminal cancer feels like?
  20. AlwaysaCub
    I think that's the final nail. Pat's a realist and he hangs out for 180 games a year with Ron Santo.
  21. AlwaysaCub
    That meathead NY fan in your sig was probably right. I was just thinking that...but does it matter? We'd be losing 1-0 instead of 3-0.
  22. AlwaysaCub
    At the Cubs convention, do you think people will cheer or boo? Eh, that's an overreaction.
  23. AlwaysaCub
    This is undoubtedly true. The fact that Lee has hit like Jeromy Burnitz over the second half of the season doesn't help. LOL at stranding Soto on 3rd. completely hamstrung us to the tun of 97 regular season wins with the same lineup we are not the first favored team to lose in the playoffs, guys I wasn't saying to the contrary. We're talking about the playoffs here, where your team weaknesses are magnified. In the first two games, against two guys (3 including Kuroda) who are quite tough on righties, we have only Jim Edmonds from the left side (Can we even say Fukudome was batting?).
  24. AlwaysaCub
    65 pitches isn't that many.
  25. AlwaysaCub
    That was this year's Derosa moment in a game where we needed him to come through. It complements his GIDP against Livan last year nicely.
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