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You should shoot him an email truffle and see what he thinks about the computers getting it exactly right.

There is a very fine line to attacking pitches early in the count and a series of 4-3 ground outs. I think Dunn is pretty set and doesn't need to change a thing. Anyway, he'll either be in Boston or someplace else that appreciates his skills before too long. Votto? He'll be another one that wasn't any good anyway thus validating through the most faulty of faulty logic the idea that Dusty doesn't get any good young players. In the meantime, a once up and coming franchise will be relegated to 4th, 5th, or 6th place until Dusty-isms become passe´

He's a BS maestro. In this postmodern world the less sense one makes, the more one makes sense. Or so it seems.

I think it is satire, but I'm not sure b/c it is written so poorly.

What's really amazing to me is that someone could be in baseball for their entire adult life and not understand a fundamental principle of the game.

At one point, when it looked like he couldn't reach an agreement with the Pads, it looked like Greene might be available. Link? That seemed more to be a nsbb pipe dream more than anything else. You don't need a link. Greene said he didn't want a long term contract with the Pads. The speculation is that the Cub might want him. Greene said he didn't want to sign a long term contract with the Padres because he wanted to be on the East Coast near his family. Chicago is closer, but it doesn't really qualify. Also, even if Greene wasn't planning to sign a deal with San Diego, that still doesn't mean the Padres would want to trade him. They want to win this year, and trading Greene is counterproductive to that. Whatever, that's not what my reply was about.

In the vet's office today I was reading last summer's Forbes. It was the one with the 400 richest people in the US. William Wrigley, Jr or III (I can't remember which) has a fortune of $2.3 Billion. If the family still owns the company I think they could pay for the naming rights.

At one point, when it looked like he couldn't reach an agreement with the Pads, it looked like Greene might be available. Link? That seemed more to be a nsbb pipe dream more than anything else. You don't need a link. Greene said he didn't want a long term contract with the Pads. The speculation is that the Cub might want him.

There is no way to do that except to tear down most of Wrigley. They may be able to rip out the seats for better sight lines but they're isn't much they can do about the obstructed seats unless they tear down the entire upper deck. I suppose they could leave the field and the outfield bleachers and the 100 level seats and tear up everything else, but that would probably cost nearly as much (and maybe more) than just building a new stadium.

I don't know about your conspiracy theory, but I basically agree with your sentiment. I think they (Zell) are banking on somebody wanting to own the Cubs very badly and at most any cost. I think they will find few takers for the Cubs if they sell Wrigley separately. Once the new owner is in place you can bet on some cost cutting measures. Maybe in the long run it will make the Cubs leaner and smarter in terms of baseball operations, but in the short term there will be a lot of disgruntled Cub fans.

lol, is this even considered basketball? It's basketball, just different than the pro game. After Alston crossed over and became afairly successful NBA player, they kind of earned more cred, imo. I think it has become what the globetrotters were, a nice alternative to structured basketball. I'm more of a Slamball guy. Probably just me. BASEketball for me. 1, 2, 3, 4, your moma is a dirty ho!

Yeah, we'll see Yeah, not holding my breath. Yeah, another response with yeah in it. Yeah, he's been right about everything else so far. Seriously, one of these times one of those idiots will win the lottery and something their "guy/source" tells them will come true.

yes.

He had a good ST last year too, IIRC.

Frankly, I think it is a travesty. It's like changing the name of Fenway or Yankee Stadium. Baseball is all about history. People won't like it, but it's not that big of deal either.

You can thank Adam Dunn for that. Dumbasses had him batting 6th.

lol, McFadden does not have near the agility and change of direction skills that Sanders had. He is the exception, not the rule. I mostly agree with truffle here, but Sanders had incredibly huge legs and ass. I think he still holds the squat record at OK state.

Lachiem, sean. He was a good ballplayer for a long time.

That's correct. They're too busy trying to go after democratic law makers in the South and West. I have a friend who works for the Justice Department (lower level lawyer) and another who works in the diplomatic corps at the state Department. Both are civil servants. Both are pretty conservative people, much more than many of their colleagues, and both are upset with they way things have been run for the past eight years. It's a big scandal inside of Washington. I don't know if it will boil over after the election or not. Nevertheless, I suspect that nothing will happen to Roger Clemens.

http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=78802342# Marmol's ears are the best.

That's the catch. The owner won't be paying for Wrigley, because it will be sold separately to the state agency. That's right. I heard the report (it was George Offman) and it basically said that if the the Illinois Sports Authority takes over the ballpark, they want the Historical Landmark restrictions eased so they can do a rehab on the place other than the areas that were mentioned in the post earlier. He said the plan was to gut the grandstand area and rebuild. He reported a cost of around $350 million and said it could happen as early as 2010. I didn't get the impression it would be like Soldier Field though where it looked like a new stadium. I was thinking it would still look like Wrigley, just new (kind of like the Bleachers project). Hmm, interesting. I thought selling Wrigley and the Cubs in two different deals was a ploy to get the price up of the Cubs. Next question, who would buy the Cubs and not Wrigley? That would seem pretty foolish unless the new owner planned to move them elsewhere. I absolutley have no idea where I heard or read this (and as such, may be talking out of my arse), but it seems as though I recall that someone (maybe it was Crany Kenney) was saying that this would help the sell because the new owners could buy the team for less (than if it had to buy both the team and the stadium), could get a reasonable lease from the state, and not have to pay to keep the ballpark operational. Unless there was some sort of a sweat-heart deal the owner of the Cubs would be in roughly the same shape as Loria. I really cannot see why anyone would be interested in buying the Cubs without Wrigley.

There's no question that they would outdraw the Sox.

That's the catch. The owner won't be paying for Wrigley, because it will be sold separately to the state agency. That's right. I heard the report (it was George Offman) and it basically said that if the the Illinois Sports Authority takes over the ballpark, they want the Historical Landmark restrictions eased so they can do a rehab on the place other than the areas that were mentioned in the post earlier. He said the plan was to gut the grandstand area and rebuild. He reported a cost of around $350 million and said it could happen as early as 2010. I didn't get the impression it would be like Soldier Field though where it looked like a new stadium. I was thinking it would still look like Wrigley, just new (kind of like the Bleachers project). Hmm, interesting. I thought selling Wrigley and the Cubs in two different deals was a ploy to get the price up of the Cubs. Next question, who would buy the Cubs and not Wrigley? That would seem pretty foolish unless the new owner planned to move them elsewhere.

It is strangely odd that they would be talking about this as they are pushing the sale of the Cubs. What owner would want to pay a billion dollars to buy the Cubs + Wrigley and then have to put in another half a billion or so to retrofit the park?

And they really swung and missed. Really the article wasn't funny at all, that was my point. It was very predictable, if that is what you mean. But so far they are batting near 1.000. That's the problem, it was too easy.